Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast
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Speaker 2: After a lifelong love affair with horror films, Jesse Nelson
Speaker 2: co founded the Philadelphia based repertory film group Exhumed Films,
Speaker 2: appropriately named, which then sprawled into his male Order Blu
Speaker 2: Ray Company Diabolic DVD. And he's here now to go
Speaker 2: over a list of his underrated and unknown horror movies.
Speaker 2: I do you for Halloween? Happy Halloween, Jesse Nelson of
Speaker 2: Diabolic DVD.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right back to you. My favorite time of year.
Speaker 2: Mine. Hearkens back to a nineteen forty seven film that
Speaker 2: I first saw when I was maybe five. I don't
Speaker 2: know why I was watching this film alone with no
Speaker 2: parents around on a Sunday afternoon, but it was the
Speaker 2: old black and white Peter Lourie in the Beast with
Speaker 2: Five Fingers. Do you know of that film? The great
Speaker 2: one was the I ever saw.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think a lot of us of a certain
Speaker 3: age remember very fondly watching horror movies, either in the
Speaker 3: middle of the afternoon or late at night, and have
Speaker 3: very fond memories of being creeped out. I think that's
Speaker 3: lost these days. But but something I remember very fondly.
Speaker 2: This was at the birth of cable television, so there
Speaker 2: wasn't a lot on. You know, you'd have these scrolling
Speaker 2: these scrolling advertisements and scrolling weather reports, and about every
Speaker 2: third channel there might be something. And then there was
Speaker 2: this old black and white and I thought, well, okay,
Speaker 2: this is as good as it is going to get,
Speaker 2: and I sat down and watched it. But we've got
Speaker 2: a whole list here from from your library of some
Speaker 2: of the best movies to curl up with this Halloween.
Speaker 2: So let's start with the list. And I don't guess
Speaker 2: this is in any particular order.
Speaker 3: No, I made the list up. I actually made it
Speaker 3: up over a couple of weeks while I was thinking
Speaker 3: about movies and packing people's orders, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is perfect for my list.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's well, I told you when it started
Speaker 2: for me, When did it start for you? Your love
Speaker 2: of movie?
Speaker 3: You know, My love of movies goes back forever. My
Speaker 3: mom tells me that she took me to see American
Speaker 3: Graffiti about twenty times in the movie theater when I
Speaker 3: was a toddler, that I kept insisting to go see
Speaker 3: American Graffiti, which actually is a good segue into the
Speaker 3: first movie on the list, which is Messiah of Evil
Speaker 3: that is made by the people that went on to
Speaker 3: write American Graffiti and Indiana Jones at the Table of
Speaker 3: Doom and The Unfortunate Howard the Duck movie. But they
Speaker 3: started out with this Messiah of Evil that is a
Speaker 3: story of a woman who goes looking for her father
Speaker 3: in this creepy coastal town and literal, instead of maybe
Speaker 3: a ghost town, you would call it a zombie town
Speaker 3: where everyone is just kind of floating around and being
Speaker 3: odd and you never really know what's going on. It's
Speaker 3: so disorienting and creepy. Just a terrific movie.
Speaker 2: Kind of like when the music stops an American Graffiti
Speaker 2: and they're in the woods. I have a little doubt
Speaker 2: I was a great I still am a great fan
Speaker 2: of American Graffiti. I think I saw it when I
Speaker 2: was eight and fell in love with the relationship between
Speaker 2: Wolfman Jack and all of the characters in the movie.
Speaker 2: That's when I mean, I already knew at that age
Speaker 2: that I wanted to do what I'm doing here right now,
Speaker 2: but that sealed the deal. And that's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons I go back and watch that movie again and
Speaker 2: again and again because I wanted to be that I
Speaker 2: wanted to be the soundtrack of everybody else's life.
Speaker 3: It is. It is one of the great American movies
Speaker 3: of the seventies.
Speaker 2: But we're talking to our good friend Jesse Nelson, who
Speaker 2: is the founder of Exhoomed Films and Diabolic DVD, about
Speaker 2: some of the best horror movies. Black Coats Daughter from
Speaker 2: twenty to fifteen.
Speaker 3: It's great. They there's been so much press this year
Speaker 3: about Long Legs. It's a great movie. It's creepy. But
Speaker 3: the director Osgood Perkins, who is a former actor and
Speaker 3: also son of Anthony Perkins from Psycho. Although it's a
Speaker 3: discredit to you know, I don't always like to tell
Speaker 3: people that because he is a career on his own
Speaker 3: here making really great horror movies. Black Coach's Daughter was
Speaker 3: his first and it is the story of some girls
Speaker 3: that are staying at their boarding school over the Christmas
Speaker 3: holidays and sinister things are going on. It's it's really
Speaker 3: kind of underseen. And when Long Legs came out at
Speaker 3: the business here, I overstocked this movie because everybody wanted
Speaker 3: to go back and take a look at it, and
Speaker 3: I think it stands up if you like long legs.
Speaker 3: I think Black Coop's daughter kind of exists in that
Speaker 3: same universe.
Speaker 2: One you're gonna have a hard time finding Midnight Hour.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't find it on physical media, it's just
Speaker 3: not available, but you can find it on YouTube, and
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure there's some original broadcast recordings of it,
Speaker 3: so you can go and watch it with all those
Speaker 3: original commercials from when it was originally on. Because it
Speaker 3: was a TV movie, you know, that's an extra bonus.
Speaker 3: But it's such a fun movie and takes place on Halloween,
Speaker 3: which is a triple bonus this time of year.
Speaker 2: I noticed a lot of these films you've listed, and
Speaker 2: this is a Diabolic DVD's a list of the best
Speaker 2: Halloween movies. Jesse Nelson is the founder. A lot of
Speaker 2: these are not necessarily slasher films.
Speaker 3: No. I love a good slasher movie. I've there's no
Speaker 3: doubt that I've seen eighty percent of the slasher movies
Speaker 3: that exist from the seventies and eighties. But I like
Speaker 3: things that are a little creepier, with a little more
Speaker 3: sense of dread. I also like things that you know,
Speaker 3: maybe skew to a little off the wall too, like
Speaker 3: maybe have a little bit of humor in them.
Speaker 2: I also notice you don't have a lot of the
Speaker 2: creepy black and white nineteen sixties film except Burn, Witch Burn, Burn.
Speaker 3: Witch Burn. It's also known as Knight of the Eagle,
Speaker 3: but it's recently been reissued on a beautiful blu ray.
Speaker 3: It is such a good movie. It is. It is
Speaker 3: so creepy, and it's written by Charles Beaumont and Richard
Speaker 3: mathe and Mathison who wrote a lot of the original
Speaker 3: Twilight Zone episodes, and in particular Richard Matheson also wrote
Speaker 3: the famous zombie book I Am Legend.
Speaker 2: And these are unrated unknown horror movies ideal for Halloween
Speaker 2: from Jesse Nelson and Diabolic DVD. Let's talk about Suspiriy.
Speaker 2: Is it Suspiria or Suspiria.
Speaker 3: It's Suspiria. Terrific movie. When when they announced that this
Speaker 3: was being remade, the originals a considered maybe one of
Speaker 3: the greatest Italian horror movies, especially one of the greatest
Speaker 3: of the seventies. Terrific soundtrack, this beautiful color palette, this
Speaker 3: creepy story, of a woman who goes to a dance
Speaker 3: academy that turns out to be a coven of witches.
Speaker 3: When they announced that this was going to be remade,
Speaker 3: everyone kind of threw their arms in the air and said, no,
Speaker 3: you can't remake this movie. It's the best. But they
Speaker 3: really went in there and kind of turned the whole
Speaker 3: thing on its head and picked out different themes that
Speaker 3: weren't explored in the original and took some different ideas
Speaker 3: and made it this really incredible and interesting movie. That
Speaker 3: is it better than the original, No, but it definitely
Speaker 3: stands alongside of it because it offers a lot of
Speaker 3: new things to the viewer, especially viewers that are fans
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 2: Original, and you'll see some familiar faces to Coda Johnson,
Speaker 2: Tilda Swinson, Chloe Grace more Ritz doing something that you're
Speaker 2: not used to seeing them do act in a horror movie.
Speaker 2: Underrated unknown horror movies ideal for Halloween from Jesse Nelson
Speaker 2: at Diabolica Dvd. There's one on this list for you.
Speaker 2: Where can people find out more?
Speaker 3: At diabolic dvd dot com. We have all these movies
Speaker 3: for sale and literally ten thousand others. I run the
Speaker 3: daily operations of the business, so I'm always available on
Speaker 3: social media, by email, I engage with customers every day.
Speaker 2: And we thank you for joining us. Happy Halloween, Thank
Speaker 2: you right back at you.
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