Tourist Trap (1979) / Pieces (1982) - Cruel Summer Slashback

[00:00:10][music] [music] Gather around the fire for a terrifying tale. Uncle [music] Bill fills the air with glory straight from hell. Scream out loud FOR ALL THE SLASHER [ __ ] SCREAM OUT [music] LOUD. WE ALL love [music] [music] true summer smash back has officially become a creepy Kentucky Edward [music] dice and he'll kill everyone the [music] rules of a flashback chill Yes, the cru [music] flash back to shiver.

[00:01:15]Scream [music] out loud for all the slasher [ __ ] Scream out loud. [music] We all love it.

[00:01:25]Dickles in night. [music] Shadows dance in the moonlight.

[00:01:34][music] Monsters grow without trace.

[00:01:39]What they [music] bring to this place is the cru [music] down your [music] sp [music] >> [music] [music] >> Oh yeah, >> shadows are dancing in the moonlight.

[00:02:23]Everybody's feeling uh freaky and dinky.

[00:02:29]How's it going?

[00:02:30]>> I'm doing good. How you doing, buddy?

[00:02:33]I'm doing just as good as could be expected. We're halfway after the show.

[00:02:38]We'll be officially halfway through the summer. Uncle Bills, it feel like it's >> Holy [ __ ] >> It's gone by that quickly. Holy [ __ ] >> No, it's hard to believe, but it's been nice. It's either been 90 degrees or raining every day. So, that's been fun.

[00:02:54]>> Very warm, very humid out there. I've been working on my my tanned head head all summer.

[00:03:03]And um we'll have fun again tonight.

[00:03:06]Man, hopefully it be a lot more fun than last week because last week was kind of like that probably wasn't a good idea, but [laughter] >> that was fine.

[00:03:17]>> I mean, it was good for a oneoff. We're getting into the classics this week when it comes to the 80s era slasher movies.

[00:03:26]We got one late 70s, one early 80s.

[00:03:30]That's kind of like the the golden era of slasher films from that period. So, I'm excited about about those two.

[00:03:38]>> I'm just going to tell you too right off the bat that I love both of these movies for completely different reasons, but like in their own weird subgenre of whatever they are, they're both kind of classics, I think. [snorts] >> For sure. And and the odd thing is, unless my search engine's not working right, I don't think that we've ever done any sort of deep dive reviews on either of these movies, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:04:06]>> That's hard to believe, man.

[00:04:08]>> So, that's that is weird. Like, I wonder how, you know, in 20 plus years.

[00:04:14][snorts] I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Uh, well, I don't think we ever reviewed either of these movies in detail or anything, but tonight is going to change that. I'm excited. We're talking about Tourist Trap and Pieces [snorts] here in a little bit. But we do have a chat room full of people.

[00:04:37]Want to do some shoutouts for a few minutes here. We got Ken Carlson, one of the old school supporters from back in the day. Hey, boss. Give me both Pieces and Tourist Trap in 4K. Pieces is definitely coming from Grindhouse after Cannibal Holocaust. Yeah, I'm sure Pieces is coming. Grindhouse releasing takes their sweet time though, so it could be four or five years or longer.

[00:05:03]>> That's true.

[00:05:05]>> Antonis is in the house. Adam, what's going on? Spirit Crusher, he says, "Damn, both these movies are like Cus and Kane."

[00:05:12]>> It's true. compared to last week. I agree. Vanderhoff says, "Another great matchup."

[00:05:20]Adam is asking, "Pieces has that [ __ ] from Popeye, right?" Yep. With his >> Paul Smith, Bulls.

[00:05:27]>> Yeah, Paul L. Smith with his very menacing looking.

[00:05:33]>> Looks like Hacksaw Jim Dugen.

[00:05:34]>> Yeah, looks like Hacksaw Jim Dugen.

[00:05:37]Tough guy.

[00:05:39]Uh, Air Bear Zeneri says, "I love both of these. I'm excited as [ __ ] for this one. Beyond Sour Ground, two absolute classics tonight.

[00:05:49][clears throat] Reese's piece. You should sponsor [laughter] pieces."

[00:05:53]Well, it's the same year, right? 1982.

[00:05:56]Nubbins is in here. The blackest Peter the world has ever known. He loves these movies. Sutur Strap is masterpiece and PC pieces is great goofy fun.

[00:06:08]>> [snorts] >> Dino Jazz is in here.

[00:06:12]Justin Smith.

[00:06:15]Well, we're always a little bit late. Have we ever been on time doing these shows? And people are still like, but it is just >> it's mo it's mostly just him. Everybody else knows Dread and Tear is in here. William Driver, Manny Gatillo. Welcome, sir. the witch hunter.

[00:06:39]Yeah, man. Lot of fun stuff to talk about tonight. Super chat from Anthony.

[00:06:44]Appreciate it, Anthony.

[00:06:45]>> Good to see you.

[00:06:46]>> We got We got to uh play him something here. I've got this.

[00:06:50]>> You don't need to hear things like that.

[00:06:52]You're just a boy.

[00:06:59]>> Um and another one though, motionless zombies $5 super chat. Hey fellas, hear me out.

[00:07:06]Uh, would y'all like to see Clyde Barker direct the new Elm Street movie?

[00:07:13]Clyde Barker's not He's in poor health, right? I don't think he's able to really do a whole lot. He can barely do conventions.

[00:07:21]>> Let's just assume it was Clyde Barker from like the 80s. Would you want to see him do like an Elm Street movie?

[00:07:27]>> Sure.

[00:07:29]I think yeah, that would definitely be something different than what they're going to end up doing, which is get somebody that, you know, probably from YouTube to do it. [snorts] >> Can't wait for the positive reviews.

[00:07:40]It's contained. Well, they it will be positive reviews on this week's show for sure.

[00:07:46]>> Yeah.

[00:07:48][laughter] Clyde Barker though, to be be fair, he's been near death for like decades. So, I don't know. I don't know if he just re regenerates or something or what does he have a couple of >> regenerates? Yeah, >> he just goes in like a cocoon and then comes back out every year.

[00:08:08]>> He needs to feast on some uh you know fetuses or something and he'll come back.

[00:08:13]>> Yeah, Clyde Barker cicada.

[00:08:16]>> He just goes underground.

[00:08:20]>> Clive has been Yeah, we wish him the best. But um yeah, Clive has been in in rough shape for a long long time. I don't know what's going on with him. He kind of keeps that u but you know, if he was in good health, sure. I would let any classic genre, you know, filmmaker tackle it before MC G or somebody like that.

[00:08:44]>> Yeah.

[00:08:45]>> MC DLT or MC J. Either one of those guys.

[00:08:50]I do want to like go back to this comment real quick because I 100% agree with this something that Beyond Sour Ground said earlier. He said, um, "It's the damn shame Charlie Ban won't license tour strap out to someone who actually knows what they're doing." I've got like every version of this movie that they've done from Full Moon and they all suck.

[00:09:09]Like they're all not good. There was like a recent one that's like the uncut version and all this and that. It's like it's [snorts] still >> is. Yeah, >> this is the one. Um I mean there's parts of it that look okay, but yeah, there's other parts of it that look really awful. Like I don't know.

[00:09:28]>> Yeah, I don't know. I'm guessing.

[00:09:29]>> Have you ever gotten anything from them that actually looked really good? Full Moon. I mean, >> this is like one of the only Full Moon movies that I have at all because I hate Full Moon, but it's the only way to get this movie. So, I don't think I may have the puppet master box set on DVD, but I'm not a full moon fan. So, >> on the other hand, >> many of those.

[00:09:53]>> On the other hand, this looks insane.

[00:09:56]Like, this is the Blu-ray that Grindhouse did and that looks like it was just released yesterday, man. Like, you couldn't have done a better job.

[00:10:05]And we'll talk about the physical media releases of both of these too because it's an interesting story with pieces as well that not a lot of people talk about that sort of thing. So we'll we'll touch on that as well. But if we're doing these chronologically, we should probably go ahead and get started with Tourist Trap from 1979. Uncle Bill.

[00:10:29]This is an interesting movie, man, because David Schmoolher, who I think he had said in an interview that they were trying their best to get John Carpenter to direct this movie originally and he would I evidently he wouldn't do it. This was after Halloween, right? So this was 79 and um some interesting choices for tourist truck, but I think initially they were going for like this was hot off Texas Chainsaw Massacre and they were really really wanting to do something along those lines and they they I think they kind of succeeded with this one.

[00:11:16]Yeah, it's pretty much as close as you can get to a movie being as unhinged as like Texas Chainsaw. I mean, it doesn't have the same feel or the same realism, but it has so much just crazy off-the-wall stuff that you feel like that you're like on drugs when you're watching it. Like you don't feel like it's you don't feel like it was made by a sane person. I'll put it that way.

[00:11:42]>> Yeah. And interestingly enough, so you know, this was for um Charles Band. He was one of the producers on this. And Schmooler would later on go on to do uh some other stuff like I think Puppet Master, the very first Puppet Master movie, Netherworld, and a bunch of other stuff. I think I don't I'm not a big Full Moon guy, but this was like I guess the beginning with his relationship with with Charlie Band.

[00:12:14]>> I think he did Crawlspace with Kinsky, too. And like there's a whole he does a whole essay about how crazy it was to work with Clauskinsky and like how much of a maniac he was on set and like he almost quit. Not him. I mean, Schmooler almost quit and like almost like beat the [ __ ] out of like there's all this stuff.

[00:12:33]>> I think that's on the the Didn't they do a Blu-ray of that not too long ago or something or somebody did? And that's a special feature on it.

[00:12:42]>> I think it was Vinegar Syndrome that did that.

[00:12:44]>> Okay, >> I could be wrong, but I think so.

[00:12:47][snorts] >> But anyway, digging into Tourist Trap. I mean, the plot of this one's very basic.

[00:12:52]I mean, a group of friends get broke down in the middle of nowhere in a desert and they stumble across like this old tourist trap, you know, as the name of the movie, which is run by Chuck Connor's Bulls, the rifleman himself.

[00:13:14]One of my favorite actors in old western era and stuff. Just a great character actor.

[00:13:21]And this is one of the more interesting roles this guy's ever had. But anyway, we get kind of the idea that the tourist trap is kind of like haunted or something too, right? They're not really telling you exactly what's going on at first, but it's uh what was his name in this?

[00:13:42]Mr. Slawson. Old man Slawson. his brother uh Davey is who you think is killing these people who's after these girls and turn them in turn them into you know wax uh figures and stuff and I don't know it just kind of goes from there man it's a great uh atmosphere in this one and Tanya Roberts in this I'm a big fan of like [snorts] I could just watch her like out takes from uh Tanya Roberts in this movie, but I think this was one of her very early roles, too.

[00:14:25][snorts] >> Yeah. I mean, she's insane looking in this movie as well. Um the the score to this movie for some reason reminds me of like Dink's theme when he's [ __ ] bad Dink.

[00:14:41]It's great because it it kind of works that way, too. Like it the score is Pino Deaggio by the way who's done like a lot of great scores but it's just like the beginning of it's like a circus kind of thing where it's like [snorts] >> they're hopping horns and [ __ ] >> Yeah. And then it turns like he gets on the keyboard and it turns like really kind of dark and brooding like as it go. So it's like a combin and that and the movie is kind of a combination of those things too. It's like really kind of campy weirdness mixed with like when it gets scary. It really gets [ __ ] scary. Like it doesn't mess around in that area when it's time to do that, too.

[00:15:27]Yeah. And this the killer in this is pretty creepy looking, too. It does have that Leatherface look to it. I always felt that the the killer in this, which I mean, I guess we can kind of talk about if you haven't seen it by now.

[00:15:40][ __ ] What are you going to do? So, I mean, >> Chuck Connors is the, you know, there's only one bad guy in this. He's dressed up as the character. He's playing his brother and he's I guess the whole plot, they kind of got the plot a little bit from Psycho as well because, >> yeah, >> he has this whole spill where, you know, they used to make money at the tourist trap and then they closed, you know, they open the big highway up that kind of goes around it. Nobody visits him anymore. and his I think he had the whole thing about his wife passing away and he's there with just him and Davey, his brother across the street and everything, >> right? So, yeah, they what he there's this big monologue that he does about all that when all the girls are in there kind of waiting around in his store and he's talking about his wife and all this and then you come back to that later in the movie. He's and he talks about how he actually killed his wife and because she was cheating on him like killed the person that she was cheating on him with too >> which Well, yeah.

[00:16:45]>> Well, that's his brother. [laughter] >> Yeah. Well, well, here's the thing.

[00:16:50]Like, [clears throat] we're not There's going to be spoilers, dude. This movie's like [ __ ] 40 some years old.

[00:16:57]>> That's what I was saying. I mean it the whole goal of this show, we give you the movies the week before you guys watch them and we all talk about them.

[00:17:06]>> Fun.

[00:17:07]>> So, but the beginning of this movie when I first watched it, the first time I ever watched it, like I knew I was in for something completely like different because the beginning of it is the guy who's, you know, rolling the tire and he as the car breaks down and he goes over and tries to find him. He gets into the house and then like all these mannequins come out of nowhere and they're their mouths are opening up and they're it's one of the most unnerving scenes because of the way that it's shot. It's just all these crazy ass looking mannequins who are kind of screaming at him and shit's flying across the room like poltergeist or something at him and stuff >> and you don't know what the hell's going on. I think that's what makes it so engaging when it first starts. And then the introduction of of Chuck Connors, who you would never in a million years think would be good in a movie like this.

[00:18:01]And he's playing it for the most part like totally straight too.

[00:18:07]And it's a really really good performance like you I don't know. I would have never thought it would be.

[00:18:16]>> Yeah. Yeah, I mean his performance he I always thought he was an amazing actor anyway in this. So he was Chuck Connors originally though was like a a baseball player. I think he's from New York.

[00:18:29]>> He played for >> He's huge. I don't know what how tall he is, man. But you can tell in this that he's a huge dude.

[00:18:35]>> Yeah. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. So it tells you how long ago that was. It was like in the 40s or something. And then he just became an actor. the story about I don't think he ever went to any sort of acting school or anything. He just kind of caught on and started doing these westerns and stuff, but I think Tourist Trap is one of the more interesting roles that he ever did >> because it was just totally out there.

[00:19:02]um just a different but it's believable for sure and he play like you were saying he plays it straight pretty much the entire time and most of the other cast in this movie I thought did a pretty good job as well. I'm not super familiar with with most of them but I think the leading um the blonde girl she she had been in other stuff before.

[00:19:26]>> She was really good. Um I've just got like the list here. I don't know like who's who to be honest with you. Robin Sherwood is in this as is Jocelyn Jones. And >> I think Joselyn Jones was the lead was the blonde girl.

[00:19:43]>> Yeah.

[00:19:43]>> Yeah.

[00:19:44]Um, >> I mean the first of all the the weird part, well, one of the weird parts about this movie is there's some sort of supernatural element to the movie that they don't ever talk about or recognize.

[00:20:04]>> Yeah.

[00:20:04]>> Other than one scene where he's like, I've always been able to do this. That's kind of like the Jigsaw voice, but I can't do his voice, but like, you know what I mean? like he's like, "I've always been able to do this. My brother like knew about it." Talking about like psychic he can move things around and stuff like that. And so when the mannequins come out and [ __ ] like they're like moving by some unseen presence and [snorts] >> Yeah, they don't touch on that enough, I don't think.

[00:20:29]>> No, they never explain any of that.

[00:20:31]>> I almost I almost think it would have been more interesting had because it was like not really a supernatural element.

[00:20:38]it ends up being that he had like telekinesis or whatever, but they don't really they don't touch on that at all really other than that first scene and then the other scene you were talking about in this.

[00:20:52]>> But um overall though, man, like the movie does have a creepy uneasy feel pretty much from the very beginning. it shot very similar to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and you could totally tell that that's what he was going for uh with this movie. He wanted to make something along those lines. And I gotta admit, I think [snorts] all those movies around that time period, I think that they probably came the closest to getting that sort of, you know, Colts, [snorts] lowbudget grindhouse, you know, style to it that that kind of matched what Texas Chainsaw did a few years before this.

[00:21:33]>> Well, the version that I saw was just on like [ __ ] tuby, so it looked about as grindhouse as you could possibly imagine, too. which actually helped.

[00:21:43]>> Yeah.

[00:21:43]>> Uh quite a bit.

[00:21:46]>> You've got >> Go ahead. Sorry.

[00:21:50]>> I was just gonna say like the location of it too helped a lot because most of it is filmed around this old rundown like store, how whatever you want to say that is. And like it's called his Oasis or something like that, which is partially, isn't it? Partially like a wax museum.

[00:22:07]>> Yeah.

[00:22:08]>> Supposedly, too. [snorts] >> Yeah. and he has the some of the wax figures have guns and [ __ ] and that kind of comes into play towards the end of the movie as well.

[00:22:20]Um, this is a really interesting little movie and like someone was saying earlier, I think it sucks that Full Moon has never really licensed this out to get like a proper edition done because I have the Blu-ray, which a lot of people put the Blu-ray over. I have it somewhere here.

[00:22:38]>> Yeah. But even this to me, it's like it was half ass really. I could totally see Sverin or Vinegar Syndrome or one of those companies doing a way better job um on this. But hey, this is I mean this is better than nothing, I guess. But um yeah, I think this was the uncut version on here. But to be honest, it was not there wasn't enough as far as like graphic death scenes and stuff. There's not a lot of that in this, I don't think.

[00:23:10]>> No, but I'll tell you this right now. It it's there's a lot of graphic death scenes in pieces. But the most memorable like in terms of just horrifying one is actually in Tourist's trap because like I said, when this movie like decides to get scary, it's actually really scary. So, it's the one where he's got her laying out on the table and he just starts putting plaster and [ __ ] on her face and he's talking to her the entire time and he's like, you know, you won't die like right away.

[00:23:41]Your heart will burst with fright before that happens. And then he's talking about how the plaster hardens around her face and that's what happens. Like he covers her nose up and they do all of this like in like one continuous thing where they're just putting plaster. It's probably really not plaster, but over her face until it covers her entire face and she just dies. And I'm like, Jesus Christ.

[00:24:05]>> He says something about you're not going to suffocate first, your heart will bust or something like that from from fright.

[00:24:12]>> And I was like, damn.

[00:24:14]>> And like that to me is more horrifying than any of the, you know, chainsaw deaths and things like that that were in pieces.

[00:24:25]>> This is an interesting one, too. And I was going to ask you about this too because the remake of House of Wax does seem to be more of a remake of of Tourist Trap than House of Wax.

[00:24:38]>> What do you think of that? You agree with that?

[00:24:40]>> 100% believe that? Yeah. Yeah. It's it most of the stuff from Tourist Trap seems like it was li almost directly lifted and put in that house of [snorts] wax.

[00:24:51]>> Mhm.

[00:24:55]But the I don't know if you thought this too, man, but the [ __ ] gyrating mannequins and stuff like that just they'll just show up out of nowhere in certain scenes and just like just be like gyrating and and their mouths open up and it's just so freaking weird.

[00:25:14]>> Yeah. And I'm I'm not big on like the wax museums and stuff too. Like I think that's odd anyway. Like I've always been a little bit creeped out by that for some reason. And then with this where where he kind of hints that his victims are the wax figures.

[00:25:31]>> Yeah.

[00:25:31]>> You know, and they didn't really touch a whole lot on that, but you also had the scenes where you can see the eyes moving in the mannequins and they never really explained that either what that was. But I kind of like that aspect. I mean, you don't have to know every [ __ ] thing under the sun that happens in the movies, but um >> No, I don't think there's any way to know everything that happens in this movie. Like, to really >> No.

[00:25:59]>> But, >> I thought probably my favorite [snorts] part of the movie overall was the scene at the end. And I had forgotten this scene was in there, man. It'd been so long since I'd seen it. where Jerry who's like the friend of the girls or whatever who's constantly running around like it's a weird subplot. He's just he runs around gets his ass kicked by you know >> Slawson keeps coming back into it and keeps getting his ass kicked. Anyway, at the main end where he like comes out and you think Tanya Roberts is going to like run to him and it just Chuck Car just walks over there and pulls his arm off and his [ __ ] head and everything.

[00:26:40]He's a robot, >> right? It's like what the [ __ ] That's [sighs and gasps] >> It was amazing.

[00:26:47]>> Yeah. But this is a classic, man. For real. Like, this is one of those that I know that we haven't really talked about it a whole lot on the show over the years. And it's it's it's I think it's one that doesn't really get talked about very much. And I don't know why that is.

[00:27:04]I mean, maybe it's the Full Moon thing where look, if you want to get this movie, you've got to get it from Full Moon. And maybe that's what it is. I don't know.

[00:27:15]Why do you think it is?

[00:27:18]>> What? That there's not a version >> that it's not super like well-known. Like I don't think a lot of people talk about it. Yeah, >> cuz it's so bizarre. Like I don't know how many people would actually like really get into this movie. I mean, it's not like Scream or Halloween or something that's like easy to kind of follow. Like, you really have to expand your mind to appreciate this movie because there's a lot of campy and crazy [ __ ] that happens in it. But it's also really like unsettling to say the least.

[00:27:55]>> It's really well done, too. I mean, it's a lowbudget movie that's made very well.

[00:28:00]Um, I can remember I was watching I was watching it again yesterday, day before, something like that. And Sarah had seen it with me probably six or seven years ago whenever we watched it and she was like, "Yeah, we've seen this before. This one's pretty good, right?" And I was like, "Hell, she remembers it." So >> even the stuff in it that's kind of supposed to be funny I feel like is kind of unnerving to me because like there's a scene where he's running through the forest chasing her and like he's got the head and he's like uh you see my friend little girl and like the the [ __ ] mouth opening up and screaming and he's just chasing her with his mannequin head that's like screaming at her. He's [snorts] like, "Wait, little girl, wait." And the head scream. I'm like, "Dude, like I know that's not really probably supposed to be taken seriously, but that's [ __ ] terrifying."

[00:28:55]>> Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff that that's kind of terrifying in this movie, too. And the pacing of it. David Schmooler, I think he did a fantastic job with this. Um, the look of the movie, Chuck Connor's casting, I couldn't imagine anybody else pull pulling that off at all.

[00:29:15]Yeah. And I think um another part of this movie too is like you know how people were terrified of clowns and stuff for because there's something about clowns that's just kind of unnerving to begin with.

[00:29:28]>> I think like this movie would have the same effect on people because there's something about mannequins that's like equally disturbing because they're supposed to be us but they're not.

[00:29:37]They're like they look like people but they're not really people. So, I feel like if people gave this a chance, it would probably be as notorious as it or something like that for freaking people out because there's something inherently scary about that.

[00:29:53]>> Let me ask you this, too. Now, I'm not for I'm not super I should look this up.

[00:29:59]Could you see someone doing a full-blown remake of Tourist Trap or has it already?

[00:30:05]>> They haven't. I can't believe they haven't done it yet. Like I don't know of one if there has been one, but to me that would be like the perfect movie to remake.

[00:30:16]>> I think so too. I I think that you could update it and if you I mean here's the thing. It depends on who's doing it. But if it if it's a fan of the original movie and you add a bigger budget on to it and try to have it set around that time period, man, I think that it would work. I think that it would be Yeah.

[00:30:37]because you can tell this movie doesn't have a lot of money behind it and a lot of the mannequin stuff is practical and even though it's disturbing, you can clearly see how they did it and everything. It's kind of hokey. So, if you had, you know, somebody that put a lot of money into it.

[00:30:53]>> I'm just curious though if maybe they did somebody already did remake it because [clears throat] of how Charles Band is and it was just some sort of nobudget thing that came out or whatever. But maybe not, maybe they haven't.

[00:31:06]Maybe. I just I've never [snorts] I've never heard of it of a remake of it anyway. Like a like a straight remake. I mean, a bunch of movies have taken parts out of this movie and kind of redid them or stole them, however you want to look at it.

[00:31:22]>> Yeah.

[00:31:24]Yeah. But yeah, that is Tourist Trap 1979.

[00:31:30]It's crazy that that movie was that old, dude.

[00:31:34]We never I mean I guess parts of it it you know but yeah you would think it was at least what 84 85 but no 1979 >> and I think of all of the lost kind of movies that people don't know about this might be one of my favorite unknown films >> and it's for sure it's a slasher too like some of these >> oh maybe it's just a a murder mystery sort of thing and you could say that for a lot of these movies But there's for there's for sure some slashing going on in this.

[00:32:08]>> Yeah. He's just running around like it's just that is one funny part about it.

[00:32:11]It's just Chuck Connor's like leaves and comes back like a hundred times to comfort these girls and then goes and kills them. Comes back. There's >> it takes >> forever to [ __ ] catch on. Yeah. That he's >> he's like I'm going to go find that one girl that was here before and then you know another girl will go missing but oh [ __ ] I got to go find your two friends.

[00:32:30]And he just keeps doing this over and over again. It's like, dude, he's clearly killing him, >> leaving and coming back. And >> yeah, >> so we do have a poll going though. Which is, and this will be a good one tonight.

[00:32:45]I think this is going to be a close one tonight. Which is the better of the two movies we're talking about tonight?

[00:32:52]We've got Tourist Trap versus Pieces.

[00:32:56]And Pieces is ahead currently.

[00:33:01]So, we'll see.

[00:33:01]>> I mean, they're two completely different films, but I'll tell you that Pieces is probably the more >> directly slasher related for sure.

[00:33:14]>> The lovely Spaniard girls in pieces.

[00:33:18]>> Yep.

[00:33:20]Um, so yeah, I mean the physical media releases, um, there has still for sure not been a definitive release for Tourist Trap.

[00:33:31]Hopefully in the next few years we'll see that. Um, but interesting thing about this next movie that we're talking about tonight, um, Pieces is for years and years and years, the only way to get this on disc was on one of those generic like it was one of those titles that I think it was Diamond Entertainment or whatever that was like the budget DVD label.

[00:34:01]They had pieces out in like box sets.

[00:34:04]They had pieces, the individual pieces released. I think they had like House by the Cemetery was another one they did.

[00:34:12]Seven Doors of Death was another one they did. So, I don't know if it was like a public domain thing or this was just some sort of lowbudget DVD company that was releasing these, but for many, many years, I think up until like 2008 when Grindhouse did the first DVD, which I found back there, I've still got it.

[00:34:32]That was the only way to see this movie.

[00:34:36]>> Did you ever figure out why? like what happened that >> that we didn't have.

[00:34:42]>> I know Grindhouse initially was working on that DVD for years and years and people were hyped for it big time uh because this is the first time it was ever remastered or anything. And but yeah, I think everybody had that Elchipo Diamond release back in the day. I couldn't find it. Um but I'm pretty sure that I bought it because it was one of those that was like 5.88 at Walmart.

[00:35:07]Yeah, I definitely remember that one, too. I just like to know the story behind how it didn't have like a copyright or if it did have a copyright, how it wound up with that.

[00:35:16]>> They probably had some sort of loophole where they got it for some sort of version of it for next to nothing or something. I don't know. But, uh, this is from 2008, this DVD, and this was a big [ __ ] deal when it came out. It's a two disc. There's all kinds of extra features on it. I think there's [snorts] a watch along track where you can watch it where it's screened in a theater back in the day with a crowd or whatever. So, it's pretty neat. Grindhouse always did some cool extra stuff like that. If there was ever a definition of a movie to put on with a group of people just to have a good time, it would be Pieces because it's got like all of the basic things that you want in a slasher.

[00:35:59]There's a kill about every five minutes.

[00:36:02]There's nudity about every five minutes.

[00:36:04]>> It's like all of the basic pieces that you know that that we love about slasher films are in here to the 10th degree.

[00:36:15]>> Yeah, for sure. So, we'll go ahead and do you want to talk about the the plot of this movie a little bit if there is a plot?

[00:36:22]>> Yeah, I'll talk about the plot of it.

[00:36:23]Let's go.

[00:36:25]So, little 10-year-old Timmy is uh putting together a jigsaw puzzle in his room of a naked woman. And you're not allowed to do that. And his mother gives him hell about it.

[00:36:36]>> She's a bushy woman, too.

[00:36:38]>> Yeah. She doesn't, you know, he doesn't like that that his mother gave him hell.

[00:36:42]So, he hacks her to death with a axe and then kind of dismembers her body. And you fast forward 40 years later and for some unexplicable [ __ ] reason that I've never understood but works perfectly, a woman goes through a glass pane panel and that starts a series of murders on this campus of people just one by one.

[00:37:07]And the guy is kind of dressed in a trench coat and you know hat. It's kind of like a jallows.

[00:37:13]>> Looks like a shallow killer, but he has a His weapon of choice is a chainsaw.

[00:37:18]You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre.

[00:37:21]>> Yeah.

[00:37:23]>> What an inventive [ __ ] trailer >> that we just played, too. Where they were like, "We can't show you the scenes in pieces, >> right?

[00:37:32]>> It's too much.

[00:37:32]>> It's too much for you." I just like there's so many aspects of this movie that crack me the [ __ ] up. Like [laughter] the kid is so pissed off that his mother interrupted him putting this nudie puzzle together >> that he just decides to [ __ ] kill her.

[00:37:52]>> Yeah, you [ __ ] [ __ ] >> That's Well, yeah. I mean, you can't be be distracted when you're putting together titties and stuff with a jigsaw puzzle. You got to kill your mom.

[00:38:04]>> I was I made a I made a note, man. I said, "This may be the best 10 minutes of any horror film." The best opening 10 minutes of any horror film. In the first 10 minutes of this movie, a kid hacks up his mom with an axe and dismembers her body.

[00:38:18]>> HE'S LIKE, "FUCK YOU."

[00:38:21]>> A woman roller skates into a pane of glass and gets cut to pieces. And a woman gets her head chains hauled off in the first 10 minutes.

[00:38:31]And then we get introduced shortly after to Willard the gardener who's [ __ ] amazing [laughter] like an amazing that character. What? And I don't know.

[00:38:49]I guess that character is in there to be the ultimate red herring.

[00:38:53]>> The reddest herring the world has ever seen.

[00:38:55]>> Never known. Yeah. Paul Smith is a genius in this movie. just trying to creep everybody out.

[00:39:03]>> Paul Smith is kind of a unsung hero of films. I don't know how many people if you have >> he's been in a bunch of [ __ ] too. Yeah.

[00:39:11]>> Yeah. Like you may have heard his name but not know who he is. So he's probably like mostly famous for he was in a Red Sonia as Falcon.

[00:39:21]He was uh >> the Midnight Express is a movie. He was the e like one of the evil guards like the main villains in that movie The Midnight Express.

[00:39:34]>> Yeah, >> that was around the I think that was in the 70s. So that might have been one of the earlier ones. And then he was in Popeye.

[00:39:41]He's been in a bunch of stuff like he great character roles I guess. [snorts] >> I think he was um I always get him confused with another dude. I don't think he's the guy from They Call Me Trinity. Although the guy from They Call Me Trinity looks exactly like him, >> right?

[00:40:00]>> Yeah.

[00:40:00]>> I don't remember him. I mean, that was around that same time, so it's possible.

[00:40:04]I guess there's a scene, too, where like a lot of this stuff is just death scene after death scene. And there's another death scene in swimming pool. It's amazing >> where the [ __ ] killer grabs this girl with a skimmer pole. Like they're skimming for [ __ ] flies.

[00:40:23]>> Chokes her out.

[00:40:26]He He doesn't kill her, but he chokes her out enough to where she can't get up. She's like unconscious. He's like dragging her to the to the edge of the pool and lifting her out with a [ __ ] I'm like I don't know how that would work. But >> well, man, there's a scene where he sneaks a fullsize [ __ ] chainsaw into an elevator. I was like, what?

[00:40:46]>> Yeah.

[00:40:46]>> He walks into like the tiniest elevator you ever seen with a chainsaw behind his back, like a full-size chainsaw, and this woman is just completely clueless until he starts it up. and in a great scene like just hacks off her arm. Um there's there's a lot of just great gratuitous over-the-top uh gore scenes in this and gore gags and everything.

[00:41:13]Eden Purdum is in this too. Who's he like the dean of the school or something? Isn't that what he or the principal or university president >> thing? Um, yeah, he is. I can't think of [clears throat] He is U Dean Restston.

[00:41:31]Yeah, >> he was the priest in Absurd. So, he was in a bunch of >> We just saw him.

[00:41:36]>> Yeah, we just saw him and a bunch of other stuff, too. I don't know. He was like one of those I think he was one of those classic actors from the 50s and 60s that just didn't get many roles. So, he did like a lot of around this time period. So he did a lot of stuff in Europe and Spain and all that. So this is another one with him. And Christopher George is also in this as a detective. And the thing that was is kind of annoying in this is like all this audio much like Italian films has been overdubbed. And Christopher George overdubbed his own voice in this. And dude, you can totally tell. It's almost like he's Casey Kasem on the radio or something. the way he's talking to that microphone like >> he they just should have backed him up a little bit cuz he almost >> I was too >> I was too busy looking at that girl that was in the pool scene, man. Jesus god in heaven. I was like that might be one of the best looking women that's ever been in a horror film.

[00:42:37]>> Um there's so many great death scenes in this movie though. That's probably why people like it so much. Aside from the craziness, it's like it's just one awesome death scene after another.

[00:42:50]>> The end scene, too, is pretty hilarious.

[00:42:53]>> Hold on. There's much more to get to before we get to >> Oh, yeah. What about What about the popularity of water beds back around that time period? Well, do you ever have a water bed?

[00:43:01]>> I did. I had a water bed when I was a kid. Yeah.

[00:43:04]>> I never had I never could stand water beds.

[00:43:07]>> I'll tell you something about a water bed, and they never mention this in the ads. Them [ __ ] things leak constantly. If anything gets in them or on them or they'll [ __ ] spring a leak and then you got to patch them or you'll electrocute yourself. I don't know how the hell those things became as popular as they were because [snorts] you could easily die on one of them [ __ ] things.

[00:43:27]>> Yeah. I think throughout the 80s like that was a big thing, water beds and they just kind of went away. I don't even I mean you could probably get them.

[00:43:35]You probably have to special order them now. you. That's one thing that nobody ever talks about. Amber's a water pitch.

[00:43:41]>> No, you never hear that anymore. And there's a whole like in the first five minutes of the movie that woman is like uh I wrote this down as a quote, too, where she's like, "The most beautiful thing in the world is smoking pot and [ __ ] on a water." [laughter] That's an actual quote, >> maybe.

[00:44:03]Um, also you're not really I don't think they try to get you to question who the killer is in this, but it's just who is that little boy grown up, right? Because >> yeah, >> throughout throughout the movie, you're seeing the the killer put the puzzle back together and this time it's got, you know, the blood and stuff from the murders on the puzzle. [snorts] And I mean it's very similar to some other slasher movies around that time frame.

[00:44:34]But one picare sim Simon I don't know how you pronounce it whatever else like he did like >> he did a bunch of other movies like Rat Rats was one of his.

[00:44:48]Um I think Extra Treasural Visitors I think was one that that was his.

[00:44:55]And what was there? Was another one.

[00:44:58]There's a few that he did.

[00:44:59]>> He did He didn't do Rats though. He did slugs.

[00:45:03]>> Was it Slugs?

[00:45:05]>> Yeah, it was Slugs cuz um >> who did Rats?

[00:45:08]>> That was Bruno Mate.

[00:45:10]>> Yeah.

[00:45:10]>> Oh, okay. Maybe it was Slugs that I was thinking of. And then um God damn it.

[00:45:15]What was the other one? There was another one that I think Vinegar Syndrome or one of those companies released that was not very good because I tried watching it, but I don't know.

[00:45:28]>> I I don't know either. That guy was I mean, he didn't have a lot of films, I don't think.

[00:45:34]>> No, this is by far the most well-known um of his movies.

[00:45:40]>> I don't even know how the hell you make a film like this, man. I don't know how you even think of the [ __ ] in this movie to do because there's a scene and we haven't talked about it yet. It's probably one of the most famous scenes in the movie where this woman is looking around for, you know, following this detective around and looking for around the campus and I don't know how else to say this, but this Asian gentleman comes up and just starts beating the [ __ ] out of her.

[00:46:08]>> What was the deal with that, by the way?

[00:46:10]I'm like, where the [ __ ] did that?

[00:46:12]That's what I'm saying. I don't even know how you think because it didn't have it was not any other part of the movie, right? Like it didn't have anything to do with anything in the movie. This Asian guy comes up and starts fighting her and then just passes out, gets back up, and he's like, "I don't know what happened. It must have been some chops that I ate. Bye."

[00:46:33]>> Oh my god. [laughter] That's it.

[00:46:38]>> Culu Mansion was the other one that he did that I was thinking.

[00:46:41]>> Oh yeah. Yeah, >> it's not very good.

[00:46:44]>> Tuluo Mansion. [snorts] >> Um, I still need to see Extraterrestrial Visitors. I've never They say that that's hilarious.

[00:46:53]>> Seaver put that out, didn't they? I think we need to get that.

[00:46:56]>> Yeah.

[00:46:58]Um, but yeah, man, this one's a lot of fun. A lot of great gratuitous, you know, blood and guts and stuff. And I think that I had heard that some of those scenes too where they're using a chainsaw on flesh that a lot of that was like pig like dead pigs that they used and pig intestines >> and real. Yeah.

[00:47:20]>> Yeah.

[00:47:21]I mean, one thing about this movie is you'll never you won't get bored by it because it's just nonstop like tits and ass and chainsaws like somebody's getting killed all the time and really like like I was saying like really good death scenes. There's a woman that just gets her head hacked off, gets her arm hacked off, uh gets her side cut into like with a chainsaw.

[00:47:45]Um >> the scene where the the girl gets her arm just and it flops right off. I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] that actually looked really [ __ ] good."

[00:47:55]>> Yeah, they they look really cool, too.

[00:47:57]>> They did. They did an amazing job with the effects on this. And it's one of those movies, too, that it does it's not an Italian movie, but man, it sure does feel like an Italian horror movie, doesn't it? Along the lines of like a Fulty movie or something.

[00:48:14]>> It's like Yeah. Yeah. It's like if Fulchie and Sam Ramy made a movie or something and there was a bunch of gags and [ __ ] in a FYI movie, that'd be kind of like what it was like.

[00:48:24]>> Yeah. I couldn't see too many people not really appreciating Pieces though cuz this especially like you were saying earlier getting that in with a big crowd of people. [snorts] Um I mean that's just a that's just a fun night really.

[00:48:41]>> Yeah. It's it's almost an impossible movie to hate.

[00:48:45]>> [snorts] >> Like, do you know anybody that hates Pieces?

[00:48:47]>> No.

[00:48:48]>> Doesn't like it? I don't either. Like, universally, if you're into like schllocky horror films, you everybody likes this movie. [snorts] >> So, yeah.

[00:49:00]>> So, I think a lot of people in the chat like it as well.

[00:49:04]>> Oh, I forgot about the ending, too, real quick. Not to give away like who the killer was or anything like that. I'm just talking about the main ending of the movie. It has one of the most insane endings I've ever seen. You talk about something that comes out of nowhere where the guy's just like standing there to >> Yeah. I don't know if anybody really thought about that, but yeah.

[00:49:25]>> Like what?

[00:49:29]>> It never ceases to amaze me when I see the ending of that movie.

[00:49:35][snorts] >> It reminds me a lot of the ending of Macob, too.

[00:49:38]It's the same kind of like >> and [clears throat] the look >> like it's it's a real life Franken Hooker before Franken Hooker existed.

[00:49:46]>> Yeah. [snorts] >> So, yeah. And for some reason they always go for the balls and [ __ ] too. I don't know.

[00:49:55]>> But it is what it is, man. That that that ending is out there as well. But I had fun with it. It's it's a ball buster of an ending for sure, Edward.

[00:50:04]>> Yeah, that ending's out the road.

[00:50:07]So, um, we got the people in the chat the votes and pretty handedly it looks like pieces is winning this one. 59% to 41%. What do you think of that, Uncle Bill? It's kind of a hard pick for me, but I did pick pieces.

[00:50:22]>> I think that's right. I think that's probably the the best representation. It should be about 6040, something like that. Because when I was watching both of them, like I really really like appreciated Tourist Trap and what they were doing, but like when I started watching pieces, I was immediately like, "Yeah, this is the this is the one for me because like it's just so fun. You just immediately love that movie from the first 10 minutes on."

[00:50:55]Yeah. I mean, they're both classics of different for different reasons, but it I don't know. It pieces is just a perfect slasher film >> for sure. And I was shocked like and maybe I was my I wasn't looking close enough that we had never really done any sort of big show on on pieces or tourist trap or review or anything. So, I'm glad that we kind of got to talk about him tonight on The Cruel Summerback.

[00:51:26]And I hope everybody in the chat enjoyed. And we're going to give away uh give out a couple more movies we're going to take a look at next week. Now, these are a little offthe-wall because I was like, well, what's it's staying the theme, right? But this is kind of loose.

[00:51:44]This is just titlebased.

[00:51:47]We're going for evil slashers, Uncle Bill. And you were kind of curious. You're like, "What the [ __ ] does that even mean?"

[00:51:57]>> I was like, "What do you mean like evil?

[00:51:58]You mean like there's evil demonic, you know, [ __ ] in the Slashers?" And you were like, "No, >> no."

[00:52:05]>> So, we're going to be taking a look. I think both of these are from Vinegar Syndrome. They're both from the mid80s.

[00:52:13]So, I'm not super familiar with either of these. I think I think I had seen one of them before, but I don't really remember it, which that's not a good sign. But from 1984, Evil Judgment, and 1986, it's Evil Laugh, which was actually directed by our um our boy Joey from Friday the 13th, part five, which I mean, we're not really I don't know if we should talk about him very much cuz >> No, that's I'm fine not talking about him. Um, have you seen either one of these yet? I think that I've seen Evil Laugh, but it's been a while. I don't think I've ever seen Evil Judgment.

[00:52:55]>> We We won't be having this episode [laughter] next week. This top episode, I guarantee.

[00:53:00]>> Well, isn't Evil Judgment supposed to be like a jello slash slasher?

[00:53:05]>> I've seen both of them and all I can say >> we're in for a treat next week.

[00:53:11]>> Yeah, exactly.

[00:53:13]>> So, yeah, I'm interested in it, man.

[00:53:15]just because from that time period, it is absolutely insane the amount of slasher movies that were made over an 8 to 10 year period there.

[00:53:29]It's just it's baffling really. Now, I did hear that Evil Laugh, which we'll talk about it more next week, that it was one that was filmed and was kind of like setting in the can for a couple of years before it actually came out.

[00:53:44]I could see that 100%. Yeah.

[00:53:47]>> But uh yeah, so that'll be next week.

[00:53:50]And if you have any suggestions on future slashback episodes, let us know. We still have a pretty huge back catalog of stuff that we've got, you know, ready and wait for future episodes and years and all that ahead. So, um, Spirit Crusher, he's a big fan of Evil Judgment, he says.

[00:54:15]>> But, uh, what else we got coming up? I think I think we're going to have to do a a Dead Pit Is Watching. Uh, because I've got a bunch of stuff that I've reviewed. What about you?

[00:54:27]>> Oh, yeah. Did we ever get that other [ __ ] in, too? The >> I got Let's see.

[00:54:37]No, we didn't get the stuff in from Australia, but that should be coming in probably this week.

[00:54:42]There's [snorts] a bunch of bunch of that stuff. I got Deadly Blessing 4K. I got that in. We got some Asian stuff from like Unear Films.

[00:54:54]Um, >> lovely.

[00:54:57]>> And then that JeanClaude Vanam 4K that I told you about. Other than that, I don't think we've gotten a whole lot.

[00:55:04]You know, just [clears throat] be on the lookout, I guess. Bulls. I know. I've got two coming from Arrow that I still haven't gotten yet, too.

[00:55:12]>> People are getting their student. Did you order student bodies?

[00:55:15]>> No, >> I didn't get that. I'm not a big fan of that movie either.

[00:55:20][snorts] Evil Speak. There are other evil movies, but yeah, Evil Speak is not a slasher.

[00:55:25]>> Yeah.

[00:55:26]>> Berserker.

[00:55:28]>> Have we never done Berserker on here?

[00:55:31]>> No.

[00:55:31]>> I thought we did. I'm always thinking we did, but we just talked about these movies.

[00:55:35]>> We could do we could do man beast slashers with like Berserker and we could do Humongous.

[00:55:43]>> Yeah.

[00:55:45]>> Oh, Lord. Speaking of beasts, [laughter] what's going on? Tails from the video store.

[00:55:55]Ashlin gear is in Evil Laugh. Oh, [snorts] yes. It's classic air Ashlin gear, too.

[00:56:03]>> [snorts] >> Um, I do not think that we have done stage fright as of yet. Right. That's the owl head killer. I don't think we've done that.

[00:56:16][snorts] All right, Bulls. So, anything else we um Anybody else got any questions or anything? let us know. And uh if not, we'll be scattling out of here. We're going to be doing a Dead Pit is watching this week, so stay tuned for that. I've been reviewing a lot of weird uh Italian [ __ ] Uncle Bill's got him a fresh uh drink there to sap on.

[00:56:59]Is that going to be tasty? Uncle Bill, I can't unmute this. It just be a dog barking the entire time. Uncle Bill here. Uncle Bill's going to take a big drink of that and about This [ __ ] tastes so good.

[00:57:18]Wait one more time. What would I be doing?

[00:57:25]God, it's fresh and cold and crimp.

[00:57:30]>> [snorts] >> You like it?

[00:57:33]>> That took me out right there.

[00:57:37]>> Oh [ __ ] But um All right, guys. Yeah, it's a slurpee it looks like. Right.

[00:57:43]>> No, it's a like a weird new thing.

[00:57:46]McDonald's got like a boba tea, but it's not a boba tea. It's like a mango.

[00:57:51]Mango, baby. That's what it is.

[00:57:53]>> It's a mango drink.

[00:57:56]You know what I've got here? Just a good old peach.

[00:58:02]>> All right, guys. But yeah, I guess that is it. We appreciate everybody tuning in this week and we'll catch you guys.

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