This episode masterfully transforms a low-budget nuclear nightmare into a sharp exploration of 1980s cultural anxiety and cult film history. It is a rare instance where irreverent commentary actually enhances our understanding of cinema's most bizarre fringes.
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This is the children uh very very fun trauma release directed by Max Cal Manowitz Cal Manowix uh and written by Carlton J. Albbright and uh Edward Terry who also gave us Luther the Geek which we watched very very recently and I liked it so much I thought we'd watch their other movie. Uh this is a fun one.
came out June the 6th. Estimated budget of $400 grand uh with a box office in rentals between $2 and $7 million. Uh later it was originally Albbright Films later acquired by Trauma Entertainment, our great friends. Uh we are watching this on Prime. So, if you want to watch right along with us, we do a 10 count and you can sync the pod up to the movie or you can just watch on Gas Digital with my promo code ZAC and you'll watch the movie right along with us Fridays at midnight with a pre-stream starting at 11:30. Without any further ado, Frank, roll that beautiful bean footage.
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>> Yay!
Trauma.
>> Sean, I don't know if you're familiar with Trauma. This is uh the world's oldest independ independent film company.
>> Okay. And they release uh movies that are otherwise referred to as goat [ __ ] >> Okay. But you like their first the other guy.
>> Oh, I am obsess. I love all their It's my favorite thing in the world.
>> Zach loves goat [ __ ] He really likes that.
>> I really love uh I've I've worked for Trauma since 2009. So I'm I'm a very very big fan.
>> Okay.
>> Ironic love or like >> Nope. A a deep aesthetic >> passionate love.
>> Well, this first shot's pretty cool. So this is a real movie and in fact our composer uh is a man named Harry Manfredini who you guys know because he did the soundtrack for all the Friday the 13th.
>> Okay.
>> In fact this film was shot backto back with Friday the 13th sharing a number of crew members and then Harry manini scored this first. So, a lot of people criticize this movie, saying it ripped off the Friday the 13th soundtrack.
Actually, the Friday the 13th soundtrack ripped off this movie because he reused a lot of the aesthetics in his score.
>> Is that sort of just like >> windy up here?
>> Oh, I'm sorry.
>> No, go ahead. No, people are going to talk.
>> Okay. Uh, is that sort of like uh >> like he's just reusing it cuz he's like, "Well, I like this and nobody's going to see this movie anyway." I guess >> I think it was it's more like not the same notes, but it's a lot of the same instruments.
>> Okay.
>> So, he was definitely getting >> the ideas for what he wanted to do. And he was I I think he kind of practiced on this movie. I see.
>> And then Friday cuz they were both >> similar budgets like they didn't know which one was going to be a huge success.
>> I see. uh they literally when Friday the 13th wrapped they started this and a lot of the crew just switched over >> and he just went one into the other in terms of composing >> and I believe yep that uh gentleman right there is also in Luther the Geek.
Uh he is the writer of the film I believe.
>> The one in yellow.
>> Uh the one in the white hat.
>> Oh, you buying?
>> Sure I'm buying. Good. I don't have any money.
And also this was shot in uh Great Barington in Egrammont, Massachusetts and Cananan, Connecticut.
I don't know if I'm saying that right.
The alternate title is the children of Raven's Back, which is not a real place.
>> Mangis or Rosies? Rosies.
>> This looks like classic New England setting stand.
>> Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
>> Not nuclear.
>> And this is uh very much a theme in lowbudget movies. uh the the the nuclear scare and 80. So we are mid are we mid cold war at this point.
So you get a lot of get you get a lot of people afraid of nuclear stuff and like biological weapons.
>> I ended up on conspiracy Tik Tok last night and I'm already a little spooked by that for things I don't understand.
But the word nuclear is in it.
>> So is like you know the plot already.
>> Yeah. Okay. I was going to say because my guess is a child's going to get in here and he's going to become nuclear radioactive.
>> That's a very good guess. You're you are >> halfway there. Okay.
>> I think somehow this nuclear stuff is going to get into children, make them zombies, >> and Josie nailed it.
>> Oh.
>> Whoa.
>> That's what happens when you visit spook show one or two times, right?
dripping.
>> It's never good when you see a a gunk.
>> Now, green goo is the international sign for for dangerous nuclear waves.
>> Yeah, >> the children.
Uh, this movie was out of print for I want to say a couple of maybe two decades and Trauma actually found a decent print of it and did a 25- year anniversary DVD and Blu-ray and then Vinegar Syndrome uh recently put it out with deleted scenes and a complete remaster based on the original uh 35.
>> Does it have like a cult Yeah.
>> Following. Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> So out of print means like they actually just didn't know like they didn't have one. They were like >> it wasn't available to like buy.
>> I see.
>> But they didn't lose it or anything.
They weren't like [ __ ] that movie's gone.
>> No. But a lot of movies do wind up kind So VHS's deteriorate.
>> Okay.
>> And after a lot of them get moldy.
>> Oh, interesting.
>> If they're not stored right. So there's a lot of movies that are just gone.
>> Whoa. because they never got transferred digitally.
>> I have a friend that's an archavist uh and that's his whole job is to find movies and news footage that would be relevant uh that's about to be lost.
>> Whoa. Okay. And he digitizes it and puts it in like a big library at Northwestern.
I love the Beatles and there's a story about Paul McCartney losing a bunch of demos that he had in like in a bag recorded in Africa. So there's just like a bunch of unreleased Paul McCartney songs somewhere in Africa.
>> I mean like I believe most of the first couple decades of TV are lost because the networks didn't want to buy new tapes. So they taped over >> Oh, interesting. the first couple years of te like unless it was something prolific they just got rid of it.
>> I mean I could see the mindset being sort of like a play where they're like we put on a play you stop it's done.
>> Well also there was no way to watch it at home. No people didn't have >> right >> home entertainment systems like that. So there was no way it wasn't like oh people are going to watch this again right now they're driven through >> Oh that's okay. nuclear >> the nuclear cloud >> and one adult though the children >> and one adult yeah >> well two adults there was a lady that cut off >> not right now >> oh man this Chrissy Mayor's film debut can >> I call you Billy >> funny to me only >> I don't know who that is >> good good for you >> I'mma look her up >> Frank's laughing >> well you don't know you ask right >> she's a comic is she really yeah I'm thinking No.
>> Oh, wow.
>> Oh, that does look like her.
>> Ask me out.
>> I'm dying for riding that.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> I forget what I've seen her in, but >> you may recognize her from great comedy bits like January 6 >> divorce with two kids. Christ, drop this ma'am stuff.
>> Yes, ma'am. That sounds >> so when do I get my ride?
>> She is super hot.
>> She is. I was going to say that really really hot.
>> Supposedly there's more red heads now than ever.
>> I was just reading an article about something how >> uh the redhead gene has been getting passed on more and more in the last few years >> and that we're going to have a much bigger percentage of red heads moving forward, >> which I am all for.
>> Yeah.
>> Love a ginger [ __ ] >> Love a ginger [ __ ] Josie, in your time of uh uh uh dabbling, have you ever uh you ever you ever snagged a redhead?
>> No, but that is like literally what I'm most attracted to. A good redhead.
There's some scary gingers.
>> Yeah. Sean, >> um I' I've been with a red head. I've been with a >> Can I Can I ask a a personal question?
>> Whatever you decide is fine by me.
>> Red bush, >> I believe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Hell yeah, dude.
>> A lot of freckles, but like muscular body. Okay. God, I hope she doesn't watch this, but uh >> I doubt it.
>> I'll take a wild guess and say I doubt it.
>> She does love movies, though. Went to veteran film school. I'm giving too much information.
>> Yeah. What's her name?
>> Where can I find history?
>> We get a lot of questions.
>> God, the sheriff.
>> She's hot, too.
>> Yep.
I think I've got one red head, but she was light. She was translucent. And she had a little orange triangle of pubic hair.
I thought it was the hottest. Whoa.
>> See, that I would find silly. If I saw orange pubes, I would giggle.
>> She had uh [ __ ] pierce [ __ ] and red pubes.
>> That's something out of your dreams.
>> Not a huge fan of the the piercings in general, but uh >> did you enjoy the pierce [ __ ] or >> I feel like the pierce [ __ ] is nice.
>> Easier to find, I suppose.
>> I that's never been an issue.
>> Okay. I don't know. It's It's not like girls keep it in different spots.
>> I know. But sometimes >> you find a clay. You found the clay.
>> It gets lost in the fold a little.
>> Oh, it depends. See, I I I I this girl was not. But I my most of my history is with chubby women, and most chubby women have very compact.
They don't get a lot of slop. It's all on the inside.
>> I see.
Uh but yeah, I think it makes it um you have to be gentler >> when a girl has a pierce clip. You can't uh manipulate in the same way. You got to really feel it out, >> right?
He left without his hat.
I don't think I'd know what to do with a genital piercing.
>> I'd just be afraid I'm going to hurt someone.
>> Well, if you ever need a test run, >> do you have your dick pierced?
>> Yeah.
>> Have we talked about this before? Now I'm feel like I do remember that.
>> Yeah.
>> Where is it? Where?
>> I have a Prince Albert. Ah, >> that doesn't >> It goes through the It's through the head.
>> Okay.
>> Does that make you pee weird?
>> No. More than usual.
>> It doesn't like >> No.
>> Huh.
>> Do you have to leave it in or it'll close?
>> Yeah. Uh I I went up to a two gauge at one point. Um I'm back I'm back down to an eight >> cuz the two gauge was a little cumbersome.
Uh, and uh, my my lovely life partner uh, told me if I would like to continue occasionally receiving oral treats, I needed to uh, uh, get the ring back down a little because it was becoming >> it was becoming a lot.
>> God bless Mrs. Ao.
>> It increases size in some ways.
>> I don't I mean, there's >> it's kind of like your place.
>> If you put something on the front of a car, you didn't make the car bigger, >> right?
>> Why is this [ __ ] in a B? There's no tanning. She's under the shroud of >> Sheriff's.
There's a lot of women in this movie that >> Yeah, this was the 80s.
>> Yeah.
>> She's just [ __ ] hanging out.
It's all right.
>> I'll be with you in a minute.
>> Headache. Who's at the door?
>> Oh, it's just the sheriff. He needs my help for a few minutes.
>> Don't worry.
Take >> Who's she now?
>> Great question.
>> A couple of coding.
>> That'll do it.
I didn't even know that codine was out in the 80s. I thought that was a '9s.
>> No, I bet it's been around a long time.
>> I bet it's one of those things they used to give out unregulated.
>> Damn. It sucks when you see like a really beautiful girl in a movie like that and you know she's like 80 now.
probably not 80, but I mean this is so this is >> this is 1980 >> 46 years ago.
>> Yeah.
>> So if she's hypothetically 18 here she is >> in her 60s.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Damn.
>> I really don't think it's anything to be alarmed about.
>> Yeah. That's weird myself though.
>> Strange.
It couldn't have just disappeared.
I mean, if she was 18, she would be 84 right now.
>> Really?
>> No.
>> Right.
>> 46 years ago.
>> Yeah. I don't think that's how that math that doesn't matter.
>> No, I'm wrong.
>> Charming in from the computer.
>> It would be 40. Yeah, she'd be 64.
>> There we go.
>> Well, that's I was hoping more like 20 just to be >> You wanted her to not age at all cuz she's >> Well, no. I just didn't want to be like, "Oh, she's hot." You guys are like hypothetically if she's 18, but really she's 16.
>> No, she's 18 if she's in this.
>> She's definitely not a child.
>> Okay, good.
>> If she's if if she's if she's I mean, she could be like the kids in this movie are kids, but >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, I won't say any of them are hot.
>> Well, we haven't seen him yet.
>> He did see the bus.
>> Is everything he had with him today?
>> I guess so.
I like that this is back kind of before the era that children were so precious >> that like >> her reaction to her son going missing from the school bus is just >> so this son of a [ __ ] >> annoyed.
>> Yeah, Billy.
>> By the way, this sheriff that uh we're speaking with, that's Gil Rogers.
Sheriff Billy Hart. Uh he was a regular on All My Children and Guiding Light >> uh from 1985 through 2009.
>> Some straight answers. I don't want to die.
>> He's also in the best little wh house in Texas >> and Law and Order.
>> Did anything pass you on the way out to the interstate?
>> What you mean? Cars?
>> I mean anything. Harry >> probably dead by now.
>> Station wagon truck maybe.
>> No, most likely here.
>> What's up, Billy? I just found the school bus about a 100 yards from the Google place. Motor still running.
No Fred, no kids.
>> Your brother.
>> You know it's a small town when they say Fred.
>> Huh?
>> And you're like, "Oh, the bus driver."
>> He isn't home yet.
>> Well, now Sheriff, now how could the bus have gotten all the way down to where you >> Aesthetically? This does very much resemble Friday 13th budget was >> get out to the interstate.
I don't want anything going on here.
>> I don't believe so, but a lot of the same >> comes in unless they live here.
>> I mean, even just the look.
>> Yeah.
>> I'll uh I'll send a couple of boys out to you as soon as I can.
>> All right, Billy. I'm on my way.
Nice.
>> Bye.
>> Have fun at school today.
>> So, this actress was born in 56.
>> Oh, so she's three years older than my dad. So, >> she's 24.
>> She's 70 >> now. Mommy.
>> Okay.
>> For a second, I thought you said that cuz you knew how old my dad was.
>> Doesn't make a whole lot.
>> No, I can just do math.
>> I know.
>> Okay. It is easy math when it's the same.
>> Yeah, it's even math.
>> Turn up.
Try to be patient.
>> Easier said than done.
>> I just don't know how Leslie's going to take it when she finds out Tommy's missing.
>> Don't tell her.
>> That's one way to deal with it.
I'll be in touch.
>> Yeah, thanks.
>> As a longtime Frisbee afficionado, the white Frisbee clutch much harder to lose.
>> Mhm.
>> There we go. Okay.
>> Black fingernails always means >> goth kids, >> Tommy.
>> Oh, still still childlike in appearance.
No visual change.
>> Tommy, >> it'd be funny if the only zombie symbol would be black fingernails.
>> Tommy Daytime horror as well.
>> How freaky you think these kids are going to look?
>> I don't I think it's going to >> maybe like green pup. Uh, contact lenses.
>> I think they're going to be a little freaky looking.
Kids always creep me out in any kind of horror movie.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Believe in the official review of of this. Uh, hold on. The Los Angeles Times review called this film a despicable movie on release. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette memorably slammed the burn body special effects for looking exactly like a leftover pepperoni pizza complete with black olives and anchovies.
Oh, hugging her burns her. Okay.
>> Oh, >> which suggests the bus driver might have been hugging him cuz he Oh, okay. No, he's just killing them.
>> Why didn't the bus driver get freaky zombies?
>> You know, that is a question that people ask about this film.
>> Those are skinny.
>> But apparently, it only affected children.
>> Beautiful birds.
>> Skinny little birds.
>> Molly, if you want them any bigger, you're going to have to wait a couple of months. This is as big as they are right now. They're pretty near full size.
>> Yeah, I suppose so. Well, what are you going to do? Are you ready?
Frank.
>> Sheriff. Sheriff.
>> Boys, I need a couple of deputies for a road block out by the interstate. You interested?
>> Maybe. Maybe. $20 a day. County will pick up the tab.
>> This whole scene looks like tryyous for Luther. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.
>> Must be something big if the countyy's paying them kind of wages, huh? Money.
You heard anything from Fred this afternoon?
>> No. Why?
>> I ran across the school bus about a mile outside of town, across from the cemetery.
>> Yeah.
>> Can't find Fred or or any of the kids.
>> Oh, hell. Fred's not much more than a kid himself, Sheriff. Well, there ain't nothing to worry about.
>> I'll bet he took him to the stone quarry.
>> That sounds like a fun thing for kids.
>> Yeah.
Harry Timonss is already out there.
>> That's Fred's wife, >> I guess. So, >> get on out of the road, Sheriff.
>> They'll come back in a second. There we go.
>> Billy, >> how serious is this business?
>> Molly, I just don't know.
>> Found the bus parked across the road.
Motor's still running.
>> Yeah.
>> Nobody on it.
>> Well, damn. That's not like Fred. They wouldn't leave that motor running.
>> Yeah, I know.
>> I like how he wouldn't leave the motor running, but he would make the children disappear.
>> Yeah, he would kidnap all the kids privately.
>> Need a can of ether >> near the cemetery.
>> Another can of ether. John, why don't you get a real mechanic to tune up that car of yours?
>> I just got it up.
>> What do you use ether for a car?
>> I don't know.
>> I always thought it was just to make people pass out.
>> Go to school today.
things.
>> No, I think it's original usage is something to do with mechanics.
>> I'm going to take a guess that it's like a increases the octane and probably flushes the fuel injectors.
>> That sounds right. But I can look it up for you.
>> Fred. Ah, that's smart.
>> Mr. You got a couple of minutes. Why don't you come out with me?
>> Well, I got to go out to Ky. Let her know about it. I don't want her to worry about it. Okay, I'll stop by place and then I'll pick you up at your place.
>> Great work, Frank.
>> Primarily as a starting fluid, especially for diesel engines.
>> Thank you, Kathy.
>> Be all right.
>> Piece of [ __ ] >> Fred, do you hear me?
Fred, answer me this second.
Sean, anybody home?
>> Everyone's got a very nice house in this town.
A lot of land.
>> Yeah, it was back when you could own a house.
>> No reason titties.
>> Damn.
>> Love no reason titties. Being a filmmaker in the 80s seemed Oh, at least they got some hot guys in it, too.
>> Sheriff, how nice.
>> Is Janet at home?
>> Isn't she a little young for you, Sheriff? She's only nine.
>> Sure, please.
>> I really haven't.
>> What the [ __ ] was that joke for?
>> I hope you're not here to [ __ ] my child.
>> That's crazy.
>> Around the house.
>> I don't want to alarm you about your daughter, M. I discovered the school bus stop not by the center.
>> This guy's hilarious to me. I don't know why.
>> Cuz he hasn't stopped at all.
>> He speaks of the police officer.
>> Feel a bit scenile if you ask me. He probably took them on an impromptu picnic or something.
>> Did Janet say anything about a picnic this mine?
>> I really haven't the faintest idea.
>> This lady hates her kid.
>> I never rise before 10.
>> This guy rules.
Not now, love.
>> Exactly. What are you trying to tell us, Sheriff?
>> So, they prioritized his body over his acting here.
>> Yeah.
>> Along with all the other children of Raven's Back.
>> You don't think they've been kidnapped, do you?
>> I don't know what to think.
>> A kidnapping in Raven's Back. Oh, Jack, how exciting.
This is a is a lovely piece for sure.
>> My sheriff, I didn't know you were into art. Jack and I brought that back from Rome last year, didn't we, darling?
>> Was that supposed to be drugs?
>> Oh, was it Janet shows up?
>> I don't know what that was.
>> I thought it was at first.
>> At first, I thought it was an urn. Yeah, I was going I thought you be like, "Those were my mother's ashes." But then maybe >> I can't tell if that was a I thought it was maybe an ashtray.
>> Yeah, I think you're right, though.
Maybe that the joke is the drugs.
It really is the black fingernails. You were right.
Dh ether his downfall.
Oh yeah.
>> What's the trouble?
>> What's the trouble? It's a damn carb again.
>> No.
>> Hey, let me have a try.
>> Oh, sure.
Diet.
I don't understand the point of these zombies. Other zombies they're trying to eat.
>> Stop by the channels.
>> I think they're I don't know if zombies is the right term.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> I think they're just >> like radioactive >> radioactive ghouls.
>> In Night of the Living Dead, they never say zombie.
>> Okay.
>> They only call them ghouls.
The term zombie was uh appropriated later to be that. Originally a zombie was more like the Haitian voodoo like slave kind of thing.
>> Ah, okay.
>> Cuz they would drug people and bury them cuz they would give them a drug that slowed their heart rate down enough that they look dead.
>> Oh, okay.
>> And then they would dig them up and uh drug them to be like personal slaves. Oh, >> but people thought cuz the graves got dug up that the dead were coming back to life and that's what a zombie is.
>> I did not know that at all.
>> Wait, so the first part of what you said is historical back?
>> Yeah.
>> Wa.
>> Yeah. Night Living Dead never says uh zombie. They're ghouls. And then zombie movies back in the day like Bella Los Goier. Those were always like Haitian monsters.
So, it's like, does she want to hug or does she want to kill? I guess she wants to kill cuz I wouldn't say it's pepperoni pizza. It is creepy looking.
>> I like I think a little pepperoni pizza.
>> Yeah, I don't like see Yeah, she daddy so she wants to hug them.
Yeah, this is where you spart a kicker.
The motives are very >> Harry.
>> Yeah, that's where you get a kitchen knife and just tomahawk it out.
>> Down here to see you and you won't even kiss me.
>> It is like weirdly like an allegory for like touching children inappropriately and you will be burned alive >> because there are some some undertones there.
>> Yes, they're tattletails about it.
>> Yeah.
>> Look at that hair. You look at the hair.
I'm looking at the hair.
>> And yet the kids love it. See, they were going back for more.
>> Well, that's why >> Cut that out. Don't >> now. I'm working.
>> Goodbye, Harry.
>> Just quit, man.
>> That is not a good sign for how old she is.
>> Yeah, her transportation.
>> The bike with the basket on it.
>> Kiss me, Harry. I'm going home. Harry.
Bye. Harry.
Harry.
You get into that sweet little thing yet?
>> Hey, come on.
>> Tell the truth, Harry.
>> Would you guys give me a break?
>> I bet he'd settle for a hand job, right?
>> And Hank, >> tell us, Harry.
>> Yeah, tell us, Harry.
>> Tell us, Harry.
>> I don't do things like that.
Well, we'll do it for you, >> right, Hank?
>> Right. We'll do it for you, Harry.
>> I bet you would.
>> You're damn right we would.
>> Oh, how the attitude towards sex has changed.
>> We want to know if you got into that sweet little thing.
>> What's the problem?
>> Sorry, but I'm afraid I can't let anybody in.
>> Perhaps you could tell me what the problem is.
>> No, sir.
This is everyone's idea of a gay guy in 1980.
>> I take it you don't know who I am.
>> No, sir. And nobody who doesn't live in Raven's Back is allowed in orders.
>> Apparently, you're new here in Raven's Back. I'm Sanford Butler Jones. Ah, >> you do know who Dee Shore is.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Why don't you just ring Dee up and I'm sure everything will be cool.
>> Well, I don't know her number.
>> Oh, car phone. Yeah, 80.
>> Looks like a fifth.
>> Hello, Dei. Hi, darling. Listen, I'm sorry we're late, but we've been detained by a little misunderstanding here in town. An encounter with a policeman.
>> Would you, darling? Well, thanks a lot.
We'll be right along.
>> You sure?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> I'd like to hope that >> I take her on my own.
Yes, ma'am.
If you say so, ma'am. Goodbye.
>> I guess you can go through.
>> Getting to be a misogynist with a stranger still really rules.
But the amount of times I've been looking at a girl's fat ass and I'll turn around and there's a black guy and we're both looking and we give each other the like Yeah.
>> Or even better, the like >> Yeah. Yeah.
Didn't know that was a thing that guys shared with each other.
>> Oh yeah, you've you've experimented to be established, so you can join in on that as well.
>> Yeah, you get in on it.
>> I've never I've never like given a signal or >> anything to other people.
>> I'm I'm from the My dad's generation were the people that would just yell out a time.
>> Yeah, that's your dad was from the age of Italians that were just >> Well, so you basically it's the clock.
So, like if she's >> Yeah.
>> over here, you say three. Yeah. Two or three. Yeah.
>> She acts like she wants to die.
>> Get around her now.
>> Yeah. The basket on the bike makes her look like a child.
Oh, one of those two redheads I forgot is in the thing.
>> H >> I believe they shot that two years after this.
>> Mrs. Peterson Mrs. Peterson, I've got your apples.
>> Yeah, you do.
>> Did they just reverse it?
>> I think so.
I could definitely see how people compare this to the Friday 13 soundtrack.
>> I feel like it would be scarier at night.
>> Yeah.
>> I also think like I don't think it's even bad. that just the children are not really scary at the I'm not like oh no I'm resp [ __ ] child somebody's going to burn to death but we'll see still early >> Mrs. Peterson.
>> She's not home, [ __ ] >> How do you like that maple? She didn't really fight that either. kind of just let it.
This is definitely the camp fra right here, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Oh. Oh, this is going to be a regular child. Oh, no.
>> Or if it's not the same camp, I bet those are the same props cuz that's the archery setup. Cut it out.
What's the matter with you? She touched him briefly. Stop it.
I said to stop it. What's the matter with you, Paul? Cut it out. Stop it.
So, he's not actually radioactive. He's just exploring his newfound sexuality.
>> Oh no, she burned.
>> Oh my god.
>> Damn.
Got rid of her.
>> Got his gun. Looks like Hey, give it my love. Huh?
>> You're coming in, aren't you?
>> Yeah. I better get out the roadblock.
See how Harry's doing out there.
>> Oh, I'd like you to come in. Kathy will feel a lot better if you did.
>> Sorry. Can't see.
Harry. Harry. This is the sheriff. I'll be a few minutes. I'm over at the Fremont.
>> You ever watch one of these and you're like, "God, why the [ __ ] do I live in New York? Why can't I live somewhere where I have space amount of money and [ __ ] >> spending?"
>> It's a lot like where I grew up. I was like I grew up in the woods.
>> Where?
>> Northern Maryland.
>> Nice.
>> So, it was like there was farmland and then the woods.
>> Oh, >> how you doing?
>> That's what I thought they were doing with the last kid.
>> Oh, she is. Is she? We're just going to have to try to deal with her. Where is she?
>> She's in the studio.
>> Let's go find her.
>> Pills or booze? Next to her?
>> Pills.
>> Booze.
Kathy.
>> Whoa.
>> Kathy, >> where have you been?
>> Daddy, where's Jenny?
Honey, Billy Hart's outside.
>> Clarky, would you go on upstairs, brush your teeth, and get ready for bed?
>> I want to see the sheriff.
>> No, please.
>> Go on, son. You'll see as soon as you're finished.
>> Oh, darn.
>> I tried calling you.
The damn wagon broke down again.
Billy had to give me a lift.
>> It's okay. Is Jennifer with you?
No, >> she was supposed to come directly home after school. I was going to work on a portrait this afternoon.
>> Honey, we don't know where any of the Ravens Back kids are.
>> What are you talking about? I passed the bus on my way home from the doctor.
>> Whoa.
>> Were the kids on it?
>> That was her.
>> They were on it.
>> Oh, that was her.
>> Billy found the bus near the old cemetery, >> which means that she also drove through.
>> Yeah. Maybe it's just like adults aren't affected, I guess.
>> Huh. I believe that may be the case.
>> Oh, but she's pregnant. Sorry.
>> So, there's a little ne little baby in there. That's >> Oh, good thinking.
>> Hi.
>> Hi, sir.
>> Clarky. Clarky, it's your bedtime.
>> So, like they're going to solve the problem.
>> And that's going to like flash to like eight months later and the >> Okay.
>> the doctor's going to burn.
>> Look, is is anybody hungry? I did cook a pot roast for dinner.
>> No, ma'am.
>> No, >> I am. You are well. All right. Let's go feed you. Come on, Jack.
>> Follow me to the kitchen.
>> Calling Sheriff Park. Sheriff, this is Molly here.
>> Come in, Billy.
>> Calling Billy Horn.
>> I would love if I if I had to go back to a day job.
>> Damn it.
>> I would love to be somebody that just sits in front of a thing. Molly sheriff's over to the Fremonts. Anything I can do?
>> $20 a day. I wonder what that is now.
>> Place that.
>> Frank, you want to look that up from 2026?
>> And then the phone went dead.
>> Okay, Molly. I'll check it out.
>> You guys watch things here. All right.
I'm going over to the ghoul place.
>> Sure thing, Harry.
>> All right.
>> You're in good hands. We'll take care of the situation here.
Send Susie back in.
>> $85 today.
>> All right. Thanks.
>> This is unrelated, but I think I have acid reflux.
>> Any idea from what?
>> I don't know. It's been happening lately that I'm just like my throat feels tight and like the back of it hurts.
>> It does.
>> You want to find out? No. Uh yeah, like the back of my throat like burns and I was googling it because I'm a hypochondriac. I was like, am I dying?
Turns out no.
>> Okay.
>> Hot damn. Look at this.
>> Ew, they're creepy together.
>> Okay. Some nighttime horror finding.
>> Holly, come in.
>> Yeah, Harry, >> I found the kids.
>> Thank the Lord. Are they all right?
>> They look scared as all.
Were there only three kids on that bus?
>> Oh, five.
>> Okay.
>> Don't hug them.
>> No.
>> They're creepy.
>> Pretty creepy.
>> The Hulk. The little smartass.
Take a look right here. God, that's great, isn't it?
>> It's really just become who will not hug the children. That's the now the movie, I guess.
>> Yeah.
>> Cool.
>> Colon Sheriff Hart. Colon Sheriff Hart.
>> Sheriff.
>> I could not have a police radio next to where I kept my alcohol.
>> I've been calling in way too much dumb [ __ ] >> Billy. Billy, stop your worrying. We'll find her.
>> Sh your heart. Sheriff, this here's Molly.
>> This is Sheriff Molly.
>> Billy, I've been trying to reach you.
The phone must have been out order over to the free mom.
>> I'm still here.
>> Harry Timmons has found the children.
>> Where?
>> He found them.
>> He's over at the gold place, >> Jazzy. Harry Timmons found the kids.
They're over at the gold place.
>> Oh, thank God.
>> Oh, God. Wait, I'm going with you, Billy.
>> You're going to be all right, huh?
>> We'll be fine.
>> Oh, how does this measure up to the other movie they made?
>> Uh, this is a little slower and Luther the Geek was a little weirder.
Um, I feel the lead in that kind of carried the movie and he was also not just the lead, he was the antagonist.
I loved Scary Little Kid, but I especially love a scary little kid dubbed over with an adult voice like Clint Howard on uh Star Trek.
>> Why would they do that? Just cuz Kid couldn't deliver his lines?
>> No, because it was supposed to be an alien. Oh, >> and the idea was to have little kids easily tiny and they like a big man voice coming out. Like these whole species were supposed to be that size.
>> That's fun.
>> Stay in the car, John.
Harry.
>> Holy God.
>> Don't touch him.
>> What the hell happened to him?
>> He's dead.
Thanks.
>> Oh, man.
>> You want to stay here?
>> Well, no. No. But >> let's go. I want to get Dr. Google up here right now.
>> Wait a minute.
How the hell did that happen to him?
>> I don't know, but I'm goddamn sure going to find out.
If I found a burned up dead body for someone I didn't know, I would be screaming like I was on fire.
>> Goddamn sure I'm going to find out.
>> Yeah, that wouldn't be >> how far policing has come. He's got to like go do all this stuff. It's like now you just be like radio to like there'd be like helicopters and body cams.
>> I guess depending upon where you are, I feel like if you died horrifically out in Appalachia, you're probably not getting that.
>> True.
>> They got a door in there. That's a real nanny.
It's locked.
Dr. Goon, THIS BUTTON.
HELLO. HEAD out in there. It got to be in there.
>> So the kid's name is Button Gold.
>> Is that where he said? Button.
>> It's open.
>> Oh, I'm not going in there with that dog.
>> You must have him locked up. He would have been barking by now.
>> She You mean she?
>> She. Whatever.
>> Those are weird.
>> Dog in there. But watch your step.
Going to get the dog's pronouns wrong.
Uhoh. Hold on.
Dr. Go.
Miss Button.
Hello.
Great shot.
>> Looks like you're in bed.
Nobody.
Oh.
It's just feeling less and less like a reveal to me where it's like, "Oh, like here's ominous music. Guess what happened?" It's like, "All right, >> we saw it. We know what the makeup looks like."
>> God damn it. The phone's dead.
Billy, what about the kids?
>> Bullseye, Billy. You just shot a dead dog.
>> Let's get out of here.
I'm going to get some help fast.
Hey, Frank. Are there any Tums in the studio?
>> Should be top right uh in the kitchen.
>> God bless.
>> If not, under the thing in the bathroom, >> all right. All right, Sheriff. Keep your pants zipped. Nelly's in the barn.
Are the children safe? Huh? What about my friend?
Where is that old?
>> God damn it. The lions did.
>> Tell me, man. Did you find them?
>> Tim's name.
>> Oh, it's Spanish toss.
>> But >> and taco.
>> Never seen anything like it.
>> They were burnt mutilated. This was horrible.
>> I'm going to take this 12 gauge shotgun.
Molly, >> I'm going to need a couple of boxes of shells >> with the children. Brad, >> not a sign of them. I can't figure it.
>> Get me home, Billy. Now >> I better take a box of double odds >> and some jerks for the road.
>> You be all right?
>> Anybody tries to get in here, I'll blast their ass to kingdom come.
>> So, what do you think? The kids are all going to be lined up outside the window.
>> I like for her. Yeah.
>> Yeah. She's going to let them in.
She'll burn, which is nice, but she won't have to find her dead husband.
Harrow, does this cop have a wife? We haven't met any home life yet. Okay, how do you turn this down is what I'm wondering. Oh, she's crying. Was he supposed to pick her up? Did I miss >> I think so. I think he stood her up.
>> Okay, I missed a key detail.
>> This whole thing is crazy. Mr. Children, I got a dead deputy. Oh, now she's gonna get hugged on the way.
>> What's that?
>> Janet, it's Janet. Shore Billy. Janet.
>> Janet. Janet, are you all right?
>> Janet.
>> Janet. Where are the other kids? Janet, where's Jenny?
>> Janet?
Is Sheriff H? Can you hear me?
She's a kid.
>> I guess we're going to find out momentarily. She's in shock as >> she's like avoiding the hug.
>> Right. Come on now. Come on, honey.
>> She's like bigger than the other children.
>> Get right in here.
Watch your head.
>> Oh, yeah. That's a child.
>> Okay. So, she's going to hug the passenger mid ride. That's my prediction.
>> Jen, you okay, sweetheart?
>> Fingernails are wet still.
>> Oh, good catch.
Billy, you better get her mother out here right away.
Did this come out before Friday the 13th?
>> Uh, around the exact same time. Anybody home?
>> It's just got to suck being in this one and then like knowing the cast and crew or the crew is the same and then just seeing one take off. And although I guess a budget wise did pretty well.
>> Very good on rentals.
>> Once again, at this point, >> nobody like you didn't own >> movies because movies used to be like 100. Like maybe you owned your favorite movie, >> right?
>> But movies were like a buck a buck 20 >> when they came out.
>> I think a VCR was like a thousand something.
>> I know that they were expensive. I didn't realize that movies were like >> so they were very they were like 80 to 100 bucks when they came out and then have gradually lowered >> um over time uh uh uh brother >> Friday the 13th beat this out by a month.
>> Yep. Friday the 13th came out a month.
>> Oh damn. So that's got to suck too, seeing it like blow up and be like, "Oh no, this is going to be the same way.
>> Ours is going to hit."
>> Radioactive Kids is going to take me to the top.
>> Hey, uh uh Jackson.
>> Nice.
>> Burn face.
Another burn one.
Uh-oh.
Now but her nails are Oh. Uhoh.
>> Wow.
There's no way the sheriff dies. She's got to hug the p this guy.
>> Nice. I still think it's going to be Wallered. No way.
>> Try to attack me, George.
He's alone. YOU GOT TO GET ME HOME. I >> mean, she did just just try to touch him, but I guess >> maybe he's got a burn. Maybe.
>> What do you mean she tried to attack you?
>> I don't know. She came at me. She was coming right at my throat.
Where the hell is that?
Oh, that's We are stretching for this hour 30.
>> Yeah.
>> They've almost killed everybody in the town. How can it go 30 more minutes?
>> Oh, sweet.
Oh, it would be really awesome.
>> Oh, I called it.
>> Yeah, >> it'd be great if she just blasted >> the children. She's like, "I made a promise."
>> Yeah, I would love it if she's the one that like >> steps up. Sorry, kids. I >> told the sheriff I'd kill.
>> I found the children.
>> They're here in front of the store.
>> Oh, am I glad to see you kids.
>> Okay.
>> What a fool.
Well, I guess maybe he'll piece it together now.
>> Let's go.
>> Word is foot. F O O T.
>> Oh, you can spell really.
>> You bet your life.
It's Groucho Marks in You Bet Your Life, the comedy quiz series produced in Central Hollywood.
>> Drinking with a baby.
>> Nice.
>> How uh what were the ages on this bus?
>> Okay. I thought so, too. That's what I thought.
>> And she looked older when she was in the cop car, I thought.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, younger.
>> No, that's a different one.
>> I'm saying she looked older when she was in the bus, too. And I thought that I was like, "Oh, maybe that's the teacher." But I guess not. I think with a movie like this, they just line them up the butt bus height order so the tallest people are the furthest away from the camera.
>> Ah, >> okay.
>> And a cigarette.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Her baby's going to be radioactive either way. I think he's >> I think cigarettes just make babies smaller.
>> Is that what it is?
>> Yeah. Low birth weight. Cuz I remember when Marvel was taken to court, they argued some women like having small babies.
>> Wait, but does it affect any like long term? Do they >> probably almost certainly >> probably not good.
>> Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
>> And what does alcohol do?
>> Fetal alcohol syndrome. That could do anything. A bunch of stuff.
Um, whose joke is it that they they started putting uh pictures on cigarettes in England of like rotting line like warning smoking does this?
>> Mhm.
>> And like you just got to find your brand, man. Like, hey, can I get a a pack of low birth weights?
>> Is that an Nutell joke? I don't know.
>> I don't know. I haven't heard that. But that's fun.
>> Frank, you know that joke, right?
>> I'm not sure who said it, but I know it.
>> What in the world, JOHN? HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY?
>> I'M FINE.
>> Where's Mark? He's in bed asleep. John.
Billy, what is going on here?
>> Children are burning people alive.
>> Where is Jenny?
>> What an inconvenient place for a phone that you have to you have to bend over to dial it.
It's a Bill Hicks joke.
>> Thank you.
>> That is who it is.
>> I You can see my confusion.
Both smoking comics.
Yeah, Sean, you asked me uh in the lobby if there are any gems that we've watched on here. Uh this is not one of them. Uh, the one that I would recommend the most, not because it's a good movie, but because it's an incredible rabbit hole to go down in story. There's a movie called Roar that we did.
>> Okay.
>> And it was made by Tippy Hedrin from The Birds and her husband. And it was essentially, >> is one of you going to tell me what is going on? movie version of their real life, which is they were big cat >> uh rescuers >> and they basically bought a giant property >> in the jungle >> and all these lions and tigers and [ __ ] would live on their property >> like literally like they would like leave doors open and there would be like a lion sleeping in the bath.
>> Uh and the movie was a huge money pit >> cuz they it was their like lifetime project, >> right? And they had real animals >> and they they financed it themselves and went broke cuz they all had real untrained animals.
>> And everyone in the movie kept getting mauled.
>> Really?
>> The DP got scalped.
>> Oh my god.
>> By a lion or a tiger. It ate the top of his head. And he came back and finished the movie.
>> Really believed in it that much.
>> It took years to shoot it cuz there was so many accidents. And um when you watch a movie, people are just bleeding throughout the movie and it's not effect blood. They get attacked and keep they're trying to get through the scene.
So people like their shirts are ripped up. They're fully like leaking blood and they're like trying to have a conversation while these terrifying animals are like don't understand what a movie camera is.
>> I mean, I commend them for trying to stay in the scene.
>> What is that one called?
>> Roar.
>> Roar. Was it actually good though?
>> No.
>> Oh, okay.
>> It's beautiful. Like there's amazing shots of like real animals being animals like not like >> Hollywood [ __ ] right?
>> But >> if you just want to see humans be attacked on camera, that's >> it's more just a wild concept.
>> Yeah.
>> If I do subscribe to gas, we do an encore movie typically on Friday nights and I play >> You can do that on this one.
>> I played Roar last week after Maneater.
Ah, >> never mind.
>> Seems appropriate. That was a good call.
>> When I was in film school, I had a teacher uh who was like trying to prepare us for the real world of like working in film. And he was, you know, talking about film etiquette. And he was like, you know, you could show up there early, but I'm going to show up 15 minutes earlier cuz I want it that much more. And I don't think I've ever wanted anything enough to be mauled by an animal. I think that is >> and this is straight up the Friday the 13th theme.
>> Yeah.
>> No, she's has a >> girl.
>> Yes. She know >> that was I say here.
>> Okay. So, they know.
>> Yes. They realized it.
This is straight up just the Friday the 13th music, which is of course just a ripoff of the psycho music.
What other first what other film school things do you remember, J? I remember >> one of the first things they taught us was >> uh never put down anything in a piranha case of >> and walk away from it because crackheads and thieves know that a piranha case usually has something expensive in it.
>> Oh wow.
>> And if you put down a piranha case in Manhattan, >> spin around twice, it will be gone and someone's trying to pawn it. They don't even know what's in it.
>> They just know it's something. They just know that it's like >> is that like the Pelican case?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's You know what I said?
>> I'll tell you exactly how I [ __ ] that up.
>> I used to I was telling a story the other day about working for my dad and he had a piranha welding machine.
>> Oh, Pelican case is what I was trying to say.
>> Okay. I believed it. I was like, "Oh, that's another >> Thank you. I apologize."
>> No, that's true. I feel bad.
>> No, no, no. I'm glad you corrected me >> rather than read it in the comments about what a [ __ ] I am. And I am.
By the way, this goes against the rules of the movie, which is he should be dead >> the second he touches.
>> Yeah, right.
>> Oh, he shot a child.
>> Oh, it didn't do anything.
>> Nope. Oh, they just want hugs. That's what's crazy. It's like I can't tell if they want love.
Yeah, anything in a Pelican case will be stolen. Um, >> if people ask you what you're doing, just say pickup shots.
>> Sure.
>> Yeah.
>> Cuz it's uh ambiguous enough that they'll leave you alone.
>> I was a PA on John Wick 3, I think it was. And uh they had like a a fake name for the movie that we had to tell people.
>> Um, >> where did you guys go to film school?
>> I went to NYU.
>> Oh, me too.
>> I went to Talson.
>> Okay, cool.
>> Maryland.
>> What year did you go to NYU?
>> I graduated 2019. Cool. Cool. I was exactly 10 years before. Okay.
>> 2017 and I'm the only person that graduated my year that actually works in the industry. So, I'll take it.
>> Oh, that's good.
>> Yeah. Do >> you ever have Ted Locks?
>> He was He was like the safety guy that he You just came He came to cuz he always showed us the movies where tragedy happens. He's like, "Don't do this.
>> You shouldn't do that when you get burned."
>> No, I did it more like the writing and creative side. Okay.
>> So, I had um James Gardner was my TV teacher. I don't know if he was still there when you were there.
>> John Warren.
>> I don't know.
>> No. And then uh Amos Lee.
>> Yeah. Go ahead.
>> Amos Lee taught my experimental class windows and doors.
>> Do we think that burn's going to spread?
>> No. I bet uh they go against the logic of the movie and it's just a burn. My husband's ugly now on his hand.
Oh, >> lady, put on some decent. Put on something decent. There's monsters out.
>> Throw on a pair of [ __ ] active pants.
>> I mean, this direct she's going to come out in a bikini, I feel like.
>> Nice.
>> No, cuz she's pregnant, so she's gross.
So, we cover that.
>> True.
That's got to be like sigh oping your kid into being gay, right? Just having [ __ ] Superman right above >> the penis right there.
>> Yeah, your your kid can't sleep next to Superman's dick.
Muppet show poster. Sweet though.
>> It is cool.
>> Which was the Superman Frank, I might need you to Google this.
Was it the Brandon Ralph Superman that they had to CG his [ __ ] uh out of shots?
cuz his dick was too big in a Superman suit and it distracted people.
>> That's crazy. He's going straight to shooting them.
>> They're only children.
>> I agree, actually.
>> Oh, Jesus Christ.
>> I mean, I kind of agree. Call a doctor.
Superman Returns from 2006.
>> And which was that Brandon Ralph?
>> Yes.
>> Done.
>> That was the Kevin Spy one.
>> You both gone mad. He was shooting the children.
Yeah, I think so.
>> All right, that must have been an easy gig for Kevin Spacy, then >> who do you think did Hog >> Jenny? NO, >> IT WAS JENNY.
>> NO. YES.
>> OH, god damn it. Yes.
>> Also, didn't he did we ever see the doctor he requested or that kind of just went in the back?
>> I think that went He's like, I'll figure this out.
Uhoh.
>> Oh no.
>> No.
>> Nice poster, [ __ ] >> So he'll wake up from that, but not gunshots, >> right? Or the four parents that have come in to like check on him and touch him.
>> That's pretty sweet, dude.
Hey, Paul. What are you doing here?
>> No.
>> Do we think the burns affect other children?
>> That's a good question.
>> Maybe this will be the cure. Hug another child.
>> Or maybe he'll just turn him.
>> This is cool.
No.
No.
I think you're right. I think it's not going to turn him.
>> That's got to suck to have. Oh no.
No way.
>> Nice.
How convenient. Strategically. Yeah, >> [ __ ] He ain't running. Run.
>> That's great. That's [ __ ] great.
He's going to now his head's going to get cut off.
>> Katana.
>> Oh, that's the cure.
That's awesome. Katana attack. Don't touch him.
>> He's dead.
>> He's dead.
>> His life force comes from his hands.
>> I saw him in in the bedroom.
Clark is dead.
>> No.
Come on.
>> All right. We know. We know he's sad.
>> This is the only dead person in the entire movie that anyone's given a [ __ ] about so far. It's like, come on.
>> I'm sorry.
>> All right. Weird cut.
>> I didn't mean to hurt you, >> Kathy. I'm all right.
>> Sort of a tender embrace.
>> Clark is dead.
>> Okay. I was going to say she's doing okay as far as losing her son.
What do we do now?
>> Wait for him to pick us off one at a time.
>> Now chop the hands off their hands off.
>> Yeah, go.
>> There's only four left.
>> Hands.
>> Maybe call the doctor.
>> God, if they get those hands on you.
>> Bullets have no effect on them. John, we've got to cut off their hands. That's where they're vulnerable. Where's Jenny?
>> She's one of them, Kathy.
>> No, Jenny's our daughter.
>> She was our daughter.
>> She still is for me.
>> You forget what she did to me.
>> Take it easy, Donna.
>> Just could give her a hug, then.
>> The best thing we can do right now is wait.
>> Wait. Maybe it'll all pass. What?
Whatever has happened to the to the children. May maybe it'll go away.
>> What are you saying, Billy?
>> Maybe.
>> John, please.
Jenny's our only daughter.
>> She's a thing. Kathy, listen to me.
She's become one of them. Just like that thing in the other room that would have killed you.
>> I would rather be dead than lose Jenny.
You've got another one cooking.
>> The children >> loading his gun.
Knowing it won't work. It's for a human then.
>> The sword. The sword. Get the sword.
>> Just one hand.
Oh, nope.
>> The Chandler girl that makes two of them.
>> I don't know how hand magic zombie uh lore works, but I was going to be got to cut off both hands.
>> I agree.
>> Just to be careful.
>> I thought maybe it was going to be like that. So, you cure them is just >> I think No, I think she's going to pop back up.
>> Do we think they're going to cure any?
>> No.
>> No. It's They're done. Who gets out of this movie alive?
>> The pregnant lady, but I think her baby's going to be a zombie.
>> And the sheriff.
>> Yeah, I think that's correct.
>> I think Jenny somehow survives. I think there is a cure.
I don't >> I mean, if you want to go for a mist type ending, they could just be cured when the sun comes up, >> right?
>> I think Jenny will be the last one that they get.
>> I like that the way to get rid of these zombies is to have them get caught shoplifting in the Middle East.
where they cut off your gnome.
>> They changed that, right?
>> Arabian Knights.
>> Oh. Oh, >> didn't they change some of the lines from the first release?
>> Um, well, that's that's the Aladdin song.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Where they I think it's like something like if they cut off your nose, they don't like your face or something like that. I think they changed it. Frank, can you look that up?
>> All right, I'll stay up here.
>> I've been playing the Aladdin game for Genesis on my emulator.
>> Oh, nice.
>> So [ __ ] hard. That and that Lion King game. I was reading an article about how basically when they were making those games, it was still when people rented games a lot and they were having an issue with the Disney games that kids could beat them in a weekend. So they would rent it Friday, bring it back Monday, and never get it again.
>> So they specifically made kids games harder when the IP was like a big movie so that kids would have to rent it every weekend until they finished it.
>> Wa.
>> Yes, Zach. They changed the line uh where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face, too.
>> Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense.
>> Thank you.
Yeah, dude. That Lion King game is so [ __ ] hard. There's a thing where you got to like roar at monkeys so that they throw you in the right direction, but if you [ __ ] up one, you basically just get thrown back to the beginning of the level every time.
I posted the other day that the uh I don't know if you guys are younger than me, so you probably didn't play the old Ninja Turtles games. It was an underwater level where you had to diffuse bombs and you had to go by like electrified coral that would kill you.
And to this day, I watched a playthrough of it the other day and I still have anxiety watching it.
>> Interesting.
>> How many years of my childhood I spent dying in that level.
>> What console was that?
>> That was the Nintendo one, I believe.
>> Okay.
>> I had PS2 and N64 too.
>> My first system was a a regular Nintendo.
>> Okay. And then I went Genesis then N64.
>> You ever played Conquer Bad Verdict?
>> Board it up, Billy.
>> Best multiplayer in history, >> dude. Such a great game.
>> Great game. And so, Josie, I'm try not to fall off your seat when your [ __ ] gets wet. Uh, the deathmatch, uh, multiplayer. Phenomenal.
>> Yep.
>> And dude, the game the one I was talking was the [ __ ] heist multi.
>> Yes. Yeah, that one's great >> with the sentension bag of money and you're the weasels and you have to attack each other.
>> Yeah. And then there's the uh I don't know if it's in the multiplayer. Yeah.
Where there's the cut scene where he like beats one of them to death with a bat.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like >> that's the beginning of it. It basically Reservoir Dogs.
>> Yes. Disturbs me to this day.
>> You're throwing me out of my seat.
>> Thanks. I also had uh the most impractical system of all time. I had a Virtual Boy.
>> Okay.
>> Which was Nintendo's beginning of 3D.
And it was a giant headset on sticks, but there was no comfortable way to play it cuz if you put it on a table, you basically had to put your chin on the table.
>> Was it like a kind of like like a chin cup thing?
>> So, it was uh it was an eye m it was like it went around. It was like it was on your eyes, but it was on a stand on sticks like an X. So to you, you either had to put your chin on the table or if you played it on your belly, you had to lay flat on your stomach with your head completely up.
And it actually said when you plugged when you started every game, uh, please do not play for more than 15 minutes.
>> No way.
>> Uh, users report uh, headaches and something else. So it was literally a g a console that hurt you to play it.
question real quick.
>> What happened to the two guys watching the border?
>> What happened to the gay guy that What was the point of him?
>> That's a great question.
>> Yeah. Where's Muscles?
>> Yeah.
>> Well, uh, was Muscles not the one that fell in the pool?
>> Muscles was the one that fell in the pool, >> I think. Yeah. And then, uh, but yeah, the gay guy. Very random. Maybe that was just to show us the border was closed and people couldn't come unless they're rich and gay.
>> Unless they're gay. Yeah.
You think zombie children disease is bad? Wait until AIDS.
>> Zombie adult disease.
>> You can't get rid of that by cutting off their hands. And trust me, we tried.
>> We've got him now.
I think the sheriff might go down, too.
I don't know. And will we see the waitress again?
>> I think >> Oh, yeah.
>> I think the waitress is done.
>> Unless the sheriff survives, >> right?
I'm gonna go. Sheriff lives goes back to the diner to have a cup of coffee and pie or something and finally asks her out.
>> Okay, that is the worst scurrying I've ever seen.
>> Daddy.
>> Whoa.
Oh, no. But they've been doing that.
They've been doing that.
>> Yeah, but there is like a spell, remember?
>> Don't listen to it. Well, the one dad was like, "No." Like he w Well, he watched his wife get burned and then he was like, "No, >> he was able to pull his wife away, but once he looked at her, >> that's she burned him."
>> I was saying, remember when uh cuz the in the very beginning, the one kid burned the mom and then the dad maybe he didn't get.
>> Okay, so somebody's being burned.
Katana, excellent melee weapon in any zombie game.
>> Katana will be the first thing to come out of the garage like we're going to see that come first.
Followed by him.
Nope.
I don't think I've predicted anything right so far.
Okay. So, he's alive.
>> Okay. So, >> so no sheriff.
>> Just dad with a lot of free time now.
Yeah.
>> Not Dad's still got a wife.
>> He's going to go to the waitress. Oh, right.
>> Dad's still got a wife and one in the oven.
>> You can go home and take care of that right now. There's no more cops.
>> Oh, sheriff emerges.
>> They're all dead. I was wrong. The child doesn't live.
>> I think just the thing this movie could have benefited from some mystery. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> It was just kind of like, all right, all these kids are going to kill them. Let's see who survives over the course of an hour and a half.
>> I would keep the katana.
>> That's a good point.
>> Yeah.
Have they ever done a movie where uh one of the characters is a Cutco salesman and he he gets to use his knives?
>> That rules so much. We should pitch that.
>> That is fun. Yeah.
>> I have two friends in my life who were cut co- salesman. Big Jay >> what?
>> Was a shortlived cut co salesman when he was a boy >> and my friend Justin was a cut co salesman. And this idiot, he bought the knives the first day. He bought them for himself.
>> It's a pyramid scheme, isn't it? 100%.
>> I'll be honest, we had Cut Cut cuz I knew somebody who sold them growing up.
So, we bought them.
>> They're decent knives.
>> Well, that I remember my parents said that. They're good knives.
>> YEAH.
>> NO, IT'S NOT just one. Oh, so the sheriff doesn't >> Yeah.
>> There we go. Told you it got to be both hands.
Gnarly, >> dude.
Oh, he's got All right, just do it.
All right, a little liberal with it.
Once again, >> keep the sword.
>> You start giving him mouth to mouth.
>> Yeah. I thought he was >> You can make it, buddy. You're going to be You're going to be okay. Say the goddamn words.
>> I thought he was going to speak to him like without me.
>> You got shot in the gut.
Damn.
>> Now go see your pregnant wife and her zombie baby.
>> Well, I don't think she's going to have it cuz she didn't pass through the cloud. But I thought >> No, she did.
>> She was the one who was in the car.
>> Yeah. So, >> I had a feeling this is it, though.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh.
>> Oh, he sat there for a while.
>> My water broke.
>> Straight up the Friday music.
>> So, her water broke.
>> Wait, so he was in his driveway all night?
It's going to be like a half, >> you might be right.
>> What?
>> That she's giving birth.
>> You think she's giving birth right now?
>> Yeah. They're going to like smile, but then it's going to like slowly zoom into like her vagina or the baby or something.
>> The baby's got a black fingernail.
>> Yeah.
>> But then wouldn't that kill her from the inside? Or are they going to turn black?
I maybe they'll turn it >> like that. Oh [ __ ] >> Yeah, the smile.
>> Maybe.
>> What?
>> You have to help me now.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Come on. Take it easy.
>> Damn. So, they're going to have no children. Reverse orphans.
>> Easy.
>> Oh, good. They have a birthing center in their home.
>> Yes, baby.
>> The question is, will the fingernails turn black or will he be burned?
>> Is she going to get burned from [ __ ] [ __ ] >> Yeah.
>> How soon do you think?
>> Real soon.
>> At least in the next 10 minutes because of the run time.
>> Listen to me. Go boil some water. And we're going to need a lot of towels and and sterilize a knife to cut the cord.
>> I threw the knife. [ __ ] >> Yeah.
>> It's okay.
>> No hospitals in uh this town, I guess.
>> Well, yeah. I mean, there's no doctor that ever showed up.
>> How about you change >> Oh, it's burning her.
>> How did you change the sheets before you get [ __ ] pregnant gunk all over it? Get a lot of towels. Yuck.
>> Oh no.
>> I mean, that's what you do like when a dog gets like is giving birth. You get a lot of towels and you boil some water.
>> What's the boiling water for to sterilize [ __ ] >> Yeah.
>> That's crazy. They're like giving birth and just leaving this handless children everywhere.
>> Yeah.
>> Are you all right, K?
>> He's beautiful. forehead.
>> Okay, you're really doing terrific. Okay, the next push, baby. Next push. Okay, here it comes. Easy, easy. No, no. Push.
Push. Put it into the bush. Put it into the bush. Come on. That's it. Easy.
That's it.
>> I love that all the bodies are just there. It's so great. Easy. That's it.
>> We saw it already.
>> Come on. Push. Push. PUT IT INTO THE PUSH.
OKAY. OKAY. I can see the head. I can see the head.
>> Oh, yeah. He hacked that one up.
>> Oh, the legs are off. I didn't even notice that.
>> Almost.
>> He really went into that one.
>> Yeah.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
>> Breathe.
>> It's all right. It's all right.
>> Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
>> That means their dead son is just chilling in his room, too.
>> I love you. I love you.
>> Damn. It's sad because there's no happy ending here.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> Yeah. He and his wife are alive. That's happy.
>> Not if this baby has black fingernails.
>> That's it. That's it, Kathy.
That's it.
>> Were you cheating on me with a man with black finger?
>> Did you cheat on me with a member of the cure?
>> You did it, Kathy. You did it. Good girl. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
One more. One more. One more. One more and it's over. Come on. You can do it.
That's it. Kathy. Kathy. One more. Come on. Push. Push.
Okay. Okay.
>> Maybe the baby won't. Maybe this is just like a sweet thing where you >> I don't believe it for a second.
>> It's a girl.
>> Oh, it's a girl. See >> her fingernails? Why are they >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 10 fingers, 10 toes.
>> Oh, okay.
I mean, I think the best thing would be just they're both just burning the baby sitting there.
>> That's also kind of funny. Yeah, >> that would be great.
>> Oh my god, I thought it was that.
>> Nope.
I mean, she's doing pretty good for a lady whose dead children are >> in the house.
>> Yeah, >> in the house.
>> Yep.
>> It would be funny, too, if it was just like a like a the fetal alcohol >> Yeah.
>> cigarette baby. So, in the end, it was like just >> It's just a PSA the whole time.
>> Yeah.
They're handling this very well.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, no. This is the shot.
>> Oh, he's confused.
>> No, he's watching the fingernails turn.
Why isn't her city burning?
>> Well, that was a movie.
>> We watched the [ __ ] out of it.
>> You just bummed me out. That's crazy.
>> Uh, ladies and gentlemen, that was The Children from 1980. Thank you so much to my wonderful guest, Shawn Malaya, the effevescent, beautiful, intelligent, and funny Sha Malaya.
and also the beautiful, funny, talented, wonderful Josie Marcelino. Thank you to my wonderful backup in the booth. I love you guys very much and we will be back next week here on Zack Miko's Midnight Special. Bye.
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