Speaker 1: Welcome back Midnight You weres to Father Malone's weekly round up,
Speaker 1: the only twenty minute or so podcast, co hosted by
Speaker 1: a pug.
Speaker 2: Yes that is you. They lovely missus Ripley Jean.
Speaker 1: She's got a great pick for tonight from the land
Speaker 1: of classic cinema. I've got a more recent thirty years
Speaker 1: is a recent development, right, thirty years ago?
Speaker 2: Absolutely in my adult brain. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: And we've got a televised recommendation like we do every week. No,
Speaker 1: that's a lie. We didn't have any time for any
Speaker 1: new television series, so it's all cinema all the time.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: It's a three movie week, well, technically a six movie
Speaker 1: week five.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it. It all makes sense when we
Speaker 1: get there.
Speaker 2: So let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's fucking go. Topical topical reference for Deadpool, the Deadpool
Speaker 1: Wolverine movie, I mean, you never heard it being so cool?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: All right there, not so topical reference. Our first choice
Speaker 1: is brand spanking new. You can get it on Peacock
Speaker 1: for free.
Speaker 2: You like high concept.
Speaker 1: I love high concept, even if it's a B or
Speaker 1: C movie trying to pull it off. This is a
Speaker 1: movie about a group of criminals assembled anonymously to kidnap
Speaker 1: a young girl who happens to be a ballerina. They're
Speaker 1: supposed to take her to a rambling old mansion and
Speaker 1: to wait instruction. That's not high concept, Okay. The team
Speaker 1: is fractious at best, so it's going to be a
Speaker 1: high tension thriller as these criminals start chewing off their
Speaker 1: own legs. Except the house locks down and the little
Speaker 1: girl is a vampire. Now you're in high concept. This
Speaker 1: is Abigail. Here's the trailer.
Speaker 2: You all came highly recommended.
Speaker 3: You know the rules.
Speaker 2: No real names, no backstories, no selp us so whose
Speaker 2: kid is she?
Speaker 3: A very wealthy man who's about to be fifty million
Speaker 3: dollars poor?
Speaker 4: I'm here to make sure you're safe. What's your name?
Speaker 3: Mind's Abigail.
Speaker 2: You can call me Joey. Do you have any kids?
Speaker 4: I have a little boy.
Speaker 3: See you in twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Do you know what a pinky promise is? If you
Speaker 2: behave and.
Speaker 4: Do as we say like pinky promise you, I'll be
Speaker 4: over soon.
Speaker 5: Joey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry about what's gonna happen to you?
Speaker 2: What the fuck is we gotta get out of her.
Speaker 2: I think she knows something.
Speaker 4: Guys, guys, Oh yeah, what the fucking that day? We
Speaker 4: can't have a fucking vampire, a ballerina vampire.
Speaker 2: Okay, how do we kill a vampire? What are we
Speaker 2: talking about? Like an ann Rice or a true blood?
Speaker 4: You know Twilight Steak through the Heart Daylight is a
Speaker 4: big one.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go kill us a fucking vampire.
Speaker 4: Right, What can I say?
Speaker 2: I like playing with my fat.
Speaker 4: She's fucking flying.
Speaker 2: I fucking hate ballet.
Speaker 6: Mhm.
Speaker 1: It's got Melissa Brera from the last couple of Scream movies.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durand, who's one of those rare breeds of actor
Speaker 1: the large muscly character actor. He was one of the
Speaker 1: Tremor brothers back in Smoking Aces, and he's the villainous
Speaker 1: chimp in the latest ape movie, Kingdom.
Speaker 2: Of the Apes, I guess.
Speaker 1: Also in the Caster Catherine Newton, Dan Stevens, Giancarlo Esposito,
Speaker 1: and Alicia Weir as the eponymous vampire. On the surface,
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot of from Dustal Dawn criminals suddenly
Speaker 1: uncounter the undead, but it's way less chaotic than that movie,
Speaker 1: and the plot and characters actually ramp up in the
Speaker 1: second half of this movie. I don't think there's as
Speaker 1: much gore, but the gore here is way more effective.
Speaker 1: It's a measured film. It's far less happens dance, even
Speaker 1: if the production design is fantastic. The mansion that they're
Speaker 1: trapped in is straight out of dark shadows, and the
Speaker 1: vampire stuff is a brutal I love scary vampires and
Speaker 1: miss scary vampires. They got too sexy during the nineties.
Speaker 1: Like now they're all just sad people who want to die,
Speaker 1: Like I want this feral creature who wants to rip
Speaker 1: your throat out. We get that here, and we also
Speaker 1: get a bit of cool lore building where the sort
Speaker 1: of main vampire every vampire she turns, she can kind
Speaker 1: of marry in at them.
Speaker 2: That's really cool. There are some good twists along the way.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to reveal them here, but
Speaker 1: I will say that the film does slow down at
Speaker 1: one part for two characters to dance a ballet to
Speaker 1: the misfits. I don't know if I can recommend this movie.
Speaker 1: Annie Hier now Abigail again. It's on Peacock Ballerina Vampire,
Speaker 1: What are you waiting for Oh, you want to do yours?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about the fine? I'll go okay,
Speaker 1: Abigail wants the new one, So let's go back to
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven and nineteen ninety four and twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four for that matter. This week I relinquished all of
Speaker 1: my daytime credentials and joined the night Watch. Now this
Speaker 1: isn't that Russian supernatural film from around two thousand and
Speaker 1: it's Weirdo sequel day one. We'll probably get to those
Speaker 1: at some point, but we're talking about the Ewan McGregor,
Speaker 1: Josh Brolin, Patricia Aren't, Can't, Nick Nulty, John c Riley
Speaker 1: and Brad Durriff horror Flick.
Speaker 2: I think the.
Speaker 5: Best attitude to take is that you'll have plenty of
Speaker 5: quiet time for studying, assuming the idea of it doesn't
Speaker 5: bother you. Some people it bothers.
Speaker 4: So I'll be alone here at night.
Speaker 5: They tell you, well, some time of avidance or the
Speaker 5: police comes in, but apart from.
Speaker 2: That, it's just you.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 5: Martin Bells was a full time student who needed a
Speaker 5: nighttime job.
Speaker 2: How could you give away all your nights without talking
Speaker 2: to me? For first test, I'm testing myself you don't
Speaker 2: think it's weird.
Speaker 5: I know, pretty high tolerance that sort of thing. But
Speaker 5: he just accepted the wrong one.
Speaker 6: Seventeen year old girl was found dead this evening, the
Speaker 6: third in as many weeks, and it's sixth in the
Speaker 6: last two months.
Speaker 5: I saw her in the hallways, no inspecting Bill Davison,
Speaker 5: watchman Martin Bells a series of murders. When you're dead,
Speaker 5: you're dad.
Speaker 3: When differences were what someone those.
Speaker 5: Who have invaded his life.
Speaker 3: I have interrogated murders like this one before.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you they are well beyond the need
Speaker 5: to justify what they do. They just do it in
Speaker 5: the mind of the police.
Speaker 2: Tell me, Martin, you did your rhyns last night?
Speaker 5: Of course, why I'm got to see a dead girl
Speaker 5: by the doctor tells me you're the only one that's
Speaker 5: been in there. He's the prime suspect.
Speaker 2: They know who it is. They have a suspect. It's me, boy,
Speaker 2: they got.
Speaker 5: The wrong guy.
Speaker 6: He didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Martin is not a murderer. I think someone's trying to
Speaker 2: frame him.
Speaker 5: Martin, That's just what I think it is.
Speaker 4: And there's someone very dangerous standing right behind you in
Speaker 4: the dark.
Speaker 3: Breathing down here and there.
Speaker 5: And in the eyes of a killer, Please the next victim.
Speaker 5: Julian McGregor, Becricia Arquet, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolty.
Speaker 3: I'm coming something, Martin.
Speaker 5: Are you still going to maintain your innocence? Night Watch?
Speaker 2: I have a weird history with this film, Mack.
Speaker 1: In ninety six, I was a projectionist in a theater
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica and we used to have odd screenings
Speaker 1: from time to time, a lot of short films, usually
Speaker 1: in November and December. They would play early in the morning.
Speaker 1: We would technically be open and selling tickets, but there
Speaker 1: was no advertising at all, and really people didn't even know.
Speaker 2: What were open.
Speaker 1: But those were so the short films can all qualify
Speaker 1: for Academy Award consideration. I must have seen hundreds of
Speaker 1: short films, none of them good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was rare.
Speaker 1: Anyway, One year we were doing the AFM, which is
Speaker 1: the American Film Market that's where independent features screened their
Speaker 1: films in the hopes of picking up a distributor. Two
Speaker 1: things happened at this particular marketplace. The contact man from
Speaker 1: A and M Fella named Mike. He ended up teaching
Speaker 1: me how to surf. Here's the typical conversation between him. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: could you tell me some surfer terms?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you want to know? What's a grammy?
Speaker 2: A grammy? Ah? Man, that's like a kook. You know
Speaker 2: you dig? I did not dig.
Speaker 1: The other takeaway was being knocked out by this film
Speaker 1: night Watch.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I've had a vast
Speaker 1: array of careers over the years, and I always tend,
Speaker 1: whenever possible to take the most solitary position available. So
Speaker 1: the prospect of a night watchman at a morgue that
Speaker 1: seems pretty tantalizing to me, which is the premise of
Speaker 1: the film. Ewan McGregor, doing his worst American accent, stars
Speaker 1: as Martin, a college student who's using the lonely nights
Speaker 1: at the morgue to study. If only there weren't a
Speaker 1: serial killer on the loose with a pension for necrophilia.
Speaker 1: The film debuted sort of been that nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: This was the way of serial killing was cresting in
Speaker 1: popular entertainment, So this one kind of got lost in
Speaker 1: the shuffle, which is a drag. It was directed by
Speaker 1: Ole Bornidal. This night Watch is actually a remake of
Speaker 1: a film from nineteen ninety four from Denmark also called Nightwatch,
Speaker 1: also directed by Ole Bornidal. When it came to americanized
Speaker 1: his film, he said, fuck it, I'll do it myself,
Speaker 1: although he is rather ably assisted by a screenplay co
Speaker 1: authored by Steven Soderberg for the American version. Now, I
Speaker 1: had never watched the original, so I figured, what the hell,
Speaker 1: let's do it this week. And for once, I gotta say, well,
Speaker 1: not once, maybe the fourth or fifth time. I like
Speaker 1: the remake a lot more than I like the original.
Speaker 1: The only real selling point the story is similar, the
Speaker 1: Shaw choices are similar, except the American ones seemed a
Speaker 1: bit harder edged and a little bit more attuned to terror.
Speaker 1: But what the original Danish film has and why I'm
Speaker 1: recommending it as well, is a lead performance by Nikolai
Speaker 1: Walder Costo.
Speaker 2: No, that's not right.
Speaker 1: Nikolai Costa Waldau is Jamie Lanister on They run a
Speaker 1: game of Thrones, and it is absolutely shocking to see
Speaker 1: him so young here. And if you're interested, he is
Speaker 1: very casually, full frontally nude for a portion of the film.
Speaker 1: But it's the American film you want to see. It's
Speaker 1: the film that made me realize that Josh Brolin is
Speaker 1: more than a goony. And how can anyone have a
Speaker 1: bad time watching two hours with Patricia Arquette on screen?
Speaker 1: She truly rests at the top of the Arquette pyramid,
Speaker 1: and despite the accent, McGregor is really solid here. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: a sequel to night Watch came out of this year
Speaker 1: and it's available. You can see it right now. It
Speaker 1: is also directed by Ole Bornidal and it is actually
Speaker 1: a sequel to the Danish film So Nikola I Will
Speaker 1: Nikolai Costa Valdo is back of Actually most of the
Speaker 1: cast is back, and this one is centering on the
Speaker 1: lead character's daughter. It's called night Watch Demons Are Forever,
Speaker 1: and it's on Shutter. The original of the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four one that is also on Shutter, but the one
Speaker 1: I'm recommending, the American one, the one that I'm telling
Speaker 1: you was the really good one, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to watch the other ones. Well you'll have to pay
Speaker 1: for that, I'm sorry, but it's only like three bucks.
Speaker 1: What's your choice? It better be free. Yeah, Hulu counts,
Speaker 1: you know what? Speaking of Lulu actually speaking to Hulu. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how you doing. You do know that our long stand
Speaker 1: up special filmed on video is not a movie, right.
Speaker 1: It's weird because every time I go searching through movies,
Speaker 1: new movies, it's a thousand stand up specials.
Speaker 2: It's not a movie. Are you listening to me? You
Speaker 2: hear what I'm saying. It's not a movie anyway. Here's
Speaker 2: the trailer for Ripley's pick.
Speaker 3: It's the kind of house they don't build anymore, the
Speaker 3: relic of a time when the world wasn't in such
Speaker 3: a hurry, when there was still time for a little
Speaker 3: charm and elegance. It has stood empty a long while,
Speaker 3: and at the price it is a bargain or a
Speaker 3: growing young family. It is almost too good to be true.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 3: James Brolin, Margo Kidder, Rudsteiger in the Amityville Horror, God's
Speaker 3: Peace in this house out along Kathy.
Speaker 6: Father Delaney.
Speaker 3: There is something very important.
Speaker 6: Were go.
Speaker 2: Money, want from us, Let's go up.
Speaker 3: We have to do something.
Speaker 6: I'm coming apart, Oh many a cad I'm coming apart.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight days after the Lutz family moved into their
Speaker 3: dream house, they were running for their lives. What happened
Speaker 3: to them is an experience in terror. You will never forget,
Speaker 3: and you will believe in the Amityville Horror. From the
Speaker 3: best selling book that made millions believe in the unbelievable,
Speaker 3: the Amityville Horror.
Speaker 2: The Amityville Horror. What possessed you?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 2: Come on? But seriously, what possessed you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: I got too much? Josh not enough? James gotcha well?
Speaker 1: James Brolin is front and center and all of his
Speaker 1: permed glory. This is the entirely fabricated true story of
Speaker 1: the Lutzes who bought a murder house on Long Island
Speaker 1: in the early seventies, got turned around on the mortgage,
Speaker 1: cried ghost, and got a book deal. The whole case
Speaker 1: might have been bullshit, but I love the movie. In
Speaker 1: his nonfiction ode to Horror Dance Macabs, Stephen King referred
Speaker 1: to the site of Margot Kidder topless and wearing leg
Speaker 1: warmers as quote not too tacky unquote, to which I say,
Speaker 1: long live the tacky. It's a movie striving at every
Speaker 1: opportunity to go over the top, and I mean way over,
Speaker 1: like you know orbit, But because the filmmaker Stuart Rosenberg
Speaker 1: has a monoicum of restraint James Brolin and Ron Steiger
Speaker 1: pick up that overwrought ball and they fucking run with it.
Speaker 1: Not just to the end zone, either, They're sprinting down
Speaker 1: the hallways, out the exit, and further down the street.
Speaker 1: We can't even see them anymore. There have been dozens
Speaker 1: of sequels to this, and a couple of remakes and
Speaker 1: some documentaries. The only two you need to see are this,
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy nine original, and the episode of In
Speaker 1: Search Of with Leonard Nimoy that actually scared me more
Speaker 1: than the movie as a kid. I'm making it sound
Speaker 1: bad if you haven't seen it, so let me reiterate.
Speaker 2: I love this fucking movie.
Speaker 1: I love the freaky red eyes outside the window. I
Speaker 1: love the black goo that's under the stairs. I love
Speaker 1: that woman who gets possessed and yells it's.
Speaker 2: A dope way to hell.
Speaker 1: That and it's a movie that always makes an audience
Speaker 1: member ask the question why are you going back for
Speaker 1: the dog? Because it's a member of the family insensitive
Speaker 1: prick And this movie manages to predict the future, at
Speaker 1: least advertise it. Listen to this advertisement for a movie
Speaker 1: that came out thirty five years later. Jordan Peel's Academy
Speaker 1: Award winner. If that doesn't say it, I don't know
Speaker 1: what will. The Amityville Horror is a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Fun is kind of at the top of it. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say these are great performances, but they
Speaker 1: are certainly fun. I'm just gonna keep saying fun because
Speaker 1: if you go in with that attitude, you're gonna love
Speaker 1: the hell out of the movie. It's from nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Amityville Horror. It's available on Max Streaming right now. Wow,
Speaker 1: we went all the way with horror this week. I
Speaker 1: love it, and I think that's gonna wrap it up
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Speaker 1: We're going to have a very special crossover episode with
Speaker 1: Paul Waller, the host of a Year in Horror podcast.
Speaker 1: We are sitting down to take a look at the
Speaker 1: lonesome death of Jordie Verel specifically and creep Show in general.
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