"DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" - Funeral Home (1980) - The FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES SPECTACULAR Part Two

Patrick: 00:00:05

Oh, hello. Come in, come in, come in. Do come in out of the terrible weather. Oh, welcome. Welcome to my very curious curio shop.

Although I hate to inform you the shop is closed for tonight because there's a. Well, it's a rather special evening. It's a monthly meeting of sorts. So unless you're here for the meeting, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

The nature of the meeting, you ask. Let me put it to you this way. Sometimes Uncle Lewis does dreadful things.

Welcome to Damn you, Uncle Lewis, the Friday the 13th the series retrospective podcast. Hello again, everyone. Welcome back. Welcome back to my very curious curious shop.

My name is Patrick Walsh and I am not only the proprietor here, but I am the host of Debut Uncle Lewis. We talk about Friday the 13th the series, but not today.

That's right, because we're doing the second of our Friday the 13th spectacular episode where instead of talking about an episode of the show, we talk about a movie that features the work of people that worked on the show. Does that make sense to you? Shut up. It will. Okay, But I can't do this by myself because I could, but it wouldn't be any fun.

I want my to help me through the second of our Friday the 13th spectacular episodes. I want my two favorite people in the whole world.

I want my two favorite shopkeeps and my two favorite co hosts of the show, Trae Dean and Maya Murphy! Yay! Everybody's flailing. Welcome back. Are you ready for another Spectacular?

Trae: 00:01:42

Yes, I am.

Maya: 00:01:42

I'm gonna be.

Trae: 00:01:43

Oh, boy.

Patrick: 00:01:44

ut the film funeral home from: 1980

He did the Quilt of Hathor and some of the most touched on episodes. So it was really exciting to check in to see what he's done outside of this world. Plus, there's some stars involved.

They've done some guest things here as well. I'm babbling, so you know what that means. I think I should shut up for a minute and let's play the trailer to funeral home.

Trailer: 00:02:52

Anytime. Can't I get it through your head?

Trailer: 00:02:56

I don't want that girl's house sticking.

Trailer: 00:02:58

Around doing things behind my back.

Trailer: 00:03:01

No one will bother you, James.

Trailer: 00:03:03

I promise.

Trailer: 00:03:05

Stooping, throwing rocks.

Trailer: 00:03:07

I don't want kids around this house. But Heather isn't a child. I'm warning you, woman. That girl. Mother, leave her Altogether.

Patrick: 00:03:39

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate this thing called death. Your uncle died and you're feeling sad. I don't know the lyrics to Fun Home. I'm sorry.

Maya tried to conspire with me that we could do show tunes from Fun Home.

Maya: 00:03:58

I was hoping there was gonna be more lesbians.

Patrick: 00:04:02

No, I'm always hoping there's gonna be more lesbians. But I don't know Fun Home that well because there's no part for me in it.

Maya: 00:04:08

I'm not old enough to be Big Al. But Fun Home, I think, is the only musical that made me ugly cry in the lobby.

Patrick: 00:04:16

Yeah, 100%. 100%. But, yeah, if you don't know, Fun Home is about. Based on. Maya, what's Fun Home? Just really quick.

Maya: 00:04:25

Fun Home is an autobiographical graphic novel then adapted to a musical by Alison Bechdel, about her childhood and her relationship with her parents, particularly her father, who was living as a closeted gay man.

Patrick: 00:04:36

But she also grew up in a funeral home, which they called the Fun Home because the sign burned out. Yep, the kids called it the Fun Home. So that's what we're talking about.

And I said to her, maya, Maya, it's no fun when we pre plan this thing when we have premeditated show tune bombs on Trae. That's no fun. I want it to be organically because, you know, I just.

You know, I don't have time for your show tunes or your swearing or that bomber jacket you're wearing.

Maya: 00:05:01

I wasn't conspiring. I was trying to make jokes in the group chat.

Patrick: 00:05:05

And your cheese. Oh, your jokes of cheese.

Trae: 00:05:10

This is the part of the chat where I just, like, sit back and let y' all talk and just let it.

Patrick: 00:05:15

That's all I see is soaking that cheese tray.

Trae: 00:05:17

Just soak it in. Soak it in.

Patrick: 00:05:18

Okay, okay.

Maya: 00:05:19

All right.

Patrick: 00:05:19

Here.

Trae: 00:05:19

You hear, you hear.

Patrick: 00:05:20

You hear. You hear.

Maya: 00:05:21

You hear. You hear.

Trae: 00:05:21

You hear you.

Patrick: 00:05:22

This Friday the 13th Spectacular is officially in session. No more shows. We got serious business. People are dead. People are gonna die. All right, so, Maya, you did it last time.

ome from the fabulous year of: 1980

Trae: 00:05:37

Okay, so we're at the Bates Motel. No, I'm sorry. At our funeral home. And let's see. I forget the main character's name. Heather has come to stay at a funeral home with her grandmother.

And people are disappearing, and they're all. Seems to tie into her grandfather's death. Several years earlier. And that's just a good. Without getting the plot points.

Basic is she goes and people are being killed one by one. And it seems to center around the funeral home where she's staying and working. Well, it's a former funeral home.

It's now it's a bed and breakfast and the guests are arriving and not really having a good time.

Patrick: 00:06:17

t. That term did not exist in: 1980

Maya: 00:06:22

Possibly be true.

Trae: 00:06:23

You're right. Oh really?

Patrick: 00:06:26

No, that was a cute thing that came in the 90s.

Maya: 00:06:29

What?

Trae: 00:06:30

Okay. It's no longer a funeral home. It's now a plot device to get characters to a location so they can be killed.

Because no one would want to go stay at this place willingly.

Patrick: 00:06:39

I consider there's two hotels in town. They're all sold out. I don't know why people are coming to this town. I don't understand it. I don't care. Whatever. It's all good. This is a.

This is a funny movie. It's not funny. Haha. It's a wonderfully strange little movie.

And I. I watched a couple of William Fruet movies during this week just to get a vibe for him overall. And this is what I've discovered for the most part. This is his format. The movies are overstuffed with characters.

There's tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of characters. Every single character is played by a character actor on their A game. And you get lost in the. In the mundanity of it all.

Like it's always just something. And that's not a bad thing. Not a bad thing. It's just everyday life in this place where you are with everyday people doing nothing.

When I covered Halloween, the: 1978

It's nothing special girls on a nothing special day doing nothing special things. And this horrible thing happens for no reason. So that's kind of what we are here. This movie just kind of meanders around looking for a plot.

But you can get really bored by that. But if you focus on the characters, it's tons of fun. But it's also that same vibe is very season one like where are we going? Where are we going?

What's the tone of this show? Nobody knows. I babbled for a reason. Long time. Someone else take it away for a bit.

Maya: 00:08:04

I was really confused for the first half hour. I didn't Know where we were going? I went, ooh, a tourist home. There's all these different elements of people.

I hope they interact like Hercule Poirot. And then we did not do that. I love that as a. As a trope. I love that, you know, glass onion. I love all the nonsense of big, strong personalities.

And then they just started disappearing one by one. It wasn't about them blowing up together. I found myself wondering how I would re edit the film for my tastes, because, like, I don't.

I tried to look up reviews of this and they called it a slasher, but it's not a slasher. And I don't think slashers really existed as a genre yet.

Patrick: 00:08:48

This, this is: 1980

Maya: 00:08:56

I know what it is.

Trae: 00:08:58

I was like you. I was confused because you think it's a slasher. It's not. It looks like it's gonna be a psycho movie. Kind of wants to try. Psych. Here's what it is.

To me. This is an R rated Nancy Drew movie.

Yes, it's an R. Because once you realize this is Nancy Drew coming on the set of Psycho, then the whole movie made sense to me.

Maya: 00:09:19

Ah, you're so smart. I read Nancy Drew. I had the little cardboard yellow books. I did not.

Trae: 00:09:24

If Fenton Hardy died and she went, you know, But. Because I was looking at Lesleh Donaldson because she's so atypical of a slasher heroine. She's brunette, she's intelligent, she has intensity.

And I was like, oh, she's. She. She would play a good Nancy Drew. And I thought, oh, shit, this is a Nancy Drew movie. So.

Patrick: 00:09:42

Yeah, you want. Yeah, no, you're 100% right. It's very much that. It's more of a mystery. And Trae, you said it's kind of trying to be a psycho movie.

This is a blatant psycho rip off. And it doesn't even try to hide it.

Trae: 00:09:52

Yeah, and they give it away too early.

Patrick: 00:09:55

Yeah, it tries to hide it by burying it and all this other mundanity.

Trae: 00:09:59

Yeah, yeah. But it's obvious.

Patrick: 00:10:02

Hopes, forget about it. Like, there's little mystery points that get sprinkled in here and there, but they're so sparse, you kind of forget about them.

But what really sparkles for me here is the cast. I love the cast. Like, even not so much the characters. Just this cast is serving. We mentioned Lesleh Donaldson.

Lesleh Donaldson, A Friday the 13th, the series connection. She was our villainess in the Great Montarro. And what I love about Lesleh, she's very young here. She's very, very young.

This is one of her first features. And this is not a dig on Lesleh. She's not right in this role. Like, for this kind of a role. She's not your lead heroine. Girl. She's got it.

Because she's got an edge to her. Like, she hasn't found it yet.

Trae: 00:10:42

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:10:42

As an actor or. Or as a person. Like, as a person, she hasn't figured out that. Oh, she's trying to. We all know, like, Maya and I know this. We're performers.

Like, for a long time you struggle trying to figure out what your type is.

Maya: 00:10:52

When I was trying to play female romantic leads, and I kept getting called back.

Patrick: 00:10:57

Romantic leads. And always, no, honey, you're a character actor. Then you have to figure out, oh, no, you're the. You're the. You're the prick. I'm a prick.

That's what I play. I play pricks. I play pricks really well.

Maya: 00:11:06

I'm a villain. I'm a musical theater villain.

Patrick: 00:11:08

And you know what? Like, an art imitates life for both of us. I'm creating. So that's why we get along.

Trae: 00:11:14

Well, this one, because I wrote down that some of their characters, we'll get to them a little bit, are very miscast, too, but they're good.

And it kind of reminds me of Nightmare on Elm Street Part two, because I always felt that the two leads, Jesse and his best friend Grady, in a traditional movie, you would have swapped them with a handsome guy being the lead and the kind of nice looking, normal guy being the best friend. But by flipping it, it makes Part two a much more interesting movie. And so this is more interesting to me because everyone does well.

But it feels almost like in the real world that's what these archetypes would look like.

Patrick: 00:11:44

Thank you. Thank you. That was the other thing I want to say. There's something about this, and this is as much actory as literary.

There's something about the feel of this movie. It feels like. Again with Mundanity, the horror of the small town where everybody knows everything. Everyone's always gossiping. Everyone.

Like, everybody knows the secret. Like everybody knows the secret of what really happened. Like, the whole set. Hold on, back up.

Central to this mystery is what happened to Heather's grandpa. Heather's grandpa disappeared without a trace. And nobody knows what happened except everybody in town knows what happened.

All the gossips Know what happened? Yeah, but the family doesn't know. So all these fucking bitches in town are everything. But they haven't told the family.

And it's like it's all that kind of a thing. It reminded me of Spoon River Anthology.

Maya: 00:12:28

Oh, yeah.

Patrick: 00:12:30

For those who don't know Spoon River Anthology, it's a collection of poems. And it's about a town. But every poem is supposed to be a gravestone.

It's like you're going through the gravestones of all the dead residents of the town. It's like as if these, the spirits of these residents had like one minute to tell you something they've never told anybody.

And it's fun to see how, like, you start planning. Like, some of them come back and just start bitching about each other. They'll gossip about each other.

Like you just find out everything that happened to this town through the gossip of dead people. And it reminded me of this. Cause there was something about it. The little glimpse you get of town, like, man, everybody knows everybody about shit.

Another small little role I have to throw point out, especially because I'm afraid I'll forget, is Doris Petriee, who is a Friday the 13th connection. She was the mom, pistol packing mama from the Mephisto ring. And she was the head doctor in charge in Dr. Jack.

The one who ran the hospital who knew her shit. She pops up for really small scenes. She's the gossipy lady that shows up who when she pulled.

She pulls in and blocks the cops car so he can't leave when the drunk guy is on the porch. And she's in everybody's business. She's. She knows everything that's going on. She's like, you know, she's got to report everything that you just saw.

And there was a half naked man on the porch. I think she. She's gonna tell. Everybody in town is gonna know because of this bitch. That's the only scene she's in, which is wonderful.

So, yeah, Doris Petrie. Yeah, she does a good job.

Trae: 00:13:50

Yeah.

I also liked Sam the Farmer, who discovers an abandoned car under a hay in his loft and is like, well, I guess I'll just let it, you know, maybe call the cops. He looked like Charles Durning with bad teeth.

Patrick: 00:14:04

Trae. We've met him many, many, many times. That's Les Rubie. That's Les Rubie. He most famously.

In our world, he was Jack's friend, the first of the victims in the butcher.

Trae: 00:14:13

Okay.

Patrick: 00:14:15

Jack's friend in the wheelchair who got garotted, who played baseball. Yeah, he was In Scarecrow. And he was also in the one where Robie died. Heads, I went, tails, you die.

Trae: 00:14:28

Okay. Yeah, he was fantastic. And the whole thing also just gives a vibe of this town. Just doesn't give a shit. And just.

They're okay with letting things lay.

Patrick: 00:14:38

It's also about outsiders. Like, it's some Porsche. Nobody here owns a Porsche, so whoever's missing is not one of us. So people come here, people go. It's a tourist town anyway.

People are expendable.

Maya: 00:14:50

I had to figure out what was keeping me interested in the movie, because surface level, I was bored, but something was pulling on me. And I think it's between the two things you said of everyone's cast in a way that's realistic, in a way that feels like a hometown.

And the mundanity of that has that undercurrent that makes me go, okay, I want to know what happens. Because it's not the pretty blonde and the handsome jock who are gonna go hook up in the van and get yelled at. The overbearing grandma. Well.

Well, I'm. I'm worried about your purity. And she's like, my parents let me date. I came back. It's a reasonable hour. I'm having a cookie.

Trae: 00:15:28

There's one scene, like, Rick, the guy she's saying, looks like a guy would have had a crush on in the 80s. But also there's a scene where they're talking, they're driving, and he's got, like a little, like a tank top on.

And I realized both the actors have a sheen of sweat all over them. And I was like, that brings me back the summers at home in the 80s where.

In Texas, where it's just, if you're outside for a while, you're going to be sweaty. And they wore just that little bit, stood out to me.

Patrick: 00:15:51

Yes, I loved. I loved a lot of stuff about Rick, too.

One of the things that struck out to me, like, how funny is it to see somebody in a movie wearing a muscle shirt with no muscles?

Trae: 00:16:01

Exactly. Yeah.

Patrick: 00:16:03

Because when it's really hot, you don't give a shit. You can tell it's really fucking hot when they're shooting. It looks. He looks great. Also something that Maya touched on earlier.

When it comes when we have teenage romance blossoming in a movie, this is like the least sexy bunch of teenagers ever. I don't mean they're unattractive. I mean, there's no sex drive in anybody in this movie.

Maya: 00:16:21

And when we have seen in swimsuits, they look like actual people. They're not shoved into shapewear and shot in a sexy way. It's. Teenagers are going to go jump in a lake because it's hot out.

Trae: 00:16:32

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:16:33

And the grandma is like, you're staying out too late. Your mother wouldn't approve. I just want to be like, okay, be home early and don't suck any cocks. No cock sucking.

But you don't have to tell her that, because they're going out to look at furniture. This is what these sexy teenagers do. They go out looking furniture together. What's happening?

Maya: 00:16:51

In any other movie, the boyfriend would be complaining about the grandma, and that doesn't happen. He shows up, he moves things, he helps.

Patrick: 00:16:58

They would have got. They would have broken into that basement because they break into that funeral home basement a couple of times.

Patrick: 00:17:02

The.

Patrick: 00:17:02

No, no place. The forbidden place where you're not supposed to go. You're not supposed to go in that. It's a tourism now. But stay out of that basement.

It's dangerous. They would have gone there to make out and fuck.

Maya: 00:17:11

Yep, yep.

Patrick: 00:17:12

They never go. They do break in there, but they go to look for stuff.

Trae: 00:17:14

They're looking for furniture.

Patrick: 00:17:15

They break in to look for more furniture.

Trae: 00:17:19

Because Nancy Drew does not have sex. This felt like a Nancy Drew episode almost. No.

Maya: 00:17:26

And they find the first clue in the no, no place in the basement is. Grandma's preserving things for later. We have all those jars of canned vegetables. I wonder what else she's saving down there.

Trae: 00:17:37

And this has clues like, oh, here's a locket with some initials on it. Who could this be for?

Maya: 00:17:42

So, Nancy Drew, you are so right. Can't believe I didn't see that.

Trae: 00:17:47

But to go back to the mundane, just at the very beginning, they're in a wagon. They're in a van talking to each other. And it was such a shagging wagon.

It was just the interior had, like, the carpet or, like, the wood paneling on it. And I was like, oh, I remember these. But.

Patrick: 00:18:01

But no shagging. No shagging. No shagging in that wagon. It's a. No, it's a dragon wagon for dragon furniture here and there. Because that's what we do.

For some reason, they get really excited about tables, these teenagers. They've written the whole scene about tables. We haven't even.

Trae: 00:18:17

Go ahead.

Patrick: 00:18:17

No, no, go try.

Trae: 00:18:19

We haven't even talked about Florie yet.

Patrick: 00:18:22

I'm saving Florie.

Trae: 00:18:23

Okay, okay. Good, good. Yeah.

Patrick: 00:18:25

Well, you know, since we're here, like, this is when the movie woke up for me because, like, Florie and Harry showed up and I'm like, why is this like, the second I laid eyes? I'm like, but something. I just wanted to verify that when I was screening it the other night.

And actual real life Canadian and frequent, you know, frequent flyer with us in the guest spot. Tara Garner said, this whole cast, top to bottom, is top notch Canadian character actors.

Like, every single person is somebody you know who works all the time, who you respect. Like, oh, that guy. That. When you see them go, oh, that guy.

But you don't know what their name is, but these are the ones that you know their name that. That they're that good. So the whole cast is like that. And particularly when these two show up, I'm like, this movie just got good.

I'm not sure where this is going. Where are we going? Is it a ghost story? Is it a mystery? Is it a slasher?

I don't care, because these two are amazing, and I can just tell that by looking at them. Tell me about Buddy and Florie. Harry and Florie.

Maya: 00:19:23

Well, they're having an illicit relationship.

Trae: 00:19:27

Harry is the boorish, older, office, you know, businessman, and Florie is his mistress. And when I say that you may think of a certain person as Florie's being the young mistress that he sneaks off with to have sex with.

And I was not expecting what I got.

Patrick: 00:19:46

No. I love Florieda. This is my hot take on Florie. Are you ready for this hot take at Florie? This hot take? My hot take. My hot. My hot headcanon for Florie.

If Mary Lou Maloney had not died in that fire, she'd be Florie. She hold on to that energy that we love. That love that.

That energy that she carried through after death that we were talking about last time that we love so much. But then if she doesn't die, she has to live through the sexual revolution through women's lib. All of a sudden, her vibe isn't as unique anymore.

Everybody's doing it now. It's not cool. Now she's just. Eventually she's gonna wind up with some shitty...

Trae: 00:20:19

Job and she's banging the boss.

Patrick: 00:20:20

So. So the fact. The fact that they killed her in a fire was actually the best thing for Mary.

Maya: 00:20:28

They got some water because the actress.

Trae: 00:20:31

Looks like she's the annoying neighbor in a sitcom. The annoying.

Patrick: 00:20:35

Yeah, yeah. If she. What was her name? Lana. Lana On. On. On Three's Company. Oh, yes.

Trae: 00:20:41

Yeah, yeah.

Patrick: 00:20:42

The one that got rid of this season was the better name. But.

Trae: 00:20:44

But. But Lana was. It was attractive, conventionally. Lana had big tits. This woman, she has a Night. She's fine. But she. She looks like she's the house.

Like the shrewish wife or the. She looks kind of Karen. Yeah.

Patrick: 00:21:00

This is a. But still rocking body. Like you could tell it. Once upon a time, she was the queen of the ball. She was somebody. She turned heads.

And now it doesn't got that she's.

Trae: 00:21:10

Yeah, she's a brunette with like curt. Like a really bad perm.

Patrick: 00:21:14

She's gay. Heaven is basically what she.

Maya: 00:21:15

Is it a perm or was it a wig? Because when they're going out to dance, she's like moving it.

Patrick: 00:21:20

That was. She had a wig.

Trae: 00:21:21

No, she had a wig on.

Patrick: 00:21:25

She adjusted that way.

Maya: 00:21:26

She sure did.

Trae: 00:21:27

She had her going out wig on.

Patrick: 00:21:30

She had her Tiger Lily wearing wig on because they were going to that dance. I also. This is also going towards my Mary Lou baloney correlation is that everywhere the Florie goes, devastation lays in her way.

Maya: 00:21:46

The vibes are bad.

Patrick: 00:21:48

They go to that dance and it leaves in a total. They start a brawl, just walk away from it.

Maya: 00:21:54

Someone shows up to protect her, she leaves. And then men are fist fighting that did not know her 10 minutes before.

Patrick: 00:22:00

The polite Canadians over. There's a crowd beating the. Out of me because she just happened to walk through.

Trae: 00:22:06

Well, then he goes off the next day for work. So she goes off and finds the handyman who's kind of simple. And then she's like flirting with him, like. And I'm like, she's abusing him.

Maya: 00:22:16

That's not. She's like, do you like my body? You like.

Trae: 00:22:22

Such a. I was like, oh, what a she. But she doesn't look like the actress doesn't like that trope, which just makes it so good because it feels. She sells it, so it feels believable.

Maya: 00:22:32

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:22:33

Yeah. Well, I mean, that. That scene where we go to the the. Where she gets left behind.

Like, he takes off at least her at this fucking former funeral home with all these cranky Christian old people. And she is not happy about it and rightly so. Yeah, she's. She's like, I was promised we could have a ride Delights. And this is not it.

None of this is what. None of this was what I signed up for. And now you left.

Trae: 00:22:55

So.

Patrick: 00:22:56

Yeah, she's out. She's out for trouble. She's bored. So it's like what Mary Lou would do. I'm bored. I'm just gonna make trouble with everybody. And I left all that.

I just want to talk about. Yeah, you brought. Since you brought up the gardener, the caretaker. I really, this is such a tough area for actors to do, especially during this area.

And I think he does a really nice job because this guy is mentally challenged and he plays it as sensitively as you can. Like Trae, we did when we covered Dark Knight of the Scarecrow on the plane show. Whatever it came from. The plane show.

Trae: 00:23:27

Yeah. Came from the 70s.

Patrick: 00:23:29

In the 70s, it just played with the same kind of sensitivity. What hit me was many, many moons ago when I was studying at Upright Citizens brigade named Joppa Klink.

One of the best notes I got was, never play a character less intelligent than you were, even if the character is. And that's what this guy's doing. Like, even though he's supposed to be dumb, quote, quote, quote, or slow, quote, unquote.

You can see wheels spinning behind his eyes. Yeah, he's always processing everything around. But, like the particular scene where she's talking to.

Talking to the deputy, who we'll come back to and telling what happened to her husband. And he's. You can see he's trying to jump and go like, no, that's not what happened. That's not what happened. But those wheels are spinning.

So he's very smart, but just cannot. They spin differently. Yeah, but he did a really good job. I liked him a lot. He was very good. Except his name is Stephen Miller, which is creepy.

Oh, unfortunate naming. Please continue.

Trae: 00:24:24

I hate that trope. And it made me realize, just because this was done so well, how every other movie does it so horribly.

Because I kept waiting for it to get really offensive and it didn't. So I thought. But I did feel really bad when I got killed off because it just felt like.

Maya: 00:24:35

It's the wisdom that I will not quote from Tropic Thunder. You never go full.

Trae: 00:24:40

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:24:40

Yeah.

Trae: 00:24:41

Well, they had compassion towards the character a little bit, or at least. No, I didn't feel like any kind of derision towards him. They weren't making.

Maya: 00:24:46

It wasn't derision and it wasn't a reveal of. I'm secretly smart, but I have a speech impediment. It was always there. Yeah, I just. I agree. I thought it was handled very well. He did a stellar job.

Patrick: 00:24:57

Yeah, I liked him a lot. Who did I say I was mentioning? I said we'd come back to the deputy.

Trae: 00:25:02

Deputy.

Patrick: 00:25:04

The deputy Alf Humphries from My Bloody Mallet Valentine.

Trae: 00:25:08

I liked him. He's a cutie character. He's.

Patrick: 00:25:11

Rest in peace, by the way. He passed away. I like him a lot. He pops up every now, and he's always got this wonderful, warm quality dude, which is so charming.

And he's the other half of Nancy Drew. He's actually trying to do the police work that her dad would do. Like, she's Nancy Drew's dad in this situation. And he does a lovely job.

And he, since we mentioned it, he has this wonderful scene with Les Rubie where we're talking about where, Lester, we find this Porsche hid in a haystack. And do you remember what happened, Trae? Alf Humphries stepped in near.

Trae: 00:25:44

Backing up. Yeah. Stepping. And you're standing in Bulkhaka.

Patrick: 00:25:51

Can you explain that joke for people?

Trae: 00:25:54

We did an episode of where we reviewed the Private Eyes, early 80s movie with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. Tim Conway, a gothic heart whodunit. Agatha Christie was like a hooded killer killing them off.

Patrick: 00:26:05

And speaking of that was. That was from a character who was disabled mentally. Not all there. And who talks like that. And the whole joke was nearest, Nearest.

And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about. You're standing horse nears horse out of white. Yeah, but nearest is very funny.

Trae: 00:26:23

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:26:24

Isn't that because Tim Conway done nuts.

Trae: 00:26:26

Nearest.

Patrick: 00:26:28

Anyway, I just had to get that because it was a very important thing. Just want to touch up. Oh, Mr. Davis. I knew I knew him.

Maya: 00:26:39

Yeah, he's got that face where you go.

Patrick: 00:26:43

Yeah. He was on the original Fugitive series. He was in the Tommy Lee Jones role based on the movie. He was the one who was chasing Harrison Ford.

Trae: 00:26:53

Okay.

Patrick: 00:26:54

He was. He was the good guy who was the bad guy. Because he was tracing the guy's antagonist. Yeah. So he was. That he was a big starter, Ned, for this.

Which also explains, like, there's a lot of scenes, like he'll come out on the porch, like, in the morning, and his shirts, like, open down here. I'm like, that's a very sexy shot for an older guy. I wonder who he used to be. Oh, that's why he used to be a 50s 60s heartthrob. That's why.

Trae: 00:27:13

Okay, okay.

Patrick: 00:27:13

I liked him.

Trae: 00:27:14

Yeah, he was good.

The one thing that story wise kind of surprised me is early on they have Heather sneaking around and she goes in the basement and you hear the grandmother talking with the grandfather and it behind closed doors. And then the grandmother storms out. And I was like, oh, this is a psycho situation, isn't it? And sure enough, had they not had.

Patrick: 00:27:35

That part 15 minutes in.

Trae: 00:27:38

Yes, exactly 15 minutes in. Yeah.

Patrick: 00:27:43

Yeah.

Maya: 00:27:43

I think I recognized him from the Twilight Zone. Sorry. He gave me a brain itch. Sorry. I know we move.

Patrick: 00:27:50

Then you better scratch. Scratch at it.

Trae: 00:27:54

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:27:54

What else did I want to say? Oh, yeah. If we didn't really. The plus that somebody's killing people. Yeah.

Trae: 00:28:00

It's.

Patrick: 00:28:01

We were led to think that she's got the grant. Like, the grandfather's not dead and he's living in the. In the basement, but he's not. It's. It's Grandma.

And apparently the actress who played Grandma K. Hatchy, did not get along with William Fruet at all. They hated each other. She did not like anything that she was asked to do. Like, she's. It was too much for her. Would you.

Which you can get, like, if you're an older. Like when. When you hear people talk about the Exorcist now. Like it's nothing but, like. Do you know what it must have been like to be an actor?

To go in and say these words that you've never said on camera ever before and, like, blaspheme God on camera. Like, has never been done before. So. Yeah, I can understand that. This like Lauren Bacall being shocked at the fan.

Like, I can't believe you're asking me to be this kind of violence in a movie. I don't do this.

Trae: 00:28:48

Or Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th.

Patrick: 00:28:51

She needed that car.

Trae: 00:28:52

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:28:52

She didn't give a shit because she was getting that car. Betsy sold out for that fucking girl. God bless her for it. But yeah. So the whole. Apparently most of the stuff of the ending with the ax. It's not her.

I can't do this. I can't. I can't be this violent.

Trae: 00:29:07

Interesting. She was really good.

Maya: 00:29:09

She was fantastic.

Patrick: 00:29:10

I liked it. I liked. Especially when she. Especially in that N scene. I thought she was great.

She really did a nice job jumping back and forth between the two personalities. I like seeing the two palettes.

You could see grandma fighting in her head with grandpa, who's also in her head, even though it wasn't always that loud. I thought she did a really nice job. And since we brought it up, I have to play some audio for this.

Thank you, Tara Garner, for pointing out that she was on a show called Read All about it, where she played a clown who only spoke at rhyme with couplets, like a space clown. And it's the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. I'll be playing some of it right about now.

Maya: 00:29:46

Excuse us all my work. I now disrupt because you choose to interrupt and keep me from my value task.

Patrick: 00:29:55

Well, go ahead. Your questions. Ask.

Maya: 00:29:58

Oh, sorry. We just want to know who you were. A Couplet rhymes, lines one and two. And that's exactly what I do. It's.

Trae: 00:30:10

That's creepy.

Maya: 00:30:12

It's terrifying. It's like all too slow and she's going to kill us all.

Trae: 00:30:16

It's. It's very. Sid and Marty Croft. Like, like low snuff tape. Sit in.

Patrick: 00:30:20

Marty Croft, Sid, Marty Cruft. Because it's.

Maya: 00:30:26

I wanted to say I really loved how they wrote her character because growing up in a small town with a bunch of nosy, terrible Christians, I love, I love that she saws. Oh, well, your grandfather wouldn't like this leaning on the rules of oh, I would never correct your behavior. But oh, you, you.

You know how so and so is. I just, I thought it was written in a very grounded and real way which made her scarier.

Patrick: 00:30:48

Yeah, I just, I'm right there too. And also it reeked of obsession. Like she keeps talking about the grandpa too much. So really nothing that comes to the end is a shock.

I don't mind that because she played it all very well. Like, I didn't mind that it was a psycho thing that I guessed in the beginning because she was really good in it.

Trae: 00:31:02

And I liked how the very end had the psycho part where they're explaining what happens to the audience, but they're doing it over the closing credits, you.

Patrick: 00:31:10

Know, which felt like it was added after. Like nobody knows what happened. Bring it out. Have him explain anything. There's something.

Maya: 00:31:16

But yeah, in case it wasn't clear, here's the beat by the deputy Cutie.

Trae: 00:31:21

Is washing his car. It's like, oh, whoa. You want to know what happened? Well, so as he's washing his car, the credits start to rol talking to.

Patrick: 00:31:29

Some guy we've never seen before.

Trae: 00:31:31

It was such a weird way to. It's like, it's a good concept but just to have him wash in his car, just chatting around.

Patrick: 00:31:37

hen it aired, first opened in: 1980

But there's something about it that feels like it was made for tv.

Trae: 00:31:51

Yes, yes, very much.

Patrick: 00:31:54

Because there's a weird fade outs. They feel like they should be commercial breaks. But I checked with my Canada folks. We don't do commercials that way we don't break into.

We show the movie and like do 20 minutes of commercials afterwards. We don't break in like that. So they're very weird.

Which is weird because this movie was nominated for Several Genie Awards, which is the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Awards, but just for Canadian films. And one of them was for best editing.

Trae: 00:32:17

Hmm.

Patrick: 00:32:18

It's Lucy Goodsie. I just want to spend a minute on the Genie Awards. Just because Lesleh Donaldson as Heather was nominated for best actress that year.

And here's the thing. People go, it's stupid, but she was up against Margot Kidder and Kim Cattrall.

Trae: 00:32:34

Wow.

Maya: 00:32:36

What?

Patrick: 00:32:36

Yeah. So, I mean, it's. It's all loosey goosey up there.

Funeral home was nominated for best picture, as was Prom Night, and Jamie Lee Curtis was up for best foreign actress. So they have a much more limited scope of movie.

Maya: 00:32:48

But.

Patrick: 00:32:49

And just looking at the Genie Awards from that year, it's like the same seven movies over and over again in each category. It's not like a huge, expansive thing, but it's cute. But it's not cute, but good for. Congratulations. Congratulations.

I don't have a genie board nomination. Way to go, Lesleh.

Trae: 00:33:00

You know, I thought this Nico you. I thought this movie would make a great double feature with. Which is. Is the Sweet sixteen with Dana Kimmel.

Patrick: 00:33:09

That's such a weird movie.

Trae: 00:33:10

Yeah, see, because it's a Nancy Drew movie. It's an already Nancy Drew movie in a way.

Patrick: 00:33:16

You know what? You're right. You know, you're absolutely right. Danny Kimmel and her. That her boyfriend do turn into net. The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew combo. You're right.

Yeah. Nancy. Nancy Drew with boobs. Like some. Lots of boobs. And a song. They play a lot. What's your name?

Trae: 00:33:30

I don't. I just remember that there's a song that just.

Patrick: 00:33:35

Yeah, it's whatever the main character's name is over again. But, yeah, I can't remember. I'm not gonna remember it because I will get it into my head and I will shoot myself in the face. Okay, did we catch.

And this movie also take place in America town? Did we catch all the references? Because there is a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot.

Trae: 00:33:55

Yeah. I didn't catch all of them, but let's try to see. Hold on.

Patrick: 00:34:00

Lay them on me.

Trae: 00:34:01

I think.

Maya: 00:34:02

I don't feel like we had some in the diner. I don't remember what they were. I didn't write them down.

Trae: 00:34:07

A Farrah Fawcett. There was a Farrah Fawcett reference about. Or Brooke Shields about hanging her picture in his locker.

Like, why don't you just go look at the girl to the other guy that, like, have a Farrah Fawcett or he had A Farrah Fawcett post where.

Maya: 00:34:19

He'S trying to take a picture of her blocker. And then we started talking about that. Yeah, yeah.

Patrick: 00:34:24

Why would that be? Because what does that have to do with America? They don't know who Vera Fawcett is in Canada.

Trae: 00:34:29

I don't know. It's a cult pop culture reference of the moment.

Patrick: 00:34:33

Okay, here's what I got. The sheriff at one point says, do you know how many people go missing in America, where we are right now, every year?

Maya: 00:34:40

Yep. That's right at the top of the movie. You're so right. Okay, what else we got about America Town?

Trae: 00:34:46

Patrick?

Patrick: 00:34:46

Oh, when they went. When Mr. When Mr. Mr. Davis is looking for the police station. There's a Canadian flag. It's right there. It's right there. Right there. It's right there.

The sheriff's badge. This one I got from IMDb. I didn't spot this myself, but the sheriff's badge clearly has a crown on top of it.

And that's a Canadian thing, not an American thing. That's the Queen, my one icon that I'm very proud of. I'm very proud of because this one's really obscure.

At a certain point when she comes home late, Lesleh Donaldson goes to the. Her grandmother has made her a batch of cookies. And Lesleh Donaldson goes to the fridge and pours herself a glass of milk from a carton.

Maya: 00:35:36

They have bags.

Patrick: 00:35:37

If she was in. They have bags of milk in Canada. Thank you. It was not a milk bag.

Maya: 00:35:43

Wow. Good catch.

Patrick: 00:35:44

And milk bag sounds like a great insult. Shut up, milk bag. Eat a dick, milk bag.

Maya: 00:35:50

Stay fresh, cheesebags.

Patrick: 00:35:52

Since we talk about Lesleh Donaldson so much, I love that Lesleh Donaldson, really. She had her moment in the 80s. Like she was in all the horror movies after this. She always in a memorable part, never the lead again.

Like, this was her time to play the lead. And she was not. Even though she wasn't right for. I'm glad she got it. But you could watch her find herself as you go along.

Maya: 00:36:15

Like.

Patrick: 00:36:15

Like the next big movie she did was Happy Birthday to Me. She's the girl who gets killed first. And she serves good, Rich.

Trae: 00:36:22

She does.

Maya: 00:36:23

Really does.

Trae: 00:36:24

She does.

Maya: 00:36:24

It's reserved enough and then it comes out in a little burst.

Trae: 00:36:29

She has this intensity to her as an actress.

Patrick: 00:36:32

Exactly. She's. She's got an edge that wasn't right for the Angenue role.

Trae: 00:36:36

Right.

Patrick: 00:36:36

It comes out every now and then in the movie too. Like, particularly when she's yelling at her boyfriend, like, how dare you say this? Stuff about my boyfriend by my grandfather where it got like.

Like it's the eyebrows. Eyebrows. The eyes get very intense. We see that's a villain. You got villain in you. And that comes along more and more. I love that it's her.

And like the movie's a wreck. But that scene in Curtains for Big scene in Curtains.

Maya: 00:37:00

Yes.

Trae: 00:37:01

That's nice.

Patrick: 00:37:02

It's Maya. This movie had so many production problems. Like it. Like the director quit, another director fired. Everybody kept signing off on it.

It was in limbo forever. They had edited together pieces of nonsense. It's a. None of it makes sense.

But there's something dreamlike and weird about it that it still kind of works. But that scene is just so gorgeously like nothing you see in that scene makes any sense in the movie.

Maya: 00:37:24

No, it's not such a vibe. And something about how grounded she is with her edge makes it never feel camp.

It never leans into that like full 80s slasher where I'm like, yeah, fuck you. I hope he gets stabbed. Like it's. It's more real the way she's doing it.

Trae: 00:37:41

Well, they tend to have the characters be actual characters with issues other than a killer going after them. Sometimes they're not that good. Like My Bloody Valentine. The early 80s was before the tropes have been done.

So that's why I like those movies because they tend to be maybe more mystery. They're not great, but they're not boilerplate generic.

Patrick: 00:38:00

Right. The characters aren't on tropes yet.

Trae: 00:38:02

Yes.

Patrick: 00:38:03

Yeah. Oh, just go back to Curtains. The thing I love about it that is bright shiny sunshine with snow glare. Like it's so harshly lit.

It's such a beautiful scene. Like it's a beautiful winter scene where you can see every detail. And this horrible thing's gonna happen. Would normally be at night.

But I love that my friend Bart Mastronati did the movie Tales of Poe which somehow got every 80s scream queen out of retirement to be in it. Including Lesleh Donaldson. And she's so wonderful in the bit. The chick, she's just a foul mouthed woman in a sanitarium.

In the wraparound scene just cursing out Debbie Rashawn the whole time. The wraparound scene for the Telltale Heart and she gets tongue ripped out and slaps around.

Maya: 00:38:46

Shouldn't have talked. Shit.

Patrick: 00:38:47

Yeah, you shouldn't have talked to Debbie Rashan. I got to meet Lesleh Donaldson years ago, actually. I had a really. It was her. There was a Long island horror convention.

I don't know if they'd done it again, but it was the first time they did it. But whatever hotel they had done it in, they didn't plan things out well. Like the mapping. Like, all the.

The convention was all over in this one wing, and the stars were all the way in this opposite side of the hotel. And I wasn't even looking for them. I stumbled across and there was nobody there. Like, nobody knew that these stars were even there.

So it was Lesleh Donaldson. It was Mommy dearest, the maid Scarwin. Oh, oh, oh, no.

Trae: 00:39:28

Britannia Alda.

Patrick: 00:39:29

Britannia Alda. The woman who got her the. The woman who gets her eyes picked out by the. By the. By the crow in and from Joan. Joan Hackett.

And this woman from Dark Shadows, which I don't know because I never watched it, but they were also bored and lonely. I was like, do you guys need anything? And by the way, like, because I know all of them did. Like, friend of show Brian. Brian Norton and Joe Zazzo.

They used to do a cookie show with horror movie starlets online. Yeah, I know you've all been on it. So I had things to break in my head. I know these guys. And hey, I love that episode. I try to write lying.

So I hung out with them all day because I could. And they were delightful.

Trae: 00:40:07

Oh, cool.

Patrick: 00:40:08

And they were just so grateful. Have somebody to talk to. Did they give me anything for free? No. And I didn't have any money, but that's okay. But I bought them things.

But it was a nice day.

Trae: 00:40:14

Oh, good.

Patrick: 00:40:15

She didn't stab me. Lesleh Donaldson didn't stab me.

Trae: 00:40:18

So happy.

Patrick: 00:40:19

Because she could have if she wanted to. I don't know. Do we have anything else we're talking about? Let me look at my notes here really quick. I think we've done everything.

Maya: 00:40:26

I. I don't know. I. I appreciate how grounded the movie was. Like I said, I was trying to run the math on how I would tighten the editing or the script up.

I love the set dressing. Like all the inexplicable Christian lace doilies on all the furniture in the tourist home. That was. Right. The grandma dressed like my grandma.

So, like, that felt real.

Patrick: 00:40:44

The commitment to coochie shorts.

Trae: 00:40:46

Yeah, yeah. Okay. The swing scene that the bathing suits those guys wore. Damn.

Maya: 00:40:52

What. What bathing suit?

Trae: 00:40:53

They were so small and tight. I was like, okay. But they had normal guys bodies. They weren't. Like, the guys didn't wax their chest. That scene.

Patrick: 00:41:02

Oh, I forgot one of my favorite things. This is such a bizarre scene. It's where the two brothers, the boyfriend and Alf Humphries, the deputy, who are Brothers. They meet up at a diner.

And the music in the diner is so loud and so cheesy. I'm playing it right now.

Trae: 00:41:27

Cup of coffee please. Age H. Sorry. You arrested anyone today? It's the trouble right here down this town takes me seriously. All treat me like I'm a hometown kid.

Patrick: 00:41:42

Well, that's what you are.

Trae: 00:41:43

Well look, I'm on the police force network. People should start showing a little respect. Hear about that developer's car being found? Yeah, well, the sheriff and Frank aren't even concerned.

The guy's just trying to lose himself. Well, that is a pretty good place to hide a car. I mean that wouldn't be found until winter, right?

Patrick: 00:42:03

That would give him a pretty good.

Trae: 00:42:04

Head start to wherever he was going. Come on, Rick. I mean, why wouldn't the guy just leave his car in the city? In a car love or something. Why would bring it all the way out here?

It's pretty hard to lose a Porsche in the city, you know, A Chev. A Ford maybe. Not a Porsche. Get your head off the counter, Joe. Smart enough. See what I mean? Come on, let's go.

Patrick: 00:42:34

You can't hear the dog. But I don't care.

Cuz the music's so outrageous but so on the nose for what you would hear just out and out and about in the 70s because we don't have that anymore. We don't have Muzak. You don't know what Muzak is? My dad used to listen to Muzak up by choice like on the car radio.

Maya: 00:42:49

You. You can find it in a couple places. A couple stores will play music. You got to go hunting now.

Patrick: 00:42:56

But once upon a time it was everywhere. It was everywhere. But not anymore. I also appreciate and a low budget movie like this. I also thought their underwater photography was surprisingly.

Trae: 00:43:05

That was good.

Maya: 00:43:06

That and the lighting was very deliberate. Like in. There's a scene earlier in the movie where the grandma's walking through the hal in the tourist home.

And the lighting on her coming from two different angles is different colors than the lighting on the rest of the set. They spend a lot of time deliberately trying to show two different sides of her, trying to give the audience the hint.

But also it's something that wouldn't have just been there to light the rest of the room. They're trying to do what they can with their budget. And there's like some very well composed frames. Like some of it really adds to the storytelling.

Yeah, but like I just. I wanted the movie to have more momentum so I didn't have to lean Back and go, oh, geez. I really like the lighting.

Trae: 00:43:50

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:43:50

100%. 100%. This is, this is made. This is made at a time where people just go to the movies to make out. Yeah, this almost is making out of driving movie.

And it did. It was a success. It was a big hit on the drive in circuit, so. And also on the home video circuit. So they made their money back and good for them.

Which is not a goal with Canadian films either because they don't have to worry about it because they've got funding.

Trae: 00:44:08

From the government to kind of go back to the Nancy Drew thing. In the 80s, late 80s, you had like the young adult slasher fiction like R.L. stine before Goosebumps. You had the point horror books.

And this felt almost like that kind of story with just a little bit of stuff, but with just this. It kind of bumps around. It's a little mystery, but it doesn't really go forward a lot. It's kind of has its own pokey pace. Yeah, I was like.

It felt like, okay, I'm reading like a young adult horror novel almost.

Patrick: 00:44:37

Yeah, yeah, I did feel like that. And speaking of, speaking of Goosebumps, William fruit directed like 20 episodes of the original Goosebumps series and produced almost all of them.

That Trash and Maya. I was like, damn. I was scrolling through the titles trying to figure out if he.

If they ever even filmed the one that you talked about, the one with the marionette whose heartbeat you can feel when you put it.

Maya: 00:44:55

That's not a goosebump. That's not a goosebump. That's a Bruce Coville book.

Patrick: 00:44:59

So I spent an hour going through all that for nothing. No, no, it's. But no, but he also did that. William Fruet, Good for you. Yeah.

Trae: 00:45:06

Bruce Colville, though. I read those. His books.

Maya: 00:45:08

Yeah, he had Aliens Ate My Homework and that was a whole series. But he had collections of scary stories and some of them were written by him and some of them were written by other people.

No, that's the reason you couldn't find it is because it's not a Goosebump. I read a lot of Goosebumps too, though.

Trae: 00:45:24

See, there was horror.

Patrick: 00:45:25

I was too old. I'm too old. I was too old.

Trae: 00:45:27

There was a horror anthology called Dark Forces by one publisher that was all like Satanic panic where each book was like, I'm a high school rock star and then make deal with the devil. Or Bruce Colville would write some. Or then there was another one called Twilight that was like the other publisher's Imprint.

He did one called Dungeons and Dragon or Demons and Dungeons, about some kids who play D and D and it goes real, and they're stuck in there and have to get out.

Maya: 00:45:48

My man contributed to the satanic panic.

Trae: 00:45:51

No, I'll find out. I'll show you. I used to have them. I'm kind of.

Maya: 00:45:55

I love that.

Trae: 00:45:56

Yeah, so I know that writer. Anyway. Sorry, Patrick.

Patrick: 00:46:00

No, no, that's fine. It's fine. It was a logical progression of conversation that just had nothing to chat. I mean, with, because I'm too old, and that's fine.

But I'm pretty, so it's all right. I'm Florie. I'm Florie. Just sitting here judging. Like it.

Maya: 00:46:11

Adjust your wig, girl. Adjust your wig.

Patrick: 00:46:13

I'm gonna put a tiger lily in my hair. And your boyfriends. How's that? Both of you.

Trae: 00:46:17

Florie can get it too. She had energy. She had the energy.

Patrick: 00:46:21

She did. Oh, she did. She did. She did.

Maya: 00:46:23

Just.

Patrick: 00:46:23

Everyone was just too. They couldn't handle. They couldn't handle her in that town.

Trae: 00:46:26

No.

Patrick: 00:46:27

All right, so that's it. So yay. Thank you. William Freud. Yay. Lesleh Donaldson. Yay. Les Rubie. Yay. Doris Petriee. Nice work.

And what I like, I said, like, you can find a lot of William Freud's movies online, and every single one of them has a bevy of the 13th people. And I'm sure there's, like, more people that we haven't met yet in funeral home, but still, it's fun to watch.

And now that, you know, just kind of check into the characters and don't worry about the pucks. I just watched Blue Monkey last night, which is.

Maya: 00:46:55

That looks so cool. I want to watch that. The trailer looks so cool.

Trae: 00:46:58

We need to.

Patrick: 00:46:58

It's. It's so. Trae said last night, I watched it a long time ago and thought it was boring.

And he said, you know, it's a lot more fun if you watch it now with the idea that, okay, watch the character actors and how many people we know From Friday the 13th the series are in Blue Monkey. But I was watching my group. We were howling. It wasn't so much the story. I'm just like. But these character like this.

It takes place in a hospital where this insect alien thing is taking over. There's a woman, two old women who are sharing a room together that are so awesome. They're like, best friends. And also kind of weird lesbian vibes.

Like, you know what? Let's just get required. Let's get drunk. Movie. The movie goes on. The Drunker they get.

Maya: 00:47:35

It looks like campy alien in a hospital.

Trae: 00:47:37

What's great is that there's a couple.

Patrick: 00:47:40

The title makes no sense. Don't worry about Blue Monkey. There's nothing.

Trae: 00:47:43

Is it Joe Flaherty and Canadian comedian, what's her name in the movie? Oh, God. Andrea Martin.

Maya: 00:47:54

Martin everywhere.

Trae: 00:47:56

No, no. But. But Joe Flaherty is in it, isn't he? That he did stuff with her and Blue Monkey. Oh, let me look this up.

Patrick: 00:48:03

I don't know who Joe Flaherty is.

Trae: 00:48:04

He's a really. Okay, well, I'll. Let me look this up and then I'll.

Patrick: 00:48:08

You know what?

Maya: 00:48:08

Later.

Trae: 00:48:10

They had a really famous Canadian comedian in it. I'm sorry.

Patrick: 00:48:16

No. Also, what's really fun. What's really fun for us, since it's Vita related. Sarah Paulie's in it.

Maya: 00:48:24

Sure is.

Patrick: 00:48:25

She's even younger than she is in Friday the 13th the series. She's like maybe 6 and she's so careful. Look at her. Look at how tiny, cute, and unencumbered by Oscars she is.

Trae: 00:48:36

Before she made it. Yeah, she was just before Vita. Was it before Vita or is it.

Patrick: 00:48:41

Yeah, it was before Friday the 13th the series. And I think it's what got her the job of the 13th the series. Probably.

But what's also funny is that in this hospital there's this group of sick kids who are just running. Running through the halls the middle of that, wreaking havoc. What is going on? This is what happens in free health care.

You get giant insects, drunk old ladies and Sarah Pauli looking for Vita somewhere.

Maya: 00:49:00

I love everyone stuck in a. In a haunted or plague ridden building. I love that as a trope. Like I love. I love the Void. I love Alien.

Patrick: 00:49:11

The heroine is Gwyneth Walsh from Star Trek. Star Trek Generation.

Maya: 00:49:15

Fantastic.

Trae: 00:49:16

And it has decent creature effects. Those creature effects aren't okay. Joe Flaherty is in Blue Monkey. I'm sorry. It's driving me nuts. If you see him, you know who it is.

Patrick: 00:49:24

Is he bald?

Trae: 00:49:25

No. Okay. He was in Happy Gilmore as a. Good luck. Yeah. Jackass.

Patrick: 00:49:31

I don't do Adam Sandler.

Trae: 00:49:32

I'll show you.

Patrick: 00:49:34

There was a guy whose face. I'm going, there's a guy who. I went the whole movie going, I know that guy. It's probably him.

Trae: 00:49:39

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:49:39

Anyway. But no, the effects are. The effects are sometimes like. The creature effects are sometimes terrible, but they're adorable.

But when they're good, they're great. It's got that whole thing. We put our money where we could. Anyway, I think we're done. I think we're done. I think we've done the spectacular.

I think we've done the spectacular. Many things and much more to explore. Probably might come back to him again someday because, like, also, Killer Party is a great little movie as well.

Again with a cast of thousands where the plot is secondary to the character work going on. I think next time we're going to take a little deviation from, from, from genre. I think I would like to talk about. The movie is outrageous.

Do you remember when we did Master of Disguise? We met the first gay character In Friday the 13th history, the gossip reporter.

Trae: 00:50:28

Oh, okay. Yes, hello, me.

Patrick: 00:50:30

Remember him?

Trae: 00:50:31

Yes.

Patrick: 00:50:33

We got electrocuted. Yeah, that's his movie. And one of the. It's by screenwriter who wrote another episode of Friday the 13th.

It's about a drag queen, a Canadian drag queen trying to make it in New York with his manic depressive best friend.

Trae: 00:50:47

Okay.

Patrick: 00:50:47

It's charming.

Maya: 00:50:48

Okay.

Patrick: 00:50:48

It's a forgotten gay classic. And I think it's worth talking about.

Trae: 00:50:51

Oh, yeah.

Patrick: 00:50:51

Friday the 13th connection. So it counts.

Trae: 00:50:53

Yeah.

Patrick: 00:50:54

And I've always wanted to cover in Scream Queens, but it didn't fit the format. But now all of a sudden, it does. It does here. So that's what we're gonna do. I'm mad with power. So until then, everybody have a great summer.

Stay cool, stay safe, stay healthy, stay sexy. And oh, my God. Even though it's a Friday the 13th, spectacular, the 13th, the series spectacular. We've got one more thing to say before we go.

Damn you. Send the funeral home. You rose in on.