Speaker 1: There's never a case in which I would take a
Speaker 1: job at a place that exclusively serves rich people, because
Speaker 1: odds are they're a devil worshiping cult, which means that
Speaker 1: they will kill you. I'm Ronald, Young Junior, and I'm
Speaker 1: leaving the theater.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: This is Ronald, and I am leaving the theater after seeing.
Speaker 2: They will kill you. They will kill you.
Speaker 1: Written by Carol Sokoloff and Alex Litvak, Directed by Carol Sokoloff,
Speaker 1: starring Zazzie Bates, Mahala Patterson, Joseph tom Felton, Heather Graham,
Speaker 1: and Patricia Arquette, and as usual, for complete listing of
Speaker 1: the cast and crew, you can go to the link
Speaker 1: in our show notes. It is just me, your boy,
Speaker 1: Big Ronald, Today, They Will Kill You follows the story
Speaker 1: of two sisters, one of them older, played by Zazi Bates,
Speaker 1: the other younger, played by Mahaala from Industry. They endured
Speaker 1: abusive childhood. In trying to escape, they are separated for
Speaker 1: ten years until Zazi discovers that her sister is being
Speaker 1: held captive by what amounts to be a satanic cult
Speaker 1: of rich people who, in order to keep their immortality,
Speaker 1: engage in regular human sacrifices. Based on what I just said,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're listening to this being like Ronald, why
Speaker 1: would you watch this? And the answer to that is
Speaker 1: because I thought this was going to be a much
Speaker 1: different movie than it turned out to be. I thought
Speaker 1: this was going to be a fun romp of killing
Speaker 1: a bunch of Satan worshiping rich people.
Speaker 2: Until the end.
Speaker 1: And while there are aspects of that in the movie,
Speaker 1: and there are swaths of the movie which are indeed that,
Speaker 1: there are others whts of the movie that are not that.
Speaker 2: Indeed.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me just start off by saying
Speaker 1: this movie is it starts off a lot scarier than
Speaker 1: I would like. I'm not really a big fan of
Speaker 1: very scary movies or movies that are two tents, unless
Speaker 1: they're doing it the way Weapons did, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew when to close my eyes, and it was
Speaker 1: enough mystery that I stayed for the terror, if you will.
Speaker 1: Whereas this starts off in a way where I just
Speaker 1: felt uncomfortable for maybe the first ten to fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of the movie until they got to more of the
Speaker 1: actual lights are on.
Speaker 2: Let's kill some bad guys. Scenes.
Speaker 1: This movie really revels in the big killings and the
Speaker 1: big beheadings. It's almost killed bill level of gore in
Speaker 1: some cases. If you don't like gore, you probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: see this movie because it does gore, and it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily it's comical gore. It's more like Sam Raimi air
Speaker 1: quote fun gore. But if that's not your thing, know
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of it in this movie. And
Speaker 1: it starts early. Blood doesn't spill its sprays, which, again,
Speaker 1: if that's not your thing, this is probably not the
Speaker 1: movie for you. To be honest with you, this review
Speaker 1: for some of you should be as close as you
Speaker 1: get to this movie.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I say that with a deep sense of regret because
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed seeing Mahala, which they didn't give enough
Speaker 1: to do. I don't think and Zazzi bates together. I
Speaker 1: love seeing them together their sisters. I'd love to see
Speaker 1: a movie where they get to be more sisterly and
Speaker 1: do more fun going on a rampage killing stuff. If
Speaker 1: there's a sequel, I'd love to see the two of
Speaker 1: them tearing through a Satanic cult in the name of
Speaker 1: socialism or communism or something. I just I would love
Speaker 1: to see that, but that's not really what we get
Speaker 1: to see. What we get to see here is Zazzi
Speaker 1: Bates just kicking butt all over the film. Just get
Speaker 1: in there, taking names, kicking butt. But the parts that
Speaker 1: I don't like are the satanic elements. They keep referring
Speaker 1: to the devil as Lord. That's not my thing, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all know me, y'all know what I stand for.
Speaker 2: Y'all. No, I'm not down with that. And there's like
Speaker 2: several parts, and then there's the the.
Speaker 1: Cult people are all in pig masks, which I didn't
Speaker 1: understand until one portion where the devil shows up and
Speaker 1: it is personified through a pig's head, and when the
Speaker 1: pig wakes up with the devil inside it, just ahead, y'all.
Speaker 1: It says the unclean spirit entered the swine, which is
Speaker 1: a reference from a time that Jesus in the Bible
Speaker 1: cast out a legion of demons from a man that
Speaker 1: entered or heard of swine, which then ran off a
Speaker 1: cliff and killed themselves. The reason why I'm saying this
Speaker 1: is because they heard that story and said, hey, let's
Speaker 1: make this into a cool movie.
Speaker 2: Bit.
Speaker 1: So now we got to watch a bunch of pigs
Speaker 1: in the movie be embodied by demons, which.
Speaker 2: Not for Ronald, you know what I mean, not for Ronald.
Speaker 1: Like by the time we got to that part in
Speaker 1: the movie, I heard in my head my mom's voice saying,
Speaker 1: what are we watching? And I agree, what are we watching?
Speaker 1: I had no idea, and it's not so bad. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to creep me out. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna think about it later. I'm definitely gonna forget about
Speaker 1: this movie. It's only ninety minutes long and there's not
Speaker 1: much story to tell here. Woman goes into cult under
Speaker 1: the guise of being a maid and tries to escape
Speaker 1: with her sister. That's the movie, So it's not gonna
Speaker 1: stick with me. There's not like symbolism in there that's
Speaker 1: making me gonna freak me out later. My dad always
Speaker 1: says in his sermons, don't play pity pat with the devil.
Speaker 1: I eat you, don't play games with the devil. This
Speaker 1: movie is playing a lot of pity pat with the devil.
Speaker 1: And I'm just no, not my thing. But that being
Speaker 1: said again, Zazzie Bates clocked in Mahala clocked in should
Speaker 1: have been given more to do, but clocked in. Tom
Speaker 1: Felton aka old Boy with the from from the movie series.
Speaker 1: In the book series, you're saying his name right now,
Speaker 1: You're saying you're saying his name right now. He's a
Speaker 1: Slytherin h he always says pata like that. Anyway, that guy,
Speaker 1: he's in it. And Patricia Arquette, Patricia Arquette is brilliant
Speaker 1: in this movie. Well I'm saying she's brilliant in this movie. No,
Speaker 1: Patricia Arquette is just brilliant. I don't think she's any
Speaker 1: more particularly brilliant in this film than she is in
Speaker 1: everything else she's in. But she certainly brings her Patricia
Speaker 1: arquetteiz to this film, which is good.
Speaker 2: I believe her in the role that she's in.
Speaker 1: She's kind of the chief of staff for the cult,
Speaker 1: if you will.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it's not a bad movie.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to watch it again, which I
Speaker 1: know typically and I've been a little bit loose recently
Speaker 1: with what.
Speaker 2: I watch it again? What does that make it as
Speaker 2: a rating? For some people? This movie is gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's enough fun to justify its existence.
Speaker 1: But it's also only an hour and thirty minutes, so
Speaker 1: it certainly is something to watch. This is one of
Speaker 1: those congratulations on your theater run. Maybe this just goes
Speaker 1: straight streaming. You're not gonna make a bunch of money
Speaker 1: in theaters.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So at this point you kind of say, well, what
Speaker 1: is the best that studios can hope for?
Speaker 2: I don't really know. To be honest with you, I
Speaker 2: don't really know.
Speaker 1: With all that being said, I think this movie falls
Speaker 1: right around three stars. It could go as high as
Speaker 1: three point twenty five. It could go as low as
Speaker 1: two point nine to nine. I'm not gonna see it again.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I'm giving you all that range
Speaker 1: because at its best it's an above average movie.
Speaker 2: But at its worse, it's like, man, I don't really
Speaker 2: want to watch it again. I forgot about it. That's
Speaker 2: two point ninet nine.
Speaker 1: But again, I love Zazzie Bates and I love my Halla,
Speaker 1: I love Patricia Arcuatt, and they all did a great
Speaker 1: job in this film. Heather Graham is even a lot
Speaker 1: of fun in this film. It was it was nice
Speaker 1: to see her and I hope she gets more big
Speaker 1: movie roles after this. I'd love to see more of her,
Speaker 1: but other than that, it's just fine, So I'll we'll
Speaker 1: leave it at three stars. Just remember the range. It's
Speaker 1: as good as three point twenty five, as bad as
Speaker 1: two point nine to nine. There's a version of this
Speaker 1: movie that's even better, and that's a cult classic, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it rises quite to that level. And
Speaker 1: also it falls in with I would say it's sister
Speaker 1: movie Ready or Not and Ready or Not to either
Speaker 1: just came out or is about to come out, and
Speaker 1: which is again about a pair of sisters against a
Speaker 1: Satan worshiping group of rich people. So it's not an
Speaker 1: original idea. I'm not sure how both of these got made.
Speaker 1: It actually seems wild that both of these got made,
Speaker 1: and that one of them had a sequel, which leads
Speaker 1: me to believe that if they Will Kill You does
Speaker 1: well enough, then maybe we'll also get a sequel. But
Speaker 1: I don't see how it could. When Ready or Not
Speaker 1: and Ready or Not Too are available for people to watch,
Speaker 1: so why wouldn't they rather watch that? I understand what
Speaker 1: these directors and writers are doing by putting poor people
Speaker 1: against rich people, but give me more of that. I
Speaker 1: don't need to see too much of the origin stories.
Speaker 1: Just get the poor people up here killing the rich
Speaker 1: people and let's call it a day. But it seems
Speaker 1: to be they go a little further than they should
Speaker 1: in most cases.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm not.
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