Yeah, you cut me too. Deep.
I think I'm dying here, man. Welcome to the. 3D video Deep.
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Oh yeah, it's that time again for another weekly podcast with
your host Rotten, Roger DeMarco. And today I am bringing on a
long time homie of the channel, one of my favorite unsung
comedic Youtubers out there that covers movies.
The homie Strange Monkey Reviews.
What an intro. What an intro.
Thank you so much for that. Thanks for having me on the
show. Man, dude, appreciate it.
It's a, it's a long time coming. I, I, I don't understand why we
haven't done a live stream. We haven't like none of the
stars have aligned for us to officially do something
together. And it's been annoying because
I'm like, I just want to hang out with you all the time.
Just bad timing, I guess. You know?
It is what it is, yeah. I mean I at.
Least now. Here.
We're here now. Yeah, I did manage to use one of
your shorts in tape Ed Return of Jacob Cobb.
So that's like the closest we've come to like, like doing
something. With that one, and I think you
did like a audio thing for one of my one of my shorts that I
did like you did like what was it like coming you?
You had a role in one of my videos.
I think it was like a on the radio or something, yeah.
Yeah, it was like on a walkie-talkie and I did a Cycle
Gorman review for one of your live streams like a while back.
But that that's about. It really, yeah, we we need to
like cross paths more often for sure.
I'm sure we'll be able to, yeah. Let's, let's, I'm going to buy
bunk beds. You know, we'll plan a little
vacation. Build a Fort.
Yes, out of blankets and pillows.
I need to build a blanket Fort in the cabin because it is
freezing down here or in here. Not down here, not no, Kayfabe
wise, I'm actually in a cabin. I'm not in a cold basement.
But for the folks out there listening, watching, however
they're consuming this, the uninitiated Strange Monkey
Reviews, you have been at this, give or take.
The Strange Monkey Reviews YouTube channel started in 2012,
Yes. Yes, technically, yes.
It it started just a basic channel, random videos, no
vision. The character was there.
I had the glasses. It's basically these like little
prosthetic eyeball things I got from Spencer's, but no
direction. And at some point I stumbled
across Joe Bob Briggs and I started watching like Elvira
stuff and Tales from the Crypt, and I was inspired to create
some kind of a movie host character.
And I started buying posters and backdrops and just all these
little props, the little nail through the finger thing that I
use, all kinds of stuff. And you know, that's how I
started reviewing movies like, And then it officially became
that in 2018 until this day. So it's been a quite an
interesting journey. Yeah, so let's rewind to way,
way, way back before Strange Monkey reviews.
This is something that I'm, I'm always interested in what, what
was like the catalyst, the, the starting point of your creative
journey? Were you a theater kid?
Cause to me, like, I don't know if this is like, like some
people take offense, but like you seem like a theater kid,
like you did theater in, in school.
Perhaps maybe speech. You have a very, like you're,
you're very comfortable, you know what I mean?
And that's not something you you see often.
I knew people who took theater and for some reason I was never
stuck in any of those classes. For some reason.
I feel like if I had done that back then, maybe it would have
helped me because I used to be pretty nervous when I was in
front of a group of people and I was kind of camera shy.
When I was a child, I didn't like to hear myself on camera
for some reason. But then after a while now I'm
just like comfortable with whatever.
So it's it's a lot more easier for me.
Right. Well, I think, you know, growing
up and being like a horror fan and, you know, we always kind of
put our guards up, you know, it's just a little of like, I,
I, I don't know if I'm going to be accepted by, you know, these
social circles or whatever. So it's, it's, it's difficult to
like come out of your shell a little bit, you know, at least
it was. It takes a little bit of time,
yeah. Yeah.
So when you were a young kid, if you weren't in theater and
stuff, when when was the introduction to horror?
When did that happen? Was that like a parent's you
have like a cool uncle that was like check out, you know,
Terravision or whatever. Like how did that all come come
to be? So it's it's kind of a little
bit of everything there that you mentioned, like bits and pieces.
I give credit to my uncle for really introducing me to a lot
of things like Georgia Romero's work.
You know, he was, he showed me all the Living Dead movies and
all the cool sci-fi stuff. And then there was a local video
store that that was not too far away from where I lived in New
York. And I used to rent all types of
stuff. And I was still trying to get
into horror when I was little. And I remember watching things
like New Nightmare, Child's Play 2, stuff like that.
And then eventually I started renting when I moved to Florida.
I rented Friday the 13th Part 3 and that was the big one for me
where I just kept renting more horror and horror like that
specific summer. I was like way back in 2002 and
my brother and I would just rent all types of movies and I got
pulled into the the Friday the 13th stuff and Halloween.
And so I mean, like I also saw a little bit of Halloween when I
was a kid. So I, I was familiar with all of
that. And I think even further back,
like the show Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Got me or yeah. And like Goosebumps and things
like that. And I, I was, I was obsessed
with those shows. Dude so.
It's just like a little bit of here and there, but after Friday
the 13th Part 3, that's when I I became a huge fan of horror.
Hell yeah. I and I know you and I have
talked off air obviously like just in our casual day-to-day
conversations about are you afraid of the dark?
That is a, a, a huge catalyst for people around our age when
you're a young kid and Snick would come on, you know, and
that, that intro I have been trying to sell evil on.
Are you afraid of the dark for years, 'cause he never, he
didn't grow up on it. No, he doesn't.
And I, I, I've let him borrow the entire series and I'm like,
I know you know the intro, but just really watch and listen to
the intro. And if you can get through them
sitting around the campfire and like getting, you know, gearing
up their story, like if that it'll grab you, like just just
let it grab you. I swear, like the kid, the kid
in you, there's no intro to any, you know, Twilight Zone, Tales
from the Dark Side, whatever. Across the board.
In my opinion, that is as scary as Are You Afraid of the Dark?
It's as soon as you see that intro, it's dark and and like
the lighting, it's just dark and blue.
Yes, that's what. And it's like, I should not be
here at all. Get the hell out of here.
That's what pulls you in, man. It's one of the best intros in
any, like, horror series. Yeah, it's true.
Like if you give it a chance, like if you can, if like you're
a kid and that scares you, you can get past that and watch one
of the episodes. It will.
It will just pull you in after one episode.
It's so good. And being that there's like
whatever, seven or eight seasons, I can't remember how
many official seasons there are of that original run.
But like you're, you're dealing with maybe like a handful of
episodes that aren't great. You know, maybe like you can
probably count on one hand on episodes where you're like, you
know, they're they're so consistent across the board.
But you brought up something in passing very quick that I did
not know about you. You are from New York.
Originally, I, I was in, I was born in Brooklyn.
I lived there until I, yeah, I lived there until I was about 8
years old. Then I moved to Florida.
You a you a Beastie Boys fan? I like a little bit of Beastie
Boys. Damn right.
Yeah, dude. So being from Brooklyn and I
know you said, you know, you were younger, but can you
remember was 40 2nd St. was it like starting to become sterile
or was it still kind of like, you know, Times Square?
Was that like dirty still like last action hero or was that
like, you know? I'm out there.
Like when I would, I remember it was just, I mean, obviously
there's a lot of people coming and going to it.
The way I can describe it, it was it, it felt so alive, you
know what I mean? Like all the traffic, all the
people, all of the stores that just, you know, catch your eye,
especially at night. It was beautiful at night.
And I I, I would say back then, yeah, it was, it was still fine.
You know, it was like a place to go and visit and just have fun.
I mean, it's been you since I've been out there, so I, I couldn't
really tell you how it is now. Yeah.
Yeah, so it didn't, I mean, obviously as as a kid, like
ignorance is bliss and you know, like you don't know to be afraid
so. But it was like, it was, it was
clean and like, not, not 80s New York, you know what I mean?
No, no, not like Jason takes Manhattan.
Just random flashers roaming around, you know?
No, no, I never, no, I never came across any flashes or
anything like that. Just like the people selling the
bootleg movies in the street or whatever.
And it's we're selling random toys on the subway train.
That's that's about it really. Never encountered some crazy
people. Hell yeah.
That's. Dude, that's wild, though.
I hadn't. I had no clue that you were from
New York and I. Thought I had mentioned that
before, but probably not. I was.
Going to say, if so, it might have like just, you know, I
don't know. But like other our other buddy
that gave me my start in horror, Frank Fulchi from Repulsive
Reviews. He's from New York, so yeah,
perhaps, well, I you and I should go visit New York and and
go roam around and New York with him and he can show us all the
sights. That would be something.
I'm sure there's a lot of cool places out there.
Yeah, man, this is something that obviously long time fans of
you are going to know, but for the audience that is unaware,
I'm just going to. I don't want to fellate you.
You know what I mean? I don't want to like just suck
on your balls for an hour. But I got I got it.
I got I, I want to say this with you not being a theater kid.
I, I, it's just, I probably comes from hanging out with your
brother and all your friends and, and you know, just just
being a silly kid. But for the people that don't
know, you have an incredible knack for impressions.
And if for the, for the people watching this, listening to
this, that aren't aware of the range, like your range is
incredible. I appreciate that.
I encourage, I encourage people to go and, and check out some of
the stuff where you're doing impressions.
But that being said, Sir, I have a challenge for you.
OK? I, I was talking to my wife the
other day and I was like, my God, I get, you know, we, we
laugh all the time about your impressions when we're sending
voice messages back and forth. And I don't know how this came
about, but you have an affinity for a couple of characters.
And so I thought, here's here's my pitch to you and I'm going to
have you improv something for me.
This is Doctor Loomis giving pre pre fight instructions to Nick
Diaz. Oh God.
All right, see if I can. On the spot.
You said Doctor Loomis giving pre fight instructions to make
the end. Yes, Sir.
All right, you know the rules. No hitting below the belt.
Let's keep it clean. You understand me?
Hey, man, it's not my first Rd. here.
You understand me? OK, All right, I'll go in there,
you know, hit him with some good shit, all right?
Like it won't take me 6 shots to take this guy down.
Like I'll get one head kick and that's it, you know?
Get the fuck out of here with that.
Oh my God, bravo, Sir. That's so good.
And again, like I'm saying that that type of shit just comes
from riffing with your friends and you know.
I do it all the time. It's so.
Fucking good. The Loomis.
There are guys out there on
YouTube that make a living a killing of impersonating Loomis
that don't come close when you get rolled.
Out like some people, like I know personally have done it and
you know, God bless them, they tried, but some of them just
don't come close. And, you know, I, I think it's
because I've watched those movies so many times and I'm
just able to tap into the character and just go for it.
I don't know what it is. So I, I've had a series of
videos where I do just different horror movie characters.
It's mostly been antagonists and I'm trying to do one with
protagonists. So I, I've got something in the
future layer I try like RJ McCready from the Thing and
Doctor Loomis. So I'm trying to think of
different characters that I can probably do impressions of.
When it comes to Loomis, no matter how much I try, I can't.
I can't access that younger, earlier film, Loomis.
I'm, I'm kind of stuck in curse, you know, not dead.
Just that much like. That's that's about as about as
good as I got. I got old man Loomis.
That's all of his memories, yeah.
When? Yeah, I it when you are a
madman, it takes a little bit of time because the younger Loomis,
it takes me a few tries to do the impressions.
Like the scene where he's talking with the sheriff about
him being evil. Like, you know, you like I said,
you just have to really like tap into it and and then just go.
So it takes a few tries. He's got a like a, a weird shake
that his voice, you know, like, and it's if you don't nail that,
it's kind of like when someone does a Schwarzenegger, some
people, they either go too deep or they go too, too high pitch
and there's like a there's a fine line, you know.
You have to that middle ground, you know, it just comes pretty
much. A lot of hours of staring at
yourself in the mirror, just repeating the same phrase, you
know, just trying to nail it. Now going back to your reviews,
I got to, I got to bring up something because this is
something that ever since I started doing reviews, I, I've
struggled with and I'm curious how other people handle this.
So I, I want to kind of pick your brain on how do you handle
balancing the positivity with the negativity?
And what I mean by that is like, you know, you, you want to
specifically, you want to talk about things you love, right?
Like it, there's so much hate out there that it's kind of low
hanging fruit to just be like, this movie is garbage.
But on the other hand, sometimes you see a movie and you can't
you can't sugarcoat it, you know what I mean?
So so how do you find that balance of like this is this
movie exists? It wasn't for me, but maybe
you'll like it, you know what I mean?
Without like. Yeah, I mean, if it's something
that a lot of people enjoyed and I didn't, I'll just flat out
say, look, it wasn't for me. And that's where my rating
system comes in. And you know, if it wasn't good
or if I thought it was just OK, I just put it right in the
middle. And you know, or if it's the
other way around, if it's something that I really liked
and not a lot of people did like, for example, Anaconda,
that for some, for some reason, that movie does not debt a lot
of love. I don't know what it is like.
People hated it and I thought it was incredible.
I'm with you. And yeah, so I mean, that's one
of the movies I, I'm going to be reviewing in the future because
like, I want to review more films that I like, you know,
older stuff. I mean, I, I still have new
movies that I'm going to talk about, but you know, a movie
like Anaconda, like I, I got nothing but just straight up
enjoyment from that film. Yeah.
So I know people hate it, but it's like, like it is what it
is. I love it.
So that that's the important thing.
If you like it, at the end of the day, that's what it's all
about. Yeah.
And I think that's, that's really important when it comes
to being a reviewer, being a air quotes critic or, you know,
whatever is, is just kind of, you know, being true to yourself
and being like, I have no, no apologies.
Like this is my brand of humor. This is my brand of gore or
whatever, you know, and like, like you with Anaconda, that is
a, a perfect example because I, I think I've told this story
before when I saw it in theaters, people were leaving
the theaters and it was like half of the people were like,
Jesus Christ, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.
And other people were like, yeah, you know, and the ride
home with me and my buddies was like, that was so much fun, like
so much fun. And you know it.
If you can just shut your brain off and have a good time, you
know so. Yeah, I the way the the snake
looks in that film, that Anaconda with like when it's up
close with all the animatronics, like it looks so realistic.
Of course there's CGI in there, but honestly, like I was fine
with it. If you see the other sequels,
you can you can see that the quality is just dropping with
every and by the time they get to three, it looks like like
it's a sci-fi original. It looks terrible.
Oh, yeah. And then, yeah.
And then they're doing like Lake Placid versus Anaconda.
And you're like, bother. Yeah, I think I own that.
I'm pretty sure I own that. I think I've seen, I can't
remember if it was like the cover has got like a one of the
the big alligator, like eating up a girl and her legs are like
dangling. That might be a like Placid
movie, but the covers look pretty ridiculous.
I mean, I'm like, there's that, but I've never seen that movie.
Well, and I also think, you know, this is important evil,
and I bring this up a lot too, is like when a movie is made and
it knows that it's going to be bad.
It doesn't have the same like it's not as endearing as like
like Anaconda, like you said, you know, the animatronics
amazing, the cast amazing, the pacing, everything everything in
that movie kicks ass, yet it wins Razzies and you know, it's
just it's just generally shit upon by the public, but it was
made. With like love and respect and
they were like, we're making a kick ass creature feature, not
Lake Placid versus Anaconda where it's like we have whatever
100 grand and we're going to shoot it on digital and put it
directly on sci-fi and who gives a fuck?
Like there's like a. No, they they set out to to make
a straight up creature feature and I think they accomplished
that because it did very well in theaters and whatnot.
And we have movies like these days, like more recent one I
could think of as crawl with the alligator and the and the girl
trying to get away from it like that reminded me of Anaconda.
Like a just a fun creature feature, not too complicated or
anything like that. So I mean, again, Anaconda to
me, like they had a goal and I feel like they accomplished that
despite all the hate that it gets.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. Sidebar crawl this fucking bad
ass. Just throwing that out there.
Yeah, it's a really good movie, Yeah.
Yo, Rizzle the mizzle. Can I ask a question?
Yeah, man, you can ask him a question.
That's cool. Do you think Noodles would start
a channel with me? Come on, be honest.
He probably would. He would probably sabotage the
entire channel just so he can team up with you.
That that is one thing that I haven't got to ask you about is
where did the the want or the need for a sidekick like noodles
come into play? So I basically wanted to just
have a sidekick because I've seen other shows where if it's
like a movie host or if they've got like a character like a
sidekick, or I've seen channels that inspired me to come up with
different ideas, different characters with masks or just
animals. And this guy comes from like a
older YouTube channel that I was on with my friends and it was
like a smaller little puppet. It's something I found at
Michael's. And then I found this vintage
little monkey puppet over here. And I feel like my brother used
to have something like this. And I looked it up and it was
the exact same 1. And I said this is the noodles
puppet that I'm using. So, you know, whenever I try to
do like top fives countdowns and I I shot some new ones and the
noodles is in there. So I tried to involve him in
just random stuff, like I did this video where Noodles was
reacting to the Linnea Quickly workout.
So I was like, this isn't something for me.
I feel like Noodles would fit right in just doing stuff.
So, you know, it's cool to have like a little wacky sidekick
coming up with just come up with all these crazy things that are
in my mind. So it's been fun to have Noodles
in here just. Yeah.
Yeah, most whore host, like you said, they they always have like
my local whore host drive sanguinary.
He has like Igor, which is basically like a, a an ape arm.
You know, that kind of comes in, opens the door, does a bunch of
weird things like that. Do you find it easier since like
most of the stuff that you're doing, you know, you're you're
writing, you're editing, you're doing all those things.
Yeah, rather than have a human Co host, do you find it easier
to write like your segments and your skits and write your
dialogue for noodles then then having to like coordinate and
deal with, you know, having a crew of people?
Because I know like the more cooks that are in the kitchen,
the more difficult it gets, especially with like scheduling.
And I mean, we all know that when it comes to like
production. I do think it's, it's a little
bit easier, I mean, because you know when when you collaborate
with other people, you have to just wait to see like when
they're available, you know what you want to do and if they're
cool with it. And then you throw ideas back
and forth with like with Noodles just coming up with this
character and just I can write down what I would like for him
to do, how it would fit into the video.
Does it work? Does it not work?
And then I just go from there. So I I mean, I find it easy.
Sometimes it's a little challenging for can this work in
this video? Will it not?
You know, right? But you?
Don't know whenever I get it right.
Yeah, exactly. And you know, most of the time
it works. That being said, Sir, I suppose
we can move on to the last half of the podcast if you are ready
for it. Yes, Sir, let's do it all.
Right. So this second-half of the
podcast, Sir, we're going to be taking a look at Strange Monkey
Reviews Hot takes. It's not a big sub hot takes and
I don't care if you like my hot takes because these are my
motherfucking hot tastes. Hot tastes.
That's right. It's time to do the Hot Takes
segment now. Sir, this is the Deep Cut
podcast and I would not be doing the name of that podcast justice
if I did not scroll endlessly through your social medias and,
you know, take notes and look at many a different things that you
have professed your love for over the years and then then
make you choose between them. So I'm going to I'm going to
give you 10 different AB choices and you're going to have to pick
A or B. Now you can just choose and say
that's my answer and let's move on, or you can answer and give a
reason as to why. Now, the reason that I do this
is, you know, I've said this a handful of times, but when I'm
interviewing somebody, I feel like it's important for people
to realize that you are not just your profession.
You are not just a horror movie reviewer.
There are things that you do outside of camera, things that
you love, things that you care about.
And I feel like it's important to just kind of get to know you
a little bit more, more than, and some of these are, are, are
surface level things, but they're not just movie
discussions. So if you are ready, Sir, I, I'm
ready. I've got some things for you.
So all right #1 pro wrestling or MMA?
Pro wrestling, OK, I've always enjoyed pro wrestling since I
was like 4-5 years old. I, I did get into MMA when I was
a teenager. My brother is heavily into it
and he stopped lacking pro wrestling.
But I I'm still into pro wrestling.
I mean, I understand there's some hate, but you know, I just,
it's entertainment at the end of the day, that's what it's all.
About I think it, you know, and it also ties into our our kid
like sensibilities of bigger than life characters, you know,
which also comes with being a horror host you you love
watching a character evolve and have like a mythos, you know,
and MMA, we're lacking that a lot.
So but that being said, let me ask you this.
This is a little sidebar to pro wrestling or MMA, which is more
acceptable in your opinion? David Arquette's wrestling
career or CM Punk's MMA career? Well, I'll have to go with
probably David Arquette's wrestling career because at
least he he had victories, you know what I mean?
He was a champ. Baby.
I mean, yes, he was the champ in an unfortunately is CM Punk's
MMA career. He had two fights he didn't win.
One of them became a draw. And I remember they had him on
commentary calling the fights. And I'm thinking to myself, this
is not a place where he needs to be.
If he was, you know, someone who had accomplished a lot and, you
know, he's a Hall of Famer, OK, you could have him sitting
there. But at this point, I'm thinking
this is not where he needs to be.
He needs to go back to wrestling because this, it's just making
him look bad in my opinion. You know, that's just how I
felt. About it, yeah, he.
Was but David Arquette, I think he redeemed himself with that.
He did a movie where I think it was called I Am David Arquette,
and it was about his journey into independent pro wrestling
to just sort of redeem himself and get away from that whole
negativity from the WCW stuff. Yeah.
But I would, I would say David Arquette, yeah.
And and I'm glad you say that because I'm fully on board.
I'm I'm I'm a David Arquette Mark like I'm not gonna I can't
lie about it. And my Co host evil will.
He refuses. He refuses to accept David
Arquette in the world of wrestling and and like you said,
the the document, that documentary that just came out,
I think it you know, you can't kill David Arquette or whatever.
I. Think yeah, I think that was the
that's the title. And it's, it's very like, it's
wholesome and it's like he's going out of his way to prove
like, look, man, like I realized that I was booked to to win a
title or whatever because of movie promotion.
But like, I did grow up on wrestling.
I do love wrestling. I I'm willing to take the bumps
to, you know, to get some form of respect.
And so, yeah, I'm, I'm fully on the David Arquette side of that
argument for sure. Absolutely. #2 Gaming question
PlayStation or Xbox? PlayStation.
Simple PlayStation. I enjoy both, but you know, I
grew up more on PlayStation. Yeah, I appreciate Xbox, but I'm
a PlayStation guy 100%. Yep, PS1.
I think for a lot of us, our age like that was the next big leap,
you know, and you it. Was incredible.
PS1 we had long before we had Xbox One or Xbox, you know, so.
Yeah, long before it was, it was PS1 and PS2.
Yep. I I also, the only reason I own
an Xbox is because evil owns an Xbox.
And when the Friday the 13th game came out, he was like, we
have to play together. So you have to get a, you have
to get my console. Oh, yes, yes.
So yeah, I was APS. I had my PS3 to the bitter end,
you know, I was APS three kind of guy, But all right, next
question, Sir, domestic pets, cats or dogs?
Oh, that's a tough one because I, I, I currently own a cat and,
you know, I've owned dogs over the years, but I, I would say
dogs simply because I've had more dogs than cats.
OK, you know, and anybody can just get attached to both
because they're both great pets. You know, you can see them more
than just that. And they become good friends.
So if I had to choose I'd I'd go with the dog.
Yeah, but you're right, they become a family member.
You know, they're around for 1520 years.
And yeah, but dogs sure do have a lot of personality, that's for
sure. So.
I agree. Next question Animated question
King of the Hill or Beavis and Butthead?
Oh, that's it's both Mike Judge too.
So I mean, as the years went by, I have appreciated king of the
hill a little bit more. You know, it's great.
But damn it be with some butt head is just it's just
incredible, man. I've got to go with be with some
butt. I've been watching that all my
life, man. I'm so happy that they they
started up the show again like about two years ago and it's
still going. It's same as king of the hill.
I mean, if you enjoy both, it's a win win.
But yeah, I'm going to go with Beavis and Butt.
Yeah, I'm with you on that too. I I was a late bloomer with King
of the Hill. And again, I think he said like,
you know, over the years, like you grow to appreciate it that
because it's a very dry type of comedy.
But with Beavis and Butt Head, I I think like because it's
smarter than it's letting on, you know?
Yeah, there's a lot of layers to that onion.
So on the surface level, you watch Beavis and Butthead and
you're like, boy, they're just idiots.
But there's so much social commentary going on on that
show. That know, you know, yeah.
And it ages really well because you can watch it as a teenager
and be like, you know, it's stupid fun.
But then the older you get, you're like, like, I understand
this joke now. Like you know so.
Yeah, I mean, you could still go back to it and it and it just,
the jokes land very well and it's still great.
Still very socially relevant, especially the new seasons.
The new movie? Phenomenal.
Though they were great. The whole bit about white
privilege in the new movie was probably one of the funniest
things that. I've That was hilarious.
No, no, we have white. I was like, I was like, Jesus
Christ, we're going there. All right.
Next is a martial arts question. And I I know this answer, but
I'm going to pray. I'm going to.
I think I know the question already.
I'm. Prefacing it for the folks out
there that don't know we've had this conversation many a time
off air and there's only one right answer, so Jean-Claude Van
Damme or Steven Seagal. I can't believe Steven Seagal
was one of the choices. Jean-Claude Van Damme dude.
Like I remember watching hard target when I was like 4 years
old and I was like, who is this badass with this mullet just
picking everybody's ass? We unloaded that leg like a like
a fucking gun, but I had like a holster just kicking everybody's
ass. He didn't need a gun.
He he had his leg. He his leg was the.
Weapon, it's true. And that sweet New Orleans
accent that he's trying to sneak in there.
He. Tried, he tried so hard, right?
He did what he could. But I mean, I really enjoyed,
like whenever Van Damme, anything Van Damme was on TV,
like I was instantly glued to the TV, whether it was Double
Impact or The Quest or Street Fighter, whatever the case may
be, I was all for it. And like in Steven Seagal's
stuff, like I started watching his stuff like a few years
later, you know, like Under Siege, like those first couple
of movies he did were great. But I mean, with his reputation
the way it is now, like he's a punching bag in the world of
like martial arts films. But you know, I can appreciate
his older stuff, but he is nowhere near as good as Van Dam
and he will never be. And that's it.
That's it. No, yeah, that, that is a hands
down. Like there is no argument to be
had. But I will say, I will say this
though, those like you said the first like maybe 3 or 4 Seagal
flicks. So you've got like, and they're
all like 3-3 words. You know, it's like hard to kill
out for justice, like hard to die or you know, they're all
like some dumb shit. Is above the law, hard to kill,
marked for death, out for justice, under siege, under
siege. Who those?
Those are like some of his best ones.
And it's because he was not creatively involved.
I, I believe wholeheartedly, you know, they were.
Hollywood was attempting to turn him into an action star,
obviously. And then it was.
Working for a while. And then his ego and, and his
reputation and everything else gets involved and it's a train
wreck, you know, and, and personal life wise, you could
say a similar sentiment for Van Dam because you know, he, he's
had some issues here and there. But of course you.
Know because everyone is human. But Van Dam is nowhere near the
disgusting garbage human that Steven Seagal is.
At least at least Van Dam could at least admit that he had some
problems and he did what he could to to fix himself up.
And he's still beloved by so many people all around the
world. Absolutely.
The doll. It's it's the complete opposite.
I'm gonna just say this, we didn't see Steven Seagal in any
of The Expendables movies, so. Nope, you know what I'm saying?
No Sir. No shots fired.
But it is all right. Next is a music question for
you, Sir. OK, Hollywood Undead or Limp
Bizkit. Man, that's a, that's a tough
one. I got to go with Limp Bizka.
I mean, Hollywood Undead was inspired that Limp Bizka was one
of their inspirations. But I, I was always pulled into
that new metal, rap rock genre, you know, when it was at its
peak and everything. And I know it's, it has its
haters, but I don't care. Not at all.
I love new metal, you know, I love those.
Both of those bands I really enjoyed.
But yeah, Limp Bizka is definitely my favorite.
It's, you know, it's aggressive. It's it ties into all that angst
we had growing up, for sure. And.
And, and the cool thing about Limp Bizkit, which you and I
have talked about off air is the most, I don't know if it's the
most recent album, but with dad vibes and, and all of that
stuff, it seems to evolve, You know, it evolves with them and
the subject matter stays aggressive, but from like an
older point of view. And it's yes, it just, it, it
works. It works like gangbusters.
When you use it, when you use the same formula that they use
and you put all that together, it it still works.
Yeah, it's great. Fantastic, so can't fault you on
that choice, but I yeah, I do. I do love me some some early
Hollywood Undead for sure like the first. 2-3 stuff, yeah.
All right. Next, which you I you kind of
answered previously, but this is a movie question.
OK? Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat
the OG's, not any of the extra stuff.
No, no, OG's OK, so I, I, I really enjoy both, but across
the board, as far as like the best adaptation from a video
game, I've got to give it to Mortal Kombat.
You know, that atmosphere and that world that they put
together like Paul, Paul WS Anderson's best work goes into
Mortal Kombat. When I saw the trailer for
Street Fighter, I was excited because like Street Fighter 2
was like the first video game I ever had.
My uncle gave me a Super Nintendo and the first two games
I had were Street Fighter 2 and Alien 3.
So I was I was already familiar and I was so pulled in when I
saw Street Fighter had the poster and everything.
Like, I was really excited to see it and it's fun and I'm it
does have a few flaws, unfortunately, as far as like
the background of the characters and everything.
But it's, you know, if you don't take it seriously, it's still a
great movie. Same with Mortal Kombat, but
it's such a bad ass movie. And I I to this day, I still
think it's the greatest movie based on a video game.
Like nothing has topped it in my opinion, yeah.
Well, and everything with Mortal Kombat, the the music, the
lighting, it just it, it does such a good job.
You know, the the only thing that it's missing really is
gore. But they knew when they made the
movie that to make it more palatable for a larger audience
that they couldn't fill it with all the crazy gore.
So. But that being said man.
Street Fighter is one of those movies that you and I, we have
such a strange affinity for. And you know, I, I pushed that
movie on everybody. Our old tech man that used to
run everything. Remix one up.
Shout out to the remix. He had never heard of that
movie. And then when you you bought the
steelbook and you had sent me a picture and I And he was like,
there's a fucking Street Fighter movie.
And I was like, yeah, and you're going to borrow it.
So like, I went down and got my old DVD of it.
And he was so floored by it. He was like, I don't know that
this should exist, but it's so much fun, you know, like it
like, if you give it a chance. If you give it a chance, it's
along the lines of like a three ninjas.
It's got that weird kind of like it's 4 kids.
It can't quite, like it's not gonna cross.
Yeah, it's not an adult martial arts movie, so it just kind of
dances a weird line. You could throw it in there with
like 3 ninjas. I don't know about surf ninjas
because that's a whole other beast of a that's in its own
little category. But like, I don't know, like if
you do like a double feature with like Ninja Turtles and
Street Fighter or something, you know, just for like a 90s
nostalgia like you, you get some good stuff out of that, you
know, just get some food, bring some friends over if they've
never seen it, even better. Like it's.
It's a lot of fun. Quick, change the channel.
Yeah, it's a endlessly quotable, ridiculous movie.
It might have more. It really.
Is it might have more quotes than Mortal Kombat for sure.
I mean mortal. Kombat I think I think of.
Like those are $500 sunglasses, asshole.
That's like about the the biggest quote I maybe for me for
mortal combat. Felt with mine yeah yeah, has a
good ones, but like Street Fighter, like it's to the point
where they've made memes just on the quotes of low and like it's
and it's great. For me it was Tuesday.
Oh my God, that that you can't top that.
Yeah, absolutely. All right, man.
Next question is a fast food question, because I know
sometimes you got to you got to eat some fast food and and there
are two I suppose dueling champions, I suppose, but so
Burger King or McDonald's. Burger King Sir Burger King the
my 2 favorites of the top the the head honchos of unhealthy
and no one should have in their 30s or 40s but I go once in a
while. You know ever since I was a kid
my dad, my mom would take me. I love Burger King.
Same with McDonald's like I wish they didn't change the look of
the restaurants right. You know like someone made a
meme where like it used to be a fun looking like teenage kid now
like the restaurants look like a depressed middle-aged person.
They're. All Gray and sterile.
Yeah, they look like they should have cuticles inside of them.
Yeah. It's terrible but I don't know,
I just like the the taste of the burgers for from Burger King so
I I'd say Burger King. And I will say this, but Burger
King definitely does knock it out of the park when it comes to
October. Like, you know, October.
Themed. We're a little too old to go to
McDonald's and get the, the buckets and the little, you
know, the the chicken Nuggets with costumes or whatever.
So Burger King gives you at least.
Like that. Yeah, some people do it for like
the nostalgic because I remember when McDonald's used to come out
with the the Nuggets with the costumes and they had these
cassette tapes where they were like McDonald's themed just like
skits and all that and and musical things.
But Burger King would put out those those Halloween themed
whoppers. And you know, you eat it at your
own risk because Lomo you, you know what, what the insides
would come out looking like if you consume that stuff.
But I had the one from last year was the the Jack O Lantern
whopper or something delicious. I'm alive.
So that's that's what. You made it.
Yeah, Yeah. I can't fault you there.
Although I got a little weird. Sidebar.
Our town. So I live in a very very small
tiny, we have like 3 stop stoplights right?
So but our town has the dueling duo.
We have our McDonald's and our Burger King.
As of the recording of this, they have announced that our
Burger King is officially closing Monday morning.
No no mas Burger King. Two, and of an era.
Yeah. So kind of a, you know, it's
like one of one of them have has been slayed and it's then it's
going to sit there and be an empty building and we don't know
what fast food restaurant is going to move in.
So I'm waiting with bated. Breath hopefully, hopefully
something good. Man, we're worth going back to.
Yeah, it's, it's weird to, you know, watch time just like, you
know, close in on all these places you're so used to seeing
them and then they just. It's a shame, yeah.
All right. Next is a director question for
you. This I have a little internal
struggle with, so I'm curious where you land on this.
And this is across the board total filmography, John John
Carpenter or Wes Craven. I mean, both of them have their
hits and misses for sure. And both of them have put out
movies that really changed the game.
You know, such a scream and a Nightmare on Elm streak because,
and, and of course, Halloween is one of the greatest of all time.
A lot of people put that in like, as they're like top number
one in the you know, that is my favorite horror movie, you know,
but I, I, I do have to give credit to Wes Craven because
horror wasn't a slump until Scream came along and and really
saved it. But Carpenter's filmography,
it's not, you know, just horror like escape from New York.
That movie is just excellent from start to finish.
The thing, you know, it, it's got it's, it had its, its haters
when it came out originally, but now everybody loves it.
And you got a nightmare on Elm Street Hills have high.
So both of them have a lot of great films.
And then there's others that I've never even seen before, but
I've got to go with John Carpenter, man, like his stuff.
Like it's just it I go back to it a lot more often.
And you know, it's always nice to to come across some movies
that I've never seen that they've done like later on in
their careers. Like I didn't even see what's
the one with all the kids with the white hair?
The. Village of the Damned remake.
Village of the Damned remake, like I saw that after and it's,
yeah, it's great. And then Serpent of the Rainbow,
and you know, I had never seen that one.
It was recommended to me. And what is the one with the
something about the Incubus? I can't remember the name of
that movie. Something with Wes Craven.
It's a bunch of villagers. It's starting to hit me now.
I can't fucking remember the name.
It's like a poster. It's like someone's like trying
to grab a deadly blessing. Blessing.
Yeah, OK. Yes.
They're like the yes, well, a bunch of Are they Amish?
I'm pretty sure they're Amish. Like Amish.
Community Amish like in some some yeah look like a weird
looking village, but it's a straight up Amish community.
So like those lesser known films that they both have in their
arsenals like they're they're interesting you know to to go
back and to check if you've never seen them before.
But anyway I'm I'm getting like going way too deep in this stuff
but I. Get it?
Ron Carpenter I would I would have to say I would go with his
films for sure. Yeah, I'm with you on that too
Evil. And I've had that conversation
and obviously he's a Freddy guy, so he's a big Wes Craven guy.
But when it comes to Carpenter, like you said, the weird lesser
known things and even things that aren't horror, which one
that I go back to all the time, is with Chevy Chase and Daryl
Hannah, The memoirs of an Invisible Man.
It's like, you know, it's just it's and Sam Neill, I believe,
is like the FBI agent that's after them.
It's just such a unique take on that Invisible Man story.
You know, whether you like Chevy Chase or hate him because pretty
much everybody fucking hates Chevy Chase, but the whole bit
it's it's such a it's such a fun movie.
And you know, Carpenter has a a very like aggress.
Both of them do. Both of them have a very like
aggressive social commentary take that they put in their
movies but. All the time.
Yeah, and I just feel like Carpenter's filmography is is so
massive and he's done so many different things.
Like someone's watching me. I don't know if you've ever seen
that. It was like a made for TV movie.
I believe it was. Oh, OK, yeah, I had recently
discovered that one because I, I don't think I've never seen,
I've never seen Memoirs, an Invisible Man, that one.
And I think he's got something called Starman, like one of his
earlier films. Jeff.
Bridges, I believe, yeah. Yeah, I've seen things like
Assault on Precinct 13 and like, it's, you know what it is that
really ties these movies together.
It's it's the soundtrack, man. Like the music that he has in
his movies, like I love it that that synth wave type of thing.
And like he's got piano and everything.
It's just, Yep, his style of music is just incredible.
Yeah, and inherently it carries across his entire filmography.
So just from the first few notes of a score, you know, like,
that's Carpenter. You know Carpenter?
Yeah, media. It has that feel.
It almost feels like, like you smell it, like cigarette smoke
and whiskey. You know what I mean?
Like. Yes, like you can recognize it
immediately. Yeah, like an aggressive, pissed
off old man. I guess you know what I mean.
Which is basically what he looks like today.
Like it's just pissed off old man with a cigarette.
I got a sidebar again with the Carpenter.
I showed my son a video of John Carpenter playing the Nintendo.
I don't know what that thing's called.
The WIGO, like the Nintendo cardboard.
It's like, it's like a Nintendo. Like you can build a piano out
of cardboard. Have you seen this video?
Oh no, I've never seen. It as soon as we're done
recording, I'm sending you the video it's.
Send it over, yeah. Like Nintendo, it's they must
have been promoting one of the new Halloweens.
So they sit John Carpenter down because he's a known gamer, you
know, so they're thinking he's going to promote their product
and they want him to play the Halloween theme on it.
And it's made out of cardboard and he's trying to play it.
And he's like, this thing is a piece of shit.
Like it's so fucking, it's so John Carpenter, like you paid me
to come sit down. You paid your, you know, you got
all your sound guys, your cameras, all, everything, all
set up. This fucking Nintendo thing
sucks. I need to see that.
Please send it as soon as we're done.
It's so fucking good and they used it.
They used. It.
Yeah, it's on YouTube. Like they put it out, like he
badmouthed the product and they still released.
It and they still use it. Like, well, shit, we already
paid him I guess put it out there.
All right, this the last of the Hot Takes.
Sir, you have already established earlier in Hot Takes
that you are a PlayStation fan. So that being said, when it
comes to PlayStation, in my opinion PlayStation is
synonymous for jump starting a lot of our love in the survival
horror genre right? That being said, Resident Evil
or Silent Hill? Resident Evil 100% I and I say
that because I have only played the first Silent Hill and that's
as far as I got, aside from like watching the, the movie that
came out first one. But Resident Evil, I'm a big fan
of it ever since I was a kid. That's another thing that my
uncle showed me when I was little like the very first.
And I'm like, he, he tried to scare me with that game.
And you know, he, he almost succeeded.
But I've ever since I played the second one, I've been a huge fan
ever since. That's my, that's my favorite
Resident Evil game. And I'm really excited for the
new one. It comes out in a couple of
days, I think in about a week if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, I've been seeing. A lot.
Of stuff about it, yeah. Yeah, those games are so much
fun. I mean, there's, there's been a
few terrible ones over the years, but you know, I'm still a
big fan of of that world regardless.
Yeah, well, I mean, anything with an IP that big and they're,
you know, they did like the light gun one that was called
like Survivor, which for PlayStation it was, it was kind
of rough. Operation Raccoon City was, you
know. What kind of question?
They always try to do something new.
Like I was OK with Survivor, Operation Raccoon City.
If you play it online with people, yeah, then it's pretty
fun. But on your own, those CPUs,
like they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Yeah, across the board, though, I'm with you.
Resident Evil I, that was the when I got my PlayStation, that
was the game that I got so. Oh nice.
No, no memory card because I didn't know you needed a memory
card. You know, there's one of those
things like I got a PlayStation for my birthday.
I got one game, one controller. And so me and my best friend
would play Resident Evil for hours and hours and hours.
And then we would have to get to a point where we would shut it
off. And so then we would have to
start over again. And so we had a notebook that we
would just fill out like, OK, this is where the Crest piece
is. This is where this is right.
Right. And we would just try to beat
Resident Evil. And I mean, I know there are
people out there speed running, beat it in like 2 hours, but
you're talking like when we were teenagers.
That's like a full weekend you. Know you don't have the, you
weren't, you didn't have access to going online and looking up
guides, looking at where everything is AT and unless you
were to buy those, those guidebooks that they used to
spell and that would pretty much tell you where everything was at
if you didn't have that, you were in trouble.
No memory cards. I don't know how you did it,
man. Like that those games, they take
time to master like, you know those speed runners, I mean,
they're, it's impressive how they can do that.
But for those who did not have memory cards or access to any of
that stuff, you got to put some work into those games.
I, I have a heartbreaking Resident Evil story of my, my
best friend and I, we like, I would take my PlayStation to his
house, you know, if I was going to spend the weekend and we
would, you know, play. And he had his younger brother,
his name was Brady and he was a he's a sweet kid, is a sweet
kid, but he had has cerebral palsy.
So when he walks, he would kind of like drag his foot and there
was a we're in the middle of the weekend and we had made it all
the way to the Shark Tank and the naked zombies like we're
close to the end. No memory cards got the game
paused. He walked through and his foot
caught the remote or caught the controller.
Man pulled the PlayStation off the fucking counter and it like
shut off. Oh.
My God. I mean, we couldn't be mad at
him, you know? But we were like, no.
Accident. Happened.
Oh my God, I'll never forget that.
Dude that's one of those. Like we were so close.
Damn and no memory card. Man, that that that is
heartbreaking for sure. Like that will wake up on Sunday
morning and play for another 8 hours.
But it is what it is. It's totally derailed.
That's all good, man, the hot. Fantasy story.
That being said, now that we're done with the hot takes, Sir, it
is time for you to shamelessly plug the bejesus out of your
product, out of your content, and let everybody know where
they can find you. And I'm going to reiterate one
final time for the folks that don't know about you.
There's a lot, a lot a lot of guys out there that do horror
movie reviews. Everybody has just has a stick.
Everybody has a gimmick. Everybody has a thing that they
do. One, no one is as consistent as
you and in in in the product that you deliver and nobody is
going to make you laugh as much as you do.
You are incredibly underrated when it comes to horror content
creators and like I said I didn't want to fell late you for
an hour but. It's all good.
Those that don't know, you know you need to know.
And you and I have been at this hustle for a very long time and
it's not easy. You deserve the world.
You deserve so many more eyes on you and I'm demanding folks go
follow the links. Everything that he plugs, I'll
put in the description. Go do it.
So if you guys are interested in horror like us, look up
youtube.com/strange Monkey 90. You'll see my reviews, my
countdowns, my voice impressions, got all types of
stuff. I have Horror Freaks.
It's my series where I interview different content creators and
we talk horror. You can find me of course beside
YouTube you can find me on TikTok where I do some skits on
there and just promote my horror content.
Instagram and Twitter as well. Holy moly, that's a lot of
places. Yeah.
Sadly, we the Deep Cut podcast are banned from TikTok.
So yes, but it is what it is. But again, yeah, I can't thank
you enough for being on this podcast.
It has been way too long. I don't.
Again, I don't know why we we haven't fucking done this, but.
But here we are, man, the stars aligned and and and we finally
did it. So it's thank you so much again
for having me on, man, this was this was a lot of fun.
I really appreciate it. Before you go, let me ask you
this. Yes.
How would Alistair Overeem How would Alistair Overeem sound
telling everyone that they needed to watch Halloween 1978?
Well, it's quite simple. You pull up a plate of beef and
you eat it raw and turn your television on, watch Halloween
on whatever format, VHS, Blu-ray, DVD.
I prefer Blu-ray. And you just continue to eat the
beef over and over and over and to get big and strong as me, the
Reem, the Demolition man. And don't be afraid of Michael
Myers. I'm I try.
Oh Jesus Christ, that's so good. Oh, the horse beef.
God damn it that. That being said, I suppose we
should probably get going because after all, there's a lot
of movies out there and somebody's got to watch them, so
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