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Speaker 3: I wasn't about to watch the new Karate Kid movie
Speaker 3: opening this weekend, and I have no intention of talking
Speaker 3: about it except for this right now, right here. We
Speaker 3: know everything we're gonna know about it, and if you're
Speaker 3: gonna see it, you're gonna see it. But I went
Speaker 3: into a little horror film called Bring Her Back more
Speaker 3: or less blind. I hadn't even seen the trailer. All
Speaker 3: I knew is that it was from the people who
Speaker 3: did a respectable little horror movie called Talk to Me
Speaker 3: three years ago, the Philippoo brothers, Danny and Michael, and
Speaker 3: I got my hair blown back.
Speaker 4: Here's just a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 3: You were gonna put you with a foster mom called Laura,
Speaker 3: you can love her.
Speaker 4: Welcome to your new home.
Speaker 2: Room.
Speaker 4: I want to show you something else this.
Speaker 5: Way stuffed p I'm a weird dog.
Speaker 4: The little girl touches a stuffed dog. How did she.
Speaker 1: Comes, Cassy Bingle, I didn't.
Speaker 3: How did you cope with your daughter being gone? I
Speaker 3: didn't bring her back. If you say bring her back,
Speaker 3: like get her done, it doesn't sound so scary. It's
Speaker 3: a little Australian horror story starring Sally Hawkins, who you
Speaker 3: might remember from the Shape of Water as the nice
Speaker 3: lady who gets it on with the fish man. She's
Speaker 3: not so nice in this. Here's the one line description.
Speaker 3: A brother and sister uncover terrifying ritual at a secluded
Speaker 3: home of their new foster mother, and that doesn't even
Speaker 3: begin to cover it. I'm not even sure this is
Speaker 3: a review so much as a warning.
Speaker 4: This isn't a.
Speaker 3: Dopey date night horror flick like that awful Final Destination
Speaker 3: movie I reviewed here a couple of weeks ago. It's
Speaker 3: not a bloody good time, as some of the hack
Speaker 3: critics called that. It's messed up. It's disturbing. It's transgressive,
Speaker 3: shocking horror for people who are into movies like Hereditary
Speaker 3: or Midsummer and some ocular trauma. I was a child
Speaker 3: protective services worker about a lifetime ago, and I can
Speaker 3: tell you, having placed some kids in foster care, that's
Speaker 3: frightening enough without the supernatural element.
Speaker 4: Let me put it this way.
Speaker 3: There was just one couple in the late night screening
Speaker 3: with me last night, and they were blabbing really loud
Speaker 3: in the first part of the movie, and I gave
Speaker 3: him a sh but I wasn't sure they heard it.
Speaker 3: And as I was thinking about yelling at him to
Speaker 3: shut the f up and waiting to see what they did,
Speaker 3: I realized the movie was so unsettling that it had
Speaker 3: shut them the f up. A little more about it.
Speaker 3: After their father dies, a boy who's about to turn
Speaker 3: eighteen in three months, and his younger sister who's vision impaired,
Speaker 3: not blind and impaired, they get placed in a foster
Speaker 3: home and their new foster mom goes from being quirky
Speaker 3: to something a lot worse fast. She's still grieving her
Speaker 3: dead daughter, and she's got a mute little boy who
Speaker 3: can't be trusted with the cat can't go outside a
Speaker 3: big white circle surrounding the house. In horror movies, circles
Speaker 3: around things are to keep terrible things in or to
Speaker 3: keep them out. Kids often ruin horror movies and pretty
Speaker 3: much everything else. Let's be honest, but this is possibly
Speaker 3: the creepiest kit I've ever seen in a movie. The
Speaker 3: new boy and his sister just want a place to
Speaker 3: stay for the three months till he turns eighteen, and
Speaker 3: then they'll move out and he'll take care of her.
Speaker 3: But they're not going to make it three months, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to tell you a lot more than that.
Speaker 3: In terms of plot specifics, it's a bit of a
Speaker 3: slow burn with building dread punctuated by some seriously shocking incidents.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty case hardened as a horror fan, but one
Speaker 3: of these made me jump. Another one made me say
Speaker 3: Jesus out loud in the theater, So now that couple
Speaker 3: probably wanted to tell me to shut the f up.
Speaker 3: And when things really get going, you're in the hands
Speaker 3: of some talented satus who crank up the discomfort and
Speaker 3: the sickness so high you might want to leave. It's
Speaker 3: not an easy watch, which is a major compliment for
Speaker 3: a movie like this. It's easily one of the best
Speaker 3: horror movies of this year so far. I'd say it's
Speaker 3: tied with Sinners for best, but it's such a different smaller, nastier,
Speaker 3: more traumatizing experience that you can't really compare the two.
Speaker 3: I think David Cronenberg would watch Bring Her Back and
Speaker 3: think what's wrong with the guys who made this? The
Speaker 3: guys who made it, the Philipoo brothers get so much
Speaker 3: done with a little four and a half million dollar
Speaker 3: budget that it's inspiring. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 3: they do when a studio throws some actual money at
Speaker 3: them to play with, and they will. Do not bring
Speaker 3: your kids to this movie. Do not bring your grandparents,
Speaker 3: Do not bring anyone decent. This is nightmare fuel. It's
Speaker 3: about grief and child abuse and protective love and possession
Speaker 3: and what you do to get back someone who's loss
Speaker 3: absolutely tortures you, and you won't be able to shake
Speaker 3: it off right when you walk out of the theater
Speaker 3: into the fresh air either. This one stuck with me.
Speaker 3: Sally Hawkins terrific as the foster mom, but the scary
Speaker 3: little boy upstages.
Speaker 4: Everyone.
Speaker 3: Give this kid either an oscar or a bowl of
Speaker 3: raw meat. But that's not the pull quote. Here's your
Speaker 3: pull quote, publicist. Bring Her Back made me want to
Speaker 3: cry into a puddle of my own vomit. Can't wait
Speaker 3: to see it again with a full audience so I
Speaker 3: can watch them. I can't predict how much Bring Her
Speaker 3: Back is going to make because it's strong stuff. But
Speaker 3: I often see lists on Reddit of most disturbing horror films,
Speaker 3: and all the usual suspects are on it. Cannibal, Holocaust, Hereditary,
Speaker 3: like I mentioned up top, the original French version of
Speaker 3: Martyr's a Serbian film, which I won't watch. If you
Speaker 3: know anything about that one, you'll understand why I think
Speaker 3: Bring Her Back is going to become a permanent fixture
Speaker 3: on those lists. We may have a new cult classic here, mo,
Speaker 3: when are you and Twala and Fushian I gonna go
Speaker 3: see this?
Speaker 4: You sold me? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Already cult classic? I think possibly? Yeah, Yeah, it's that good.
Speaker 3: But like I said, it's some serious business. And I
Speaker 3: looked at some of the objections to the movie by
Speaker 3: critics who panned it, and there aren't very many who do.
Speaker 3: Their main objection seems to be that it's just too unpleasant,
Speaker 3: a horror movie that's too unpleasant, It did its job
Speaker 3: too well well.
Speaker 4: The fact that you compared it or you brought up
Speaker 4: Servian film like okay, you sold me.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I haven't seen that, and like I said,
Speaker 3: that's one of the few that I won't because it's
Speaker 3: kind of a touchy subject for me, especially as a
Speaker 3: former CPS worker. But if you're looking for a light,
Speaker 3: enjoyable horror film, it is not this one. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a time and a place for everything. This is
Speaker 3: when you're in the mood for something a little extra spicy.
Speaker 3: I compare movies to food a lot. This is not
Speaker 3: comfort food. Also, a handsome little dadbod here on my part,
Speaker 3: there's yourun a report mode.
Speaker 4: Wow, that was succinct. Well we were short on time,
Speaker 4: No I did I.
Speaker 5: Not say before the segment, take as much time as
Speaker 5: you need, or you can carry it over into the
Speaker 5: next segment.
Speaker 3: I think people know everything they need to know about this.
Speaker 3: I went in without knowing much at all, and I'm
Speaker 3: glad that I did. And in fact, I just told
Speaker 3: a couple of my horle friends see this, don't read anything,
Speaker 3: don't watch the trailer. Tell me what you think when
Speaker 3: when you're shuffling out traumatized. See.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of today's horror. I'm not
Speaker 5: a big fan of the genre overall. Because I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't need anything impact in my sleep. I don't
Speaker 5: need to be traumatized. I don't need to jump out
Speaker 5: of fear. I don't like you in those feelings at all.
Speaker 5: That's why I want you to go with me and Tawala.
Speaker 5: It's fun to watch people watch horror films that you've
Speaker 5: already seen.
Speaker 4: Nah, no, I'll pass. No, I don't watch horror. No,
Speaker 4: I do not watch.
Speaker 3: I don't believe the two of your dirty cowards. I
Speaker 3: think we're gonna all see it together. You're gonna grip
Speaker 3: my arms in terror. It'll be fun. Nope, I'll pass.
Speaker 3: Maybe Stephan will go with you. I would there you go,
Speaker 3: got a date? Yeah, Stefan, he's got some nerve when
Speaker 3: it comes to watching movies. He's asked me about a few,
Speaker 3: and I've made some recommendation.
Speaker 5: Challenging our manhood like that reverse psycholog She is actually
Speaker 5: gonna I mean, hey, you know what, go for self?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know nothing is gonna make me jump
Speaker 6: up and say, what how dare you? I'm watching it now? No, no, sir,
Speaker 6: No gauntlet can be throwing this. Then give me to
Speaker 6: see some sick, twisted uh fetish film for Team Shuttings or.
Speaker 3: Whatever the hell it's about. I understand, I understand. The
Speaker 3: two of you are very sensitive, and we can go
Speaker 3: to a break real fast, so the two of you
Speaker 3: can go pee sitting down.
Speaker 4: It's fine. Almost cut wow, wow, mother, my mouth so fast.
Speaker 4: It's like a mother father. Say what Daniel cut off
Speaker 4: his camera. Stephanof is Mike. We're gonna go meet him
Speaker 4: in the studio. I think it's a whole I think
Speaker 4: it's a whole way. Uh, filtered, unfiltered. Okay, let's take this. Okay,
Speaker 4: to take this to the hallway. I have work to do. Okay. Oh,
Speaker 4: we'll just bring it in the newsroom. Then I'm locking
Speaker 4: the door. Oh crap, the door doesn't have a lock.
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