The Podcast on Haunted Hill

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Hello and welcome to the Podcast on Haunted Hill, episode 190. My name is Gav.

My name is Dan.

We are the podcast on Haunted Hill. Um uh welcome. Um if this is your

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So w uh the heat wave that hit the United Kingdom But th that is the reason we are a bit delayed because we almost

here in the United Kingdom. Ironically.

I don't podcast with Sarah...

But I said I'm going to have to because we just did an extra extra because we just did that which is not very long.

Um but I had to.

open there's no way but we can do the whole episode when there's open

Like dickheads.

to do it.

Just yeah, you you mine's not on it.

And ironically, uh the movie The film that we are covering this episode is Gav's Choice and uh is the f the film that's called The Summer of Eighty Four from twenty eighteen and and yeah, so uh

It is very appropriate. And it's still quite hot now. It's still well we might as well talk about it. We're talking about it now. So it's been very hot. We're the British, so we talk about the weather all the time. Whether it's cold, raining, snow, hot. And boy, has it been hot even?

My mum my mum's ne uh

mum. My mum's never

Like never happy, there's always a comment, Co, isn't it hot? Like yeah, okay. Co it

Can it ever stop raining? Oh, it's so cold, isn't it? God's alright breathe. Every there's always a comment, it's generally negative.

But I think I think the reason that British people talk about the weather so much is because our weather is so changeable. Whereas if you live in Australia, it's just pretty much always sunny. You know, uh maybe there's parts of the US where it's maybe a bit of rain and a bit but here it's

California. California.

Yeah, it's just hot, that's it

So here it's always like, Oh my god it's raining, oh my god it's snowing, oh my god it's windy So and we're not built for the weather in the UK. Hence why my children's school and most of the schools in the south west of England shut for two days because

It it it was record highs of almost forty degrees Celsius in Bristol where I live, um and I know London was slightly hotter.

Um so therefore to safeguard the children because they obviously that's like thirty children per class for a teacher to look after, they just said, you take'em home.

Which is mental'cause my house was even hotter than the school. So all I could do was get a paddling pool in the back garden, put up loads of shade, and feed them ice cream all day long until it was time to go back to school.

Feed the mice. Just feed the mice, like cats. Um it has been horrendously hot. And I don't mind I don't mind the summer, you know, but

There's a point where you especially when you've got younger children, you you've got to try and manage them. You're worried about their genuinely worried about their health, you know, and th are they drinking enough water, but then you're like, Oh shit, I haven't had a drink for an hour

This is like someone's gonna die. Apparently um about fifteen hundred people died in in France over about three days from the heat.

And I know quite a few, sadly quite a few children died in the UK who were in cars. Um because people were like left their kids in car for like 20 minutes and they got cooked.

Pretty much.

One of the nights uh the M twenty five which is uh if you don't know the M twenty five is uh a pretty famous road in London. It's it does the greater London. Uh it's in England.

Oh it does great Elon.

it just goes all the way around it in like a circle. So you can dart in and out of different parts of London'cause London's quite

sakes not the rest of the world and um uh there's some people stuck and there's a traffic jam and there's an oil thing and I had to shut both sides and it was proper proper big I looked at my map and I was like whoa and people were there for eight hours so people had to have

Oh my god.

So people there's loads of people out to have um ambulances for the people in the cars waiting because people had heat exhaustion and all etc. So sitting in their cars running out of water in that heat.

I mean I've got a friend who works for a funeral director and she's told me that um they've been told they're gonna get busy because there's a lot of bodies in the coroners at the moment.

From the heat probably a lot of older people like

Yeah, they're gonna be getting busy soon at her funeral director because sadly, you know, old people just can't cope with it. I mean we we struggle and shout out to Ricky Morgan.

commented on something I posted on Facebook and he made a good point which is we don't have air conditioning over here and with this global warming we do need to invest in some air conditioning even just in schools and colleges because

It's just is I don't know air conditioning isn't great for the environment if everyone's got it, but come on, there's a reason that people have it. We just we need to get it in the schools and colleges and universities.

One of the days I was in your city and um uh I was working and I said I was working and I was luckily in an air conditioned building all day long. But when we were coming back, I've never had this before on the

the sat nav uh is on the phone uh a warning came on it's saying you're about to approach the the the heat because it was hotter where we're going into and there's n I've never heard of a warning come up on your sat nav to

You're about to go into a heat thing, be prepared sort of thing. What the fuck? And all of a sudden it's a all of a sudden it was just like, oh my god, it's well hot. It's a couple of degrees more, but it was

It's like a science fiction film, isn't it? You're now entering the heat zone.

It was weird and it was hot. And anyway, let's stop talking. We're not fucking talking. It's not the weather podcast.

No, it's not the word.

Um but this is why we couldn't podcast last week, otherwise this episode would be out quicker than it is.

And this is another reason well not the only reason but To get out of the heat.

I

Yes, me, Dan Bone, who doesn't get out to the cinema often, I managed five cinema trips in the last four or five weeks.

I know the air conditioning.

The air conditioning.

I was I was down at the gym for a lot longer sessions than normally as well.

I was walking around the supermarket just walking up and down the milk.

Yeah yeah supermarket. I'd go from gym to supermarket, this is brilliant.

Looking at all the people that work in the local supermarket are you lucky bastard?

Bastards. Yeah, they're so yeah, but when they come out they're like, Oh my god'cause their bodies would be so like used to the air con.

So let's talk about what we've been watching. Let's talk about what we've been up to before we get into our movie. As people may or may not know, if you're regular listeners or not, we are we have moved on, changed our format. We are only doing one movie per episode now.

Um, just, you know, makes things a bit easier for us with regards to research, editing, prepping and and recording and editing. So yeah, the one movie we're doing is summer of eighty four. But before we get into that, we like to talk about what we've been up to.

And what we've been watching. So Gav, we talked about the weather, we've both been very hot. You've got your nipples out right now, in fact.

I tell you th this this is a lovely segue. Uh it was really warm the other night so warm I'm gonna watch.

I I picked up I started looking to hot movies, movies of hotness. I did actually order a Blu-ray copy of um Night of the Big Heat which I can't wait to watch. I'll watch it on the next heat wave'cause we've got mine again coming next week.

We've got one next week.

Um uh but I did watch Predator Two, um, which is a fantastic movie. It really is.

It really is. And um really

It really stops and look at it and it's funny is sometimes I get a little bit older so when I could just sit there and actually concentrate on watching the whole thing and like a Blu ray copy so it's like it's like it's a real clear image and I could really like s watch it and it's I was like that's such a great film.

It's funny'cause I I watch that one as w you and I are fans of watching weather appropriate films and I do often watch Predator Two um'cause it is yeah, but but I never think of watching Predator One, which is set in a jungle.

Absolutely.

But it just doesn't seem as hot as Predator 2. For some reason, Danny Glover, the beads of sweat dropping off his head.

Well it's actually I think it's forty two in Predator Two. That's what it says. At the beginning it says it.

Um there's a one bit I do wanna ask you and pick your brain about um as a film fan who likes Predator Two and listeners do do uh let me know of your thoughts as well. Um

I was watching it and there's a bit where Danny Glover's kind of it's a bit weird. Predators chasing Danny Glover and then all of a sudden Danny Glover's chasing Predator and back and forth. It's a little bit when you look at what actually watches, it's a bit like what's going on here. It's a bit bit of confusion almost in the editing almost.

Right right at the end, I remember this right at the end.

And there's a bit where he's falling or hanging off the side of the building and Danny Glover's got hold of him.

So Oh he's got Danny Glover's arm and he's hanging off the predator is and Danny Glover's Oh my god and he he reaches over, gets his weapon and s sli slices it through his arm.

Yeah.

While he's waiting to do that, Predator sets off his a lot of bomb, which he sets off at the end of first Predator. Yep.

And it goes all the way but then nothing comes from it. There's no explosion or nothing. Literally nothing comes in, nothing said again, nothing. He was about to f end it and finish it and then it just goes on and carries on and gets his arm patched in up and on on the other side of the thing in the bathroom with the green stuff.

But there's no no mention of the bomb at all. It's like but what?

What happened?

I I don't know. I don't know. Maybe his hand needs to be maybe it's like it only works if it's on you. Like you know what I mean? Like a fingerprint or something.

I feel like it was a bit of a a ruse to get us all excited for no re for nothing.

No climax at all.

All I know is fucking Voodoo Magic.

There was no splurt, no nothing.

Anyway, I watched Predator two'cause hot.

Well that's cool. Um I before I get into what I've been watching, I am very excited.

Because a very famous person liked my Facebook comment.

And that was Luke Skywalker himself. No. Mark Hamill himself, Mr. Luke Skywalker, liked my Facebook comment, which was basically Um, someone was listing all the characters that Harrison Ford had played, someone was listing and they were listing different actors.

and why they were better than another actor because they're this, this, this and this, like he's Harrison F Harrison Ford, he's Indiana Jones and he's Hans Solak, great. But then they l then they got s someone put Mark Hamill and said

He's Luke Skywalker but he's also done the voice of the Joker, da da da da and he named'cause he does a lot of animated voices as well.

But they missed one out. So I commented he also is Skeletor. Because in that Kevin Smith series on Netflix he did Skeletor's voice and he was brilliant. And Mark Hamill.

Mark Hamward, like the first one.

Or liked my comment.

Nice.

So I feel like me and him are like just best friends, man.

Yeah, I had a I had like a a real skater. I first got into skating in one video watching the guy called Daewong Song.

Yeah. Amazing. And he liked saying cover it did. And and he actually replied to it as well. I was like, Fucking hell, that's cool.

That's cool. But what have I been watching? So before I get into my cinema trips, I just want to talk about Nicholas Cage.

She's

Okay. The new Spider-Man series called Spider Noir.

On uh prime.

I've not seen it. It looks fun, I've just not seen it. At some point I'll probably just binge up

You can watch it. You can watch it in colour or you can watch it in black and white. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a nice, nice idea.

It is.

It might be one of the best things Nicolas Cage has ever done just because he gets to really cut loose. And I say that about Nicolas Cage who cuts loose in everything he does. He is unhinged in it.

it but also it's fun it's not you don't need to worry about Marvel or anything like that because it's not connected to anything at all it's set in a completely different place where Spider-Man happens to be or the spider as they call him it's just a

It's just a noir detective trying to solve a crime and there just happens to be a couple of superpowered bad guys in New York and he's swinging around and he's fighting bad guys and he's always hung over and he's always drunk and it's just really good fun. I watched it in colour

and I'm gonna go back and watch it in um in black and white at some point. But I highly recommend Spider Noir. It was

Unexpectedly brilliant. Maybe I'm biased because I love Spider-Man and I love Nicholas Cage, but it's getting rave reviews. So um wanted to mention that. But we both saw the same couple of same movies. Um first one I want to talk about. Let me do the same

Do a segue from yours into something which is quite fun. A horror movie called They Will Kill You.

Yes, I've heard that this is like ready or not, but it's actually very good fun.

Ready or not if if like Tarantino was kind of doing it.

It's got like the samurai.

Produced by Tarantino.

Yeah.

It's got like silly gore, blood splotting. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's it's It's not it's not quality of quality of kill bill.

But it's in the sort of same vein. Excuse the pun.

Um ju it's g it's g and there's lots of hip hop and stuff like that in it and lots of like basically a lady with a big sword with no shoes on just going around like killing people and stuff.

And they can't be killed, can they? It's not a spoiler. From what I c what I've seen, these people can't be killed.

The map? Yeah, they they can they come back again and so yeah. Um

Yeah, it's kinda fun it's kinda fun. It's kinda fun. Towards the end I started g losing a slight interest, but it's quite a fun film. Um but it's it's very if you wanted to watch I don't want to say Tarantino, but it is really in that ballpark.

Oh cool.

Next one.

That's cool. Well we both went to see a very new horror movie that is doing absolutely blinding in the box office.

Uh a nice back rooms, um, which uh only came out about a month ago as we record this. Um very low budget.

For you know, compared to a lot of movies and it's made its money back tenfold. Um

Well it it was it was going lit literally any company that put their money into new like the it the because of the internet sensation it was gonna get it was gonna get so it's almost like a great investment. It's like we're probably gonna get our money back.

I think

I mean I think Kane Parsons is is he nineteen, am I right in saying?

I think it's nineteen minutes direct, isn't it? Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, he was he was apparent apparently uh no, sorry I've cut you off apparently v he was very confident at directing it and um

w was actually finally apparently they had it all very v well planned out. But it was produced by Osgo Good Perkins and a few other people. But apparently he was directing'cause some people said no, we I bet they were directing though. I think he was directing.

It's got Chiwita Ledger four in it and it's got some really established actors in it. It's got some fantastic visuals and audio in it.

It's a very a very sensibly directed film, isn't it? It's like a almost a mature directed film.

Considering it was nineteen at the time.

Yeah, yeah. Thinking about the lead actor as well isn't I wouldn't have thought would be um if if you had some people like we need to have a young

twenty f one year old, do you know what I mean? Sort of thing. Yeah. And I thought that was a really interesting casting piece. Um, it didn't go the way I wanted it to. I don't want to spoil it. Um it went I had a I thought it was gonna be more exploration of

said rums so much. Um so it didn't go the way I wanted to, but it was fun.

Yeah. I enjoyed it more than Gav. I really came out of there and like Thinking that was a fantastic cinema.

We're not sporting that, obviously.

Cinema cinema yeah, of course. I came out of there thinking that's a fantastic cinematic experience. It did it ticked on my visual boxes, it ticked on my audio boxes, it had my intrigue the entire time. It wasn't scary to me. One bit made me jump, but

It wasn't even a scary bit, it was just a bit I wasn't expecting. There was some creepy stuff to it. Uh, I think I was better off not knowing much about the online videos'cause I didn't really know. I've heard of the Bat Rooms and I've heard of the theory.

I had seen them. I think uh I think

I'd probably be more well suited to just watching those videos'cause those videos are like literally the the camera because obviously it was no budget and it's the camera just moving around the space that it created. I think uh on computers, I think.

Uh yeah, um but yeah, it's it's doing really well. But it's it's a really good uh in fact it's a really good time'cause it segue into the other film which was out as well. It's a really good time for horror, uh, having independent

Essentially YouTubers uh making uh films which doing really well to probably scare some executives in Hollywood. Um we might have a stew of a like load of

movies like it coming out in the within a year, possibly, well two or three at least. I would have thought Um

First time horror directors, perhaps.

Which is which is good because um this is this is really good for horror uh in whatever uh you know you think of the films, if even if you but hated both of them and that's not me, I'm not saying that at all for myself. I'm saying if generally if you hated them both, it's still good for horror.

It was gonna get more movies made. Um horror always saves cinema. It always has done. And it's it's just d never looked at in a good way with like the uh the award system.

I know where you're going.

Oh yeah, Obsession,'cause yeah, Obsession was the other film came out, so that is um Curry Barker, a film, he's a YouTuber, is making movies. I I l preferred his movie Cereal and Milk, um, which is like a fountain footage movie. Have you seen that?

Yeah I've seen that on YouTube.

I like that one. Um, I think a bit better. Um this one, it was okay. Uh I think I'm almost the wrong demograph for the film. That's my issue, I think.

Um I've never really had a psycho girlfriend. Uh and a lot of the stuff that

She did and happened again I'm not gonna spoil it. Um I felt I kind of could see it coming but I'm too long in the two fifth movies. I've seen so many movies, I could combine it all in my head and kind of

Uh know the scenes of what coming th the odd thing I didn't know coming but i it was fine. It's a well made film though, it's well produced. I found the times a little bit slow for myself, but uh that's because my interest wasn't there.

Um but it's done really well um financially and uh for horror again. So well done that movie and it's a well made movie, of course. There's some there's some good bits in it and I think some people really like it. Oh which they which they do. Um And I think it's not good.

I would say, yeah.

I don't think it's like a nine out of ten if it s starts going like that on IMDb it'd be a bit like Come on, YouTube fans It's you know, watch some other movies first, come on.

Yeah, I don't think it's it's probably I don't know what it's got on a IMDb etc at the moment.

It's probably so pretty high.

Uh which I was like, uh I don't really think that, but that's obviously my opinion.

Yeah. Well backgrooms is sitting at um seven point one which is pretty high for a horror film.

And then also go to the cinema and watch the Omen.

Yeah, she did. Dance.

It's fucking great. Just seeing the cathedral'cause I live near the cathedral, I see the cathedral every week. Uh just seeing that in the cinema. That's well cool. Um yeah, it's a really good film. Um great movie uh to watch in the cinema. Set had

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Just talking.

Pretty much for the whole movie, just talking.

Shut up. So I moved from where I was sitting and Sarah's to my left, I moved away from round Sarah's sides. Unfortunately Sarah had them in her earshot'cause I was uh not that many people in there and they just kept they just talked. Normal level, just talking. They're literally just talking like they're at home.

So, what are you doing?

But I didn't say anything'cause I hate confrontation.

Especially with the price of cinema tickets now.

Now.

and I talk about that

These were bargain ones but these were a little bit cheaper, but yes,'cause it's an old movie. But still it's a bit like uh you kind of ruining it.

You know, the co but th I know it's the cost of living and everyone's paying more money, but uh we and you're yeah I know you went to see Toy Story Five as well, so did I. That was one of the things I did with the kids.

It cost me like fifty quid to go see that with Jack and Edith and buy some popcorn and some chocolate and some drinks.

because uh and that's two five year olds and me. And then you're you're just paying through the nose for these things. And a friend of mine on Facebook posted his receipt. He went with his wife and three children and they spent just over two hundred pounds

watching Toy Story 5 because they all had a little bit of popcorn and a drink.

And that's all very expensive. And then tickets are like fifteen quid a pop if you go at the wrong time, you know, the more expensive time, maybe more. So he's like, How are we supposed to afford a cinema anymore? You know, as a family, you just can't do it, you know, it's It's very expensive.

It is expensive and it has been for quite a while. Um I uh luckily have a view near me where the cheap seats are four ninety nine.

So

Uh I paid twelve pounds for me and Elijah to go. And before we went we ducked into Saints beast, I was like, come on, get a little get a Saint Bear.

Yeah, yeah.

But we spent a few quid in Sainsbury, so we really our trip was about fifteen quid, sixteen quid.

Yeah. And, you know, a lot of these trips I went to in the last five visits I've had I was lucky enough to get a cinema voucher for my birthday. And also m my wife's best one of her best friends has moved to Bristol.

And he gets hugely discounted cinema tickets. So I went to watch Bat Rooms with him.

And I went to watch another film which I'll talk about in a moment with him as well. And he's very generous, just let me have it for the cheap

cheap amount, so I just bought him a drink, you know, for four quid or something. And so I'm getting him for under a fiver for a couple of these visits. But some of them are expensive. But Toys Three Five was fun. Not really something we'd probably talk about on this show. We both enjoyed it.

Um it was great to see everybody back. Hiana Reeves, everybody was back in it. Um

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I d I thought for a second I said we both enjoyed it with that man.

No no no. Why are you now going to Toy Toys Five with this man? It's

And you and I both enjoyed it.

Oh, you're not trying to get into his back rooms?

That's what he would be thinking.

Okay.

It's alright. Toy Story 3 is still my favourite one.

One. Uh yeah, four's the worst. Um it's kinda a bit pointless. Five it it has a message if a little forced.

Yeah, yeah.

And the whole

And Woody's like all of a sudden Woody's not that far away. He's like, What's going on there? It's like I thought he was like out of the picture and he's just like, Oh I'm just here, I'm saving a toy from the tree and like well I thought you were like miles away, like what's going on? You're just there?

Yeah. However,

It was right, yeah. Uh there's uh I tell you what, uh Elijah really loved the uh fifty uh uh buzzes.

I'll I'll say yeah, that was fun when they got drunk.

Well those bits are really funny and I just really enjoyed those bits and it's like giggling away which I quite enjoyed l hearing.

But I mean Buzz is probably my favourite character um and that always has been and and it was fun to see him upgraded and that's not spoiling us at all. It's quite early on you find out.

you know, toys have been m have moved on obviously and some of them have got drone capabilities and can hover and stuff like that. So that was quite good fun. Um

Yeah, there were some good bits in it, some fun bits in it. Um However, another movie I went to see, and I don't think I don't know if you've seen this yet, is Disclosure Day.

You haven't seen it, have you?

No, I was going because of the air conditioning and how long it was. I was like, that would be good. But I went home and did other stuff.

I didn't have the time spare to do too many cinema trips, unfortunately. I did four in the span of a f couple of weeks, so that was pretty good, you know.

Disclosure Day is probably the best film I've seen in about 18 months.

Mm-hmm.

Since since what was the eighteen months ago is last year?

I don't know. I don't know. I just can't remember something

Oh oh that's not a specific date, you're just throwing that date out there. Right, sorry.

Yeah.

I thought you meant a certain movie was like that as my banging movie and that came out exactly eighteen months ago, I remember. It was

It was it was definitely the best thing Spielberg's done and a lot.

And long

long time and um

I've got to say that uh what's her name? Emily Blunt.

Ωραία. Ωραία. Ωραία. Ωραία.

She does a lot of heavy lifting, she speaks lots of different languages. The the journey it's like it's like an extended X Files episode.

Where we're just following this one person really as all these strange things start unfolding, not only to her but also around the world.

It also feels a bit like a bit of a Shyamalan movie, the best parts of Cheyamelin movies as well. But it's done with a Spielberg He the things he does with cameras and one takes a one shot.

and the the the performances he gets out of his actors. And there's a couple of

Berylling action and chase scenes where I actually was holding my breath for about a minute. There's a scene on a train.

And I and when it was over I suddenly realised I hadn't breathed for about a minute. I went, Oh and I was in the story so hard, it was brilliant. And then the ending was so emotional for me.

Um and a lot of people the the guy I went with we both looked at each other we were a bit teary like whoa that blew us just because Spielberg had sucked us into this story so hot so much that when it was over it was like wow you know like

I'm I think I'm gonna do it here with my particular

I don't wanna overhype.

That's what I'm gonna do here in my projector, I think.

It was dope is what I will say. Really good. Really, really, really, really good. I got a couple more to talk about, but you please go, please. Anything else you've seen that you want to talk about?

Uh I enjoyed the Hulk Hogan documentary.

Yes, I reckon I thought.

Well that's a really good uh documentary actually. I didn't think I'd really give a shit and then start watching it and it was like no, I I I remember this there's a certain era but it was interesting just to see his m uh how uh his story actually it was really interesting. Um

I got a Blu ray uh I still upgraded my c movie collection and I've got a fucking Steven Segale fucking