Beaches, Barbecues, and Blood: 31 Aussie Films for a Sunburnt Halloween

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Monster Kid Podcast.

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Speaker 2: G'day and welcome to a Dingo8MyMovie.

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It's a podcast that celebrates the weird and wonderful world of

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Australian film from the 70s, 80s and beyond.

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As ever, I'm your host, pete, and today I'm joined by Bid from

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the Super Network.

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And today we've got something a little bit different, haven't

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we, bid?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, like you kind of reached out to me

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and had this idea, I thought, okay, this is a really cool idea

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to do.

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I was definitely down to do that as well.

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Also, my co-host over at the Super Network, super Marcy, was

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going to be here for this as well, but she's a bit under the

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weather at the moment.

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So she sends her regards and, yeah, she and I put a list.

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Speaker 2: All the best to her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so she and I put a list together of that

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we're doing for this episode.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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So I thought to myself, you know, like every year I, oh,

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firstly, this is going to be pretty different.

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I couldn't really decide whether this should be episode

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33 or 32 and a half, but every Halloween like you know lots of

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other horror fans I love to make like a list of 31 films that I

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want to watch over the over the every day in October.

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And I was thinking, you know what if I found 31 Australian

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horror films to watch?

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So I thought, oh, this would be a good idea.

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And then, like you said, I reached out to you and Marcy and

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thought, oh, this might be fun to just have a nice simple, you

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know, easy podcast I gave myself .

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There was.

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I don't think I discussed any ground rules at all with you

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guys, do I?

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Speaker 1: No, not really, Other than it being that all the

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films need to be Australian.

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Australian, that was pretty much essentially, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I cheated, I snuck in like a New Zealand film

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, I think.

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But do you normally do a list of Halloween?

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, like well, I'm not sure when this episode

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will drop, but before Halloween yeah, before Halloween, yeah.

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I guess every year I do a 31 days of horror.

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So I always watch a movie like a horror film every day

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throughout it.

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But I do buy it a little bit more insane compared to everyone

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else.

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Like for the last 11 years, when it comes to my list, I

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technically watch 62.

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For the month, because what essentially it is is like I

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watch an old horror film that a newer one on the same day.

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So it's kind of like a good example of me catching up with

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old horror films I've never seen before and kind of more newish

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ones that have been out for a little while that I just haven't

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had a chance to get around to watching.

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But what I kind of do is like and I've been doing kind of this

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for the last few years is that I try to find sort of thematic

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like similarities between the two yeah.

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Whether it be if they happen to be of the same subgenre or if

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they just had specific storytelling aspects that are

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similar to each other.

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So at the time of this recording, I've already just

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basically finished writing my list and I'm going to post it on

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supermasterycom so people can see.

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But not only do I have those films, but I also have a bunch

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of bonus films, Mainly films that are going to peer

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throughout the month of October like on all the streaming

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services or in cinemas.

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So yeah, I'm a little insane when it comes to my list and I

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think there's like 80 odd movies on there now.

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Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: And then, if you add these, it's even more right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, so, oh yeah , definitely so yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

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So you don't really have any staple films.

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So like, for instance, when I do my list every year, I

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generally I know it's very cliched I like to watch

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Halloween on Halloween, oh yeah, and then I'll watch other

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staples like Trick or Treat and things like that.

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But then, yeah, I think your idea is great, actually watching

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some older stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing.

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Like you know, I usually do try to tend to watch like Trick or

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Treat or Halloween, before or after the whole month of October

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, Because I try to fit a couple of years I've tried to fit both

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in there, but I just never able to.

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So what I've decided to do is either on the very last day of

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the month, on the 31st, my double feature for that day is

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two horror films that are actually set on Halloween.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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So I kind of just do that to kind of make up for the fact

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that I probably don't get a chance to get around to watching

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up.

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I'm a Halloween or Trick or Treat for that month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay.

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So yeah, I'm going to try and see if I can do this list plus

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my nor.

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I haven't made a list yet for the other one, but I might.

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Maybe I'll just cheat and follow your list through.

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Speaker 1: That might be a good idea actually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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So what I thought we would do is I thought, well, maybe I've

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split mine into like groups of seven except for the last three,

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obviously, because it's not an even number.

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Maybe we can do walk through them as like week one, week two,

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blah, blah, blah, and just maybe there'll be obviously a

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little bit of discussion with each one and whatnot, and just

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see how we sort of come up with it.

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So I've kind of like started mine with I thought how could I

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not do an Australian horror month without starting with

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something which is like not classic horror, but I still

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think it's a horror film, which is Wake in Fright, and I thought

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that would be a great one to start the whole thing with.

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My first week is mostly kind of slashes, right.

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So I've got Night of Fear from 72.

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You can't do it without nightmares, You've got to have

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nightmares in there.

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I've got good old Houseboat Horror and I thought this year

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and I haven't seen it for years and I found a copy of that

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Remember Blood Moon.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it was 1980 or something 1990,

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sorry, yeah, well, I think Umbrella might be releasing that

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on Blu-ray soon, because I think at Monster Fest this year

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they've announced they're screening a 4K restoration of

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Blood Moon.

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Cool, wow.

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How cool, is that?

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So if that is the case, yeah, it will definitely be coming out

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on Blu-ray very soon, and I mean, that's what I haven't seen

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for a very long time, but it's one I've been meaning to revisit

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, but now, knowing that there's a 4K restoration of it, it's

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this way, yeah.

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Yeah, on its way.

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So it's just.

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Yeah, just keep a lookout for that when it hits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I have Cut, which I've never seen.

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I've had the Blu-ray for Yonks.

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I've heard that it's not a great movie, but I thought isn't

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this?

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Is it the one that's got Kylie Minogue in it or something?

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Yes, and it's supposed to be really awful.

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Speaker 1: I have to say I am an unabashed fan of Cut.

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It is one of those horror films like when I started becoming a

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huge horror fan in my teens, that was one of the ones I

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gravitated towards too, because I think at the time because this

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was around the post-scream slasher movement and Cut was

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basically Australia's answer to that movement I was just so

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obsessed with it and throughout the years I bought it on VHS, I

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bought it on DVD from overseas, I bought the Blu-ray when that

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came out, I bought the soundtrack to it and I even went

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to the Q&A screening when Monster Fest did it the

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restoration screening of that four years ago and funnily

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enough they did that as a double feature with Houseboat Horror.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's a great pairing.

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Maybe I should just switch them around.

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And yeah, it's a nice pairing actually.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely.

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They actually complement each other very well, so you could

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easily do a double feature of both those films.

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Speaker 2: And I'm closing out my seven days with Alice's

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Birthday, which I saw recently.

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But I really like that movie and it makes sense when you see

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my day eight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because I've kind of grouped them.

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I thought, well, we go through these seven days at a time.

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I thought it was probably the easiest.

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But I've kind of grouped some of them together as sort you can

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see the trends when you go through it.

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So what have you got for your first week?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think there's going to be a definite overlap

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with some of our films from our list, for sure, for sure.

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Well, funnily enough, we had down on our list Waking Fright

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as the very first film.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go, that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of other films we did put down the loved

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ones on there as well Classic modern horror from Australia.

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Then of course we had Razorback in there as well, which you know

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we're big fans of as well.

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I also have Cut on the list as well, and I also have Next of

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Kin, which is one of my personal favorite Australian horror

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films and I love it, one that I'm really glad that has kind of

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developed the following over the last few years, especially

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like overseas.

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Also on the list, houseboat Horror again, because Marcy and

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I are absolutely obsessed with that movie.

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Speaker 2: So am I, especially the music.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.

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And after that we, in my opinion, probably one of the

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greatest Australian horror films ever made Wolf Creek.

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And what else do I have here?

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Speaker 2: Was that your first seven or you got them?

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Speaker 1: Just let me just sort of checking the number.

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Yeah, that's my first seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great.

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That's really good, yeah, and I'll see you in the next one

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coming up and that's probably one of my favorite Australian

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movies of all time.

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That's a great movie, love it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just a masterpiece, in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: I just find the photography.

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The whole feel of the movie is great and you get to see John

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Jared again.

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Speaker 1: And also like what I think is great about the film,

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because I think I first heard about it in the doco not quite

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Hollywood and I think what was one of the reasons why I wanted

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to check the film out was Quentin Tarantino in that film

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said that it was probably in terms of the tone of it, it was

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probably the closest to the Shining Stanley Kubrick's film.

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Speaker 2: Right, interesting yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I could definitely pick that up in that

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film.

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But I would even say like it kind of feels to me like an

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Australian, like Lucho Fauci film.

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Speaker 2: It is a bit, isn't it ?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because it's a mixture of so many different

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genres.

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Like it has a bit of slasher, it has a mystery, it has

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surrealism, supernatural elements, like it kind of it's a

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mixed bag of so many different subgenres.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like a greatest hits right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, and it's very unpredictable as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is First watch of that was fantastic.

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I can't remember it was a long time ago, but I still remember

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it was great Because for a while you're wondering what the

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hell's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, pete, when I saw it once, I

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absolutely loved it on the first go, but then I think I watched

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it again three years later and I'm not even joking Like even

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though I hadn't seen it three years prior.

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I completely forgot how the movie ended, so I was caught off

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.

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I was caught off by the twist of the film twice, because I

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completely forgot about the twist.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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So my date hey, this kind of carries on from Alison's

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birthday.

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My next one is Celia, which I was was a very surprising movie

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for me.

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We did that on the podcast ages ago now, but but I love

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revisiting it.

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It's such a great movie.

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I'm not sure if it's true horror movie, but it's kind of.

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You know, it's got that folk horror kind of feel to it.

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It's, it's really interesting.

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And then of course I'm going in with Picnic at Hanging Rock, so

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that kind of gets me into that.

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And then I've got Next of Kin, which is kind of like, gives me

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those, those four movies that are kind of not the same but

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they kind of have a similar kind of feel to them, all a bit

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mysterious.

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You know, after Next of Kin I've got Razorback, then I've

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got Dark Age, and then I've got my little ring in from New

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Zealand which is Black Sheep, yes, and so I've got my little,

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my little creature features for three days going on there.

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And then I've got Patrick.

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I'm really looking forward to those three.

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I was tossing up with it to find I was looking for two.

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Originally I had Razorback and Dark Age and I thought I really

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want a third creature feature sort of thing, and I was

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thinking, oh well, I do like the reef, or will I do?

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What was the one where the shark was loose in the

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supermarkets?

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Oh yeah, I thought about that one and I was thinking of boar

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and all these other stuff and I thought I'll just, I'll just

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sneak in Black Sheep.

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So, yeah, and then, of course, patrick, which is a fun movie to

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watch.

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Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, definitely.

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Yeah, I guess for my second week.

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I started off with a creature feature as well and I got a

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surprise you didn't pick this for your second week.

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It's another and it's from the director of Wolf Creek Rogue.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Rogue's a great movie yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it is definitely a great killer crocodile movie,

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a giant crocodile movie, I should say.

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After that is a very little known film.

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I don't think anyone else has seen this one other than Marcy

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and I, and we did like an episode of this for the Two Be

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Tuesdays podcast.

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It's an indie Christmas horror film called Stuffings.

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Speaker 2: Oh, really, it's a.

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That sounds really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's, it's.

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It's the definition of a micro budget Aussie horror film, but

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it's a really fun little movie with a really cool kind of

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satirical edge for it.

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It's on two be and also pride video, so it's easy to watch it

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there, easy to get.

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Yeah, and it's about this couple who are like these social

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media influencers.

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They decide on the Christmas weekend to go out camping

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outside of Adelaide and they get besieged by well, that's the

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thing there, the town that they go to it has like all these

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stuff.

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Santa Claus is around and the Santa Claus has come alive and

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kill everybody, like it is very like I said, it's a definition

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of a very silly low budget horror film, but it does have a

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lot of charm and you can't help but get caught up in the

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silliness of it and it is quite a lot of fun as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds great.

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I'll have to check that one out for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my next one is Lee Waddell's the Invisible man,

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which I guess some people could take issue whether it's a full

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blown Australian horror film or not, but it's a co-production

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and it is made by an Australian filmmaker and I was shot here in

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Australia.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say I was shot here down south coast,

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New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the the actor awards recognized it

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that year, so I'm counting it as a pick for this list.

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Speaker 2: It's such a good movie too right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Because I always wondered when they announced

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that movie.

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Because you've only, you know, I've only ever seen the old was

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it in the 50s?

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The Invisible man.

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The 50s, I think 30s, so they're far back and I was like,

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how are they going to pull this off?

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And I was totally surprised how they actually pulled it off.

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It was great.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a brilliant follow up to Lee

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Waddell as a director after Upgrade and yeah, it's just so

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brilliantly done.

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It's very topical in what it sets out to do with its story

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and also just the how some scenes are staged, like the

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restaurant scene, is like phenomenal and it's pretty

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intense as well.

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Speaker 2: It's a great movie.

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I've got it.

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I'm going to have to watch it again now.

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I'll have to sneak it in those 32 days now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah Well, my next on the list is actually the very

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first Australian horror film ever made Night of Fear.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, I had that in my first week, yeah Well, how

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great is that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so.

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It's interesting watching that film, especially knowing the

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fact that it was originally made to be a pilot for a TV show, a

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horror anthology show that they were going to make.

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But apparently the I think it was the ABC who made it, because

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I wrote a column about this film back in the day for the

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screencast and but basically the ABC found the pilot so intense

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and so gross that they were like , yeah, we can't air this and

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they canceled the show.

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That's why, if you watch the film, it has the title Fright,

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that night of fear, because Fright was the name of the TV

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show it was going to be on.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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I haven't had a chance either to look.

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I've got like two versions.

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I've got the old DVD from Umbrella and I've got the

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upgraded, the Blu-ray they released.

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Now I'm not sure what the difference in quality is like,

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but I know the DVD is.

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It's like watching a VHS.

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Basically it's always been a dual release with in of the

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damned.

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And that one's really like watching a VHS at the original

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DVD.

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So I haven't had a chance to catch up with the Blu-ray yet,

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which I've had in my collection for a while.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's great.

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Yeah, I got the same Blu-ray as well and I think they did that

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that restorations on both of them.

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So I'm very curious to see how both of the films look, and I

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think the reason why they always pair those two films together

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because they're probably the same director, Terrio Rock, so

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he directed both of them.

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Speaker 2: And they're reasonably short too, I think,

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because, like, obviously, night of fear is quite short, because

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obviously it was made for TV.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's about just over 50 minutes long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got that great shot of like Norman.

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Is it Norman Yen?

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Yeah, norman Yen yeah, holding the skull in front of his crotch

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Like no wonder it never made it .

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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And also it's kind of a precursor to the Texas chainsaw

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massacre in a way, because it has that grotty, grimy feel to

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it.

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But what I think makes it even more interesting is there's no

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dialogue in the film at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not one bit, is there I?

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Speaker 1: think the only dialogue here is like on a radio

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bulletin, and that's about it.

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Yeah, the next one on my list is Alison's Birthday, of course,

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okay, which is a film that I've seen a few times now, and it

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gets better and better with each viewing.

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Speaker 2: You guys did that on a copy.

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Are you guys did that on an episode of your Osprey House,

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right?

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I'm sure, because I've been listening to a couple of yours

00:19:40
lately catching up, because there's a few I missed, and I'm

00:19:43
sure you did it on one of those.

00:19:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was one of the last two or three

00:19:48
episodes we did and the shows have been on a bit of a hiatus

00:19:52
for a little while, but we are going to bring it back very soon

00:19:54
.

00:19:54
Oh good, so because and continue on the journey of

00:19:58
Osploitation Cinema.

00:19:59
Yeah, we did that as a.

00:20:01
That was a great discussion we had with Alison's Birthday

00:20:04
because I'd seen it before, but Marcy and our special guest for

00:20:07
that episode, lindsay Wilkins, they had never seen the film

00:20:10
before.

00:20:11
Right, so it's interesting kind of watching this little folk

00:20:15
Australian horror film.

00:20:17
Speaker 2: So it's such a great movie.

00:20:19
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's really good and it's great that it's

00:20:21
everywhere.

00:20:22
Like not only is it on that, you know the Blu-ray on, I think

00:20:26
it's the all.

00:20:27
It was one where it was released in the US like a box

00:20:30
set of full of.

00:20:31
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with all the all the folk horror stuff.

00:20:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's.

00:20:34
I can't think of the title of the box set right now, but it's

00:20:40
great though that it's kind of everywhere.

00:20:41
I mean you can watch the film on Prime Video Canopy Shutter

00:20:47
here, like it's, and to be as well so it's easy to watch.

00:20:52
Speaker 2: I find it super atmospheric and just really and

00:20:59
well, this is going back kind of listening to your episode about

00:21:03
it, but the her grandparents so , was it?

00:21:08
Speaker 1: grandkids.

00:21:08
I think it was her aunt and uncle, yeah.

00:21:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way they start out and then the way they

00:21:12
end it's, it's very interesting.

00:21:14
Speaker 1: Well, my mind was blown like doing research,

00:21:17
because the aunt was the set was on the TV show.

00:21:20
Round the twist.

00:21:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard you mention that.

00:21:25
Speaker 1: And it was so weird, kind of like that's the great

00:21:28
thing about doing the Osplay cast, especially doing all the

00:21:32
films in, would say, chronological order, but it gets

00:21:35
year by year.

00:21:36
It's like you get to see all the same actors basically

00:21:39
working in multiple projects or even just being introduced,

00:21:42
actors who we would know later on down the track in other stuff

00:21:46
.

00:21:46
So like I think Bruce Spence has been at least in like 70% of

00:21:51
the movies.

00:21:53
Speaker 2: Totally unrelated, but my wife and I have been, or

00:21:57
been, doing it for quite a while now.

00:21:58
We've started watching the X-Files from every start and

00:22:01
we're up to season seven or something now and the people

00:22:05
that pop up in that show is amazing.

00:22:07
Like I was watching an episode I think it was last week and I

00:22:09
was like fuck, is that Ted White ?

00:22:12
Is that Jason from the final chapter?

00:22:14
Fucking was right, he was working in a servo, he was a

00:22:18
service station attendant and you see all these other people

00:22:22
and you go, oh, who's that person?

00:22:24
So he's sitting there half the time with IMDB looking people up

00:22:27
and, yeah, and it's great.

00:22:29
I've forgotten how great that series is as well.

00:22:32
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.

00:22:33
My next one for a bit of silliness for this week, along

00:22:38
with Stuffings, is the Howling Tree, the marsupials.

00:22:42
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that's great .

00:22:46
That was one of my favorite episodes I did in my podcast.

00:22:49
That's such a bad great.

00:22:51
Speaker 1: a great bad movie, yeah, like it's one of those

00:22:54
movies, like you hear about it for so long and like I will say,

00:22:59
I mean the first Howling film is a legit great film.

00:23:02
The second one is a legit terrible film.

00:23:05
Speaker 2: So I've heard one with thumbs.

00:23:06
Is it Sybil Danning?

00:23:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, sybil Danning and Christopher Lee.

00:23:09
And my favorite story about Christopher Lee being in that

00:23:12
film just to go on a slight tangent is that when he worked

00:23:16
with Joe Dante on Gretlins 2, he actually personally apologized

00:23:20
for Joe Dante for being in Howling 2.

00:23:22
Speaker 2: Because I don't remember from Howling 2, because

00:23:27
I haven't watched it for so long is that they keep repeating

00:23:30
the shot at the end of the movie, near the credits, where

00:23:34
Sybil Danning's top comes off, or something like that oh yeah,

00:23:37
they do that.

00:23:37
Speaker 1: And also Christopher Lee wearing those very awesome

00:23:41
shades 80s shades that he has.

00:23:43
But with Howling 3, like it's one of those movies again you

00:23:49
hear about the infamy of this film, like, and I kept thinking,

00:23:53
like it can't.

00:23:54
I mean, it's definitely not going to be a good movie, but

00:23:57
isn't it as insane as people say it is?

00:23:59
You watch it and it is literally bat shit insane.

00:24:04
Speaker 2: It is.

00:24:04
It's crazy but it is pretty good.

00:24:06
It's kind of fun to watch.

00:24:07
It's interesting.

00:24:08
There's some interesting like that.

00:24:11
There's obviously throwback to Average the Aboriginal people

00:24:17
and dream time and all this sort of stuff and and the origin

00:24:23
sort of thing and that sort of stuff in the movie.

00:24:26
It's really quite interesting.

00:24:28
But yeah, it's really silly.

00:24:29
Oh yeah, especially the ballet scene.

00:24:31
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and also David, the pops up at the

00:24:34
towards the end for no apparent reason.

00:24:38
Speaker 2: Watching the award.

00:24:39
Are she on the award?

00:24:40
Yeah, she's on the award show.

00:24:41
Yeah, but, yeah but.

00:24:43
Speaker 1: I think it was because, like Philip a moron, I

00:24:47
probably put his name, so please forgive me Like, I think,

00:24:51
because he didn't have the best time on howling to, so he said

00:24:55
he would do howling free if he's given full creative control.

00:24:59
So basically, like he brought the film to Australia, have it

00:25:03
said here, have a all star Australian cast, and just went

00:25:08
nuts with the story.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: Well, that he certainly did me.

00:25:14
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely it is.

00:25:15
Yeah, I would definitely say it's not a good film, but it's

00:25:18
definitely a so bad, it's good film.

00:25:20
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's not one of those bad movies.

00:25:23
It's just terrible to sit through.

00:25:25
So it's actually enjoyable to sit through, even though it's

00:25:29
terrible.

00:25:29
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly, and I guess my final film for the

00:25:33
week is a film that that it's surprisingly, is probably like

00:25:38
it's a little film that came out of nowhere when it was released

00:25:41
barely made a blip, but in the past 15 years it's this release,

00:25:45
it's basically become like one of the great Australian horror

00:25:51
films of all time, and that's like Mongo.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: Oh yes, now I've got to admit I've got this later in

00:25:57
my list and it's going to be a first watch for me, so that is

00:26:01
going to be really interesting.

00:26:02
I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

00:26:04
Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing your thoughts on that,

00:26:06
because I feel it there's a lot of great things about the film

00:26:09
and it's a great one to discuss if you ever do an episode on it

00:26:13
down the track, yeah yeah, I've been thinking about it.

00:26:16
Speaker 2: So there's a heap of episodes in all these.

00:26:18
Well, half of these are probably already done, but yeah,

00:26:22
it's good, right.

00:26:23
So that's your second week.

00:26:24
So I'm moving into my third week, from number 15 on, where

00:26:31
I'm into a couple of vampire movies.

00:26:33
I'm into thirst and then daybreakers.

00:26:35
Nice, daybreak is a really interesting movie as well.

00:26:39
I thought that was really a really great movie from a

00:26:42
company.

00:26:43
The last time I saw it it was probably, I think, over five

00:26:46
years ago.

00:26:47
Yeah, but I remember enjoying it, so I'm looking forward to

00:26:49
seeing it again.

00:26:50
Thirst is the same.

00:26:52
I've had the Umbrella Blu-ray for Yonks probably since it came

00:26:57
out, but I still haven't had the chance to catch up with it.

00:26:59
So I've seen it before, but it was years ago.

00:27:02
And, yeah, looking forward to watching that again.

00:27:05
That's an interesting movie, except for the.

00:27:06
I still remember the scene of one of the.

00:27:09
Who was it?

00:27:10
I can't remember the character, but getting electrocuted on the

00:27:12
wiring oh, a little fake.

00:27:16
Speaker 1: Oh geez, and I know who it is too.

00:27:18
Oh, henry Silver.

00:27:21
There you go.

00:27:21
Ok, there you go.

00:27:23
I should know this.

00:27:26
Yeah, henry Silver.

00:27:27
Yeah, I was going to say first is actually with again, if we're

00:27:32
doing double features first, I would say would make a great

00:27:36
double feature with Daybreakers, because there's a lot of

00:27:40
similarities.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be good, yeah, so that's why I've

00:27:43
got them together.

00:27:44
So it'll be quite good to watch those.

00:27:46
And then I'm into a bit of funny stuff, so I'm watching 100

00:27:48
Bloody Acres again which.

00:27:50
I love.

00:27:50
Just so funny and that was a real discovery for me.

00:27:54
I'd heard about it for years, never watched it until I did it

00:27:56
for the podcast and just loved it so much.

00:28:00
It's such a great movie.

00:28:01
And then Body Milk, which is just gross, but it's so.

00:28:07
It's another one that's kind of like, no, it's not so bad, it's

00:28:12
not.

00:28:12
I don't think it's a level of howling three.

00:28:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't even say it is a bad film.

00:28:20
Speaker 2: Like it's not really.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I remember the first time I saw it

00:28:24
in the early 2000s.

00:28:25
I remember hating it the first time I watched it.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: Right, but I remember what you hated about it.

00:28:30
Speaker 1: I think it was because, like, oh, it has no

00:28:32
plot, no characters, it's just like, yeah, gross gore and stuff

00:28:36
like that, and like turned me off.

00:28:37
But then I rewatched it off, maybe less than 10 years later,

00:28:43
and it just clicked with me Like I got what it was going for and

00:28:47
I could see that it was basically an absolute satire.

00:28:51
And I, because I didn't pick up the satirical stuff the first

00:28:55
time I watched it, but the second time I totally did- Penge

00:28:59
, you can tell whether you're watching a US version or

00:29:01
Australian version by what's on the TV.

00:29:03
Speaker 2: In the in the house of the like the inbred people.

00:29:06
Ok, there's like if you're watching the Australian version

00:29:10
of it, there's hard corporn on the TV.

00:29:12
Yep, and that's been in the US version.

00:29:15
There's something else on the TV.

00:29:17
Speaker 1: Interesting.

00:29:18
I mean I still had the old umbrella Blu-ray from a few

00:29:22
years back, so I have a look and see which which version it is

00:29:25
Australian ones, yeah.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: And then after Body Melt I've got one of my other

00:29:30
favorites which is kind of borderline Australia US New

00:29:35
Zealand movie, which is Strange Behavior or Dead Kids, which is

00:29:39
great, and I just love that movie so much for the dance

00:29:43
scene which is fantastic.

00:29:46
But it's not a bad little movie either, it's a, it's a fun.

00:29:50
It's a fun movie.

00:29:51
Speaker 1: Yeah Well, I didn't see that one in ages too,

00:29:53
because I remember the first time I saw it was like, I think,

00:29:55
back on Fox Tell years ago this would have been around

00:29:59
Australia Day.

00:30:00
They decided to do I think it was the Fox Fox classics they

00:30:04
decided to do a five exploitation film Marathon.

00:30:09
Ok, so they had this film, they had first, they had the

00:30:13
survivor, they had a turkey shoot and Patrick all playing

00:30:17
back to back.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: Oh, wow.

00:30:19
Speaker 1: And I once saw five that same day because I never I

00:30:21
think I don't think I've seen any of actually I don't think I

00:30:25
ever saw any of them until that day.

00:30:26
So that was a very fun day, watching all these different

00:30:30
types of horror films and including Dead Kids, which, like

00:30:33
you say is it is kind of a nigma because it definitely it's

00:30:37
made by, like it's definitely has an American feel to it, but

00:30:42
it is produced by Australians, well directed and written by

00:30:46
Americans, but shot in New Zealand.

00:30:48
So it's kind of this weird mashup of different.

00:30:51
You know, having all those countries together just gives it

00:30:55
an interesting feel of a film.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: Well, they shipped in most of the actors.

00:30:58
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm surprised it got around in the Union Laws,

00:31:02
but I'm not sure whether the Union Laws around acting are as

00:31:04
strong as they are here, because here it would have been almost

00:31:08
impossible, right.

00:31:09
Maybe that's why they did it there, or something.

00:31:11
Speaker 1: I think so.

00:31:11
Yeah, I think also based on what I read, anthony I G and

00:31:16
Arnie, who produced a lot of the exploitation films, like I

00:31:19
think with one of the films he did I think it might have been

00:31:22
Race for the Yankee Zephyr Like I think he Like there was like a

00:31:29
thing in the Australian film industry at the time where, like

00:31:33
, you can have international actors appear in your film but

00:31:35
you're only allowed to.

00:31:36
But he wanted more than just two and they wouldn't allow it.

00:31:40
So he basically was like he decided you know, I'm just going

00:31:43
to go to New Zealand, get some money from over there and I can

00:31:47
just cast as many non-Australian actors I want.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: So what.

00:31:51
Speaker 1: And he did that for the next few films he produced

00:31:53
after that, including Dead Kids.

00:31:55
Speaker 2: Right, right.

00:31:56
Yeah, dead Kids is great and, like I said, it's all about the

00:32:00
dancing scene and the lightning strikes song.

00:32:02
It's just fantastic.

00:32:03
Then I've got Dead In Drive In, which is one of my favs, and

00:32:10
and Frog Dreaming to round out the week, which is not really

00:32:13
horror, but I think it's.

00:32:14
It's got a nice Halloweeny kind of light vibe to it.

00:32:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, both of those films directed by Brian

00:32:20
Trenchard-Smiths.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: You were getting there, yeah.

00:32:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed Frog Dreaming when I first saw it,

00:32:26
and I do have it in my collection.

00:32:28
I started seeing Drive In, sorry Dead In Drive In, but

00:32:32
that's the thing though.

00:32:32
I've had some of these movies for so, for so long.

00:32:35
It's like I should have watched them by now, but knowing that I

00:32:38
have the Osboye episodes it's like I might as well just wait

00:32:42
until we get to the episode on them and then watch them for the

00:32:44
first time.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I've got the.

00:32:47
I don't have it on.

00:32:49
I don't think it's been released in 4K yet, but I've got

00:32:51
the Arrow video version of Dead In Drive.

00:32:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have.

00:32:54
Speaker 2: It's actually really good yeah it's got lots of

00:32:56
extras and stuff like that.

00:32:57
It's great.

00:32:57
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00:33:36
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00:33:37
So what do you got after your next slot?

00:33:49
Speaker 1: Well, I have Patrick on my list as well, the original

00:33:51
Patrick, and that I also have first on that list as well.

00:33:56
Also, I have a long weekend on there too.

00:34:00
Speaker 2: OK, there you go yeah .

00:34:02
Speaker 1: Which is great film Dark Age.

00:34:05
That's what I have in there as well.

00:34:07
That's another one where that has I appreciate more the times

00:34:13
I see it because, like I think, at first time I watched it I

00:34:16
think, oh yeah, it's kind of like a standard killer croc

00:34:18
movie, but there's a lot of interesting things to it and

00:34:21
it's very rare to see a killer animal movie where in the third

00:34:25
act the main characters, despite the animal in question having

00:34:30
killed people, they actually try to protect the animal from

00:34:33
poachers.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: It's, and this movie as well.

00:34:40
They actually kill a child.

00:34:42
Oh yeah, Not in real life, of course, but but just in the

00:34:46
movie.

00:34:46
It's quite.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: I think that was like when they showed that scene in

00:34:50
Not Quite Hollywood.

00:34:52
I thought that scene was horrific the first time, Like I

00:34:56
knew I had to see it, because if you're going to show a scene

00:34:59
where a kid gets eaten by a crocodile, like you know, and

00:35:02
that's going to get me interested to watch the film,

00:35:04
especially the scene in particular and how it's done was

00:35:06
just terrifying.

00:35:08
It is yeah, then I guess this one this was what Marcy and I

00:35:13
put on our list and I get this is another one.

00:35:16
You could question wherever it's a horror film, but I would

00:35:19
say it definitely can be on this list because it's more about

00:35:25
the horrors of the real world more than anything.

00:35:27
So we put down the Nightingale.

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't seen that.

00:35:31
What's it like?

00:35:32
Speaker 1: It is very full on.

00:35:34
It's very unflinching about like how, with how Irish

00:35:41
immigrants were treated by the British when they moved here,

00:35:44
but also how indigenous Australians were treated by by

00:35:50
colonization as well, and especially because it's said in

00:35:53
Tasmania where you know, at the time all indigenous tribes were

00:35:57
basically wiped out from the island.

00:36:00
Like it's.

00:36:00
It's a very hard film.

00:36:02
It is very dark in terms of the subject matter and also the

00:36:06
very first 15 minutes of it are pretty full on in terms because

00:36:12
you know there's sexual assault and a couple of other things as

00:36:17
well.

00:36:17
But once you get past all that, I won't say the film gets fun,

00:36:21
but it is with the main character going on a path for

00:36:24
revenge, so it is very satisfying in that way.

00:36:28
So it is a very full on film, but it is a very rewarding and

00:36:34
important one.

00:36:34
And speaking of more real world horrors, snow Town is the next

00:36:40
one.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: Oh well, I nearly put that on the list.

00:36:42
It was sitting on the edge of my list for a while and because

00:36:45
that would be another first watch for me, so I'm going to

00:36:47
have to really make sure I watch .

00:36:48
I can't believe, when I put this list together, how many I

00:36:52
hadn't watched.

00:36:52
I feel a bit bad having an Australian podcast and missing

00:36:57
these movies, but then it makes more interesting when I do them

00:36:59
down the road.

00:36:59
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so Well, that's the thing.

00:37:01
Like, australia has this thing about making really dark and

00:37:05
gritty crime films, whether it be Snow Town or Chopper Even

00:37:11
though, yeah, they kind of polar opposite, because Chopper has a

00:37:13
bit of dark humor in it as well but something like Snow Town or

00:37:17
the Nightingale or, more recently, the Stranger with Joel

00:37:22
Edgerton and Sean Harris, like these, are kind of crime or

00:37:26
historical films that are just so dark in this subject matter.

00:37:30
And being that Snow Town is based on a true story about the

00:37:34
Snow Town murders, the bodies in the barrel for those who don't

00:37:39
know, it is pretty full on and Daniel Henshel in the film is

00:37:45
terrifying.

00:37:46
He gives a very unsettling performance in that film.

00:37:50
Speaker 2: OK, interesting.

00:37:51
That's something that's been on my list for a while and

00:37:55
definitely will have to catch up with it.

00:37:57
Speaker 1: And finally, just to have a bit of levity after two

00:38:00
very exciting maybe hitting Ozzy horror films, we have the

00:38:06
horror comedy Little Monsters with Lupita Nyong'o and Josh Gad

00:38:10
.

00:38:10
The excellent that.

00:38:12
It's a lot of fun.

00:38:13
I went to the I think it was like the centerpiece screening

00:38:17
here at the Melbourne International Film Festival and

00:38:20
it is a lot of fun.

00:38:20
Like it doesn't do anything too new in terms of bringing

00:38:25
anything new to the zombie genre , but it is a lot of fun and the

00:38:29
cast are all great, the kids are great in it as well and it's

00:38:34
kind of basically like to see how these adults have tried to

00:38:37
protect these kids and shelter them from a zombie attack.

00:38:42
It's silly but it's a lot of fun.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: OK, when did that?

00:38:47
Is that a recent, very recent film?

00:38:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think when did I see it at the film?

00:38:51
I think it was like 2019.

00:38:54
I saw that.

00:38:55
Speaker 2: OK, ok, interesting, I'll have to.

00:38:57
I'll go to make sure I get your list.

00:38:59
Yeah, and put it in the show notes.

00:39:01
Yeah, so we can.

00:39:02
We can have a look at this set of stuff as well.

00:39:04
So that's great.

00:39:05
That's a good bunch of movies there.

00:39:07
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, definitely yeah, yeah.

00:39:09
Speaker 2: And continuing on with my Brian Trenchard Smith

00:39:13
little bit with Turkey Shoot, which is probably one of my

00:39:17
favorite movies that he's yes, For a time.

00:39:19
That's a great movie, it's so good and of course it has some

00:39:24
actors that are probably in most of his movies and actors that

00:39:27
have turned up in heaps of other movies as well.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like it has, who we like to call on the

00:39:31
Osprey cast, stupid sexy Roger Ward.

00:39:34
That's right, that damn sexy.

00:39:35
Roger Ward, as I like to call him.

00:39:37
He's been in a lot of movies.

00:39:40
We've covered on the show up to that point and he has.

00:39:42
But Turkey Shoot's an interesting one because, again,

00:39:45
that was one where I kept hearing for years like, oh, this

00:39:48
movie is like one of the worst Australian films ever made.

00:39:51
But then when I actually sat down to watch it, I've had an

00:39:53
absolute blast with it.

00:39:54
I thought it was so fun, so over the top and so violent as

00:39:59
well.

00:40:00
Yeah, you know, like everyone says, it's effectively the most

00:40:03
dangerous game or whatever that movie was called and it's

00:40:06
exactly, you know, but those sort of movies are great anyway,

00:40:09
yeah, and I think you are meant to be, because I think when we

00:40:13
were putting our episodes, the list together for the Osprey

00:40:17
cast, I think you said oh, if you guys do Turkey Shoot on the

00:40:21
show, definitely give me a call.

00:40:22
And I think, that is coming up soon, so you have to watch that.

00:40:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's 1982.

00:40:26
So that must be pretty close.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: So you have to watch that plus four of them.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: That's all right.

00:40:31
Give me the list.

00:40:31
Give me the list and give me time and I'll give it.

00:40:34
Speaker 1: Definitely, we'll let you know when it comes to that

00:40:36
Sounds great Sounds great.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: After Turkey Shoot, I've got Rogue Games, which is

00:40:40
once again one of my favorite movies, and of course, anything

00:40:43
with Jamie Lee Curtis in it is always good as far as I'm

00:40:46
concerned, although I haven't seen Haunted Mansion yet, you've

00:40:48
seen it.

00:40:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.

00:40:49
It was okay, like it's like.

00:40:52
It's kind of more average but above average, like it's okay,

00:40:56
but definitely one that you don't necessarily need to go out

00:40:59
to the cinema to see.

00:41:00
It's kind of like.

00:41:01
I enjoyed the sort of the sort of the kid friendly horror vibe

00:41:06
to it, but yeah, I think they could have done a bit more with

00:41:09
it, to be honest.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: Okay, my daughter, who's a big Disney fan and has

00:41:13
and well, I love it as well the actual ride itself.

00:41:16
Oh yeah, she says there's so many throwbacks to the ride and

00:41:21
the movie and stuff like that, which is interesting as well.

00:41:23
Yeah, so anything she's in is great, including True Lies, but

00:41:27
I can't put it in this list.

00:41:28
Then, after Rogue Games, I've got the tunnel, which I just

00:41:32
bought, the Blu-ray from, the special Blu-ray from Umbrella,

00:41:36
which I'm really looking forward to getting into, because

00:41:38
another one that's been off my radar, that needs to be on my

00:41:42
radar, which is really, have you seen it?

00:41:45
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember when that movie came out,

00:41:47
because it's release strategy, it was crowdfunded or something

00:41:51
it was crowdfunded, but it was a film where the filmmakers

00:41:55
allowed it to be put on torrent sites to be down right that's

00:41:59
right.

00:41:59
Yes, because they wanted the movie to get out there like that

00:42:02
.

00:42:02
Obviously you know other.

00:42:03
They did have like distribution stuff like that, but I think at

00:42:07
the time I don't know if this was before or afterwards they

00:42:09
were like oh well, it's probably gonna be downloaded online just

00:42:14
let everyone have it anyway, yeah just let anyone have it

00:42:16
anyway.

00:42:17
So they were like one of the first Filmmakers to kinda

00:42:20
dislike.

00:42:20
Yeah, let's just put on torrent sites for everyone to watch

00:42:24
yeah, I'm after the tunnel.

00:42:25
Speaker 2: Then I've got wolf creek, cuz I just love that and

00:42:28
that's Probably like it's probably one of the bestest

00:42:32
train horror movies made.

00:42:33
It is a horror movie, I think, and and it's just, it's jump on

00:42:39
a jr, it's greatest things, I think.

00:42:42
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like he is terrifying in the movie and I

00:42:46
always keep telling people all the time, especially like

00:42:49
Friends of mine from overseas I can't tell like seeing john

00:42:53
jarrett in that movie would be the equivalent of people seeing

00:42:56
tim allen In a horror film.

00:42:58
That's what it was like for us, especially for years, cuz like

00:43:00
I knew john jarrett when I was younger was an actor, but I kind

00:43:04
of primarily knew him for his Hosting gig on better homes and

00:43:08
gardens for so many years.

00:43:10
So see him as a serial killer in a movie was definitely quite

00:43:15
a whiplash experience.

00:43:16
Speaker 2: yeah I wasn't a biggest fan of war, creek to.

00:43:20
I thought it was, almost I wouldn't.

00:43:22
It's not a parody of the first one, but almost felt like it

00:43:25
because it was so played up and I don't know what the third

00:43:28
one's gonna be like at all.

00:43:30
Speaker 1: I kind of like I can definitely see that with the

00:43:33
second film, but I think I sort of come around with.

00:43:35
The idea is that the second film is kind of more in tone

00:43:39
with, say, texas chainsaw massacre, where it's definitely

00:43:42
much more over the top, with more dark humor and also, you

00:43:46
know, it's great mclean had more money Compared to the first and

00:43:50
just basically just went all out to make it as over the top

00:43:54
as possible so it's got that great same with the cops right

00:43:57
oh yeah.

00:43:59
Speaker 2: Which is really good yeah, I think it's.

00:44:01
Speaker 1: If you kind of see, in that kind of mold is a texas

00:44:03
chainsaw massacre to, it tends to work a lot better yeah.

00:44:07
Speaker 2: After wolf creek I've got the one, the movie I just

00:44:10
did last episode which is the babadook, which I really enjoyed

00:44:14
and that was the first watch for me doing it for the podcast,

00:44:18
so that was was a lot of fun.

00:44:20
It was interesting having a guest on that on that podcast

00:44:25
that send all things that are paranormal and she bought some

00:44:28
interesting to the takes to the movie is quite interesting.

00:44:31
Speaker 1: I did listen to that episode and it was a great

00:44:33
episode, by the way, and I loved hearing her perspective on the

00:44:36
whole thing because, like I guess with me, with the babadook

00:44:39
Is like I guess I kind of took it literally like, oh yeah, it's

00:44:42
just not really a creature, is this, you know, manifestation of

00:44:46
her depression, guilt and also her loss.

00:44:50
But now that I listen to like, yeah, now I can definitely see

00:44:54
the point of people say it's a literal creature, but the way

00:44:58
how she sort of your guests talked about it, it was really

00:45:01
fast today, that was a really good episode it's interesting

00:45:04
because I'm not usually someone that Always little bit cynical

00:45:08
sort of stuff.

00:45:09
Speaker 2: so I'm sorry if you're listening and I'm just me

00:45:12
.

00:45:14
I was a bit cynical but I thought it was.

00:45:16
I thought, no, I've got to be open minded to this conversation

00:45:20
and respectful and and you know , and I actually thought it was

00:45:24
interesting, she made a lot of points in that I thought, you

00:45:27
know, gave me pause to kind of think about things and think,

00:45:31
okay, just it's interesting, I'm looking forward to actually

00:45:35
watching it again, yeah, after that episode and talking to her

00:45:39
and sort of probably having A different view of the movie

00:45:42
which we get out definitely after the babadook, I've got

00:45:46
lake mongo yes, of course, which we spoke about.

00:45:49
And then I've got the last way, which I just got from umbrella,

00:45:52
and I haven't watched this for Far out 30 years, something like

00:46:00
that.

00:46:00
I was watching the trailer for today because I was looking

00:46:03
through my list of like I'm missing something.

00:46:05
There's something in the back of my head and I thought, oh,

00:46:09
and I just went in and went and had a look at all my blue rays,

00:46:12
nothing other.

00:46:13
That's it, it's the last way.

00:46:15
So I took something else out and put that in and Really

00:46:19
looking forward to watching.

00:46:20
Have you seen?

00:46:21
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the last way for quite a while but I

00:46:24
didn't mean to pick up the 4k Blue ray of that, so definitely

00:46:27
will very soon.

00:46:28
But yeah, that one, I'm very much looking forward to check it

00:46:32
out again because I do love Peter wears work, so Definitely

00:46:37
it's not, I'm not sure it's true .

00:46:39
Speaker 2: Like you know a lot, I think a lot of these movies I

00:46:42
wouldn't.

00:46:42
You can't compare them like my normal Halloween list.

00:46:46
I'm very cliche, I'm probably watching half a dozen friday the

00:46:50
13th and all that sort of crap, right, these movies, most of

00:46:54
these movies, are really that sort of thing, right, very

00:46:58
different sort of take, and I'm not sure if any of these movies

00:47:02
here would actually fit in to a normal Halloween list.

00:47:06
You know, maybe, maybe wolf creek or something like next of

00:47:12
kin, one of those sort of movies , but interesting.

00:47:17
So yes, I last way looking forward to that one.

00:47:19
So what do you got?

00:47:21
Speaker 1: I get into the final three.

00:47:22
For my ones I got paid on the list as well okay, I nearly put

00:47:29
that in.

00:47:29
Well, the trailer yeah, cuz must be a big fans of it, and I

00:47:34
mean you can't go wrong with a very silly horror film where

00:47:37
basically the premise is sharks in the supermarket and it's from

00:47:42
the director of cuts, so that kind of tells you everything

00:47:45
will be double them oh, yeah, definitely.

00:47:47
It's very, very silly but enjoyable.

00:47:49
I have the bubble on the list as well.

00:47:53
Yeah, I also have the zombie film cargo.

00:47:57
Speaker 2: Okay, I've seen that one, but I haven't seen the

00:47:59
movie.

00:47:59
Speaker 1: That looks interesting yeah, cuz it's the

00:48:02
adaptation of the short film, I believe that one that's film at

00:48:06
the top.

00:48:06
That's film festival a couple years ago when that was on, so

00:48:10
they made a film version of that and what it's pretty.

00:48:14
It's a really interesting story about a father protecting his

00:48:17
daughter and trying to, cuz he's been bitten by a zombie.

00:48:21
He knows he's gonna become one, so he has to try to find

00:48:24
someone who could look after his order before he's turns.

00:48:27
And it's a pretty emotionally charge Dory, but it's a really

00:48:31
effective one as well and also as a zombie film it's really

00:48:35
good as well to check that out next on the list is from the

00:48:40
directors of Hundred bloody acres.

00:48:43
are there follow up film scare campaign?

00:48:45
Yeah, that one, I think not that many people know, but

00:48:48
definitely seek it out because it's a really fun slasher.

00:48:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard of it.

00:48:54
I haven't seen it.

00:48:54
God, I'm really killing my creator and I have 70, least.

00:49:00
Speaker 1: And it features a lot of like, like it has secret

00:49:03
fort, and then there it also has Cassandra from Wolf Creek,

00:49:07
olivia Dejean from recently in Elvis, but also shoes in the

00:49:11
visit and a few other films as well.

00:49:14
Oh, and better watch out another Australian American

00:49:18
horror film that I definitely recommend.

00:49:20
That almost my mind is that one is yeah, so definitely go into

00:49:26
without knowing too much, because scare campaigns are

00:49:29
really good.

00:49:29
Like it's a really good check that one out.

00:49:32
I also had nightmares on the list.

00:49:34
Oh yeah, it's good.

00:49:39
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about that movie.

00:49:41
I don't know if it's because I remember the ad campaign when I

00:49:46
was young, yeah, but I couldn't see the movie cuz it's like 1980

00:49:50
.

00:49:50
I would have been able to see the movie 68, yeah, I would have

00:49:53
been old enough, for sure, but for some reason Maybe I wasn't

00:49:57
as interested in horror then but , I do remember the ad on tv and

00:50:00
stuff, but I just got this thing about that movie.

00:50:03
It's so Stupid it is.

00:50:08
Speaker 1: But what I kind of love about that film is you can

00:50:10
do it as a double feature with the Spanish slasher film pieces.

00:50:14
Yes, absolutely or even one that must be my big fans of

00:50:20
blood rage.

00:50:20
It's that very heightened and very silly kind of slasher film

00:50:25
that you don't really see that much anymore.

00:50:27
But it is so bonkers and just insane and hilarious that it's

00:50:32
just so much fun.

00:50:34
The best thing about the nightmares trailer is I

00:50:36
basically give away what happens at the end of the movie in the

00:50:39
oh yeah, and doing like putting the trailers, like when I put ad

00:50:44
trailers to the oslo cast and actually sit there and watch the

00:50:46
trailers, I say to myself thank you so much.

00:50:49
The trailers at all, cuz these free.

00:50:51
The bloody trailers like literally show the entire movie

00:50:54
and all the spoilers.

00:50:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's, it's amazing, it's almost as bad luck

00:50:59
.

00:50:59
It's very rare I watch movies, trailers these days of movies

00:51:03
that I really want to go and see , because I find that, even more

00:51:07
than the seventies and eighties , I think they give away more

00:51:10
than movie.

00:51:10
And then, oh yeah, there's bits of the trailers.

00:51:13
We go, I just made that, make it like you see it in the movie.

00:51:17
I always think it's funny that there was that always, that that

00:51:20
line in jason versus freddy.

00:51:22
What was it where the actress says jason versus freddy, place

00:51:27
your bets.

00:51:27
Is it in the ad?

00:51:28
But it's never in.

00:51:29
It's not in the movie.

00:51:30
Yeah, okay, they shot that just for the trailer.

00:51:34
Yes, I went after.

00:51:36
Speaker 1: that is actually one of the Few that I can think of

00:51:41
in terms of this particular genre the vampire film, blood

00:51:44
vessel.

00:51:46
Speaker 2: Okay, haven't heard of that one that one is.

00:51:48
Speaker 1: Definitely seek that one out.

00:51:49
I think it's.

00:51:50
I don't know if it's still on shutter australia at the moment,

00:51:53
but I think it's also on prime video as well.

00:51:55
It's an interesting movie.

00:51:56
I would say it's kind of a mixture of thirty days of night

00:52:00
meets overlord, because it's set during world war two, where the

00:52:05
survivors of a ship that got sunk during the war find this

00:52:11
abandoned ship and they discovered that there's a

00:52:13
vampire on it.

00:52:14
That kind of looks like the one from brand stoker's dracula,

00:52:19
with the dracula's kind of full blown vampire design.

00:52:23
It's a really cool little movie , a little anticlimactic, but

00:52:26
it's still really good and Still good, yeah, and it also has a

00:52:30
robert taylor in it and also a naven phillips from wolf creek

00:52:34
in it as well.

00:52:35
Next up is one that definitely I don't think a lot of people

00:52:38
have heard of and it's one that I have to give a shout out to.

00:52:42
It's a film that came out last year.

00:52:45
It's a supernatural film called surrogate Okay, and this one I

00:52:49
know is on to be, and it's a it's a custom racy who was also

00:52:54
a wolf creek.

00:52:55
So I this bracket, I'm showing a lot of actors who are in wolf

00:52:59
creek in other movie who would in other horror movies.

00:53:01
It's about this.

00:53:03
Some this woman play by kesty morassie.

00:53:06
She finds this person who is injured, tries to help them, but

00:53:10
they died.

00:53:11
But the thing is what she realizes is that person had a

00:53:14
ghost attached to him Like a spirit, and so now the ghost is

00:53:18
attached itself to her.

00:53:20
Yeah, it definitely has sort of james, one type of vines, but

00:53:24
it's actually a pretty cool little indy ozzie horror film

00:53:28
and I kind of have to give it a shout out because the man who

00:53:31
wrote a director to david welling was actually here.

00:53:34
He was my former mentor Because he I did a couple of short film

00:53:39
classes back in the day with directing and screenwriting and

00:53:43
he was the teacher on those and I also helped him out on a

00:53:46
couple little projects and stuff .

00:53:48
So yeah, it's a.

00:53:49
So I have definitely not picking this movie due to that biases.

00:53:52
It's actually a surprisingly good little movie and I even I

00:53:56
was pretty impressed by it.

00:53:57
And finally I have to Really I had to think about this because

00:54:03
I think if it's going to be the last film of the month, it needs

00:54:06
to have upset at Halloween, and there's very few Australian

00:54:12
horror films that are set at Halloween, except for one, which

00:54:15
is a film that I saw first, then introduced at the Marcy she

00:54:19
absolutely loved it and that's the horror drama Boys in the

00:54:23
Trains.

00:54:23
This one is kind of a little hard to find every now and again

00:54:27
because it did get a cinema release and I did see it there,

00:54:30
but it's never been released on physical media in Australia.

00:54:33
But I remember it was on Stan for a while.

00:54:37
I don't know if it still is or not, but I know like overseas it

00:54:41
was on Netflix for a while and a few other places.

00:54:44
But it's a really cool sort of film that mixes horror drama,

00:54:51
coming of age and it really fully embraces Halloween.

00:54:56
Speaker 2: So that's your 31.

00:54:57
I think I've still a three to go, so I've got my final three

00:55:00
to bring it home.

00:55:00
I've got a long weekend, so you can't not have that in the list

00:55:03
.

00:55:03
I thought I'd get really super current because I've got it on

00:55:07
order and hopefully I'll get it in October, which has talked to

00:55:10
me, because I missed that in the cinemas.

00:55:11
It looks really good actually.

00:55:13
You've seen it, oh yeah.

00:55:16
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it a lot and it definitely does.

00:55:19
It is worthy of all the hype it's getting and it's great to

00:55:22
see an Australian made horror film with a full blown Aussie

00:55:27
cast, filmmakers and all that.

00:55:29
That's only done pretty well.

00:55:30
It's done pretty well here in Australia, but it's done better

00:55:33
elsewhere, including the US.

00:55:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't go as far with the collector set of

00:55:38
getting the hand prop and all that sort of stuff, but looks

00:55:42
good.

00:55:42
And then I'm rounding out my whole 31 days with the loved

00:55:45
ones.

00:55:46
Speaker 1: Yes.

00:55:48
Speaker 2: Again.

00:55:48
Just such a great movie.

00:55:49
I really love that movie.

00:55:50
It's probably one of the better villains in Australian cinema

00:55:56
history.

00:55:56
She's just something else.

00:55:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, lolo is an icon and it's too bad.

00:56:02
Well, I'm not going to say what happens.

00:56:04
In case those who haven't seen it, let's just say we should

00:56:07
have had more and more sequels to this movie.

00:56:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, and her creepy dad.

00:56:14
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, john Brumpton, who I've actually met

00:56:16
in real life and he's a really nice guy.

00:56:22
Speaker 2: It's another one.

00:56:22
It's such a great movie and I think about a lot of these

00:56:25
movies with the music and there's nothing like opening up

00:56:31
with a movie.

00:56:31
That's a horror movie, with two people in a car listening to

00:56:35
Lonesome loser by Little River Band on the right.

00:56:38
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it when a film does that and also every

00:56:41
time Casey Chambers, not pretty enough, plays Like anywhere, I

00:56:46
just I mean I love the song already, but I just always think

00:56:50
the loved ones every time I hear that song.

00:56:52
Speaker 2: I can't hear it with anything else going in my head

00:56:54
now.

00:56:54
If I hear it anywhere.

00:56:56
That's the first thing I think of.

00:56:57
Is that movie a few?

00:56:58
That missed out for me?

00:56:59
I was really keen to try and get.

00:57:01
Have you seen One Night Stand from like 1980 something?

00:57:07
Speaker 1: No, but it is on the the docket for the Osprey car.

00:57:10
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, which is great.

00:57:13
I love that, and I was going to pair it with these final hours.

00:57:15
Have you seen that?

00:57:17
Speaker 1: Oh, I had seen that yeah.

00:57:18
Speaker 2: These final hours is very much, a, very much a down a

00:57:22
movie, in a way.

00:57:23
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

00:57:24
Speaker 2: But it's a really well made film.

00:57:27
I was keen to get those two in, but I really just couldn't find

00:57:31
anywhere to put them, so it was a bit of a bummer.

00:57:35
Yeah, is there anything you missed out on that you didn't

00:57:38
want to miss out on.

00:57:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would also say like another kind of real

00:57:43
horror type of thing, or at least horrors of the real world,

00:57:46
is a hounds of love, which is not particularly based on a true

00:57:51
story but it's inspired by true events and it's a really dark

00:57:56
and disturbing film.

00:57:57
So that would definitely be on the list.

00:57:59
Better Watch Out, which I did mention before, good like.

00:58:04
It's definitely made by Americans but it was shot here

00:58:09
and outside of actually outside of Virginia Madsen and Patrick

00:58:12
Warburton who were in that film.

00:58:13
All the young cast are Aussie actors and a lot of them have

00:58:17
gone on to do big things and it's a really fun movie.

00:58:21
Relic is another one, I think that's a really great yeah

00:58:25
that's a really strong one.

00:58:27
Killing Ground is another one that I thought was really good

00:58:30
Dark and disturbing, but pretty good.

00:58:33
And just a little look here on my letterbox just to see if

00:58:37
anything sort of pops up oh yeah , I'm dead.

00:58:40
The Sparrow Brothers.

00:58:42
Speaker 2: That was something I was going to have on my list as

00:58:44
well, and I couldn't find room yet.

00:58:48
Speaker 1: That's what I definitely recommend everyone to

00:58:50
check out as well.

00:58:51
And I get Sissy, which is another recent one.

00:58:56
That's really good and I guess, finally in terms of my list,

00:59:02
actually, a film that I actually watched at the Melbourne

00:59:05
International Film Festival recently is a film called Late

00:59:10
Night with the Devil.

00:59:10
That's the Kane Brothers who made Underbody Acres and Scare.

00:59:16
Campaign is their third film and it's sort of like well, it's

00:59:21
set in America and it stars David Desch-Malchian, who's kind

00:59:25
of been popping up everywhere in a lot of things over the last

00:59:28
few years, like as that guy kind of actor in American films

00:59:32
and he's the leader of this one.

00:59:33
And what's cool about this film is that it's a it takes place

00:59:38
in the 1970s and he's the host of like a kind of a Johnny

00:59:42
Carson, don Lane type of talk show.

00:59:44
So he does a show on Halloween and decides to have an exorcism

00:59:51
done live during an episode and it's a lot of fun and he's at.

00:59:56
David Desch-Malchian is great at it and it was really cool to

01:00:00
kind of see like the Kane Brothers kind of progressing

01:00:03
more as filmmakers with this one .

01:00:06
Speaker 2: They made some good movies.

01:00:08
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and also it's set in Halloween, so it

01:00:11
could, it's so you could have fit in.

01:00:13
I could have.

01:00:14
Yeah, but it hasn't been released yet, so I figured I'd

01:00:16
just go for once and have it been released as a.

01:00:18
I mean that have been released, yeah.

01:00:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.

01:00:22
I'm waiting for someone.

01:00:23
I'm sure someone will tell me I should have put Bad Boy Bubby

01:00:27
somewhere in my house because for some reason everyone likes

01:00:29
that movie.

01:00:31
Speaker 1: It kind of surprises me, like I mean, I haven't seen

01:00:34
the movie for a long time and I don't think it's a bad film at

01:00:36
all, like it is a good movie, but I I always find it weird.

01:00:40
It's like, oh yeah, bad Boy Bubby, that's a great movie, it

01:00:41
was like.

01:00:42
But that movie is like so weird and creepy.

01:00:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I get people saying when are you going to

01:00:46
put that on your, do that on your podcast?

01:00:48
I'm like well, monday.

01:00:50
Speaker 1: But then I also get.

01:00:51
Speaker 2: I also.

01:00:52
I also get people ask me if I'm ever going to do Crocodile

01:00:55
Dundee.

01:00:56
Speaker 1: So I mean that is an obvious choice that you don't

01:01:00
necessarily need to do.

01:01:02
Just I mean you don't need to do right away.

01:01:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did Young Einstein, so is this as much

01:01:08
chance I'll do?

01:01:08
But then I think Young Einstein is definitely a better movie

01:01:12
than Crocodile Dundee as far as I'm concerned.

01:01:14
Cool, cool.

01:01:15
So I'll do the usual thing.

01:01:17
Where can people find you and Marcy, I suppose?

01:01:21
Speaker 1: Well, if people want to find both mine and Marcy's

01:01:24
shows, they're all on the super network, on all podcast

01:01:27
streaming services, everywhere.

01:01:28
We have quite a number of shows .

01:01:30
We have the super podcast, which is the, the flagship show

01:01:34
for the network, and then we have all of our other spinoff

01:01:37
shows, like the Osloy cast, which we've mentioned before,

01:01:40
which is on our podcast on Osloytation Cinema.

01:01:44
Then we have the Kingzone podcast, which is our podcast on

01:01:48
the film and TV adaptations of Stephen King.

01:01:51
Then we have podcasters of horror, which is our podcast on

01:01:55
horror anthology film and TV shows.

01:01:57
Then we also have probably our one of our most beloved series

01:02:02
the two be Tuesdays podcast, which you have been a guest on

01:02:05
before.

01:02:06
Speaker 2: You have.

01:02:06
That was great.

01:02:07
What did we do without warning?

01:02:09
Speaker 1: We did without warning, so that was a fun one.

01:02:11
Well, some of those shows have been on hiatus for a little bit,

01:02:15
but we are bringing those back, particularly Osloyt cast, which

01:02:19
I'm excited to get back to.

01:02:21
Speaker 2: I don't know how you have time because, like me, just

01:02:24
doing this one is like getting an episode out every month is

01:02:29
like full on work for me, oh yeah, and I've recently had an

01:02:33
idea for a second podcast, not movie related at all but I'm

01:02:38
like, how am I going to fit it in?

01:02:39
I'm going to try and fit it in.

01:02:42
I've got a great idea.

01:02:45
But I've got a good idea about doing a certain sort of music

01:02:49
podcast.

01:02:50
Yeah, that should be interesting.

01:02:52
Yeah, and that's more my passion.

01:02:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's the thing, like I don't know how

01:02:56
I manage it, sometimes like hosting five podcasts plus my,

01:03:01
plus my solo podcast being versus the living dead.

01:03:03
But now I'm working on a seven show that's actually going to be

01:03:08
a spin off to be versus living dead, but I can't divulge what

01:03:11
that is right away, but it will be revealed very soon.

01:03:15
So, yeah, like seven shows.

01:03:18
Speaker 2: I don't know how I fit it all in and you've got to

01:03:20
try, and you've got to try and find a day job in there to bring

01:03:23
it.

01:03:23
Speaker 1: And I do, I work five nights a week, but I only work

01:03:26
for like a few hours, like casually.

01:03:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:03:28
Speaker 1: So I'm able to kind of fit the podcasting editing

01:03:31
around it.

01:03:32
But yeah, it's pretty non stop.

01:03:34
I can tell you that.

01:03:37
Speaker 2: All right.

01:03:37
Well, thanks very much for coming on the show.

01:03:40
It's great and this has been a fun episode.

01:03:42
I'm just I just thought it'd be fun to do and get out before

01:03:45
Halloween, so I hope they'll get it out this weekend and and it

01:03:49
might, you know, I mean, if anyone's listening, has got an

01:03:51
idea or they want to Share their 30 if they can come up with 31

01:03:56
Australian movies for Halloween.

01:03:57
Love to hear.

01:03:59
Speaker 1: Or at least if our, the ones on our list like give

01:04:02
people suggestions to check out too.

01:04:04
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for coming on.

01:04:06
I'm sorry, marcy, you couldn't make it.

01:04:08
Hope you're feeling better and and we'll talk real soon.

01:04:11
Thank you everyone.