After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie's life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she'd never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.
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[00:00:04] Hi, I'm Dan and I despise Shutter Slasher Christmas Movie
[00:00:11] I'm Arjen and I love Shutter Slasher Christmas Movies
[00:00:17] I'm Alonzo & Shui fu x erase
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[00:00:32] We hope you like this jolly podcast
[00:00:34] I'm a producer, Jordan Aaron Shea, host of the show this week.
[00:00:47] You had a chance to say,
[00:00:48] and this is the Deck the Home Art podcast
[00:00:50] and you did nothing.
[00:00:51] I know, sorry.
[00:00:53] It's weird trying to produce from the seat and also host.
[00:00:57] Yeah, well I'm doing some of the,
[00:00:58] I'm doing the cameras and the sound
[00:01:00] as you could tell by all of the delays.
[00:01:03] Yes, so we're doing great.
[00:01:04] We're doing awesome.
[00:01:06] It's cool to be here.
[00:01:06] You're like Barbara Streisand directing herself.
[00:01:09] You have to have both those hats on at the same time.
[00:01:11] Don't worry, by the second ad break I'll get it.
[00:01:14] Yeah, of course.
[00:01:15] No, I will too.
[00:01:16] Oh, I have to use that button this time.
[00:01:18] I didn't have to use that with Alonzo.
[00:01:19] Welcome to Monday.
[00:01:20] It is May, this time.
[00:01:22] I promise it's May.
[00:01:23] Brandon not here in his place though
[00:01:26] we have producer Aaron Shea and she said
[00:01:28] I'll come on the show and I'll be a host
[00:01:30] if you get a cool cup.
[00:01:32] And I was like, what's a cool cup?
[00:01:33] And she was like, this is a cool cup.
[00:01:35] It matches my sweater.
[00:01:36] And I was like, OK.
[00:01:39] And so I went and got a cool cup.
[00:01:40] And I was like, if you're watching on Fyla.tv.tv.
[00:01:42] You'll notice.
[00:01:43] But neither one is a Stanley.
[00:01:45] No, we don't have that kind of money.
[00:01:47] Venmo, please.
[00:01:48] BrambleGymPlus.com subscription.
[00:01:51] Like if you want to see the real Stanley's,
[00:01:52] that's going to cost extra for sure.
[00:01:54] Alonzo here as always on Monday.
[00:01:56] Alonzo, how are you doing, sir?
[00:01:58] I am great.
[00:01:58] It's lovely to see you.
[00:02:00] I'm sorry that Brandon's under the weather,
[00:02:02] but I'm sure he's on the mend.
[00:02:03] I would say that Brandon's slasher's,
[00:02:05] but I would hope that we all hate slasher's.
[00:02:07] He just hates Monday.
[00:02:08] You know what I mean?
[00:02:08] Like he hates Monday.
[00:02:09] Yeah, he's just boycotting Monday.
[00:02:10] He just loves lasagna.
[00:02:12] It's been a while since I've just
[00:02:14] been completely derelict on my job.
[00:02:15] I'm going to call it for a few days.
[00:02:18] Alonzo, we had a great interview on Friday.
[00:02:20] I hope people got to listen.
[00:02:22] I didn't go back and listen to.
[00:02:23] Thank you for that.
[00:02:24] Alonzo and myself talk about this new book coming out,
[00:02:27] Hollywood Pride.
[00:02:28] It comes out.
[00:02:29] Gosh, at this point, I mean, we're getting down to it
[00:02:31] just over a week.
[00:02:32] They had a week.
[00:02:33] Yeah.
[00:02:34] That's exactly right.
[00:02:35] So that's exciting.
[00:02:35] May 14th for those of you who can't do math.
[00:02:37] That's right.
[00:02:37] And you can pick it up wherever you pick up books.
[00:02:40] And we thought what better way to celebrate that
[00:02:43] than to watch a slasher movie on Shutter
[00:02:46] is what we're doing this week.
[00:02:48] It's called It's a Wonderful Knife.
[00:02:50] I had never heard of this movie.
[00:02:52] Alonzo, had you seen this movie before?
[00:02:54] I had, actually.
[00:02:56] I think Dave and I might have reviewed it on like what we do.
[00:03:00] We go on one of the NPR stations here in Los
[00:03:02] Angeles once a month to talk about the weekend's new movies.
[00:03:04] And I think that might have been one that we talked about.
[00:03:07] So this is my second time.
[00:03:08] And I have to say, I like it more than that.
[00:03:10] That's why you don't ever write reviews, kids,
[00:03:12] is because your opinion could change.
[00:03:15] Producer Aaron Shea literally yesterday,
[00:03:18] we were watching this movie.
[00:03:19] And you walked by and you were like, no thanks.
[00:03:21] No thank you.
[00:03:22] I hate horror movies.
[00:03:24] Basically just like that.
[00:03:26] And here you are.
[00:03:27] Well, I walked in at what sounded like a very violent
[00:03:30] moment.
[00:03:31] There are some of those.
[00:03:32] And I couldn't see the screen.
[00:03:34] And I just said, I'm good.
[00:03:35] You're good.
[00:03:36] And then we heard the Foley and that was enough.
[00:03:39] I was like, yeah, sounds like you guys got this.
[00:03:41] I'm going to go in the other room.
[00:03:42] And then we, Bran went down with the sickness.
[00:03:46] Everybody get down with the sickness.
[00:03:47] And it's a press.
[00:03:49] We are not down with the sickness.
[00:03:52] But you mother get up down with the sickness.
[00:03:55] So Aaron is here this morning.
[00:03:57] And she is, I was like, I don't really care
[00:04:00] if you don't like horror movies.
[00:04:02] I just want to watch this movie because there are always
[00:04:04] three hosts who take the hallmark.
[00:04:06] I'm going to defend Dan here for a moment.
[00:04:09] I was like, hey, do you want a third person
[00:04:11] to offer some opinions?
[00:04:13] Because I'll watch it.
[00:04:14] And Dan was just like, I want it known.
[00:04:17] Yes.
[00:04:18] So when I can do this, you do not need to watch a horror
[00:04:21] movie.
[00:04:22] Would love a third.
[00:04:23] But for the person that less than 24 hours ago said,
[00:04:26] I hate horror movies.
[00:04:28] Maybe you don't have to.
[00:04:29] But you know what?
[00:04:30] I did.
[00:04:30] You did it.
[00:04:31] Yeah.
[00:04:32] Aaron's a trooper.
[00:04:33] She's making the show must go on.
[00:04:34] Above and beyond.
[00:04:36] And Brian wrote a synopsis because he
[00:04:38] thought he was going to be here before he decided, yeah, work
[00:04:40] sucks.
[00:04:41] And so I am I am going to try my best to read the synopsis
[00:04:46] and also remember which of these is the synopsis button.
[00:04:48] I think I know which one it is,
[00:04:50] but it's going to be fun if I'm wrong.
[00:04:53] And so let's let's do that and let's see what happens.
[00:04:56] Which words will you mangle strategically?
[00:04:58] Oh, that's going to be good.
[00:04:59] This is I think whatever button you press
[00:05:00] is going to be this synopsis music that we just choose for this.
[00:05:03] Yeah, this is what we call playing with house money
[00:05:05] because if I mispronounce a word, you know that I'm doing it
[00:05:09] because I'm acting like Brian.
[00:05:11] It's there's no losing here.
[00:05:12] I can go as fast as I want.
[00:05:14] Here we go.
[00:05:15] It's a wonderful knife aired November 10th on Shutter
[00:05:21] and it went a little something like this.
[00:05:26] We're an angel falls the Christmas
[00:05:28] capital of the world.
[00:05:29] The whole town shows up for the Christmas tree lighting
[00:05:31] led by Henry Waters, who's basically responsible
[00:05:33] for building the new angel falls.
[00:05:35] And the highlight is going to be
[00:05:36] this amazing shopping Plaza Waters Cove.
[00:05:40] We meet the Carothers family.
[00:05:41] The father David works with Henry and Henry insists
[00:05:44] he tries to get this final guy to sell his house
[00:05:47] so they can start building Waters Cove.
[00:05:49] The guy's name is Roger Evans
[00:05:51] and he continues to refuse to sell.
[00:05:53] David's daughter Winnie heads to a Christmas Eve party
[00:05:56] with Roger Evans granddaughter leaving him home alone.
[00:05:59] He gets a knock on the door, opens it up and it's a snowman.
[00:06:02] Suddenly a ghost fates type killer, but snowman
[00:06:05] busts through the door and snowman slits his throat wide open.
[00:06:09] At the party, Cara, the granddaughter
[00:06:11] is with a boy kissing when he gets impaled
[00:06:13] from being by a long sharp candy cane.
[00:06:16] That can't be right.
[00:06:17] He gets impaled from being behind whatever.
[00:06:19] From behind.
[00:06:20] Yes, from behind.
[00:06:21] From behind.
[00:06:21] The killer then goes after Cara
[00:06:24] and tracks her down just before she gets inside
[00:06:26] and kills her.
[00:06:29] Everyone sees it including Winnie.
[00:06:30] She runs outside and gets attacked by the killer.
[00:06:33] After a bit of cat and mouse,
[00:06:34] the killer is on top of Winnie's brother.
[00:06:36] When he went from behind, she electrocutes him to death
[00:06:39] with battery char, like a battery jumper cables,
[00:06:43] which is fantastic that that didn't make
[00:06:45] the synopsis somehow.
[00:06:46] I don't even know what happened there
[00:06:48] and now I've lost my place.
[00:06:49] Oh yeah, let's excuse me to death.
[00:06:51] She pulls off the mask.
[00:06:52] It's Henry Waters, played by Justin Long with teeth.
[00:06:56] Cut to a year later and the Carothers
[00:06:58] are now running the town
[00:06:59] and everyone seems totally over what happened last Christmas.
[00:07:02] She goes to the Christmas Eve party
[00:07:04] and discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her
[00:07:05] for a year.
[00:07:06] She storms off and goes to the pier
[00:07:08] and says everyone would be better off
[00:07:10] if I was never born.
[00:07:11] Stop me if you've heard this before.
[00:07:13] Just then the Aurora Borealis lights up the sky.
[00:07:15] Then all the lights go dark
[00:07:17] and she sees the killer is back
[00:07:18] and now is just killing all willy nilly.
[00:07:21] She runs and finds the sheriff
[00:07:22] who is now Henry's brother Buck
[00:07:24] and he has no idea who she is.
[00:07:26] She says she knows who the killer is.
[00:07:27] Just then Henry shows up
[00:07:29] and he also doesn't recognize her.
[00:07:31] She says she doesn't know,
[00:07:32] doesn't actually know who the killer is
[00:07:34] and goes on her way.
[00:07:35] She goes to the party
[00:07:36] and everyone is doing the hard drugs,
[00:07:38] like hard drugs, like some crack pipes and stuff.
[00:07:42] She finds this weirdo that no one likes
[00:07:44] and figures if anyone's gonna believe her, it'd be them.
[00:07:47] And it takes some time
[00:07:48] and a close encounter with the killer for Bernie,
[00:07:51] this weirdo to be like, yeah, this makes sense.
[00:07:55] Winnie decides to try to talk to her dad one more time
[00:07:57] and tries to convince her father that Henry killed Jimmy
[00:08:00] but David just gets really angry and tells her to leave.
[00:08:03] On her way out, Winnie witnesses the killer
[00:08:05] murdering her mother in a man she was having an affair
[00:08:07] with, don't ask.
[00:08:09] The angel then tries to attack Winnie and Bernie
[00:08:12] but they successfully knock him out.
[00:08:13] So they take off the mask
[00:08:14] and it's David, her father.
[00:08:17] They think that Henry must have had David
[00:08:19] under some sort of spell
[00:08:21] and is causing him to do all the killing.
[00:08:23] So they get him to come to a movie theater
[00:08:24] and they kill him.
[00:08:25] So Winnie and Bernie head back to the pier
[00:08:27] assuming Winnie would return home to her time
[00:08:30] since they killed the killer
[00:08:31] but it doesn't work that way.
[00:08:32] And they figure out it's still Henry who is the problem.
[00:08:35] Winnie and Bernie come across
[00:08:36] a weird gathering hosted by Henry
[00:08:38] where all the attendees appear
[00:08:40] to be hypnotized by Henry.
[00:08:41] When Henry attacks Winnie,
[00:08:43] Bernie stabs him to death,
[00:08:44] breaking his control over the people.
[00:08:46] The Aurora reappears,
[00:08:47] Winnie and Bernie kiss
[00:08:49] and she wakes up in her own bed.
[00:08:51] She runs downstairs, hugs her family.
[00:08:53] She runs through the town telling Angel Falls
[00:08:55] that she loves this crazy little city
[00:08:57] and she shows up at Bernie's house.
[00:08:59] And it turns out Bernie remembers
[00:09:01] the whole thing they kiss
[00:09:02] and begin to celebrate Christmas together
[00:09:04] and that my friends was,
[00:09:07] it's a wonderful knife.
[00:09:09] We did it.
[00:09:11] Just wanted you to go back to number one
[00:09:12] so that I could be on screen.
[00:09:13] That's okay.
[00:09:14] It's a wonderful knife.
[00:09:17] We did it.
[00:09:19] We did it.
[00:09:20] Let's take a quick break here
[00:09:22] and when we come back,
[00:09:22] we'll break this movie down with four segments
[00:09:24] like we do every time on Deck the Hallmark
[00:09:26] and I just said what I was supposed to say
[00:09:28] to leave us to break.
[00:09:29] Deck the Hallmark.
[00:09:38] Welcome back to Deck the Hallmark.
[00:09:39] Things are going great.
[00:09:41] We've had no, exactly.
[00:09:44] Yes, we've had no issues.
[00:09:46] And to be honest,
[00:09:48] my batting average is what his is.
[00:09:50] Like, let's not act like-
[00:09:51] We give perfect.
[00:09:53] We give Bran a hard time
[00:09:54] but he does know how to drive this bus.
[00:09:57] How dare you?
[00:09:58] Are you recording the audio?
[00:09:59] Yeah, yeah, I'm recording the audio.
[00:10:01] See there's things you don't even see.
[00:10:02] Sometimes Bran doesn't do that.
[00:10:03] That's going on.
[00:10:06] That I'm doing.
[00:10:08] Let's break this movie down.
[00:10:10] It was on Shutter.
[00:10:11] It's a wonderful knife.
[00:10:13] Hot take time.
[00:10:15] Alonzo Derraldi.
[00:10:17] What do you think of it's a wonderful knife?
[00:10:20] I really like this movie, I have to say.
[00:10:22] I liked it okay the first time.
[00:10:24] I liked it even more this second viewing.
[00:10:27] It feels like it was a bet.
[00:10:30] Like how do we turn it's a wonderful life
[00:10:32] into a slasher movie?
[00:10:34] And I think they succeed in doing that
[00:10:37] and that they sort of keep the main themes
[00:10:39] of it's a wonderful life
[00:10:40] but also then give you the like, you know, sick kills.
[00:10:45] Sick kills.
[00:10:46] Sick kills as the kids say.
[00:10:48] And I think you do really ultimately care about the characters.
[00:10:53] It does what Christmas movies so often do
[00:10:55] in terms of offering redemption.
[00:10:58] And it's not included in the summary
[00:11:02] but the whole thing is, you know,
[00:11:04] Winnie thinks that she's the George Bailey
[00:11:07] in all this and that.
[00:11:08] Yeah, it didn't make the summary.
[00:11:10] She's Clarence and Bernie is George Bailey.
[00:11:13] That's right.
[00:11:13] Bernie, yeah, it turns out Bernie
[00:11:15] is the George Bailey in Winnie's experience.
[00:11:16] Doesn't work exactly but it does work some.
[00:11:19] Yeah, which is interesting idea.
[00:11:21] It's a cool twist and it, you know,
[00:11:23] it's a little bit tacked on but I'll allow it.
[00:11:25] So yeah, I mean it's not perfect
[00:11:27] but I think there's a lot to like here.
[00:11:29] All right, Erin.
[00:11:29] And I'm not a horror movie fan at all.
[00:11:31] Well, Erin Shea doesn't watch them.
[00:11:33] She doesn't do horror movies
[00:11:34] and you need to know that right now.
[00:11:36] Erin Shea what'd you think of It's a Wonderful Knife
[00:11:39] knowing that you hate horror movies?
[00:11:40] Yeah, I really liked the movie.
[00:11:44] I thought you might.
[00:11:45] Yeah, I was telling Dan my main thing with horror movies
[00:11:49] is I do not like gore just for gore's sake.
[00:11:53] If there is a good plot and a reason behind it,
[00:11:56] then yeah, if it's a part of the storytelling
[00:11:58] I can get behind that.
[00:12:00] And I thought that that's what they did here.
[00:12:01] Like there was a cohesive plot.
[00:12:03] You really care for the characters
[00:12:05] and what they're going through.
[00:12:07] And I even thought that some of the killings
[00:12:09] were really cinematic
[00:12:10] and really enjoyed the choreography of them.
[00:12:13] Like when they kill Peter at the party
[00:12:15] like with the stage lights flashing, that was great.
[00:12:18] And then later on in the movie theater, like.
[00:12:20] The strobe.
[00:12:21] Yes, like I was just hooked to why I was working.
[00:12:24] So I had like work on one screen
[00:12:26] and was watching this on another screen
[00:12:28] and then just kind of abandoned work for a while
[00:12:30] because I was drawn into this movie.
[00:12:33] And I think that's great
[00:12:34] because as someone who doesn't like horror
[00:12:36] I would watch this again for sure.
[00:12:38] Fantastic.
[00:12:39] See, look at this.
[00:12:40] You're learning new things.
[00:12:41] Oh, and also Justin Long's performance in this movie
[00:12:43] is a musty.
[00:12:44] He, I feel like Justin Long relishes the opportunity
[00:12:49] to be in these like seedy horror movies and die.
[00:12:53] Like he just like, he loves it.
[00:12:56] He was just so good.
[00:12:57] Like the voice, his facial expressions.
[00:13:00] I would have watched it.
[00:13:01] Like that was kind of, I was like, yeah, I'll watch it.
[00:13:03] I mean, I want to see what, you know,
[00:13:04] Justin Long performance
[00:13:05] and then the rest of it swept me in.
[00:13:07] But yeah, you should watch it for him alone.
[00:13:10] Yeah.
[00:13:11] I had a good time with this movie.
[00:13:13] I'm not sure I'm as high on it as Aaron or Alonzo.
[00:13:17] I think I love a slasher mystery.
[00:13:19] The screen movies when they're good,
[00:13:21] they're some of my favorite movies.
[00:13:23] When they're bad, they're really bad.
[00:13:24] And I think for like slasher mystery movies to work
[00:13:27] you have to have characters that you care about
[00:13:29] or that are in on the bit.
[00:13:30] You have to have a good solid mystery
[00:13:33] and you have to have sick kills
[00:13:34] as my good friend Alonzo D'Rolli has said.
[00:13:37] And I, there was a point in this movie
[00:13:38] where I looked over at Brandon
[00:13:39] and I said the kills are starting to become repetitive.
[00:13:42] And then we got the scene in the movie theater
[00:13:44] with some really inventive kills in it.
[00:13:46] So the kills work most of the time.
[00:13:49] The characters are all in Joel McCail, Justin Long,
[00:13:51] the rest of the cast, they're all game for this.
[00:13:54] And the mystery, you figure that out pretty quickly.
[00:13:58] I don't know how much sense it makes
[00:13:59] to have this guy going around.
[00:14:01] Like unless he's under this spell
[00:14:02] and it doesn't quite all coalesce.
[00:14:05] But the movie is always a fun time.
[00:14:07] It's 85 minutes long.
[00:14:09] If you like this kind of stuff
[00:14:11] and you wanna see them try to accomplish,
[00:14:14] it's a wonderful life.
[00:14:15] But Slasher, you could do a lot worse than this movie.
[00:14:20] I really, really enjoyed it.
[00:14:22] And pleasant surprise for me.
[00:14:25] Yeah, good, no thoughts?
[00:14:26] Great, fantastic.
[00:14:28] Awesome.
[00:14:29] Let's move to the all the feels segment.
[00:14:31] Something this movie that gave us Christmas feels
[00:14:34] or Slasher feels or other feels.
[00:14:38] Alonzo.
[00:14:40] Well, to piggy piggyback on what you were saying,
[00:14:42] I think that it's exciting that this movie can take,
[00:14:46] it's a wonderful life of such an established text
[00:14:49] at this point that you can then offer
[00:14:51] these kind of variations on it.
[00:14:52] It's sort of like what the new movie,
[00:14:54] The People's Joker does,
[00:14:55] where the filmmaker is telling this very sort of personal
[00:14:59] coming of age story,
[00:15:00] but doing it through the characters of the DC universe.
[00:15:04] So it's sort of like how people would use like
[00:15:06] Oedipus Rex or Hamlet or something is like,
[00:15:08] this is my starting point.
[00:15:09] And then I'm just gonna like do my other stuff on top of it.
[00:15:12] So I liked the Hutzpah of that.
[00:15:15] I forgot how queer this movie is.
[00:15:17] Speaking of Hollywood pride, you've got the gay brother,
[00:15:21] you've got the protagonist who is probably
[00:15:24] by the end of the film seems like she's maybe bi.
[00:15:27] You've got the lesbian aunts.
[00:15:30] And so, you know, that's,
[00:15:31] I'm always down for the representation.
[00:15:35] I thought there were some very cool slasher moments,
[00:15:37] particularly the strobe lights, the flashlight,
[00:15:40] the camera flash in the movie theater.
[00:15:42] And I wrote down Justin Long's teeth.
[00:15:44] Yeah, I mean, Justin Long's teeth,
[00:15:46] that was a choice that was made.
[00:15:48] He's splitting the difference between old man Potter
[00:15:52] and you know, that guy.
[00:15:54] I love, there's one scene, this isn't my feels,
[00:15:57] but there's one scene where he has this weird voice
[00:15:59] like higher register voice of the whole movie.
[00:16:02] And then he gets hit.
[00:16:03] And there's a brief moment where he drops the voice.
[00:16:06] Like he gets really low and he's like,
[00:16:08] don't touch me, don't ever touch me.
[00:16:09] And it's just like, oh, he's like,
[00:16:12] he just turned on the real villain move.
[00:16:14] Like the Kaiser Soze move.
[00:16:15] Like he fully just like,
[00:16:17] and then he gets himself together
[00:16:18] and he goes back to the voice.
[00:16:19] And I'm like, Justin Long is doing more
[00:16:21] than any of us asked him to do for this.
[00:16:23] And that scene, that occurs in the scene
[00:16:27] where basically there's like this weird culling.
[00:16:30] It's like something out of a Shirley Jackson story
[00:16:32] where the town shows up
[00:16:34] and you're all going to be judged and out of your nice.
[00:16:36] You know, it's like, that's kind of creepy
[00:16:37] and a cool idea.
[00:16:38] Definitely creepy.
[00:16:39] Aaron, what feels did you have aside
[00:16:40] from awesome cool slasher go?
[00:16:44] Yeah, I actually-
[00:16:45] More blood, please.
[00:16:47] I had a lot of feels actually in this movie
[00:16:52] right from the get go opening
[00:16:54] on a commercial for Justin Long,
[00:16:56] where he says I'm the best.
[00:16:57] That's my feels.
[00:16:58] Oh, it is?
[00:16:59] Yeah, go for it.
[00:17:00] F the rest.
[00:17:01] Yes.
[00:17:02] I was like, I'm in for one minute into this movie
[00:17:02] and I'm like, I'm in.
[00:17:03] Yes, yes, exactly.
[00:17:06] If this is how they're setting the tone for this movie, great.
[00:17:09] I really liked the family relationships.
[00:17:12] I'm very close with my brother.
[00:17:14] So seeing Winnie and Jimmy's relationship
[00:17:15] and how much they cared about each other
[00:17:18] and seeing her deal with the fact
[00:17:20] that like in this alternate timeline,
[00:17:21] her brother is dead
[00:17:22] because she wasn't there to save him.
[00:17:26] And then my other feels was
[00:17:27] when they're at the movie theater
[00:17:28] and the let's all go to the lobby jingle play.
[00:17:31] Oh, yeah.
[00:17:32] Yes.
[00:17:33] Like my favorite part of going to a drive-in
[00:17:35] is in between the two movies
[00:17:37] when they have like the dancing hot dog
[00:17:39] and stuff like that's my favorite part of the drive-in.
[00:17:41] And so when that started playing.
[00:17:42] In five minutes.
[00:17:43] Yes.
[00:17:43] And so when that started playing, I was like, yes,
[00:17:45] we could sit in this theater all day.
[00:17:47] I know there's a serial killer out there,
[00:17:48] but I'll watch this jingle and be great.
[00:17:51] Those were my two.
[00:17:52] The let's go all the, let's all go to the lobby
[00:17:55] and the opening scene of this movie.
[00:17:57] But I'll go a different path with the opening scene.
[00:17:59] Alonzo, actually I want Alonzo on here.
[00:18:02] Yeah.
[00:18:03] Alonzo, have you seen the movie Cedar Rapids
[00:18:06] with Ed Helms at all?
[00:18:10] This, the opening scene of this movie
[00:18:12] gave me Cedar Rapids feels.
[00:18:14] It's a movie that for some reason
[00:18:16] I just adore the movie.
[00:18:18] I don't know why I love it so much.
[00:18:19] I just think it's so weird and it works.
[00:18:22] But there's a commercial at the beginning
[00:18:23] and they're in the middle of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
[00:18:25] And they're like,
[00:18:26] the prestigious one diamond award or something
[00:18:29] like they do on TV.
[00:18:30] And I'm like, this felt like that.
[00:18:32] And then at the end of it feeling like Cedar Rapids
[00:18:35] a movie that I love more than anyone should love that movie.
[00:18:38] It just along goes, I'm the best after rest.
[00:18:42] And it's, it takes you,
[00:18:44] like it just kind of like catches you off guard.
[00:18:47] And it is fantastic.
[00:18:49] So I quite enjoyed that.
[00:18:51] I enjoyed that scene and I enjoyed the
[00:18:53] let's all go to the lobby scene quite a bit.
[00:18:56] Real quick, I want to point out,
[00:18:58] did you catch the shout outs
[00:18:59] to other Christmas movies in this movie?
[00:19:02] I caught some, but I'm getting the feeling
[00:19:05] I didn't catch all.
[00:19:05] Do you have some for us?
[00:19:07] I have a couple basically,
[00:19:09] but like on the marquee of the movie theater,
[00:19:12] it says the bells of St. Mary's,
[00:19:14] which is the movie that is showing
[00:19:16] at the movie theater in Bedford Falls
[00:19:18] when George Bailey runs by and says,
[00:19:20] Merry Christmas movie house.
[00:19:22] Yeah.
[00:19:23] I noticed at one point it said,
[00:19:24] I know what you did last Christmas.
[00:19:26] Right. Well, that was funny too.
[00:19:28] And then Christmas Carolina, we did that Christmas.
[00:19:30] Of course.
[00:19:31] And then of course there's a scene
[00:19:32] where they make her try on the terrible pink outfit.
[00:19:35] Oh yeah.
[00:19:36] Which is right out of a Christmas story.
[00:19:37] Yeah. I didn't catch that one.
[00:19:39] That's great.
[00:19:40] Yeah. That's a fun scene too.
[00:19:43] All right.
[00:19:43] I'm going to throw in one quick other one.
[00:19:45] It really did work for me when,
[00:19:47] when Bernie said,
[00:19:50] you know, I'm not Clarence, you were.
[00:19:52] That worked for me.
[00:19:53] That worked for you.
[00:19:54] It was this touching moment where Bernie says,
[00:19:57] you know, I,
[00:19:58] this was going to be my last Christmas
[00:20:00] and you know, you saved me.
[00:20:01] And so thinking, you know, just being like,
[00:20:03] you're the, you know,
[00:20:04] I,
[00:20:05] I,
[00:20:05] realizing that you're important
[00:20:06] in people that you don't even know that well.
[00:20:08] Listen, I'm not here to get in an argument
[00:20:10] with anybody over that scene
[00:20:11] because the, the emotion behind that was so wonderful.
[00:20:15] Yes.
[00:20:16] But as soon as they said that line
[00:20:19] in my head, I went,
[00:20:20] no, George Bailey is definitely the one
[00:20:23] that wishes he was never,
[00:20:25] like you can't just decide
[00:20:28] that the protagonist of the movie
[00:20:31] who's,
[00:20:31] They're motives behind it.
[00:20:33] You can say,
[00:20:34] you were my Clarence.
[00:20:36] I would have been fine if it's like,
[00:20:37] you know what?
[00:20:38] I get this is your,
[00:20:39] your story,
[00:20:41] but you were my Clarence.
[00:20:42] You know what I mean?
[00:20:43] Like your,
[00:20:44] your,
[00:20:44] your,
[00:20:45] our mermaid.
[00:20:46] Like I get that.
[00:20:47] But when she said,
[00:20:48] you were Clarence all along.
[00:20:50] I was like,
[00:20:51] what?
[00:20:52] I don't see it.
[00:20:53] Like I love the sentiment,
[00:20:54] but I don't get it.
[00:20:55] I'm between the two of you.
[00:20:57] It is a bit of a check
[00:20:58] that the movie is not quite ready to cash,
[00:21:01] but I still appreciate the check would bounce.
[00:21:03] I,
[00:21:04] but the scene had quality emotion in it.
[00:21:07] I think that is more than fair across the board.
[00:21:10] And I'm happy at work for you, Aaron.
[00:21:12] I'm super happy.
[00:21:13] If it worked for brand,
[00:21:14] I would not have been happy,
[00:21:15] but it worked for you.
[00:21:16] So I'm thrilled.
[00:21:17] After our next break,
[00:21:19] and I'm going to wait to say
[00:21:19] the name of the podcast till we go to break.
[00:21:21] So everybody get freaking ready.
[00:21:23] Okay.
[00:21:24] After our next break,
[00:21:25] we're going to talk about the wait, what's,
[00:21:26] and the shutter,
[00:21:27] shutter,
[00:21:28] shutter,
[00:21:29] shut up.
[00:21:30] What was it?
[00:21:31] Shut up, you face.
[00:21:32] Shut up, you face.
[00:21:34] We'll get to those two segments
[00:21:36] after this break right here on
[00:21:38] Deck the Hallmark.
[00:21:40] You went early.
[00:21:41] All you had to do is wait on the
[00:21:42] I was nervous.
[00:21:48] I, you know,
[00:21:50] this is going to happen again.
[00:21:52] You're going to host again.
[00:21:54] And I just want you to get the intro one.
[00:21:56] If you do that one,
[00:21:57] then I feel like, you know,
[00:21:58] that's the big one.
[00:22:00] Well, by saying that,
[00:22:00] I'm never going to get the intro one
[00:22:02] just to spy you.
[00:22:02] Fair.
[00:22:03] That's more than fair.
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[00:22:17] And we got the chat going.
[00:22:19] Bramble Jam Plus chat over here,
[00:22:20] which I've not been paying attention to
[00:22:21] because I've had to push buttons and stuff.
[00:22:23] We're talking about it's a wonderful knife on shutter.
[00:22:27] Seems like we all enjoyed this movie
[00:22:29] to a certain degree.
[00:22:30] Did anything make us go,
[00:22:32] huh, no way.
[00:22:33] Wait, what?
[00:22:35] Alonzo?
[00:22:36] Well, you know, OK, again,
[00:22:38] this is a this is an alternate dimension movie
[00:22:41] and a lot of things where
[00:22:42] you got to have to just go with it.
[00:22:44] I'd say it does a pretty good job
[00:22:46] of coloring within the lines
[00:22:48] that it's established for itself.
[00:22:50] My the only one I'm going to bring up is
[00:22:51] that I wish we had established
[00:22:53] that not only is Justin Long
[00:22:57] a terrible person and greedy,
[00:23:00] you know, realtor and developer,
[00:23:03] but apparently also has like this
[00:23:05] power of mass hypnosis.
[00:23:07] Yes. Yeah.
[00:23:07] Just shut that in the end.
[00:23:08] Yeah. Yeah.
[00:23:09] That seems like a lot
[00:23:11] to just sort of take as red.
[00:23:12] So maybe like a little bit
[00:23:14] of exposition to get us there,
[00:23:15] you know, would have.
[00:23:16] And when those when those green eyes
[00:23:18] came out, I was like, what is
[00:23:20] like this has not been in this movie
[00:23:23] all movie long.
[00:23:24] Why is this happening right now?
[00:23:27] I get that it, you know, 87 minutes,
[00:23:29] you know, you got to keep it for him.
[00:23:30] But just like a line,
[00:23:31] so I would have something.
[00:23:34] But yeah, beyond that,
[00:23:35] I mean, I think it all stacks up.
[00:23:38] Wow, it all stacks up
[00:23:39] beyond that one little detail.
[00:23:41] Erin, I have a few.
[00:23:43] Um,
[00:23:44] when right after before
[00:23:46] she makes her wish after she kills
[00:23:50] the killer in the present
[00:23:51] timeline where he, you know,
[00:23:52] he has his first night of killing.
[00:23:53] She stops him.
[00:23:54] We move on.
[00:23:55] It's a year later.
[00:23:56] She is confronted by the mayor's
[00:23:58] brother, Buck.
[00:23:59] And he is just like, I will never
[00:24:02] forgive you for what you did to my
[00:24:03] brother. This whole town is happy,
[00:24:04] but I am not.
[00:24:05] And you know what, Buck?
[00:24:06] Can we just take a second?
[00:24:08] Your brother murdered three people
[00:24:10] many people one night.
[00:24:11] Yeah.
[00:24:13] I'm sorry that you're grieving,
[00:24:14] but take a step back and maybe
[00:24:16] don't threaten somebody who's in
[00:24:18] self defense murders your brother.
[00:24:20] But also she did it to save
[00:24:22] her own life.
[00:24:24] Right.
[00:24:24] In self defense.
[00:24:25] I'm mad at you for for defending
[00:24:27] yourself against a killer.
[00:24:30] Buck has been established as not
[00:24:32] the sharpest bolt in the chandelier
[00:24:33] at this point.
[00:24:34] But I guess that's a bit of a stretch.
[00:24:37] Yeah.
[00:24:37] And he does shove her up against
[00:24:40] the shut down storefront of a funeral
[00:24:43] home with no less than a dozen out
[00:24:46] of business signs printed on
[00:24:48] printer paper.
[00:24:49] I just want to know if we, you know,
[00:24:50] how many signs did they need to put
[00:24:52] in that storefront for us to know
[00:24:53] that it was out of business?
[00:24:54] There is so many and not to be
[00:24:57] morose, but with all the death
[00:24:58] going on, you would think the
[00:25:00] funeral home would be.
[00:25:01] We would be in business.
[00:25:02] We'd be in business.
[00:25:02] Well, no, that's the other
[00:25:04] universe has all the death going
[00:25:05] on. This one does.
[00:25:06] There's three that just happened.
[00:25:07] It's a year later.
[00:25:08] A year ago.
[00:25:09] That's right. No, you're right.
[00:25:10] You're right. Stay correct.
[00:25:11] Since then, no one's done.
[00:25:12] She killed the killer.
[00:25:13] Everyone.
[00:25:13] That's right.
[00:25:14] She brought eternal life to Angel
[00:25:16] Falls. It's unbelievable.
[00:25:17] It says it says waters funeral
[00:25:19] home. So clearly the guy that
[00:25:20] she killed, it was his funeral.
[00:25:22] Oh, that makes sense.
[00:25:23] Easy.
[00:25:23] Yeah.
[00:25:24] Yeah.
[00:25:26] The robe, the angel killer,
[00:25:27] wears a white robe.
[00:25:28] It stays impressively clean
[00:25:29] on most of the killing.
[00:25:30] Crisp.
[00:25:32] Like not a single blood splatter
[00:25:33] but gets on that robe for most
[00:25:35] of the killings.
[00:25:36] And I was just impressed.
[00:25:37] I want to know how.
[00:25:38] Why?
[00:25:39] How?
[00:25:39] Yeah. If you're thinking about
[00:25:41] showing this movie to your kids,
[00:25:42] I mean, the movie, like if we
[00:25:43] are seeing this in a in a like
[00:25:44] in 3D, like blood would be
[00:25:46] splattering at you.
[00:25:47] Like there are there are
[00:25:48] slashers like everywhere.
[00:25:50] And it is that's why Ghostface
[00:25:52] wears all black and scream.
[00:25:53] Yes, because you can hide
[00:25:55] stains.
[00:25:56] And it was crisp pristine
[00:25:58] the whole movie.
[00:25:59] He's he's like rolling around
[00:26:00] on the ground.
[00:26:00] No dirt.
[00:26:01] No wrinkles.
[00:26:03] I just want to know what
[00:26:03] material that was.
[00:26:04] I would like to get some.
[00:26:05] That's right.
[00:26:06] Um, let's see.
[00:26:10] Oh, and the last one that I had
[00:26:11] was at the end of the movie.
[00:26:13] Like her dream is to get into
[00:26:15] college to go to NYU for
[00:26:16] photography.
[00:26:16] She doesn't get in.
[00:26:18] And at the end of the movie,
[00:26:19] she owns up to her parents.
[00:26:20] Hey, no, I did hear back to NYU.
[00:26:21] I didn't get in.
[00:26:23] And her dad says, thank goodness.
[00:26:25] NYU would have been too expensive
[00:26:27] for us.
[00:26:28] And in that timeline for the
[00:26:29] last year, they have been
[00:26:31] the head realty of the town.
[00:26:33] They are thriving.
[00:26:35] You know, they bought their son
[00:26:37] a brand new truck.
[00:26:38] That's right.
[00:26:40] I don't know.
[00:26:41] Maybe don't tell your daughter
[00:26:42] that her future is not important
[00:26:44] and probably a year of NYU in
[00:26:46] that truck, I would say, if they
[00:26:47] just purchased the trucks.
[00:26:49] I was like, look at the house
[00:26:50] you're in.
[00:26:50] You know, you've been thriving.
[00:26:52] You own this whole town,
[00:26:54] basically.
[00:26:54] Your son just has a brand new
[00:26:55] truck.
[00:26:56] I don't know if NYU was too
[00:26:57] expensive for you.
[00:26:58] I think I think the joke there
[00:27:00] is that it's because it's
[00:27:01] her.
[00:27:01] Like because the sun gets
[00:27:02] like and she gets the terrible
[00:27:03] workout outfit.
[00:27:05] So it's like, I think the sun
[00:27:06] had wanted to go to NYU.
[00:27:07] Like, oh, yes, sure.
[00:27:08] Great.
[00:27:08] We got it.
[00:27:09] But you and really pricey
[00:27:11] the present day where they
[00:27:13] apologize for not recognize
[00:27:14] her trauma and they give her a
[00:27:16] better right.
[00:27:16] They give her a better gift.
[00:27:17] They recognize her trauma.
[00:27:18] Apologize for not.
[00:27:19] And so I was like, but there
[00:27:21] but there's still I don't know.
[00:27:23] It just caught me up guard.
[00:27:24] I was like, do you better?
[00:27:24] Joe McHale.
[00:27:25] Fair, fair, fair.
[00:27:27] I got a few more.
[00:27:28] My main one is how Brandon
[00:27:31] didn't include the entire
[00:27:33] you were actually Clarence in
[00:27:36] this synopsis.
[00:27:37] It is such a major part of this
[00:27:39] movie.
[00:27:39] We've already talked about it in
[00:27:40] the fields, but part of this
[00:27:42] movie is she finds someone or
[00:27:44] lead find someone to believe
[00:27:45] her that she's in.
[00:27:47] It's a wonderful life.
[00:27:48] And then that person helps solve
[00:27:51] the mystery has a murder board
[00:27:52] the whole thing and then
[00:27:54] realizes it really was about
[00:27:56] saving their life.
[00:27:58] And that is a huge part of
[00:28:00] this movie.
[00:28:01] And if you listen to the
[00:28:02] synopsis, you probably didn't
[00:28:04] hear that in here anywhere.
[00:28:06] I would have given him a hard
[00:28:07] time about it.
[00:28:08] Were he here?
[00:28:08] I'm going to be the same guy
[00:28:09] since he's not here.
[00:28:12] I will say the two things that
[00:28:13] are very convenient for this
[00:28:15] movie are number one,
[00:28:17] the hypnotist thing at the end
[00:28:20] and number two, that even in
[00:28:22] the new the last timeline of
[00:28:24] this movie, Bernie remembers
[00:28:26] everything from the old
[00:28:27] timeline.
[00:28:28] No one else does.
[00:28:29] Nobody else remembers any of
[00:28:31] that.
[00:28:31] But Bernie does remember that.
[00:28:33] I felt that to be very,
[00:28:35] very like kind of the
[00:28:37] movie to make sure we wrap this
[00:28:39] thing up.
[00:28:40] And it is what it is.
[00:28:42] I'll get to a few of these.
[00:28:43] I just think the Aurora
[00:28:44] Borealis was like, you've had
[00:28:45] enough.
[00:28:45] Aurora is like, we got it.
[00:28:46] Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:46] We got it.
[00:28:47] Thanks for writing the time
[00:28:49] sign.
[00:28:49] Yeah, they this group of
[00:28:52] people is throwing a Christmas
[00:28:54] Eve party the same date,
[00:28:56] time and location that they
[00:28:58] did the previous year when
[00:28:59] three people got murdered at
[00:29:00] it.
[00:29:01] And I don't feel like that
[00:29:02] is I feel like people are
[00:29:04] people of tradition, but
[00:29:06] teenagers are going to be like
[00:29:08] parents are going to be like
[00:29:09] you're going where on what
[00:29:10] night?
[00:29:11] Do you not remember literally
[00:29:14] last year when this happened
[00:29:16] at the same place and the
[00:29:17] same night?
[00:29:19] Like what?
[00:29:21] Why?
[00:29:22] I mean, they do establish
[00:29:23] she feels like she's the only
[00:29:25] one who remembers that.
[00:29:26] You know, everybody else is
[00:29:27] very kind of papering over
[00:29:29] that's her personal trauma,
[00:29:30] her loss of her best friend.
[00:29:32] So I think part of the part
[00:29:34] of the reason that she gets
[00:29:34] upset and one and makes the
[00:29:36] wish to the Aurora Borealis is
[00:29:38] that everybody else in town is
[00:29:39] just like, well, that's a thing
[00:29:40] that happened and has moved
[00:29:41] on happily since then without
[00:29:43] thinking about the human
[00:29:45] toll. But there is since you
[00:29:47] bring it up, I guess the idea
[00:29:48] of a teen Christmas party
[00:29:50] taking place year after year.
[00:29:53] Teens graduate from high
[00:29:54] school and new teens come
[00:29:56] into replace them.
[00:29:57] And it's the exact same
[00:29:58] group. That's what I was
[00:29:58] getting to which is all of
[00:29:59] these people are in that
[00:30:00] just 10th, 11th grade
[00:30:03] range.
[00:30:04] None of them graduated,
[00:30:06] which is fantastic.
[00:30:08] Well, is that one guy, Pete,
[00:30:09] who gets murdered later on?
[00:30:11] What field?
[00:30:12] Who can forget about it?
[00:30:13] Of course.
[00:30:15] A few of these just that I
[00:30:17] couldn't get past.
[00:30:18] She gets in this all she wishes
[00:30:20] she was never born and then
[00:30:21] she goes to this alternate
[00:30:22] universe literally for 10 straight
[00:30:24] minutes. Nobody recognizes
[00:30:26] her. Nobody knows who she
[00:30:27] is. Her dad doesn't.
[00:30:28] Buck doesn't.
[00:30:29] Nobody does.
[00:30:30] She goes to the party and it
[00:30:31] doesn't sink in that she
[00:30:34] isn't real anymore until she
[00:30:35] looks at a yearbook.
[00:30:37] So like for 10 minutes, people
[00:30:39] were like, who are you?
[00:30:40] And then she opens up a paper
[00:30:42] yearbook, like an old like an
[00:30:44] an annual yearbook and it
[00:30:46] looks for her picture.
[00:30:48] It isn't there.
[00:30:48] And she goes, huh, I really
[00:30:50] don't exist.
[00:30:52] I've got some news.
[00:30:54] There were 10 minutes of
[00:30:55] conversations earlier that
[00:30:56] probably would have clued you
[00:30:57] in upon that fact.
[00:31:00] When she picks up the yearbook,
[00:31:01] I thought, oh, there's going to
[00:31:02] be like an in-memoriam page for
[00:31:04] her brother who died in this
[00:31:06] timeline and for her best friend.
[00:31:07] But no, she's looking for herself
[00:31:09] like, yeah, OK,
[00:31:11] are we good now?
[00:31:12] Are we clear on what's going on?
[00:31:13] She was looking through the
[00:31:14] yearbook. I'm like, there has to
[00:31:15] be a good reason for this.
[00:31:16] And when it's to find that
[00:31:17] she's not there, I was like,
[00:31:19] I need concrete proof.
[00:31:20] Where do I look?
[00:31:21] Where do I? Who do I call?
[00:31:23] Ah, yes, it's not all of
[00:31:24] these people.
[00:31:25] You know how you keep your
[00:31:26] high school yearbook all
[00:31:27] of them.
[00:31:28] Yeah, are you kidding me?
[00:31:29] Yeah.
[00:31:30] Yeah, I peaked.
[00:31:31] Where are the pedals?
[00:31:32] You know, yeah.
[00:31:35] In alternate Angel Falls that
[00:31:36] exists when she is not alive in
[00:31:38] it, overhead lights are not
[00:31:40] allowed.
[00:31:41] That is rule number one for
[00:31:42] for Angel Falls.
[00:31:43] You can have lamps.
[00:31:44] You can have an occasional
[00:31:45] flashlight.
[00:31:46] You cannot.
[00:31:47] I don't think I see a single
[00:31:50] overhead light on in a building
[00:31:52] the entire time they're in
[00:31:54] alternate Angel Falls, not
[00:31:55] one, which is
[00:31:57] just impressive, really,
[00:31:59] if you think about it, that
[00:32:00] everyone's that committed to
[00:32:01] being like they're in the
[00:32:02] original CSI.
[00:32:04] I think the outside shots are
[00:32:05] better lit than the interior.
[00:32:06] Yeah, yeah.
[00:32:07] I remember watching CSI in like
[00:32:09] the year 2000 and being like,
[00:32:10] there's no way they're splicing
[00:32:11] DNA in this much dark.
[00:32:13] They can't be.
[00:32:14] Turn a light on.
[00:32:17] I think this is this is Dave
[00:32:18] White's ideal universe because
[00:32:20] he is not.
[00:32:22] There are never the overhead
[00:32:23] lights. It's always like lamp,
[00:32:24] lamp, lamp, lamp, lamp, lamp, but
[00:32:25] like overhead light, not
[00:32:27] flat.
[00:32:28] Can't do it. Can't pull it off
[00:32:29] not with this equipment.
[00:32:30] And then lastly, this is the
[00:32:31] worst security duo I have
[00:32:33] ever seen.
[00:32:36] Just along his character has
[00:32:38] two giant dudes in suits
[00:32:40] standing there making sure
[00:32:42] nothing happens to him and
[00:32:44] he gets hit.
[00:32:45] They ask if he's OK.
[00:32:47] Then he gets murdered.
[00:32:48] They do nothing.
[00:32:49] They say nothing.
[00:32:50] They stand and go, well, that's
[00:32:52] a tough break there.
[00:32:53] Why even have them?
[00:32:54] Why even have these guys?
[00:32:56] They didn't move.
[00:32:58] It's like we can't bother
[00:32:59] with this.
[00:33:00] It's not important and we're all
[00:33:01] pulling for just along to die.
[00:33:03] But you'd think the security would
[00:33:04] step in at some point to maybe try
[00:33:06] to not have that happen.
[00:33:08] Maybe they also hated working for
[00:33:10] him and they were like, oh,
[00:33:12] we're coming. We're on our way.
[00:33:13] They're also a foot away.
[00:33:15] No, he died.
[00:33:16] Yeah. Oh no.
[00:33:18] All right. Maybe they won't hit a
[00:33:19] girl. Maybe that's yeah.
[00:33:20] That's what it is. Yeah.
[00:33:21] They're like how much how bad
[00:33:22] could this be?
[00:33:24] I'd love to do something.
[00:33:25] They're stabbing him, but I
[00:33:27] just can't.
[00:33:28] Not in good conscience.
[00:33:30] Not sure. Mama raised me right.
[00:33:33] All right, let's get to what was
[00:33:34] it? Shutter me timbers.
[00:33:36] What did we go with?
[00:33:37] Oh, I have a shut up you face.
[00:33:38] Shut up your face.
[00:33:39] I love it.
[00:33:40] Something maybe questions we have
[00:33:41] some clarity that we would like
[00:33:44] from the story that wasn't given
[00:33:45] aside from that whole hypnotist
[00:33:47] thing that happened toward the end.
[00:33:49] Alonzo.
[00:33:51] Well, you know, I was just
[00:33:52] thinking, OK, if somebody can
[00:33:54] turn
[00:33:56] it's a wonderful life into a
[00:33:57] slasher movie. What other
[00:33:59] Christmas holiday classics are
[00:34:01] awaiting the shutter slash
[00:34:03] slasher treatment?
[00:34:05] You know, is there a miracle on
[00:34:07] thirty four?
[00:34:08] Homicidal Christmas murder on
[00:34:10] thirty fourth Street.
[00:34:11] It literally writes yourself.
[00:34:13] Yeah, a Christmas carnage,
[00:34:15] you know, where
[00:34:16] it where, you know, Scrooge
[00:34:18] is a ghostbuster or something.
[00:34:20] I think I think they're
[00:34:22] opening a door here for a lot
[00:34:24] of other opportunities and I am
[00:34:25] eager to see where we go.
[00:34:26] Absolutely. I love it.
[00:34:28] Aaron, what is your take on this
[00:34:30] segment that I don't remember the
[00:34:31] name still?
[00:34:33] I know you said besides
[00:34:35] a certain thing, but my only
[00:34:37] question is about the hypnotism.
[00:34:39] I want like a prequel about
[00:34:41] the mayor.
[00:34:42] How did he get here?
[00:34:43] How did he like decide
[00:34:45] that murder was the only path
[00:34:47] forward?
[00:34:48] And yeah, I was
[00:34:51] totally on board with killing
[00:34:53] Jimmy and therefore like in
[00:34:55] the dad's grief, he joins the
[00:34:58] murder team.
[00:34:59] But then we meet the crowd of
[00:35:01] people and they all have green
[00:35:02] eyes. And I have so many
[00:35:04] questions that they didn't even
[00:35:05] throw. I would have been happy
[00:35:07] with one little line about
[00:35:08] hypnotism.
[00:35:09] Like throw me anything.
[00:35:11] Try they just ignore it and
[00:35:13] move on.
[00:35:14] And I just want a prequel
[00:35:16] where we find out how he did
[00:35:17] that. What, you know, it's
[00:35:19] where to get that cool.
[00:35:20] Matt, it's even yeah, it's
[00:35:21] even harder.
[00:35:22] Fabric of your robe. How did
[00:35:23] we, you know, where the
[00:35:24] prequel ends with him like
[00:35:26] getting his robe?
[00:35:28] And I just want to know more
[00:35:29] about it. You kind of guess
[00:35:30] that it's Joe McCail in there
[00:35:32] the whole the whole time.
[00:35:34] But I didn't I could never
[00:35:35] figure out why even when they
[00:35:36] reveal it, I'm like, why would
[00:35:38] he do this?
[00:35:39] And then the hypnotism thing
[00:35:40] comes along. I'm like, oh,
[00:35:42] well, there you go.
[00:35:43] We wrote that we did.
[00:35:44] We did. We did it there, I
[00:35:45] guess. How?
[00:35:46] Yeah, that's a lot.
[00:35:48] And mine is a lot more
[00:35:50] technical.
[00:35:51] You said, Aaron, earlier that
[00:35:53] some of the kills were cinematic
[00:35:55] and I agree.
[00:35:56] I think that's one of the
[00:35:57] highlights of this movie.
[00:35:58] The first kill when he kills
[00:36:00] the old guy,
[00:36:02] they do a close up and this is
[00:36:04] pretty gory, but they do a
[00:36:05] close up of knife on neck
[00:36:07] slicing it open and the
[00:36:09] knife is just nowhere
[00:36:11] near the skin.
[00:36:13] Like nowhere near it.
[00:36:15] Like and they put sound effects
[00:36:17] in and they make it to where
[00:36:19] you shouldn't be paying
[00:36:20] attention. But of course I'm
[00:36:21] like that nice, not even
[00:36:22] touching the skin and brazen.
[00:36:24] You're right, it isn't.
[00:36:25] And I just want to know from
[00:36:26] like a filmmaking editing
[00:36:27] perspective, you have all these
[00:36:29] great kills.
[00:36:30] But the first one loses a lot
[00:36:32] where it's so clearly a prop.
[00:36:34] We know you're not actually
[00:36:35] killing people, but we were
[00:36:36] supposed to believe that
[00:36:37] you're killing people.
[00:36:38] The first is so clearly a
[00:36:40] prop that it kind of takes
[00:36:43] you out of it a little bit.
[00:36:44] And I just I feel like that
[00:36:45] could have been cleaned up.
[00:36:46] And I want to know I'd love
[00:36:47] to hear how that made the
[00:36:48] final cut, I guess is what
[00:36:49] I'm saying.
[00:36:51] I'm seeing in the chat.
[00:36:51] I do want to clarify a point.
[00:36:53] I'm not on board with killing
[00:36:55] Aaron is pro murder is what we
[00:36:57] heard here.
[00:36:58] What I meant to say and maybe I
[00:37:00] didn't that's what she does like
[00:37:01] horror movies.
[00:37:02] She wants to be real.
[00:37:03] She will often kill her blood
[00:37:04] thirst.
[00:37:05] I don't understand how Joe
[00:37:06] McKayle would become the killer,
[00:37:08] but then understand like how he
[00:37:09] would work with the mayor.
[00:37:11] But after his only son, his pride
[00:37:13] and joy is murdered, I could see
[00:37:15] him the coming to the power of
[00:37:17] the mayor.
[00:37:18] That's what I'm on board with
[00:37:20] that explaining that plot line.
[00:37:22] I'm not on board with the murder
[00:37:24] of you actually said specifically
[00:37:26] like I don't watch slash or movies.
[00:37:28] They're so unrealistic.
[00:37:28] That's not I how I or
[00:37:31] I mean, others would kill people
[00:37:32] in real life.
[00:37:33] I'm pretty sure you said that exact
[00:37:34] thing. So I mean, I want to know
[00:37:36] where he gets that rope.
[00:37:39] If later today in Greenville,
[00:37:42] if someone is found with a yellow
[00:37:43] not Stanley Cup sticking out of
[00:37:45] their forehead, it's right, you
[00:37:46] know, this will be edited.
[00:37:48] The last time you saw brand,
[00:37:49] I don't know. But also you're not
[00:37:51] using like if you had a real Stanley,
[00:37:52] you're not using that to murder
[00:37:53] anybody. That's why I mean like
[00:37:55] no, no, no, we can't.
[00:37:57] I paid two dollars for this.
[00:37:58] That's right. Come on.
[00:37:59] Let's just be real.
[00:38:00] I had we did it everybody.
[00:38:03] This was fun.
[00:38:04] Highly enjoyable.
[00:38:05] Check out. It's a wonderful knife
[00:38:06] if you feel so inclined.
[00:38:08] We'll be back tomorrow with another
[00:38:10] one and the day after with another
[00:38:12] one tomorrow.
[00:38:13] We get to watch Earthquake
[00:38:14] Underground from to be.
[00:38:15] Oh, finally.
[00:38:16] Finally.
[00:38:17] Man, Alonzo is not joining
[00:38:19] us for that.
[00:38:20] I will not.
[00:38:21] No, but it's one
[00:38:23] of those earthquakes that happens
[00:38:24] underground.
[00:38:25] Yes. Like all the other ones are
[00:38:27] usually in the sky.
[00:38:29] I will be here next week, however.
[00:38:31] And you know what we're talking
[00:38:32] about, Dan? No idea.
[00:38:33] Oh my.
[00:38:34] It is a hang on.
[00:38:35] I want to get this title right
[00:38:36] because, you know, it is
[00:38:39] as all as we always do on the show
[00:38:41] a contemporary Christmas
[00:38:43] classic that would be
[00:38:45] Erkel saves Santa the movie.
[00:38:47] Oh, right.
[00:38:48] Is Jaleel White in it?
[00:38:51] He's it's an animated film,
[00:38:53] and I believe he is the voice.
[00:38:54] Well, if Jaleel
[00:38:56] Jaleel White was in a live action
[00:38:58] movie as Erkel again, I would just
[00:38:59] be like, I love it.
[00:39:00] I don't care. It's like Brain with
[00:39:01] Boy Meets World. Like I just it
[00:39:03] doesn't matter. It's great.
[00:39:05] But I animated Erkel
[00:39:07] movie.
[00:39:08] Yeah. And I have never seen a
[00:39:10] second of Family Matter.
[00:39:11] So you get to annotate this for
[00:39:12] me.
[00:39:13] Oh, you stand to start.
[00:39:14] Did I do that?
[00:39:16] Fantastic.
[00:39:18] Erkel saves Christmas or whatever
[00:39:19] it's called. It's a sequel sequel to
[00:39:21] Ernest saves Christmas and other
[00:39:22] called men's Santa save Santa.
[00:39:24] Oh, men's and Christmas.
[00:39:25] Oh, love that movie.
[00:39:27] Yeah. Until.
[00:39:28] Sorry. Sorry.
[00:39:29] I believe I was one last thing.
[00:39:30] I know the first time.
[00:39:32] Never get it.
[00:39:33] Second time. Third time.
[00:39:34] I was trying to do the one thing
[00:39:35] I don't do.
[00:39:37] Last thing, if you go to Shutter
[00:39:39] to watch, it's a wonderful life
[00:39:41] and maybe you do like a seven
[00:39:42] week, a seven day trial or
[00:39:43] whatever.
[00:39:44] Check out the four part documentary
[00:39:45] Queer for Fear about the history
[00:39:47] of LGBTQ plus representation in
[00:39:49] horror films.
[00:39:50] I'm interviewed in it.
[00:39:51] Oh, fantastic.
[00:39:52] More.
[00:39:53] Check out more queer history and
[00:39:54] film. You can pick up a copy of
[00:39:56] Hollywood tried by Alonzo Derraldi
[00:39:58] starting May 14th like she's been
[00:40:00] the audio book is narrated by
[00:40:02] the.
[00:40:03] So it is.
[00:40:04] Order now get all the copies
[00:40:06] and yeah, you know, they were
[00:40:07] going to get Alfonzo Derraldi to
[00:40:08] come do the audio book, but they
[00:40:10] couldn't make his deal.
[00:40:11] And so we're stuck.
[00:40:12] Oh, yeah.
[00:40:13] It's unfortunate.
[00:40:14] Is that it? Is there anything
[00:40:16] for the good of all of us?
[00:40:18] Second emotion?
[00:40:19] Great.
[00:40:20] Until next time,
[00:40:22] may we be the first to wish you
[00:40:24] a Merry Christmas.
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