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<v Speaker 1>This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast

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<v Speaker 1>More What You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.

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<v Speaker 2>After a lifelong love affair with horror films, Jesse Nelson

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<v Speaker 2>co founded the Philadelphia based repertory film group Exhumed Films,

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<v Speaker 2>appropriately named, which then sprawled into his male Order Blu

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<v Speaker 2>Ray Company Diabolic DVD. And he's here now to go

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<v Speaker 2>over a list of his underrated and unknown horror movies.

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<v Speaker 2>I do you for Halloween? Happy Halloween, Jesse Nelson of

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<v Speaker 2>Diabolic DVD.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, right back to you. My favorite time of year.

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<v Speaker 2>Mine. Hearkens back to a nineteen forty seven film that

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<v Speaker 2>I first saw when I was maybe five. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know why I was watching this film alone with no

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<v Speaker 2>parents around on a Sunday afternoon, but it was the

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<v Speaker 2>old black and white Peter Lourie in the Beast with

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<v Speaker 2>Five Fingers. Do you know of that film? The great

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<v Speaker 2>one was the I ever saw.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I think a lot of us of a certain

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<v Speaker 3>age remember very fondly watching horror movies, either in the

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<v Speaker 3>middle of the afternoon or late at night, and have

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<v Speaker 3>very fond memories of being creeped out. I think that's

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<v Speaker 3>lost these days. But but something I remember very fondly.

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<v Speaker 2>This was at the birth of cable television, so there

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't a lot on. You know, you'd have these scrolling

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<v Speaker 2>these scrolling advertisements and scrolling weather reports, and about every

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<v Speaker 2>third channel there might be something. And then there was

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<v Speaker 2>this old black and white and I thought, well, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>this is as good as it is going to get,

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<v Speaker 2>and I sat down and watched it. But we've got

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<v Speaker 2>a whole list here from from your library of some

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<v Speaker 2>of the best movies to curl up with this Halloween.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's start with the list. And I don't guess

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<v Speaker 2>this is in any particular order.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I made the list up. I actually made it

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<v Speaker 3>up over a couple of weeks while I was thinking

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<v Speaker 3>about movies and packing people's orders, and I was like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>this is perfect for my list.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, and let's well, I told you when it started

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<v Speaker 2>for me, When did it start for you? Your love

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<v Speaker 2>of movie?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, My love of movies goes back forever. My

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<v Speaker 3>mom tells me that she took me to see American

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<v Speaker 3>Graffiti about twenty times in the movie theater when I

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<v Speaker 3>was a toddler, that I kept insisting to go see

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<v Speaker 3>American Graffiti, which actually is a good segue into the

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<v Speaker 3>first movie on the list, which is Messiah of Evil

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<v Speaker 3>that is made by the people that went on to

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<v Speaker 3>write American Graffiti and Indiana Jones at the Table of

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<v Speaker 3>Doom and The Unfortunate Howard the Duck movie. But they

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<v Speaker 3>started out with this Messiah of Evil that is a

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<v Speaker 3>story of a woman who goes looking for her father

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<v Speaker 3>in this creepy coastal town and literal, instead of maybe

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<v Speaker 3>a ghost town, you would call it a zombie town

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<v Speaker 3>where everyone is just kind of floating around and being

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<v Speaker 3>odd and you never really know what's going on. It's

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<v Speaker 3>so disorienting and creepy. Just a terrific movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Kind of like when the music stops an American Graffiti

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<v Speaker 2>and they're in the woods. I have a little doubt

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<v Speaker 2>I was a great I still am a great fan

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<v Speaker 2>of American Graffiti. I think I saw it when I

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<v Speaker 2>was eight and fell in love with the relationship between

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<v Speaker 2>Wolfman Jack and all of the characters in the movie.

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<v Speaker 2>That's when I mean, I already knew at that age

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<v Speaker 2>that I wanted to do what I'm doing here right now,

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<v Speaker 2>but that sealed the deal. And that's one of the

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<v Speaker 2>reasons I go back and watch that movie again and

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<v Speaker 2>again and again because I wanted to be that I

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be the soundtrack of everybody else's life.

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<v Speaker 3>It is. It is one of the great American movies

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<v Speaker 3>of the seventies.

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<v Speaker 2>But we're talking to our good friend Jesse Nelson, who

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<v Speaker 2>is the founder of Exhoomed Films and Diabolic DVD, about

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<v Speaker 2>some of the best horror movies. Black Coats Daughter from

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<v Speaker 2>twenty to fifteen.

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<v Speaker 3>It's great. They there's been so much press this year

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<v Speaker 3>about Long Legs. It's a great movie. It's creepy. But

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<v Speaker 3>the director Osgood Perkins, who is a former actor and

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<v Speaker 3>also son of Anthony Perkins from Psycho. Although it's a

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<v Speaker 3>discredit to you know, I don't always like to tell

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<v Speaker 3>people that because he is a career on his own

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<v Speaker 3>here making really great horror movies. Black Coach's Daughter was

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<v Speaker 3>his first and it is the story of some girls

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<v Speaker 3>that are staying at their boarding school over the Christmas

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<v Speaker 3>holidays and sinister things are going on. It's it's really

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<v Speaker 3>kind of underseen. And when Long Legs came out at

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<v Speaker 3>the business here, I overstocked this movie because everybody wanted

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<v Speaker 3>to go back and take a look at it, and

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<v Speaker 3>I think it stands up if you like long legs.

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<v Speaker 3>I think Black Coop's daughter kind of exists in that

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<v Speaker 3>same universe.

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<v Speaker 2>One you're gonna have a hard time finding Midnight Hour.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, you can't find it on physical media, it's just

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<v Speaker 3>not available, but you can find it on YouTube, and

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<v Speaker 3>I'm pretty sure there's some original broadcast recordings of it,

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<v Speaker 3>so you can go and watch it with all those

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<v Speaker 3>original commercials from when it was originally on. Because it

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<v Speaker 3>was a TV movie, you know, that's an extra bonus.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's such a fun movie and takes place on Halloween,

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<v Speaker 3>which is a triple bonus this time of year.

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<v Speaker 2>I noticed a lot of these films you've listed, and

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<v Speaker 2>this is a Diabolic DVD's a list of the best

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<v Speaker 2>Halloween movies. Jesse Nelson is the founder. A lot of

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<v Speaker 2>these are not necessarily slasher films.

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<v Speaker 3>No. I love a good slasher movie. I've there's no

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<v Speaker 3>doubt that I've seen eighty percent of the slasher movies

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<v Speaker 3>that exist from the seventies and eighties. But I like

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<v Speaker 3>things that are a little creepier, with a little more

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<v Speaker 3>sense of dread. I also like things that you know,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe skew to a little off the wall too, like

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<v Speaker 3>maybe have a little bit of humor in them.

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<v Speaker 2>I also notice you don't have a lot of the

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<v Speaker 2>creepy black and white nineteen sixties film except Burn, Witch Burn, Burn.

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<v Speaker 3>Witch Burn. It's also known as Knight of the Eagle,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's recently been reissued on a beautiful blu ray.

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<v Speaker 3>It is such a good movie. It is. It is

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<v Speaker 3>so creepy, and it's written by Charles Beaumont and Richard

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<v Speaker 3>mathe and Mathison who wrote a lot of the original

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<v Speaker 3>Twilight Zone episodes, and in particular Richard Matheson also wrote

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<v Speaker 3>the famous zombie book I Am Legend.

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<v Speaker 2>And these are unrated unknown horror movies ideal for Halloween

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<v Speaker 2>from Jesse Nelson and Diabolic DVD. Let's talk about Suspiriy.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it Suspiria or Suspiria.

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<v Speaker 3>It's Suspiria. Terrific movie. When when they announced that this

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<v Speaker 3>was being remade, the originals a considered maybe one of

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<v Speaker 3>the greatest Italian horror movies, especially one of the greatest

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<v Speaker 3>of the seventies. Terrific soundtrack, this beautiful color palette, this

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<v Speaker 3>creepy story, of a woman who goes to a dance

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<v Speaker 3>academy that turns out to be a coven of witches.

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<v Speaker 3>When they announced that this was going to be remade,

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<v Speaker 3>everyone kind of threw their arms in the air and said, no,

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<v Speaker 3>you can't remake this movie. It's the best. But they

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<v Speaker 3>really went in there and kind of turned the whole

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<v Speaker 3>thing on its head and picked out different themes that

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<v Speaker 3>weren't explored in the original and took some different ideas

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<v Speaker 3>and made it this really incredible and interesting movie. That

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<v Speaker 3>is it better than the original, No, but it definitely

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<v Speaker 3>stands alongside of it because it offers a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>new things to the viewer, especially viewers that are fans

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<v Speaker 3>of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Original, and you'll see some familiar faces to Coda Johnson,

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<v Speaker 2>Tilda Swinson, Chloe Grace more Ritz doing something that you're

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<v Speaker 2>not used to seeing them do act in a horror movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Underrated unknown horror movies ideal for Halloween from Jesse Nelson

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<v Speaker 2>at Diabolica Dvd. There's one on this list for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Where can people find out more?

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<v Speaker 3>At diabolic dvd dot com. We have all these movies

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<v Speaker 3>for sale and literally ten thousand others. I run the

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<v Speaker 3>daily operations of the business, so I'm always available on

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<v Speaker 3>social media, by email, I engage with customers every day.

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<v Speaker 2>And we thank you for joining us. Happy Halloween, Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you right back at you.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee

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<v Speaker 1>Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live

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