He Kills at Night (2025)

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[00:01:25] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Christmas scary movies. I'm Dan, and I despise Christmas scary movies. I'm Alonzo, and he kills at night, but can you get him to bring in the patio furniture? And this is the Deck the Hallmark podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's his podcast. Friends host his podcast. Hope you like this jolly.

[00:01:57] Well, well, well. Hello, everybody. We've arrived. Happy October to you. It's getting real. It's getting real. Oh, it's getting downright chilly. Not here. Whatever you know, it is. Not here either. Chillier. Chillier. That's right. That's right. And we're always chill. In a couple weeks, Alonzo, you'll be joining us for the marathon live and in person once again. Can't wait. Can't wait. A tradition unlike any other. It's the talk of the town. Talk of the town. I love being there. Dave White loves my being there.

[00:02:26] Many are saying. Many are saying it's a tradition unlike any other. Because he loves that you love being. He doesn't want to get rid of you. Partially, yes. But also, I think he likes having the place to himself. But only for a certain number of days. Yes. Alonzo, what are you dressing up for for Halloween? You know, there is a contingent of the gay community that calls Halloween gay Christmas. But my Christmas is gay Christmas.

[00:02:56] And so I decided I was not a double major. So I really am just all of my eggs are in the Christmas basket. Let's bring in another holiday. Why not? So, yeah. I haven't dressed up for Halloween in a very long time. I bet it's been a longer stretch for me. I don't know. Why is Halloween gay Christmas? Because for a lot of gays, that is where they really kick out the jams. And they, you know. Kick out the jams.

[00:03:19] If you are, if you're a gay who knows how to sew and or apply makeup, then like clearly this is your holiday to go wild. And be festive and do it big. I think the last time I dressed up for, we went to a Halloween party and I went as sexy George Lucas. Yeah. No, of course. So you just, first of all, how dare you, George Lucas is? Yeah. I put on a plaid shirt and I pinned a picture of Jar Jar Binks to myself. That was it. You are sexy George Lucas. That's right. There he is. Sexy George Lucas.

[00:03:49] You wake up sexy George Lucas. I mean, it is kind of a 365 for me. But, you know, I had to come up with something. Right. What are you going to dress up as? You know what? My kids are, as of right now, they're going as basketball players. Easy. Specific players. Gavin's going as Larry Bird, which is. Hilarious. Right on. Spot on. I know. Spot on. I know. The pride of French Lick Indiana. That's right. Yeah. Hick from French Lick. And so, I don't know. Maybe I might just throw my basketball jersey and call it a day. Make it easy. McNasty's back.

[00:04:19] McNasty's back. I might make my debut as someone dressing up for Halloween. I've never dressed up for Halloween in my life. What are you thinking about? My kids are trying to rope Sarah and I into being the men in black. All four. Oh. Oh. Okay. They've seen those films over the last few months, and they love them. They love the men in black. Sure. They, like, one of my kids has a neuralyzer, and he is just like, so they're very invested in us being the men in black. I mean, it doesn't matter.

[00:04:49] I mean, like, you know, we'll just all be. One trip to men's warehouse, you're good to go. Well, I could probably do cheaper than that. I didn't know if you were. You could just wear the suit that you wore at Ryan's wedding. Yeah, of course. No, no, no. That suit was definitely black. Yeah. Yesterday. Yesterday. It was yesterday. How did I forget it? No, we'll see if we can find a cheap enough, like, for four of, like, buying.

[00:05:15] One of my kids is obsessed with suits and ties, and he wants to wear them regularly. And I am trying to explain to him the amount of money for him to grow out of it in mere debt. Like, it's just crazy. And the upkeep. Yeah. Well, I just am like, dude, I appreciate that you have style, but a full suit, that's all he wants. He's like, I want a suit. I want to wear a suit to school. And I'm like, well, your school has uniforms. And he's like, well, let's talk to the principal and see if we can get permission. And it's like, dude, it's just a lot of money.

[00:05:45] And you're going to grow out of it in 10 days. Like, it won't fit you. And it's just, but he is all about doing the Men in Black for, you know. If not, go ahead. Back up, I think maybe you could go as, you could all go as the Saja Boys. Sure. I don't know what that is. From K-pop Demon Hunters. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Of course, yes. I did. I saw that movie. I did see it. They got on those costumes quick last year. That movie came out in, like, what? August or September?

[00:06:12] And I saw kids dressed up for Halloween. That was an ongoing phenomenon, though. Like, I think it might have even dropped in, like, May or something. Oh, okay. But it just sort of kept building up steam. I just was surprised to see how quick they got the costumes out. I feel like that was one of the fastest greenlit sequels of all time. Oh, no question. I think they pushed in on that the day after the thing released. It was insanity. I sang that at karaoke last marathon, if you all recall. Which one? Golden. Wow. Yes.

[00:06:41] You tackled Golden. We did. We did. What was it? Like, only the person singing could hear the song? Oh, Silent Karaoke. Silent Karaoke. That was fun. That's right. Yes. Hey, how about that Kelly Clarkson? Golden, though? Did you see that? I did, yeah. Oh, my God. Turns out she's better at it than anybody else is. Yeah, you need a pipe or two to really hit those notes. Unbelievable. Our close personal friend Kelly Clarkson. That's right. We miss her. Shout out to her door, Kel. Her show's gone. Her show's gone.

[00:07:11] Yeah, we knew that. She walked away. Yep, she walked away. On her own terms. Great for her. I named my June oven after her. There you go. As you should have. How often have you used that oven that you received from Kelly Clarkson? Oh, you use the June oven all the time. All the time. It's super helpful. The pizza oven less. Also, the grill, which is on me. I just haven't hooked it all up and bought the propane for it. But the June oven gets a lot of work out.

[00:07:38] And we totally worked our way through all of the ButcherBox gift certificates. You're welcome, by the way. Yeah, we got none of that. Thank you. They don't tell you that. When you go onto a show, you don't get the gifts the audience does. You know what? And look, if I could have just hung out in the green room, I would have also not gotten them. But, you know, COVID being COVID. There you go. Yeah, COVID got you a bunch of ovens. So there you go. All right. He kills at night is the name of this one. He kills at night. Not as spooky.

[00:08:06] This was one that if you just saw the title, you might not know that it's a Christmas movie. But shout out. I believe I found out about this one from the Sleepy Kitty Paws, if memory serves. What a just, you know, I know that they don't have the website anymore, Sleepy S, but follow on Blue Sky. For someone that says she was done doing this years ago, she's as good as ever. Doing it a storm. Yeah. That's right. She's doing it her way like Kelly Clarkson. That's what I'm talking about.

[00:08:33] And if you're not Hallmark, they don't make you put Christmas or season or Yule Trap into your title to let people know. That's right. That's right. All right. December 2nd, 2025 on various streamers and whatnot. And it went a little something like this. It's September 22nd. And a woman pulls into a parking garage and is waiting for the elevator. When someone starts to whistle, she starts looking around and the lights go off. And when the lights come back on, she's gone. Only her shoe remains. He kills at night.

[00:09:04] Cut to the holiday season. A radio show is taking calls about a serial killer who's on the loose. Should we be concerned? Nah. Well, it's December 24th and a girl is driving her car listening to Christmas music. She stops on the side of the road to go number one, if you will. And when she gets back into her car. Christmas number one. Christmas number one. Christmas number one. She sees someone in the back seat. She tries to run, but he stops her.

[00:09:34] He tells her to start the car. Turns out the keys are outside. That gives her enough time to light her jacket on fire and throw it on him. But it doesn't work out too well. And he ends up killing her. He seems bummed out by this. Like a big inconvenience for him. And he pushes the car to be like in the middle of the road so that this other car, when it pulls up, has to stop.

[00:10:04] Because there's a car in the middle of the road. And so he is now going to force this new woman to drive him somewhere, but won't tell her where in particular. Throughout the movie, we see flashbacks of other women getting murdered. Yes. Okay. There's like a Halloween one. There's like a Thanksgiving one. There's one in an art gallery. Art day. Art day. Art day. Art day. So we find out that. Serial. Yeah. Serial.

[00:10:33] So we find out that the big holidays. So we find out that this dude is trying to get out of the country. And he's, you know, they're listening to the radio. And the radio is taking more calls about the serial killer. And he's basically like, ha ha. Yes. She's like, is this you? It's a whole thing. Obviously, he's the serial killer. He's the one that kills at night. Obviously, it's he. And he kills at night. He kills at night.

[00:11:02] So he's trying to get out of the country. And she's like, well, you know, if I take you down to the river, you might be able to cross the channel. Okay. That could get you out of here. So they head down to the river, van down by the river. And she ends up stabbing him. You're like, oh, she's going to get away. She's going to get away. Another van shows up.

[00:11:27] And we see that she has a body in the backseat of her car because he doesn't kill at night. She kills at night. She's the serial killer. She was a serial killer the whole time. I think. I got to be honest. I'm not 100% sure. But I think that's what happened. And that, my friends, was he kills at night. I think best I can tell.

[00:11:56] We kind of did it. As far as we know. All right. Let's take a break. Clearly a little confusion. But we'll try to make heads and tails or heads or tails? Heads or tails. Let's make both. Let's do both. Heads and tails on the other side of the break here on Deck the Hallmark. Call it in the air. Tails. Heads. It was middles. It was middles. Landing on the side. Landing on the side. Look at that. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[00:12:27] Inception. All right. Let's talk He Kills at Night. We're going to share our thoughts on this movie. Hey, Christmas. It takes Christmas Eve. There's some Christmas music. There's some Christmas vibes. Let's break this down. We're going to start with a hot take. We're going to share exactly how he felt about this movie. Alonzo, He Kills at Night. Did it kill? Or is it kill? Are we human? Are we a dancer? Does he kill?

[00:12:57] Yeah. There's a lot that I liked about this movie. And I will say there's a lot of stuff that I wrote down as though they were problems with this movie that then turned out not to be, or at least that turned out to be answered by the film. And, you know, it reminded me quite a bit of one of my favorite movies of recent years, Lock, where the entire movie- It does have some Lock feel to it. Yeah. Tom Hardy is in a car for like the entire movie and like all the drama unfolds.

[00:13:26] His life is falling apart as he's on speakerphone. Phone calls that he's having. Yeah. On speakerphone. And this movie spends a lot of time in the car. But it seems intentional. It seems like, okay, low budget movie. How do we work with what we've got? And they actually make a lot of that quite suspenseful and interesting. But I'm also baffled by the last chunk of this movie. Logistics and explanations and things.

[00:13:53] So, yeah, I think there are parts of this movie, including the ending, where it's like, this is really cool if you don't think about it too much. That's right. So that's kind of the recurring, that's the aftertaste I have for this movie. Really cool if you don't think about it too much. All right. It is a really interesting movie. I will say the opening scene, the opening kill or kidnap or whatever is really interesting.

[00:14:22] Immediately hooks you. Job well done there. It does all take, you know, like 80% of this movie takes place in the car. And it was hard for me to stay locked in. And I can't help but wonder if there were some things that were said or happened in the car while I was zoned out because they were still just talking in the car. That would have made the ending of this movie maybe make a bit more sense.

[00:14:51] Like, I still, I have questions. Even though at the end of this movie, they do like the thing where they show you how it all pieces together, kind of, even though you have some questions. Like, so I don't know. It is ambitious and like we don't get many actual twists on this show. And so that was cool. Didn't see it coming. I honestly, I don't know what to do with this movie because I was bored, but I was also intrigued

[00:15:19] by the general concept and twist at the end of this movie. So, oh, so, so, so, so. Well, to tell you where I am with this movie, I was more locked into I Know What You Did Last Christmas. Yeah, I know you were. So, even though this movie I believe is a better movie, I enjoyed last week's more. So do with that what you will.

[00:15:48] But the twist of this movie at the end is a really cool idea. I don't know if they stopped it. It's a check that it can't quite count. Correct. Dan? So I will echo the sound of your echo, echoing the echo. But the opening scene of this movie, there's a lot of promise in it. And it's shot really well. And it's very low budget. But the use of light, it reminded me of, they made a movie called Lights Out that was based on like a nine minute short film. And Lights Out, the movie, sucks. But the opening nine minutes were amazing.

[00:16:17] It's like so good. How they do with like turning the light off and back on. Just the trailer alone is very effective. The short film is very effective. I think the opener here is really, really good. And then the end is made with so much confidence. Like with the flourishing confidence of Shyamalan kind of revealing his color scheme that you should have caught on to all movie. Which should have worked on me as a Shyamalan fanboy.

[00:16:45] The piano starts to go like a waterfall and they start throwing these things at you and you're like, that would be awesome if all of those things clicked a puzzle together. But the problem is because either your movie was so low budget or you lost it in the editing room or you didn't really have this full puzzle to show us. It doesn't click into anything. And so, you know, we all like to watch that ending.

[00:17:12] But when it's earned and you are actually fooled, I think it makes more sense than what they do here. But you have to admire the confidence and bravado with which it is given to us. The end of this movie is like, we got you. Now, did they get us? No, but they firmly believe they got us and they believe that they've, you know, clicked the, they've completed the circle, so to speak. And you have to admire that confidence.

[00:17:39] The problem is in between those things, I was less like this is like Locke and more like this is redundant. Like it felt very just like we'll get in the car. There's a reason we got to get out of the car. Something will happen that gets us back in the car. We're back in the car. It does not like it just, you know, and so I wasn't incredibly like motivated to care about the ending. But I don't think they give us any breadcrumbs to make the ending make sense.

[00:18:07] They make you do a lot of work to make that ending make sense. So good, good beginning, confident closer definitely doesn't just kind of spins its wheels in the middle. So, yeah, I mean, it's better than I know what you did last Christmas for sure. But it's, you know, it's still pretty micro budget-y in what it does and it doesn't really stick the landing that it thinks it does. So there's that. It's less, it's less aha and more okay. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:18:36] Especially the, and I hate to ruin this for Bran, but he's never going to watch this movie. Like there's a usual suspects like thing in here that is the lamest thing I've ever seen. You know, like I have to, I'll talk about it in The Wait What. It'll ruin usual suspects for Bran, which, you know, I mean, I was in eighth grade when I saw usual suspects. Like my parents would have never. I saw it on a trip with school and I was just like, like, I was just like, this is the best movie of all time.

[00:19:03] But this movie is the lamest version of usual suspects I've ever seen ever. We'll talk about it in The Wait What. It did feel like I can picture the end of this movie happening with all the reveal stuff and the director hands on hip and then pointing like, see? You see what I did? See what I did? And then he looks back at us and we go, I don't know if I see what you did. I have questions? Yeah. All right. All the feels. Anything in this movie give you feels, Alonzo?

[00:19:34] Um, I mean, I will say like coming off of, I know you did last Christmas, I admired like the real snow, the, you know, extensive nighttime photography that's done quite well. And the, you know, getting the most out of a handful of locations. Uh, you know, I think it's doing that low budget movie thing really well.

[00:19:56] Um, and, and because I have a good friend who works in TV, I know that, that a movie that is set entirely at night means that everybody is shooting from like. You know, 9 PM to dawn, you know, for weeks. And it's just, so go kudos to the cast for putting it and the crew for putting up with all that. In this case, it may have been days, but yes. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a week. Maybe a week. And I choose. Yeah. Maybe. Um, yeah.

[00:20:23] The, the, the movie does have a score. Oh, this is mine. Okay. No, you're good. Good. Um, does the score get old quick? Yeah, it sure does. It sure does. But they did it. Yeah. Kudos. Kudos to them for actually kind of scoring the movie. And most movies that we're watching at this time of year on festive Friday, the score is brought to you by public domain.

[00:20:49] It is brought to you by whatever music they searched and found on the internet they could use for free. This movie has an actual piano score. That's supposed to be this eerie, creepy thing works well in the opening scene, diminishing returns as we move along. And then it kind of builds at the end for this, you know, this revel, these revelatory twist scenes. Uh, but they scored it. They did. The movie has an actual score that was made for this movie. So I did appreciate that. That's kind of a low bar for us this time of year.

[00:21:19] But most of most movies we watched do not clear it. Um, all right, let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get to the way when the what the homework here on Jack the Hallmark. Welcome back, everybody. It is great to be here today on festive Friday. Uh, he kills at night is the movie we're talking about today. A little Christmas creepy. A double C. Yeah. Christmas creepy.

[00:21:49] Um, let's share our weight. What? Seems like there might be a few, but I'll start with you, Alonzo. What you got? Well, to your point about the score. Um, yes, but also, uh, the radio station is, she is, it is all public domain Christmas carols all the time. Yeah, it is. Like, and they try to work that like, oh, this one's my favorite or whatever. And it's just like, no, this is wallpaper music that you're throwing in to establish

[00:22:15] your, your holiday bona fides in between call in discussions of the serial killer. Who's making his way around. Um, I always thought that stage blood was cheap, that it's like, you know, corn syrup with a little red dye. And apparently it is made of gold and diamonds because when you get stage blood on your face in this movie, you never wipe it off. No, no. Keep it right there. You just, you just let it cake right on for however long we're going to go.

[00:22:43] It's too precious and valuable to get rid of. Um, yeah, again, a lot of stuff I was writing down along the way that I thought were mistakes like, wait, she's already got a black eye and she hasn't gotten out of the car yet. That turns out to be a plot point. I thought that the flashbacks at first sort of reminded me of Siskel and Ebert famously back in the eighties did a whole like half hour diatribe against slasher movies. Um, and they would, they referred to them all as the women in danger movies because so

[00:23:13] many of those movies is like killers, POV screaming woman running for her life and then getting, you know, horribly murdered. And I was getting that vibe from the flashbacks until of course, later the flashbacks are explicated. Uh, and they aren't just there to get us out of the car for a while. Like they actually are relevant to the story. So fair enough movie. I'll give you that. But let's unpack the ending because there's a lot to get into here.

[00:23:39] First of all, and again, like brand, I did zone out a little, maybe while watching this when they, they go to the house so they can steal a car. And then do they leave the house in a different car or is it still her car? Um, uh, because if it's, if it's not her car, why is that body in the trunk? I, I believe that they don't steal another car.

[00:24:04] I think it was a part of this movie where they had to get the, they had to either have gas cans or get gas cans so that they could stay in this car. Right. Well, that was a thing. And then she spills a bunch of it when the woman comes looking for her sister. Early on. I'm like, why does she have a gas can full of gas in her car? Like before we realized the twist of this movie, who has that, that just will make your car smell terrible.

[00:24:29] But I think, I think if you live like out in, you know, somewhere where you can't count on there being a gas station a few minutes away, you know, I don't know in rural England somewhere, maybe like their petrol stations are hard to come by. And so you've got to keep a jerry can, as they say a million times handy. All right. So, okay. So if it's still her car, then that explains why they're still body in the trunk. But if it turns out that she's the one who actually does all the killing at night,

[00:24:59] who is he killed? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if he actually has. You mean the other guy, not the guy we see all movie? No, the guy we see all movie. He kills the blonde girl at the beginning. He kills the blonde girl at the beginning, but that's not enough to like, I got to leave the country now. I think, yeah, I don't know why he has to leave the country, but I don't think that he is a killer. I think that might be why he was like frustrated after the killing was like, I don't want to kill this person.

[00:25:28] Like, yeah, I think he just, he just needs a way out of the country for whatever, and he can't drive. Yeah. And then, but then, but then when he hears the radio news, he decides he's just going to claim to be that person to scare her. This is my way to get her to do what I want her to do. The motivation of that character is just very murky. Yeah. Again, I think like there's a line of dialogue or a cutaway or a something that could have made all of this much clearer because yeah, the, the turns out that she's the killer. She kills at night.

[00:26:01] And you know, I, not that I have to have a tidy psychological explanation, but I'd like some explanation at the end about why would she get out of it? What's the, what, what, how does it fulfill her? I, I, so she has a partner, right? Yeah. She has a partner that shows up at the end of this movie, takes the girl out of the trunk of the car, brings it to the van. Right. And we see in one of the cuddle, like one of the little explanation clips that there's

[00:26:30] like a syringe of something. Like, I don't actually know if they kill any of these girls. I wonder if it's a, like a, like a trafficking thing. Oh. They do kill, I mean, there's a dead girl in the trunk. I don't know if they do a syringe to knock her out. But we never see, we never, she's passed out. So the title of this movie is purely that guy at the beginning killing that one girl. And we're, I think so. We're just a wild goose chase. He kills at night. I think so.

[00:27:00] Because like, like they don't actually show anyone actually get killed. And then that guy showing up in a, in like a white van to take this girl from the trunk and then puts it into his van. That's how I kind of read it. The more that I thought about it after the fact. But I might be way off. Sex traffic and or organ traffic at night is what we're getting. Wow. It was too long of a title. Yeah, that's a weird one. But you guys saw with the syringe? Yeah, no, no, no. Now that you mentioned, that does, yeah.

[00:27:29] What about the first woman? The parking garage? Yeah, we just see the lights go out. The lights come back on. There's a shoe. Okay. But like there's news reports of three women having. Missing. They're all missing. Okay. So they're all missing and we think they might not be killing any of it. So basically we have to perform an autopsy on this movie. Well, that's the thing is, is I think that this reveal at the end, you know, it's just,

[00:27:57] it's one of these things where you just need more breadcrumbs or a reveal that explains more. More. To make it hit. I think some of this, we're just all, this is pure conjecture. Yes. We have nothing to go on here. By the, sorry. By the time you get to the big climax at the end, it's street cleaning day. Oh. But, you know, yeah, there's like a couple of more cutaways that could explain. Easily. Because now that we've, now that the cat's out of the bag, we can tell you everything. Yeah.

[00:28:27] And then that would have made all of this a lot more linear. 100%. Yeah. Well, who knows? To touch on one more thing about the radio station. Like, the radio station you're describing is one station. It is a station that plays public domain Christmas tunes. And in between those songs, a radio DJ takes phone calls about a potential serial killer. Heck yeah. It's Christmas. What a comedy. What a comedy. What a comedy. What a comedy. What a comedy.

[00:28:57] What a comedy radio station. Honestly, I'm here for it. Combining two of my favorite things, Christmas music with true crime. Incredible. Yeah. Should I launch this? K-Bran. K-Bran. I'll play a Christmas song and then we'll talk about the crime of the week. Like, that's crazy. Like, that's the station that they're listening to in this movie. It's very funny. Then there's a moment.

[00:29:24] Yeah, at some point in the movie with one of the public domain songs, which is like, I don't know, God rest you, Merry Gentleman or whatever. And she's like, this is my favorite. The first Noel. The first Noel. Oh, do you have this one? Well, then go ahead and take it. She says, the first Noel starts playing and she says, this is my favorite Christmas song. And then he says, no, it's not. Name one person that's ever sung it. Sir, that's just not how that works. Like, it's a, your favorite song could be from a hymnal.

[00:29:53] Like, the idea that just because she doesn't know a pop star that sung this song. But you know what? Also, dummy, just say like Bing Crosby. Yeah. Take a stab. That's a safe bet. And then he says, Frank Sinatra. But then he says, after that, you've never heard this song sung in your life. We all have. It's the first Noel. What are you talking about? Get out. Get out of here. Crazy. Crazy. It's a deep cut.

[00:30:22] It is. It is absolutely deep cut. Listen, the, the, I was so frustrated by the woman that gets killed in the car. The, the guy, the guy. Yes. It's taking the car. She had so many opportunities. Oh my God. It was brutal. No one in this movie has heard of a locked door. Dude, I was screaming, lock the door. Drive, pull, go, go, something.

[00:30:51] Like, it was crazy. She had like two or three opportunities to just drive off and she didn't take it. Yeah. And she's like, maybe she's related to the girl in, uh, I know what you did last Christmas who could have easily gotten back into the house. Easily. And bother. Yeah. Yeah. I just not, can't do it. Dana. Yeah. Uh, the opening scene of this movie is quite effective, but we watch a woman in the middle of the night, pull into a parking garage and then switch from tennis shoes to high heels

[00:31:20] to walk in the garage at night, which I thought was hysterical. Like a parking garage in the middle of the night, ma'am, like already fear for your safety. Now you're putting on shoes that are more difficult to run in. Like you were already wearing the tennis shoes, get to where you're going and then switch shoes. I like what? Like, like, like that's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

[00:31:46] Now that I've driven to the park garage in a secluded area that's dark and not well lit. Let me put on the high heels. Yeah. I need my feet to be comfortable while I'm seated at the driver. That's right. Yeah. But not while I'm walking. No. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. The, the reveal that she made up her daughter, right? So she convinces this guy in the back that she has a daughter, that her name is Grace and

[00:32:15] she plays piano, right? Those are the two. What two things do you know about your daughter? I've got two. She, she, she's, she's Grace. She plays piano. Then we see, listen, none of us here are Mensa members. Call Marcus Rosner. But all of us could have come up with two things on the spot. Quick, make up a person. It's Daryl and he loves baseball. Like it's not hard. But then we see this mastermind.

[00:32:42] There were two flyers in the back of the trunk and one says Grace on it. And one says piano lessons on it. Yeah. There was a magazine about Grace Kelly and a magazine about playing piano. I just, this is not brand right now could make up a part. Like anybody could make up two things. Like guy, this is like, it's the usual. Daryl. And he loves ultimate frisbee. So my son's name's Crandall. Crandall. This would be me.

[00:33:11] This is if I was on a, it's Crandall O'Houlihan. Yeah. He likes darts. Yeah. Pick into darts. Yeah. So in Usual Suspects brand, there's a guy being interrogated all movie and talking about the big bad of the movie. Who's this guy no one can catch. And there's a police, he's in a police detective's office and the detective's office back bulletin board is just filled with wanted posters, advertisements, things.

[00:33:38] And at the end of the movie, the guy walks out of the office and you find out he is that guy. And he made up the entire story using the bulletin board behind the detective. It's a phenomenal twist. And the name on the bottom of the guy's coffee cup. That's right. The name of the bottom of the coffee, like any, his mug. So literally the whole movie he's done on the spot. Boom, boom, boom. And it's spinning a yarn. I'm talking 50 or 60 different references off the board. Right? Yeah. Crazy impressive.

[00:34:07] This movie's like, dude, wasn't that twist cool? What if we put two books? Oh my God. It was so embarrassing. Like, and it wasn't like some crazy, it was so embarrassing. Yeah. Originally there was just a copy of Moby Dick and she's like, I have a son named Herman and he loves Wail. His name's Luke and he lives in the Dagobah system. God. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. No, days go by before I see him again.

[00:34:38] I don't like tattoo. And I am his father. Tattoo in his ear. He's got a tattoo in his ear. Like it just, guys, two things. It's two things. Her phone is vibrating. It like, the guy in the backseat can't hear it. He can't hear it. She's cranking. Oh, Holy night. He doesn't feel it. He doesn't feel the vibe.

[00:35:03] Like if a phone is on the floorboard of a car and it's going, everybody in the car knows what's happening. This guy doesn't, he has just no clue that this is happening at all. Yeah. Just real, real bad. And it does make more sense that he's a bad serial killer. Cause he's not a serial killer. He just is in over his skis and he's, he's killed and now realize the consequences of that. He's just real stupid. Constantly. Like so many times he's like, don't, he's holding a knife, not a gun.

[00:35:33] And he goes, don't move. And he walks away. He's like, looks at someone he's holding against their will under the threat of violence. And he goes, no, you don't move. And he just is like, I'll be right back. Pinky promised me that you will not move. And then he walks away. And what do they do? They move, of course. And he's like, ah, these people don't listen. I mean, maybe part of the, the twist is to give her an excuse to not have walked away

[00:35:58] from this yo-yo, which she pretty easily could have done at various points. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's all I got. Right. It's time for the Hallmark questions that we still had that we'd like some answers to Alonzo. So, I mean, I think we all want to know what happened. Yeah. I would love the full explanation of everything. The director's cut. Pinkerton brothers or whatever their names are that made this movie. It was like a brother of the siblings or whatever.

[00:36:28] If you are listening to this, please email me. BrandonDeckToHomer.com. I want to hear from you. And maybe the ending is supposed to be, you know, somewhat ambiguous, right? Yeah. Like that was the goal, I think. I think. Let us have the two minutes of exposition to really bring this baby together. Tell me what I'm missing. Tell me what I, did I get it right? Am I right about what happened here? Let us know. I don't know if that's ever happened with one of our movies before. We're like, hey, just tell us if we got the ending right. Yeah.

[00:36:58] Somebody reach out and give us a little bit more. Would love to hear it. Also, have that leg wound turn out. Sure. Because, you know, that seemed pretty gnarly. Yeah. Pretty gnarly. Dan and he. Yeah. I mean, mine was all ending based. It's like, okay, well, she's got an accomplice or, you know, I thought she was murdering. There's one body we do see. Lisa said this in the chat. The girl in the trunk on the ground in front of an old man's house at the end. Like. So what? So that might have been.

[00:37:26] Maybe they did switch cars and that was showing us how she got from the trunk. Because there's a little cat and mouse thing. But there's a body when they get to the beach, though. There's a body when they get to the beach. I just. Right. In the trunk of the car. Yeah. Like what I'm saying is like she could have moved the girl from the trunk of the car that ran out of gas and moved it to the trunk of the car. Oh. And they move into. And in the process. Because there's like. There's a bit of a cat and mouse game. The whole movie, obviously.

[00:37:54] But at that old man's house, they are like. There's a bit going on there where she could have moved the body. I just. I. You know. I've got nothing. I want it to make sense so badly. And I feel like five more minutes of movie could have done. Five more minutes. Five more minutes. He. He kills at night. He kills at night. We did it. We did it. One more creepy. One more festive Friday. And we're calling it. Then we're calling it. That'll be a wrap. Fearsomely festive Friday. That's right.

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