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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome to Camp Kaiju monster movie podcast.

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We are your hosts, one Vincent Tannum and one Matt Levine.

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And we are talking about all of our favorite monster movies.

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The good, the bad and the downright campy and asking if they stand the test of time.

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Traditional Kaiju creature features, space invaders, the supernatural and everything

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in between.

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All strange beasts.

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Welcome here.

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We're back.

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The hiatus is over.

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Matt and I are back in the podcasting chairs here in the Twin Cities, ready to broadcast

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all over the world.

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We see you, Sweden and our 2% listener base.

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We see you and we thank you for showing up.

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Ooh, nice.

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I, they're probably clamoring for us to talk about troll hunter, which is Swedish, right?

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Maybe it's Norwegian.

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Oh, and now I'm going to make Sweden mad at us.

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I can't remember.

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I take it back.

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Nevermind.

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That's, that's good.

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Good to hear though.

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We have a fan, a very small fan base in Sweden.

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That's cool.

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Yeah.

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So we have a very small fan base in Germany.

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I will, I'll, uh, reveal a bit of our analytics to, to you all.

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Get a peek behind the curtain here at Camp Kaiju.

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So let's see.

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Logging into the analytic website and we have our audience tab.

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Ooh, sorry.

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We have 3% of our audience is in Sweden.

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2% in Germany and then 3, sorry.

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Then we have 1% in the UK, 1% in Australia and 1% in Canada.

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Oh, nice.

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We'll be taken over the world before you know it.

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Only a matter of time.

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The day the earth stood still and then Gort blew us all up.

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But Gort was just trying to be a diplomat.

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He was just trying to be a peacemaker in the first place and we didn't listen to him.

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That's why.

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It's not Gort's fault.

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That's what I'm trying to say.

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Sure, sure.

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Um, no, it's good.

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It's good to be back.

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It's good to talk about this stuff.

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Um, Matt and I have a lot of great ideas for season four.

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Um, it's a revamp.

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We've built a great listener base and we're very, so appreciative of all of you for sticking

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with us through the hiatus.

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Um, especially our Patreon members.

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So we're just hoping that, you know, we're going to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall

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here.

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Hopefully you enjoy it.

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And if you don't let us know.

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So we stopped doing it.

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But, but, uh, we are, we are excited.

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I think our international fans will appreciate it.

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I think, uh, we're, you know, keeping them on their toes.

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We're bringing in new things.

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So I'm I for one, I'm excited to, uh, bring in some new developments.

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And before we talk about, uh, what we've been up to for the past six months, I mean, I'm

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sure we've, I'm sure you've watched a lot of great movies, uh, monster or otherwise.

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I'm sure you've been up to some creative endeavors.

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Uh, let's, let's just talk about what we've been up to after that.

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Um, we will reveal our menias mailbox as well as some additional bits and segments that

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will be new this season.

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Oh, thank you to our patrons, Jason, Chris, Sean, our anonymous patron and Peggy.

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This is for you.

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So we appreciate the support.

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Indeed.

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Thank you.

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All right, Matt, what do you, what the hell have you been up to the past six months?

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Oh man.

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What, what have we been up to?

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Um, uh, some, some job changes over the last six months.

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Uh, I'm well, I don't know if I should say my professional affiliation and not that it's

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doing marketing copywriting, which is not the most creative writing in the world, but

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it's still writing and I enjoy that kind of work.

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So I'm grateful to be doing that for my nine to five job.

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And then still writing about film writing, creative fiction on the side.

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Um, in late March, I self published a book called the laws of inheritance.

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some reviews placed, hopefully going to have a reading sometime soon, although I haven't

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quite figured that out yet, but, uh, the name of the book again is the laws of inheritance.

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I got to put that plug in there.

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So if you're interested, uh, check it out, I would call it a work of political horror

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that is a well-timed for an election year in the United States.

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So the little elevator pitch that I'll do for that.

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It's, uh, it's exciting.

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We're calling it our in it to win it party.

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That's happening in a couple of weeks.

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Looking forward to that.

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Aside from that, hanging out, watching a lot of movies, happy to be back on the podcast.

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What movies have you watched?

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Uh, let's pull up my letter box here real quick.

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I have been trying to watch as much as possible, which is great.

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Although they, you know, it's easy to kind of forget about some here and there.

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Um, I will say right off the bat, the best movie that I've seen recently is a French

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movie called Celine and sorry, let me say that again, Celine and Julie go boating.

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Uh, it's from the early seventies.

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It's a very surreal movie.

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It's about two women friends who kind of stumble into what they call a house of fiction.

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It's this weird manner where, uh, this kind of like melodramatic story is like playing

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out over and over again ad nauseum.

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And they're kind of able to sort of like work their way into this like weird parallel fictional

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space and kind of take over, take it over a little bit.

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It's kind of very postmodern in the best way it's directed by Jacques Revett.

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Um, very, very good.

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a classic Hollywood movie with Frank Sinatra.

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It's really, really great.

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Uh, ashes and diamonds, a very good Polish movie, a post-war movie, uh, from the fifties,

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Those are the first three that come to mind right away.

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I have to confess, I have now watched a ton of monster or horror movies, but I'm excited

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to get back into it.

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I was trying to, you know, save it for, for the podcast.

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So I looking forward to it.

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Um, I need a, I need to switch it up.

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Sometimes I'm watching so many movies, so many horror movies, science fiction films.

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Sometimes I'm like, you know what I need?

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A 1930s screwball comedy.

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Like design for living.

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I know we talked about that recently by Ernst Lubitsch.

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You just got to switch it up.

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lot of different kinds of pleasure.

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Can't wait to get back into it.

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Well, I just went down so many, I guess, rabbit holes of different sub genres and I, and I

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was able to get through a few different franchises when I was taking care of Ada, my daughter

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now she is going on six months, but when she was a newborn just sleeping all the time and

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I would watch a movie like all the time that didn't last forever.

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Um, those of you who have raised a newborn and slash baby understand that, um, there

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you'll get into a rhythm and a routine that will last three, four days and then it completely

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switches on you and you re and then it's like, Oh, now, now my kid doesn't sleep ever and

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I can no longer watch a movie whenever I want.

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So it's just, it was just like total readjusting of expectations.

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Um, but it sounds amazing to just like, you know, have Ada in your arms and like watch

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a movie like on mute or whatever with like the captions on like that.

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I can't imagine like a, um, a sweeter way to watch a movie.

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You know, I watched the entire alien franchise, including Prometheus and, and Romuald, no

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covenant.

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Um, the entire series on mute reading captions.

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That means Ada is going to be a huge horror slash monster movie fan when she grows up,

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which is great.

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Can't wait to see it.

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Same here.

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Oh yeah, I, I finally saw the whole alien series.

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Um, I went into a, a deep dive with the classic universal run of movies from the 1930s and

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forties.

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I read a bunch of books by great horror authors.

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Shout out David J. Scal and Tom Weaver.

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These are, uh, film critics and writers who know their stuff.

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So I'd recommend their books, very prolific writers.

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Um, I would also let you all know, I went down a huge silent movie kick, monster movie

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kick, um, the works of FW Murnau.

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Like, um, he did not direct Caligari, but he directed Nosferatu, Faust, um, Metropolis

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was Fritz Long.

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I mean, and so many Lon Chaney pictures, Todd Browning.

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I'm going to nerd out about, um, silent movies a lot on season four with a new segment that

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I'll reveal later on.

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But yeah, just like a lot of different facets that I went down zombies recently, I finally

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saw Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead.

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Classics.

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What do you think about Dawn of the Dead?

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I haven't seen it in a long time.

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I remember liking it a lot though.

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Probably even better than Night of the Living Dead.

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I think it's funnier.

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It has like a dark sense of humor.

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It's very satirical about, you know, capitalism and commercialism and whatnot.

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It's really great.

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A lot of great moments.

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Have you seen that one?

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I don't think I have, to be honest.

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Is that like in nineties?

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Am I right about that?

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No eighties, mid eighties.

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Um, it's a horror comedy.

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It's a little gory, but very, I don't know, very fun.

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I'd recommend it.

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I need to keep on going with that series.

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I did see Day of the Dead a long time ago and I've seen the more recent ones, although

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they're kind of not so recent anymore, but Land of the Dead.

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And I think Diary of the Dead is the other one.

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Um, which are okay.

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I mean, I think the first two are still the best, but, um, yeah, it's a, it's a strong

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series.

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Love George Romero for sure.

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I mean, and what a sub genre we've talked about.

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I walked with a zombie and white zombie actually on the podcast and the Voodoo Haitian zombies

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compared to the Romero zombies.

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Couldn't be more different, but there's a line in Dawn of the Dead where I forget one

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of the main characters, the African-American, um, he, he talks about how these zombies are

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just like the ones his grandmother told stories about in Haiti.

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So like even Romero pulled in the Haitian Voodoo roots for Dawn of the Dead, which I

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was like, ah, I really appreciate that.

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I kind of, I, you know, like I said, I haven't seen it in a long time, so I kind of forgot

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about that element, but, but I love that like historical context.

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There's a movie from a couple of years ago called Zombie Child.

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That's also a really fascinating.

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It's not really a zombie movie, despite the name.

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It's more about, you know, uh, the history of Haiti and kind of like the negative effects

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of colonialism and whatnot.

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So it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a really good complicated movie, but it kind of also like

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rituals and stuff like that.

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Um, yeah, it's a, it's such a fascinating, um, uh, you know, line of thought or whatever

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that's been in movies for, you know, almost a century now.

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Yeah, seriously.

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And you know, what's a really great documentary I have to plug.

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It's called a horror noir, a history of black horror.

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It's based on a book by Robin R. Means Coleman.

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She's a professor of film cultural studies, I believe.

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Don't quote me on that, but, um, the documentary was produced by, um, by Shudder.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, it's a great crash course on the history of black horror movies and aesthetics

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from the 1930s, right?

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We had King Kong, which was more problematic in its depiction of African-Americans, but

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then it, you know, goes into the 1970s, black exploitation films like black Ula and, and

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others, um, it's just, it's just really great weaving like all the celebration of black

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depiction in horror movies alongside the problematic depictions of black horror, of black culture

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in horror films.

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And Jordan Peele's on there and a bunch of other filmmakers of color.

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And yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It was just really great for someone who didn't really know that side of monster cinema.

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Yeah.

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Would recommend.

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That sounds great.

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Uh, another movie that came to mind when you were talking about that is ganja and Hess.

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I don't know if you've seen that movie that was on the documentary.

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Fascinating.

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I love it.

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It's a strange mix of not only a vampire movie, but also black exploitation, which you just

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mentioned and then sort of like European art movies at the same time.

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It's a very bizarre movie.

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Really, really great, which I was thinking about bringing to the podcasts.

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I don't know if it's going to happen this season.

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Stay tuned and find out, but hopefully someday we'll talk about that.

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And I'd love to.

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I'd love to talk about mean black Ula's maybe the one we've all heard about.

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But here's the movie called Sugar Hill from 1974.

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And it depicts.

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Zombies within this story of a badass female named Sugar Hill.

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I'm not familiar with that movie.

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That sounds great, though.

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And next on the list.

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Sugar Hill.

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Yeah.

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I mean, is that where the Sugar Hill gang got their name from?

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If so, that's awesome.

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I don't know.

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Cool.

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Just a couple of white guys want to talk about some exploitation films.

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Yeah, not not my expertise area of expertise, I will say.

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Although, yeah, I mean, like sweet, sweet backs, badass song, the spook who sat by the

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door.

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There are so many great movies in that subgenre for sure.

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Blood is red.

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Voodoo is blue.

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Sugar is sweet.

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Revenge is sweeter.

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I'm passing second.

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Meet Sugar Hill.

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No, please.

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Not a place.

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But a brand new face.

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My friends call me Sugar.

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The Foxiest.

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Looking for anything special?

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Sexiest.

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Deadliest chicken town.

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The mob took Sugar's man away.

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And now, she's gonna make them pay.

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I want them dead.

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With a voodoo priestess called Mama Matrice.

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I know what you can do.

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The power you possess.

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How strong is your hate?

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And Baron Samdy too.

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My particular special, a drink that I'm famous for.

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The zombie.

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This is my domain, a kingdom of the dead.

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And an army of undead behind her.

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Each death has had something to do with voodoo ritual.

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There's nothing that Sugar can't do.

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Use it.

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The mob has never seen anything like Sugar Hill and her zombie hitmen.

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Let's talk about our own show a little bit.

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And Camp Kaiju, I just want to say we have some collaborations in store.

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And first and foremost, I recently guested on a fabulous podcast called Monster Kid Radio,

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produced and hosted and written by a gentleman named Derek M. Cook.

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Huge monster movie fan.

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And we're talking about the classics, universal, poverty row, Ed Wood, like think about 30s,

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40s, 50s, horror movies.

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Anyways, Monster Kid Radio is a great podcast.

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They've been going for 13 years now.

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And I got connected with Derek.

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I had been a longtime listener.

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He said, why don't you come on the show?

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Not only that, why don't you come on the show and talk about your three favorite Jack Arnold

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films, which I died because Jack Arnold, for those who don't know, really directed some

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quintessential sci fi movies from the 1950s, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible

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Shrinking Man, It Came from Outer Space, and a couple of others that are must see monster

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movies.

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So that was a lot of fun.

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I'd love to have Derek on our show.

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He's a really great guy.

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A really great show.

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Yeah, I love that.

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Has the has that episode gone live yet?

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Or is it still coming out soon?

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No, it did.

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It.

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The episodes that we're recording are this episode on May 14th.

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And Derek's episode with me dropped May 11th.

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So it is available.

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And in fact, those listening stick around to the end of this episode and we'll play

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a preview of the Monster Kid radio spot.

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I did.

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So Derek was kind enough to give us like five minutes of audio to share.

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Amazing.

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I can't wait to listen to that episode in full.

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That's so cool.

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It was a lot of fun.

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Yeah, I you do like, you know, way more about like, you know, like classic 50s sort of like

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creature features than I do.

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Jack Arnold is somebody that I like, but I'm not very familiar with.

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So this is a perfect opportunity for me to kind of, you know, brush up on like a blind

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spot for me.

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But I love what I've seen by him.

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Yeah.

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And he has some some diamonds in the rough, like the ones I mentioned are probably his

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most well known, but he has some that are deep cuts that, you know, the budgets were

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low.

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He wasn't working with these were these were B movies.

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So they didn't get all the studio love that they should have.

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But but in that he did some really great creative work.

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Yeah.

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I, you know, I always admire directors or producers, writers, any kind of film artists

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who can take limited means and resources and make something really kind of like creative,

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unique, subversive, kind of like under the radar with that.

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It's so impressive to be able to do that.

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And Jack Arnold did a lot.

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He was very socially progressive.

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I'll put it that way.

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He was making movies in the time of not just the Red Scare of the 1950s, but the Blacklist

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in Hollywood in the early 50s.

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So a movie like It Came From Outer Space actually says a lot about being being like blacklisted

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persecuted.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But like, yeah, being blacklisted because he made it during that time.

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So anyways, yeah, I don't want I won't turn this into a Jack Arnold podcast, but there's

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a lot of great stuff.

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Yeah, I love that you love him so much.

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That's great.

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And yeah, Monster Kid Radio.

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I can't wait to check it out.

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Yes, it came from outer space to fill the world with terror, to bring you unforgettable

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suspense.

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What was it?

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Where did it come from?

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Who were the all powerful creatures it brought from outer space?

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And what did they want on earth?

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You can learn the amazing answer only when you see the most thrilling picture in years.

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It came from outer space.

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In the astonishing realism of three dimension, with objects coming right out of the screen,

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so real they almost touch.

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We also have a collaboration coming up with Gaze Do The Dee and Patrick Kazaki, the producer

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and co-host of that podcast.

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Patrick's been on the show before he's actually going to be on this our first episode Godzilla

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X Kong, the new empire.

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But Patrick reached out to me and asked if I wanted to do a joint episode about who framed

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Roger Rabbit.

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So we're recording that this weekend.

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It should be a lot of fun.

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An amazing movie.

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Love that movie.

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Yeah, and we're going to release that under the Gaze Do The Dee podcast and the Camp Kai

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Ju podcast.

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So follow both of the shows, but whichever show you follow, you will have access to it.

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Synergy.

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Woo.

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Nice corporate jargon.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I'm learning.

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Well, I don't know if this is a good time to bring it up, but on the, you know, you

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mentioned Jack Arnold.

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We were just talking about Jack Arnold and like his, you know, his claim to fame as a

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maker of B movies.

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I feel like we also have to say rest in peace to Roger Corman.

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Oh my gosh.

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Say more.

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You look like man.

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What's that?

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Sorry.

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You look guys him.

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Yes.

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He's a, you know, a legend in American cinema, especially American independent cinema that

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has anything to do with horror.

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You know, monster movies, B movies.

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He, you know, gave so many wonderful directors and artists and actors their start.

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Jack Nicholson started off acting in Roger Corman movies.

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Peter Bogdanovich started off directing movies for Roger Corman.

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I know I'm forgetting a lot of other names in there.

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Martin Scorsese did a early picture for him.

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Francis Ford Coppola.

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Ron Howard.

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Yeah, I think so.

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I think you're right.

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Yeah.

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Joe Dante.

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For sure.

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Joe Dante.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he's a great actor to Joe Dante and you can like see that in Joe Dante's movies, you

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know, Bogdanovich like, you know, I'm a, I'm a big fan of Bogdanovich and his first feature

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Targets.

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It was a Roger Corman production.

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It's really fascinating story where they had some footage of a, an old Boris Karloff movie

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that Roger Corman told Bogdanovich like, put this footage in a new movie.

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You have to write a new script for it, but you have to use this footage.

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So like come up with whatever you can.

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And Bogdanovich made this great weird thriller where it's very self-reflexive, where Karloff

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is like an older actor who like wants to get out of the movie business.

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And then there's this kind of mad killer sniper who's targeting him at this big movie premiere.

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So it's, it's a crazy movie.

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I know I'm maybe talking a little bit more about Targets than Roger Corman right now,

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but just like what a, what a legend to like give so many artists their start.

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And like they, you know, he had, he had this knack for just like finding talent and like

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nurturing these great artists.

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And he, you know, Roger Corman made a number of really awesome movies himself.

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His adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe movies, especially are really fascinating.

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The Raven is really good.

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The Mask of the Red Death is really beautiful and really strange.

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I love that movie.

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But, but yeah, I think what I admire most about Corman is like his, you know, his ability

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to like find talent and nurture some of the best filmmakers of the 20th century.

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It's amazing.

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He left, it really left a stamp on American movies.

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And that's not an understatement.

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And he was 98 when he passed away last, no, not less than a week ago.

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And he was working up until the end.

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I mean, there you can find interviews with him from this past year.

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I mean, he was very, very active in the industry with the rise of home videos and then cable

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movie opportunities.

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He continued producing the new version of the B movie, which was just the direct to

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video.

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Dino, Croc versus Sharktopus, like all those like off the wall, crazy titles.

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He was probably behind them.

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And that's in the 21st century, let alone when he was doing in the 1950s.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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At the very least, he was like a, like a figurehead of like those movies or like an inspiration

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to them, you know, even if he didn't like play a role in the production of them.

496
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,480
Like, yeah, I feel like any B movie after the 1950s or 60s, Corman is kind of like the

497
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,400
godfather of that kind of movie, you know.

498
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:47,640
And then his one of his most well known movies is Little Shop of Horrors starring Jack Nicholson

499
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:48,880
is in it.

500
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:54,240
That obviously was turned into a very successful musical, The Little Shop of Horrors, which

501
00:27:54,240 --> 00:28:00,920
was turned into a movie itself in the 1980s and the Guthrie Theater here in Minneapolis

502
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,080
is producing it this summer.

503
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,080
Wow.

504
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,080
It all comes together.

505
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,080
It's amazing.

506
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,360
It's like it was meant to be.

507
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:10,680
I love that musical.

508
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,040
I love that movie.

509
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,760
I can't wait to see it on stage.

510
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,120
Yeah, I would love to.

511
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,520
I've never seen the original though.

512
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,560
So it's now is a great time to do so and pay homage to Roger Corman.

513
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:21,560
Yeah.

514
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:29,040
What I'm going to do with this episode is I'm going to intercut it with trailer clips

515
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,560
from Roger Corman movies.

516
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,560
Oh, cool.

517
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:32,560
Yeah.

518
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,000
So this will be a little tribute episode to Roger Corman.

519
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,520
Take it easy, Dracula.

520
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:43,360
What do you think I'm carrying here?

521
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:48,360
My dirty laundry.

522
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:58,840
Where a man eating talking plant gives homicide something to think about.

523
00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,840
I didn't do it.

524
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:00,840
Do what?

525
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:01,840
Whatever.

526
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:02,840
Ever see this man?

527
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:03,840
Man.

528
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:04,840
I see pictures.

529
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,840
Why are you so nervous?

530
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:06,840
Oh boy, you kiss good, Audrey.

531
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,840
Oh, I guess I just have a good kisser.

532
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:19,320
Now you will do as I say.

533
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,760
Yes, master.

534
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:29,200
You will go out and find me some food.

535
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,200
Yes, master.

536
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,040
What's the matter?

537
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,040
Don't you like me?

538
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,040
Too bony.

539
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,040
Too roly.

540
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,280
Nobody ever told me that before.

541
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,280
Beef is better than veal.

542
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,300
You're such a dodo.

543
00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:45,640
What do you call this?

544
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,620
Chopped liver?

545
00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:51,920
There you go.

546
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,000
Thanks a lot.

547
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:06,420
What you hunting this time?

548
00:30:06,420 --> 00:30:07,920
I'm gonna shoot some pigs.

549
00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:13,380
Target's. A movie about a war inside a man's head.

550
00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:26,260
Hey, what are you doing?

551
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,940
Peter Bogdanovich, the director of The Last Picture Show,

552
00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:40,540
takes you for a rollercoaster ride through the canyons of a disturbed mind in Target's.

553
00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:46,740
I have a light! A light!

554
00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:48,740
Stay in there! Get down!

555
00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:50,540
Oh, boy, there's somebody shooting at me!

556
00:30:50,540 --> 00:30:51,340
Open the window!

557
00:30:51,340 --> 00:31:05,340
There's a sniper in here!

558
00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:11,340
What turns an all-American boy into an all-American killer?

559
00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:15,340
I love it, man.

560
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:24,340
Yeah, I mean, rest in peace. If you love movies, especially horror movies, you have to love Roger Corman.

561
00:31:24,340 --> 00:31:25,340
You sort of don't really have a choice, you know?

562
00:31:25,340 --> 00:31:26,340
I know.

563
00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:36,340
And there are some others from that time, like B-movie, horror movie directors, like Herschel Gordon-Lewis and stuff like that,

564
00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:42,340
directors like that, who also were amazing, but you have to give credit where credit is due.

565
00:31:42,340 --> 00:31:46,340
Corman, you know, built that subgenre in a way.

566
00:31:46,340 --> 00:31:49,340
Yeah, prolific. Do you know William Castle?

567
00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:55,340
Yeah, yeah, for sure. The House on Haunted Hill, awesome movie. Love that one, Vincent Price.

568
00:31:55,340 --> 00:31:57,340
Yeah, and I've seen some other movies by him, too.

569
00:31:57,340 --> 00:32:00,340
Homicide or Homicidal, that's what it's called, Homicidal.

570
00:32:00,340 --> 00:32:02,340
Yeah, I haven't seen that one.

571
00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:07,340
It's kind of a ripoff of Psycho, but it's like really weird and unique in its own way.

572
00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:08,340
That movie's really cool.

573
00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:09,340
Cool.

574
00:32:09,340 --> 00:32:12,340
13 Ghosts is fun.

575
00:32:12,340 --> 00:32:13,340
Never seen that one.

576
00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:15,340
It's fun. The Tingler.

577
00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:18,340
Great title. I've always wanted to see that, yeah.

578
00:32:18,340 --> 00:32:21,340
It's kind of gross, but in a gnarly way.

579
00:32:21,340 --> 00:32:27,340
Okay. Yeah, I need to see more of his stuff, too. Does he have one called A Bucket of Blood? I think that's...

580
00:32:27,340 --> 00:32:28,340
No, that's Corman.

581
00:32:28,340 --> 00:32:32,340
Okay, gotcha. Another one I have to see, man.

582
00:32:32,340 --> 00:32:41,340
Last Corman movie I'll recommend that I recently saw. It's called X, The Man with the X-ray Eyes.

583
00:32:41,340 --> 00:32:45,340
Another great title. I haven't seen that one either.

584
00:32:45,340 --> 00:32:52,340
It's trippy. Ray Milan, and it's in Technicolor, and it's kind of freaky, too.

585
00:32:52,340 --> 00:32:53,340
All right.

586
00:32:53,340 --> 00:33:01,340
Well, I can't think of a better way to get back into monster movies. I know maybe not all those are monster movies, but you know, Roger Corman Festival.

587
00:33:01,340 --> 00:33:04,340
I'm going to have to do that soon.

588
00:33:04,340 --> 00:33:12,340
I like it. Roger Corman Fest. You got my festival ambitions percolating now.

589
00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:16,340
Yeah, it's good to get back into it. Season four, baby. It's going to be fun.

590
00:33:16,340 --> 00:33:32,340
True terror is the soft, cold caress of the raven's wing.

591
00:33:32,340 --> 00:33:36,340
Your hands are so cold.

592
00:33:36,340 --> 00:33:46,340
A woman whose desires transcend reality. The mysterious powers of black magic, these you will explore.

593
00:33:46,340 --> 00:33:49,340
Now, what is it you need?

594
00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:57,340
You got some dried blood over the bathroom house.

595
00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:10,340
A raven will take you careening through the darkest of dangers into the ominous mystery of a master magician's evil castle.

596
00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:16,340
Afraid, my dear?

597
00:34:16,340 --> 00:34:27,340
I offer you a choice. The secret of your hand manipulations or this against this.

598
00:34:27,340 --> 00:34:36,340
Well, don't you stand there doodling.

599
00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:38,340
This is no answer.

600
00:34:38,340 --> 00:34:47,340
Very well then. A due to the death.

601
00:34:47,340 --> 00:34:55,340
Quoth the raven, nevermore.

602
00:34:55,340 --> 00:35:04,340
August 14th, notes of experiment designated X. Experimental subject, myself, James Xavier.

603
00:35:04,340 --> 00:35:18,340
X, the most fantastic experiment you have ever taken part in, presents Ray Mulan in his most challenging role since his Academy Award winning Lost Weekend.

604
00:35:18,340 --> 00:35:21,340
X, the man with the x-ray eyes.

605
00:35:21,340 --> 00:35:25,340
Are you all right?

606
00:35:25,340 --> 00:35:32,340
It's like a splitting of the world. More light than I've ever seen.

607
00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:34,340
The field was light.

608
00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:48,340
X, the man with the x-ray eyes, tries to help the most desperate in our society and enjoys all the delights of secretly studying sexology.

609
00:35:48,340 --> 00:35:49,340
Headache?

610
00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:57,340
No, it's just my eyes.

611
00:35:57,340 --> 00:36:05,340
A doctor with the power to see what others cannot believe.

612
00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:17,340
He could overcome the unknown, save lives, and invade the glamour gambling casinos of Las Vegas and defy the goddess of chance.

613
00:36:17,340 --> 00:36:19,340
Don't draw. Don't draw.

614
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:23,340
Next card's a face card.

615
00:36:23,340 --> 00:36:26,340
Harry, you better go for the sheriff right now.

616
00:36:26,340 --> 00:36:30,340
Yes, freeze! Freeze!

617
00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:51,340
Now push up your sleeve.

618
00:36:51,340 --> 00:37:08,340
No!

619
00:37:08,340 --> 00:37:10,340
Got something over here!

620
00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:13,340
An experiment they couldn't control

621
00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:15,340
Wade, what's going on here?

622
00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:17,340
has unleashed

623
00:37:17,340 --> 00:37:18,340
What the hell was that?

624
00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:21,340
The ultimate predator.

625
00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:26,340
Carnasaur II.

626
00:37:26,340 --> 00:37:27,340
What is this?

627
00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:29,340
I thought of a way to bring back dinosaurs.

628
00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:33,340
Come on, move it! Move it!

629
00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:35,340
We found a nest.

630
00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:38,340
Dozens of things have started breeding.

631
00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:45,340
We're safe in here!

632
00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:50,340
Attention all personnel.

633
00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:53,340
Evacuation group is on the surface.

634
00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:56,340
Proceed to emergency exits immediately.

635
00:37:56,340 --> 00:38:00,340
Angrier. Deadlier. Hungrier.

636
00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:05,340
Carnasaur II.

637
00:38:05,340 --> 00:38:09,340
Extinction is a thing of the past.

638
00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:21,340
Okay, okay, we'll get to our, we will reveal our ten titles between July and December here real quick.

639
00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:24,340
But first, some nuts and bolts.

640
00:38:24,340 --> 00:38:29,340
Give credit where credit's due. Our patrons, we, we, you're good enough to thank twice.

641
00:38:29,340 --> 00:38:32,340
Jason, Chris, Sean, our anonymous patron, and Peggy.

642
00:38:32,340 --> 00:38:35,340
And for all you out there, if you want to be a patron,

643
00:38:35,340 --> 00:38:46,340
you can contribute as little as five dollars a month and you get discounts on our merchandise, events, personal thank yous, even priority comments.

644
00:38:46,340 --> 00:38:55,340
So with merchandise, please visit CampKaiju.threadless.com and it'll take you to our merch store.

645
00:38:55,340 --> 00:38:57,340
T-shirts galore.

646
00:38:57,340 --> 00:39:03,340
You can get our, any one of our logos on stickers, buttons, magnets.

647
00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:07,340
You name it, it's pretty much going to be on Threadless.

648
00:39:07,340 --> 00:39:13,340
A lot of cool stuff. I didn't really know what was going to be on there before I took a look, but it's it's pretty cool.

649
00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:18,340
Yeah, Matt, if you want a shirt or anything, let me know.

650
00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:19,340
Okay.

651
00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:27,340
I, yeah, for sure. I'll, you know, I want everything on there. One of everything is what I want, but I know I probably can't do that.

652
00:39:27,340 --> 00:39:29,340
So I'll, yeah, I'll let you know for sure.

653
00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:36,340
Only if you're a patron and only if you're giving us fifteen dollars a month.

654
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:44,340
Well, I mean, it's worth it, of course, to support my favorite podcast. So I might have to do that.

655
00:39:44,340 --> 00:39:55,340
All right. If any of you are interested in sharing your thoughts about Camp Kaiju or your favorite monster movies, you can reach out to us at CampKaiju at gmail.com.

656
00:39:55,340 --> 00:40:02,340
Our YouTube page, Facebook, Instagram, all those links will be in our show notes.

657
00:40:02,340 --> 00:40:12,340
As well as the Kaiju hotline, we have a number, a phone number I promise not to ever pick up, but you can leave a voicemail.

658
00:40:12,340 --> 00:40:20,340
And that is 612-470-2612. We would love to feature your voice on the show.

659
00:40:20,340 --> 00:40:31,340
I can't wait to see what sort of messages we get on there, like just hopefully like long rambling diatribes or like odes to the best monster movies ever made.

660
00:40:31,340 --> 00:40:34,340
You know, like I just can't wait to see what happens or like.

661
00:40:34,340 --> 00:40:39,340
Is your refrigerator running?

662
00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:44,340
You better catch it like that. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, like crank calls.

663
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:48,340
Yeah, I will probably get some of those. Yeah, even that'll be fun.

664
00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:54,340
This show turned into cranky anchors. That's basically what we're going for. Yeah.

665
00:40:54,340 --> 00:40:58,340
Oh, throwback. Yeah.

666
00:40:58,340 --> 00:41:02,340
What else? What else? What else? Oh, this is a great time to talk about our trivia.

667
00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:06,340
Trivia, trivia, trivia. We're going to do trivia on a podcast.

668
00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:13,340
We're going to try. Can't believe it. Yeah. You love trivia, right? I do. Yeah, I really love trivia.

669
00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:20,340
Yeah, all kinds of trivia. Trivia Pursuit, you know, bar trivia, trivia mafia.

670
00:41:20,340 --> 00:41:24,340
I go to a lot of their events. So, yeah, can't can't get enough. Yeah.

671
00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:31,340
Well, her name is Naomi and she hosts a bar trivia once a month in the Twin Cities.

672
00:41:31,340 --> 00:41:36,340
And we got connected on Instagram. She's a huge movie buff.

673
00:41:36,340 --> 00:41:39,340
And her trivia is about movie trivia specifically.

674
00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:47,340
So I said, hey, why not once a month you come on Camp Kaiju, you pitch one trivia question to our listeners.

675
00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:53,340
Now, listeners, listen up. So what Naomi will do is give you the question.

676
00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:59,340
You will then have a week to write in your answers. It's OK.

677
00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:08,340
If it's not OK, if you cheat. But if you do, it doesn't matter because whatever answer you put out there gets your name into a hat.

678
00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:17,340
And then on the show, we will draw one lucky winner and that lucky winner will get some free merch from our Threadless store.

679
00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:28,340
Now get this. If you call in on the Kaiju hotline with a guess, that gets you in the hat twice.

680
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:33,340
Oh, man. So why not call the hotline?

681
00:42:33,340 --> 00:42:38,340
It could be your 20 minutes of fame, your moment in the limelight.

682
00:42:38,340 --> 00:42:42,340
And then you just doubled your odds to win something. Indeed. Yeah. Yeah.

683
00:42:42,340 --> 00:42:47,340
I love it. It's such a good idea. We'll see how it goes. Yeah. Yeah.

684
00:42:47,340 --> 00:42:52,340
Also, if people cheat, we will know. We're watching you. Whatever you do.

685
00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:55,340
Like if you look up the answers on Google, we will know.

686
00:42:55,340 --> 00:43:01,340
So I just want to throw that out there. Don't do anything untowards because Vincent and I will be aware.

687
00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:06,340
We're watching. You can cut that out if you want. No, it's creepy. I like it.

688
00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:10,340
Cool. Okay.

689
00:43:10,340 --> 00:43:20,340
Me as mailbox. We have a whole backlog of fans who wrote in over the past six, eight months even that I think we need to get to.

690
00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:24,340
So we'll just read a couple here.

691
00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:32,340
First and foremost, Matt, I'm going to skip ahead down to our bottom. So David Ruffalo, it's Ruffalo.

692
00:43:32,340 --> 00:43:35,340
It's I hope I say that right.

693
00:43:35,340 --> 00:43:39,340
Longtime fan. David often comments on our YouTube page.

694
00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:44,340
Anyways, this was just a month ago. He commented on our Mothra episode.

695
00:43:44,340 --> 00:43:50,340
And he said, always been a fan of Mothra and never really viewed her as an antagonist.

696
00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:58,340
And now that Pluto has the Godzilla Channel, I always binge watch the rebirth of Mothra series, which kind of gets silly after the first one.

697
00:43:58,340 --> 00:44:04,340
But they're still enjoyable, particularly as you see her powers grow from movie to movie.

698
00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:09,340
The Godzilla Channel also plays American Japanese versions of the original Godzilla.

699
00:44:09,340 --> 00:44:16,340
And sadly, in my opinion, the additional footage of Raymond Burr really ruins the flow of the movie.

700
00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:22,340
And you can catch Yon Gari on either Tubi or Roku for free.

701
00:44:22,340 --> 00:44:27,340
Thank you, David. That's a lot of great pro tips for us.

702
00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:32,340
Yeah, absolutely. Can you remind me what Yon Gari is? I have not seen that.

703
00:44:32,340 --> 00:44:41,340
Yeah, I think it's a it's a Korean Kaiju film. Remember, we were talking to Ben Cook Feltz about different Kaiju.

704
00:44:41,340 --> 00:44:44,340
Anyways, Yon Gari was mentioned in that conversation.

705
00:44:44,340 --> 00:44:47,340
Cool. Yeah, I knew it sounded familiar.

706
00:44:47,340 --> 00:44:51,340
But yeah, David has a lot of great points for sure. I love Mothra.

707
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:59,340
There's some of my favorite Godzilla or Godzilla adjacent movies, some of like the weirder, more surreal stuff, I feel like is in the Mothra movies.

708
00:44:59,340 --> 00:45:10,340
Yes. And the rebirth of Mothra series from the 90s is very silly, but really in an awesome way because they just go for broke.

709
00:45:10,340 --> 00:45:19,340
And Mothra and her progeny just have like crazy superpowers. You're like, what is happening?

710
00:45:19,340 --> 00:45:27,340
It's awesome. Man, I yet another little like pocket of Kaiju movies that I have not watched yet, but I can't wait to check out.

711
00:45:27,340 --> 00:45:33,340
I haven't even seen them all, but I've seen the first one and it got me hooked.

712
00:45:33,340 --> 00:45:39,340
Man. Well, yeah. Thank you, David, for for that pro tip. Like Vincent said, I will definitely have to check those out.

713
00:45:39,340 --> 00:45:45,340
Yeah, I noticed we had a comment on Flesh for Frankenstein. I had a lot of fun with that episode.

714
00:45:45,340 --> 00:45:52,340
I liked that movie quite a bit. I think maybe a little bit more than you and Frank Olsen like that movie.

715
00:45:52,340 --> 00:45:56,340
But Larry Jax on YouTube left a comment on that episode.

716
00:45:56,340 --> 00:46:01,340
He wrote, I liked this movie a lot, but it does not translate well to home video.

717
00:46:01,340 --> 00:46:08,340
I saw this at an art house with some sick hipsters and the blood looked more realistic, the gore much more believable.

718
00:46:08,340 --> 00:46:13,340
My advice to anyone watching this at home is to view it in black and white.

719
00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:16,340
Thank you, Larry. I love that comment.

720
00:46:16,340 --> 00:46:22,340
I, you know, like watching that in an art house with some sick hipsters seems like the ideal way to watch that movie.

721
00:46:22,340 --> 00:46:27,340
That's not how I watched it, but I need to do that as soon as possible.

722
00:46:27,340 --> 00:46:36,340
And I can't, you know, it's hard to imagine in black and white, mostly just because I I sort of love like the faded dingy like sleazy looking colors in that movie.

723
00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:39,340
But I bet it would be it would look really cool in black and white.

724
00:46:39,340 --> 00:46:44,340
There is a decapitation scene that's like so bloody and gross and gory.

725
00:46:44,340 --> 00:46:49,340
I like can't even imagine it without color. But but now I want to. It sounds great.

726
00:46:49,340 --> 00:47:02,340
Are the sick hipsters like actually sick like they had a cold or are they sick like, you know, fly cool or just like demented?

727
00:47:02,340 --> 00:47:09,340
Maybe if they're at a screening of Flesh for Frankenstein, probably a little bit like sick in the head, you know, which I mean, that's my kind of people.

728
00:47:09,340 --> 00:47:17,340
That's great. Yeah, I I probably would enjoy Flesh for Frankenstein more in a group of sick hipsters.

729
00:47:17,340 --> 00:47:23,340
Yeah, I know that the companion piece to that movie Blood for Dracula is on the Criterion channel right now.

730
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,340
So I definitely want to watch that before it leaves the end of the month.

731
00:47:26,340 --> 00:47:34,340
100 percent. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks, listeners. Leave us your comments again on any of the social medias.

732
00:47:34,340 --> 00:47:37,340
We'll do our best to feature your voice on the show.

733
00:47:37,340 --> 00:47:42,340
One last segment, and then we're going to get to revealing our picks.

734
00:47:42,340 --> 00:47:48,340
So I mentioned silent movies before I have a new segment.

735
00:47:48,340 --> 00:47:56,340
So just the five minute bit called Silent But Deadly.

736
00:47:56,340 --> 00:48:00,340
Love. Yeah.

737
00:48:00,340 --> 00:48:09,340
And it's just five minutes to spotlight a silent monster movie or horror movie, Monster Adjacent.

738
00:48:09,340 --> 00:48:14,340
There's a lot of really great movies out there that deserve some love.

739
00:48:14,340 --> 00:48:18,340
I mentioned some earlier and I have a whole lineup.

740
00:48:18,340 --> 00:48:24,340
We may have a special guest present those.

741
00:48:24,340 --> 00:48:29,340
By the name of Peter Laurie. Whoa. From the grave, from the grave.

742
00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:38,340
Honestly, yeah, he's hard to get a hold of, but the blob knew who I could talk to.

743
00:48:38,340 --> 00:48:46,340
So we'll see. The blob is a very convenient intermediary to the to the great beyond the spirit world.

744
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:49,340
We'll have to take advantage of that in the future a little bit more often.

745
00:48:49,340 --> 00:48:54,340
I hope the blob comes back. Yeah, he's he's grumpy.

746
00:48:54,340 --> 00:48:58,340
He's hard to work with, but it's worth it. You know, he's one of a kind, for sure.

747
00:48:58,340 --> 00:49:06,340
The blob episode that Gary Dansu was also on is our second highest is our second most listened to episode of all time.

748
00:49:06,340 --> 00:49:10,340
Wow. I mean, that doesn't totally surprise me.

749
00:49:10,340 --> 00:49:14,340
It's like everybody loves the blob. The theme song is great.

750
00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:17,340
It's stuck in your head for years after you watch that movie.

751
00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:21,340
Yeah, it's I'm not surprised people love it. Yeah.

752
00:49:21,340 --> 00:49:24,340
Good stuff, everybody. Go listen to our past episodes.

753
00:49:24,340 --> 00:49:28,340
Let us know what you think and stay tuned for what's coming up.

754
00:49:28,340 --> 00:49:34,340
Before Karloff and Lugosi stalked the screens, the movies were no less monstrous.

755
00:49:34,340 --> 00:49:42,340
These frightful figures lurked in the expressionistic shadows and danced in the macabre moonlight.

756
00:49:42,340 --> 00:49:45,340
Oh, they laughed. They cried.

757
00:49:45,340 --> 00:49:49,340
They fooled the sensibilities of honest, decent folk.

758
00:49:49,340 --> 00:49:56,340
In the age of silent pictures, these gruesome ghouls nonetheless cried out to the world.

759
00:49:56,340 --> 00:50:04,340
Ghouls nonetheless cried out to the savage humanity that took the breath from all who witnessed their devilish delights.

760
00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:12,340
For in the silence, no one can hear you scream.

761
00:50:17,340 --> 00:50:25,340
My name is Peter Laurie, and I have been resurrected from my grave recently by Matthew and Vincent

762
00:50:25,340 --> 00:50:29,340
to discuss silent monster movies.

763
00:50:30,340 --> 00:50:37,340
You may know me from such films as Esa Blanca and The Raven, directed by Roger Corman.

764
00:50:38,340 --> 00:50:44,340
I have been long dead, but I wish Roger the best and hope that he is alive and well.

765
00:50:48,340 --> 00:50:52,340
I have just been informed that Roger Corman is no longer among the living.

766
00:50:52,340 --> 00:50:58,340
Perhaps I will see him on the other side, but I have been dragged back to the land of the living

767
00:50:58,340 --> 00:51:08,340
to talk about something called Camp Kaiju Monster Movie Podcast with a segment called Silent But Deadly.

768
00:51:11,340 --> 00:51:20,340
Each week, I will be forced to talk about a movie from the 1920s starring actors like Conrad Veidt,

769
00:51:20,340 --> 00:51:32,340
Lon Chaney, directors like F.W. Murnau, Todd Browning, and movies like Metropolis, Nosferatu, and The Phantom of the Opera.

770
00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:36,340
We will start that segment with The Phantom in July.

771
00:51:36,340 --> 00:51:49,340
Until then, I will try my best to find my way back to the land of the dead. Ta ta for now.

772
00:51:56,340 --> 00:52:02,340
So Matt, I think it's time we reveal Season 4 of Camp Kaiju.

773
00:52:02,340 --> 00:52:06,340
I think so. I've been looking forward to this. Yeah, can't wait.

774
00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:15,340
And for those listening, Matt and I have not discussed these movies. Maybe we'll pick the same ones. Who knows? It's a good time.

775
00:52:15,340 --> 00:52:25,340
So what we do know, though, in July, Kaiju-ly, we're kicking things off strong with Godzilla, Kong, The New Empire, followed by?

776
00:52:25,340 --> 00:52:31,340
King Kong versus Godzilla from 1962. Is that correct?

777
00:52:31,340 --> 00:52:38,340
Yeah, I believe it might. It may have been released in Japan in 62 and America in 63.

778
00:52:38,340 --> 00:52:44,340
OK, but either way, yeah, some classic Ishiro Honda. Yeah. Yeah.

779
00:52:44,340 --> 00:52:50,340
Another I mean, well, I was going to say rest in peace. He died quite a while ago, but it was just his birthday if he was still alive.

780
00:52:50,340 --> 00:53:04,340
Ishiro Honda's birthday. So, yeah, I'm excited to do kind of like bookends of like Godzilla versus King Kong, both the original confrontation between the two great Kaiju beasts and then the most recent installment in the franchise.

781
00:53:04,340 --> 00:53:11,340
It'll be a cool contrast for sure. Yeah. A Kong frontation, if you will.

782
00:53:11,340 --> 00:53:17,340
Ooh, that will lead to a fascinating contrast.

783
00:53:17,340 --> 00:53:25,340
Oh, man. Just lame puns all the time on Camp Kaiju.

784
00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:31,340
OK, OK. So Godzilla, Kong, then King Kong versus Godzilla.

785
00:53:31,340 --> 00:53:37,340
And then I don't know, should your movie be next or should my movie be next?

786
00:53:37,340 --> 00:53:42,340
Hmm. Oh, man. Good question.

787
00:53:42,340 --> 00:53:45,340
You want to you want to you want to flip for it?

788
00:53:45,340 --> 00:53:48,340
Let's flip for it. Yeah, that's the best way to do it.

789
00:53:48,340 --> 00:53:51,340
I can grab a coin unless you have one.

790
00:53:51,340 --> 00:53:56,340
I don't. That was a that's a stupid thing for me to suggest.

791
00:53:56,340 --> 00:54:00,340
Well, I have one in the kitchen. I'll be right back. OK.

792
00:54:00,340 --> 00:54:03,340
All right. Are you calling heads or tails?

793
00:54:03,340 --> 00:54:07,340
Tails. All right. If it's tails, then you go first.

794
00:54:07,340 --> 00:54:11,340
OK. All right.

795
00:54:11,340 --> 00:54:15,340
It is heads. Oh, I will go first. All right.

796
00:54:15,340 --> 00:54:20,340
So, yeah, starting off in August after our Kai July, I'm going to bring a movie

797
00:54:20,340 --> 00:54:24,340
to the podcast that I've wanted to rewatch for years, but I've been too scared

798
00:54:24,340 --> 00:54:28,340
because it is a legitimate phobia of mine. That is arachnophobia.

799
00:54:28,340 --> 00:54:33,340
Whoo. Yeah, I'm going to have to confront my fears, get over my,

800
00:54:33,340 --> 00:54:36,340
you know, debilitating phobia of spiders.

801
00:54:36,340 --> 00:54:40,340
I did see this movie a long time ago. I remember liking it a lot.

802
00:54:40,340 --> 00:54:43,340
Jeff Daniels, Jeff Daniels, right? Yeah.

803
00:54:43,340 --> 00:54:45,340
Yeah. John Goodman is in it, too.

804
00:54:45,340 --> 00:54:49,340
Some really gross, terrifying stuff in this movie.

805
00:54:49,340 --> 00:54:53,340
And I'm going to have nightmares for weeks afterwards, but that's the price we pay for art.

806
00:54:53,340 --> 00:54:56,340
You know, I love it. That's great.

807
00:54:56,340 --> 00:55:01,340
So we immediately go from giant Kaiju to very small monsters.

808
00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:04,340
Yeah, I love that. Oh, man.

809
00:55:04,340 --> 00:55:08,340
That makes me want to that makes me want to switch it up and do do a do a creature

810
00:55:08,340 --> 00:55:12,340
feature in August. But I'm going to stick to my guns here.

811
00:55:12,340 --> 00:55:17,340
My original choice for August.

812
00:55:17,340 --> 00:55:25,340
The Mummy from 1999, Stephen Summers, Brendan Fraser.

813
00:55:25,340 --> 00:55:28,340
It's celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

814
00:55:28,340 --> 00:55:31,340
What better time to talk about it? For sure. Yeah.

815
00:55:31,340 --> 00:55:35,340
And Rachel Weiss also, who I, you know, I think like everybody else,

816
00:55:35,340 --> 00:55:38,340
when that movie came out, I had the biggest crush on Rachel Weiss.

817
00:55:38,340 --> 00:55:42,340
So it's you know, like I feel like even though it only came out 25 years ago,

818
00:55:42,340 --> 00:55:44,340
it's already sort of a classic.

819
00:55:44,340 --> 00:55:48,340
Like it's kind of like entered the monster movie Pantheon in a way.

820
00:55:48,340 --> 00:55:51,340
Yeah. So yeah, I'm excited to talk about it. Awesome.

821
00:55:51,340 --> 00:55:55,340
All right. We're off to a great start here. I agree. Yeah. Yeah.

822
00:55:55,340 --> 00:55:57,340
What is September bring us?

823
00:55:57,340 --> 00:56:01,340
I'm taking a left turn a little bit, and I have to apologize in advance

824
00:56:01,340 --> 00:56:05,340
because this movie is one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen.

825
00:56:05,340 --> 00:56:09,340
It's called Possession. It's by Polish director.

826
00:56:09,340 --> 00:56:12,340
Have you seen this movie? No, you've talked to.

827
00:56:12,340 --> 00:56:16,340
Oh, my God. This is like the really, truly frightening one.

828
00:56:16,340 --> 00:56:20,340
Yeah, it's a rough one for sure. It's really great. Very strange.

829
00:56:20,340 --> 00:56:24,340
There is a monster in it, like a very literal, gross, slimy monster.

830
00:56:24,340 --> 00:56:29,340
But it's kind of a metaphor for a lot of other things going on in the movie.

831
00:56:29,340 --> 00:56:32,340
So, yeah, it's it's it's going to be a rough one.

832
00:56:32,340 --> 00:56:37,340
But, you know, I kind of want to bring some like tough, you know, complicated

833
00:56:37,340 --> 00:56:41,340
cinema to the podcast, not to I'm kind of being facetious not to denigrate

834
00:56:41,340 --> 00:56:45,340
any other kind of movie. But but yeah, I'm excited to talk about it.

835
00:56:45,340 --> 00:56:47,340
I haven't seen it in a long time.

836
00:56:47,340 --> 00:56:51,340
It has maybe the best performance that I've ever seen by anybody in any movie.

837
00:56:51,340 --> 00:56:57,340
Isabel Aijani, who just kind of really commits to this role to a sort of disturbing degree.

838
00:56:57,340 --> 00:57:01,340
So, yeah, possession. Stay stay tuned for that.

839
00:57:01,340 --> 00:57:03,340
So I will be watching that with the lights on.

840
00:57:03,340 --> 00:57:07,340
But I've heard good things about this film.

841
00:57:07,340 --> 00:57:10,340
It is well regarded. I love it.

842
00:57:10,340 --> 00:57:13,340
I think I mean, I think that's why I love Camp Kaiju.

843
00:57:13,340 --> 00:57:17,340
We talk about the fun movies and we do talk about some,

844
00:57:17,340 --> 00:57:21,340
I would say, some mature horror films.

845
00:57:21,340 --> 00:57:25,340
It's rated R, I'm assuming. Oh, yeah. Hard R, I would say.

846
00:57:25,340 --> 00:57:30,340
Hard R, everybody. Leave the kids at home.

847
00:57:30,340 --> 00:57:32,340
But yeah, it'll be a good conversation.

848
00:57:32,340 --> 00:57:34,340
It's a it's a really fascinating movie.

849
00:57:34,340 --> 00:57:39,340
It kind of reminds me of when we talked about the movie, The Untamed on the podcast,

850
00:57:39,340 --> 00:57:42,340
like at the beginning of last year, I think. Yeah.

851
00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:45,340
I mean, it's it's dark. It's a little bit difficult to watch at times,

852
00:57:45,340 --> 00:57:48,340
but really significant, complicated themes.

853
00:57:48,340 --> 00:57:52,340
So it should be a good conversation. Yeah. Can't wait.

854
00:57:52,340 --> 00:57:56,340
What what a contrast. I get whiplash.

855
00:57:56,340 --> 00:58:00,340
Even thinking about the movie I'm about to drop on you.

856
00:58:00,340 --> 00:58:05,340
So it is.

857
00:58:05,340 --> 00:58:13,340
Planet of the Apes, but it's Tim Burton's 2001 remake.

858
00:58:13,340 --> 00:58:19,340
OK, well, it is not well regarded.

859
00:58:19,340 --> 00:58:26,340
But I think in that we can have a lot of fun around what does stand the test of time,

860
00:58:26,340 --> 00:58:34,340
what really doesn't and just, I don't know, have fun with a campy movie,

861
00:58:34,340 --> 00:58:38,340
a bad movie. Actually, it's not great, but I want to talk about it.

862
00:58:38,340 --> 00:58:42,340
I love that choice. I haven't seen it since it first came out.

863
00:58:42,340 --> 00:58:45,340
Twenty four years, twenty three years ago.

864
00:58:45,340 --> 00:58:51,340
I remember not liking it, and I remember liking pretty much all the Tim Burton movies before that

865
00:58:51,340 --> 00:58:53,340
and disliking pretty much all the Burton movies after that.

866
00:58:53,340 --> 00:58:56,340
So it's kind of like a decisive shift in his filmography.

867
00:58:56,340 --> 00:59:02,340
But maybe I'll feel differently this time around. But Burton is a great monster movie director.

868
00:59:02,340 --> 00:59:05,340
But you're right. Like what happened in his career?

869
00:59:05,340 --> 00:59:09,340
He kind of went off the rails. Maybe it starts with this film. Yeah.

870
00:59:09,340 --> 00:59:13,340
Lots to discuss there. We'll find out. Yeah.

871
00:59:13,340 --> 00:59:17,340
OK, October now. Spooky season. Yeah.

872
00:59:17,340 --> 00:59:20,340
I love this sense of whiplash. This is great.

873
00:59:20,340 --> 00:59:25,340
So I'm going to bring the movie The Relic to the podcast. Oh, fun.

874
00:59:25,340 --> 00:59:30,340
Yeah, I'm really excited to rewatch this. This came out in the late 90s, 1997.

875
00:59:30,340 --> 00:59:33,340
I'm pretty sure I don't remember anything about it.

876
00:59:33,340 --> 00:59:37,340
It's set at a museum. I think that's the only thing I really remember.

877
00:59:37,340 --> 00:59:41,340
I watched like two minutes of it on TV recently and I was like, this looks so entertaining.

878
00:59:41,340 --> 00:59:48,340
I can't wait to watch it again. So yeah, The Relic in October for my selection.

879
00:59:48,340 --> 00:59:52,340
That's awesome. It's been on top of my watch list for a while.

880
00:59:52,340 --> 00:59:57,340
OK, more whiplash. This is the theme of season four now. Nice.

881
00:59:57,340 --> 01:00:08,340
I'm going old school. So this year slated for release from Universal is another remake of The Wolfman.

882
01:00:08,340 --> 01:00:13,340
So I said, let's revisit the classic Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr.

883
01:00:13,340 --> 01:00:18,340
So I'm bringing Classic Universal to the show in October.

884
01:00:18,340 --> 01:00:27,340
That's great. I you know, you might not think it with the selections that I'm bringing, but I've been wanting to like do some like good old fashioned universal like actual.

885
01:00:27,340 --> 01:00:32,340
I mean, these are all classic movies in their own way, but like, you know, bonafide classic monster movie.

886
01:00:32,340 --> 01:00:36,340
So that's a great choice. I can't wait to see it again. Yeah, me too.

887
01:00:36,340 --> 01:00:41,340
I forgot the remake was coming out, too, which I feel like there's like a decent director attached to that. Is that right?

888
01:00:41,340 --> 01:00:46,340
I can't remember who it is now, though. It's Lee Wanel who directed the Invisible Man remake.

889
01:00:46,340 --> 01:00:51,340
OK, I'm actually not a huge fan of him, so I take back what I said, but maybe the remake will still be good.

890
01:00:51,340 --> 01:00:56,340
Who knows? Well, I'm a fan. So we even out. Fair enough.

891
01:00:56,340 --> 01:01:04,340
Yeah, we'll have to talk about his movies on the podcast at some point as well, which I'm sure we will when if we see the Wolfman when it comes up.

892
01:01:04,340 --> 01:01:11,340
Yeah. Cool. All right. Classic universal horror. That's that's awesome.

893
01:01:11,340 --> 01:01:15,340
All right. So we're in November, right? November. All right.

894
01:01:15,340 --> 01:01:21,340
So the next movie that I'm going to bring to the pod is called God Told Me To by Larry Cohen.

895
01:01:21,340 --> 01:01:24,340
Yeah, you wanted to bring that last year. I did.

896
01:01:24,340 --> 01:01:28,340
It was one of my I think was actually in like my top list that I wanted to do.

897
01:01:28,340 --> 01:01:35,340
And then I changed my mind the last minute because I thought it would kind of like whatever else I chose would like fit better with like the other movie that month.

898
01:01:35,340 --> 01:01:41,340
But ever since then, like, oh, man, I wish I had stuck with God Told Me To. So we're going to do it this time.

899
01:01:41,340 --> 01:01:48,340
It sounds like a really crazy movie about like a cult leader who is like a half alien, half mutant, I think, something like that.

900
01:01:48,340 --> 01:01:55,340
And I love Larry Cohen. He's like, you know, sort of in the vein of Roger Corman, like strange subversive B movies.

901
01:01:55,340 --> 01:01:59,340
So, yeah, I'm excited to see it. Sweet. Yeah.

902
01:01:59,340 --> 01:02:04,340
Well, we have to get some more classic Kaiju in the mix.

903
01:02:04,340 --> 01:02:13,340
I am hoping by November, Godzilla minus one is streaming because I would love to bring Godzilla minus one to the podcast.

904
01:02:13,340 --> 01:02:24,340
OK, nice. I love it. That's a great choice, because like that's another one where I feel like it's already become become sort of a classic for monster movie lovers, even though it just came out last year.

905
01:02:24,340 --> 01:02:31,340
And people kind of like went crazy for it, like, oh, it's the best Godzilla movie ever, which I I disagree with slightly.

906
01:02:31,340 --> 01:02:35,340
So I'm sure that'll be a fascinating conversation. And I haven't seen it yet.

907
01:02:35,340 --> 01:02:42,340
November will be a year since it had come out. Yeah, I'd love to I'd love to talk about it.

908
01:02:42,340 --> 01:02:51,340
Awesome. That sounds great. I have like a number of movies that are sort of up in the air from my last selection for season four.

909
01:02:51,340 --> 01:03:00,340
But I think I would kind of like to do a more recent one that's also very critically acclaimed, but I haven't seen it yet, which is Attack the Block from 2011.

910
01:03:00,340 --> 01:03:07,340
Yeah. Yeah. I've heard really good things. And like for years for more than a decade now, it's like, oh, yeah, I should see that at some point.

911
01:03:07,340 --> 01:03:16,340
So that sorry. No, yeah, that's that's all I was going to say. Sorry. Yeah. Well, that movie was featured in the documentary for noir.

912
01:03:16,340 --> 01:03:25,340
Right. Yeah. And I know it was kind of critically acclaimed for that reason, like, you know, greater diversity and representation and like kind of like a classic alien invasion format.

913
01:03:25,340 --> 01:03:34,340
So really, really looking forward to that one. Wow. That's a great pick. They're all great picks. But yeah, I just learned about that movie. So that's awesome. Cool.

914
01:03:34,340 --> 01:03:47,340
For December, I'm going to go Christmas themed and I'm finally, finally going to bring gremlins to the show. Yeah. They want to do it for ever since this podcast started.

915
01:03:47,340 --> 01:04:03,340
It's about time we're going to talk about gremlins during the holiday season. It's one of my favorite Christmas movies and one of my favorite monster movies, which is it definitely is a monster movie, but I feel like it doesn't like totally fit into this to that genre.

916
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:18,340
You know, and like a very neat and tidy way. So, yeah, I can't wait to talk about that. We can continue our Joe Dante love on the podcast as well. Yeah, Dante, a patron saint of monster cinema. Yeah, for sure.

917
01:04:18,340 --> 01:04:24,340
Yeah, like we talked about Corman before and Joe Dante, another director that got a start there. Yeah.

918
01:04:24,340 --> 01:04:43,340
Oh, that's great. Okay. So from July to August, sorry, from July to December, we have a huge, a huge variation in tones and movies that run the gamut from really frightening to really silly.

919
01:04:43,340 --> 01:04:49,340
I love that and everything in between. That's what we talk about the good, the bad and the campy.

920
01:04:49,340 --> 01:05:00,340
Absolutely everything from European art movies to classic universal horror to, you know, great British entertainment in the last 10 or 20 years, a little bit of everything.

921
01:05:00,340 --> 01:05:11,340
Yeah, awesome. So everybody, fans, listeners, write in, let us know what you're most excited for. Let us know.

922
01:05:11,340 --> 01:05:24,340
And if we just called out one of your favorite movies or a movie you didn't like, we'd love to hear from you. And we and we can't wait. So coming up in July, stay tuned for Godzilla and Kong.

923
01:05:24,340 --> 01:05:45,340
Until then, in the month of June, the month of June, we will be releasing the final episode of our Frozen with Fear series, which Max Hannum and Corey Stewart, they do a whole review on the film Cold Skin from 2017.

924
01:05:45,340 --> 01:05:54,340
It's really an independent monster movie about fish people on an island in the South Atlantic.

925
01:05:54,340 --> 01:06:03,340
If you'd like the lighthouse and creature from the Black Lagoon. This is kind of that those two movies put together. Whoa.

926
01:06:03,340 --> 01:06:09,340
Color me intrigued. It's good. It's good. I think I watched it on to be probably.

927
01:06:09,340 --> 01:06:19,340
Then after Cold Skin, we will feature our collaboration with Gaze Do the D, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

928
01:06:19,340 --> 01:06:27,340
And then boom, Kai July will be here before you know it. Man, I can't wait. Season four, man. It's gonna be fun.

929
01:06:27,340 --> 01:06:42,340
I can't wait. Thank you, Matt, for coming back. And you and I could talk about some guests who can join us as well. Yeah, to be determined. Stay tuned for more information about that. Yeah, definitely.

930
01:06:42,340 --> 01:06:49,340
Okay, I'm done if you are. Let's go watch the wolves game. Yes, go wolves.

931
01:06:49,340 --> 01:06:58,340
For hanging out friends, please rate and review wherever you listen. You can also share this podcast with a friend. More monster kids, the better.

932
01:06:58,340 --> 01:07:08,340
Send us your listener comments at CampKaiju at gmail.com, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, links in the bio.

933
01:07:08,340 --> 01:07:24,340
If you'd like to be a featured voice on the show, go ahead and leave a voicemail at 612-470-2612 telling us about your favorite monster movies, memories, what you thought about this show, what you think about the upcoming season.

934
01:07:24,340 --> 01:07:32,340
We're all ears. And please check out our website, CampKaijuPodcast.com for more information.

935
01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:46,340
Camp Kaiju is recorded in Minneapolis, St. Paul with Menia's mailbox music by Ben Cook Phelps.

936
01:07:46,340 --> 01:08:04,340
The contract director with Universal, Jack Arnold is not a household name, arguably. He's not James Whale. He's not Todd Browning. And yet, I think he should be with the care he devotes to his monster movies. They're not just some run of the mill B movie.

937
01:08:04,340 --> 01:08:10,340
And it goes beyond creature. I keep saying came from outer space, the incredible shrinking man.

938
01:08:10,340 --> 01:08:29,340
They're classics of the genre. They really are. You know, plus he was an actor. He did work on the stage. He worked with people like Legosi. So he did more than just direct. He understood actors to an extent. And I'm just I'm fascinated more about him the more of his films that I watch.

939
01:08:29,340 --> 01:08:43,340
I want to know more about what he did in the 60s when he did a lot of television because that's a lot of what I watched over the past few weeks was a lot of his TV work. And again, we'll get to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't don't want to spoil anything just yet.

940
01:08:43,340 --> 01:08:50,340
So when we do a top three episode here on the show, typically what I like to do is I'll mention my number three, then pass it off to you, then my number two, but to you.

941
01:08:50,340 --> 01:09:03,340
The reason I do it that way is because I want to end with you with your number one pick. Okay, kind of give you the spotlight there at the end. So for me, I'm going to say my my third favorite, my number three, my top three lists of Jack Arnold films.

942
01:09:03,340 --> 01:09:20,340
I'm going to go with this Island Earth.