Speaker 1: Hey, this is Chris Webber and you're listening to the
Shirley you Can't Be Serious podcast. Oh everybody, and welcome
back to the Shirley you Can't Be Serious podcast, the
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Speaker 2: Hey, that's good man, that's good intro.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I was not expecting. Very good, Very good.
Speaker 1: Guys. Welcome to the second in our series of top
movies to watch during Halloween. The first part of the series,
we said we're going to cover movies of the seventies
that you watched during Halloween, and today we are here
to talk to you about movies of the eighties that
you watched during Halloween.
Speaker 2: Yeah. These are much more in our wheelhouse right here.
Speaker 1: Yes, because we were not five.
Speaker 2: We actually could watch these right right. I feel like
there's like the sliding scale, like a double sliding scale
of these type of movies. Yeah, there's there's like the
scary scale, and then there's the fun scale. Yes, I
feel like the seventies movies were really high on the
scary scale, but not very high on the fun scale.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that for the most part. Yes,
it was the introduction of horror in a whole new
kind of way, and then they took it in the eighties.
They took it and ran with it in a whole
lot of different directions.
Speaker 2: I really feel like a lot of these movies are
just tons of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just you know, we mentioned in our first episode,
neither Jason nor I are horror movie guys. There are
entire podcasts devoted to the horror movie world, and we
encourage everybody to go listen to those if that's your thing.
Speaker 2: Are you telling people to go listen to other people's.
Speaker 1: Podc Hey, we're a podcast friendly podcast over here. But
for us, we're gonna tell you our top five And
there will definitely be some slasher movies on here, and
there will be some other movies that you maybe don't
think of when you think of scary movies from the eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be fun. Now. I will tell you this.
Whenever I was composing my seventies list, I mean, we
talked about how young we were at the time. I
struggled to get five movies that I had actually seen
my honorable mentions were just movies that I wanted to
go see because hey, they look like they were good movies.
I couldn't even come up with seven movies that were
Halloween ish movies that I had seen this go round.
I struggled. There are a lot of movies that are
Halloween ish movies that I had to had to kill
some babies.
Speaker 2: As you say, when you said you struggled, I was like, man,
surely you've seen a lot of movies in the eighties
that were scary. Fun.
Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of movies in the eighties
that were fun. And don't call me shirty. That's gonna
come up later. That joke is gonna come up later.
I'm so excited. Okay, Jason, Before we go on, I
just wanted to tell you we've got some friends who
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Speaker 2: That is really cool.
Speaker 1: But you you're a big fan of the show.
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We love their stuff.
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The show is called only in Okay Show. That's right
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And if you don't live in Oklahoma, Y got to
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Totally check it out. Only in Okay podcast.
Speaker 1: Okay, folks, are we ready to dive in? We are
ready to dive in Okay. Now. The way that we
typically do this is we tease them up. We give
little hints to the other guy to say, see if
they can guess what movie it is we're thinking of.
And sometimes Jason and I will have movies that overlap.
We don't tell each other what we're picking before we
get started, and so you may hear us go, well,
let's punt that one down the road, and that means
it's on their list on a higher position, right right.
And then the other thing to consider is we're talking
about Halloween movies. We mentioned in our last episode that
we didn't really feel like Alien, even though it's a
horror in space, we didn't really feel like it was
a Halloween movie. It's more like a sci fi movie.
And Jaws, we thought this is a summer blockbuster, beach movie.
This is not a you watch it around Halloween movie.
You may feel differently, and that's cool, that's okay, that's right.
You can have your opinion. We're going to give you ours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. You know, there's a case to be
made that the Terminator from nineteen eighty four, the original
Terminator movie, is formulaically a horror movie, absolutely unstoppable, killing machine.
Speaker 1: Throw a predator into the mix too. Oh yeah, maybe, okay,
it's a monster It's true. Yeah, it's a monster movie.
Speaker 2: Not really killing babysitters. But it is the same idea.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, with that, let us begin our top five countdown. Five.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me get this thing started. My number five.
D I feel like I've already kind of spoiled this for.
Speaker 1: You, but I don't think so. So.
Speaker 2: The director of this movie had been working on Total
Recall okay, and wasn't really fast tracking, and so he
needed a project, and so he attacked this movie, which
is actually a sort of reimagining of a nineteen fifties movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I know, I think I know what
the movie is, but you go ahead and give me
a couple more clues.
Speaker 2: The lead actor and lead actress were a real life couple.
Speaker 1: I know what the movie is, and let's punt that
one down the road, that one down the road. Yep, okay,
all right, you ready for my number five? Yes, aam
all right number five. The director of this movie would
go on to direct Spring Break and Deep Star six. Okay,
you don't know it right off the bat from that one,
I deliberately ordered my clues to make them the most difficult.
Speaker 2: That was smart. I'll tell you what I've seen both
Deep Star six and spring Break.
Speaker 1: Huh not a clue.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: I was not.
Speaker 2: Interested in who directed those, so keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? So Lou Reid owned a farm next
to the filming location of this movie, and he would
come by the set, hang out, play and sing for
the cast and crew, and according to everyone there was
the coolest guy.
Speaker 2: Lou read, Lou read Okay, nothing, still nothing, Okay, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna keep going, all right. The most prolific actor in
this movie took the part because she needed money for
a new car. She read the script and thought it
was quote a piece of shit that no one would see. Okay,
still don't know. I bet that some of our listeners
have gotten it from that clue. But I'm gonna keep going, okay.
Another star in this movie is Harry Crosby, son of
Bing Crosby. It had a five hundred and fifty thousand budget,
but grossed almost thirty nine million domestic and fifty nine
million worldwide.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a guess none of this is ringing
like my major bells here. But low budget, yes, very successful. Yes,
a lot of people I've semi tangentally heard of. I'm
gonna say, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: You got it, sir, that was it? Very good?
Speaker 3: Hello, good Den.
Speaker 1: Oh By, you're doing.
Speaker 4: On this mess?
Speaker 1: So the remainder of the trivia on this one is
after seeing his work on Dawn of the Dead, the
producers hired Tom Savini nod to Amandaganet because she brought
that up in our texture. Most of the cast and
crew stayed in hotels, but Tom and another crew member
stayed at the shooting location. That camp that they were at,
huh where they watched either Barbarilla or Marathon Man on
Tom's Beta max VCR.
Speaker 2: Hey, those Beta maxes were big deals back then.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to know the answer to this.
One actor in the movie would become world famous when
he starred in a movie based on a small town
here in Oklahoma that outlawed dancing.
Speaker 2: That is mister Kevin Bacon from Footloose.
Speaker 1: One of his earliest roles was as an early murder
victim of the killer those spoilers here, Boys and Girls
the Killer Friday the Thirteenth.
Speaker 2: If you don't know who the killer is in the
original Friday the Thirteenth, go watch the first Scream movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or go watch the first Friday the Thirteenth. You know, sure, well,
you know when we do our when we do our
llween movies of the nineties I guarantee that that little
nugget's going to come back.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. By the way, the guys absolutely admit that Halloween
inspired them to make this movie. Also, what inspired them
to make this movie me balls. The combination of Halloween
and meatballs. It's perfect.
Speaker 2: Great man, Hey, you know this took place at Camp
Crystal Lake, a fictional place. I believe the actual location
of the camp is in New Jersey, and our buddy
Jeff Johnson and David Burns have been there, and you
can like tour the you can lay in the bed
where Kevin Bacon was killed.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, I know right. I think you get the line
out the door for that.
Speaker 2: Excellent choice at number five. So we're on to my
number four.
Speaker 5: Four.
Speaker 2: Charlie Sheen was originally cast in this movie, but was
rejected because he was too good looking.
Speaker 1: I know this one, Okay, I know it already. You
keep on going, though.
Speaker 2: One of the most famous scenes in the movie was
inspired by the elevator scene from The Shining Okay. The
sleep doctor who treats the main character in this movie
is played by Charles Flesher, who also is the voice
of Roger Rabbit and the main girl in this movie
is of course Tulsa's own Heather Landing Camp.
Speaker 1: This has to be Nima and Elm Street.
Speaker 3: The kids of Elm Street. I don't know it yet,
but something is coming to get them.
Speaker 1: There's something out there.
Speaker 4: Isn't it.
Speaker 1: Very good? I actually was thrown off a little bit
because when you said originally supposed to be Charlie Sheen, huh,
I went to a different movie that I won't mention
because it's going to come up later, but it was.
But it was the same thing. It was your too
good looking for this part. We needed a more Yeah,
that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. By the way, Johnny Depp, this
is his acting debut. And I mean I kind of
got mixed signals on this because Charlie Sheen was rejected.
Johnny Depp was hired because Wes Craven's daughter thought he
was cute.
Speaker 1: There you go, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the story behind that movie is incredible because
Heather Langencamp and Robert England had a conversation about this
movie and talked about how it was almost Shakespearean in nature,
like they really dove into the deep on this movie,
and Wes Craven was inspired to write the movie from
actual stories that he had read of people dying in
their sleep, right, Like I remember I still bugs me
to this day because he described in detail about this
kid who just wouldn't go to sleep. His parents were
trying to make him go to sleep, but he tried
to explain to him that someone was going to murder
him while he was sleeping, and he didn't want to
go and he knew the killer would be in his dreams,
and they were like given him sleeping pills and he
would spit the sleeping pills out. But eventually the body
just wears out. He eventually falls asleep and dies in
his sleep. When they come into his room after obviously
they've taken the body out, they discover that he has
got a coffee machine inside of his closet. He's doing
everything he can to stay awake.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the most tense things about watching
these movies. Now we can talk about the sequels. Some
are some are not good. Mostly it's just kind of
police academy like crap, right, right, But the most tense
thing about watching the first movie is that they're dying
to not go to sleep, and you're watching and going
you have to sleep. You know, you've got to face this. Yeah,
and Nancy's like, I've gone four days without sleep. Every
time I watch I'm like, oh my gosh, that would
be the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then there's that one I know as kids, the
scene that freaked us out the most is when you
know Freddy can kind of alter his appearance and do
these weird things because he's in your dreams. He has
these like extended arms like this one scene's this one
weird effect where he has like ten foot arms.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and never that.
Speaker 2: As thirteen year olds, we were like, whoa, that is scary.
Speaker 1: The most vivid memory for me very much like the
end of Friday of the thirteenth, but you know, spoiler
alert for everybody out there, Jason doesn't make his appearance
until the last second of Friday of the thirteenth, right,
and it's not what you're expecting, right, and Nightmare on
Elm Street. You think everything's good and everything's over, just
like at the end of f Right of the third teenth,
Then all of a sudden, the monster pops out again
in that very last second, and that was I was like, oh,
oh my gosh. Yeah, that was intense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great movie. A top notch eighties horror movie.
Speaker 1: Very good. Okay, so we're to my number, you're number
four four, which we're coming back to your number five here.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I think you're making a mistake.
Speaker 1: I think you really want to talk to me.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I have three other interviews.
Speaker 2: To do before this part is over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they're not working on something, they'll change the
world as we know it. They say they are, Yeah,
but they're lying.
Speaker 3: There is a limit, even to the imagination.
Speaker 1: Human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown, and reformation is inherently purging.
Speaker 3: Where our greatest creations meet our deepest fears.
Speaker 2: Something walks.
Speaker 5: When you went through something went wrong, you are about.
Speaker 3: To go beyond that limit.
Speaker 1: But I'll go ahead and see if you knew these
bits of trivia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: They had a baboon named Typhoon in a supporting role
in this movie.
Speaker 2: Uh huh huh.
Speaker 1: He was, by the way, a wild animal. You cannot
tame baboons. At one point, he got so agitated by
the flashing lights in the transport chamber that he ripped
the door off. And Jeff Goldbloom, who's six' four and
was in phenomenal, shape for that, movie no, doubt he
was the one with the handler who basically took the baboon,
down and the handler was, like it was ideal That
jeff was there to do, that because had he not
done that at that outset and established him as the,
alpha the rest of the movie would have been a.
Speaker 2: Disaster, yeah that's a great. Story.
Speaker 1: Man When Martin scorsese met the director of this who
you mentioned was working on total recall but eventually had
to do something, else, right, that of course Is David. Cronenberg, Cronenberg,
Right When Martin scorsese met, him he told him he
looked like a plastic, surgeon which is why he gave
himself the cameo appearance in the movie as a.
Speaker 2: Doctor oh that's, right he's the, guino, Right, yeah He's
Geena davis's.
Speaker 1: GYNECOLOGIST i, mean you're directing the, movie and you cast.
Yourself she, insisted As Geena, davis, right.
Speaker 2: Take off all your.
Speaker 1: CLOTHES i promise this is because What martin said to.
Speaker 2: Me SEE i heard that she insisted that he take
that part because, hey you're my, Director i'm your. Actress
if anybody is going to see me in my most vulnerable,
POSITION i trust. You here's the nugget that blew my
friggin doors off WHEN i saw this AND i called
you up the other day AND i. COULDN'T i just
couldn't hold. IT i, Couldn't, OKAY i couldn't contain.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Yeah this was produced by Mel, BROOKS i know, What,
Yes mill Freaking, Brooks and in, fact he came up
with the line be, afraid be very. Afraid that's Mel. Brooks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now of course this is based on an old
nineteen fifties. Movie they rewrote it and made it entirely. Different.
Right Jeff goldbloom actually wrote a letter To Vincent price that,
SAID i hope you love my movie as much AS
i loved, yours And Vincent price said it was very.
Speaker 2: Good up until a point barfed on the guy's leg
and it.
Speaker 1: Melted so special effects are incredible in this, movie. Right
the guy who came up with the brindle fly it
was way different than that fifties yeah, movie right. Right
his name Was Chris, wallace and whenever the credits roll
at the end of the, movie his name is the
very first name that comes. Up when they were running
it in test, screenings and his name popped up as
creator and designer of The Brindle. Fly the audience, cheered
and the producer turned to him and, said you're going
to win The oscar this, year and he, Did.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah i'll tell you. What you, know we talk
about movies that are really excellently. DONE i would argue
that The, fly you are emotionally invested in these, characters
and the gore level, rises and the horror rises when
he barks on that guy's leg and his face like tears.
Apart you still are. Heartbroken when he puts the shotgun
on his. Head it's still, heartbreaking but you're absolutely horrified
the entire.
Speaker 1: Time it's a wonderful.
Speaker 2: One she gives birth to a maggot in the movie.
Theater me and my friends were, like, What, yeah oh my,
gosh it's, horrifying incredibly. Good, yeah, okay were ready for
my number?
Speaker 1: Three you're number three. Three so the.
Speaker 2: Theme song from this, MOVIE i think deserves a lot
of credit for setting the tone and deserves credit for
how successful this movie. Was, okay you have little children
singing the, chorus which makes it even more.
Speaker 1: Creepy, WELL i know this Isn't nightmare On Elm street
because we've already covered that, one BUT i can't help
but think about one two fed coming for.
Speaker 2: You that's a good. Guess it's not, that but you're,
right that's similar in the. Field, okay. Okay this was
originally supposed to be directed By Richard. Donner he was
going to make it like The, goonies The goony Meets.
Speaker 1: Dracula, yes SO i know this. One, yes and this
is also my number. Three oh, perfect, okay.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 1: Yes as a matter of, fact my first clue was
a musical clue as. WELL i. Said fantastic, soundtrack including
songs By Michael hutchins and the guy that you're talking,
About gerard McMahon Cry Little.
Speaker 2: Sister so the soundtrack is. Phenomenal, yeah there's a whole
buy in Within, excess, Right so In excess provides a
song for this. Movie Joel, schumacher who directs this. Movie
as a thank you to In, excess he Directs Double,
inside which is a single from The inexcess.
Speaker 1: Kick. Yep so we've covered this. Movie we covered it
Versus Fry. Night it was one of OUR i think
maybe our First halloween, episode is that?
Speaker 2: RIGHT i think that's.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah so, yeah twenty twenty season, One october Episode
Fright night Versus The Lost. BOYS i went back AND
i was, LIKE i know it's going to be on my,
list So i'm going to listen to a little bit
of the episode WHAT i, can AND i gave myself
a nugget THAT i had completely. Forgotten, Right Joel schumacher
got his first job in the movies When Woody allen
saw his fashion window at the department store he was
working at and hired him as a costume. Designer he
would go on from there to Direct The Incredible Shrinking,
woman and he would go on From Lost boys To
ruin The batman's nineteen Ninety.
Speaker 2: Yes that's exactly. Right we need to do a what
the heck happened On batman And.
Speaker 1: Robin the location where they shot this, Movie Santa carla
had from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy three of, record
over the course of thirty, months had twenty eight. Murders
there were three different killers, Involved Linley, Fraser Herbert, mullen
and the Notorious Ed, kemper one of the first and
first studied serial killers of THE, fbi and it earned
the town the nickname Murder capital of The.
Speaker 2: World that's. True that's. True When The Last boys came
to film, there they're, Like, hey we're gonna say you,
know The Murder Capital. World they're, like, nope, nope change.
Speaker 1: It, yeah we've spent the last nineteen years getting past.
Speaker 2: That, yeah so they changed it To Santa.
Speaker 1: Carla, yeah they changed the name of the. Town we're
keeping that. Tagline it's too. Good this was the first
movie That Corey feldman And Corey haym were in. Together,
yes it. Was and because they were both under, age
they could not go out and party with the older
Actors Jason patrick And Keifer, sutherland and so they got
stuck in the hotel room together where they developed this
bond and ultimately became the Two corris that we saw
in all these movies of the eighties and.
Speaker 2: Nineties they did they. Did you, know we're counting this
as A halloween. Movie this was actually released in the
summer of nineteen eighty. Seven, yep and every summer at The,
boardwalk that little amusement park out. THERE i don't know
the name of, it but they Showed The Lost boys
as it's you, know summer up movie or. WHATEVER i
think that'd be awesome to go out there and watch.
Speaker 1: It. Yea AND i was telling YOU i always miss.
It But The Lost boys is based upon the kids
who Lived forever that were The gang Of Peter pan
and The Peter. Panbrooks, yep love.
Speaker 2: It this movie is good with goony like.
Speaker 1: Kids, nope non.
Speaker 2: Chance right. NOW i think The david vampire character might
be my favorite vampire of all.
Speaker 1: Time, YEAH i Mean Joel. Schumacher he insisted that the
vampires were going to be. Sexy he, goes this is
the only monster that's actually. Sexy frankenstein is not.
Speaker 2: Sexy, Right plus you have a sexy sexyphone.
Speaker 1: Player, oh the sexy saxophone who used to get led
out on a caller By Tina turner and nothing but
a g string to play in her. Shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh my, gosh one little interesting nugget THAT i
went back and. Rediscovered. Yeah Jason, patrick of course Is
michael in this, movie which they Say michael ten thousand times. Movie.
Right he had just worked on a movie With Jamie
gertz Called Solar. Baby, yeah and that movie didn't do very.
Well but they were looking for an actress to play.
Star they were looking, for you, know a beautiful.
Speaker 1: Blonde make grind. Type grind, type that's.
Speaker 2: Right and he, said, hey, guys this GIRL i just
work with good Actress Jamie.
Speaker 1: Gertz Bang bang boom.
Speaker 2: Star one more trivia note for. You, yeah you know
the actor who is worth the most money In.
Speaker 1: HOLLYWOOD i do because you sent out that. Text, yeah
It's Jamie. Gertz jamie she, married, well she. Did she
actually was the breadwinner when they first got, married but
he ended up surpassing her in his ability to bring
in some. Income, yes like eight billion or something in the.
Speaker 2: Billions, yes, wow that's. Nuts at least she's got her
good looks to fall back.
Speaker 1: On so, guys be sure and go check if there
are a ton more. Details the story Of Keifer sutherland
breaking his arm And Jamie gertz discovering that is one
of my. Favorites so go back and check out those
episodes and you'll get all the tidbits on both of those.
Speaker 2: Boys Versus Fright. Night all, Right so that brings me
to my number TWO d. Two we have also covered this.
Movie the director became friends with a famous producer involved
with The bond, Franchise remember Mister Cubby BROCKLEY.
Speaker 1: I do Remember Kubby.
Speaker 2: Brockley it was friends With Kubby. Brockley go back and.
Speaker 1: Check out Our Never Say Never again versus octopusy.
Speaker 2: Episode that's, right that's, right or Our Bond girls.
Speaker 1: Draft oh, yeah earlier this.
Speaker 2: Year so this director wrote a screenplay For The Spy
Who Loved me and became friends With Kubby, brockley and he, said,
Hey i've got this Movie i'm working. On And Kubby brockley, said,
No i'm too, busy you, know Doing Roger moore things right, Now, okay, okay.
Yeah the director wrote this script in nineteen sixty nine
while In yugoslavia working on the Movie Kelly's.
Speaker 1: HEROES i know this, One, yes let's punt it down the.
Speaker 2: Road, okay very, good all, right all.
Speaker 1: Right that brings me to my number, two number. Two
and this is also a movie that we have covered. Before.
Okay the composer of this movie used some of his
unused music from this movie for the score Of The Hateful,
eight which won him An, oscar while the score of
this movie got him nominated for A Razzie. Whoa i'll
tell you that the composer was famous for spaghetti westerns.
Too the writer of this movie was the son of
a famous actor who was in many movies A birdman Of,
alcatraz From here To, Attorney here To. Eternity you probably
know him better From field Of. Dreams this Is Burt.
Speaker 2: Lancaster AND i just did a podcast With Jeff johnson
on the Film buy where we Did The Bad News,
bears Where Bill lancaster was the. Writer So Bill lancaster
is his, son and he did write this. Movie When
Wilfrid brimley acted in this, movie he was the same
age THAT i am right, now but he looked like
he could play my. Grandfather, yes that's. True do you
know what it?
Speaker 5: IS i?
Speaker 1: Do, Yes, Okay i'm gonna give one more clue and
then we'll give it all, Right. Okay this starred an
actor who had both acted with and Portrayed, elvis with
that latter one being directed by the same guy who
directed this movie one of his first directing, jobs and
the director, said of all of his, movies this one
is his.
Speaker 2: Favorite this Is John Carpenter's The thing.
Speaker 6: One hundred thousand years. Ago it found its way into our,
galaxy trapped in the frozen wasteland Of.
Speaker 3: Antarctica it could not.
Speaker 6: Escape now the men Of station four have made a monumental.
Speaker 3: Discovery an alien creature had, frozen.
Speaker 5: But not to.
Speaker 2: DEATH i love this, movie, MAN i love THIS i don't,
KNOW i kind of marked it off My halloween, list
but it is such a fantastic.
Speaker 1: Movie the tension that builds throughout the entire movie and
then culminates with one of the BEST i, mean it's
like a lesson in suspense when they're testing the blood
of each of the guys and they've got them all tied.
Up oh my, gosh so so, good so.
Speaker 2: Good we went in depth with this last summer when
we did Our june of nineteen eighty, two, yep where
we COMPARED et To The thing To Blade, runner which
all came out within a couple of weeks of each.
Speaker 1: Other. Yeah, Yeah Blade runner And The thing we're both
released on the same, day and unfortunately it was two
weeks AFTER et was. Released and so despite the fact
that this movie is, phenomenal everybody was in love with
aliens and didn't want to have an alien.
Speaker 2: Monster what an incredible month you have maybe the best
horror movie of the, eighties maybe the best science fiction
movie of the, eighties and then maybe the best family
movie of the eighties.
Speaker 1: Arguable, YEAH i, mean they just won't have summer it's
like that. ANYMORE i, know it's. Sad the last clue
THAT i was going to give was The British Antarctic
Research stations use this movie in their midwinter fest Every
june twenty. First that's that's.
Speaker 2: Awesome, yeah, yeah this is the one movie where you
were hoping the guy actually killed the. Dog you, know
there's one movie in this world where you like kill the.
Speaker 1: Dog uh. Huh, yeah this. One by the, way we
talk about in detail on that, comparison go back to
last season early of last night was that was one
of the very first matchups we did last.
Speaker 2: Season it Was june of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two uh. Huh and so all kinds of great. Information
those are Some those are movies that have all have
great stories behind, them and we go into them all.
Speaker 2: When that dude's head splits, off grows legs and walks
across the, floor Rob bot and baby my eyeballs fell
out of my. Head, yeah so phenomenal. Movie great.
Speaker 1: Movie, okay, okay so we've we've finished with our top
four sort of about to go into them, right and
so now we're going to cover our honorable. Mentions, yes that's,
correct honorable. Mentions my first honorable mention is this is
kind of a sad. Clue i'm apologized about this being
a sad. Clue. Okay. Yeah one of the actresses in
this movie is the sister of an actor in my
number one, pick which you already know at this. Point.
Okay she was murdered by her boyfriend the same year
this movie was. Released, yeah her name Is Dominique. Dunn
do you know. This she is buried at the same
cemetery as the actress who played her younger, sister kind
of the most obvious role in this, movie who died
from a cardiac arrest at the age of twelve in
nineteen eighty. Eight you got, It i've got.
Speaker 2: It, yeah this Is poltergeist from nineteen eighty. Two.
Speaker 5: Yeah the house looks just like the one next to,
it and the one next to that and the one
next to. THAT a young couple live in.
Speaker 1: It give ken a, kiss.
Speaker 5: You are so with their three children and something more.
Speaker 1: Last, Night so on a less unhappy. Note this movie
and e t both came from the same. Script what
they both came out the same. Year it was directed
By Toby, hooper who of course had GIVEN Us texas
chains On massacre from the. Seventies come on, in let's
do some horror in the. Eighties although if memory, serves
he kind of got pushed out of the way By
Steven spielberg in this.
Speaker 2: Process there's a lot of legends out there That Steven
spielberg is the actual director of this.
Speaker 1: Movie, YEAH i imagine there was some sort of problem
with him doing both et in this movie at the same,
time or maybe it was just a problem With Toby
hooper having too big a plate for him on.
Speaker 2: That if you would tell me that The Poldergey's house
and The Et house were in the same neighborhood going
through the same stuff at the same, time they look
exactly like any old suburban neighborhood In california in nineteen eighty. Two,
yeah you, know it really is tragic the curse that
kind of followed this movie. Around you, know the oldest,
sister she was murdered by a. Boyfriend the youngest, daughter of,
Course Carol anne one we all remember touching THE. Tv
you know they're, here died from cardiac arrest from pneumonia
or something like.
Speaker 1: That it was she had a weird. Disease they had
diagnosed her With crohn's. Disease but you could even on
some of the later movies see that her face had
gotten puffier and that she just didn't look. Well but
they COULDN'T i don't think they really could quite figure
out what was going wrong with. Her and then one
morning she they kind of noticed that she didn't look.
Good her fingertips were kind of, blue and she fell
over in the. Kitchen by the time the paramedics, arrived
she was, Like i'm, OKAY i don't know whatever he's
making a big deal. About it's. Fine but they took
her in the ambulance anyway to the hospital and she
had the cardiac arrest in the ambulance and.
Speaker 3: Died gosh.
Speaker 2: Crazy, yeah we need to cover this movie at some.
Speaker 1: Point oh, Absolutely, Okay And i've got one other honorable,
mention AND i don't think that you're gonna guess it
if you. Do good for, You, okay good for?
Speaker 5: You all?
Speaker 1: Right are you ready for? This? Yeah my second honorable
mention Stars Leslie, Nielsen Ted, Danson Hal, Holbrook adrian Barbo,
e G, Marshall Ed harris And Stephen. King this is creep.
Show you got it.
Speaker 5: Coming, soon.
Speaker 4: Jo Ting tales Of laura creep show from the author
Of carrie The shining and Kol. Joe i'm the creator
Of knight of The Living dead And dawn of The.
Dead you'll scream ghastly.
Speaker 1: GOULS i had this comic book WHEN i was a,
kid and it was several years after reading the comic
book THAT i finally got up the courage to watch the,
movie and they did it absolute. Justice stephen And, king of,
course decided to work With George. Romero WHO i mean
he brought the zombie movies to. Life, sure he brought
the zombie movies to. Life what DO i gotta do around?
Here tip your waitress, SAY i can't get no. Respect
he brought the zombie movies to. Live Stephen king was
told By George romero to portray his character Like wiley.
Coyote when he goes off a. Cliff that's, good that's.
Speaker 2: Good his segment is where he gets that like alien
gu on his fingers and then all of a sudden
he's like consumed by. Plants uh, Huh, yeah that's very. Creepy.
Speaker 1: Yep by the, Way Leslie, nielsen they said he was
a total professional while involved in all of the. Scenes
but offset he had a fart machine and every, time
just Before George romero would say, action he would set
the fart machine off And Ted danson would start. Laughing that's.
Speaker 2: Good you. Know there's four different segments In Cree, show,
right help me. Out there's the one With Leslie nilson
And ted.
Speaker 1: Dancing, yep that's the one where the producer catches his
wife in an affair with her lead actor whatever. Romance
there's the one With Stephen king where He's jeordie and
he gets the grass that's growing all over him from that.
METEOR i, Believe, yes it has. Been it has been
decades SINCE i think movie.
Speaker 2: Blob, yeah it's like a media and he gets the
stuff on his.
Speaker 1: Fingers Adrian barbo is in the one where there's something
in the, basket, right and the guy hates his wife
because she's a total be to him all the, time
and basically he figures out how to get her in
front of the in front of the box right just
in time for the monster to jump out and grab.
Speaker 4: Her.
Speaker 2: Yep there's there's one segment, where like the whole, hit
this guy is like consumed with. Cockroaches, yeah like cockroaches.
Speaker 1: Everywhere, yes, yes that's THE i, mean that's all for right.
There let's see IF i.
Speaker 2: Can do you Remember joe's apartment from THE Mtv days
where all the cockroaches are Having.
Speaker 1: Yes, YES i. DO. E. G marshall is in The cockroach. One.
Speaker 2: YES Eg marshall is the guy From Christmas vacation is like.
Speaker 1: A little light Twiggling.
Speaker 2: CLARK i, know, ed and thanks for.
Speaker 1: Noticing SO i Mentioned Tom savini earlier when we were
talking About friday the. Thirteenth, yeah he of course was
involved in the special. Effects but he also plays one
of the garbage men in this. Movie oh, Okay and
for the life of, ME i cannot remember Where Ed
harris comes, up AND i can't find it, Either so
let's have to go back and watch you.
Speaker 2: GUESS i guess So Ed Harris university Of oklahoma for a.
Speaker 1: Time that's right before he got fed.
Speaker 2: Up, okay so we're onto my honorable, mentions, yes, sir all,
Right so my first honorable mention is a movie that we've, covered,
okay based on the boy Who Cried. Wolf, yes, okay
the secondary character on this gets his name from two
classic horror.
Speaker 1: You had me At, kriswolf but keep on.
Speaker 2: Going, okay the same actor decided to rather than play
a good, actor he's portraying a terrible. Actor the person
who wrote, This Tom, holland same guy who Wrote Child's,
play which is in in the eighties as, well wrote
the script in three. Weeks he said it all just
rushed out of, him and he said he would just
laugh and kick his.
Speaker 1: Feet, so, yep he had just come off Writing psycho.
Two that's, rrectly that's exactly.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah so the movie that you were talking about Is Fright.
Speaker 4: Night, yes.
Speaker 3: What would you do if you accidentally discovered the house
next door was occupied by something not, human something, horrifying
something unspeakably. Evil no one believes.
Speaker 1: You another fantastic vampire, movie worthy matchup To The Lost.
Boys it doesn't went out for, me but it. Is
it's definitely a great iconic. Movie evil ED i, mean,
yeah one of those characters from horror movies that you're
can remember.
Speaker 2: Forever it's such a great. Movie by the, way the
Character Peter vincent gets his name From Peter cushing And Vincent.
Price William ragsdale who Plays.
Speaker 1: Charlie, yep Hello.
Speaker 2: Charlie he had been just turned down for the Movie mask,
right it was down on his luck and landed. This
and then of Course Stephen jefferies who Plays Evil, ed
he thought he was auditioning for the part Of. Charlie
they gave Him Evil ed and they said one of
the main reasons why he got Evil ed was because
he was Not Anthony Michael. Hall he's an odd, character,
right a very weird.
Speaker 1: Guy he's a little. Creepy he's kind of a creepy
dude for. Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah you. Know one of the things that we talked
about in our original podcast where we Compared Fright night
To The Lost. Boys Amanda. Berce she's playing a seventeen
year old she was actually twenty, seven so she kind
of played down her. Age and as she transforms into
the vampire, spoiler she becomes more, womanly more, sexy, Right
her hair grows long and changes, color and her boobs become, big,
Right and of course all that's, prosthetic, Right and when
she goes and signs autographs that like these conventions and,
stuff she lays that prosthetic chest. Plate, yeah the prosthetic.
Speaker 1: Boobies.
Speaker 2: Yeah she's, like, hey would you like to touch my
breasts there they are on the, table you.
Speaker 1: Know, yes so and of Course Amanda beers everybody knows
From married With children As marcia Der.
Speaker 2: Ridge that's, right great, movie lots of. Fun Chris randon
is fantastic because The Jerry Dandridge. Vampire at the, time
he And Susan sarandon were married and they read it
and he's, like, MAN i don't want to play a.
Vampire and then he read the Script he's, like this is. Fantastic, yeah,
yeah love.
Speaker 1: It only part that he played that was. Better someone
has beaten The Giant.
Speaker 2: Humping Company, company which we got to cover that at some. Point.
Speaker 1: Definitely all.
Speaker 2: Right my second honorable, mention if you get, THIS i
will be, Surprised, okay although it has been involved in
our text, thread so wouldn't be. Shocked. Okay this is
from nineteen eighty. SIX i actually Joined Jeff johnson on
his podcast to cover this movie because it's a favorite of.
Mine ramp up the fund, meter scale down the Scary.
Meter all of the characters in this movie are named
after horror.
Speaker 1: Directors, yes.
Speaker 2: Okay so the main, character, like his name Is Chris,
romero obviously After George. Rameiro his buddy is J. C,
hooper named After John carpenter And Toby. Hooper you Have
Detective Ray cameron that's based On James. Cameron they all
go To Corman. University the girl Is Cynthia. Cronenberg she's
obviously named After David. Cronenberg so you have all these
nods to eighties horror movies on the, wall like where
there's a there's a kill scene on the, wall there's
graffiti that Says striper rules because the makeup artist was
dating the lead singer for the rock Band striper at the.
Time they actually got. MAD i think they're still. Together
and then there's another bit of graffiti that, says go
Monster squad because the author of this movie also Wrote Monster.
Squad the main character in this movie his main line
or his number one dialogue. Thing every time the phone,
rings he picks it up and he, says thrill. Me
if you don't know by, now you don't know.
Speaker 1: IT i know that thing where he named everybody after
the horror, directors AND i can't figure out they can't.
Speaker 2: Bring, OKAY i got one more clue for.
Speaker 1: YOU i got one more clue for.
Speaker 2: You. Okay the main actor in this his Name's Tom. Makins.
Okay he had just Done, halloween Three seasons of The.
Speaker 1: Witch.
Speaker 2: Okay so he's working on this movie and an unknown
stagehand comes up to him and, says, Hey i'm a
big fan of. YOURS i think you're a great. ACTOR
i have a screenplay that i've written i'm trying to get,
done AND i would love for you to play the main.
Actor And Tom makins, says, Well i'm not really main,
actor you, know leading man type of, stuff But i'll
take a look at. It guy's Name Shane. Black the
Script Lethal. Weapon Shane black Wanted Tom atkins to Play Martin.
Speaker 1: Riggs, wow well that's, impressive and.
Speaker 2: If you'll, Remember Shane black eventually sells that. Screenplay Tom
adkins is In Lethal. Weapon He's Michael. Huntsacker nighte of The.
Creeps It's night.
Speaker 1: Of The Creep, yay.
Speaker 3: The night of The.
Speaker 1: Four is finally here For, Chris cindy and J. C
it's going to be the best night of their. Lives
but tonight is also The night over The. CREEPS i
THINK i knew that bit BECAUSE i listened to your.
PODCAST i think it was, LIKE i, Know i've heard
this information about naming the characters after the. Horror it
must have been from listening to the. Podcast that's why
that information was floating around in the old. BEAN i
just didn't have a place for it to.
Speaker 2: LAND i will tell, you nineteen eighty six has some
great fun, movies like horror movies Commanded jenek AND i
were texting with you in the, thread neither Comment, ney the,
creeps chopping, mall all lots of, fun same, era same
type of, stuff lots of. Fun, Right, okay that's my honorable.
Mention perfect thrill.
Speaker 1: Me so, now so now we are to our number.
One you know what mine, is, yes BUT i don't
know what yours? Is is that? Right that's? True, okay
well let's going to be mad at. ME i think
let's do my number one. First, okay, okay all, right
because then we have a surprise at the. End oh,
well no for, YOU i mean you're. GOOD i. DON'T
i don't know what yours, is so that's the. Surprise, yes,
okay so you know what my number one, is But
i'm gonna throw out some more trivia clues for our peeps. Here,
yeah the writer of this, movie as you, mentioned came
up with this idea while he was working on the
Movie Kelly's heroes when he was a. Gopher.
Speaker 2: Right this guy worked up from the mail room.
Speaker 1: Up, yes the special effects guy for this movie was
the first winner of the brand New oscar category Of
Best Special. Effects and the guy who did the special
effects who we know Is Rick. Baker Rick, baker The Monster.
Maker it's still the youngest one to have ever won the.
Award the writer director of this movie also directed one
of the greatest music videos of all, times and it
has been reported to us from someone in the know
that he is actually responsible for the joke From Whence
We are podcast it's its Name that's true because his
mom's name Is. Shirley he worked with The Zucker, brothers
directed their first, movie A Kentucky fried. Movie, Yep and
then this was this is going to be my favorite.
Clue are you ready for?
Speaker 2: This, yes it's.
Speaker 1: Stars an actor who also stars in one Of Jason
colvin's Guilty pleasure. Movies the director had seen him not
in that movie called Hot, dog but in a doctor
pepper commercial, yep but his nude scene in this movie
lost him the contract WITH. Dp but after the transformation,
scene the whole crew danced Around David, naughton that actor
while he was still in costume and Saying i'm a.
Werewolf you're a. Werewolf wouldn't you like to be a
were wolf?
Speaker 2: Too that's? Great so for those who don't know, yet
this Is American werewolf In london because it was, fun
lovely stroll on the.
Speaker 1: Worst did you hear?
Speaker 5: THAT i heard?
Speaker 6: That what is?
Speaker 3: It do you?
Speaker 1: Think it's a?
Speaker 3: Dog nice?
Speaker 5: Doggy good?
Speaker 2: Boy.
Speaker 1: GOSH i don't know how it's not number one in your.
LIST i don't know how it fell back to what was?
It number three for?
Speaker 2: You it's number two for?
Speaker 1: Me, okay well that's, fair that's.
Speaker 2: FAIR i love How john atlandis when he was talking
To david knat and he's, like, well, Listen i'm a,
pepper you're a. Pepper we're both, peppers so let's do this.
RIGHT i love how there's you have like all these
songs in the movie that have moon in the.
Speaker 1: Title, yeah we've got Blue, Moon you've Got creeden's Clear.
WATER i, mean As James buckley put it the best
cut to credits of any movie. EVER i mean when
it comes in With bob And bob And Dang Dang
Dang Dang dong. Dang so, yeah what was credence Was
Bad Moon? Rising, yep but, yeah a ton of those.
References and then the other thing that he has in
there is all of these anamorphic. Animals and you remember
that scene Where david is changing into The weirwolf for
the very first time and he looks and there's a
Little Mickey mouse looking right back at, him and you're,
like why is that? There, well it's Because Mickey mouse
looks like a, mouse except that he's got a human
body in human hands and where's. Pants, yeah it's smart, stuff, Right,
yeah he's a. Dude John lenni is freaking.
Speaker 2: Brilliant John lenns is, awesome says this is his favorite
movie of his. Own, okay CAN i get a shout
out for Miss Jenny. Augater did you know she pops
back up in The avenger?
Speaker 1: Movies she.
Speaker 2: Does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah whenever there's the scene With Robert redford and
they've got all of the guys, there she's like the
council On, yeah she just starts all of a, sudden
kicking everybody's, butt and then it turns out it's black
widow in. Disguise well that's.
Speaker 2: It That's it's like a perfect mixture of fun, comedy true,
horror and you, know heartbreaking your love. Story sure it's
got it. All, yeah all, right we're to my number.
Speaker 1: One i'm on the edge of my.
Speaker 2: Seat you're gonna be mad at, ME i, Think, oh, okay.
One you know my propensity to bend the.
Speaker 1: Rules a little, bit to f with the. Rules you,
mean so.
Speaker 2: This is Top halloween movies of the. Eighties. Okay and
WHEN i sat down AND i asked, myself what is
the movie that best Represents halloween to me from the nineteen? Eighties, yes,
okay this is a short, Movie, okay But i'm saying
it's a movie had a big, Budget it had a
Big hollywood, director it had special.
Speaker 1: Effects is this the thriller? Video this is the thriller?
Speaker 2: Video of course it.
Speaker 1: Is, uh it's a fair. PASS i guess you're just
trying to be as different as you possibly can. Be but, yes,
NO i think that's it's. Fair it's a twenty minute.
Movie it's about thriller. Movies it's about The halloween, movies,
Right and you've got wolf men or cats or whatever
the heck he is changing into a wolf. Cats and
you've got, ZOMBIES i mean dancing. Zombies dancing. Zombies, yes you've.
Speaker 2: Got Ola ray playmate of the month out. There, yeah
you've got choreography By Michael, peters the guy from the
beat at video on. Set you Got Fred astaire And
Jackie kennedy hanging out watching this thing go. Down video
costs a million bucks at the, time was huge budget
for a music.
Speaker 1: Video.
Speaker 2: Yeah they went TO mtv asked, them you guys pay for, It,
like we can't pay for, videos are you? Crazy we'll
go to. Business. Yeah so they, said, well how about
you guys fund the making of the thriller so that
we can pay for this music?
Speaker 1: Video? Yep and they. Did, yeah and you.
Speaker 2: Know, what it was mega. Successful it's the most, important,
best most epic music video of all, time don't and
it's perfectly fit For.
Speaker 1: Halloween Perfect, well, folks we are at the end of our.
List we hope you enjoyed. It in just a little,
Bit i'm going to apologize and throw out a who
laundry list of movies BECAUSE i feel bad that they
didn't get out. There but BEFORE i do, THAT i
wanted To we threw the question out earlier today to
some of our standard. Listeners, hey what are your top
five movies of the eighties For? Halloween, okay so first,
Up James, BUCKLEY i, said top. Five he gave me. Seven,
okay it was a, tie AND i don't know what
order this is. IN i honestly, don't but he Ties
Fright night in The Lost, boys THEN A nightmare On Elm,
street Then The, howling Then Creep, Show prince Of darkness
that was one that was not on my. RADAR i
haven't seen that, movie BUT i do remember the, previews
and Then friday to The thirteenth part, Six Jason. Lives. Interesting.
OKAY i don't know how that compares to the rest of,
them but. INTERESTING i said That lone's, good good AND
i love The.
Speaker 2: Hewling.
Speaker 1: Yeah Brad moore, Says Lost, Boys, Poultergeist Salem's, lot which
you mentioned in our seventies seventies Pet, cemetery which good. One, well, yeah.
DEFINITELY i mean you Got Stephen king there by the.
WAY i can't believe we talked About Stephen king as
much as we, did and we didn't mention. That coming
up in our next, episode we're going to talk about
the three movies that all came out within just a
few months of each other in nineteen eighty, three All
Stephen king, Novels, Christine The Dead, zone And Kujo.
Speaker 2: FANTASTIC i can't wait to talk.
Speaker 1: That Kevin davis, Says nightmare On Elm, Street Christine, friday the,
Thirteenth children of The. Corn children of The corn is
a good one that was scared the crap out of,
me and Then alone in The, dark WHICH i am
absolutely unfamiliar with me. Too WHEN i asked him about
the seventies, movies he gave me SOMETHING i had never
heard of, either but that's.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 1: Interesting Brad moore also mentioned he loved the omen, movies
but again pointed out that they were. Seventies So David
wright is very much like. Us he's not a horror movie,
guy so he was Like nightmare On Elm, Street Lost,
boys Do grimlins Or? Ghostbusters Count, Oh American werewolf And
The Shining number one for. Sure i'm surprised that that
one didn't make our. List it didn't make our. List,
either but, yes.
Speaker 2: Definitely by the, Way grimlins is A christmas. Movie we
all know.
Speaker 1: That that is actually WHY i didn't make my list
This christmas, movie, Right and Then return of The Living.
Dead shout out To, amanaganic whose List i'm about to
give here because she loves that. Movie it didn't make
my list BECAUSE i really only saw one scene in
that one Over when she found out what these two
episodes were, about she, said shut the front. Door next
two weeks are my effing. Jam so here Is amanda's.
List she gives a. Six i'll give her the run
rule on that. ONE i don't care Sure halloween. TWO
i don't play by the rules and can't cut one
from the top. FIVE i actually prefer this one To halloween,
one Five nightmare On Elm, street, Four The, thing Three
American werewolf In, london Two Evil, dead and One friday
the Thirteenths so there are a whole slew of movies
out there that on doing this, REVIEW i was, like
how HAVE i not seen these? Movies, LIKE i haven't
Seen Evil dead TWO i want to see. IT i
haven't Seen They, LIVE i haven't seen Re, ANIMATOR i
haven't Seen day of The, DEAD i haven't Seen Hell,
RAZOR i haven't Seen Near, dark AND i haven't Seen Altered,
states but every single one of them look like worthy
movies to go. Watch and THEN i have to apologize
To Fright, Night Cats, eye and A Monster squad Because
Monster squad was. Great that's all been my number one
back in the nineteen. Eighties but, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cat's eye was great. Too, yeah, okay so that doesn't
for this Week Top halloween movies to watch from the nineteen.
Eighties next, week come. Back we're staying in The halloween.
Genre we're going to Compare Stephen kings three from nineteen eighty,
Three Kujo, Christine Dead.
Speaker 1: Zone can't, wait come back and see us, Guys Happy,
Halloween Happy. Halloween somebody's gonna be pissed and that we
didn't mention the swamp thing at. All Adrian barbos boobs
never looked. Better