if you were on a baking contest like great british
baking show or something and you had to recreate
a scene from any monster movie using gingerbread
what would it be Hello, and welcome to Camp Kaiju
Monster Movie Podcast. We're your hosts, Vincent
Annam. And Matt Levine. And we're talking about
all our favorite monster movies. The good, the
bad, and even the downright campy. And asking
if they stand the test of time. Traditional Kaiju,
creature features, space invaders, the supernatural,
and everything in between. All strange beasts
welcome here. Hey, everybody. Welcome. We're
all kind of trickling in here. I see lots of
friendly faces. I see familiar faces. I see a
new familiar face. Don the Superfan. Hello. Welcome.
Hi, guys. Hey, Don. Hello. Thank you for joining
us. Don is a supporter and new Patreon member.
Oh, that's awesome. Glad to be here. Some of
the best questions that we've gotten from any
fans. I feel like they've all been from Don,
so thank you very much. Yeah, good to see both
of you as well, Sean, as always. Hey, oh yeah.
The feeling's likewise. I'm hoping everybody's
having a nice holiday. I know things are chaotic
in this country right now, but I hope that each
of you... At least have a moment to give yourself
some peace or peace of mind. Thank you, Sean.
That's very important to say. Yeah. I mean, you
said it perfectly, kind of dark times. I had
an Uber ride with a driver today who was like,
let me tell you about AI and how we're all screwed
and how, like, two years from now, nobody will
have a job anymore. The, like, AI overlords will
rise up over humanity like it will be a wasteland
in, like, two or three years. And I was like,
man, this is not what I need to hear right now.
No. No, not at all. Sean, what you just said
is more. Wasn't the reason the AI is around?
Haley Joel Osment? Yeah, I think you're right
about that. Yeah. If Steven Spielberg is right.
And Kubrick, I guess. Yeah. I love those kind
of Uber rides, though. You just, when you get
your driver who just, he's got a floor. I sort
of liked it, but I was also taking an Uber because
my car was in the shop and I had to spend a lot
of money to get it back. So I was not really
in the mood for like a very stressful conversation,
but you know, that's all right. You know you
should have, well, yeah, I mean, his job is probably
most at stake among jobs, right? You mean like
Uber drivers? Yeah, like driverless cars and
things. Oh, true. He did say that he also does
coding. That's like his second job. And he was
like, coding is also going to be an obsolete
job. He needs to, I don't know. He needs a nap.
Yeah, or a therapist maybe. I forgot what I was
going to say, but... And let me just say that
I was not trying to bring the conversation down.
I was trying to say, Sean, thank you so much
for what you said, because that's the energy
that we need going into the holidays. You're
welcome. I'm just waiting to see you jump in
front of your camera. That's all I'm waiting
on. He's back there somewhere. He'll probably
join us at some point. As he often does. I have...
An icebreaker question for everybody. If, and
we can repeat this if more people show up, but
if you were on a baking contest, like Great British
Baking Show or something, and you had to recreate
a scene from any monster movie using gingerbread,
what would it be? For example, a gingerbread
King Kong climbing a gingerbread skyscraper.
Wow. Hi, Beth. Hi, guys. Happy holidays. Good
to see you. We'll do introductions in a little
bit, but we have a fun icebreaker question. If
you were on a baking show and you were tasked
with recreating any scene from a monster movie
using gingerbread, gingerbread houses, gingerbread
people, what have you, gingerbread monsters,
What would it be? Probably the scene where Hedera
is like a blob because I can't cook. So making
something in a blob gingerbread dough shape would
probably be the most accurate. A toxic sludge.
There we go. The blob or the thing. Yeah. I like
that you approached it from the mindset of, like,
what will my excuse be when I am not able to
make anything? Like, what will be a valid backup
reason for that? It's not for execution. It's
abstract. There's a difference. Yeah. Totally.
I would love to do a stop motion scene of the
moment from Godzilla X -Kong. where Kong is going
up against all those other apes. Then he has
little Kong there. And then he picks up the little
Kong and swings him at the other ones. So I want
to see that done gingerbread style. Wow. Oh,
goodness. I can picture it so vividly. The last
time I tried to make a gingerbread house, it
kind of fell apart. So I just let it, if it fell
apart, I'd just stick Godzilla's foot in the
middle of it. That's perfection. Yeah. Olsen,
what about you? I'm thinking of the... What's
the Godzilla movie from the mid -80s? Return
of Godzilla? There's the scene where he's kind
of collapsed against the skyscraper. I feel like
that would be a good gingerbread house scene.
Like a sleeping Godzilla. Yeah, I don't think
I could pull it off. So I'm not thinking practically
like Beth was and stuff. But I think it would
be a cool gingerbread scene. If you build at
least two gingerbread load -bearing walls, I
think you got it, homie. I don't think I could
do that. That sounds difficult. All of our baking
skills are on display here because not one of
us is trying MechaGodzilla. Not one of us. We're
all like, nope. MechaGingerbreadzilla. No comment.
Nope. Nope. I'm just going to make a gingerbread,
blackula, and a coffin. Amazing. I'm going to
go with... The scene in Jaws where Quint is being
eaten and bitten in half. I'm thinking I could
use like raspberry effects for the gore and gingerbread
boat, gingerbread shark. Wow. Or a remake of
Ginger Dead Man. I've never seen that. Me neither.
Me neither. That's something we should probably
highlight. All right, I'm going to cross off
one of the titles on my list for next season
and add that on there. It's a good reminder.
Is that the one with Gary Busey? Yes, it is.
Yes. Okay. I think I saw that a really long time
ago. I feel like you could probably guess that
Gary Busey's in that movie, even if you didn't
know the cast. It just seems like the kind of
thing that he would be in. All right, Matt, you're
up. Yeah, I've been thinking about it a lot.
You know, because I kind of recapped the previous
season earlier today, I thought of the scene
in 20 Million Miles to Earth where Ymir, the
monster, is up on top of the Coliseum and throwing
boulders down at all the scientists and Italian
police and military and stuff. So I think that's
what I would do. I would build a gingerbread
Coliseum, and you could have little gingerbread
balls that the beast could throw down at everybody
else. It would be interactive, you know? That's
what I'm going to go with. That's ambitious,
though, and I could not pull that off. So it's
only hypothetical. I believe in you. Everybody,
I just have to attend to my child who just woke
up for like a quick minute. But while I'm doing
that, Matt, you can lead. We can go and just
do a formal introduction. Matt has some guidelines
for what you can mention in that introduction.
Yeah. All right. Let me pull up this document
here real quick. All right. It seems weird to
only look at Vincent's blank screen right now,
which is what I'm looking at. Seems kind of desolate,
but I'll just ignore that for the moment. So
here we are at the Camp Kaiju holiday party slash
season six preview episode. Thanks to everybody
here on the episode for joining us. It's so wonderful
to see everybody, all the guest stars that we
had over the past season. So what Vincent wrote
on this document is, for a little intro here,
everybody can introduce themselves, their past
appearances on Camp Kaiju. We did already answer
the gingerbread baking contest, so we don't need
to do that right now. So yeah, maybe just if
you can all introduce yourselves and the episodes
that you've been on in Camp Kaiju, that would
be great. And I'll kind of just go down the list
on my Zoom screen here. So Frank Olson, do you
want to go first? Sure. Yeah, I think as of this
recording anyway, I think I'm on the most recent
one, which is The Addiction, the Abel Ferreira
vampire movie. And also earlier this year, I
was on the one about the island of Dr. Moreau,
the notorious mid -90s one that was a huge disaster.
And I've been on some others in the past, too.
I know we did Shin Godzilla. The Testament of
Dr. Mabuso, which is not really a monster movie
per se, but... What else have I been on? Porco
Rosso, we did a long time ago. Which one? Sorry.
Porco Rosso. Yeah, amazing. Troll 2, we did.
I forgot about some of those. Yeah, I feel like
I'm forgetting some of the older ones, but yeah,
I've been on a number of times. Yeah, I feel
like Island of Dr. Moreau has the record so far
for the longest Google doc, just because the
production backstory was like 20 pages on that,
basically. Yeah, that was the one where if we
had just read the Wikipedia article verbatim,
it would have been a fine episode. Yeah, yeah.
Fascinating, troubled movie in production, for
sure. And yeah, Porco Rosso, I forgot about that.
I would say that's actually my favorite Hayao
Miyazaki movie. Maybe a minority opinion, but
I was blown away by that movie. Yeah, that's
up there for me too. I'm not sure what I'd say
my favorite by him is. My favorite Studio Ghibli
movie is Han Poco, actually, which he did not
direct. But as far as Miyazaki, yeah, Porco Rosso
might be my favorite as well. Yeah, it's a good
one. Flying pigs, you can't go wrong. Yeah, you've
been on a lot of great episodes. Thank you so
much, Frank. Yeah, so I would actually say that
there is one more recent episode that we recorded
after the addiction. So maybe on that note, I
will ask Sean Childers to introduce himself and
the episodes that he's been on recently. I am
glad I didn't dig in for any more popcorn just
yet. Uh, yes. So hello, my name is Sean. Uh,
I have been on three episodes so far. First one
being Tusk with, uh, also guest host Naomi Osborne.
Um, I was on Robot Jocks with our fellow other
Sean here, Sean Pryor. And then lastly, I was
just recently on Pacific Rim. I had to think
for a second because I just recorded another
thing this weekend. But yeah, uh, I'm a big Mecha
guy, also known. Has big mecca, but not huge.
The name of your other podcast. Yep. Awesome.
Yeah, Pacific Rim was fun. I feel like I was
in the minority because I know you and Vincent
love that movie, and I am somewhere more in the
middle, but great conversation. I loved talking
to you guys about that one. And Robot Jocks.
Those two go together perfectly. Just beware.
There's a box of bees coming your way. Yeah.
I'm terrified every time I open my mailbox. I
know they're coming for me. Well, thank you,
Sean. Maybe on that note, we should ask the other
Sean who's on that Robot Jocks episode, Sean
Pryor. Are you able to introduce yourself? Yes,
indeed. My name is Sean Pryor. I'm an author.
I write books of all kinds, comics, graphic novels,
prose, storybooks, books about movies. As a matter
of fact, one of those books was talked about
on Camp Kaiju, Kaiju Unleashed. And that was
the first time I had ever met Vincent and Matthew.
And we had a fantastic time. They let me ramble
for almost two hours. And so I had a wonderful
time there. And then I came back with Sean Childers
and we did the Robot Jocks episode, a movie that
I didn't realize how much I loved until I saw
it in HD on Tubi, of all places. And I absolutely
adore it. I would get up, but my office is such
a mess because I haven't straightened it out
yet. I've been here for a year. But I bought
the four -pack with Robot Jocks because it was
on sale a couple of months ago. And I'm so excited
this holiday season to sit down and watch it
multiple times. I'm so happy for you. End to
your year. Thank you. Thank you. I was also blown
away by Robot Jocks, which I would describe as
a mix of Thunderbirds, Starship Troopers and
Pacific Rim, which is such a bizarre like I would
imagine there's no other movie like that in cinema
history. It's totally one of a kind. Oh, yeah,
definitely. And like it's just like like when
we talked about like all the trials and tribulations
in getting that movie finished. And if it would
have came out when it was originally supposed
to, we may have gotten two or three legitimate
sequels. So, man, it breaks my heart with what
could have been. I really think about that a
lot, what could have been. But that was a really
fun episode. Also, Sean did a very hilarious
Russian accent. You will not get another one
at this time! Always on cue. Love it. Man of
a thousand voices. Well, on that note, perhaps
Beth Bredlaw, you joined us for an episode earlier
this season. Are you able to talk a little bit
about that episode and your background? Okay,
let me see if I remember. I think that was, was
that the post -GFest? I think that was in the
Jun Fukuda continuing episode. Were we talking
about Eberra on that episode, I think? Yeah.
Yeah. My man. Yeah. You know, I think I kind
of came on the scene because I've organized a
Godzilla Fest here in my town of Bloomington,
Indiana. And then I got the mayor to declare
Godzilla Day. It was like a whole thing. And
then I'm pretty much working towards my PhD right
now in Godzilla. And I'm about to actually write
my master's right now. So that'll be on Godzilla.
And then I did a whole bunch of speaking appearances.
I spoke twice at G -Fest 2025. So we're still
waiting to hear about it. And I got Godzilla
Fest 2026 up and planning in Bloomington, Indiana.
It's going to be bigger and better this year.
So and yeah, just continuing to work. I have
about two or three speaking academic conferences,
conventions. So it is my mission to make casual
the academic subject. And I'm going to do it.
So we're making waves, guys. We're going to.
We're going to be serious. I'm going to pave
the way even if I have to do it. You don't have
to do it alone. It's so great what you're doing
and what everyone is doing. There are more introductions
to be made. I don't want to segue yet. Don the
super fan also should introduce himself. Sorry
to jump in there. No, please, please go for it.
If you're comfortable with that, Don. Yeah. Obviously
haven't been on any episodes, but I've listened
to a good chunk of them. I started listening,
I think, right now I can't remember which of
the first one I listened to. I think I came across
you guys first on, like you posted something
on Instagram and it happened to come into my
feed. Like, oh, a Godzilla podcast. I gotta check
this out. And there was some other, another one
that I've listened to from time to time too but
I don't know what else to tell you I work in
healthcare I you know I've been a long time movie
and music fan of all kinds of different genres
so I've gotten more and more into the monster
movies I kind of always like them very cool that's
awesome Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
And I kind of mentioned this before, you know,
before we officially started the episode or whatever,
but you still always have, like, the best comments
and questions on, like, our YouTube page. And
I think it's mostly YouTube. I don't know if
it's on Instagram or not. But just thank you
again for that. I always look forward to reading
your comments on there. Oh, very welcome. Yeah.
All -star lineup here. Thank you all for being
here. It's so cool to just see and hear about
all the different interests we all have, and
we've converged in this virtual space called
a podcast, which is so science fiction when you
think about it, and it's amazing. There are others
who, for whatever reason, haven't been able to
join us tonight. I'm going to run down just quickly
the movies we featured. On our fifth season this
past year in 2025. And give a shout out to. Those
other guest hosts. So way back when. In January
of last year. We started with. The Beast from
20 ,000 Fathoms. We went into. Invasion of Astro
Monster. And then. Something very different.
Kevin Smith's Tusk. And Sean Childers. And Naomi
Osborne was on that. Naomi came back. She wasn't
done with us yet. We talked about Dracula's Daughter,
the Universal movie from the 1930s. Then me and
Matt winged it solo with Godzilla vs. Mothra
from 1992. Then Island of Dr. Moreau. Then Invaders
from Mars, some 1950s sci -fi. That's the 1953
version of that film. Aliens, again, of a different
sort. The 1995 movie Species, which is just something
you just have to see to believe. Back to traditional
kaiju with Gamera the Giant Monster, that other
big G. And then Swamp Thing from 1982, something
a little different. Matt, that was your pick.
That was my first time watching that movie. I
just love Swamp Thing. Yeah. Me and Beth, you
and I talked at like 7 o 'clock in the morning
one day to talk about Godzilla Day. That's when
we met, and you plugged your events with that.
And then it was the Big Robot Jocks episode with
Sean Pryor and Sean Childers. Naomi was back
again for the hat trick with the Company of Wolves
from 1984. We continued our lycanthropy four
-legged theme with the Shaggy Dog, which was
part of our ongoing Magic and Monsters special
with guest host Patrick Kozicki. We dished on
the 1959 Disney movie. Beth, you came back, and
then we discussed Eberra, Horror of the Deep,
a little bit. Matt, you finally introduced me
to Congo from 1995. We had talking gorillas.
It was bananas. After that, where do we go? Yeah,
Matt, I gave you a treat. I gave you a little
something to chew on. Jaws 2 from 1978. Then
we went back to traditional kaiju with space
amoeba. From 1970. That was a fun episode and
made me rethink that film a little bit. King
Kong Lives, we followed with Ben Cook Feltz,
who provides Armenia's mailbox theme music, but
he joined us as a full -blown guest host on King
Kong Lives. Back to Weird Movie Land with 1979's
Prophecy. In parentheses, the monster movie about
a giant mutant bear. And then Magic and Monsters
again with The Watcher in the Woods, a supernatural
ghost story with Patrick Kozicki. New guest host
Paul McGuire Grimes joined us to talk about The
Phantom of the Opera celebrating its 100th anniversary.
The Lon Chaney feature doesn't look a day over.
75. But, you know, happy birthday to the Phantom.
Oh, Naomi was back. Just lurking in the wings
with 20 million miles to Earth. We had Gappa,
the Trifibian monster, doing its best to follow
up the huge shadow of Harryhausen's 20 million
miles to Earth. Spoiler alert, Gappa did not
live up to the hype. But, hey, maybe to some
Gappa fans out there. No shame, no blame. Then
we had a really fun, random episode about the
giant spider invasion from 1975 featuring the
director and producer of that film, Bill Rubain.
That episode was a journey of wills and hope
and despair. But listen to it yourself and let
us know what you think of that movie. Frank,
you were back. You were with us with Island of
Dr. Moreau. You escaped the island, found yourself
in New York with a blood -sucking Christopher
Walken, and decided to talk to us about the addiction.
And then bringing up the rear, supporting the
flanks, I don't know, leading the vanguard with
Pacific Rim Sean Childers closing us out strong.
So that was our rundown. Like upwards of 26 episodes,
25 movies, something like that. But it was a
good episode. Good season. Varied. A lot of great
voices. And I can't wait to talk about what's
coming up next. Same. This is my favorite recording
every year, by the way. Our preview and holiday
episode. I love it. I always look forward to
it. Before we get to that, that announcing of
Season 6 for the first six months of the year,
we have some games. We have some trivia games,
and you might not win more than bragging rights,
but we're all here to have fun. The points don't
matter. I have some of my favorite trivia about
the podcast. It's like podcast trivia. That pulls
in some of the movies we've talked about. You
all ready? One thing. When you were going to
do Prophecy, I was not aware that it wasn't the
Christopher Walken movie until after I started
listening to it. Yeah, I've never seen The Prophecy.
I'm interested in that movie, though. Is it good?
Have you seen The Prophecy? I've never seen it.
I own the DVD and I haven't done anything with
it. Yo, I would say that no. but is it better
than prophecy the monster movie i would say once
again no like there's there's two christopher
walken movies that like like that are in this
like realm of very weird but like not really
good and one of them is is the prophecy but then
there's another one where he meets aliens supposedly
And I forget what it's called. Are you talking
about Communion? With the Whitley Schreber movie?
Yeah. And see, that's why I'm going to fight
you because that movie is amazing. That is Christopher
Walken. Weirdness. Well, no, I'm glad you appreciate
it. Lord knows I tried. I tried. I really did.
And I was just like, I can't do this no more.
I'm, I'm so fascinated by like nineties, like
kind of like trashy sci -fi horror thrillers.
Cause like, you know, I was like in my teens
or like younger in the nineties and like, I just
kind of didn't catch a lot of those when they
first came out. And like, usually I love revisiting
those. So I believe you that the prophecy is
really bad, Sean. And yet I still am very excited
to watch it someday and communion also. Well,
Godspeed. Thank you. Welcome. I can't wait to
see what Matt throws at us. I feel like it might
be disappointing, but maybe not. Hopefully not.
Never. All right. So I'll ask. Here's my first
question. This is around the kill count. So which
of these three movies featured on Camp Kaiju
Season 5 had the most confirmed on -screen kills?
And you can all say your answer out loud. I'll
just tally. Everyone will get a point if you
got the right answer. Actually, let me get some
paper and a pen. I'll try to keep score as well.
Okay. So our three movies. Which movie had the
most kills? Was it Jaws 2? featuring Rochette
the shark? Was it Species featuring Syl the alien
woman hybrid? Or was it The Company of Wolves
featuring just a bunch of hungry doggies? The
pedigree. I'm going to guess Species. Who said
that? I did. Wild guess, but I'm going to say
species. I concur. You concur? Is that a dog
pun? I didn't think of that, but yes. Your pun,
Vincent, wow. I'll also say species as well.
I'm going to say Jaws 2. I'm going to be the
odd woman out. I don't know the answer, by the
way. I'm going to say Company of Werewolves.
Okay. Keep going. Anyone else out there? I didn't
think there was a lot of deaths in the Company
of Wolves. But I'm going to say Species. Okay.
Don says Species. Beth says the Company of Wolves.
Sean Pryor says Species. Sean Childers says species.
Yep. And Frank says species. Species. Wow. You
give it up for our sleazy 90s monster movies.
You all who said species was correct. That was
the answer. By the way, I did watch Species 2,
hoping that it would be even trashier and more
fun than the first one. It is trashier, but it
is not more fun. It's significantly worse, I
would say. Sadly. But maybe the other Species
sequels are great. Who knows? I probably will
not watch them. No, no, the other sequels are
not. No, no, never. I am a sincerely positive
person, but there's also this thing of, I really
want you to be able to enjoy the time you have.
So don't watch those, please. Life is too short,
Matt. Nice. I mean, that's good advice. I'll
take that to heart. Before you said the thing
about being a positive person, I was like, man,
Sean Pryor's been through some trauma, it seems
like. I really have. For the love of the craft.
So if you're curious out there, Species had nine
on -screen kills. Syl just goes to town, goes
through people like no tomorrow. Bruchette the
shark from Jaws 2 killed seven people. Oh, pretty
close. Yeah, it was close. And then there were
five kills in the company of wolves. Various
wolf attacks. Gnarly ones. Yeah. All right. So
if you said species, you have one point. If you
didn't, you don't have any yet. But your time
has come. Your time is coming. Two more questions
for me. Matt, do you have a question? Like a
multiple choice question? Yeah, for sure. First
of all, I want to apologize because last night
you texted me and you were like, please come
up with some multiple choice questions for tonight.
And I was like, oh, I'm on it. Thank you for
the reminder. I'll do it. I came up with some
trivia questions. They were not multiple choice.
I just completely missed that part of your instruction.
So I'm kind of frantically making multiple choice
questions right now. That's my bad. But I do
already have some ready to go. Where should we
start here? We are always very prepared when
it comes time to record an episode. Let's see
here. Let's go back to Congo because that was
the first one that I brought to the podcast in
this season. All right, here's my multiple choice
question. The suits and animatronics for the
gray gorillas, Amy the Good Gorilla. and the
attacking hippopotamus were designed by what
legendary makeup and special effects designer?
Was it A. Rick Baker, B. Rob Botten, C. Stan
Winston, or D. Phil Tippett? Stan Winston. Yeah,
I agree. Oh, hold on. I'm writing this down.
I swear. A. Strong. Okay. You guys can keep talking.
I'll catch up. I'm trying to make up my mind
between Stan Winston and Phil Tippett. Because
Phil Tippett was still in the midst of things
in the 90s. But Stan Winston, that was the dude.
You know what? I'm going to say Phil Tippett.
Thanks. I like the originality. I'm going to
say Stan Winston. Okay. I'm going to go completely
off everybody else. I'm going to say Rick Baker,
just in case he, I know he was involved in a
lot of big productions and hype movies and actually
heard an interview with him recently. So he was
on another podcast. He was on a podcast with
Cary Byron and Tori Bileci from, you know, remember
the Mythbusters? Yeah. Yeah. He worked with some
of them in films and stuff and got close friends
with them now. And he was on there talking about
Halloween stuff. Oh, yeah. And I think he did
an American Werewolf in London, if I remember
right, too, which is probably his best known
work. Yeah. That's awesome. Amazing work in that.
Yeah. I could listen to Rick Baker talk all day
long. Um, just his like love of, um, film history
and, and Hollywood makeup effects. And yeah.
Yeah. Awesome. I, I don't, I truly don't know.
I, I'm going to say Stan Winston, but that almost
seems too obvious to me. I would say Rob Bottin,
but I don't, I don't think that was it either.
You know, I'm going to say Rob Bottin. Nice.
I'm glad you said that because I love Rob Bodden.
He did The Thing, and I think he did The Howling,
the Joe Dante movie, which I really love. So
Rob Bodden is one of my personal favorites. I
think he did The Fly, the Cronenberg movie as
well. So yeah, Rob Bodden is up there for me.
Did everybody guess already? I think so. Okay.
Well, that question might have been a little
bit too obvious because it was Stan Winston,
indeed. All right. The next one will be harder.
That was just a warm -up. Just you wait. I think
we got time for two more. Okay. So let me tally
things up here. Okay. Well, you're tallying that
up. I'll just say I knew that answer because
I remember like even as an 11 year old or however
old I was when Congo came out, I was like enough
of a dork that I knew that Stan Winston had done
the effects on. Jurassic Park and Terminator
2, so I was like, oh, Congo's gonna be awesome.
And then it was not as good as those movies.
Not quite awesome. You were wearing a Rick Baker
t -shirt while standing in line at 11 years old.
Yeah, Stan Winston. Alright, I believe everyone
is on the board. On top of the leaderboard with
two points each. Frank Olson, and Sean Pryor.
Nice. You sure about that? Yeah, I should only
have one point. I said Phil Tippett for question
two, and then the answer was Stan Wilson. Sean
Childers should have two points. Yes. I would
like to give half a point to Sean Pryor for stepping
in on that. Look, man, I can't be out here cheating,
man. Times is hard in the boulevard. Your integrity
is an inspiration. Thank you. Okay. All right.
Frank Olson and Sean Childers. All right. My
next question is a Godzilla question. So this
is it, everybody. Which of these featured on
season five of Camp Kaiju does not feature Godzilla
in the movie? So I'm going to say three titles.
Two of them have Godzilla in the film. One of
these movies does not. This is so easy. No pressure.
Invasion of Astro Monster. Eber a Horror of the
Deep or Gappa the Trifibian Monster? I'll give
you a harder one next time. I feel like it should
be super easy, but now I'm kind of doubting myself.
What was that last one again? Gappa the Trifibian
Monster. Yo, I'm gonna say Gaffa Gaffa. Gaffa
Gaffa. Okay, great. Everyone gets a free point.
I'm too nice. I haven't watched any of those.
That was also just a warm up. All right, Matt,
though, you're going to give us a hard one. Okay.
All right, I feel like this is a little bit harder,
and it also pays homage to Ray Harryhausen, one
of the legends of visual effects. I guess that's
my theme that I'm running with tonight. But my
question is about 20 million miles to Earth,
but it also refers to other Harryhausen movies
as well. The question is, what was the name of
the cinematographic process that Ray Harryhausen
invented that revolutionized the interaction
of background, foreground, and live actors when
using stop -motion animation? Is it A, Animatrix,
B, Projectivision, C, Clayvistamax, or D, Dynamation?
Can you say all those slower and in a lower voice,
please? Whoa, I'll try. Tricks. I sort of have
a scratchy throat, so I don't know if I can,
or you would think I'd be able to, but okay.
A. Animatrix. B. Projectivision. C. Clayvistamax.
D. Dynamation. I feel like Dynamation sounds
the least made up. So that's going to be my answer.
I don't know the answer, but that's going to
be my guess. Dynamation. I want to go Animatrix
just because I love that series of films, but
it's going to be Dynomation. What were the other
options again? I already forgot. There's Dynomation.
What were they? There's Animatrix, Projective
Vision, Dynomation, and there's one other one.
Clay Vistamax is the other one. Thank you for
remembering those, Sean. I'm impressed. Oh, no,
no. I wrote it down. I wrote it down. This can
barely hold anything anymore. So I wrote it down.
I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm like trying to decide
between project division or dynamation. Project
division sounds a little too generic. That sounds
like something Magnavox would have used in the
seventies. So I'm going to go with dynamotion
too. Yeah. I'm just going to follow suit just
because I haven't really even heard of anything
else. We would have heard about these other things
at some point. That makes sense. Yeah. I think
everybody guessed, right? Was that everybody?
Once again, pretty much everybody gets it right.
I think everybody does. The problem is, Matt,
we have a room full of kaiju experts here. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I'm fine. I accept your challenge,
Fred. I have two questions. The last two that
are related to the actual show with some of our
data, if you will. But it's still around the
titles and things. So my question is, which decade
was most represented? Meaning we chose X number
of movies from the 1980s, X number of movies
from the 1950s. Which decade? I don't think that's
a good spot. On Camp Kaiju Season 5. Why don't
you lay this way? Come on. Lay back this way.
What? I'm going to say... I'm sorry. Go ahead,
Miss Joders. The floor is yours, sir. The floor
is yours. I was going to say, I'm going to jump
in and do the 70s. Damn it. You took my answer.
Share it with me. I will share it with you. Yes,
I will share it with you. I, too, select the
70s. Okay. Afros and bell bottoms and monsters,
baby. Let's go. I really don't know, but I'm
going to guess the 90s. That's a good guess.
I'm just thinking like robot jacks, the addiction
species. See, I was pulling 90s at first, but
then I'm like, you know what? No, that sounds
too easy. It's got to be 70s. Yeah, it might
be. I really don't know. I feel like I should
know, but I don't. So I'm still going to guess
if that's all right. I would say the 50s, because
I was thinking like Invaders from Mars, Beast
from 20 ,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth,
and a couple of the Kaiju movies. So I'm going
to throw out the 1950s. Okay. I was thinking
along the same lines as Matt. I think we just
barely, there might be more from the 50s. It's
close. Yeah. Okay. Beth? It was only on the episodes
in the 60s. So I want to say the 60s, but no,
I'm going to say the 90s. I'm going to say you
did more in the 90s. Oh, wow. All right. I loved
everyone's thought processes. But we actually
had two decades tied at five apiece. The 1980s.
Nobody guessed. And the 1990s. Yes. I'm just
having a hard time breathing. It has nothing
to do with me being in shock. There were four
movies featured from both the 1970s and the 1960s.
Big kaiju decades. The 60s especially. So fair
share there. The 1950s also we had four movies
from as well. So not a bad guess for our 50s
guests here. And we had one movie from the 2010s,
one movie from the 1930s, one movie from the
1920s. And that's it. I can't think of any 80s
movies we talked about. Company of Wolves, because
that was like 89, right? 84. Okay. Robot Jocks.
It's technically a 1989 release. It had its premiere
in 89, but it was like released, released the
next year. I counted it in the 1980s. That's
fair. I'll have to look into the other ones on
my own because I have a bad memory. They're not
coming to me. But that's all right. That's a
different topic. Yeah. All right. Last one I
got for you. Folks, which of the following films?
has the highest average rating on Letterboxd?
Ooh. Was it Space Amoeba, King Kong Lives, or
Tusk? My God. I'm going to jump in on that one
just because I was part of that, but I think
Tusk has had a resurgence ever since it became
available widely. I'm going to second that. I'm
going to say Tusk just by like soul, like soul
engagement and popularity. I just don't think
anyone has seen the other two. Like, I mean,
unless they're like in our community, more people
have seen Tusk. Okay. I too will say Tusk because
for as much as I want the whole world to watch
Space Amoeba at least once, that is yet to happen.
We have not come together as a collective. And
watched it as a whole. But that's okay. One day
it will happen. But until then. Tusk. Because
that's a weird ass movie. Yeah I feel like. I'm
also going to say Tusk. Just because that's the
one of those three. That really has a cult following.
Whereas the others I don't think really do. So
yeah I'll say Tusk. You say cult following. And
I've got a bunch of walrus shirts right now.
So just saying. Alright. I was terrified. What
do you think, Don? I think I'm going to have
to go with the Tusk as well, just because it's
the most recent. Like I said, it's got a lot
of word of mouth, a lot of people talking about
it, and the people who are involved. Yeah, I
think being newest and... people talking about
it, I'd have to go with that one. And who doesn't
like watching Justin Long get abused? It has
just become a thing that we're all enjoying.
Every Justin Long film, we're like, alright,
let's go beat him up. Barbarian. Matt, do you
have a thought? Do you know? If you know, don't
take a guess. I don't know for sure. I do think
Tusk is probably the right answer. But... I'm
just going to shout out my own favorite of those
three and say Space Amoeba because I love that
movie and I love that title. I think I'm wrong,
but I'm still going to say it. Well, everybody,
your super easygoing host, Vincent Hannum, has
hobbled you all. Tusk is wrong. We're all wrong.
I can see why. Space Amoeba has the average highest
rating. Three out of five. Absolutely shocking.
I guess more people have watched it. Good for
them. Or those who have seen it, just like consistently
rated a three. Because I'll tell you, Tusk, its
average rating is 2 .4. That makes sense. But
if you look at the graph... It's all over the
place. There's a bunch at like, I gave it four
stars. Matt, you gave it two stars. So like,
that's what we're talking about with Tusk. Yeah.
And also with Space Amoeba, I did create like
a hundred fake Letterboxd accounts and give that
movie five stars over and over again. So that
might be why. I confess. That's playing the long
game. Yep. That's what I spend my time on. And
King Kong Lives has a 2 .2. So that's the lowest
of the three. Yeah, there you go. Very interesting.
If I do say so myself. And yes, we're here to
champion Space Amoeba. Among other movies, of
course. All right. Well, let me tally those up.
Talk amongst yourselves. And then in a minute,
me and Matt will talk about the next season.
Have either of you, anybody in here seen the
Halloween VHS movie recently? No, it's not this
last one, but the one before. Justin Long actually
did his own version of Tusk for that particular
movie. And it's just like people being turned
into pets. It's wild. Ain't gonna happen. Not
in this house. Yeah, he made an appearance in
Weapons, and I was like, oh, what's gonna happen?
Are we gonna watch him? But he makes it through
Weapons unscathed. Unscathed. Mm -hmm. Hey. Oh,
is he one of the... He's one of, like, the parents
of the school children in Weapons, right? I forgot
about that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in it
just very briefly. That's right. I totally forgot
about that, too. Well, yeah, we forgot, because
he wasn't, like, murdered and ripped apart. Yep.
Yeah, it's when Josh Brolin is going around to
the different houses. Yeah, I do remember that
now. The one movie where Justin Long doesn't
die. Yeah. I also love, well, I don't want to
give away any spoilers, but Drag Me to Hell is
a good movie. It's a very campy, fun movie. And
Justin Long's a lot of fun in that one, too.
Check it out if you haven't seen that. I love
that movie, especially with the talking goat
head. Yeah, yeah. That whole seance scene is
really amazing. I've only seen it. the once when
it came out and it's one of those that I've always
remembered loving. I had such a great time at
the theater. Sam Raimi doing his Evil Dead bit
just in a slightly different format. Yeah. Really
great ending to that movie too. Have you guys
ever done the Evil Dead movies on the podcast?
I don't think we have. It's a bit of a blind
spot. What we did do, Matt, we did do an episode
on the most recent one. Yeah. Evil Dead. I don't
even remember the name of it. Yeah, that was
it. Yeah. Yeah. Which was all right. It had its
moments. Yeah. Not as good as the original trilogy,
though. I really love, especially the first two
Evil Dead movies. Yeah. Hopefully we'll talk
about those someday. You got to at some point.
I just feel like... And Army of Darkness, does
that stand the test of time? We love it, but
it's the type of movie I'd love to dig into a
little bit more critically. Yeah, I need to rewatch
them. I almost feel like these movies at this
point are canon. You know what I mean? They've
been around long enough. Regardless, they're
just now canon within film history. So, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, you're all dying to know.
Frank, you won the game. Congratulations. Hooray.
With five points. Sean Childers and Beth, you
had four points each. And then Sean Pryor and
Don, you had three points each. A pretty good
showing by all. yeah i just want to say the only
answer i knew for sure was that stan winston
congo one good guesser i guess your uh boyhood
love for congo uh came through after all that's
that's the first movie i ever saw in theaters
like without my maybe not without my parents
but without like an adult so even though it's
not a good movie like I don't know. I guess that's
sort of an important place in my life. Nostalgia
value. Yeah. Milestone. Yeah. You remember those
movies? Yeah. I would put that in the guilty
pleasure category, by the way, Congo. There are
some things I like about that one. Just want
to say. Herkimer Homolka, what a great character
name. Best character name of all time. All right,
Matt, you got any other guilty pleasures coming
up in 2026? Are you ready to... I mean, I can
go first, but are you ready to reveal these to
our listeners? I'm ready. I have a list of about
10, so I have some backups just in case you take
any of mine. Okay, well, I hope you don't take
any of mine. All right. Listeners out there,
me and Matt have not discussed these at all.
This is a delightful surprise. Okay, so kicking
us off in January 2026 is... Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
2 from 1993. Yep, Heisei era that Matt and I
have been steadily working our way through over
the course of this podcast. We ended up committing
to going through that era sequentially, which
I think it makes a lot of sense to do that. So
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2. Baby Godzilla,
Godzilla Jr. is in it. Rodan is in it. It's a
fun action sci -fi fantasy movie, really. Very
excited. I'm also very excited. The third title
on my list was Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2.
So right off the bat, you took one of mine. That's
great. I love it. Very excited to talk about
it. Like you said, I like everything that we've
watched from the Heisei era so far. So hopefully
we can keep that going. All right, maybe my first
choice then. Not a Godzilla movie, but also a
certain kind of classic studio monster movie.
I'm going to say The Abominable Snowman of the
Himalayas from 1957. This is a Hammer Horror
movie. Classic British studio. I've never seen
this movie, but it's supposed to be one of their
best. I've read that it's very underrated. It
stars Peter Cushing, directed by Val Guest, who's
kind of an underrated horror director. Yeah,
excited to watch it. Peter Cushing, that's all
you had to say. That's all you had to say. Legend,
yep. Yeah, he's awesome. And that's going to
be our first Hammer feature on the podcast. Yeah,
we've been meaning to bring a Hammer film here
for a while. And, you know, the Hammer stuff
that I've seen is kind of hit or miss, I would
say, so far. But, like, the good stuff is really
good and a lot of fun. So looking forward to
this one. The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.
Honestly, I've never even heard of it. I thought
you'd go with Frankenstein or Dracula or something,
but heck yeah. Trying to pick an under -the -radar
one. And it's, like, pretty easy to find streaming.
So, you know. Awesome. I think it came into play
as well. All right. Well, in February, we are
going to get our Dracula on, our Blackula on
from 1972. Blackula, Blaxploitation. And this
actually wasn't really my pick. I came to this
with the help of Sean Pryor. Sean, if you want
to, do you want to talk about... why you chose
this movie i i chose this movie um because like
it's you know it takes place during the blaxploitation
era and like you know the blaxploitation era
has its good films it's bad films it's positive
qualities as well as it's negative however blackula
fascinates me because it's a film that has no
right to be as good as it is Um, and like, and
a lot of that is due to, um, the actor who played
Blackula, his name, um, his name is slipping
my mind right now, but he also played the king
of cartoons in a Peewee's playhouse. Okay. And
so, um, but like, he took like, you know, he
went to the director and was like, look, we need
to change some things about the character is,
you know, Blackula's origin and all these other
things. And there's so many like really cool
things that I personally feel like. With me,
I always think about what could have been, because
like you see like a young Denise Nicholas, who
honestly should have been like, you know, a primetime
player. She's still like, even if she wasn't
a primetime player, she still could have been
a scream queen if she wanted that. And so, like,
you know, what she does is great. There's another
actor, like, Thalmas Rosala, I believe his name
is. Like, he could have had his own series of,
like, Black Van Helsing -style movies chasing
down, you know, monsters and vampires and stuff.
Like, there are really cool things. And, yes,
there's moments and there's lulls. But, like,
they did a lot for me personally. They did a
lot with little to nothing. And so it's just
a movie that I like to share with everybody.
There's a couple of places where it gets a little
problematic because it's the 70s. We're still
learning certain languages. We're still saying
things we shouldn't say. But like but on a whole,
I simply love that movie. I've loved it since
I was a child. And and I don't watch a lot of
horror. Like I get scared very easily. But like
I watched that as a kid with my mother when I
was six. On just regular television. And I was
just captivated by it. So yeah. Those are my
reasons. That's so great Sean. And I've always
heard of Blackula. I've never seen it. So I'm
very eager. And thrilled to dig into it. Yes
and remember. The tagline for that film is. His
bite was out of sight. Perfect. Amazing. I'm
embarrassed to say I've never seen that movie.
So thank you, Sean and Vincent, for bringing
that. I'm very excited to watch that. I like
it when you go first, Vincent, because I can
make kind of like double features a little bit
in my mind, you know, when I say the other follow
-up title. So one of the movies on my list is
called Alucarda. It's a Mexican horror film from
1977. Also, like, it's basically a Mexican version
of Dracula. Directed by who is supposed to be
one of the best Mexican horror directors of all
time, Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Yeah, I've never
seen it before. Like, from the stills that I've
seen, it looks beautiful and fantastic. And,
yeah, I feel like it would pair well, hopefully,
with Blackula. So Alucarda is my pick for February.
Alucarda. Yeah. Spanish language, I'm assuming.
Yes. Yeah. But also like, you know, you can find
it streaming. I made sure that you can like locate
it somehow. So yeah, but it's kind of an under
the radar title. And I was like, I want to choose
a Mexican horror movie. And this was like on
the list of the most underrated. So we'll see.
Right on. Yeah. That's a good, that it's again,
1970s fascinating double feature. I will have
to watch those back to back. Oh, yeah. But then
what a great segue, because following that, I'm
bringing... It's a newer kaiju movie from 2011.
Can anyone take a guess? And it's in Norwegian.
It's a Norwegian film. Beth, do you know it?
What is it, like Troll or Troll Hunter? Troll
Hunter. Yeah. I saw it once when it came out,
and... I haven't seen it since, so I'm eager
to get back to it. I remember the special effects
being really good, surprisingly good, for this
foreign Norwegian movie about a giant troll and
troll hunters. And it's contemporary modern setting
as they travel around Scandinavia searching for
trolls. I've always wanted to watch that because
I ended up running a movie called Headhunter,
completely different. But yeah, definitely wanted
to watch that one. Yeah, I've always wanted to
see Troll Hunter 2. Thank you, Vincent. I feel
like we're kind of doing a little global tour
here. I don't know if that was unintentional
or not. So I chose an English movie and then
a Mexican movie. And then I think to go along
with Troll Hunter, I'll choose another foreign
movie. At Midnight, I'll Take Your Soul. which
is a Brazilian movie from 1964. We actually talked
about this recently because this was on our list
of, like, horror movies made around this time
in horror history, and I had seen this a long
time ago back in college and really loved it.
It's about this character named Coffin Joe, who
sort of became this, like, legendary sort of
folktale horror character in Brazilian cinema.
And At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul was the first
appearance of Coffin Joe, and he plays an undertaker
on a quest to achieve immortality. obviously
in very gruesome and monstrous ways. All right.
I'm laughing just because I'm... I get so, you
know, the anticipation already. I'm immediately
making a list, seeing where I can watch these
movies. It gets me through the years sometimes
when I'm like, when I've got a list to go to.
Okay, man, I'm actually... And I'm doing... This
is a good reminder to listeners out there. Our
lists can change at any point in the year, depending
on circumstances that come up, but I'm going
to pick a movie. Another giant monster movie,
maybe in the kaiju genre, but it is from 1957,
and it is called The Black Scorpion, which features...
It's actually set in Mexico, coincidentally.
but it features stop motion effects by Willis
O 'Brien. So late career Willis O 'Brien, the
creator of King Kong, the mentor of Ray Harryhausen.
So I think this movie has a lot of good, bad,
and campy in it. But Matt, you're scared of spiders.
Are you scared of scorpions? How do you feel
about them? Scorpions don't really bother me
too much, although I feel like... A giant one
might be kind of a different story, so we'll
see how that goes. They're pretty gross in this
movie. It's like Willis O 'Brien went for it.
Oh, man, he's trying to give little kids nightmares.
A little bit. There's a little kid in it, too.
So we have another kaiju movie with a little
kid protagonist, but it's like 20 million miles
to Earth -esque. Cool. Not too cutesy, but there's
a kid in it. Nice. All right. Well, again, I
feel like there's a great natural double feature
that we can do. The first title on my list, I
didn't want to say right away because I was worried
that it might be on your list as well. And ideally,
maybe we would have talked about it this past
year in 2025, but it'll be a little bit belated.
I'm going to choose The Lost World, also with
effects by Willis O 'Brien from 1925. So it was
the centennial of that movie this past year.
You know, kind of the granddaddy of all dinosaur
monster movies, pioneering stop motion animation.
So we'll do Willis O 'Brien month. Amazing. I
love that. And you know what? I just pulled the
black scorpion out of my pocket. I read it the
last second. Really? I was going to go with it
came from outer space from 1953. I do love near
and dear, but. But in the last second, something
about giant scorpions was calling to me. I love
that. So it's great. Willis O 'Brien. It was
the ghost of Willis O 'Brien calling to me. Yeah.
It's a sign. Willis O 'Brien month. All right.
Well, after that, we're going to get back to
some Japanese kaiju. God, a movie that I have
wanted to bring for so long. It's not a Godzilla
movie, but it's in a Shiro Honda film. The War
of the Gargantuas. Dun, dun, dun. From 1966.
Technically the sequel to Frankenstein Conquers
the World, though you wouldn't know it. Yep.
If only Nick Adams had been in it, but I'll save
it for the podcast. There will be some impersonations,
I know. The War of the Gargantuas. If you haven't
seen it, you're in for a treat. I've heard you
talk about it often. I'm very excited to watch
that. I love Ishiro Honda. He can do no wrong
by me. So I love that. I unfortunately don't
really have any other Japanese kaiju movies on
my list. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 was the
only one I had on my list, which probably should
have had some backups. But I think I know what
I'm going to choose for this month. We can have
a War of the... theme, because I'm going to choose
the original War of the Worlds from 1953. All
right. The original film version of the H .G.
Wells classic. All the clips and images that
I've seen from that always look really beautiful
and stylish and cool, old -fashioned. special
effects, but I've never seen it all the way through,
so excited to give that a chance. I was just
thinking about that movie. That's fantastic coincidence,
and I'm glad you didn't say the 2025 Ice Cube
War of the Worlds. I am morbidly curious about
that. Has anybody else seen it? No, no. Listen,
listen. Listen to Sean. As a fellow black man.
Let me tell you something that is without a shadow
of a doubt. One of the worst like screen movies
I have ever witnessed in my entire life. Okay.
Because like that whole film is part of a certain
genre where basically everything takes place
on one screen. Okay. Or one area. All right.
And so you just got ice cubes sitting in this
room. you know, a special secret government room
because he works for the government, you know,
which I already automatically have a conflict
with because I know the Ice Cube we have now
is like the Ice Cube from the 1980s. That's the
one I grew up on, you know, and I'm just like,
you working for the government? Come on, Q. This
don't work. No, but he knows everything about
computers. He can even hack his daughter's refrigerator
to find out what she's been eating and not eating
because she's pregnant. Anyway, anytime something
happens, there's an explosion or something. Ice
Cube's making weird faces at the screen and he's
always yelling. And I will not do my Ice Cube
imitation on this podcast, but he's always yelling.
But the funniest part. And if you ever watch
it, if you just watch like the last like 10 or
15 minutes. Like, they have to basically, I'm
doing a spoiler, I'm spoiling this. No human
being should watch this film. No human being
should watch this film. Anywho, what happens
is that he has to upload a virus to, like, make
the aliens die or whatever. And he is running
down the hallway. Like he, and it's, he's just
screaming. I forget what he's screaming, but
he's screaming it repeatedly. And like, I just,
all I could do was laugh. I was like, I, this
is the most unserious film I've watched in a
while. And I've watched a lot of unserious. Um,
it is literally an app. It's also an Amazon.
Um, it's basically an average Amazon advertisement
film fall within that COVID period. So it has
that nice, like, yes. Like you talk about like,
like, like I hope in like, 20 years, we can look
back and put this as like the COVID film, the
way like, you know, he doesn't interact and it's
on screen. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like it was filmed
during COVID and they just didn't, but like,
it was so bad. They just didn't release it until
this year. And so, yeah, like, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
suggest that film to my, to like my worst enemy.
Okay. I have to admit, some of that sounds kind
of funny. I still kind of want to see it, but
there's a running theme of you telling me not
to waste valuable time. You will laugh. Seriously,
you will laugh because every time you hear Cube
yell, get out of there! Every time you hear him
yell that, you just start laughing. All right.
Well, we won't bring it to the podcast this season,
but maybe sometime in the future. Or maybe it's
my next pick. My next pick is something that
also has a pretty rotten critical consensus,
although I think the popular consensus is a little
bit more generous than Ice Cube's War of the
Worlds. 1986, Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive.
Wow. Oh, my. Oh, the reactions. Never seen it.
I've always wanted to. Great soundtrack. I was
first aware of the movie first through the soundtrack.
And then I finally got around to watching it
last year or so. And I went, oh, my goodness
gracious. This is begging for the Camp Kaiju
treatment. Yeah, maximum overdrive. Killer cars
and trucks and other sorts of machines. I think
an alien being infests the machines of the world.
And Emilio Estevez is there to save the day.
And the greatest Stephen King cameo. I don't
even recall. I know he directed it. He's got
a very short cameo. It's hilarious. It's near
the beginning. Wow. I can't wait. That was like
Stephen King at the height of his cocaine era,
I think. Well, that's what I... The backstory
of this movie, he was directing it and apparently
doesn't remember directing it. Which could explain
a lot of what you see on screen. Absolutely.
Yeah, I'm excited. Please tell me that you're
following up with the happening. Oh, man. I just
rewatched The Happening recently, and that's
a pretty funny movie, but it has a limited replay
value, perhaps. I'll just say that. Maximum Overdrive,
sorry about my cat, by the way. Maximum Overdrive
does kind of remind me of Killdozer, which is
among my least favorite movies we've talked about
on Camp Kaiju so far, but I think Maximum Overdrive
will be more entertaining than Killdozer, hopefully.
But... I love that you chose that because I have
another Stephen King related movie on my list.
Children of the Corn from 1984. Outlander. What?
Outlander. Is that from that movie? I have no
idea. I've never seen it. I've seen it too many
times. Okay. I can't tell if you're glad that
I'm bringing it to the podcast. Okay. I'm glad.
All right. I've heard it's bad as a movie. I
mean, I will not be surprised if it is. But,
you know, bad Stephen King. That'll be the theme
of the month. 80s Stephen King. Cocaine era Stephen
King. Yeah. We should make posters for that.
That'd be amazing. Call it the Snowmobile. Oh,
perfect. Hey, listen. Listen, like, if Taylor
Swift can have her own era, you know, so can
Stephen King. There you go. You know? Oh, by
the way. Looks like Zach Linder is also on the
call now, if you don't see him on your screen.
He is here on the show. I did. I did. Thank you.
Hello, Zach. We were just wrapping up. We're
glad you could pop in. Would you care to introduce
yourself briefly? Oh, yeah. I'm Zach Linder.
I run the Zach Pack, I guess. I helped sponsor
it. Love Vincent. Grew up with him. Went to high
school together. Big fan of what you guys do.
I don't really have much in the terms of production
or anything like that, but I love that you guys
are producing the show. I hope you keep growing.
Let me know what you guys need. I'll help you
however I can. Thank you, Zach. I'm eternally
grateful. I definitely want to talk to you more
about Thor here in the near future, but that
can be a sidebar separate from this. Yeah. All
right. Stick around, though, if you want to.
We're just wrapping up, like I said, but you're
pretty happy to stick around. For sure. Okay.
That brings us to July, friends. July will be
KaiJuly. We don't have those titles yet. Maybe
we would be open to our guest hosts pitching
us some ideas. Our listeners, if you want to
chime in for July. But I think what we have to
start with is pretty monstrous. I see what you
did there. I had to. I had to. Good stuff, Matt.
I'm excited. Yeah, likewise. Me too. Hopefully
everybody else is excited as well, and hopefully
we'll have some guest stars this season. I'm
sure we will, but yeah, some good stuff for sure.
And I do like the kind of international vibe
that we at least start off with and then go back
to some campy stuff. That'll be fun. I love your
idea of themed pairs and double features. So,
yeah, Willis O 'Brien, Stephen King, international
pictures. It's got to be like a smorgasbord.
Yeah. Which I think we always try to do, you
know, that's always one of the pleasures of Cam
Kaiju. It's strange beasts, the supernatural
and everything in between. Yeah. Or when we got
War of the Gargantuan in there, too. Godzilla.
So awesome. Yeah. All right. Guests. Let us know
if you want to be a guest on any of those episodes.
Happy to have you back. This show grew a lot
the past year. I don't have hard numbers, but
I have, like, my mind numbers. I do look at my
data every hour, but... Working on that for my
own self, but... At the start of the year, I
think within a week, episodes were averaging
70. No, within two weeks, it was like 70 downloads.
Now, within two weeks, it's 100 plus. Nice. Yeah,
and our episodes that do really well, they reach
those numbers within two weeks, which is really
great for a podcast. This is our sixth year doing
it, so it does take a lot of time, but it's made
so much more easier and worthwhile with people
like you helping out and supporting in all the
ways you do. Thank you. It's a good feeling.
Yes. Thank you. Yeah, it's always fun having
guest stars. Of course, you know, just chatting
with Vincent is always fun, too. But, like, it's
always a little extra special when we have guest
stars and, like, reading comments from people
out there and everything. So that's what makes
it especially fun. Yeah. All right. Well, keep
in touch. Happy holidays. And have a happy New
Year, you filthy animals. Wow. Nice. Hey, Don's
got it. Is Peter Lorre coming back next year?
Peter will be back. He declined my invite. How
rude. No, he's on a honeymoon of sorts right
now with his Raven lady friend. It's a thing
that will be revealed in the Pacific Rim episode.
But he needs some time away for a little bit.
He's gone through some things. But he'll be back.
I have to say, a few months back, I was listening
to the Tusk episode way after you guys put it
out and everything. I watched the movie and then
listened to it. And the Peter Lorre part on that
one, there's a part where he refers to Pierre
as his bosom buddy. And I was listening to that
on AirPods in the... the break room at my work.
And I just like, I like could not stop laughing.
And I probably looked like an insane person just
laughing at what seemed like nothing to anybody
who couldn't hear inside my AirPods. But, uh,
that, that phrase made me laugh really hard.
Peter has had many strange bedfellows in the
past year. Uh, again, he needs a break, but he'll
be back in January. All I can say is, and I've
listened to this episode multiple times, it's
when after Peter Lorre escapes from the plant
that tried to eat him. And leaves such a mess.
And, like, Peter's so mad at Matthew for not
helping clean up. And he was like, I can't even
get any help. And he starts to imitate Matthew.
He's like, you know, maybe you could use a spade
and a shovel, Peter. And, like, man, I just lose
it every single time. Perhaps I can lend you
a hand, Peter. Would you like a spade and shovel,
Peter? And he's like, curse you, curse you. And
it just makes me laugh so much. Those segments
bring so much joy. The Minions mailbox music,
I freaking love it. It makes you happy. One of
the most annoying characters in the history of
Godzilla has the greatest mailbox music of all
time. Y 'all do some really great things. All
of us that have been on the show support the
show. Like, it's an amazing thing what y 'all
are doing. We're very thankful for that. I don't
mean to hog up all the space, but you are appreciated.
All of you are appreciated. And I appreciate
y 'all allowing me to be a part of this community
as well. Yeah. Right back at you, Sean. Thank
you, Sean. And thank you, Vincent, for everything
you do. Hasta luego. Bye, La Ventana. Happy holidays.
Thank you.