Speaker 1: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of geek
Verse podcast. I am your host, Taylor Field, and I
am here tonight because it is The Wolfman twenty twenty
five spoilers review dropping right here, right now, and I'm alone.
Speaker 2: You might have noticed no Kirkland with me.
Speaker 1: I think it was last week he mentioned that he
was showing out while I was gone, that there was
a Wolfman review coming, and I went and saw it
and he did not, And now he's gone for the week.
Speaker 2: So here I am doing.
Speaker 1: A solo review, and there's nothing wrong with that. I
hope kirkling're having a good time out there hitting the slopes.
I'm excited to talk about this movie because it's it's
right up my alley.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of movie that I am.
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into that zany craziness that you don't normally see in
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What has been popping off, So we took a break
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we're resuming the review for Original Sin this coming Friday.
Speaker 2: What else do we have?
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I think we have a newscast coming to you this
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I'll get confirmation on that later on. And then we
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there's lots of stuff that's popping off. It's a great
time to be a geek Verse fan and listener. But
that said and done, I was debating with or not
I was going to get into the non spoilers or
just two spoilers, but I think I'll just give a
very brief, minor little bit of non spoilers for you
find folks.
Speaker 2: It was a nice treet.
Speaker 1: I was able to take my wife to see this movie.
And you know, because we have a little one, so
it's not always easy for both of us to sneak
away if a sitter isn't available to go watch a movie,
and so when we do, we usually try and pick
a movie that is worth getting a sitter for. And
it just this lined up where we had to have
a sitter already for something else that we were doing,
and so we thought, you know what, we have extra time,
let's just sneak in this movie. And it worked out,
and yeah, we enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: This is a good time. I had a blast seeing
this in the theater.
Speaker 1: What I say, everyone needs to I don't know if
everyone needs to be racing to see it in the theater,
but I think that there is definitely enough going on
where you can appreciate seeing it on a big screen.
I think that this film really explores using your perferal
vision a little bit and being able to see things
larger format. It is a lot more enjoyable and spooky
than watching it on something a little bit smaller. But
that's not a takeaway. If you aren't going to see
it in theaters, it's fine. You can wait till it
comes to home streaming.
Speaker 2: That works too.
Speaker 1: But in the end, I think everyone should watch this movie.
I really really do. There's a lot going on that's
really great. The trailer was a real curve ball because
when I saw the trailer, initially I thought, okay, this
is basically giving us everything. I mean, I've seen the
movie now by watching.
Speaker 2: The trailer, that's just great.
Speaker 1: But I was pleasantly surprised. There was enough in the
trailer that, Okay, I can kind of see where things
are going. I know when this is gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I know when this is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But ultimately you know the story was very different from
what I was expecting, and I really like that the
way the movie starts off, it's scary, it's tense, and
I'm really appreciating This isn't a spoiler, but I'm really
appreciating how these horror movies are kind of boosting up
Oregon as being a much more spookier kind of place
to to go to. I guess like what you're dealing with,
and I can appreciate that. Oh gosh, I've found some
food on my on my shirt here that my daughter
had obviously spat up.
Speaker 2: Lots nice.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Yeah, I just I could appreciate that we're we're
kind of focusing on like Oregon and these kind of
remote forest kind of locations, because I feel like older movies,
not really older movies, but older horror movies kind of
take place, oh like West Virginia or like the Back
the Boonies and stuff like that that's just a little
bit more out there but getting to be a little
more closer to home, like the British Columbia where I'm from.
It's it's just it's kind of neat because when I
see where this filming location is and I just see
how like the mountains look in the forest is I'm thinking, man,
this is this is just like our backyard here, you
know where we shot at Drennochrome. So it's very very
cool to see the choice of location for this, Whereas
you have Wolfman in twenty ten where I'm pretty sure,
oh was that in like England? I think I can't
fully remember exactly that one. I think he was going
back to his ancestral home England or somewhere like that,
somewhere definitely not in North America. But that was fifteen
years ago. And here we are and another Wolfman iteration.
This is Blumhouse. That's that's delivered on it and Bloemhouse.
You know, there's definitely a lot of projects that are
probably hit and miss and not everything is definitely it's
not great, but I think that this was quite the
job well done. Like I said, perpheral vision is one thing,
and the other thing that you're also taking into account
is that you're not getting obviously you know you're going
to see a Wolfman, but you're not getting the Wolfman debt,
like full on, full body shot right then and there,
overly practical effects, overly done cgi anything like that. I
could not tell you where there was any CGI in
this movie. I don't think there was any. I think
it was all just practical effects and it was all
just really really well done. It was all just the
cinematography that they were relying on, and I can appreciate that.
It's really really nice. It brings it back to basics,
and they really delivered. Now, I said, I couldn't really
recall where CGIs. That's a lie. I just recalled a
moment of CGI now in my mind, but I can't
talk about it until I get to the spoilers. But ultimately,
there's a great level of fear in setting you up
in a way that subverts your expectations. And I can
appreciate a movie like this where it's putting a scene
in place. It's a long, quiet moment and you're anticipating, Okay,
it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen, and it does not happen.
There's no jump scares. Really that that's getting you know,
this movie is not you know, it's not that it's
devoid of jump scares. There are some, but it's not
relying on that, and that's a good thing. It's relying
on you as the viewer. Being your own worst enemy,
trying to anticipate when something's gonna happen, and you can't
really anticipate it, but then you're seeing something in your
peripheral vision. Half the time when I was seeing things
on screen, I wasn't sure if I was actually seeing things.
But they they give you just enough to see that
there is something wrong and something very uncomfortable present around
this family, and at the same time they're dealing with
their own tribulations and doors. But you use your mind
and your fear checks in when Okay, this thing is
just moving around out and about and you can't really
see it and pinpoint it, and it's just very very
freaky and very very uncomfortable. And I think that they
did a great job. I think the actors and actresses
in this movie were fantastic.
Speaker 2: They did a really really good job.
Speaker 1: But ultimately I'm I'm excited to rewatch this one. This
one might be a hard copy purchase, to be honest,
I think that they just they really did a lot
of good stuff with this movie. But I think that's
that's it.
Speaker 2: For non spoilers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break down into spoilers now after this quick
ad break.
Speaker 2: So we will be right back, and we are back.
Speaker 1: So, as classic Taylor solo review format goes, I'm the
kind of guy that just goes from point A to
point Z, just go through the whole movie here and
just kind of highlight and pinpoint the things that are
worth pinpointing. So if you've seen the movie, great, stick around.
If you haven't seen it, well you can stick around too.
I'm not gonna hold it against you, but I mean
you should go watch the movie and then come stick
around either way. So the movie starts off where we're
at this remote location. This dad has his cabin this
farm area, and he's clearly out here looking for something.
When he's got his son, he's got in a bit
of a millet background. Then he's got his son with him,
and I thought, okay, this is where things are going
to kind of go awry. But that's not necessarily the case.
It's just setting up. It sets up the tone, and
it sets up a little bit of backstory for our
main character here. So we're dealing with his father's son
and they go out hunting, and you know, I've been
out hunting with my father before.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's fine.
Speaker 1: This dad is very much more disciplined and more strict,
because he's right, the woods are very very dangerous, so
when you're out here, you need to be very very careful.
And it's it's just eerie. And I love this eerie
feeling because they just show a few shots to the
mountains and how isolated you are, and it just feels
remote in that sense. The remote is definitely the first
stepping stone into being afraid. And our first shot of
the wolf Man is not one that is just oh,
he's being eaten. He's being killed ay yea ya a ai,
and it's scary and bloody. It's, like I said, setting
it out where your interpretation is just kind of working
against you here because now all of a sudden, you're
watching this boy alone thinking he's going to shoot a deer,
and he's moving his scope and he's looking down sites
up on this ridge line and it's so freaking quick
that you just see this bipedal like hairy beast standing
up on this ridge.
Speaker 2: It's you could miss it.
Speaker 1: It happens so quickly, and like the camera then shifts
and he like looks back. You don't see anything, and
you're waiting for the jump scare but it doesn't happen.
He's still looking. You get a little bit of a jump,
but it's not it's not that much of a scare
because his dad catches.
Speaker 2: Him's like, hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? And then you start to hear
like roars in the distance, like Okay, this is where
it really feels freaky because just their location, Like I
feel like I've sat in a location like this before myself.
And you're you know, you really feel you got this
bolt action rifle. It's not feeling good. It's not feeling good.
I would not want to be in this situation my kid,
especially as a dad, if you know what you're looking
for and that thing has found you. So they managed
to get into this little deer blind and right when
they get in, they can hear this thing crawling down
underneath them outside the deer blind, and I'm freaking out
in my chair. My chair is bumping up and down
because I'm starting to get the he gbis. So you
see a puff of air like a breath, I guess,
poofing up over the door. And you can't see over
the door and see what's right there, but this poof
of air is there this thing is breathing outside and
the dad's holding the gun up and then you don't
see the breath anymore, but the dad's still freaked out.
Then right behind him on that side of the wall,
you see the breath start to like poof out if
like an oh God, this thing is behind him, Holy crap,
and you're expecting him to get killed. But no. You
hear a deer make a sound, and all of a sudden,
the wolf man, you hear him like leap off and
go like claws something. And then the dad lifts up
his rifle. After a few minutes, he points out the
gun and he sees, okay, there's a dead deer over there,
and he fires off a shot because he sees something
run through his sights and that freaks him out, and
so he's like, okay, we're getting out of here. So
he goes back home, takes his son with him, doesn't
leave him in the deer flying They go together, and
then he's calling for help, basically saying, hey, I found it,
I found it. And there's a few other people, I
guess say in this area that they're they kind of
form like a grid and a network, and they're trying
to find this thing, and they're setting up this interesting concept.
Speaker 2: Whether it is a.
Speaker 1: Curse, whether it's a disease, it's up to interpretation what
it really really is. And so I almost felt like
it was disease because this isn't something that's based on
a full moon. And it turns you this is basically
them dealing with the fact that hey, if you get
infected with whatever this thing is, you're going to turn
into whatever this thing is and it's.
Speaker 2: Not going to be pretty.
Speaker 1: So that basically ends our story at the start there,
and we basically jump ahead. Was it thirty years? I
think it was thirty years, jump had thirty years, and
the boy has grown adult. Now he's a father, and
we can see, okay, he's got his own parental issues
with his own kid because this damage that was put
onto him by his father is still very present and
the really and it's he's doing a good job trying
to redact it though and build something healthy with his daughter.
So they're in the city and everyone's living their life
in the city, and this is where I kind of
took a step back because I thought, man, I if
you don't know I run another show called Cryptic clues,
and the cryptic clues show it dives into cryptids and
dog Man and Bigfoot and aliens, UFO's ghosts, paranormal all
that kind of stuff mysteries, And so what I'm seeing
here is that you have just this, you have this
everyone living in this world of metal like in the
city and skyscrapers and whatnot, and it's just such a different,
different level of existence by changing over into the wood.
And so when they find the guy finds out, oh,
his dad died and we've got to go clear out
of stuff. So he goes out with his family, is
taking them to his cabin that he grew up in
when he was young, and we saw at the beginning
of the movie. It's just it's so different. And you
go into the woods and you act like you're almost
a tourist. You're not there to stay, you're just there temporarily.
But there are very dangerous things out there, Like we
pull wolf Man out of the equation here, but it's
just it's very dangerous and be very very careful when
you go out there because if you get lost, and
it's very easy to get lost in the woods.
Speaker 2: That's getting over.
Speaker 1: So with this family going out there, you get a
weird you get a weird kind of like vibe. It's
friendly at first, but then it's like, Okay, the weird
vibe is sitting in because they're getting into a remote territory.
They don't know where they're going, don't know what they're
necessarily doing here. Because they're kind of lost. They somehow
bumped to someone that they knew, at least the dad knew,
oh when he was young. And so that guy basically
hops inside their vehicle and I'll show you where your
dad's property is. Yeah, yeah, he yeadha super sis. But hey,
the guy he's in a firearm. He seems very friendly.
He's making weird comments about his wife and his kid,
but you know, he seems like.
Speaker 2: He's relatively okay.
Speaker 1: He clearly knows that there's something out here, but he's
all alone. I don't know why he would just be
standing in a deer blind for who knows how long
way is away from his property.
Speaker 2: But he's just doing it. They're making Oregon seem like.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more scarier than it really really is.
But I digress. So they're driving, They're in a big
moving truck and all of a sudden, this uh thing
is standing in the middle of the road. Now, me
as a driver, I'm the kind of guy that hits
the brakes. I maybe do a little bit of a
swerve to help kind of stop. That's just the kind
of like method of madness that I found helps. So
I'm trying to break really fast. This guy, I don't
know if he hit the brakes, I'm pretty sure he
hit the gas and he fucking scent it. This many
huge cube van, minivan whatever, it flipped sideways and got
pinned between two trees. I don't know how he did it,
but he did it. So they were stuck up there
and the one friend, dear blind man, I'll call him
deer blind, he thought it'd be a good idea to
open the door. Wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and he just
fell to the ground and that looked painful. Daughter and
Mom crawled up on top of the cube vam and
Dad was still in the seatbelt. And this is now
where it gets really really cool, because when he veered
off the road, there was something right in the middle
of the road that popped up really quick. But you
don't get a good look at it. The next time
you see it. It's when the reflection the side view
mirror of the truck you can see, Okay, this thing
is crawling underneath the truck. But now remember this cube
vam is flipped sideways, so this thing is crawling sideways underneath.
And that's when the door is swung open. You can
see the guy, the dad is looking at the reflection
in the side view mirror. It can see this thing
underneath the cube van crawling along and it's just freaky.
And I love that those are the perspectives that they're
going for and the way they shot it. So when
he closes the door, the wolfman like smashes the glass
and cuts the guy a little bit and he's like, oh,
oh my god and looks down and he sees his
dear blind buddy get dragged off and it's not good
for him. But he crawls out, gets on top of
the cube van and basically it's like, okay, we gotta go.
So he tells his daughter, tells his wife, we got
to go, and so they basically jump off and they're like, okay,
I know where we are. I know where we are, which,
pardon my French fuck, that this guy knows where they are.
He hasn't been here in thirty years. He's like, I know,
this is familiar, this is familiar. I'd be calling out
this guy left, right, and center.
Speaker 2: This is bullshit. I'm not following you. But you know
what else are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You got a creepy ass motherfucker behind you, You got
some unknown beast man tailing you. The daughter doesn't know
what's going on, the mom has no idea what's going on.
So you got to put your faith that this guy
knows what he's talking about, knows where he's going.
Speaker 2: That's my rant.
Speaker 1: They managed to make it, which maybe it's just it's fluke,
but they made it there.
Speaker 2: So they're running, they running, they're running.
Speaker 1: And as they're running out of the tree line into
the clearing and they they're getting closer to the house
behind him, then you see buddy on.
Speaker 2: All fucking fours, just fucking hoofing it. Go on, go on,
go on.
Speaker 1: If this was me in the situation and I saw that,
I would there's untapped adrenaline in my body that I
would channel and it would just be beelining in. The
Next problem is making sure you know which key it
is to unlock that front door because it's got a
little gate and then it's got the door. I don't
know how, but Buddy remembered which key it was, just
as well as he knew exactly where the house was,
because he figured it out, and he got that key
in and opened that door, and they were all inside
while this all fours man was you know, hoofing it left,
right and center to them.
Speaker 2: They got in, they barricaded the door. That was great.
Speaker 1: His arm's not doing too good because he this is
where Okay, we know he's gonna get he's infected. And
this is the part of the movie where I thought, Okay,
he becomes the wolf man, but that's not the case. Well, yes,
he becomes the wolfman, but I thought, Okay, he's gonna
become the main villain of the story, but he's not.
At this point. Really, they're still dealing with this other
wolfman that's STI out there. And I thought, okay, we're
gonna get two wolfmen here. That's kind of a cool,
cool thing. I'm always down for more wolf men instead
of wolf Man. Uh maybe they should have changed the
title of the movie to wolf Men instead of man,
but that'd be a spoiler so this thing is stalking
the shit out of this family.
Speaker 2: Outside.
Speaker 1: It's walking around and it's not looking good. And while
we're spending time inside, we're getting a very cool transition
from the perspective of the dad where he's becoming a
wolfman himself. You start to hear all these like thuds
in the house and he goes upstairs. It's a very long,
intense built up scene, but it's a verse your expectations.
You're thinking the wolfman's inside, but then he just sees
it's a spider, and his senses are getting stronger, stronger
and stronger that he's hearing the spider walking on the wall.
And then it gets to a point and this took
me a while to kind of figure out, but you're
seeing the camera from his point of view as he's
looking at his family. The camera starts to like pan around,
and it's like it goes from glowing a little bit
too much darker, and the voices get a little bit
more muffled. It's not easily understandable English. Then you start
to realize, oh, so this is the perspective of the
dad as he's changing into a wolf man.
Speaker 2: He's got night vision, he.
Speaker 1: Can't understand human language because he's turning into a wolf man.
So there's a very cool transition here that's unfolding, and
things are getting much much worse. And I'd have a
conversation with my wife after about this. War's the line
drawn here. You're stuck inside a house. You know that
your husband or your significant other is not doing well.
Some shit's going down. How many red flags do you
do you look at before you you wave that with
that white flag you know you used to render here.
Speaker 2: The first red flag is okay.
Speaker 1: This guy opens up this old meat vault and just
starts eating this thirty year old jerky. You know, it's jerky,
it's beef jerky. It's probably it's probably still good, but
it's thirty years old, and it was in a very nasty,
ill kept space.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna judge. The guy was going to town
on it. And then a tooth falls out. That's one
red flag. I'd be like, okay, you know that's that's
that's not very good. Cleaned your wound, but you know
you're losing teeth.
Speaker 2: Not great. Second red flag.
Speaker 1: Your eyes are totally fucked up, you're sweating, your hair
is falling out of your head. You're just you can't
understand and you can't speak. You're just gobbly and making
weird noises. You're on the couch, you're passing out. It's
not looking good for you. Then you let your daughter
come in. Your daughter says her little thing and then leaves.
But this is where I would draw the line, and
I'm pretty sure my wife, you know, she dropped the
line here too, depending but the husband and the father,
he gets pissed off because the wife undoes the cloth
bandage around his arm, and the arm.
Speaker 2: Is looking fucked. It's not looking good. You put any sort.
Speaker 1: Of like, oh my god, you don't want to put
what's the what is it called? Oh my god, hydrogen peroxide?
You put any of that on the whole arm is
just gonna melt off. This thing was looking nasty. So
what happens? You know, what's the next red flag? The
dad just like starts like like scratching it and thinking, ah, like,
I started to hold my arms like, god, damn, he's
scratching that shit.
Speaker 2: That's kind of hurt.
Speaker 1: And then he starts like biting it, like ah like,
just eating the fucking thing like crazy I'm thinking, man,
that's the next red flag. If your significant other is
scratching this horrifically disgusting looking alien arm and he starts
eating the alien arm, which is his own arm, then
you gotta start drawing some boundaries here, and you gotta
set some terms, because.
Speaker 2: That's not right.
Speaker 1: The next problem is, Okay, you barely survived this wolf man.
Your husband is more of a wolf, and it was
like fighting the thing off. You get inside the house,
you lock the door, and you look out the window
and you see your husband standing there looking like he's
at the very tail end of the zombie virus, breathing
something fierce.
Speaker 2: Would you open the door? I assure as hell wouldn't.
But what does this woman do?
Speaker 1: She wait, well, she opens the door. She's like, oh,
red flag, I don't see red.
Speaker 2: I'm colorblind.
Speaker 1: So the door opens, and then this guy walks in,
looking absolutely wretched and animalistic as all hell. Ah. That
lasts for a little bit. You get a very heartwarming
scene between her and the uh sorry him, the wolfman
and the daughter. But then he's like, okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna let myself out, and so he lets himself
out and then you this, you know, that is probably
one of the very few jump scares. The wolf man's
there and he's like ah and he jumps in, and
then they get into a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of the battle of the wolves, battle the pack.
Speaker 1: But before we get to all of that stuff, there
was a little bit more of an intense moment where
they got the generator running. Things were developing inside the house,
and as the transformation is really starting to take place,
they figure out there's a getaway plan here. There's an
old truck down by the barn, so they get the keys,
they bring a battery charger, and they basically get that
truck running.
Speaker 2: And I can appreciate this scene.
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't know that this was in the trailer,
and it sucks that they showed it because it was
a very good scene. But that's when the they close
the hood of the truck. She gets inside and the
windshield is super dirty, and she turns the wipers on.
As the wipers go by, you see Buddy's head just
right and they're just drooling some fierce and then he
like reaches through the glass and that was.
Speaker 2: Really really well done.
Speaker 1: Again, you don't see a lot of what's going on
the running out, you see that there's this hairy dude
on top of the hood of the vehicle trying to
like squirre them away. But they climb on top of
the greenhouse, which is all just tarps, I guess, like
sheet plastic, nothing like durable. They pull the ladder up
and so this big guy he's can't get up there.
He's underneath and he's like jumping up and down, slashing
from underneath. And it was very very well done, and
like my wife was telling me, like that would be
a cool thing to put into like a haunted house
where you got to walk over something and this thing's
jumping up trying to get it you.
Speaker 2: They'd be very freaky.
Speaker 1: So the dad this is where the dad jumps off,
runs away and it's gonna like go lure the wolf
man off into the distance that they're gonna go fight.
And this is when the mom and the daughter run back.
Speaker 2: To the house and then we're back at square one.
Speaker 1: They're stuck in there, and that's when zombie dad comes
back and it's like ooh, when they open the door,
let him in. Red flag's going off, but she's colorblinds.
She can't tell h and so when they open, when
he's like, I'll see myself out to keep you guys safe,
he opens the door, and that's when Buddy just jumps
in and they get into a little bit of fight,
and we see, okay, this is where things get interesting
because the dad kills this other wolf man, rips his
thrown out, and then we see, okay, from everyone's point
of view, this guy has tattoos on him. We can
identify him, like, hey, this is our current dad, our
current main character, the boy, the Man, the wolf Man.
It's his dad from the very beginning of the movie.
And so we learned, okay, he didn't actually die. He
went missing out in the woods and they declared him deceased.
But it turns out, okay, he just became a wolf man.
I'm at this point wondering that must mean that there
is an original Wolfman still out there that infected this guy,
and then this guy infected his son, or are we
dealing with this father and got infected, killed that original
wolfman before really started to transition and change over, and
then changed over and became the new wolfman before infecting
his son who's now at the cabin with his family.
It's a little convoluted, but it's up to interpretation, I'd
say at that point, so the yeah, the original wolf
men here dies and the sun is now really starting
to transform and take his place. He goes outside and
he's spit teeth, he's growing canenines. He's turned into the
absolute biggest badst dog of all time. And the wife
and daughter are like, Okay, we need to we need
to get out of here. And so when they're standing inside,
they look out the window and Daddy's back, Daddy Dog.
He's standing outside the window looking in on them, and
it's just very freaky.
Speaker 2: And this is where I.
Speaker 1: Really like the purfrovision stuff, because they're in the living
room walking and they know that he's inside. They could
hear him up on the roof and they could hear
him climb in. So you see them walking. The power
goes out and you see in the moonlight, just faintly
hitting the staircase. You see Buddy do this crazy ass
walk down those stairs, absolutely crazy, and that's when you think,
oh shit, Okay, he's right there, and the cameras are panning.
Speaker 2: Around so you can see his perspective in the dark where.
Speaker 1: He sees them and then it pans back to them
and it's like he's right in front of them, and
he they you know, they can't see it at all
until finally, like the mom looks over to a little
girls and you see daddy dog just crouched in behind her,
like and he.
Speaker 2: Like looks up like ah.
Speaker 1: And that was freaky shit that perspective particularly, but they
get away. They managed to smack him away and run
off to the barn. And when they run off to
the barn, this confused me at first because I didn't
know it was a bear trap until after it sprung.
Speaker 2: But it was very well done. They use themselves as bait.
Speaker 1: They they set up the perspective again where the wolfman
it's you see from his perspective, he's like right in
front of them, face to face, and then it goes
to their perspective and you can't see shit. It's so dark,
but you can hear the wolfman's there.
Speaker 2: It's very freaky.
Speaker 1: The wolfman steps forward, gets caught in the bear trap,
and mom and daughter just be lining it out of there.
And again this is another red flag and I knew
it was coming. We're gonna get the all fours moment
and when when you got a human being crawling at
you on all fours, I'm out. I'm sorry, that's just
some scary shit. I don't I don't like that. That
terrifies me. And so what does Buddy do. He can't
undo the bear trap, so he eats his leg off.
He eats his fucking leg off. And what does he
do after that? You know, I'd say he's on all threes,
but no, he's just using his little nubbly stump and
he's on all fours again, so he's just going for it.
He's chasing after them. It's terrifying. They're running through the woods.
They find deer Blind's firearm from earlier when he was
all chopped liver, and they take the gun and they
managed to get back to the half flipped cube van,
and for whatever reason, I guess, just to get the
high ground. When I look up at the cube van,
you see Daddy Dog like crawling up on top of
the cube van like like growling at them, and then
he like hides back away. So they run off, and
they managed to get to the original deer Blind that
the dad and his son were at at the beginning
of the movie, and you get these same scenes set
up where okay that the breathing the breath of air
like shoots up above the gate, but then you get
the hands reaching over this time just terrifying, and Daddy
Dog like lifts up and.
Speaker 2: The daughter.
Speaker 1: They established that they have a very close relationship, and
they do this thing where the daughter puts his hand
her hands sorry, on his head and can kind of
not really read his mind but just pretend it was
a little cute little thing that they had going for
each other. And basically it's implied, Okay, he's not really
trying to kill them, but he's trying to just he
wants to be killed, and he aggravates the situation because
the escalates it by like pushing the door and shaking it,
and the mom just fires her gun off real quick
and just kills him. But that ends it there. That
basically seals the deal. And I don't know, like, I
don't know how far or where they'd have to go
after this to get out of here. They don't go
back to the house. They just keep walking and they
walk to the point where at the beginning of the movie,
this beautiful view that you get to see. It's where
Daddy Dog and his father were at so I'm not
sure if they're trying to go into the woods and
find a way out that way, they should go back
to the road and walk that way. But I digress.
That's basically the movie in a nutshell, And like I said,
there are some amazing moments in here that I really
really do appreciate. There's probably a couple of things I'm
try and pitch the Golden Geeks when we do Golden
Geeks next year, because this is a next year movie,
twenty twenty five. But yeah, I think I think all
in all was a good time and I would happily
rewatch this again. I have to see if I can
get my dad in to give it a watch. But yeah,
I think it's a step up in the right direction
from You Will Man from twenty ten, and I think
this is hopefully leading us two bigger and brighter things
because I like the idea and the concept behind this
a lot, and it's just very simple, simple, remote, isolated, scary.
The cinematography was great, practical effects were great, and just
the idea behind this simple story it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: It was perfect, didn't need to be anything more than
it was. It was great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's basically it. That's all I
can think of to say for this cast, So yeah,
thank you for tuning in. I will be back later
this week, I'm sure at some point with somebody, and
we'll be talking about some things. So thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, take care and we'll see you. Oh,
I guess I should get my rating first. I'm gonna
give it a eight out of ten, and we'll see
you in the search bar.
Speaker 2: Have a good one.