Today, I'm not the only one alone in.
The Dark Oh yeah, it's that time again for another episode of the
Deep Cut podcast with your hosts Rotten, Roger DeMarco.
And today I'm by myself. Of course you count Walter.
That goes without saying, You're my homie, you're my boy blue.
But it is just me. And this week I chose to talk
about one of my all time favorite movies, Jack Shoulders
1982 Classic. That's right, classic.
I am calling this a slasher classic alone in the dark.
And for those of you out there in Internet land listening,
watching, however you're consuming this.
Normally I have my esteemed Co host do a plot synopsis but he
is not here. Can I be your Co host?
No, you don't get to do it this week, Walter.
Maybe next week. So I'll give you a plot
synopsis. It's pretty simple, although
there is a little bit more under the hood than they like to act.
We got a new psychiatrist getting hired, replacing an old
psychiatrist who's left, and this psychiatrist takes over the
job of being a psychiatrist for the the craziest of the crazy in
this mental asylum. They're so crazy, in fact, they
get their own floor and there's only four of them and they get
their own floor that a craziest whack a doodles out there and
they get their very own floor because they're so crazy.
You can't mix them with the general population of crazy.
Now that's crazy. But before we get into all of
the meat and potatoes of this movie, I'm going to take it way
back. I'm going to throw it back for
y'all. Something that we used to do
when we did just regular old video reviews, not the podcast,
but the way, way, way back machine.
We used to do a little segment called Rotten Rodgers Splatter
Facts. So we're going to kick this off
by taking a look at those splatter facts.
We have 11 dead bodies, We have 4 titties.
We have an obligatory Lynn Shea cameo discount, Matt Frewer, 1
citywide blackout, gratuitous looting, house fortification, 1
severed ear, one wicked Nosebleed dude, and one kick ass
home invasion. The methods of death include and
pretty much are limited to Backbreaker, the old mongo
punch, Garden, sheared, Van Dammed, off screened, strangled,
arrowed, cleavered, and stabbed. There is a clear distinction
between the two of those. Stabbing is a knife, cleavering
is done with a cleaver. That's right.
It doesn't take much imagination to figure that out.
The first time I saw this movie was probably about 15 years ago.
So I can't front like I grew up on this movie and that I know
the insurance and outs and I'm such a super duper massive fan.
But when I did pick this up, it was one of those random, I used
to just scroll Amazon, you know, I scroll Amazon and anything
that was an Anchor Bay release or anything that just looked
intriguing in the slasher genre or horror, what have you.
I had to have it. So I would just put it in my
wish list. And Alone in the Dark has a
stacked cast. You've got Martin Landau, you
got Dynamo from Running Man, you've got Curly from City
Slickers, Jack Palance, who is also just bug nuts crazy in this
movie. But the cast drew me in.
And then I noticed it's New Line Cinema.
Jack's Shoulder, Bob Shay, Anchor Bay's putting it out.
It's got a really cool looking cover.
So eventually my intrusive thoughts got the better of me
and I decided I'm picking this up.
And I'm really, really glad I did because at the time this was
the DVD was the, you know, the only way to see it.
Unless you had an old school VHS.
This DVD had like one or two special features, I think.
Commentary, maybe an interview with the girl from the bed
sequence. And I think that's pretty much
it. There wasn't a lot out there of
this movie for you. So having it kind of put me
ahead of the curve for people, except for people who grew up on
it. And so any anytime someone would
come over, I'd be like and they'd ask for a suggestion.
I'd be like, this is this is the one you got to check this one
out. It's one of the earliest home
invasion horror movies. It's really good.
It's got some intense moments and it's it's it's kind of
funny. Also forgotten the cast Donald
Pleasants who is playing a psychiatrist.
But if you thought he was a wackadoodle as Doctor Loomis
then get ready for wackadoodle times 10 in this movie because
all he is is just a total pothead.
He's very hippie esque in his approach of these people aren't
crazy. Their eyes are open, they know
what the world is like. They they're not dangerous, even
though the most dangerous ones have their own floor.
So I don't know what he's getting on about.
He's all over the place. Not necessarily a good
psychiatrist. Kind of runs in his filmography.
Not a good psychiatrist, not a good president.
We're on the abdominal pleasants.
You play inept people, as much reverence as everyone has for
you, and they love you. I guess it's because you're
really good at playing people who suck at their jobs.
And it wasn't until maybe three years ago I'm thinking that, not
vinegar syndrome. Scream Factory, I think.
I think Scream Factory put out a special edition Blu-ray this,
which I'm sad to say I still haven't picked up because my DVD
is autographed by the one and only Steve Dash.
That name may sound familiar to some of you.
And you're like wait a minute, Steve Dash is not in Alone in
the Dark. Steve Dash was Bag Head Jason
and Friday the 13th Part 2. You are correct in one of those
assumptions. The other little juicy tidbit is
that Steve Dash plays a psychiatrist who is pulling up
in his car as all the inmates are escaping.
And I think he has like one line of dialogue where he's like,
what the And then they throw him out of the car.
He gets the Mongo punch. He gets killed by the Mongo
punch, which Dynamo clap, if you love Dynamo from the running man
is this big baby Huey hulking pedo.
He's a big guy. So of course when he hits you,
it kills you. And so when I met Steve Dash, I
was like, I can't believe that you're in this movie.
And he's like, yeah. And they there's like one day's
worth of work, obviously, for one night.
And that one little quarter of a line of dialogue and he gets to
get punched by Dynamo, which is pretty cool.
So rest in peace to Steve Dash. Rest in peace to Dynamo.
Rest in peace to Martin Landau. Rest in peace to Jack Palance.
Rest in peace to Donald Pleasance.
Holy crap, Everybody in this movie is dead.
That's that's a little depressing, folks.
I just realized that in real time with you we but let's get
this rolling, OK? I I, I, I I I.
Today, Junior. Essentially, this is a home
invasion movie and there's nothing wrong with that.
It's this is the the blueprint of a home invasion movie.
We build and build and build and build on the home invasion and
then we get it for maybe the last like 20 minutes of the
movie. Although the killers do
infiltrate the house and then leave and then come back and
then leave and then come back. But that's it's fine.
It's fine. They invade when they want to
invade under the cloak of darkness.
You know what I mean? So at the core, that's what this
is. It's a home invasion move.
And we're going to break it down segment by segment, if you will.
So we kick this off with the introduction to our new main
doctor and his name not important, just know he's
discount Matt Frewer in this movie but he's taking over the
role of Doctor Merton, a doctor we don't get to see at all but
apparently is these 4 crazy inmates favorite doctor and he
leaves. So these 4 crazy inmates cook up
this alternate reality in their brains that this new Doctor has
killed their old doctor and is planning on killing them.
Thus the crazy folks must escape and kill the new Doctor before
he kills them because they're crazy.
So that makes sense to them and hopefully it makes sense to you.
So that's the opener of the movie.
We're we're dealing with this setup of these guys really,
really want to kill this doctor. And we get a couple of segments
where he's attempting to gain their acceptance, not their
trust, but I guess, I guess their trust too.
You know, he's trying to trying to fit in with them and and make
sure they don't have a problem with them.
Kind of like. Me.
Yeah, but you're never going to gain my trust, Walter.
I That's why there's chains on the door.
So you can keep trying. Whatever you're trying, it ain't
going to work anyway. Where was I?
Yeah. So the doctor really tries to
make these crazies dig him, man. But they don't.
And they've plotted and schemed. They're going to escape.
But here's the caveat in that escape the asylum, especially
the top floor, but all of the asylum, whenever you attempt to
breach the windows, alarms go off and these gates slam down.
I don't know why the gates just wouldn't be on the windows all
day every day. But I guess, you know this is
one of Donald Pleasant's harebrained schemes, right?
Like, well, leave the windows open so they get a breath of
fresh air. But if they try and go out that
motherfucker, no, no, you can't leave.
So it gives them the illusion of freedom.
But then we have these electric Shah.
Although there are many ways you could stop this, right?
You could break a leg off of a chair.
You could put a book in the windowsill, all kinds of ways
for you to get on out of there. Rusty Shackleford, right, right
on out of that bad boy. But they they don't.
So the the plan is there's a citywide blackout, so the power
is out, which means the entire insane asylum has no defense.
So our pack of crazies pack on up and head right out the front
door. Well, the whole city has gone
batshit crazy because you do. When the power goes out,
everybody, instead of just lighting candles and chilling,
they go into full blown 1982 upheaval.
Let's burn the city down, loot the city, burn the city down.
Completely rational behavior. There's no, there's no prompting
for it. It's just, it's what people do.
People go crazy. And so then the crazy folks who
escaped the asylum, they just fit right on in with the madness
going on in the world and they start to make their way to the
doctor's house. They're going to take this bad
boy out. One of the things I forgot to
mention is one of the other crazies is he hides his face all
the time. He doesn't let new people see
his face, but his nickname is the Bleeder.
So every time he would strangle someone or kill someone, he'd
get a Nosebleed. And I think that's how they
eventually caught him. Even in 1982 with DNA in its
infancy, that's how they caught this fellow.
But we don't get to see his face ever.
And when they escape he hits up a sporting goods store and gets
a hockey mask. And I know what you're thinking.
Wow that is a RIP off. And you'd be wrong because this
movie predates Friday the 13th Part 3 by 1 year and it's a
whole different movie house. This is new line cinema.
Friday the 13th back then was Paramount.
But that's besides the point. We get the bleeder in a hockey
mask in a blue jacket and he uses a garden hoe, garden rake
type of deal, slashes a throat. So we get to see how vicious he
is before he takes off. They all kind of break off once
they're done looting this hardware store or sporting goods
store. All of them pack up on weapons,
crossbows, guns, garden hose, axes, baseball bats, whatever.
And then set out into the world to cause mischief.
I like the Bleeder the most out of all the villains, even though
he's there for pretty much the opening sequence and then he
doesn't show up until the end. The faces of this movie are
obviously Martin Landau. Jackpalance.
They have a ton of personality. I always forget Dynamos real
name. He's just Dynamo and that's all
there is to it. He does really good in this
movie. He's got a softness to him,
which really works for the type of killer he is.
I don't want to say the words too many times because YouTube
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words that you think I'm going to say.
I'm not going to do what everybody thinks I'm going to do
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that would be really rad. Anyway, enough shilling back to
the movie after the power outage.
You would think that the movie would take place over 1
centralized night, that the doctor would be introduced to
the patients, the power would go out that night, they would
escape, they would converge on the House, they would attack the
house, and that would be the end of the movie.
But that's not exactly how the movie plays out.
They escape, they get to loot and pillage, weapon up, you
know, gear up, tack up, whatever the phrase may be, go off into
the world. Well, then the sun rises,
another day begins, and the crazies, first of all, they kill
a mailman for a hat. I mean, you got to they're,
they're nut bars, right? Our psychiatrist goes to work,
discovers that the crazies have escaped and there is a they've,
they've killed someone to someone's and they're on their
way, probably to his house now rather than him come right home.
He stays at work for his full shift and the mother gets
arrested because she goes to a protest with the main doctor's
sister who is like a former nut job.
She's not crazy anymore supposedly, but she's big into
punk music and fighting the power and all that stuff.
So we're left with 0 parents at home and they have a young
daughter who I'm going to say is maybe 9, maybe 10.
And our Dynamo strolls into the house.
And this is, in my opinion, a huge missed opportunity because
even though we have 11 dead bodies in this movie and there's
some good ones, but we really kind of teeter on how many of
the main cast, actually the whole main cast gets to survive.
I just realized that in real time also with you guys.
And that's a sin. We're going to sin, make a Ding,
some kind of noise for the sin that's happening.
Dynamo shows up. He's hanging out with the little
girl. It's very skeevy, very gross,
very not comfortable. You're watching it and you're
going, oh, no, Oh no. But nothing happens.
It's fine. He hangs out with her and which
is all off screen because they allude to the fact that
something bad is going to happen.
He hangs out with her off screen and then he leaves.
Fast forward to the middle of the day.
The mom gets a visit by Martin Landau, now dressed as a mailman
who's supposedly has a telegram for the psychiatrist, which we
all know is just a ruse to get inside and kill the
psychiatrist. He says I want to deliver the
message personally. So he leaves.
Rather than kill the wife, kill our lead sister that would have
been the entire family dusted, gone before the final act.
And as much as I love this movie, these missed
opportunities do add up. Because I really think if you
want to cross that line from just a regular run-of-the-mill
fun kind of slasher, if you were to cross that line and take out
the daughter, take out the wife, take out the sister, you're
dipping more into exploitation. You're dipping more into the
drive in classics of the time. You're you're damn near dipping
into shallow material, especially with the way these
killers are the synth wave music that's used in this movie, which
by the way, fantastic score. Fantastic.
I did not do my research on who did the music, but it's it's a
click away guys look it up. This whoever did the score
really good. Also a a unique soundtrack
tidbit when the power goes out, the psychiatrist, his wife and
his sister are at a punk concert of the sick bucks.
And it is the classic song chop up your mother, which is super
fun. And I can't help but think of
this movie every time I hear it because it's where I heard this
song and then it got added to my playlist.
So obviously every time I hear it I go oh now I want to watch
Alone in the Dark. So now we wait a whole other
day. We now have the family.
They still have no power. They have police protection.
Also sidebar forgot to mention, when the wife and sister get
arrested for protesting, they meet a guy in jail who lets them
take his phone call. Thus he gets to come back to the
house with them and have dinner and meet the psychiatrist and he
becomes the second man in the crew to kind of help fortify the
house. You know, they've got a police
officer there that's going to have dinner with them and patrol
and that's when the stuff hits the fan.
Only I didn't say stuff, you know what I'm saying?
It gets. Crazy on the drop of a dime.
This movie gets crazy and we keep hearing noises outside and
the family is nervous. The sun has gone down, darkness
encroaches their house, everything is candlelit, but
we're getting that super cool 1980s blue lighting that I
absolutely love. And the police officer goes
outside to secure the perimeter as it were, you know, do the old
back and forth, anybody out there, do you hear something?
Must have been nothing, one of those situations, the old
nothing, nothing, something. And he does get caught by the
old nothing, nothing, something, pacing back and forth, doing his
thing. We keep cutting back inside the
house. We're we're getting the family's
reaction. Then we get this super cool kind
of a wide shot where we can see the cop, but we can see past the
cop, past all the blue lighting, all the night timeness into the
window of the house, which is illuminated by candlelight.
And the whole family kind of leaning and looking out this
window, you know, with bated breath what's going on out
there. And then the police officer gets
smoked by the crossbow and he's hanging by the tree, blood
pouring out of his mouth, and he's crying.
This is an excellent death, one of the best deaths in the movie.
It's pretty rough to watch. And it's obvious that the crazy
people are using this police officers bait.
You know, come on out. Come get them.
Come on and save them. I dare you.
And they don't because the father realizes that it's bait.
So he says, Nope, we're not going out there, lock the doors,
staying safe. Then we keep getting the crazies
attempting to break into the house.
It is top notch terrifying at times because we have the threat
of this little girl getting injured as well.
You know, if it was just a husband and wife and a sister,
the threat level, it would still be there.
But the added component of having a child during all of
this is really bothersome for me.
So because you know, you want to keep your kids safe, but we've
had no indication throughout this entire movie that this dad
could do anything to keep his family safe.
He is soft SAWFT soft, such a softie.
He could not fend off anybody. He could not stop any of these
crazies. So knowing that he's their
primary protector, although we do have the other fella from the
jail there now and he seems to be doing a pretty good job.
He's barricading doors and whatever.
But let's hit you with the swerve, bro.
Homie from jail is not all he's cracked up to be.
Homie from jail is actually the bleeder.
That's right, he's the bleeder. And he's.
Already inside the house, so they got to take him out.
Adds a whole other component to the movie.
I just spoiled. I should have said spoiler
alert, guys. I didn't say spoiler alert.
So retroactive spoiler alert for this movie.
My goodness, is there some amazing stuff going on in this
movie, especially in this last 20 to 30 minutes of the movie.
Pretty much everybody gets like a little redeeming piece there
at the end of the movie. The little girl is so scared but
she is the one that gets the knife and hands the knife to her
mom so her mom can take out one of the crazies.
Father attempts to take out Dynamo.
He. Can't really handle.
Dynamo, but he can handle Martin Landau.
Who it's? Sort of a cop out.
Martin Landau gets stabbed, stumbles out through a door and
then we never see him again. So.
He could, technically. Still be alive in that universe.
Not not right now, because Martin Landau is better than
shit, but he could be alive in Alone in the Dark.
Maybe there's an after after after after credits that I
missed, but I'd like to think in my brain.
That he's alive, but. For the sake of the splatter
facts, he got a tally mark. In fact, the craziest person in
the movie. Jack Palance, Curly from City.
Slickers gets to live, gets to fight another day as he's about
to kill the entire family. The power comes back on, saved
by electricity. And wouldn't you know it of in
one of the funniest pieces in this movie, as the power comes
back on, it's on the news. News position.
For you folks out there. If you don't know that term, now
you do. The news is on and fucking the
doctor that they believed was murdered is not murdered.
He's on the TV talking about the escaped inmates.
So Jack Palance gets to see first hand that his whole
convoluted scheme was BS and thus he allows the family to
live and he gets to walk out into the world which is just as
crazy as the insane asylum and he gets to live amongst the
crazy people. Where?
Where does he live amongst the crazy people?
He goes back to the sick Fox Punk concert.
Which? Would now be two days in a row
because like I said, it does not take place over the same night.
We've we've had daylight come back and we've had nighttime
come back. So did the sick.
Fox their their gig gets interrupted by the power outage.
Did they just stay in town, maybe in the backroom of this
bar? And then when the power came
back on, they were like yo put $5 door charge.
Queue up the shit I mean. Everything's still plugged in.
It's ready to go. Where were we?
Yeah, chop up your mother. 234 Bom, bom, bom.
You know, like it's ridiculous. I don't, I don't know how this
they, you know, they they like to stay in the same city a
couple nights when they're on tour at the same bar.
And then that's that's the tour. Three nights at Curly's Pub and
then we'll go 20 miles to Abilene, TX or wherever the
fuck. I don't know, but this is a
great movie, guys. I, I love it.
I love everything about it. I, I have a ton of fun with this
movie. I I don't want to say truly that
this is the beginning of a home invasion movie because even last
house on the left, which predates it by 10 years, right,
is technically a home invasion movie because they show up and
they kind of invade the sanctity of the home.
It's not it's it's not a new thing by any means.
I guess maybe for the standard formula of a home invasion
movie. This.
Is one of the. Templates, maybe, is what I'm
trying to say. I don't I there's so many out
there, but this one definitely holds its own.
It's it's up here when it comes to those types of movies.
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Do you have a brown? Panty Award.
I do have a brown panty award. Walter.
OH. Baby, it's time to slip into
something a little more comfortable.
It's time for the Brown Panty Award for those of you out.
There, listening, watching, however you're consuming this.
If you're new, you probably don't know what a brown panty
award is. So let me just set the record
straight real quick for you. The Brown Panty Award is an
award we like to give someone from the movie who gets offed
that we didn't want to see get off.
The people who get it in the Brown Panty award usually are
the most sympathetic characters, at least for us.
So my Brown Panty award is going to go to Ray the Orderly.
I'm pretty sure he's an orderly and that in What's screwed up
about Ray the Orderly or janitor or whatever this dude is.
He has his own living quarters. But they make this dude live on
the 4th floor with the craziest of the crazy.
How is that fair? Even when there is electricity,
he's still just right down the hall.
It's not they can leave their rooms.
It doesn't make any sense. And he's not even a big dude.
He's kind of a small guy, a really nice guy, but they make
him live right down the hall from the craziest killers in the
entire building. Like, you got this right.
One dude, no security, no nothing.
And the crazies find out that Ray had been talking to the new
Doctor and kind of warning him, saying, hey, these guys got a
problem with you. So of course, when they're
planning and plotting and leaving the insane asylum real
quick, we got to swing on end old Ray's room and snap his
neck. It's sad, it's not fair, and I'm
angry about it. Every time I watch the movie,
I'm angry about it. So Ray gets the brown panty
award because how you going to do them like that?
That's. Calm blood in and I do not
approve. So I'm curious what your Brown
Panty award is. Drop it in the comments however
you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah.
Blah. Is it time for the perfect
execution? I have all the awards.
Walter, I don't do the show without having awards ready.
It's a perfect execution. So mom, it's a perfect
execution. Covered in blood, it's a perfect
execution. Just make it dog.
It's a perfect execution and it's always fun.
OK, so my perfect. Execution Award is going to go
to an unnamed character who's just Luton out there, looting,
minding his own business, breaking his own set of laws,
doing his own thing during the blackout, and the bleeder just
stops him dead in his tracks, no pun intended or or pun intended,
however you want to look at it, and whips out the old Rod Lane,
Nightmare on Elm Street Garden sheer tiller thing with the
three hooks and he. Smokes this dude.
Right in the neck and it's a really good gore prosthetic.
It's a really nice looking effect.
But he wasn't, I mean, he he was a bad guy.
I mean, he was looting. He's breaking the law, he's
doing nefarious things, but I don't think he deserved to get
sheared in the face. It looks good.
It looks really nice and it also cements right.
Then and there. The bleeder don't play around
and innocent people are going to die.
Now prior to that they kill Ray but that's cuz he was talking
smack. They kill my boy Steve Dash.
On their way out. But it's to steal his car.
It's a means to an end. They have got to get off the
road. They can't just be walking
around. I mean, even Michael Myers stole
a car. You know, to get gone, you got
to put some miles between you and the insane asylum.
And the best way to do that is in a motor vehicle and you can
at least kind of pass yourself off as a normal dude, you know,
put a hat on and just drive the speed limit and get your ass out
of Dodge. So those two that that were
killed, I feel like the car was a necessity.
Ray was revenge. But the fella who takes the
garden shear to the face and the neck, he wasn't doing anything.
It immediately goes, you go whoa.
OK, so they they really are crazy.
They have a mission. But.
There will be casualties of war. This is going to be a rough one.
And you would be right, because like I said earlier, they
literally run over the mailman. Who's on a bicycle?
They run over the. Mailman and he flies like 62
feet in the air. The footage is even shot at a
Dutch angle so he looks like Mick Foley from Hell in the
Cell. They kill his dude just because
Martin Landau wants his hat. That's crazy.
If you want one R hats, all you got to do is.
Buy it with. Your money.
I'm sorry for all the shilling. I should stop shilling.
I just. I'm really excited about our new
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Tips from a dead guy? Go ahead and let that sink in
during this next segment. Oh, you mean?
This survival guide, Walter, Yeah, let's let's give the folks
out there one good tip on how to survive alone in the dark that.
You must abide. On every page.
If you don't want to die, this ancient book will help keep you
alive. Walter Paisley.
Has a very simple survival tip on how to survive alone in the
dark. How about actual medication and
real therapy? Wiser words were.
Never spoken. And I'm aware that we have a
Walter who gives really bad advice in the basement, and a
Walter who gives you good advice wrote this book.
Rest in peace, Walter. You think that's good advice?
You're as good as dead, I'm saying.
Medication and real therapy might have broke down some of
the walls so they weren't so crazy.
That's what I'm saying man, the more you.
Talk, the more you make me want to watch something else.
Got something? Better.
Duh. I do have a tie in.
And again for. You new listeners who don't
necessarily know these segments. What the tie in is, is let's say
you're having a double feature night.
You need 2 movies that kind of have a similar vibe, a similar
feel. You know, you go to the video
store, let's say you're renting alone in the dark.
You walk up to the counter, you hand it to the weird guy behind
the counter and he says yo alone in the dark.
That's the shit. Well, have you ever seen this?
Because it's kind of the same. And then you get a second
recommendation from a weirdo. Whether you take it or not,
that's up to you. There are no wrong answers for
what your tie in is. You can pick the weirdest
things, whatever you're feeling, how you going to start your
night, how you going to end your night.
And then you let us know in the comments because that's very
important to us. It's very important to the video
store culture, which is the entire reason that this podcast
was started, because we're attempting to keep that video
store culture alive even if we sold our video store and moved
into a shitty cabin in the woods.
That being said, my tie in is going to also be a home invasion
movie. One that I feel.
Reinvigorated the genre, one that I feel is smarter than it
lets on. It looks good, it sounds good
synth wave music. It's got really good kills.
It's got a stacked cast of folks that mean something to the
horror genre. You got Barbara Crampton, you
got AJ Bowen, you got Larry Fesson.
Then I'm I'm not going to go into the other folks, but
they're in a bunch of other stuff too.
So my tie in is your next. Oh.
I know it's good I. It wouldn't be a bad.
Movie. I would not pick a bad tie in
movie. That's not what I do.
I don't mess around with that. I take that segment seriously.
I'm not just going to throw some bull crap at it Yeah, so sorry
about that. He likes to interrupt.
He's very bored all the time. But if you haven't seen your
next. It is just.
It's a. Staple in the home invasion
movies. It's really good.
It's so much fun. I think I would start my night
with Alone in the Dark and then I would wrap it up with your
next just so you can kind of see you'd have alone in the Dark,
fresh in the noodle. Then you watch your next and you
start to pick up on the parallels.
You pick, you pick up on all the unique things that, and I'm, I'm
definitely not saying you're next is like ripping off alone
in the dark, but there's some homages, there's some, there's
some things that are done almost exactly the same.
And I, I love that. I I think both movies are damn
near perfect. And they're in constant.
Rotation in my house. I don't know about anybody else,
but I would love to hear what you think about both movies.
Does that mean it's time? To play the game, yeah, I guess
that would mean it's. Time to play the game Time.
To play the game time. To play the game.
That's. Right, it's time to play the
game. And if you're new here, welcome.
But you're probably scratching your head asking yourself, hey,
hey, hey, Roger. What is the?
Game. Well, the game is a deep cut in
and of itself where you've got to pick a prop from the movie
that we are covering, but it can't be a well known prop.
So since we're covering Alone in the Dark from 1982, which is not
a well known movie, I'm going to go ahead and say there's not a
lot. On the table.
That is super well known. I don't think there's very many
low hanging fruit props in the movie, but pick something
strange, pick something weird, something from the background,
whatever. Articles of clothing.
Weapon, props, whatever. Something that that you would be
proud to own, that you would have a story that's not just so
blatantly obvious. So that with that being said,
like if we were covering an Elm Street movie, you wouldn't say,
I'll take the Freddie glove. Well, that's, you know, of
course everyone would, but that doesn't have a story that
doesn't have weight to it where you can go.
This was actually used in this weird scene from this movie and
you know you have some sort of lore to go with it.
Plus everyone would murder you if you try to take a Freddy
glove because every asshole on the set is they they want the
glove and you can't have it. That being said, make it weird,
make it strange, make it crazy. My prop, which I did sort of
feel was low hanging fruit but I don't care, is my show and I can
do whatever the hell I want and if you don't like it you can say
something about it in the comments but my prop is going to
be the bleeders hockey mask. Yeah, that's right.
I'm taking the Bleeders hockey mask, which seems a little low
Bros into a low hanging fruit. Well, that's what I say.
I say the Bleeder has the coolest look in the movie.
Yeah. Jack Palace looks crazy.
Yeah. Martin Landau looks crazy.
Yeah, Yeah, that. That's true.
Dynamo also looks crazy, but the Bleeder is.
Dawning. Full blown slasher mask, full
blown horror icon territory. The bleeder kicks ass.
So I want the mask and I'm going to take it because that's all
there is to it. But before I wrap.
This up guys, I want to say that this new era of the Deep Cut
podcast that we've got going on, there's going to be some really
fun stuff, some unique stuff going on.
The formula pretty much going to stay the same.
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record for the
people who are long time listeners, but we've been
getting a lot, a lot, a lot of new subscribers.
I don't know what's going on, I don't know why it's going on,
but I'm happy to see the needle move in and I'm happy that you
guys are out there listening to what we have to say and paying
attention. So.
That being said, just get. Ready.
There's going to be some fun. Stuff going on, some little itty
bitty things that we're doing that are going to kind of spruce
up the show. And I'm excited for it and I'm
excited for you guys to see what you think.
But the plan going forward, obviously, is to keep dipping
into these weirder movies, to keep doing what we've been
doing, but on a little bit of a bigger scale, and also be
bringing you all kinds of weird stuff.
Top fives. We had a poll and I asked like,
what are you guys most looking forward to?
Obscure movies? Top fives and episodes about
movie subjects, real life stuff, because I know a lot of people
like when we inject a little bit of real life into these podcasts
about who we are and how we get down and, you know, these little
side stories and things like that.
And, and rest assured, all of that stuff is going to be in
there. But the show is taking a a
little bit of a a turn when it comes to movie coverage.
Just more theatrics. Really.
Because I don't want to be like everybody else.
I feel like that's boring. And Speaking of boring, I'm
rambling, so I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up.
So I suppose on that note, I should probably get going
because after all, there's a lot of movies out there and
somebody's got to watch them, so why not me, right?
Was I supposed to say? Something.
Tell them about the website. Tell them yeah, don't.
Forget to like. Confidence is good.