Speaker 1: Weird, Weird.
Speaker 2: Welcome back midnight viewers to found the Malone's a weekly
Speaker 2: round up two weeks in a row, don't get used
Speaker 2: to it. And this week is all about Paris Sites
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Speaker 2: And if you can't make it, we'll be rounding up
Speaker 2: that weekend here as well. Something to look forward to
Speaker 2: that's important, considering the two things I was looking most
Speaker 2: forward to have arrived. We're discussing them tonight. Should we
Speaker 2: do weapons or Alien Earth? First? Good point, We're doing neither.
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Speaker 2: podcast run by frequent co host and show composer HP.
Speaker 2: It's about the television series Taxi. Apparently frustrated with the
Speaker 2: infrequency of Night Mister Walter's episodes, he had to seek
Speaker 2: more frequent lands and we are nothing if not frequent
Speaker 2: here at midnight viewing. Welcome aboard. Richard Dallas Norville wrote
Speaker 2: in to let us know he's got yaucha fever. HP
Speaker 2: and I are covering the Predator film series. That's yaoucha
Speaker 2: fest every other Friday. Dallas has been revisiting the flicks
Speaker 2: and I convinced him to watch Prey and his life
Speaker 2: is now much better by the way, Yes, Dallas, you
Speaker 2: should see the movie together immediately. The more I think
Speaker 2: about that film, the more I like it. Dallas even
Speaker 2: shouted out HP for his work on the show. Amazing work.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's doing amazing, it's work been like,
Speaker 2: definitely always great to hear from you, Dallas. Shane Mackie,
Speaker 2: haven't heard from you in a minute. Stomped into chat
Speaker 2: a little about that misbegotten Saturday Night movie from last year,
Speaker 2: and since you're looking forward to the weapons review, I
Speaker 2: guess we'll do it first. Oh guess and guess not.
Speaker 2: I've been checking the comments on Spotify. That's new to me.
Speaker 2: Sorry if you've written to me prior. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: answer them all. But we've got like one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty episodes, so it's taking a while. Trish Dabkowski wrote
Speaker 2: in about another yahoucha fest flick, Predator two. We mentioned
Speaker 2: Kent McCord is in it. He was once the star
Speaker 2: of Adam twelve. Trish wrote in to remind us that
Speaker 2: he was also on the television series Farscape. Thank you
Speaker 2: for reminding me. I had intended on bringing it up.
Speaker 2: It's just that when I start talking Farescape, I can't
Speaker 2: really shut up about it. Kent McCord played the lead character,
Speaker 2: John Crichton's dad. He was great in it. You know
Speaker 2: who I loved on that show? I mean, everybody but
Speaker 2: Sikkozu the Leviathan expert. God damn she was sexy all
Speaker 2: the women on that show.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I once saw Gig Edgeley at a comic con once,
Speaker 2: and it was before they opened to the public, and
Speaker 2: she looked over at me, and I looked away like
Speaker 2: a fucking schoolboy. You know what. The other great thing
Speaker 2: about far Escape is see what I mean. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Trish lovely to hear from you. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Derek wrote in about the Patreon show HP Hates Me.
Speaker 2: That's the show where HP picks old pieces of entertainment
Speaker 2: that are barely tolerable in one way or another and
Speaker 2: makes me watch them because he hates me. We did
Speaker 2: one about the Billy Crystal nineteen eighty six special Don't
Speaker 2: Get Me Started. Derek asked, what does a near forty
Speaker 2: year old HBO comedy special by Billy Crystal say about
Speaker 2: you who cares get over yourself. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I can answer your questions without a few of my own,
Speaker 2: but I'll do my best. It's supposed to say about
Speaker 2: me that my friend chose a special for me to
Speaker 2: watch and then we reviewed it. I don't expect anyone
Speaker 2: to care. And while I have tried on numerous occasions
Speaker 2: to escape the skin. I truly cannot get over myself.
Speaker 2: But I'm actually wondering where you're coming from. Is there
Speaker 2: something you'd prefer us to cover? Please forward it along.
Speaker 2: And finally, tenth Letter wrote in about our Fantastic four coverage.
Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say. Uugh, sounds silly, but
Speaker 2: I'm not into man boy movies. So Reid has a mustache,
Speaker 2: which I don't think he's ever had in the comics
Speaker 2: because mister overexposed Hollywood star won't shave. I see this universe.
Speaker 2: That universe multiverse crap is just bad, inconsistent, uncreative writing.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the sum up. Like every other video game
Speaker 2: esque movie in existence, I know I can quite safely
Speaker 2: hard pass on this. I prefer my comics in book form,
Speaker 2: and I salute you, my purest friend. Keep turning the pages.
Speaker 2: It's so fucking satisfying, isn't it. I think Marvel made
Speaker 2: a big mistake when they took that sound of pages
Speaker 2: whispering out of their production logo. Let me know a
Speaker 2: title worth looking into, tenth Letter. That's a j James Jason,
Speaker 2: Jeremy jehosaphat that's a g okay that's the end of
Speaker 2: the letters. But let me just mini review something really quick.
Speaker 2: I had intended to do an entire episode about Red's Sonia,
Speaker 2: but then I saw it not good. Here's their one innovation.
Speaker 2: That character always had this weird catchphrase about how she'll
Speaker 2: only go to bed with the man who can't defeat
Speaker 2: her in combat. That's gone. As for the rest, the
Speaker 2: lead actress is game, but she's struggling mightily because the
Speaker 2: script is poor and the action is sub hercules the
Speaker 2: legendary journeys. It's very volumetric, if you know what I mean. Sorry, Red,
Speaker 2: hit it, HP, Thank you HP. You know Jerry Folwell
Speaker 2: frequently wondered when Mulder and Scully were going to do it.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about my first experience with Alien.
Speaker 2: One of my best friends as a young boy was
Speaker 2: Brian McMahon. Brian was my horror buddy. He was as
Speaker 2: obsessed as I was with all the fucking horror movies
Speaker 2: we could get our hands on, and Brian's parents weren't
Speaker 2: so finicky when it came to toys, so of course
Speaker 2: he had a sowd Off shotgun toy that ejected plastic
Speaker 2: shells when you broke it open, and yes he had
Speaker 2: the requisite Aurora models of Frankenstein et ce. But best
Speaker 2: of all, he had the alien action figure from Kenner
Speaker 2: the Star Wars people, so you know you can trust them.
Speaker 2: It was eighteen inches authentically detailed, mechanically operated jaws. I'm
Speaker 2: reading from the packaging as seen in the movie. Relive
Speaker 2: the exciting action with the creature itself moveable tail to
Speaker 2: swing by spring loaded arms to crush its victims. Not
Speaker 2: a toy that was going to appear in my house
Speaker 2: anytime soon or ever. Wait, there's more press the back
Speaker 2: of the head on the bottom. His mouth opens and
Speaker 2: the gruesome teeth move forward, his evil brains glow in
Speaker 2: the dark. That was the part that bothered me about
Speaker 2: the figure, The fucking skull underneath the translucent dome of
Speaker 2: his head. That design is the original alien design. If
Speaker 2: you look at the production stills taking under harsh light,
Speaker 2: the fucking thing practically screams at you. In the finished
Speaker 2: film atmosphere being one of those things that kept getting
Speaker 2: Ridley Scott work, you barely perceived the skull at all,
Speaker 2: and all future versions of the Big Chap that's what
Speaker 2: everyone calls the original design would be skull free, seeing
Speaker 2: something so human inside the most otherworldly thing I'd ever
Speaker 2: seen was the really disturbing part. Everything else was just
Speaker 2: fucking cool. So I got to meet the alien before
Speaker 2: I saw the movie, and thus began my life of
Speaker 2: not giving a shit if something was spoiled. Not that
Speaker 2: you can spoil Alien. Everyone thinks of that movie as
Speaker 2: having one major twist, the alien hiding in Caine and
Speaker 2: the dinner sequence explosion. But that's just one surprise. You
Speaker 2: know what the Nostromo was hauling surprises. We get a
Speaker 2: distress call. No, it's a warning. Hey look eggs ah shit, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm okay. That's a relief past the salt. Oh my god. Well,
Speaker 2: at least it was a tiny thing. Wait what is that?
Speaker 2: Don't worry. Everything's gonna be fine. Captain Dallas is just
Speaker 2: gonna crawl. Oh god, Ash, we could really use some help.
Speaker 2: You're an android, you pick up when I'm laying down here.
Speaker 2: We remember Alien so fondly because it was a fucking
Speaker 2: surprise factory. In addition to being the greatest science fiction
Speaker 2: haunted house movie of all time and inadvertently introducing a
Speaker 2: global audience to the notion of lovecrafty and horror terror
Speaker 2: from beyond space that we should really pray never finds
Speaker 2: its way to Earth. It succeeds as social commentary, as
Speaker 2: a science fiction epic, taking George Lucas's Lived in future
Speaker 2: ideas and applying it to real world scenarios. It works
Speaker 2: as a horror movie as a creature feature, it is
Speaker 2: a perfect film. In any attempt to replicate it seems
Speaker 2: like folly, which is probably why no one ever has.
Speaker 2: James Cameron was smart enough to know not to even try.
Speaker 2: He knew escalation was the only response, bringing in marines
Speaker 2: and queens and hordes of our once lonely big chap
Speaker 2: and from there we've had a mix and match salad
Speaker 2: bar of films, all drawing from the same two sources,
Speaker 2: and all in different balances. Alien three was an Alien
Speaker 2: major and an Aliens miner Resurrection the opposite. The AVP
Speaker 2: films are all Aliens Zero, Alien and Prometheus and Covenant.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I do not rate them at all.
Speaker 2: I say live and let live to different interpretations and
Speaker 2: alternate timelines and multiverses. Invariants. However, Prometheus and Covenant suck.
Speaker 2: My Alien comes from somewhere in the darkness of space.
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with humanity in either design
Speaker 2: or creation. Man perverts God's will and creates monsters. Really
Speaker 2: deep Ridley, Mary Shelley says, Hi, that doesn't mean I
Speaker 2: hate backstory or prequels or attempts at shading in the
Speaker 2: corners of a universe. I think Alien Romulus was a
Speaker 2: huge step forward, the most positive step forward since Ripley
Speaker 2: sent the Queen spiraling out of an airlock. Yes it
Speaker 2: was you, You killed that queen, good girl. The problem
Speaker 2: with Romulus was zero likable characters, and while I appreciated
Speaker 2: all the nods to the Alien Isolation video game, it
Speaker 2: just kind of reminded me that I'd rather be playing
Speaker 2: in that universe than watching poorly conceived characters running from
Speaker 2: face huggers. You can hear my review of it from
Speaker 2: August of last year. An Alien TV show seemed like
Speaker 2: a joke at first, the way the idea of a
Speaker 2: Pirates of the Caribbean film sounded ridiculous until Johnny Depp's
Speaker 2: name started appearing on the posters. That's the way I
Speaker 2: felt when I read that Noah Hawley was creating and
Speaker 2: going to be show running that automatically meant a few things.
Speaker 2: It was going to be truly limited. Every season of
Speaker 2: every show, serialized or not, that Holly has been involved
Speaker 2: with tells a complete story beginning, middle, and an end.
Speaker 2: It also meant that we'd be in the hands of
Speaker 2: an adaptation veteran. If his only previous credit was Legion
Speaker 2: the Effects series starring Dan Stevens an Aubrey Plaza, then
Speaker 2: I'd at least be optimistic that show was an X
Speaker 2: Man adaptation, with Stephens playing David Holler, the son of
Speaker 2: Charles Xavier. The lead character's dissociative disorder allowed for fragmented
Speaker 2: storytelling with a wildly unreliable narrator, producing three seasons that
Speaker 2: not only visually and structurally, were able to give us
Speaker 2: the TV equivalent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mine,
Speaker 2: but it did so while honoring the spirit of the
Speaker 2: original source material. Adapting a comic book to the screen
Speaker 2: is one thing. The unfucking believably tall hurdle of turning
Speaker 2: a theatrical film into a successful television series is entirely another.
Speaker 2: But then he did that too with five seasons of
Speaker 2: The Incredible Fargo, a series that jumps around in time,
Speaker 2: end plot and characters season to season. Anchored by Minnesota
Speaker 2: and the incredible Cohen Brothers film, it not only makes
Speaker 2: a nifty companion piece to the film Fargo, it frequently
Speaker 2: manages to remake and rework the Cohen's other films. It's
Speaker 2: really an anomaly of a television series, and the quality
Speaker 2: jumps up and down, just like anything serialized over a
Speaker 2: number of years. But ultimately these are very smartly written
Speaker 2: shows that turned out not only to pay homage to
Speaker 2: its forebear, but recognize and amplify what was so damned
Speaker 2: good about the original to begin with. And he does
Speaker 2: it here again. I'm genuinely gobsmacked by his work here
Speaker 2: on Alien Earth. He gets what's so incredible about that
Speaker 2: first film. He understands the need to prize as much
Speaker 2: as lay Easter eggs every which away. Hey, they got
Speaker 2: a drinky bird from the Nostromo in Romulus. Yeah, here's
Speaker 2: the fucking bridge of the Nostromo, and here's Mother's control room.
Speaker 2: It isn't the Nostromo. They're still floating out in space
Speaker 2: waiting for the supposed distress signal to wake them up.
Speaker 2: But here's Holly giving us the goods Right up front.
Speaker 2: The USCSS Magino, a Wayland Utani deep space science research
Speaker 2: vessel is heading back to Earth almost in its orbit,
Speaker 2: and it's packed with specimens from distant worlds, and it's
Speaker 2: a dead ringer for the Nostromo in exacting detail. I
Speaker 2: know because I've been running through its corridors trying to
Speaker 2: get away from that motherfucker whenever I'm playing the Last
Speaker 2: Survivor mission on Alien Isolation. When we meet the crew,
Speaker 2: they're just waking up, and it's all very familiar, not
Speaker 2: just paralleling the first film's events, but introducing a group
Speaker 2: of characters that are genuinely likable. And then it goes
Speaker 2: further by giving us flashes of what's eventually going to
Speaker 2: befall them. Here's a hint. It's the Zeno Morph and
Speaker 2: it's glorious. The classic dome of the Big Chap and
Speaker 2: everything I know. Cameron has specified that his Aliens were
Speaker 2: soldiers and the Big Chap was a drone. That's why
Speaker 2: his have more cartilage looking bony heads. But that's the
Speaker 2: one thing I think Aliens is lacking. Maybe the dome
Speaker 2: was too reflective. Either way, I love that dome and
Speaker 2: I love this alien and yeah, things go really bad,
Speaker 2: but instead of floating out in space, the imagine is
Speaker 2: on a collision course with Earth.
Speaker 1: How's our girl, She's ready.
Speaker 4: You're going to be the first person to transition from
Speaker 4: a human body to a synthetic because I'm special.
Speaker 1: That's right, You're very, very special.
Speaker 5: We have a down space draft.
Speaker 1: I want what's on that ship.
Speaker 2: We can do it.
Speaker 3: We're fast, we're strong, we don't break.
Speaker 4: It's like a zoo that the animals got out.
Speaker 1: This ship collected five different life forms from the darkest
Speaker 1: corners of the universe, Monsters, invasive, species, predatory. We don't
Speaker 1: lock them down.
Speaker 5: It will be too late.
Speaker 2: When I mentioned Holly's dedication to giving us new and
Speaker 2: surprising twists in the series, I meant it. Here on
Speaker 2: Earth were introduced to three kinds of android. Since pure
Speaker 2: machine like Ash or Bishop or Call, then there are cyborgs,
Speaker 2: humans with synthetic implants, and now new to the scene
Speaker 2: are hybrids, synthetic bodies downloaded with a human's consciousness. This
Speaker 2: latest process is innovated by Kid Cavalier, a boy genius, trillionaire,
Speaker 2: the ultimate tech bro. Although his reasoning thus far is
Speaker 2: actually pretty philosophical, but then Thanos wasn't wrong in theory,
Speaker 2: so don't think I'm praising him. He runs Prodigy Corporation,
Speaker 2: a rival of whaleen Utani. We knew there had to
Speaker 2: be rivals out there. Why is fucking Whale and Utani
Speaker 2: responsible for everything in the universe. The first full hybrid
Speaker 2: is Marci, a terminal eleven year old girl who, in
Speaker 2: her new synthetic and adult body, adopts the name Wendy.
Speaker 2: Holly loves a theme, and here it's Peter Pan. The
Speaker 2: island nation near Singapore controlled by Kid Cavalier is named
Speaker 2: in Neverland. The group of fellow hybrids that will eventually
Speaker 2: join Wendy are called the Lost Boys, and their adopted
Speaker 2: names follow suit with Smee and Nibs and Curly Hell.
Speaker 2: During the process of transfer for human to synthetic, they're
Speaker 2: actually watching the Disney cartoon Peter Pan, which I know
Speaker 2: twenty century Fox is now owned by Disney, so the
Speaker 2: wheels are a little more lubricated these days. Nevertheless, it
Speaker 2: had me flashing back to Gremlins when those fucking terrors
Speaker 2: are sitting in a theater watching snow White before the
Speaker 2: film runs out and they continue their murderous assault. It
Speaker 2: seems so wrong and yet so right. Same here mainly
Speaker 2: because Holly embraces the parallels rather than trying to bury them,
Speaker 2: and he manages to not be beholden to Peter Pan.
Speaker 2: Wendy and her cohorts may not ever grow old like
Speaker 2: the original Lost Boys, but then they didn't have to
Speaker 2: deal with terrors from beyond space. This group of Lost
Speaker 2: Boys is mentored by Prodigy Corporations chief Synthetic Kirsch, played
Speaker 2: fucking perfectly by Timothy Oliphant. That really is the one
Speaker 2: thing all of these iterations of the Alien franchise has
Speaker 2: gotten right. The Android or Synths as we're calling them
Speaker 2: now I named the Luminaries earlier. Kersh is a welcome
Speaker 2: addition to their pantheon. So we've got a Wayland Utani
Speaker 2: ship crashing into a Prodigy city, and its contents are volatile,
Speaker 2: to say the least. That's the setup for the first
Speaker 2: two episodes, and luckily for Kid Cavalier, he's got a
Speaker 2: squad of Hybrids who are perfectly suited to secure that
Speaker 2: crash site and investigate what's inside the ship, which is
Speaker 2: about as far as I'm going to go without spoiling anything. However,
Speaker 2: I said, Holly understands the importance of the new when
Speaker 2: it comes to reinterpreting a film or series. He's doing
Speaker 2: it here with way more than plot and character and location.
Speaker 2: He's doing it with tropes we've come to not only
Speaker 2: rely on, but have become kind of boring. The crash
Speaker 2: of the Magino into a city scape would be the
Speaker 2: entire episode in lesser hands and lovingly rendered. Buildings would
Speaker 2: crumble and totter, and people would scream and run, more
Speaker 2: interested in the action and actual terror from the human perspective,
Speaker 2: thus giving echoes of nine to eleven that are undeniable.
Speaker 2: It's horrible and unexpected, and it fucking works. And the
Speaker 2: nerd in me loved that the Maginaut's engines were still
Speaker 2: firing as the first responders were trying to sort out
Speaker 2: what the fuck to do. And I haven't even mentioned
Speaker 2: the other specimens that are lurking inside the ship. Of course,
Speaker 2: there'd be other alien life forms. We'd be picking them
Speaker 2: up all over if we were colonizing other worlds. These
Speaker 2: do not disappoint. Neither does the music. I want to
Speaker 2: point out Jeff Russo, he's the composer, and I had
Speaker 2: no idea it was the guitarist and lead singer for Tonic.
Speaker 4: Yep, you kidd Onless she Loves.
Speaker 2: He's had some interesting assignments, the latest which seems to
Speaker 2: be house composer over at Star Trek. He did Discovery, Picards,
Speaker 2: Strange New Worlds, and even the Misbegotten Section thirty one,
Speaker 2: not to mention Umbrella Academy and that Ripley series No
Speaker 2: Not Her, Oh not You the Patricia highsmiths rically No
Speaker 2: not You. Russo does a great job here, not only
Speaker 2: with his original work, but when he quotes, he's doing
Speaker 2: it from the original Jerry Goldsmith's score, and particularly the
Speaker 2: stings way more effective than telling another alien to get
Speaker 2: away from her.
Speaker 1: You bitch.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a possible segue here to weapons.
Speaker 2: So here's the trailer.
Speaker 3: This is a true story that happened in my town.
Speaker 3: So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for
Speaker 3: the whole school, but today was different. Every other class
Speaker 3: had all their kids, but missus Gandy's room was totally empty.
Speaker 3: And do you know why? Because the night before, at
Speaker 3: two seventeen in the morning, every kid woke up, got
Speaker 3: out of bed, walked out stairs and into the dark,
Speaker 3: and they never came back.
Speaker 1: I don't understand at all. Why just her classroom? Why
Speaker 1: only hurts?
Speaker 2: Where are children?
Speaker 3: We have a lot of emotional parents who I think
Speaker 3: it's best if you keep some distance from this place.
Speaker 1: That's throw Where are you? Where did you go?
Speaker 3: This is where the story really starts.
Speaker 2: How's that for tantalizing? What is it with sketch comedians
Speaker 2: suddenly turning into fucking monster horror filmmakers Jordan Peele from
Speaker 2: Key and Peel and now Zach Kreiger from The Whitest Kids.
Speaker 2: You know this guy hit the scene with a fucking
Speaker 2: sledgehammer three years ago with Barbarian. I told you in
Speaker 2: the last episode to watch Barbarian. I'm telling you again.
Speaker 2: Go watch Barbarian. It's kind of a perfect blend of
Speaker 2: horror and dread and humor, all the while delivering complex characters,
Speaker 2: which is doubly true of weapons. You heard the setup.
Speaker 2: An entire third grade class goes missing one night. Even
Speaker 2: more maddening, they did so of their own volition, walking
Speaker 2: out and running into the night, as captured by many
Speaker 2: many ring cameras. Those early shots of the children waking
Speaker 2: and taking to the night. Arms swung back like birds
Speaker 2: or missiles running against the backdrop of sleeping suburbia are gorgeous,
Speaker 2: and all scored to George Harrison's Beware the Darkness, just
Speaker 2: one of a half dozen of my favorite songs of
Speaker 2: all time, like Percy Sledge's Dark End of the Street
Speaker 2: and my literal favorite Harry Nilsen tune Gotta get.
Speaker 4: Up, Got get up, gotta get out, Gotta get.
Speaker 5: Home for the morning comes water.
Speaker 4: Family, got a big day, Gotta get home for the
Speaker 4: sun comes up, up and away, got a big day,
Speaker 4: sar Cat's day. I gotta run run, Yeah, gotta get home.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great? Craiger fragments the story immediately fast forwarding
Speaker 2: to nearly a month after the event, and that assembly
Speaker 2: at the school that you heard in the trailer. That
Speaker 2: scene branches out, rewinding a day or two and giving
Speaker 2: us five separate points of view weapons ends up resembling P. T.
Speaker 2: Anderson's Magnolia more than anything, though, while Magnolia's characters and
Speaker 2: stories share a tenuous connection a theme, really all of
Speaker 2: the stories here are leading us to the one tale. Overall.
Speaker 2: Those points of view are Justine played by Julia Garner,
Speaker 2: the film's nominal protagonist. It's her class that's gone missing.
Speaker 2: Archer a father of one of the missing children whose
Speaker 2: obsession with finding him will either kill him or set
Speaker 2: him free. He's played by Josh Brolin. Then there's Paul,
Speaker 2: played by the once upon a Time Hans solo Alden Ehrenreich.
Speaker 2: He's a cop in the town and a former flame
Speaker 2: of Julia. James, a homeless drug addict played spectacularly by
Speaker 2: Austin Abrams. He was on The Walking Dead and Euphoria.
Speaker 2: Then there's Marcus, the schools put upon principle, played by
Speaker 2: Benedict Wong. Can we put mister Wong in everything? Please?
Speaker 2: There is no project he will not make him better.
Speaker 2: And finally, and most revealingly, there's Alex, played by then
Speaker 2: eight year old Carrie Christopher. Alex is the only child
Speaker 2: in Julia's class who didn't go wandering that night. I
Speaker 2: really can't say any more other than the kid was
Speaker 2: fucking amazing. I've dealt with plenty of precocious terrible child
Speaker 2: actors over the years on Tails from the Dark Side
Speaker 2: and Night Gallery and Twilight Zone eighty five. Not a
Speaker 2: fucking whiff of that here He's great. Each of the
Speaker 2: separate stories are economical and interesting, and in some cases
Speaker 2: take you far from the main plot, involving you more
Speaker 2: in these people's personal lives than your average scare show allows,
Speaker 2: which is a hell of a neat trick considering the
Speaker 2: film's central mystery involves seventeen missing children. But is it scary? Fuck? Yes,
Speaker 2: it is and dreamy and personal and weird and thrilling
Speaker 2: in skin crawling, and it functions as a hell of
Speaker 2: a meditation on addiction and its widespread lingering effects on
Speaker 2: the lives of everyone it touches. And it's funny as
Speaker 2: funny as together was Boy. Horror is really hitting a
Speaker 2: stride recently, like Alien Earth. I'm loath to reveal anything else,
Speaker 2: but I'd like to note if a nature documentary shows
Speaker 2: up in a horror movie, you should pay attention, just
Speaker 2: saying your mileage may vary when it comes to the reveal.
Speaker 2: Sometimes no answer is better than disappointing one. I myself
Speaker 2: love an open ended mystery. This ain't that Craiger isn't
Speaker 2: interested in stringing you along, And I, for one, was
Speaker 2: right there with this flick every step of the way.
Speaker 2: The supporting cast. There's a supporting cast after five leads. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's just as strong. Toby Huss is a fucking gem.
Speaker 2: He's the chief of police here and father to Paul's
Speaker 2: fiance Donna, who is played by podcast legend June Diana Rayfield.
Speaker 2: Toby Huss, though you probably know him as the whizb
Speaker 2: I'm the Wizist, but he's made a career of gentle,
Speaker 2: authoritarian characters. But I just wanted to point him out
Speaker 2: and say how fucking good he is. Justin Long and
Speaker 2: Sarah Paxton show up as parents of one of the
Speaker 2: other missing kids. And Amy Madigan is also in the film,
Speaker 2: and she's fucking spectacular. What a real life duo she
Speaker 2: and Ed Harris make just powerhouses in every direction. You
Speaker 2: know what, I take back what I said earlier. Do
Speaker 2: not see Barbarian that's readily available on streaming. Go to
Speaker 2: the movies and put your money down for this one.
Speaker 2: I encourage that a lot, But this is it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: If you're not supporting this, you are not supporting horror.
Speaker 2: And if you're not supporting horror, then get out of here.
Speaker 2: We're getting out of here. Tune in Friday. We've got
Speaker 2: the latest tannels from the Dark Side, and the Friday
Speaker 2: after that will be Aliens Versus Predator. But if you
Speaker 2: want to hear that right now, it's on the Patreon
Speaker 2: channel Patreon dot com slash Father alone. You'll get episodes
Speaker 2: in advance, weeks in advance sometimes, and you'll have access
Speaker 2: to shows not in the main feed, like HP Hates Me.
Speaker 2: The latest episode is up where HP made me watch
Speaker 2: Corey Haymes me myself and I, a self released video
Speaker 2: made to convince the industry he was sober and ready
Speaker 2: to work, all the while being high as a fucking kite.
Speaker 2: Next Monday, we'll probably not be another round up. That's right.
Speaker 2: I'm like SNL. I'll come in hot and I'll bail,
Speaker 2: but it will be a new show. Not a new show,
Speaker 2: but show you haven't heard. That'll be my own weapons mystery.
Speaker 2: Until then, until we meet again, I'm Father Malone for
Speaker 2: Ripley Gene. We're gonna leave you with a bit from
Speaker 2: Alien Earth.
Speaker 5: The ship touchdown in seventeen thirty. It's a deep space
Speaker 5: research vestval C class wayland Utorny survivors on the ship
Speaker 5: unknown calms it down. Ship must have clipped the tower
Speaker 5: but we have forces on the ground. Mass casualties, i'd
Speaker 5: imagine among the residents. Luckily it was the founders of
Speaker 5: the festival. Hundreds of people were at the park, sir.
Speaker 1: Not now, let's good.
Speaker 4: No triage, the rescue by income it called up the
Speaker 4: reserves and keep this quiet until.
Speaker 1: We know the damage.
Speaker 4: We can do it.
Speaker 5: And the ship.
Speaker 4: A deep space research vessel loaded with who knows what?
Speaker 4: I think that's ours. Now she won't like that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: so she can sue. Show show show, show