Welcome to the finale of SPOOKY PENIS MONTH! An American Werewolf in London (1981), the John Landis horror/comedy, is our last entry into the Halloween podcast season. Join us!
An American Werewolf in London (1981), an absolutely favorite and a classic from John Landis. And, potentially, from what I’ve researched, the ONLY full-frontal male nudity we’ve ever gotten from Landis. This particular scene caused David Naughton to lose his long-time job as Dr. Pepper’s resident singing-and-dancing mascot. Join us, as always, as we dissect, indulge, and ruminate on our last Halloween episode for SPOOKY PENIS MONTH.
Something I regret not mentioning in the episode: how is David a werewolf 2 nights in a row? Isn’t he moon only full for one night, and it changes ever so slightly each night? I googled it and this is what I found: “The moon appears full to the eye for two to three nights. However, astronomers regard the moon as full at a precisely defined instant, when the moon is exactly 180 degrees opposite the sun in ecliptic longitude.” Source: https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/full-moon/
If that is true, then I’ll need a werewolf-ologist to help me figure out what exactly that is all about.
Hey, does anyone know of any full-frontal Thanksgiving films?? Hit me UP.
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Mhm. We have WD 40.
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Wd 40 is not going to help a plastic chair. What you talking about?
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Hello there. Welcome to on the Bitte, the podcast that uncovers full frontal male nudity cinema. My name is Laura, and I am joined by my cohost, Ryan.
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Hello.
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Hey, Ryan. This is it.
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This is it.
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This is number three. This is the finale of Spooky Penis Month.
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Thank, uh, God.
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What do you mean, thank God? It's not like it really ends. It's just like different types of movies that aren't horror movies.
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Uh oh.
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So the show continues after we never stop.
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Okay?
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Forever.
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As long as the decks keep flowing, we'll keep on red. Yeah, we'll keep roaring. Okay.
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Yeah, roaring like a werewolf. Do they roar?
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I'd say they grow. They're more doglike. There's less roar. As opposed to, like, growl and barks.
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Well, I guess we'll figure out what kind of.
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Yeah, I shouldn't have to explain that to you, obviously.
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Roar or growls. In the 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London, directed and written by John Landis.
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Uh, Mr. Landis, we have arrived. Landis, uh, at Landis landed on Landis. We've landed on the Landis.
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Um, tell me, tell me.
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Okay. I mean, someone somewhere has seen a John Land. This movie will think it hopefully this one. Yeah, I would have thought so. This is probably one of his best ones. I'm, um, not going to go through his whole filmography, but there's definitely some stuff in here that I particularly like. So the John Landers story, let's just say when he was quite young, he got into the filmmaking game almost immediately.
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Right.
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But he was a bit more of like a kind of. I guess he played every card. He did everything that you could possibly do. I think one of his most notable things, or at least the one thing that he remembers, is that he's stabbed, uh, on screen by Tashiro Muffini in a film called Red Sun. Like, actually stabbed, like in the film thing. Uh, no, it's not like someone actually died. It's not like someone actually died him. Yeah, no, it's not like someone actually died. We're, uh, going to get to that just in a little bit. Don't worry. Um, but, uh, it worked all over. All different kind of film industries, all over Europe and the rest of the world and things like that. He really is quite well traveled. Um, okay, let's just get into filmography. Like I said, you've been working the industry for a while, kind of being the every man, pretty much doing all sorts of stuff. Uh, in 73 gets a directorial tape. You with Schlock, right?
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Okay. Uh.
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What? It is like a sloppy monster movie thing. He, um, doesn't like it. He doesn't like that film very much.
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Okay.
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But it did get him enough attention and got him on the board for directing Kentucky's, uh, Fried movie in 1977.
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I've seen the cover of that film, actually. No, I think I have seen that film. It's really funny.
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I don't think I have.
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I actually have seen that movie. I just remembered.
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Okay. So in 1978, we have the bona fide classic is the first of the, uh, Lampoon. The National Lampoon movies.
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Is that the very first one?
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I think so. But I like Animal House because it's toga, toga toga.
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It's a funny movie. It's pretty good.
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I really like that movie. 19. Uh, 80. We have Blues Brothers, which I know you really like.
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I like that movie.
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And then I'm not going to explain myself.
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I just don't think it's funny. I'll try to watch it again.
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But we spoke about really good car chases. And we get to 80. Uh, one with an American Werewolf in London.
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Yeah, I guess he wrote the script when he was like 16.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah. He was like super young when he wrote it. And then when he finally got a little bit of cloud, he's like, I'm making this, okay. Definitely making this. And I heard that the executives at Universal wanted basically a team up again of Belushi and Dan Ackroyd for the roles of David and Jack in this movie, which is insane, but he's like, I don't want that. I want different people.
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The weirdest thing about that faces. Yeah. The weirdest thing about that is I feel like if Belushi and Aykroyd ended up in that movie, uh, that movie loses a lot of its legitimacy, basically 100%.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't feel the same.
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No.
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Bear in mind, if John Belushi's playing, uh, is it John Notton?
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David Notton is TheTon who plays David Tesla.
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Right. Got you. Imagine John Belushi in the transformation scene. Oh, God.
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Face all stretching out and stuff.
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Face all stretching out. Fucking giant hands.
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Well, uh, I guess we already kind of said, but David Notton is the titular American Werewolf. Uh, and he plays David Kessler and Griffin. Dune Dunne. D-U-N-N-E-I said Dune.
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Dune.
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It's got Dune on the brain because Dune is coming out. Yeah. Uh, that'll date this a bit.
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I'm going to say, because that's her name. I've seen like, Back Home and stuff like that. Done.
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Done well. He plays Jack.
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Okay. He's actually really good.
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He's fantastic. And this is a very early role for him. I think he had just smaller roles in two other films prior to this.
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Yeah. Because when was After Hours.
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85, I believe.
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Okay. So that's after this.
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Yes, definitely 85. And it's funny because I was looking these people up and just trying to grab tidbits. But David Notton was actually the face of Dr. Pepper in the late 70s.
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Well, you showed me some of these commercials.
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I wanted to show you the commercials because I don't think that they went over to the UK, and I doubt that you would have seen them. And also we were not even twinkles in our parents'eyes. But, yeah, it's these I'm a pepper videos, and you can see them on YouTube. All of them are on there in, like, classic Seventies gear. And he's dancing. He can dance really well. He has a lovely voice, and he's just walking around saying, I'm a Pepper. You're a bevert.
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He's a Pepper. He's a Pepper. He's a performer. That stuff. Yeah, that stuff doesn't. I wouldn't have thought, translate back home into the UK, certainly. I don't know. This is what this is the 70s, right?
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Mhm. Yeah, like the very late 70s. And what's funny is that Dr. Pepper fired him after this movie came out.
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Oh, shit.
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Because he's naked in it. Oh, well, Dr. Pepper saw that.
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It's a family brand.
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Pepper penis and said, Hit the bricks, Jack.
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Never, like, get the fuck out. Yeah. Cancel his subscription to the Pepper license.
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We're not giving him any more free, doctor. Yeah.
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Take away his mini fridge forever.
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Mini fridge of Dr. Pepper.
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Yeah.
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Not, uh, anymore.
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Yeah, I'll, uh, come back to me.
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Okay. Shout it out later.
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Yeah. Just screaming. At some point in the middle of the synopsis.
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I wish I could say the name of the woman that plays Nurse Alex Price, and it's. But it's not like a gutter. Jenny Agutter.
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A-G-U-T-T-E-R. She's a really popular actress, Bachelor.
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And she's gorgeous.
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Yeah, well, I remember. I'm just going to get, um, your sheet, and I'm just going to have a look. Where the fuck is it?
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It's running this out. Jenny.
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Jenny a gutter.
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A Guter.
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Probably a gooder. I don't know. Yeah, I remember her from. I mean, she's, um, in films and stuff. I remember her from, uh, she was in either Holy City or Casualty. There's a BBC. Oh, right, yeah, BBC, like hospital shows. Uh, oh, she's in this one because for, um, the most part, it's an all British cast. Yes, pretty much. So at least, um, in that regard, it's incredibly faithful with its casting.
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Do you want to know a funny thing about Landis? Uh, and Jenny, they were both uncredited hospital workers in Sam Raimi's. Dark man. Yeah.
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Uh, interesting. When did Dark Man come out?
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Now I'm like, oh, God, when did Dark Man come out?
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83 or something.
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90.
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Dark man is.
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Okay, so nine years later.
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Wow.
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They team up again.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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Haven't even gotten to the summary yet. Are you ready for it?
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The synopsis?
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Yeah, the synopsis from letterbox.
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It better be a banger.
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At least is shorter than the last one.
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Oh, you mean from 20, uh, eight days later.
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Yeah, well, two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. That's it.
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That's it.
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Yeah.
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All right. Okay.
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It's not good.
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No, it's not great. But basically, that is the first 10 minutes of the film.
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Yeah.
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And then obviously, after that.
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There'S another werewolf attack, and then he's visited by.
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Yeah. Small community ignorance. Um, and then he becomes effectively a werewolf. I like and throw.
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He's just struggling with the changes in his body.
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Yeah. It's most sophisticated. Say, like ginger snaps. Oh, boykening, the liking. Say, like a girl maturing into womanhood.
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Yeah. The tagline is beware the moon. Yeah.
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Solid. That's a solid tagline. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
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Yeah. I always find it interesting to research, like, the origins of these particular myths and stuff. Like, we did a little bit for zombies, a little bit for Bigfoot. But this one is definitely the oldest one so far. At least, the legend or the myth of the werewolf goes back to like 2100 to 1800 BCE. There was a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. And I guess what happened in the story is that there's a man who spurns a potential lover because she had turned a previous lover into a Wolf. Uh, so that was kind of like the first thing that you kind of pinpoint.
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That's unfortunate.
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Yeah. And then from there, like, things have grown, like in Nordic and Greek text and stuff. They have things like that and ropes and werewolves and stuff and kind of grew from there.
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I've always kind of likened, uh, like, I look at my universal, uh, classic monsters, and I'm like, obviously, if they're big enough there, they've obviously got a relatively huge amount of history behind them in order for them to reanimating corpses with Frankenstein and the Mummy and Dracula.
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Uh, I feel like the youngest one out of all of those would be the Frankenstein. Frankenstein's monster.
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Probably. Yeah, probably, uh, still good. Yeah. Still older than me.
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Yeah, that's true. Did you know that they, um, filmed this movie in sequence?
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Okay.
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Which, uh, is so rare. It was filmed in sequence specifically so that Rick Baker could work on the special effects because they knew towards the end of the movie they were going to have a lot of werewolf stuff. And so he was, like, making this stuff as he went and perfecting it as he went to give him more time to work on that stuff.
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Yeah. That shit's wild when it all starts to kind of happen.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, I think the only other movie I remember recently because we were listening about it was John, uh, Singleton's Boys in the Hoodies shot in sequence.
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Oh, yeah.
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We're listening to, um, a blank check that podcast.
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They were saying that with Griffin and David, right? Yeah. They were saying that apparently John Singleton eventually was like, yeah, you can see I'm a better filmmaker at the end of the movie. Like, I didn't know what I was doing in the beginning.
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Yeah. Just learning along. That's why the second half of that movie is like five star gold.
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It's awesome.
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Yeah. It's a really good movie. So I don't, um, think the first half of that movie is that bad either.
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No.
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Yeah. Okay. Uh, well, that does make a lot of sense. And the thing is, when you do watch that movie and you watch I'm talking about, actually, American Werewolf. Now, just in case you thought, like, Cuba Good and Jr. Started getting a little bit too hairy. Um, yes. No, uh, you can tell because it's all practical effects in that movie, and it's probably some of the best practical effects in, um, any film of this type of that time. Very convincing stuff. It looks good. It looks convincing enough.
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I usually talk about, um, accolades later, but this film won the very first Best Makeup Academy Award, uh, because they created that category in 1980.
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The 80s, for the horror genre. Just in general, it's going on leaps and bounds.
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Right?
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The special effects, like the horror genre, and certainly the, uh, need for special effects, because if I think about you could throw a rock into, uh, that very deep ocean of horror flicks, and you're likely to hit something that you're like, Holy fuck, how the shit they do that?
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Even if you just put together the 1980s werewolf movies, I have a list of them. There's a ton. And this is all of them. Wolfen, 81, the Howling. Full Moon High, the Company of Wolves. Five Silver Bullet. Five. Howling. 219 85. Teen Wolf. 219 87, howling. 319, 87.
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Highland Movies. Jesus.
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And that's not all of them.
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No, it's not.
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That's a ton. Werewolf crazy in the 80s for some reason. Also, it was the Elephant Man. People were pissed that the Elephant Man didn't get any recognition for the makeup, so they created this because of the Elephant Man. All right, see, that's my bad for not writing it down.
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That's fine. No, I think that's fine. Yeah, I think I remember reading something about that at some point, because John Hart does a really good job in that role. Yeah, he's, um, effectively just wearing a mask or a hood the entire time.
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The makeup in this movie blows my mind. I love practical effects. Uh, I fucking love practical effects and how visceral they are and how they make you feel. And they're just so real. Jack in this movie is so gross.
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Yeah, he's really cute.
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He's so good.
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It's really funny.
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John Landis told him, he's like, When I have you, when you're dead, you need to just be really happy and be very jovial, be in a good mood, and always be upbeat, because it's so strange you got those flaps hanging off foul.
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Yeah, because we'll get to that when we're talking a little bit more about those scenes in particular. But, yeah, he's been ravaged by this werewolf. And obviously the way he's died, like, the way that his body has left this realm is the depiction that he's going to basically portray whilst in limbo. So effectively, his whole throat is completely exposed and half of his face is, like, slopping off of his muscle. And he can't. It's just he's covered in blood, and everything looks very gloopy and very wet. Obviously, um, over the course of the movie, because we meet Jack three times while season limbo is that he is actively rotting so quickly. Yeah, very quickly.
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The last time we see him, he's a puppet, but that's fairly obvious that it's not him. And makeup.
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Yes. But I guess this is my one thing about practical effects over, say, the advent of CG. And I kind of bring this up because I had a conversation with an actress a while ago. It was over the conversation about Jaws. Now, say wherever you are about the shark in Jaws, but Jaws is still, hands down, probably one of the greatest films ever made, let alone the best shark movie ever made.
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Yes.
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There is something, um, far more believable about seeing something in front of you that is tangible and real and that you can touch.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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As opposed to seeing something that is occupying a space that has been created using nothing but pixels. And I'll always feel that way, personally.
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Yeah. I mean, you can make as many. I don't know if we talk about shark movies in general. Like, we watched the Meg, remember that? Which is cool. Uh huh. Big Shark. Super cool.
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But, yeah, he's not a real shark. It's not real.
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It's not practical. So it doesn't give you that same sense of fear.
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No, uh, I don't agree with the whole, like, CG. It looks like a video game, but it does get a little ropey. I kind of feel like the only time I felt CG was a fantastic marriage of, say, like, special effects and, like, a variety of different techniques all put together.
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Come on, Jurassic Park.
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Absolutely.
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That's what I was going to say. I'm like. He's going to say Jurassic Park. Yeah.
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Perfect. They continued that all the way through the course. Probably not the Jurassic World movies, but they continued that through to Jurassic Park Three, where Stan Winston is just making bigger fucking dinosaurs. Don't come to me being like, oh, I don't believe that TRX, uh, is real, because let's be perfectly honest, that fucking thinking crashing through your sunroof. And it was there. That's half of the reason why that film is scary.
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That scene with the Trex is one of the scariest scenes in a movie, other than that one scene in E. T. Where he's, like, running through the cornfields and pops up at Elliott. That's the scariest thing I've ever seen in a movie.
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Yeah. And we're not talking about the.
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I'm sorry.
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We're not talking about the shiny, fucking Spielberg special Edition Et. We're talking about the original theatrical cut where his eyes are not, like, moving erratically.
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That Et. Thanks. It's so scary.
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The George Lucas workshop.
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My parents used to torture me with an E. T. Doll at my house when I was a kid. Which, to be fair, if I had kids, I would probably torture and scare them as well. Because it's funny.
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I would say half of the reason to have children is to torture them. Or at least that was my mother's approach to Parenthood.
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Uh, well, mine were good, um, natured at least. But to leave my closet door open just so. So I could see that fucking doll sitting in the closet just so they're doing it on purpose. And I get it. Good joke, mom and dad.
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It creates.
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I still have nightmares.
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Look, it creates a, um, solid foundation for potential neuroses that will occur later in your own life.
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All closet doors have to be all the way closed before I go to.
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Bed. Yeah, that's something that we've dealt with. But anyway, um.
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Okay, maybe a little.
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Bit. Yeah. So practical effects over your CGI and I won't hear any different.
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Yeah. And you can do a bit of both. You have the technology to do a bit of both. Lord of the Rings did a bit of both. Jurassic park did a bit of both. But you figure out where to use it, where it could be the most effective. And this movie does it so.
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Well, obviously we don't have Lord of the Rings and Jurassic Park aren't particularly comparable. I kind of see where you're getting at.
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I didn't see The Hobbit.
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No. Well, no one says The Hobbit. No. So I wouldn't worry too much about that over abundance of CG in a time. Now, I think that's, uh, what's kind of.
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We're missing the heart of things. I guess maybe we are getting too much on a tangent about it, but I do think that there's quite a bit of heart and soul that goes into making these practical effects, which is why it's so cool that they did this. And see, I'm creating something new. I'm creating something by my own hands that will fucking terrify everybody. Yeah. And it works.
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There's a reason why the transformation sequence in An American Werewolf in London is still regarded as one of the best. There's still also a reason why the thing is still regarded as, uh, some of the best creature effects that have ever been made because some of them are relatively quite unfathomable. And you're like, how the fuck did they do that? Same with, like, every time I see, um, Little Shop of Horrors, I'm still like, how did they do the puppet? I don't know how that works. I don't know how that works at all.
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The way that it moves is genius.
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Yeah. It's like. It's animated. Yeah. It's wild, but yes, before we, um, go too far off.
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Right, sorry.
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Let's, um.
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You know what I could bring up really quick? What's that? Michael Jackson. I have a little note. I forgot to mention that he loves it here as well.
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You do?
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Yeah. Well, he loved this movie so much. The effects specifically that he hired John Landis. And most of the crew, at least the special effects crew, to work on Thriller.
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Yeah, well, I'd be surprised.
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There he told Landis, quote, I want to turn into a monster. Yes.
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Ouch. Well, hold on. Because there's also the Michael Jackson movie. There's Moonwalker as well. Remember where he turns into a fucking cat or something?
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I didn't see that.
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You don't see that movie?
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I feel like it's hard to find.
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I think it's really hard to find. I remember seeing it on video back in the day.
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I think I've tried to find it once.
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Yeah. It's a fever dream, uh, if I remember. That sounds cool. Yeah. I do remember certain things about it. I do think he fucking turns into a cat or something and he transforms into a Panther.
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Yeah. He was, like, obsessed with.
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Uh, turning into creatures that may be mixing on one of these music videos. But for the most part, you can basically transpose certain things that they do in American Werewolf. And it's immediately kind of just put into Thriller, like the face paint in the eyes and things on the teeth and stuff like that.
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I think Land has said that Thriller, uh, was essentially a vehicle for Michael Jackson to turn into a monster. More than anything. It wasn't about the song. It wasn't about the music or whatever he said it was so that he could turn into a monster.
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And they had that kind of money. Michael Jackson was the sort of person who, like, if someone said anything bad about them, I think it was a fucking Slim Shady. I think, uh, Eminem said something about Michael Jackson. So to get back, Michael Jackson bought, uh, the fucking record company that held onto M and M's Music. Really? Yeah. So, uh, he owned all of Eminem's music for a time until obviously he died.
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That is a killer move. I mean, I don't want to say too much about Michael Jackson as a person.
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No, we're not going to. But, uh, that is the thing is. And the thing I'll say about Michael Jackson, we'll close this up is that whatever you think about Michael Jackson and we all have opinions, and I don't think we should ever feel like we should defend anything that has ever come up about Michael Jackson. But I think Dave Chappelle said it best, uh, when he said he needs.
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Thriller. I don't even know where I want to start. I really like the beginning of the movie. I love The Slaughtered Lamb. I want that pub sign. It's so cool. And just walking into that pub reminded me of, like, walking into shady pubs in Scotland and how everyone, like, the door creaks. Everyone stops talking, turns and stares at you like you're a freak of nature. And I know that feeling. I've had that feeling. I've had that experience.
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Yeah. You don't belong there.
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Yes. Why are you here? And it's, like, hit the nail on the head with that one. And they're two very obvious looking Americans. John Landa said that he put them in those puffer jackets, um, because he wanted them to look kind of alien, like astronauts. So the pub wall has a pentagram on it. And this guy is telling this hilarious story about people jumping out of planes. And Jack is like, what is this pentagram on the wall? And everyone gets really upset and tells him to get the fuck out of the pub.
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Well, pretty much, yeah. He says that. And then he misses his Dart and he's like, I've never missed the.
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Dartboard.
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And basically we ask them to leave. Um, Landlady is.
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Like.
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Uh, it's not a problem, uh, anymore.
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Love.
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Because basically there's a beast trolling the Hills of the Moors. Pretty much. And the thing is, there's been plenty of big cat sightings, like, big animal sightings on the Moors for decades. There's big cats at the Moor, remember? Uh, that that stories come up like, fucking countless times in the news.
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Oh, my God.
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Big cat sighting on the Moors. And it's like fucking Panther. Like, what is this?
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That's cool. Yeah.
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That's always been a thing. Yeah. So supposedly there's wild cat. There's like, wild cats and big cats roaming around on the Moor. So when they say that, I'm like, well, it's not two things. I mean, let's put it this way. Everything that's kind of happened and we're looking at it. It's all very much a kind of parody. And certainly all of the characters that we meet by zero English are pretty much like parodies. Like, parody characters. Yeah. We're dealing more in the comedy horror realm than anything else for the most part. So, um, yeah, they end up out in the fucking rain, just wandering, uh, around the Moors, like, late at night.
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Yeah. And the only things that have been repeatedly told to them are stay off the Moors, keep to the roads. They have been told this information countless times. They end up on the Moors. Yeah.
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Oops. Well, I mean, it's the way it happens.
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And then in the distance, you hear like, yeah.
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This is script writing One 101. Like, warn them enough. Up until the point where, fuck, the warnings didn't work immediately.
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We have an issue. Yeah.
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I mean, it's funny. The thing is, it is scary, and there's some jump scares and stuff like that. But for the most part, it's like, uh, you just hear this, like, constant growling.
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They keep turning around, like we're walking, we're walking. And they're just running away. David trips, uh, Jack tries to help him up and then gets full on attack.
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Gets mauled covered in blood, fucking throat ripped out.
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I love this part because Jack's on the ground getting his throat torn apart.
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David books it. He runs.
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Runs as fast as he can. Jack is on the ground screaming, Help, David, help. Jesus Christ, help me. And it's just running as fast as he can. And then all of a sudden he goes, oh, Jack. Like he just remembered that his friend is getting torn the fuck apart. And he turns around and runs back. And just at the moment where he's about to get murdered, I think he gets slashed in the face and chest. Yeah, by the werewolf.
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The locals show up with guns and stuff, and they murder the beast that then reverts back to its human form.
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I wonder about that, because through this movie, you never see the reverse. You never see them turning from a, uh, werewolf into a man again.
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Hollywood Baker was like, Look, I'll do them turning into the Wolf. I'm not doing anything.
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You could just reverse the footage, right?
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You could if you're a cheap ass, I guess, if you want. Fair enough.
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But it makes you think, is it just like you snap your fingers. I can't snap right now.
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But maybe in another kind of film, like maybe in a more of a straight horror like, that would probably work.
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You see the hair getting sucked back in.
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The thing is, they play that up for comedy effect, though. Whereas he's out as a Wolf, obviously doing the werewolf things and tearing people apart and stuff like that. And the next thing he's waking up in a cage with a bunch of other normal Wolves. And it's like, oh.
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Hello, that's pretty good.
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Yeah. So there are reasons for it. Plus this film is only like, what, ninety, 97 minutes or. Yeah, it's actually super short. Like, it's very respectful of your time. And every single scene is pretty much. Pretty much bang on it's pretty good.
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Well, David ends up in the hospital.
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Yes, David's rescued. Obviously. He ends up in the hospital. He's traumatized, obviously, by the fact that Jack is dead, but he's having horrible dreams. And these dreams are like, really cool. These kind of dream sequences are really cool. Like he's running around in the woods and he fucking attacks it here and rips his head off and starts chewing on his sled. And then there's the bit with the Nazi wools.
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Yeah, that straight up kicked the door in.
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They murdered this entire family. They've got like, machine guns and stuff and just fucking absolutely total this family. They set the whole place on fire.
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There's little because he's naked a lot of this film. Yeah. He doesn't have clothes on that much. It's either a dream sequence or just post transformation or sexy time.
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Yeah, well, that's the thing. If you've ripped through your clothing because your body is transforming into something completely inhumane for the most part, that's the thing at least. Um, with this one, they fully commit. Unlike, say, the Hulk, where obviously he's wearing, like, really tiny little shorts are super stretchy when he turns into the Hulk and then shrink back to normal size when he turns back to Bruce Banner.
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Normally fabulous elastic. Yeah, I don't have that many notes. I love when Jack comes in and having those dreams and he starts to not understand if he's sleeping or he's awake. No.
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When he starts having dreams within dreams. Kind of like Inception. Yeah. And then he's obviously developing, uh, a relationship with his nurse, which is sexy. Well, I was going to say the character's name. Oh, yeah. That will help people. Alex. Alex. So that's the Jenny of good a role. She's very pretty. Yeah, she's good. I mean, she's pretty good in the movie.
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There's a shower scene in this movie. Uh, and I was like a shower scene and it is so lame.
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Well, they do film sex is what I call it.
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Yeah. We're just like, slowly rubbing each other.
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Yeah. Do stuff that you don't normally do know. A lot of rubbing and rolling around.
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If you have a first time sexual encounter with someone, usually it's not romantic.
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Sometimes a bit stilted. Yeah. You're trying to figure things out.
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You're, uh, fumbling.
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Around. It's like you've gotten a job for the first time and you've got a console in front of you and it's covered in all these buttons and you're trying to figure out which ones work. That's kind of.
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It very frenzy, I would say. So this one's a little bit different. But what do you think is better? The shower scene in American Werewolf in London or the shower scene from Color of Nights?
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The Color of Night scene is probably better. Yeah. The old school feeling from An American Werewolf in London is the thing that I'm kind of just like. So that no one kisses someone under the shower head. No. Because for one, it ends up getting very difficult to breathe.
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It sure does.
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And then you also get all that water in your mouth.
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In your eyes too. So you can't open your eyes.
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No. And then when you do open your eyes, you're kind of squinting a bit and it's trying to rub your eyes and you're like.
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You get water out of.
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Uh, your mouth to keep your head in the game. You can't be like, getting distracted by drowning. That's not going to help you.
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They also had to build this one. They had to build a shower for this.
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You're a bit like. He gets up, David gets up. He has like, the quickest, um, piss ever. It does, yeah. It's like a two second piss.
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Do you remember that scene in where he's got the P bar and it's like a really full P bar? And then he goes to Whiz and the P bar goes down. But it's a super fast P, just like in this movie. Okay. It's funny. It's a joke.
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P. That's fine. I felt like the one in the American world was strangely short. Yeah.
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I wonder if it was meant to be a joke or something.
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You're so desperate for the toilet and you go to the toilet and that's what comes out I'd be like, I don't know, maybe got a urinary tract infection. I have to go to my doctor because there should be more. He didn't even shake. No, well, he's not wearing any buttons either. No, he didn't shake. So he's just going to dribble pee all over his legs. All over his legs. He drags himself into the hallway because Jack turns up again, obviously at that point, further becoming a rotting mess. This very quickly kind of moves into, obviously, the transformation scene.
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Yeah. I think when he leaves the hospital, the full moon is the night after that. So he has the one night with Alex that's nice and sexy. And then the very next night and he keeps getting warned by Jack. Jack keeps telling them, you got to kill yourself, man. The only way I can break I have to break the werewolf's curse in order to not be in ghost zombie limbo. So he doesn't realize that he is actually going to turn to a werewolf. Yes. So, yeah, he kind of waits around all day, probably terrified of what's going to happen. And Alex is at work and he's at her flat and mhm yes, the scene is wild, pretty much.
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She transforms into the Wolf. And yeah, there's no point talking to anybody anymore. Anymore. You need to go watch this movie. There's no point. You fucking want to listen to this and continue to listen because we start to get to the Dixie and everything, but he transforms into a Wolf. And this is when obviously, he starts to murder people.
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Chaos ensues chaos and sue. Every little interaction, almost every interaction he has with a human before he murders them is very funny. Yeah. People are wandering around, like outside, uh, a friend's house. They're going to a dinner party and they're like, oh, let's go up and scare them. And they're kind of like sneaking through the woods and then boom, shit, werewolf.
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I guess the only kind of a thing of note during this sequence is it kills three homeless people. And then there's the sequence in the tube, like the tube station.
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Uh, that's a horrifying scene.
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Um, that seems really cool. And there's a lot of steady Cam stuff in that. I mean, certainly, um, if we think about the advent of the steady Cam, because Garrett Brown was the person who invented the steady Cam, for the most part, we'd seen it in Bound for Glory. Rocky was another big user. So basically, like, anyone who's not familiar with the Steadicam is basically it smooths out handheld movements in your camera pretty much. Okay, cool. And obviously by this point.
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So it's like a skateboard and you just roll it around on the ground.
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No, it's like a double. The guy in the subway can hear the growling and he's like, I can let you know this wound is in the least bit amusing. There's that great shot where it's looking down the escalator and you just see, obviously, because there's the archway of it. You just see, uh, the prowling, like, just a glimpse of the prowling Wolf comment of view just before it cuts away. And I always liked that. Uh, so that was really cool. He wakes up in the Zoo.
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Yeah. And he wakes up in the Wolf enclosure.
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Of course he does.
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Why not?
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Of course he does. Fucking bargains some balloons off. Um, this kid.
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Well, also, when he was in the Wolf enclosure, they only did one take of that.
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Oh, wow.
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Okay. Non was like, I'm not going in there again. Do it once.
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The real rules. Yeah.
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Okay. They had trainers and everything there, I guess. Yeah. But he was, um, not interested in staying in there or doing several takes of that. No, he just said.
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Please, we'll do this once. Well, you see his deck.
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Yes, you do.
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Yeah.
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It takes a little bit of time because he wakes up naked and he's running through the Zoo to try to find something to cover up his junk.
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He just got his hands over it and he's running from tree to tree. This Zoo sequence is effectively the dixine.
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Yes.
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For the most part.
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Oh, one 100% do get the snippets. You get a little bit of a snippet when he is transforming. And then if I can go back to that for a second, it's kind of funny because as he was turning into that werewolf, I go, oh, are we going to see more of his Dick? And his Dick essentially disappears.
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Yeah. Like, sinks into his body. Yeah.
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It sucks it back up. Like there's no penis.
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It's kind of like a dog. Like a dog. You know what I mean? That's kind of just how bad?
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Well, I mean, he is turning into, like a dog.
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Yeah. As we pointed out before, Wolves are dogs, right?
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They're not roar, they're groor, they're grow. Yes. Okay. So he's running from tree to tree, and there's one point where he gets out, runs behind this other tree. And. Yeah, you see his Dick.
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Yes. Just before he, uh, goes from tree to tree, and it's just before he gets to this other tree, he lets his hands go.
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Yes.
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Freedom to touch the tree. And then it just like it dangles. And then he's heading behind the tree again.
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Dangles flops back behind the tree.
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It's not something that we can kind of really. Let's just say again, this film is playing particularly for laughs, so I don't have much else to say other than the fact that they do not skimp out, because as much as he's trying to cover himself up, there's only so much he can do. And he is one 100%. Yes. They don't pussy out, so to speak. He finds a rag and puts it around himself. It's kind of like. Yes. No, he's in the event of changing into this creature, he's, like, ripped his clothing off.
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Uh, completely stark naked.
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Yeah, completely naked.
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There was something that I'd read and I don't know how true this is, but uh huh. There's a line earlier in the movie when Alex is talking to a nurse friend and the nurse friend goes, oh, I think he's Jewish. And Alex is like, how would you know that? And the other nurse goes, Well, I took a peek. What she's alluding to is that he's circumcised.
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I remember that as seen in particular, a doctor comes in and basically turns to that nurse and goes, do you have any use or value in this hospital at all? Easily tell them to leave. They're going to do something else.
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Well, she said about he might be Jewish.
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No, he doesn't look circumcised when he was sick.
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And so there was something that I'd read where John Landis was saying that he had to kind of avoid getting like a full on bigger shot of his penis because of that line about him being Jewish. They could have cut it out, but it was a funny line. But yeah, he's apparently not circumcised.
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Yeah. The Norse could have said anything.
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Really, but I guess if she saw an uncircumcised penis, there would be nothing of note.
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No. You wouldn't have any comments. No. The joke technically still works. You just have to maybe reward it slightly where it's still kind of like, yeah, this nasty looking chubby nurse has fucking decided to take a peek. Take a peek at one of the patient's day. I don't care. Uh, it's fucking sleazy and skeezy.
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She's the kind of person that would tear the blanket off of Achillian Murphy and leave them lying on a bed all alone, totally nude.
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All right, then she should probably maybe it was the same hospital. Maybe it was the same hospital.
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Filthy nurse, dirty nurses. That Dixie comes in at an hour, eleven minutes, 11 minutes and 1 second.
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You go to the T because immediately what follows this is mhm a naked American man taking a young boys balloons.
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That's so funny. I love that part so much. He's sitting behind a Bush, crouched behind a Bush. You can't see him? No. And there's this little schoolboy with a bunch of balloons. And he's like, hey, kid, come over here. Kid. Just shakes his head no. He said, Come over here, I'll give you a pound. Shakes his head no. He's like, I'll give you two pounds, £2. The goes over to the, uh, Bush. And what does he say? He's like, who are you? I don't know who you are. And David says, oh, I'm the balloon thief. Yeah. And the little boy goes, if you're a thief, why are you offering me two pounds? £2?
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Yeah up nice and fast because why not? We get to the porno theater and he basically meets Jack for the final time. But he meets all of the victims from his first escapades. Escapades. And they're all kind of like discussing in what way should Dave kill himself?
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Yeah. Oh, you should get it done. Drowning. Put it right in your mouth. Yeah.
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Like trickution.
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Yeah, it was funny. Car crash, jump off a cliff.
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It's like strangulations, like. No, he might hurt himself. He's like, I don't care if he hurts himself. He deserves it. Right. Okay, but, yeah, no, they're watching a portal called See You Next Wednesday. They are, which is obviously in joke. A John Landers in joke, because I think you initially thought was see you next Tuesday.
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I, um, did.
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Which is definitely something else.
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Yeah, I've heard that one before. And then when we were watching it, I was like, oh, shit. Wait, no, it's Wednesday. So what does that mean?
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I'm assuming it's a play on the See you next Tuesday.
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I actually know why it's not what you think. Oh, okay. So the in joke for this is that he uses this as the title of a movie within his movies, and it's always a different kind of movie. Movie. Yeah. So for this one was a porno. And this is actually the first, uh, thing that they shot for this film. The first thing they shot for this film was a porno. Okay. But it's actually a reference from Two Thousand 2001. A space. Yeah. So it was the last thing that Frank Pool's father said during the video letter from his parents to see you next Wednesday.
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Okay. I can honestly say I don't know if this is a popular opinion or not. I've probably only seen Two Thousand 2001 all the, like, once.
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Um, okay, I mind. Not that many more than you.
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I've maybe seen it twice. No, but, yeah, he meets all his victims there. And then, uh, the full moon comes again. He turns into a Wolf. And then all hell breaks loose.
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Pretty much.
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Oh, yeah. Cop stumbles on him in the theater, like, um, chewing on the innards of one of the patrons of the porno theater. He, uh, burst out of the porno theater, rips off the fucking head of the Inspector, pops right off. Pops right off, falls onto the bonnet, uh, of the car, rolls all over, bus crashes, another couple of cars crash. Someone falls out. The bus gets run over by a Volkswagen. It's absolute carnage. Uh, so many people dead, and they chase him down an alleyway. And I think Alex gets to see him in, uh, his horrible state one last time.
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Yeah. Um, because he tells her that he loves her before he runs away into a werewolf. And so this is her time to tell him that she loves him. She said at one point in the movie, oh, only someone that loves you can kill you if you're a werewolf. Which I don't know what sense that makes.
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Even though she's also wrong, because unless the villagers love the person who is the Wolf in the, uh, beginning of the movie.
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I have an issue with that anyway.
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But overall, she doesn't kill the Wolf. No, she does not, because there's like an armed guard. They come in and, uh, just like, shoot the, uh, fuck out of them. I think it's a really funny ending because it's her crying, um, like, sobbing uncontrollably. And it's just the shot of his body and then it immediately just cuts out and it's the credits to a very upbeat version of Blue Moon. Yeah. Uh, one of my things about John Landis and this kind of turns into more of a personal story for me. Oh, dear. But, uh, I don't know if this is true. It could be a rumor. I always thought it was true because I read it somewhere. Okay. But he got his start working in porno. Um, so he wasn't in front of camera, but he was certainly one of the people behind camera, uh, working in porno. Or at least that's what I thought he was. And this pertains to a particular story to me because I went to film.
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Um, school, Funnily enough.
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Yes. And I came out of film school and I applied for jobs where I was going to that. And I ended up sending an email, a job application to a job, uh, that, uh, was going. So I applied for this job for cameraman and I got the email up here, obviously keeping things kind of on the hush hush. I'm not even going to name the production company name or anything like that. But just to kind of go back around into the John Landis, uh, thing, my reply to them was, look, it worked for John Landis. It should probably work for me. And I never got a reply back. Really? No, I never got a reply.
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I might be interested in this. And they didn't say anything.
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I came back with them with the same level of witnesses and I felt like the email that they sent me had that also kind of illustrated. This was back in two thousand 2008. Girl I was with at the time was like, how am I supposed to explain that to my parents? I mean, there's the one thing you could do. Just don't explain it to your parent. Yeah. Why? Yeah, but I mean, it never came to be. That's a shame. Yeah. So for whatever reason, always stuck in my head and every time I hear the name John Landis, I'm like, I remember sending that email to that Weezy company that wouldn't tell us what it was.
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Anyway, did you know that in two thousand 2017, son Max Landis tweeted on the Twitter that he had finished an initial draft of a remake of An American Werewolf in London?
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Yeah. I mean, they've already, uh, got the trailer out for the new Home Alone movie. Uh, they do. And I couldn't be any less fucking, um.
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Plus, um, about it. I didn't finish the trailer, but it's a really cute little English boy and I think it's going to be something I'm going to want to watch. Just be warned. I will watch this movie.
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That's cool. I mean, the cinema is ten minutes, 10 minutes road. I quite usually just stay here and talk to the dog or something. It's like fucking horse shit. What are you talking about?
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The, um, thing about Max Landis remaking this film. Um, it came into some trouble, as some people, uh, may know, because Max Landis that same year was accused of intense sexual assault and rape allegations. And I think as of two thousand, 2019 come in from at least eight different women. What? Uh, wild things that they've said that they've done to the point where you can read the women.
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The thing is, I didn't know about any of this. You didn't know that?
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No.
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To be fair, I don't really read much of the news because the news is a fucking hellscape.
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But you also don't like him.
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So, no, I'm trying to think about who he is and what he's been in and what I would recognize. But whenever I hear Max Landis, it just kind of makes my fucking skin crawl.
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Why? Because he's a little rich boy.
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Probably entitled. Well, yeah, I mean, he is probably entitled. I mean, try and remind me. I'm pretty sure that I've seen stuff that he's been in. I've just been like, oh, um, fuck. But remind, uh, me, because I probably just blocked out of my mind.
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Oh, he did a film that you really like called Mr. Wright, starring Sam Rockwell.
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Did he make that movie? Yeah, Mr. Wright. Oh, yeah. Because I remember my review for that was the two words.
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Uh, he wrote it. Oh, no, he produced it.
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He produced it. Well, I remember it was called Mr. Wright, and he wrote it. Yeah, my review was Mr. Wright. Mr. Shite. It's one of the fucking worst things I've ever seen in my puff. But, I mean, he's not the only lander who's landing himself in some sort of trouble with the law. Oh, this is the Twilight Zone incident. Right? And, uh, everybody is probably aware of this. It's kind of the blueprint for when ego workplace safety and artistic vision begins to cloud. Like your judgment. Yeah, we're talking about the Twilight Zone incident.
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Um, I did not know about this until you told me.
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I've known about it for years. Okay? It's where the phrase comes from. Just bring the helicopter lower. Uh, comes down, too. And it covers all sorts of bases. We're pretty much like, just because you think it's going to work for the shop, you don't have to sacrifice people's safety for it. And certainly in the case of this Vic Merrill, who was the father of Jennifer Jason Lee. Yes, right. And then there was also two young actors, ages of six and seven. They were killed on set because the helicopter crashed on top of them. And basically, the way that they predicted it, or at least like, kind of what they figured out in court was that it was due to mistimed power techniques because the helicopter was too low, because Landis wanted the helicopter low so it would fit in frame. Power Technic goes off wherever else. Fucks with the helicopter. Helicopter basically crashes. You can see the footage of what actually happened because it ended up in the public domain because it went into court.
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Wow.
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Wow. And also you can see footage of, like, John Landis and fucking Steven Spielberg in court, obviously answering to these, um, allegations. But he was charged with involuntary manslaughter along with three other people. And you just see that. You see the helicopter come down and basically, like, these three actors just disappear. They just look like they're vaporized. Uh, yeah. Just because they wanted the helicopter lower.
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That's very scary.
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Yeah, it's very scary. No film on Earth. No project on Earth is worth going to court or getting people.
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Killed over. Especially getting people killed. I know court is a little bit of a hassle, but.
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Well, no one needs to die. You don't have to spend your life in litigation over a film or anything that you're making is not worth it. It's really not.
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Worth it. So, Ryan, would you recommend this film?
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Yeah. I mean, I would say it's up there as one of the top horror films of all time. I'd, um, also say it's probably one of the best horror comedies of all time.
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Yeah, it's up there. What would you rate.
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The film? I think before I gave it five? Yes. I don't know. Like, I kind of swing between those two. Um, but it never be lower than a four, ever. Yeah, I think that films really good.
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Really good. I recently lowered my score from a five to a four and a half. And I don't know if it's just because we were watching this as a job.
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I guess that's the main issue.
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Is it because I'm breaking it down in my head rather than just, like, enjoying it for what it is. But this movie is funny.
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Diminishing respect for the things that we tend to enjoy because we're being very analytical about it.
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Which sucks, because maybe I should just, out of respect, put it back to a five. I think four and a half is a really good score. I love this movie. It's funny. It is scary. It's gross. It's got everything. It's got a Dick.
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Love that.
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Does it have a Dick? And from what I've researched, this is so far the only Dick movie John Landis has made. I don't think he has.
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It's surprising. Uh, I thought there would have been a Dick in Animal House, but there's not, I don't think.
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No. From what I've looked at, I have a bounty of penis movie knowledge. And if anyone knows of any.
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I think this is the only one birkenhair movie.
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Maybe with Simon Peg like corpse.
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They'D probably be on a court. Yeah, what do they call that? It's like Angels. Uh, it's like when you get a death reaction.
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What's it called?
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Um. What? Yeah, hold on. You keep on talking. I'm going to see if I can find it.
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Okay. Well, yeah, I don't know what a death erection is called.
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Angel lust. That's what they call it.
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Angel lust, like from Clerks?
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No, that was just something I remember.
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No, but I'm saying, like, that also happened in Clerks.
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It did happen in Clerks, but I'm talking about your death erection. He had an erection in Clerks because he was masturbating in the toilet and he died and he started the erection. Yeah, they call Angela.
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That's weird. Thank you for that. I did not know. Hey, look, every day is a school day. And what would be your visibility context scores for that Dick?
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Um, probably two and a half. It's very brief, and it's also a little bit further away, so we're not as visible. But the thing is, it's visible enough to tell you he's not circumcised.
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That's true.
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Bless him. Yeah. Just means one of the jokes doesn't land, particularly. Uh, well, that we told earlier on for the horrible sleazy nurse.
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It's not that bad. I gave it three, and that's a fairly generous score. It's probably more on par with what you said at two and a half, because it's far away. But we do get sneaky glances earlier in the movie as well, which is rare. I don't think that happens very often where you get a couple and you go, oh, did I see it? Did I see it? Yeah. So that's cool. I'll keep it at a three for now. That's not a problem. Um, no. Mhm. Is there anything we might have missed? Anything you wanted to bring up that you maybe didn't get to know about?
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No, I wasn't going to allow this episode to end without bringing out the Twilight Zone thing. Okay, cool.
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Yeah, it's a good one.
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We never heard anything. It's a good one.
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It's a good story. Uh, it's a fucking terrible story, but it's a tragic story. Very interesting.
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We just leave it there. Yeah, there's plenty of stories out there. People dying on set for no particular reason whatsoever. I see Brandon leaves another one. Anyway, love the Crow. Yeah, that sounds, uh.
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All right.
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It's pretty good.
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Anyway, well, thanks for being here with me, Ryan. Yes, and everybody, if you have any questions, if you know of any more John Landis movies that have a Dick in it, please send us a message on Instagram at OnTheBeat B. I Bitte and I on Twitter in a while. Maybe I need to do that, but, yeah, check out our Instagram and make sure to rate, review and subscribe wherever you're listening to this. Yeah, it's greatly appreciated. And tell your friends, because we like friends and we like your friends mhm. It depends. I think we do if they listen.
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I like them. Okay. Yeah, I kind of have a slightly stricter vetting system. Everyone is welcome in my book. Yeah, I'm like I'm not going to shake.
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Your hand. Well, coming to, um, you from the slaughtered lamb, remember to stay off.
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The Moors. Yeah, stay off the Moors in general.
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Yeah, it's really squishy, squishy, um wear.
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Wellies, it's also cold. Thus concludes our Halloween. This is our first Halloween.
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Yeah. Happy Halloween, everybody. Yeah. Eat that candy.
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Yeah, candy.
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Uh, eat that candy and enjoy. Thank you so much. And we will see you next time. Uh, did I say I've been Laura? Well, you know who.
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I am.
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I'm Ryan. You're Ryan.
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And I'm Ryan.
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Don't forget me.
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Never.
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All right.
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Bye bye. Get out.