WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:04.960 Weird. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:58.799 We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up. 3 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:04.239 I'm father alone and with me infected with pure cuteness. Ah, 4 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.879 the cute virus, it's a ripley gene. No, you don't understand. 5 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:13.159 A pug becoming vicious only adds to the cuteness even 6 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:13.920 with a knife. 7 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.319 Ow. 8 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.439 Okay, the fucking world is on fire, everybody, So let's 9 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:21.599 take a look at some dystopia. More specifically, it's the 10 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.840 dystopia everyone's talking about. Actually, no, they're not talking about 11 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:30.280 post apocalypse. They're talking about zombie dong and we will too, 12 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.359 I suppose, since everyone is a fucking fourteen year old 13 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:35.920 girl when it comes to on screen penis, we are 14 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.879 looking at twenty eight years later. But we'll get there 15 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.560 after some days and some weeks. It's the Danny Boyle 16 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.040 Alex Garland. Wait, no, it's not them anymore. Weight they're back. 17 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.159 The series has gone from shitty DV camera to high 18 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.400 quality thirty five millimeters back to fucking iPhones. Before we 19 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.120 get there, a quick annoying autobiographical pause. Now I've told 20 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:00.599 this story over on the Projection Booth podcasts. You should 21 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.519 head over there for more in depth analysis of this film, 22 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.280 but see In nineteen eighty two, I was consumed with 23 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:10.080 creep Show mania. I read and re read that comic. 24 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.240 I listened to the soundtrack obsessively, and I sought out 25 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.919 any tangential material related to creep Show. That's how I 26 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.759 ended up convincing my mother to rent the Ripper. The 27 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:24.000 shot on videotape Nightmare, starring FX guru Tom Savini. What 28 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.560 a boondoggle, a horn swoggle, that was. But the holy grail, 29 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.919 the one I just could not find in any fashion, 30 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.719 was the film, the film that George Romero had made 31 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:39.599 a few years prior, a film my older, irresponsible cousins 32 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.159 would talk about in Whispers Dawn of the Dead, a 33 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.759 film my cousin Susan expressly forbade her husband from taking 34 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.840 me to see, which he did at the first opportunity, 35 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.439 and it fucked my head up. Sincerely, the human in 36 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.000 the movie theater seat when the lights went down was 37 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.520 not the same one when the gog came flounced across 38 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:05.280 the soundtrack two hours later. Suddenly, vampires and ghosts and 39 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:09.199 Frankenstein's and witches and everything I'd come to know as 40 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:13.039 scary took a fucking back seat to the ultimate monster 41 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.080 us Because what are zombies but our loved ones and 42 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.520 our friends back from the dead and just vacant all 43 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:26.080 animal instinct and animal hunger. It's not hard to remember 44 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.719 just how horrifying a concept that is. Even after the 45 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.159 last twenty five years of non stop zombie everything in entertainment, 46 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.360 that wasn't always the case. Prior to two thousand and one. 47 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.120 The number of zombie films totals about seventy give or take. 48 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.800 Since then over five hundred. That doesn't count novels and 49 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:51.039 comic books and TV shows and lunchboxes and plush toys. 50 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.680 So what was the spark? Who if it wasn't Billy 51 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.639 Joel actually started the fire. Most horror folk and film 52 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.080 folk for that matter, tend to point the decaying finger 53 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.000 in the direction of twenty eight Days Later, and it's 54 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:07.479 easy to understand why here was a thoughtful, dare i say, 55 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.719 art house take on the zombie menace? Those art house 56 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.360 bona fides are provided by Danny Boyle, I'd say, Alex 57 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.399 Garland as well, but when twenty eight Days Later was released, 58 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.360 he was just the guy who wrote the book that 59 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:24.160 Boyle had made into that disastrous DiCaprio flick. The Beach Boyle, 60 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.120 on the other hand, was an indie darling. He still is, 61 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:31.160 despite working in every strata of the industry imaginable. Incidentally, 62 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:32.959 I think there's a divide that can be drawn for 63 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.920 cinophiles about nineties movies. I have a theory you were 64 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.560 either wowed by pulp fiction or train Spotting. I'm not 65 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.519 trying to make a Beatles Stones feud or anything, but 66 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.160 Trainspotting is the clear winner. There suck at all you 67 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:49.199 goons with your Uma Thurman posters on your dorm room walls. Anyway, 68 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.639 if the guy who made train Spotting was taking the 69 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.839 undead seriously, then I guess we all had better too. 70 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.360 I like a lot of twenty eight Days Later, and 71 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.399 I do think it managed to inspire a lot of 72 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.199 measured re examination of horror and its impact, while giving 73 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.279 a proper introduction to the greater populace of a proud 74 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:09.120 member of the monster family that had been all but 75 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.720 ignored up until then. But the film is not precient. 76 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.480 It didn't predict a goddamn thing. It is a thoughtful 77 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.360 meditation on the times that was created, but it's cobbled 78 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.319 together from other horror pieces. More specifically, Twenty eight Days 79 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.720 Later is George Romero's Zombie trilogy, and a few of 80 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.040 his other films used for parts with a thin layer 81 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.560 of Day of the Triffids at the outset. Like that movie, 82 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:37.040 our hero awakens after a lengthy hospital stay to find 83 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:40.480 the entire world changed by a horrible invasion and has 84 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.399 to figure out the where and the what and the 85 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.040 how while evading this new threat. That's the end of 86 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.199 the Day of the Triffids. Then it's all zombies, although 87 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:54.160 they're not because zombies are dead by fucking definition. These 88 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:57.160 are living, breathing folks who've been infected by a virus. 89 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.399 So after some harrowing though fairly rollicking adventures, our heroes 90 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.439 form a family and try to live the old way 91 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.839 and are forced to move on. And then they're splintered 92 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.560 apart again and again by the threat of these creatures, 93 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.639 and in the end they run to what's left of civilization, 94 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.920 which is the military, who are so fucking degenerate that 95 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.399 the only way to any sort of safety is by 96 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.680 embracing these zombies as your ally. If that's not night 97 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.600 and Dawn in Day of the Dead, then well it 98 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.240 just fucking is, There's no two ways about it. Also, 99 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.040 stop using rape as a fucking plot point. Okay, the 100 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.519 fact that there would be a pandemic twenty years after 101 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.120 the film does not make the film a fucking prophecy. 102 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.519 The idea of rage filled humans triggered that way by 103 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.120 a virus is straight from Romero's pre Dawn of the 104 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.199 Dead flick The Crazies. They remade that a decade ago 105 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.240 with Timothy Oliphant, which is pretty damn good. Anyway, The 106 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.839 virus is also from Romero. Now, the virus being one 107 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:56.879 of rage, that's pure Alex Garland. That's the innovation. That's 108 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:01.000 the relevant commentary they've added to the zombie equation since 109 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.399 they're not dead and they're not zombies. By the way, 110 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.920 the fast zombies slow zombie debate here is moot. This 111 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.639 isn't Romero's sandbox that these movies are playing, and so 112 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.399 the ghules can behave however you want. And the fucking 113 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.720 fact of the matter is this movie did in no 114 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.800 way create fast zombies. Do I need to say that again? 115 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.639 I think I do, because I was fucking shocked to 116 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:23.560 hear Alex Garland and the interviewer and at least a 117 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:27.160 dozen other so called horror podcasters talking about this subject 118 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:31.040 and having only a passing familiarity with Return of the 119 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:36.319 Living Dead. Those are zombies, they run. They are, in fact, 120 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:40.199 the scariest zombies ever Committed to Celluloid, I'd take two 121 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.720 shopping malls of Romero zombies to one or two Obannon 122 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.360 zombies in an empty field, easy. But people talk about 123 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.240 Return of the Living Dead very casually, like, oh, there 124 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:54.000 was a punk rock movie with zombies. Nah, fuck you. 125 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.360 You're talking about a movie that is one thousand percent 126 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.040 better than any zombie entertainment you'd put on a top 127 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.120 ten list. Not you, listener, You're one of the good ones. 128 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.439 I'm talking about these other horror hacks. I'm no gatekeeper, 129 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.160 but know your fucking history. Otherwise we're all going to 130 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.000 end up in trouble. Up too late. And by the way, 131 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.920 it wasn't as if there was nothing at all going 132 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.120 on in zombie Town by the time twenty eight days 133 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.199 later hit theaters. In nineteen ninety six, Capcom released Resident 134 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.639 Evil on the PlayStation. While that game eventually involves straight 135 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.000 up monsters, the main antagonist the one terrorizing a whole 136 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.600 new generation and thus prepping them for what's to come 137 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.440 was the zombie. I don't think the follow up to 138 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.879 twenty eight days later Quit gets the love it deserves. 139 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.799 Twenty eight weeks later israelly an alien versus alien scenario. 140 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.080 At least it would be if alien had been shot 141 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:45.000 on a fucking camcorder. That's another aspect of twenty eight 142 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.200 days Later. I got to mention, it looks like garbage. Yeah, 143 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:50.240 they saved so much money and it allowed for all 144 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.279 this kind of innovation and blah blah blah, it looks 145 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.879 like shit. I do not buy the CCTV camera angle. Obviously, 146 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:00.360 I'd prefer to have a terrible video looking move then 147 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.919 none at all. But come on, does anyone actually love 148 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.759 the look of this film? Now? Twenty eight weeks later, 149 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:10.879 Boyle and Garland were off making the wildly underrated film Sunshine. 150 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.519 That's Afflick will definitely be covering at some point. I 151 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.240 think it's Boyle's best film. That's right, better than Trainspotting 152 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.879 in their Instead, they hired Intacto director Juan Carlos Resnadio. 153 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.360 The film takes place well twenty eight weeks later. The 154 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.399 infected have been starved and or eradicated, and the US 155 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:32.879 forces are in control of London and are reconstructing, while 156 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.919 former residents having been abroad or fled during the outbreak 157 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.240 are being resettled into the country. Listen, I should have 158 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.279 said at the top, this is going to get real spoilery. 159 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.720 I consider twenty eight days and twenty eight weeks to 160 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.799 be fair game. They're twenty three and eighteen years old 161 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:49.240 at this point. When we get to twenty eight years later, 162 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.080 I'll do a spoiler free sanction and then I'm going 163 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.720 to warn you, because there's no way I can talk 164 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.799 about that film without spilling some of the beans. The 165 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:00.960 opening scene of twenty eight weeks Later is truly fuck horrifying. 166 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.600 A husband and wife are holed up with a dozen 167 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.919 other survivors. They're set upon by the infected, and Robert Carlyle, 168 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.559 our hero, panics and runs, leaving his wife, Catherine McCormick, 169 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.799 and a small boy in the house with the infected 170 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:21.279 while he runs and runs and runs. It's fucked. And 171 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.720 then he's one of the families being relocated as he's 172 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.320 being reunited with his children who were abroad during the outbreak, 173 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.679 and then the wife shows up alive. Holy fuck. Now, 174 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.480 that's a dynamic to play against a backdrop of rage, 175 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.399 infected chaos, and Harold Parano from Last shows up and 176 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:41.559 he mows down an entire field of infected with a 177 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.159 helicopter's rotor blade. This is a great movie. And Jeremy 178 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.159 Renner is in it, and Rose Byrne is in it, 179 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.279 and Idris Elba Hello, I guess I'm supposed to feel 180 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.039 pedestriate in some way that my favorite is the popcorn 181 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.519 munch and all star cast that actually looks like a 182 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:59.080 movie movie and not Danny Boyle's home movies of Halloween 183 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.759 that one year twenty eight weeks later ends with what 184 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.240 apparently was a loose end that needed to be dealt 185 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.159 with immediately. In the new film, right before the credits rule, 186 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:10.039 there are shots of the infected emerging from the Metro 187 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.600 in Paris and racing toward the Eiffel Tower. Thus, in 188 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:16.000 the opening of twenty eight years later, we're told in 189 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.480 an opening scrawl that the virus has been eradicated from 190 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:23.159 mainland Europe. That keeps the action in Great Britain, which 191 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.480 was a concern of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle when 192 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.759 they returned, which is great Romero's films owe as much 193 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.440 to Pittsburgh as his imagination. Soh yeeha, keep that film 194 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.480 series at home. But that wasn't the only loose thread 195 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.080 that film left behind. The climax involves the fire bombing 196 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.000 of London and the overall cooking of everyone still living 197 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:45.200 in the UK. So where's everyone else coming from? 198 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:45.519 Oh? 199 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:46.440 Hell, let's get to it. 200 00:11:46.480 --> 00:12:15.399 This is twenty eight years later, seven six eleven, five 201 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.879 nine and twenty miles a day, four eleven, seventeen thirty two, the. 202 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:26.919 Day before boost booth, booth, booth moving up and down again. 203 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:33.639 There's no discharge in the war. Don't don't, don't, don't 204 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.840 look at what's in front of you. Booth booth, booth, 205 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.840 booth moving up and down again. 206 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:46.639 Men, men, men, men, men were mad with watching 'em. 207 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:48.759 There's no just charge in the war. 208 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.320 When she woke onto that mainland, there's no rescues. 209 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:11.759 There are many kinds of dad, infected, non infected, alike. 210 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.480 That this is a glorious who's going on to be said? 211 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:22.000 He'll keep quite denote me. 212 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.799 You know, if it is a bit young, be you ready? 213 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:29.799 They have judgment. 214 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:40.960 If your im rob they will get on top of you. 215 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.399 Boom boom, boom boom, moving up and down again. 216 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:59.320 That no parts in the wall, My ririar for nothing. 217 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:09.720 Differ Bring up. 218 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:23.559 Heaven, I think eleven five, seventeen thirty the day before. 219 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.080 Zombie movies only work when it's in the initial days 220 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.840 of the outbreak, maybe a year or two later. Everything 221 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.440 else is a Western or Mad Max with insane cannibals 222 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.440 instead of biker gangs. Three decades on, this is a 223 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.600 post post apocalypse movie, and we're given what appears to 224 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.120 be the only viable community left. They've taken a residence 225 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.720 on a tidal island off the coast, which can only 226 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.519 be accessed by a causeway that only appears during low tide. 227 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:53.840 The rest of the time, the current is so swift 228 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.000 there's no navigating. There's just a quick trip out to 229 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:00.559 the open ocean. Here, we're introduced to Jamie by Aaron 230 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.639 Taylor Johnson Craven that's right, Craven and his twelve year 231 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.720 old son Spike, played by the fucking Revelation that is 232 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:12.159 Alfie Williams. Jamie's wife, Ila that's island in Spanish, y'all, 233 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:15.039 is played by Jody Komer. She was the only good 234 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.080 thing in that fucking horrible Ryan Reynolds video game movie 235 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.559 Free Guy. Actually, there's one other good thing in that 236 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.399 movie at the end, when Ryan Reynolds is fighting a 237 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.639 roided up version of himself. They're fighting on Revere Beach, 238 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.120 which is my hometown anyway. Ila is laid up with 239 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.480 horrible migraines. Most of the time, she's sick and deteriorating. 240 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:36.919 As part of a coming of age ritual, Jamie takes 241 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.919 Spike to the mainland to kill his first infected and 242 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.919 to learn just what's going on over there. What's going 243 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.840 on is fucking horrifying. Given three decades to evolve, the 244 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:51.919 infected have separated into three distinct categories, slow, bloated and 245 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.039 usually blind creatures that crawl along the ground feeding on 246 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:59.039 insects and earthworms. There's the regular old infected we've come 247 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.279 to know and love. And then there's the alphas, apparently 248 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:06.159 stronger and more intelligent and able to marshal the other infected, 249 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.759 and they love ripping off heads with spine. Oh, and 250 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.559 everyone's naked. Every goddamn crazy in England is butt naked, 251 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.120 butt naked, buck naked. I've heard both. What do you 252 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.759 think father Malone seven to one at a Gmail dot 253 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.519 com and that's where all the zombie dong talk is 254 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.399 coming from, folks. The Alpha, nicknamed Samson, is a huge 255 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.559 man with a huge cock. He puts Doctor Manhattan to 256 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.919 shame as sister amanas my eighth grade teacher at Immaculate 257 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.919 Conception School used to glower at us. You've seen it, Okay, 258 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.840 get over it. Her name was Amnas, but there was 259 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.960 no love in her. The film is a solid two hours, 260 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.240 with the first hour being Jamie and Spike and their 261 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.279 adventures to and from the mainland. But when Spike discovers 262 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.600 that a doctor is alive on the mainland, he makes 263 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.159 the decision to take his mother and seek him out 264 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.399 and get the medical attention that she needs. Along the way, 265 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.679 they encounter a Swedish NATO soldier who's found himself stranded 266 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.279 and an infected woman pregnant with a normal child, and 267 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.039 the doctor himself played by Ray, findes they may as 268 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.079 well have named him doctor Romero, given that George made 269 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.759 no secret that his allegiance in the Dead films was 270 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.880 with the zombies, so too, Ray finds Doctor Kelson sees 271 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.880 no difference between the human and the infected and treats 272 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.759 them both with equal respect. Now, if you've heard anything 273 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.039 about this movie, it's the giant dick and the moment 274 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.440 at the end, which we'll talk about in spoilers. But 275 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.359 the other thing, the major thing, is the shift in tone. 276 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.319 While the latter half of the movie doesn't skimp on 277 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.279 frightening at times skin crawling scenarios, it settles quite heavily 278 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.839 into a sense of mourning and sometimes sorrow. It's a 279 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.880 far more contemplative film than either of the previous entries. 280 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:47.359 There's also a distinct flavor of spiritualism, at times bordering 281 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.559 on the supernatural. I think if that sudden shift in 282 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.359 gears from thrill ride to mausoleum walking tour is too 283 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.359 much for you to bear, then the movie won't have 284 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.880 much for you at all. But I imagine those complaining 285 00:17:58.079 --> 00:17:59.720 are the ones that didn't have any trouble when the 286 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:03.680 bank robbing family, kidnapping Geko Brothers ended up besent by 287 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.880 vampires at the Titty Twister. Here's the thing overall, I'm 288 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.200 of two minds on this film. If I didn't know 289 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.279 there was a sequel already filmed and scheduled to come 290 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.880 out in January of twenty twenty six. I think this 291 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.279 movie would be a failure. If it were going to 292 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.880 be a standalone flick, then it should have been Spike 293 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.200 and Ila from the start, so we can fully know 294 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:25.599 her and him and their relationship. As it is, we're 295 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.839 given half a movie with her and half a movie 296 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:31.640 setting up something else. Entirely, it does tell a complete story. 297 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.359 It is ultimately a coming of age film, and in 298 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.640 that regard it not only succeeds its soars, but there 299 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.240 was so much place setting going on for what is 300 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.640 obviously the future Adventures on the Mainland that if you're 301 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.519 judging this movie on its own, it's a big old failure. 302 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:50.799 So we're left in the unenviable position of the matrix reloaded. 303 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.039 Was it good? I don't know. I think so. Maybe 304 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.039 I'll let you know when Revolutions comes out. Nope, garbage. 305 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.799 I have higher hopes with the continued involvement of Alex 306 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.640 gos Arland that twenty eight years later The Bone Temple 307 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.880 will not only bolster what the first movie had been 308 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.680 laying down, but we'll give everyone exactly what they were 309 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.680 looking for. Here is where to turn off the show 310 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.640 if you don't want anything spoil. You're not going to 311 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:14.839 miss anything. I'll just give out the email address and 312 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:16.799 beg you for money. But if you stay, I'm going 313 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:19.480 to spoil the fuck out of everything. You need a countdown. 314 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.799 Fuck that spoilers, y'all. That pregnant infected girl gives birth. 315 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.000 They tote the kid around, keeping it safe for than 316 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:28.720 the infected and away from Samson, even though it's totally 317 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.640 fucking clear that it's Samson's kid. Alpha male with a 318 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:33.799 giant prick. What else am I supposed to think? Oh, 319 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.599 and Isla has inoperable cancer and commits suicide. It's awful 320 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.119 in a good way. At the end, Spike drops the 321 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.480 baby off at the island like a cartoon from the 322 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.880 nineteen forties, and then he goes off adventuring. Now here's 323 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.640 the Bonker's crazy mental bullshit. At the end, Spike is 324 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.279 being chased down by a horde of infected when he's 325 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:55.799 befriended by a group of young adults all dressed identically 326 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.839 with dyed white blonde, gross hair, and they fucking parkour 327 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.559 Ninja the fuck out of the infected with all the 328 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.960 camera work of a Kung Fu flick, And I mean 329 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.240 a Samo Hung Chinese opera Kung Fu Flick. You can 330 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.079 actually hear the earlier tonal shift of the movie say 331 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.799 out loud, Wow, I didn't see that coming, and I 332 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.440 fucking loved it. I keep thinking about it, turning it 333 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.160 over and over in my head, and a crazy bit 334 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.839 of potential non sequit or nonsense at the end of 335 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.440 a contemplation of death and grief was such a fucking 336 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:31.240 big swing and for me it absolutely connected. But let 337 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:34.039 me explain why I'm not just some fanatic for physical 338 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.279 comedy or action. Like twenty eight weeks later, twenty eight 339 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:39.680 years later. It begins. At the start of The Outbreak 340 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:43.079 two thousand and three, we're shown the Crystal family in 341 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:46.880 the Scottish Highlands. The children are gathered around watching Teletubbies 342 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:50.880 when the infected invade. Jimmy Crystal, no older than Spike, 343 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:53.799 escapes and finds his way to the local church where 344 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.119 his father is a vicar who's preaching the Day of Atonement. 345 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:00.759 He gives Jimmy a crucifix, and Jimmy escapes and it's 346 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.319 all horrifying and it's great, And that is the last 347 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.599 we see of Jimmy until that final sequence the leader 348 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.480 of the Parkourt gang of Badly Dressed Ninja's is Jimmy, 349 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:14.119 which means that that boy has lived on the mainland 350 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.920 and survived for twenty eight years. I love a book end, 351 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:21.400 particularly when it doesn't announce itself, so I think on 352 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.000 that level, this ending is a win. But further listen 353 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.319 Jimmy Savil. He was a television personality and presenter on 354 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.240 the BBC. He hosted Top of the Pops and a 355 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.960 show called Jim'll Fix It, which had children right in 356 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:39.160 with a wish and then they try to make that 357 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.480 wish happen. That show was wildly popular and ran for 358 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:46.000 nearly twenty years. The man was beloved for his charity 359 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:49.519 work and was generally seen as a top shelf eccentric. 360 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:54.119 The gang at the end are styled exactly like Jimmy Savil. 361 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:56.519 They are in fact a gang known as the Jimmy's. 362 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.359 During an earlier scene, one of the infected can be 363 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:02.519 glimpsed with a Jimmy branded into its skin. So who 364 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:04.920 knows what these crazies are up to? But it banks 365 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.720 a couple of important questions. See After his death in 366 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:11.720 twenty eleven, it came to light that Savile was a 367 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:16.039 fucking horrendous sexual predator, with some four hundred and fifty 368 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.759 confirmed cases and suspected as high as a thousand, almost 369 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:24.799 exclusively children of both genders. It is absolutely mind boggling 370 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:30.279 the sheer volume. Now here's the question. Those allegations didn't 371 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.359 come to light until twenty eleven, meaning in two thousand 372 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.519 and three you'd have had no idea at the time 373 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.599 as a kid, Saville would be a hero. So is 374 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:44.319 that what's happening. Is this misguided idolization and cult like 375 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:48.119 devotion to a child's fantasy, or is there a much 376 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.039 darker option that Jimmy Crystal is one of Savill's victims 377 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.240 and that the hero worship is just as fucking twisted 378 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.519 as the man himself. Either way, my mind is in 379 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:01.920 ruins at the potential I mentioned. We're in a matrix 380 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.759 reloaded wait and see situation, and there are some questions 381 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.240 I have that I assume we'll be addressed, but if not, 382 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:12.440 see matrix revolutions, the sequels could retroactively cancel out any 383 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:16.440 goodwill that twenty eight years later has engendered. No Alpha 384 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:19.119 has figured out there's an entire island of people and 385 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:21.480 if you just wait till the tide is out. You 386 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:24.440 and an army can just go get them in twenty 387 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.920 eight years. To quote Jack Burton, I'm supposed to buy 388 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:30.599 this shit two thousand years. You can't find one broad 389 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:32.359 to fit the bill. Come on, Dave, you must be 390 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:37.200 doing something seriously wrong. Also, NATO is patrolling the island because, 391 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.519 like the New York Maximum Security Penitentiary or the island 392 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.799 of Los Angeles for that matter, once you go in, 393 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:46.759 you don't come out. Nothing comes off the island. Okay. 394 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:49.799 For thirty years, no other nation has looked at this 395 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:54.000 prime real estate the UK, which is now completely overgrown 396 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:57.680 with forests and woodland and all this natural resources, and 397 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.759 they thought, yeah, we'll just leave it abandoned. We won't 398 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.640 just hover in helicopters with miniguns and eradicate the problem. Sure. 399 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.000 Also there's a pretty huge leap that amounts to the 400 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.480 equivalent of conventional amnesia, where Eyeli's condition allows her to 401 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:14.079