Speaker 1: Welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 1: I'm Father Malone. In this Hound from Hell, growling and
Speaker 1: foaming beside me is none other than Miss Ripley Jean.
Speaker 1: They were invisible on Supernatural, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's true of all hellhounds. When I think of a hellhound,
Speaker 1: I think of American werewolf in London. That is a
Speaker 1: creature from beyond. Like you, baby, and speaking of creatures
Speaker 1: from Hell, I'm going first, Sorry you Snoss and lost Dog.
Speaker 1: My expectations, my expectations for my choice this week were beyond.
Speaker 1: In the basement, they were subterranean. You know that hole
Speaker 1: in your heart that goes all the way to China,
Speaker 1: the one you can't see the bottom, but believe me,
Speaker 1: it's a long way down. Well, that's where my expectations
Speaker 1: were hovering. This is the third incarnation of this comic book.
Speaker 1: I want to call him a newbie character because I
Speaker 1: assume I'm still in my twenties. But since he debuted
Speaker 1: around the same time as Harley Quinn and people will
Speaker 1: assume she's been around since the Golden Age of comics,
Speaker 1: I guess he's now a classic and as such, deserves
Speaker 1: multiple interpretations. It's just that the first two interpretations were
Speaker 1: just okay. In fact, they were diminishing returns. And I
Speaker 1: think when we all got a look of the out
Speaker 1: of context still from this movie a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: I figured, well, this should be the equivalent of crow
Speaker 1: Salvation or Scorpion King four. How fucking wrong I was.
Speaker 1: Here's hell boy, a crooked man.
Speaker 2: There's something going on here.
Speaker 3: I need to understand it.
Speaker 4: Like you do.
Speaker 5: That's exactly why you shouldn't be sure, she.
Speaker 2: Might say, demonic entity falls under her expertise.
Speaker 1: Crooked man's waiting on you.
Speaker 5: That's interesting.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't want me to disquestion this.
Speaker 4: Question's gonna I have tails about him all my life.
Speaker 4: Most just called him a crooked man, a figure.
Speaker 1: It wasn't scared of anything.
Speaker 4: Oh I know some are afraid of you.
Speaker 2: Hear something.
Speaker 5: Your road ends in the dark like mine. Let's just
Speaker 5: came on coming.
Speaker 2: It ain't even really be good.
Speaker 3: Snake, let's rattle.
Speaker 4: Let not your horse be trouble by way. They know not.
Speaker 4: I wi me.
Speaker 5: The darkness out.
Speaker 4: And the crookedics straight.
Speaker 5: You doubt the power of prayer song?
Speaker 4: Just in case?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, am I gonna wax nertastic about Mike mgnola,
Speaker 1: a man whose art style was described by Alan Moore
Speaker 1: as Jack Kirby meets German expressionism. Perfect those fucking thick
Speaker 1: black lines, the crazy simple and yet somehow magnificently intricate designs.
Speaker 1: Remember that Disney flick Atlantis with Michael J.
Speaker 2: Fox.
Speaker 1: Me neither, but look it up. Mignola did the design
Speaker 1: work on that film. And speaking of Harley Quinn, she
Speaker 1: made her debut on Batman, the animated series, which contains
Speaker 1: not only my favorite characterization of Victor Freeze mister Freeze,
Speaker 1: but my favorite design of him, Mike Mignola. Again. Remember
Speaker 1: when the Joker killed Robin the image of Batman holding
Speaker 1: Robin's corpse God an entire generation remembers Mike mgnola. How
Speaker 1: about that run of Rocket Raccoon that really put him
Speaker 1: on the Marvel radar Mike Mignola. So you can bet
Speaker 1: I was there opening day when one of the most
Speaker 1: promising new directors decided to adapt mister Mgnola's most popular
Speaker 1: character into a feature and a big budget, splashy studio
Speaker 1: film to boot, with the perfect actor for the role. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: the very first comic con I attended was back in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three. That is where hell Boy made his
Speaker 1: debut in Comic Con Comics number two. You can bet
Speaker 1: I devoured Seed of Destruction and Wolves of Saint August
Speaker 1: and the Corpse with the Iron Shoes. Oh Man, Wake
Speaker 1: the Devil, y'all. Okay, here's the thing. I love that
Speaker 1: first film because it looks so goddamned good and the
Speaker 1: performances are great, and the villain's got menaced to them.
Speaker 1: But that's all I love about it. Hell Boy, like
Speaker 1: Blade two, ended up being an action movie with a
Speaker 1: virtually no horror, definitely no scares, and that's what I
Speaker 1: loved about those books. What we got in the film
Speaker 1: was a weirdo men in Black clone, an action movie
Speaker 1: with some supernatural touches, and who was that new hire
Speaker 1: who was supposed to be the audience proxy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If you loved the movie, I get it, particularly if
Speaker 1: that was the only exposure you had to this character.
Speaker 1: Golden Army is a sequel that doubled down on the
Speaker 1: beautiful that The designs and locales and even characters are
Speaker 1: better in almost every way except it falls into the
Speaker 1: previous film's trap with the marvel Big Light in the
Speaker 1: sky as the villain that must be stopped third act.
Speaker 1: So I might have been the only one who was
Speaker 1: stoked to hear that Neil Marshall and David Harbor were
Speaker 1: rebooting the series the promise of a more intimate story
Speaker 1: in the director of the Descent and Hard Home. That
Speaker 1: was the episode of Game of Thrones with all the
Speaker 1: fucking zombies. You remember it? What could go wrong here?
Speaker 2: Well? Everything?
Speaker 1: It was disappointing in different ways than the first films.
Speaker 1: It amped up the violence in the language, which was
Speaker 1: not unwelcome. It just kind of forgot everything else. So
Speaker 1: here we are hell Boy The Crooked Man screenplay by
Speaker 1: Mike mgnola and Chris Golden, with an additional pass by
Speaker 1: directed David Taylor. This one stars Jack Keasey, who I
Speaker 1: didn't realize was the man in the makeup in that
Speaker 1: sad still we got a few months ago. But man,
Speaker 1: I glad it is him. Did any of you watch Claws?
Speaker 1: I know you watched it. You watched it obsessively. It
Speaker 1: was on USA Network a few years ago. A breaking
Speaker 1: bad type crime saga set in Florida and centered around
Speaker 1: a Nail Salon. The lead character was played by Nissi Nash,
Speaker 1: and she had an on again, off again relationship with
Speaker 1: a muscly dufust gangster named Roller. I want to say
Speaker 1: he was the best part of the show, but there
Speaker 1: were so many fucking great actors on it that that
Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair, So I'm just gonna say he stood out.
Speaker 1: That's Jack Keasey. He was great there, He's perfect here.
Speaker 1: I love Ron Perlman, and I think that character makeup
Speaker 1: looked remarkably like mcnola's original designs. But mcnola's designs look
Speaker 1: great on paper and weird in the real world. The
Speaker 1: Harbor makeup was awful. It made Hellboy look like some
Speaker 1: douche who insisted on going to the club despite his
Speaker 1: obvious mishap with the tanning bed. I think the design
Speaker 1: on this Hellboy is spectacular. It looks real world enough
Speaker 1: and cartoon enough while still being believable. He's walking around
Speaker 1: in full daylight, and it never feels like a mask.
Speaker 1: It looks like a real skin. It looks like that
Speaker 1: guy's face, and gone are the wise cracks, Gone is
Speaker 1: the bro behavior. I just love pizza and beer and
Speaker 1: hanging out with my buds and goon and over, Liz.
Speaker 1: The Hellboy in the books is more Harry Callahan than
Speaker 1: John McClain. That's the version we're getting in this story,
Speaker 1: which is a strip down one off, like a Great
Speaker 1: one issue or a run of issues of a Hellboy comic.
Speaker 1: It takes place in nineteen fifty nine in the Appalachian Wilderness.
Speaker 1: And get this, it's a horror movie. This one's designed
Speaker 1: to scare first and have action and jokes and banter
Speaker 1: a far distant I don't even know if it's second.
Speaker 1: It's more like a roving right field. The creep factor
Speaker 1: just keeps rising throughout. It's a hell of a reminder
Speaker 1: that intimate stories were just as well as those involving
Speaker 1: the end of the world. Here a farmer is fighting
Speaker 1: for his soul against an ancient evil that's been terrorizing
Speaker 1: the denizens of his local community for decades. This crooked
Speaker 1: man is a fearsome opponent. He actually rivals Reverend Kane
Speaker 1: from Poltergeist too as far as elderly terror goes, and
Speaker 1: he's ably assisted by Leah McNamara as this Southern she devil.
Speaker 1: In a slip I might be going light on the
Speaker 1: movie because it's so evocative of the original comics. Actually, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm being very easy on it. Even though this is
Speaker 1: a scaled down film, it ends up kind of overreaching
Speaker 1: given its budget. It does feel like the pilot of
Speaker 1: a television series at the beginning, or maybe the finale
Speaker 1: that the network pumped a lot of money into the effects.
Speaker 1: Particularly at the beginning, Foretel a bad time for all.
Speaker 1: But once it settles down and the story kicks in,
Speaker 1: I didn't notice any of the limits tas the action
Speaker 1: isn't John Wick levels either. But this isn't an action movie.
Speaker 1: It's a horror movie based on a horror comic book.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll stop being a snob now. The Hunt
Speaker 1: the hell Boy, the Criocked Man is available on vod
Speaker 1: and yes you should buy it. We could do worse
Speaker 1: than have a continuing series of films or TV movies
Speaker 1: or whatever the fuck, just as long as they keep
Speaker 1: doing it in this tone with this hell boy. All
Speaker 1: dogs love Ron Perlman. It's because of beauty and the beast.
Speaker 1: I bet it has to be a confusing sensation. He's
Speaker 1: clearly a cat, but he's so damn sexy. Hey, do
Speaker 1: not involve me with your fantasy life.
Speaker 2: Help me HP, HP You got any gum dying.
Speaker 1: To know your pick? Young lady. Wow, that's cool. Continuing
Speaker 1: the trend of hell flicks right here in the title.
Speaker 1: This was the director's first horror after a long sojourn
Speaker 1: through crime dramas and superhero flicks. And it's got justin
Speaker 1: Long in it, so you know it's good. I'm being
Speaker 1: totally serious. Horror plus long is a winning equation from
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. It's dragged me to hell, mister Jacks.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you've made any decision regarding the
Speaker 1: assistant manager's.
Speaker 5: Positions between Stu and yourself.
Speaker 2: Stu Stu someone who's not afraid to make the tough decision.
Speaker 4: I'm perfectly capable of making the tough decisions.
Speaker 5: I'll let you know as soon as I decide. Okay,
Speaker 5: will you help me?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 5: Okay, we have an elderly woman asking for an extension
Speaker 5: on her mortgage payment. You would have to throw her
Speaker 5: out of her house. We've already granted her two extensions.
Speaker 5: It's a tough decision. You're call.
Speaker 1: Another extension is out of the question.
Speaker 4: Wh will I leave? I'm really sorry, have I bicked
Speaker 4: for anything. No, you, she.
Speaker 6: Love, so it would be you who comes begging to me.
Speaker 6: Someone that's cursed you is the Lombia, the most feared
Speaker 6: of all demons.
Speaker 5: For the first three days, that's spit a torments, it's victims.
Speaker 5: After that it will come to take you.
Speaker 3: Take me awhere.
Speaker 5: To burn in hell for eternity.
Speaker 1: It's coming for me.
Speaker 5: Please listen to me. There's nothing coming for you.
Speaker 1: How do I get rid of this? I'm welcome.
Speaker 5: You can give the curse away.
Speaker 1: Time for an annoying autobiographical pause. This was back in
Speaker 1: ninety five. I was crossing a street on Wilshire Boulevard
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. I was coming from Cuckaroo Chicken, remember them,
Speaker 1: oh man? Besides their potatoes were clouds of buttery delight. Anyway,
Speaker 1: as I near the end of the crosswalk, I noticed
Speaker 1: the nearest car has a man and a woman in
Speaker 1: the driver in passenger seats, and two children in the
Speaker 1: back were causing a ruckus. Both of the parents turned
Speaker 1: to deal with them, and as they do I realized
Speaker 1: it's Sam Raimi, and for what must have been a
Speaker 1: split second but felt like a fucking eternity, I found
Speaker 1: myself staring and unable to break away as all of
Speaker 1: my favorite horror movies were playing in front of mine.
Speaker 1: My eyes and my brain was screaming, Hey, it's Sam
Speaker 1: Raimie while a lone voice struggled to be heard over
Speaker 1: the din of film fanatic chatter, which was saying that
Speaker 1: man and woman are just trying to deal with their
Speaker 1: kids as they go about their lives, and you're frozen
Speaker 1: in the middle of a crosswalk and you look like
Speaker 1: a fucking psychopath. So I was mercifully able to continue
Speaker 1: on before they noticed my lunatic glare. Anyway, leave it
Speaker 1: to Sam Raimi to bring gypsy curses into the twenty
Speaker 1: first century. Doesn't work on paper, shouldn't work at all.
Speaker 1: It does with his camera. Missus Ganosh is one of
Speaker 1: the most fearsome horror villains I've ever seen. How a
Speaker 1: nun became an instant icon and not Missus Ganosh's handkerchief
Speaker 1: is a crime. Again, I'm being totally serious. Any doubt
Speaker 1: if Ramy still had it as a horror maestro after
Speaker 1: years of Spider Man films can be answered definitively with
Speaker 1: this flick. He makes a handkerchief a source of terror.
Speaker 2: Fuck.
Speaker 1: I love Sam Ray and you know who else? I
Speaker 1: love Alison Lohman. My god, she hit the scene so hard,
Speaker 1: White Oleander, Match, Dick Men, Big Fish, and then this,
Speaker 1: and then I believe she went and started a family,
Speaker 1: which is fine, I suppose good for you, But god damn,
Speaker 1: we as a film going audience have been painfully denied
Speaker 1: a lot of great performances over the years. I believe
Speaker 1: every fucking thing she does. She is worth her weight
Speaker 1: in gold and does great work in supporting or lead
Speaker 1: with seeming effortlessness, and this movie is fortunate to have her.
Speaker 1: People call this film a throwback, and it is in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, starting with that classic sixties universal
Speaker 1: logo at the beginning beautiful and it's the simplest tale.
Speaker 1: Girl crosses the wrong witch and is cursed to be
Speaker 1: taken to hell by a demon unless she can exercise
Speaker 1: the demon or pass the curse on to someone else.
Speaker 1: Threadbars a good description of that plot, but Raymie, with
Speaker 1: his brother Ivan assisting on script duties, layers in so
Speaker 1: much excellent careization, in so much observed behavior. Loman's character,
Speaker 1: Christine is a bank loan officer who, against her own
Speaker 1: moral judgment, effectively forecloses on an ancient woman's home for
Speaker 1: no other reason than to prove to her boss that
Speaker 1: she's worthy of advancement. This was during the housing collapse
Speaker 1: at the end of the decade, and it felt irrelevant
Speaker 1: rather than exploitative, and it didn't make us hate her character.
Speaker 1: That's why the film is fortunate to have Loman, because
Speaker 1: what easily could have been ninety minutes of sick thrill
Speaker 1: watching a terrible person get what they deserve, we get
Speaker 1: a human being who made a bad choice and regrets
Speaker 1: it before the supernatural intrigue begins, and we want her
Speaker 1: to try every avenue to write that wrong and we
Speaker 1: feel absolutely every defeat because of her performance. Also, missus
Speaker 1: Ganosh is horrifying alive or dead and undead. But the Lamia,
Speaker 1: who boy, I rarely have nightmares after a Frank flick,
Speaker 1: But the Lamia likes to possess other living things. One
Speaker 1: of those incarnations I can see when I close my eyes.
Speaker 1: Goddamn you, Sam ray Me, You know what This film
Speaker 1: is a throwback to when a horror filmmaker wasn't interested
Speaker 1: in a fucking franchise. He just wanted to tell a
Speaker 1: good story with good characters designed to put the screws
Speaker 1: on you and scare you so badly you turn on
Speaker 1: the lights after you finish watching it. Give me all
Speaker 1: the throwbacks I mentioned justin long but Lorna Raver as
Speaker 1: missus Ganush deserves equal mention, as does Delip Rao as
Speaker 1: a psychic who tries to help get the Lamia off
Speaker 1: of Christine's back. But the special MVP is Adrian Baratza
Speaker 1: as Sean Sandina, a character who's dealt with the Lamia
Speaker 1: before and has returned to deal with it again. She's
Speaker 1: rock solid. You would want her running any seance you
Speaker 1: were involved in. Drag me to hell, not going to
Speaker 1: say another thing about it. In case you've yet to
Speaker 1: feast your eyes feast mm shoefly pie delicious? Why would
Speaker 1: we have shoefly pie? You know I've got that gluten thing.
Speaker 1: That's why you get the bun anytime I get a hamburger.
Speaker 1: Fuck that lettuce? Rap shit, you got another in your
Speaker 1: young ripley some more in the tank for one more pick.
Speaker 1: Since we've had two hell films, let's try fecta this motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I'll actually make this brief while I wholeheartedly recommend the film.
Speaker 1: I am certain that ninety percent of you are going
Speaker 1: to hate it. So what do you do if you've
Speaker 1: managed to make two films in a row that are
Speaker 1: absolute perfect documents of punk rock, an absurdist comedy and
Speaker 1: a musical biopic. Make a punk spaghetti western? Of course,
Speaker 1: this is straight to hell?
Speaker 4: Proms closed down?
Speaker 2: What about the money?
Speaker 6: Well bury it choygeous right, raise your killers to town?
Speaker 2: What my nay?
Speaker 4: Sex my down? Is your time day?
Speaker 5: As long as you're like Gunnis too, ain't no better,
Speaker 5: don't know what's not us?
Speaker 4: Town cannot have two bosses? How much longer do we
Speaker 4: have to stay here? Do the job down and only
Speaker 4: have one boss?
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 4: Make me mad?
Speaker 3: Make me mad?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: By Alex Cox? Written by Cox and Dick Rude from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. This film stars Joe Strummer from The Clash,
Speaker 1: Cy Richardson Underrated No No, No, No, wildly underrated, and
Speaker 1: Courtney Love, Yes, Courtney Love as bank robbers who go
Speaker 1: on the lamb and find themselves trapped in a surreal
Speaker 1: western town with cowboys and hot dog salesmen and coffee,
Speaker 1: lots and lots of coffee. Yes, even before David Lynch
Speaker 1: began shouting about America's latest beverage obsession. Alex Cox made
Speaker 1: every character in this film an absolute fiend for Java.
Speaker 1: Those cowboys are mainly played by Irish punk folk geniuses
Speaker 1: the Pogues. It was during the making of this film
Speaker 1: in the Spanish desert of al Maria, that Shane McGowan
Speaker 1: wrote the songs that would make up the fucking masterpiece
Speaker 1: that is, if I should fall from grace with God
Speaker 1: here you'll probably recognize it from a Minivan commercial.
Speaker 4: Links.
Speaker 1: I don't care who they sold it to. It is
Speaker 1: a perfect album. And if this film exists just so
Speaker 1: that album could have been made, then this film is
Speaker 1: worth it. But you know what, the film itself is
Speaker 1: worth it. I mean, don't go looking for a plot.
Speaker 1: This is as Italian in presentation as any of Sergio
Speaker 1: Leoni's work. It's a meandering meditation on machismo and myth
Speaker 1: and lots of other m words, and it's in no
Speaker 1: hurry to get to any real story. This might be
Speaker 1: weirdness for its own sake, but I don't care. I
Speaker 1: love the mood here, I love the weird mashup of genres,
Speaker 1: and I love everyone on camera and behind the camera.
Speaker 1: Alex Conx would never be as playful again as he
Speaker 1: is here. Walker isn't exactly a laugh riot. I mean
Speaker 1: the very conceit of it. Yeah, but we're not exactly
Speaker 1: giggling during the invasion of Nicaragua. Plus, this movie has
Speaker 1: Grace Jones. She's in it for one scene and maybe
Speaker 1: has one line, but goddamn Grace Jones is always worth
Speaker 1: the price of admission. That's the wisdom. I'm leaving you
Speaker 1: with young Ripley and all of you at home. You're
Speaker 1: not perfect, but you're perfect for me. Oh Ripley has
Speaker 1: a copy of Inside Story Watch Out, everybody, actually watch
Speaker 1: in what I don't know. Thank you midnight viewers once
Speaker 1: again for rounding up the week with Ripley and myself.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave you with a line from the lambia and
Speaker 1: other l words.
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