The Day of the Beast

0:23 Lee Good evening and welcome to horror.

0:24 Lee I'm Lee.

0:25 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam I'm Adam.

0:28 Lee And we are here for our special Christmas episode.

0:32 Lee We are all a little bit delicate as last night was the Welcome to Horror Office Christmas party.

0:39 Lee and we all got slightly battered.

0:42 Lee So despite the fact it's now 8 o'clock the following evening.

0:45 Lee I'm full of pizza, but I'm still having a drink again to make my way through it.

0:51 Lee And Adam looks like he's pretty much in the same mental boat.

0:55 Adam Yeah, well, I'm I'm I'm pretty good.

0:58 Adam I'm just sort of I'm I'm at the moment I'm trying to be quite gone.

1:02 Adam Sitting between the red lasery things.

1:06 Adam You know when it's like Darth Maul's pacing up and down, you're just thinking, you won't feel the benefit.

1:11 Adam And then Kwigon just sits quietly, so I'm sort of doing that to reserve my energy for the task at hand.

1:15 Adam He's fighting a two-bladed demon.

1:19 Adam But sort of.

1:21 Adam It's a metaphor somewhere.

1:24 Lee Close enough.

1:25 Chris I'm feeling pretty good after the two films I just watched.

1:30 Chris That that's a little hint.

1:31 Lee Two films you just watched.

1:32 Chris yes, yeah.

1:34 Chris I thought I'd get another one in, you know, quick today and it was well worth it.

1:40 Chris And I'm I'm going to do my guess what film it was again.

1:43 Chris Now it might only be aimed at Adam though, because I don't think Leo seen it.

1:48 Lee Okay.

1:48 Lee Fair enough.

1:49 Chris But a little memory that he said he hadn't watched it, but we'll find out.

1:52 Lee Okay, well.

1:53 Lee Power on, sir.

1:55 Chris Okay, right, so I will start with now I might completely ruin these, but let's see what you make of it, Adam.

2:02 Chris So one quote that gets said a few times about the film is, I'm just doing my job.

2:08 Chris And it's got one of my favorite actors ever.

2:13 Lee The history of the Third Reich.

2:17 Adam

2:19 Chris I don't think I'd be in quite such a

2:23 Lee Not a Christmas movie then, no.

2:25 Chris Yeah, yeah.

2:26 Chris And like so it's got one of my favorite actors ever playing what I have decided is a bit of a Colombo role.

2:32 Adam Oh.

2:34 Chris And when I.

2:35 Adam Death line again, have you?

2:36 Chris No, no.

2:37 Adam No.

2:37 Chris Oh yeah, no.

2:38 Chris That would be good.

2:39 Chris

2:40 Chris And when I first watched this, it turns out I was probably 12.

2:42 Chris Because it turns out I watched it soon after it came out and the the actor who it was.

2:46 Chris I thought looked ancient at the time.

2:50 Chris Now when I see it, it's like, no, he's just got a mustache on and he's just a little bit older than he was.

2:56 Chris In the film that he was in, I think it was like seven years, no, eight years before.

3:03 Chris

3:04 Adam K.

3:05 Chris Lee had an idea, Go on, Lee.

3:07 Lee I was going to ask if it was Kolchak.

3:09 Chris Oh, no, I've not seen that, but I do remember you've mentioned that.

3:14 Chris Okay, let's see what.

3:15 Adam Well.

3:15 Chris What else?

3:16 Chris All right, here's another big big clue, it's got a producer of a film that we've watched recently.

3:24 Adam Right, okay.

3:26 Adam

3:28 Chris It's got it's got some great '80s.

3:31 Chris /'90s action sci-fi music.

3:37 Adam Fuck.

3:39 Lee It's not June.

3:40 Adam It's not June.

3:42 Chris All right, I'm I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you.

3:44 Lee You presented this.

3:45 Chris No, now normally Adam Adam comes straight out and gets it, so either I'm doing terrible hints here or I'm going to give you another big one, okay?

3:52 Chris At some point the phrase crude rude dude is said.

3:55 Chris And I was like, is this where it came from or.

4:00 Adam I might not have seen this then.

4:02 Chris You definitely have.

4:03 Adam Right.

4:03 Chris You've mentioned it twice twice not not too long ago.

4:08 Adam Oh.

4:09 Chris All right, I'm I'll give you.

4:11 Adam It's from beyond.

4:11 Chris No.

4:13 Adam Shit.

4:14 Chris All right, it's it's directed and effects by screaming Mad George.

4:18 Adam The Guyver.

4:18 Chris Yes.

4:19 Lee There you go.

4:21 Chris I was going to next mention Brian Yuzna.

4:24 Chris Yuzna.

4:25 Chris So, yeah.

4:26 Chris And.

4:27 Chris So now Lee, I don't think you've seen it.

4:29 Lee I started watching it, I was 20 minutes in and abandoned it.

4:35 Chris See, right, now, I remember seeing it and probably at the time.

4:39 Chris realizing now, I didn't totally get the humor in it.

4:42 Chris Whereas watching it again now, especially after what Adam said, like it made much more sense.

4:47 Chris And in fact, it reminded me quite a bit of Psycho Goreman kind of silliness.

4:52 Chris Like, and but quite still fairly brutal in parts, but yeah, just, you know, really silly.

4:58 Adam Well, it was Psyco Goreman, they talked about the Guyver.

5:02 Adam As one of their sort of touchstones.

5:05 Adam It was like, I hadn't seen it, but I knew of it.

5:10 Adam And the worst thing was is that the few people I knew who had seen it.

5:14 Adam Recommended it, but in that way where people say, I loved it when I watched it as a kid, but you might come to it too late.

5:23 Chris

5:24 Adam turns out.

5:25 Adam No.

5:26 Chris Yeah, no, it's still still well right there.

5:28 Adam And yeah, it was.

5:31 Adam No, I fucking love that film.

5:32 Adam It is so much like we were saying about the other day we were discussing specifically Tokyo Gore Police at the party.

5:42 Lee Yes.

5:42 Adam That kind that kind of feeling.

5:44 Adam Where it's like very sort of just mental monster creations and brutality, but somehow quite yeah.

5:56 Adam It's it's very it's very anime, actually.

5:59 Adam I mean it's called fucking Guyver and it's directed by Sree Mad George, who's Japanese.

6:02 Adam So it kind of is quite yeah.

6:05 Adam I'm just you just don't think that because Mark Hamill's in it.

6:08 Chris Yeah.

6:09 Adam And now I and now I get what you mean about you thought he looked ancient.

6:12 Chris Yeah, and I was like, no, it's not that far past, but to me he just looked so old in it when I saw him.

6:16 Chris It was like, that's not Luke, really, that's like he's, you know, and clearly he's been around for much longer than than that.

6:21 Chris But yeah, I was almost like, oh, he's he won't be around much longer, you know, just, I don't know.

6:26 Chris It's just some really odd.

6:28 Adam No, no.

6:28 Adam But I just remember you just think.

6:31 Chris I think it was also, right, I was so sad when they killed him in it.

6:34 Chris I was like, no, that that doesn't happen.

6:36 Adam Yeah.

6:36 Chris He's he's way too important to be killed in a film.

6:39 Chris And it just it must have really messed with me.

6:41 Adam Yeah.

6:42 Chris Yeah.

6:43 Chris He for him, I was watching the film because of him at the time.

6:46 Adam Yeah.

6:47 Adam He's like the main character.

6:48 Chris Yeah, no, totally.

6:49 Chris And and it was like you're you're just this is, I don't know if I can handle this.

6:54 Chris But I I remembered finding it like fascinating and watching it again now, the effects are almost more impressive now.

6:59 Chris Because similar to what we said about society, like, yeah, the fact that it's all practical.

7:06 Chris Really great work.

7:08 Adam Oh, that's the thing is it's one of those.

7:11 Adam Like it has that same it's like the thing where there's so much.

7:17 Adam So much thought has gone into such a surrealistic, chaotic looking thing.

7:22 Chris Yeah.

7:23 Adam But you know that someone sat there and had to feed that out of their imagination.

7:27 Chris Yeah, you don't just get that done in a in a few moments either.

7:30 Chris It's like, yeah, there's there's a good amount of effort that's gone into this.

7:34 Chris It it might not have paid off at all, but yeah, it just looked looked fantastic.

7:37 Chris But so I I think Lee, you should give that another try one day.

7:40 Lee I'll I'll still got it, so yeah, I'll dig it out from the shelf and I'll I'll give it another go, definitely.

7:44 Chris You might have to be in the right mood, but yeah, for me it worked well.

7:47 Lee I think that's what I thought at the time was I was like, this is one of those films, if you're not in the right mood, it's not going to work.

7:52 Adam You know.

7:53 Adam Do you know and this is something that I was beginning to wonder about.

7:56 Adam with lockdown and sort of not seeing people as often.

8:01 Adam The Guyver is definitely a good communal watch.

8:05 Lee yeah.

8:06 Chris Yeah.

8:06 Chris I would say that.

8:07 Adam Couple a few beers and like six of you in a room watching it.

8:11 Chris Yeah.

8:12 Adam It's like or Prince Charles.

8:14 Lee Oh, yeah.

8:16 Adam Experience, that would be the Guyver.

8:17 Adam It's that kind of yeah, it's a party film.

8:21 Chris Yeah, cuz it's there's not there's not too much.

8:24 Chris It's not exactly too complex to follow.

8:25 Adam No, no, it's not.

8:27 Chris Yeah.

8:27 Chris Crazy fun, yeah.

8:29 Lee It's not like you've stuck Memento on.

8:32 Chris

8:33 Adam As the third film after half half the people have passed out.

8:37 Chris Yeah.

8:39 Lee Nice.

8:40 Lee Excellent.

8:41 Lee Well done, Chris.

8:42 Lee Adam, have you been watching anything?

8:44 Lee Oh.

8:45 Lee just to just because my note has just reminded me, there will be spoilers, there will be swearing.

8:51 Lee I keep meaning to say it at the top of the show and forgetting.

8:54 Lee So for any new listeners, there will be spoilers and swearing.

8:57 Lee Sorry, Adam.

8:58 Lee So what have you been watching?

9:00 Adam Well, I was just going to say so apologies for that spoiler about Mark Hamill's character dying in the Guyver.

9:09 Adam Whoops.

9:10 Adam but still see it.

9:12 Chris I I will be impressed if we upset anyone with that, that will be a niche of a niche that just got upset.

9:16 Chris Someone who's listening to us who hasn't seen that and is upset.

9:21 Lee Don't encourage people, don't encourage people.

9:24 Chris Please, please flame me, go on, I'm I'm out there.

9:30 Adam Oh, dear.

9:31 Adam I've watched, I've watched quite a good quite a lot of good stuff.

9:34 Adam I've finally seen Come to Daddy.

9:36 Chris Oh, yeah.

9:37 Adam The Elijah Woods, Stephen McChatty film.

9:40 Lee Oh.

9:40 Lee That was great.

9:42 Adam Which was Claire rather lovely got me that on DVD.

9:47 Adam Because it was on film four and I fucking forgot.

9:51 Adam And and I know there's catchup services and everything else, but bless her know she got me the DVD.

9:56 Adam So.

9:57 Lee Definitely one you can rewatch, I think.

9:59 Adam Yeah.

10:00 Adam Especially because it's one is one that I definitely now now I've seen it with.

10:04 Adam Knowing what happens, I would like.

10:06 Adam Because.

10:08 Adam I knowing I I went into it knowing Elijah Wood goes and stays with his strange dad, Stephen McChatty, literally it.

10:16 Chris

10:18 Adam And then, yeah, it's.

10:20 Adam Have you seen it yet, Chris?

10:22 Chris Yes, yeah, I did watch it as as an extra once.

10:25 Chris Yeah, and no, yeah.

10:26 Chris I thought it was fantastic but I would definitely like to watch it again for the same reason.

10:32 Chris Yeah.

10:33 Lee Yeah, me too.

10:34 Chris It is it does evolve in a slightly unexpected sort of way.

10:40 Adam Yeah.

10:40 Adam Yeah, which which I didn't quite, which I definitely didn't see coming.

10:44 Adam I mean, the only thing I would say is that it is it is unfortunate that you lose Stephen McChatty fairly early in the progress of the film.

10:55 Adam Because that just that where it's just him and what you assume is his dick dad.

11:02 Adam Is some of the funniest fucking I've seen.

11:05 Adam While whilst also being really quite uncomfortable.

11:10 Chris Yeah.

11:10 Adam And and if someone by now, I'm dibsing this, if no one's done it before at some point I'm doing a I'm doing a piece of music or a song or whatever.

11:18 Adam And I need to sample the cunt rap and just put that at the start of it.

11:23 Adam You know, go full Blood duster.

11:25 Adam And, yeah.

11:26 Adam Because that that was just, yeah, fantastic.

11:27 Adam And,

11:34 Adam But yeah, so that was yeah, that was a that was a really good one.

11:37 Adam And in fact, maybe we'll bung that on the list because we've all said we'd like a rewatch, so I think that might be one to that that's definitely one to sit there for us.

11:43 Chris I think where I'm for me a bit is I still see Elijah as Frodo.

11:48 Chris And it's just it's hard, I think the only other thing I've seen him in aside from this is Dirk Gently.

11:59 Chris Which I really liked and it's another quirky.

12:01 Adam I've not seen his his that version of George Janly, no.

12:05 Chris Okay, but he's it's yeah, it's very odd.

12:07 Chris So that sort of gave me a little bit of a sense.

12:09 Chris But yeah, it just seems like he's he wouldn't be in something quite so sort of random, chaotic, weird, funny.

12:17 Adam I I cannot help but salute that man.

12:20 Lee Yeah, me too.

12:21 Adam Where it's like make make an investment when you did Lord of the Rings, because you knew that this was going to be fucking huge.

12:33 Chris

12:34 Adam And then just use the fact that you're comfortably well off.

12:41 Adam to make films you actually genuinely want to be in or or see on the screen.

12:47 Adam And obviously because he's done like he was the producer for Color Out of Space.

12:52 Chris Yeah, did you said so he started a production company.

12:54 Adam Yeah.

12:55 Adam Yeah, they've they've done loads they've done loads of stuff.

12:57 Adam For some reason in my head.

13:00 Adam Yeah, I think they did Mandy.

13:02 Adam As well.

13:03 Lee Yes, I think they have done.

13:04 Adam Yes, so they're doing quite a lot of.

13:07 Chris Yeah.

13:08 Adam Basically, all and all sort of stuff that I just I just get the impression that I've probably got a similar taste to Elijah Wood.

13:16 Chris Yeah.

13:17 Adam In terms of like the stuff that he seems to want to do and appear in and things like that.

13:21 Adam I mean, have you seen the it was on Netflix and it's in a similar sort of vein to come to Daddy.

13:30 Adam it's called I just don't want to live in this world anymore.

13:37 Lee Yes, I did see that.

13:38 Lee That was brilliant.

13:40 Adam Yeah, where he's in it as like the sort of like frustrated uptight insell sort of guy and but yeah.

13:52 Adam And it's just yeah, it's just this woman basically decides that she's had enough and so she goes and of people just like being assholes for no reason.

14:04 Adam and so she goes off to accuse the man whose dog has been shitting on her lawn, which turns out to be Elijah Woods who's this sort of weird like tiny little kung fu man.

14:16 Adam Who like does weight training and but he's clearly like, you know, just a he's Millhouse with abs.

14:23 Chris

14:26 Adam And but he's got like throwing stars that he's been practicing and stuff like that and and he's he's fucking net, he's not you know, he's not an Avenger, but he kind of tags along with her to because he agrees with her calls.

14:39 Adam And yeah, but that's that's really good and he's got David Yao from the Jesus Lizard in it.

14:45 Adam And he is fucking brilliant, he is he plays like the the main sort of villain.

14:49 Adam And yeah, he should be in David Lynch films.

14:53 Lee Yeah.

14:54 Adam He just is a really horrible sleazy little man in it.

14:57 Adam He's really good he's in that's another one we've got to do at some point is Southbound, you know, the anthology film.

15:04 Lee Yeah, yeah.

15:05 Adam Yeah, cuz he's in that as well and I remember him being great in that.

15:08 Adam but yeah, that's that's another one.

15:09 Adam of the stuff, oh, yeah, my scientific advisor has helped me here.

15:13 Adam So film produced by film produced by Spectravision.

15:16 Chris Oh, very good.

15:16 Adam Which is Elijah Wood's company, so yeah, as we said, Color out of Space, Mandy.

15:23 Adam Daniel isn't real, Cooties.

15:25 Adam The Greasy Strangler, which is for my mind, one of the finest fucking things ever to appear.

15:31 Adam I know Lee doesn't agree.

15:32 Lee I'd forgotten all about Cooties though, and I really enjoyed that and he stars in that again as well.

15:38 Adam Yeah, it's great.

15:39 Adam

15:40 Adam Arch enemy, The Boy.

15:41 Adam I don't know what that is, but I can only do it as The Boy.

15:45 Adam

15:45 Adam Girl walked home alone at night.

15:48 Adam Oh, LFO.

15:50 Adam Now that's a fucking great film that was, I I.

15:53 Chris I can't remember which film that was.

15:55 Adam I think.

15:55 Chris I know you said that one.

15:56 Adam And I can't even go into it now because I can't remember, but I just remember how excited that film left me.

16:03 Adam if it is the film I'm thinking of.

16:05 Adam I fucking hope it is now and it's just like man ounces himself as nonse on podcast, no, that's the one, yeah, Swedish science fiction film about a man who realizes he can hypnotize with sound.

16:15 Adam Yeah.

16:15 Adam LFO is a fucking great little film.

16:19 Lee I remember you covering that in your what you've been watching, yeah.

16:24 Chris Yeah.

16:26 Adam Yeah, that's that's definitely another one.

16:27 Adam I I would say most of Elijah Wood's films are probably they're probably worth covering because most of them do cross over in horror.Yeah and they So, yeah. but yeah, anyway, so I so I watched that.

16:45 Adam I.

16:45 Adam I watched I'll hurry it up, I watched Carnival of Souls.

16:52 Adam Fucking just fantastic film and something we're definitely going to cover at some point for you, Chris.

16:57 Lee Do you know what?

16:59 Lee I do think we have to, I have tried to watch that film three times.

17:04 Lee And every time I get about 20 minutes in and go, this is boring the piss out of me.

17:07 Lee But it's such a solid classic that I think I'm missing something.

17:14 Adam The best the best way to think of it.

17:17 Adam Because I think the one thing it does suffer from is it has a it has the sort of stilted, slightly stilted atmosphere.

17:26 Adam of acting or type of acting that you get with the Twilight Zone or like early sort of '50s and '60s television.

17:37 Adam And if you go into it thinking of it as like a special extended episode of the Twilight Zone.

17:44 Lee Yeah.

17:45 Adam and it has and it's I it has that feel and it's very it gets more and more atmospheric as it goes on.

17:50 Adam Because really the start is after the initial sort of car accident.

17:57 Adam Then it's just, you know, it's sort of someone going about their ordinary life and then slowly realizing something's up.

18:02 Lee Yeah.

18:03 Adam But it's very slowly realizing something's up, so.

18:08 Adam Yeah, I can again, it's one of those ones that I think is I I think we should cover it at some point, definitely, because I think also if you because with the motivation to complete it to the end, Lee, I think you'll love it.

18:21 Lee Yeah, oh yeah.

18:22 Adam Because it's.

18:24 Adam

18:26 Adam I also watched Eating Raoul.

18:28 Adam Which is a new one on me, it's not not specifically horror, but it's a black comedy about a couple who want to open a restaurant but but can't get a bank loan, so they start murdering the swingers who party in their in their apartment block and like just stealing their money and stuff.

18:41 Adam And then the the title of the character from the title Raoul turns up and is played by Mr. Chakote from Star Trek Voyager.

18:56 Adam And yeah, he sort of he helps them turn this from like a cottage industry murder plot into something a bit more like a business.

19:04 Adam So it's.

19:05 Adam But yeah, and it but it's I think the best way I can describe it is so John Waters, but it's like female trouble.

19:13 Adam It's that sort of absurd sly I was about to say slightly camp, fucking hell.

19:19 Adam That sort of absurd camp black comedy sort of film.

19:22 Adam And I definitely think, certainly, I think it's one that you and Lee Jennifer should check out, Lee.

19:26 Lee Okay.

19:27 Adam Because I think you really enjoy it because it's just and the main and actually the

19:33 Adam The characters in it like the husband and wife, the it's oh Paul.

19:41 Adam No, totally gone.

19:43 Adam But

19:46 Adam Yeah, the they turn up in Chopping Mall as well.

19:49 Lee Oh, cool.

19:50 Adam Right at the start of Chopping Mall, there's just two there's two people going, oh, that could be quite useful in the restaurant and that's from their characters from Eating Raoul.

19:56 Adam So I'm not entirely sure why.

19:57 Adam But

19:58 Adam Yes, so the but no, that's definitely one to check out.

20:05 Adam and like I said, I think you and Lee Jennifer.

20:08 Adam Paul Bartel, that's the name I'm struggling with.

20:10 Adam But Paul Bartel and Mary Waronov, who's in House of House of the Devil.

20:15 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah.

20:17 Adam Yeah, it's her and it's her and and Paul Bartel and they're the couple, but Paul Bartel also wrote and directed it and also, I didn't know this is the director of the original Death Race 2000.

20:27 Adam Which just immediately put him like, I mean, I love the film and then afterwards I was like, well, and you directed Death Race 2000.

20:32 Adam That's fucking fantastic.

20:33 Lee Nice.

20:34 Adam especially because the guy who plays the announcer in Death Race 2000 plays the host of a swingers party in in one scene.

20:42 Adam And he is fucking unbelievable because he just.

20:46 Adam Hi, it's a proper uhm Troy and Mcclure sort of feeling.

20:53 Adam He's just constantly on.

20:55 Adam Hi and come right here and it's.

20:58 Adam And I could just hear the same voice going, he splatters the scoreboard first.

21:02 Adam

21:04 Adam And then finally I watched Zoltan, Hound of Dracula.

21:07 Adam Which we really need to cover on this show.

21:11 Adam But also, at this point I will say, Chris, it's not meant to be a comedy.

21:17 Adam But.

21:18 Adam it's fantastically hilarious in his own sort of.

21:24 Adam Well, in the in the only way that a film that is Dracula doesn't appear, well, Dracula does appear in flashback, but it's purely Dracula's dog and his sort of half vampire Egor type servant.

21:41 Adam and they go and hunt down the last remaining Dracula, Michael Dracula, who lives in America.

21:48 Adam And,

21:50 Adam Yeah, they who who has a family and they have some dogs and slowly Zoltan recruits those dogs into his vampire pack.

21:57 Adam all in an attempt to get the blood of the last Dracula and the thing was as well.

22:04 Adam Immediately there was a floor because he's got kids, so everyone kept saying, oh, like it's like, oh, well, he's the last Dracula and it's like, well, no, he's got kids.

22:12 Adam They're the last Draculas.

22:13 Lee Yeah.

22:15 Adam You know, genetically, certainly, you know, there is no argument about that, if you're going to go bloodline as your as your theory, yeah, there you go.

22:24 Adam It's

22:26 Adam But.

22:27 Adam Believe me, that is not the most absurd thing thing about a film.

22:30 Adam With a undead Doberman pincher.

22:34 Adam

22:35 Lee I need to see this.

22:37 Adam Oh, man.

22:38 Adam It's fucking great.

22:40 Adam that is definitely one that I would say.

22:42 Adam It's a communal watch but also a absolutely merry with fuck all to do watch as well.

22:48 Lee Yeah, we'll have to we'll have to have an evening at mine where you can both stay over and get very drunk and not have to worry.

22:53 Lee Yeah, at the end of it, I think that's not be the one to do.

22:56 Lee Once all this lockdown nonsense is over, that'll be the next thing on the list.

23:01 Adam Yeah, I yeah, Zoltan is something else, really is.

23:07 Lee Fantastic.

23:08 Lee

23:10 Lee So I have been starting my Christmas viewing.

23:15 Chris

23:16 Lee so I've been watching The Ghost Stories for Christmas, been going back through some of those.

23:20 Lee And I mentioned before I'd rewatched The Stalls at No, I'd rewatched

23:25 Adam Treasure of Abbot Thomas.

23:26 Lee It was The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, well done.

23:28 Lee I watched that a second time because Lady Jennifer wanted to watch it as well, so we rewatched that and then followed it up with The Stalls at Barchester.

23:35 Lee Nice.

23:36 Adam Nice.

23:36 Lee Yeah, and so it's just I've just checked again because I checked last week and they hadn't put a date up for The Mezzotint.

23:42 Lee Which is this year's one.

23:44 Lee It's.

23:44 Lee Christmas Eve.

23:45 Lee Christmas Eve at 10:30 at night.

23:48 Lee How perfect is that?

23:49 Adam Absolutely, I was overwhelmed with that.

23:51 Lee Cannot wait.

23:52 Adam Yeah.

23:55 Lee So yeah, I shall be.

23:56 Lee It's one of the this is going to be the first time in possibly five years, I'm going to watch something live as it aired.

24:04 Lee Last time I watched something live as it aired on TV was Inside number nine's Halloween special, so that goes to show you how often I actually watch TV.

24:11 Lee So.

24:12 Adam Well so League of Gentlemen are obviously the people who can get you to turn up for.

24:17 Lee Yeah.

24:18 Lee Yeah, opening night.

24:20 Lee It is, totally.

24:22 Lee yeah, so that's about it really.

24:23 Lee So not much.

24:25 Lee I mean also been watching loads of Vic and Bob.

24:28 Lee And also for Christmas watching Black Adder's Christmas Carol.

24:31 Lee But that isn't really horror.

24:32 Lee Well.

24:33 Lee It's got ghosts in it.

24:34 Adam Good ghost.

24:35 Adam Isn't it?

24:36 Adam Yeah, that.

24:37 Adam Fuck me, that has been that's been the basis for something that's watched.

24:41 Lee That's true, yeah.

24:42 Lee We have watched a lot less horror relevant stuff than that, I think.

24:47 Lee

24:48 Lee So, on to this evening's main event, so a film that Adam introduced me to a long time ago.

24:53 Lee 1995's The Day of the Beast.

24:59 Lee judging by your text, Chris, I think you were probably a fan of this.

25:04 Lee But would you like to tell us what you thought of it on your first watch?

25:08 Chris Yeah, absolutely.

25:09 Chris It was a you know, I didn't know what to expect, it's one of those, right, it's subtitles, punish, okay.

25:15 Chris You know, might be on for something a bit heavy.

25:17 Chris And it it turned out it was a very good balance of pretty brutal.

25:22 Chris And very entertaining.

25:24 Chris And after having just watched the Guyver, I was set up perfectly for this as a continuation.

25:30 Chris

25:31 Chris I yeah.

25:33 Chris Like quite I suppose I would say it was definitely a caper, but yeah, with some pretty dark dark elements to it.

25:40 Chris So, yeah, really quite surprising.

25:42 Chris And I was sort of thinking I couldn't quite remember what you'd said about it.

25:47 Chris How much you told me.

25:48 Chris but definitely in my head, I was like, well, I'm sure they've mentioned that we don't have many more decent.

25:54 Chris Christmas-based films to watch.

25:58 Chris So again, I was sort of expecting it to not be quite as good as it turned out to be.

26:03 Adam To be absolutely honest and I would like to take this point to apologize to our brethren of not for everyone podcast.

26:13 Adam When we did the welcome to everyone Christmas episode last year and it was like your Christmas films.

26:23 Adam This had utterly slipped my mind.

26:26 Chris

26:27 Adam Despite the fact that there was a period of time probably up until the sort of I don't know about early 2000s that I did watch this as a Christmas film.

26:39 Chris

26:41 Adam And like it was like a regular I would watch this regularly.

26:45 Adam And yeah, but specifically it would be like, well, Christmas is coming up and it's always festive to watch, El De Bella Biznia.

26:53 Adam And

26:56 Adam Yeah, and I and yeah, so I and I pissed I think I pissed everyone off by saying Star Wars because everyone was like, oh.

27:04 Adam Basic.

27:05 Adam but I now retract Star Wars and I put El De Bella back in and at the Day of the Beast back in as my third Christmas film.

27:16 Adam Because as I say.

27:18 Adam It's going to go back on the Christmas watch list now.

27:22 Adam But it used to be, yeah, it used to be a fairly regular thing.

27:25 Adam And, yeah, it's.

27:28 Adam We hadn't run out of Christmas films.

27:31 Chris Yeah.

27:32 Adam Yes.

27:34 Lee It is just.

27:35 Lee It's just so much fun.

27:37 Lee Like it's right right from the opening, you know, while the credits are still rolling, it's the bit that always sticks with me is him pushing that mind down the subway, like, just.

27:47 Chris It's watching him starting to do all those act, it's like I can feel it bringing out the sort of naughty boy part of me.

27:52 Chris You just think you could imagine watching this, you know, quite a bit younger again with mates drinking and it's just like he's just now on this mission to be the naughtiest.

27:59 Chris And and again, yeah, it's brutal, but still the way it's done is just so kind of funny.

28:01 Lee Yeah.

28:02 Adam It's a perfect setup as well for to give you everything it kind of gives you everything you need to know about hit him as a person, Kira as a person because.

28:15 Adam It's like, right, I've got to sell my soul to Satan, so I will commit all the sins.

28:25 Chris Yeah.

28:27 Adam And it's literally like Nut down ginger, but it's but it's like it's the worst he can think of.

28:33 Chris He can.

28:33 Chris Yeah.

28:34 Adam You know what I mean, it's not that he's avoiding anything, he's genuinely like that.

28:37 Adam Fucking hell, yeah, and I really, oh, no, that's terrible.

28:40 Adam And a bit of him.

28:41 Adam He stole a man's suitcase.

28:43 Lee Yeah.

28:43 Adam That's beautiful, although although also he does go all in with you're going to rot in hell.

28:47 Adam When he's to the.

28:48 Chris The wallet.

28:49 Adam And.

28:49 Adam Give the.

28:50 Lee I know we don't normally do this, but just for the listeners because I know this is a more obscure movie, so for anyone who hasn't seen it.

28:55 Lee a priest who has spent the last 25 years trying to decipher a code that he believes is in an ancient script, discovers that the the Antichrist is going to be born on Christmas Eve in 1995 in Madrid, and in order to get to meet the devil so that he can kill him.

29:15 Lee He decides that he has to be the worst human being possible.

29:18 Lee As well as work out where the Antichrist is going to be born.

29:21 Lee So it's just about this funny little priest going to Madrid and being the biggest brick that he can.

29:25 Lee And trying to find out about the cult.

29:27 Chris Right, so so just want to check, the reason that he has to be such a big prick is that the devil then won't kill him.

29:32 Chris Is that right?

29:33 Chris Because his friend.

29:33 Chris Who he tells at the start, says, oh, I'm with you on it, but we better watch out because someone might have heard this.

29:39 Chris Was that.

29:40 Chris And then he gets killed.

29:41 Adam As in Satan will have heard this.

29:42 Chris Yeah, yeah.

29:43 Chris So, you know, obviously he would be that powerful.

29:46 Chris That he would have be aware of what the plan is.

29:48 Chris So it's, yeah, it's a weird one because it's his plan is meant to be to convince the devil that he's evil.

29:53 Chris Yeah.

29:53 Chris So that he can sell his soul to the devil, so he gets to be with the devil and discover when the Antichrist is going to be born.

29:59 Chris And sort of, yeah, go from there essentially.

30:01 Chris Like he's going to be sort of brought in on Satan's plans.

30:03 Chris So so was he planning to kill him?

30:05 Adam He was planning.

30:06 Adam To kill.

30:07 Adam He's planning to kill the Antichrist.

30:08 Chris

30:09 Adam Or prevent the birth of the Antichrist.

30:12 Adam So presumably kill the mother.

30:13 Chris Yeah.

30:14 Adam But.

30:16 Adam But that level of determination whilst is there.

30:21 Chris Yeah.

30:22 Adam He's sort of.

30:23 Adam Well, he doesn't really know well, again, he doesn't really know how to summon the devil to sell his soul, but he's pretty convinced he can work it out in a day.

30:34 Lee He just walks into the Black Metal record shop with a record.

30:40 Adam With.

30:40 Adam With with one of the greatest sort of characters in this film.

30:45 Adam So the the director, Alex Della Iglecia, and apologies for how crappily I said that.

30:51 Adam

30:53 Adam He's he said that basically it was things like Evil Dead, John Carpenter.

31:01 Adam Jaws, I think was another one.

31:03 Adam He but basically, yeah, this sort of like you say, an adventure, like a fantasy adventure sort of movie but in that more yeah, Evil Dead, Sam Ray sort of vibe of it will have horror, but it'll also have funny bits.

31:15 Chris Yeah.

31:15 Adam Rather than oh, well, we'll put a joky comedy theme as he's going around pushing mines over and it's just that.

31:20 Adam Like.

31:21 Lee Like American Werewolf.

31:22 Adam Yeah, American Werewolf would be another one, I think as well.

31:25 Adam And yeah, so.

31:27 Adam Yeah, so he goes and meet goes and meets Jose.

31:31 Adam The guy who runs the record shop who is the absolute perfect like Mela.

31:37 Adam As in.

31:39 Adam And it's that thing as well that you always find, it's like, I mean, do you do you find this at work, Lee?

31:44 Adam Sometimes you'll get people like they'll go like, that delivery driver is really nice.

31:50 Adam Oh.

31:50 Adam Covered in tattoos and he's got his hair all over the place.

31:52 Adam He's got like really long.

31:53 Adam He but he's a really nice bloke.

31:54 Lee Yeah.

31:54 Lee Exactly.

31:54 Adam Yeah.

31:55 Adam Why would he not be because most Melers are quite mellow, decent human beings.

31:58 Lee Yeah.

31:59 Adam You know, with a good and I think that's the.

32:00 Lee I think.

32:01 Lee I think that's the thing as a Melar myself in my younger years.

32:05 Lee I think you take it, well, we all were, I think you you do take it all with a pinch of you don't take it seriously.

32:10 Lee So it's it's got an element of a good sense of humor, so Metalers have got a good sense of humor.

32:14 Lee And as you say, generally, that means they're decent human beings.

32:18 Lee And Yeah, I think he's he's amazing character in this.

32:19 Lee I absolutely do.

32:21 Chris It's essentially it's just being obsessed about the thing you're interested in, isn't it?

32:25 Chris So, yeah.

32:25 Chris You want to take that to an extreme, but that doesn't mean that you take necessarily everything in life to an extreme.

32:31 Adam Precisely.

32:31 Adam And so you've got this guy who is essentially so sweet-natured that he's like, yeah.

32:38 Adam Oh, yeah.

32:38 Adam No.

32:39 Adam These are.

32:39 Adam Basically he connects over the records.

32:40 Adam And also, did you.

32:41 Adam Did you spot on the slip of paper that he spelled ACDC phonetically?

32:45 Lee No.

32:45 Lee Oh.

32:46 Adam Because it's kind it's kind of like meant to be that he's just heard the names, so he's quickly jotted down like these metal bands because it's like Napalm Death, and yeah, something else and ACDC.

32:55 Lee Oh yeah.

32:55 Lee I made.

32:55 Lee A made.

32:56 Lee And ACDC.

32:57 Adam But yeah.

32:58 Adam ACDC is like H A Y.

33:00 Lee You know what?I look I didn't even put two and two together.

33:03 Lee I read the first I only saw the last one at a glimpse and I went.

33:05 Lee Yeah, I don't know who that is.

33:06 Adam Yeah.

33:07 Adam But.

33:07 Adam No, it's because he's because he's never seen it written down, he's just heard someone say ACDC.

33:11 Adam So.

33:13 Lee I just love that logic.

33:14 Lee Have you wrote it, so it's your fault if I carve on your floor with a knife?

33:17 Adam Yeah.

33:18 Lee Yeah.

33:18 Adam So.

33:19 Adam Yeah, but I mean.

33:21 Adam Also,

33:23 Adam There's I mean, it's a fucking great soundtrack.

33:25 Lee Yeah.

33:26 Adam

33:27 Adam Which again, I forget about the because you've got.

33:31 Adam I mean, obviously there's a lot of Spanish bands in there.

33:34 Adam Like the stuff that he plays him in the shop because he gives him he says he wants to listen to that album that's called Live Death.

33:39 Chris

33:40 Adam Which apparently is a split live album of suffocation, malevolent creation, ex-order and I love this band name, Cancer.

33:49 Lee Nice.

33:50 Adam They're not.

33:50 Lee They're really trying to get your attention with that one.

33:51 Adam Yeah.

33:52 Adam but yeah, so they that but the album that the music that plays is by a band called Katulu.

33:56 Lee Nice.

33:57 Adam So, you know, immediately they score points anyway.

33:59 Adam But the main thing music that is the when they go to the club and see the band.

34:03 Adam That's a band called Deathcom Dose.

34:05 Lee Who like Deathcon.

34:06 Adam Two, who are like a Spanish rock rap metal like rap rock band, basically.

34:11 Adam and but the thing is is I got I was just getting serious dog eat dog vibes.

34:14 Lee You know what I mean, it was that kind of era.

34:16 Lee Where it's like actually I'm not going to complain about rock metal here.

34:18 Lee But you've got.

34:19 Lee Like.