Meg, do you want to do the vamping at the beginning? No, you're your prompt is a movie theater. Here we go. Three, two, one. It's been a lot of time in movie theaters. How about you can just me by myself. I don't do this part. This is why CJ is in this part with a movie theater. Perfect. Hey, look, we're talking podcasts with your hosts, just me. And we're going to say Meg is the cohost for this one. Say hi, Meg. Great. Hi, Meg. This is the show where we took over TV shows and movies as typically chosen by our guests. But this week, it's a very special episode. CJ is out of town. And several of our friends and I went to the music box of horrors, which we talk about pretty much every year in the show. For those who don't know, it's a 24 hour horror movie marathon at a local movie theater called the music box theater in Chicago. And typically I go every year and typically stay the whole time. But I don't I did not happen to do that this time. Because I am getting older and it's it's hard. But no shame for anyone in this podcast because no one stayed the whole time. And it's all good. But we're going to quickly talk through some of our favorites from the the marathon. But to quickly introduce our guests, we have returning guests Nick, welcome back. Hey, guys, thanks for having me back. It's been a little while since you went on the show. I think die hard last year was the last thing. That's right. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thanks for joining me to talk about this. And we also have Cam, of course, welcome back, Cameron. Yeah, whatever I'm going to be here. But you still say, you know, when you first started the show, the idea was to actually watch it, right? And like, talk over it. Yeah, that was the initial idea. Though you don't do any of that yet in the beginning, you always still say we talk over TV shows and movies. Like, talk over, talk it over. You know, talk it over. You're talking over your recovery. You got your control. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah, we found it was going to be pretty hard to record and to have audio playing for things we probably don't have licenses for. And I don't know it. Also, like, it's probably easier for people to just listen to us ramble about random crap at any tangent that we want. So I agree. Yes, I know you you love it, Cam. So well, thank you, everyone for joining. So I think we've all been in the music box of horizontal for this one, right? Yep. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So you can't see my thumbs up, right? For guys, a radio spot. This is an audio medium. Yeah, there we go. But yeah, I mean, I feel like every year is a little difference. I'm just curious, like, aside from the movies, what was like your favorite thing from the marathon this year? Like, there's there's a bunch of vendors. There's people in weird costumes. I don't know. Can everyone think of maybe something that was your your favorite thing, Meg? You want to go? Yeah, seeing art the clown just roaming around was pretty scary. I think that added to a little bit of a immersive experience, I guess, even though they weren't showing Terrifier, but it was pretty fun to see that I like seeing what everybody wears just seeing like different T shirts and cool stuff. I really like that. It feels really fun to people watch. Yeah, there's a lot of people scary. Yeah, he was in the Santa outfit from Terrifier three with like the creepy Santa face mask. Yeah, it was any as far as I saw a state and character. So it was it was pretty cool. Yeah, it never sounds spoke speak to anyone. I don't feel like he was there alone, which is yeah, maybe it was it was it was pretty great. I kind of avoided him, even though I know that's not really him. I was just like, oh, I don't know. He was the one he was looking for tickets or not, because I saw another couple who were wearing a different costume. And I think that was the tickets. Hopefully he would align somewhere at staying in character. I hope so. People were killed last night. Oh, no. I heard a lot of screaming during some of those movies. I don't know. We're real. That was just you. It's the perfect place for a murder, though, right? Like you hear screaming and killing in the movies. So like, if you know the movies perfectly, you time it right up. Yeah. And I promise during I think was the last movie of the marathon that Meg and I were at the film cut out at one point and they had to repair it. And so it was just kind of silence and black and the art the clown guy honked his horn a couple of times. Oh, my God, that's the let you know he was in the crowd somewhere. Oh, no, you get a good laugh. Yeah. The crowd was very receptive to it. They bring the lights up while they were fixing it. So you could keep your light on them at all times. No, no, we don't know where he was. We just heard the honking and I was like, Oh, is that him? He's still here? Oh, no. Yeah. That's very good. Nick, do you have anything else that you kind of like besides the movies? I thought they majorly upped their food game. I so I went last like, I don't know, four or five years ago, I think it was pre COVID. And when we wanted something that wasn't popcorn or candy, we had to like go down the street to a sandwich shop or something like that. And I feel like there was there was a food truck. There were vendors where they were importing other sandwiches and stuff like that from from nearby businesses. And I thought all that was really solid. So I think the food. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. That's that's usually the biggest struggle for me. They've had food trucks in the past, but they're like, either not well advertised or they were like in the garden area, which like a lot of people don't even know exists or how to get to. So they had a food truck up front, they had food like actually at the concession stand this time too, but they like imported. So yeah, the garden area in the back. Actually, I've never seen that part. Yeah, it's like a little picnic area. They do little like outdoor movies there. Some I got to get to that. It's never been to one of those, but they look they look fun. Yeah. Cam, do you have any any other favorite things? Oh, yeah, it's always the same. Besides the movie, I think the coolest thing about it is that everyone's there to like enjoy horror movies and like watching it with everyone and just like either talking or just just laughing with people or just I just love that. Yeah, I thought the visor immaculate. Yes. Yeah. I've never been to the very first movie to open it up with. And I'm never get to hear like the opening speeches and stuff. But Will, the guy who puts on the music box of horrors, he was just like, you know, I want to mention like we're all here not to look at our phones, right? And everyone's cheering and like, yeah, we're not here to look at our phones. And we also don't like people who make their own jokes in the movies. Like just basically just shut up and watch the movie and be like a good movie watcher. And everyone was really cool about it. I didn't see anybody who was like violating those. Oh, I didn't say that last year because I must have missed that part because the guy next to me, I was doing something for work and he's like, Hey, dude, put your phone away. So never again. I was going to make the same mistake this year. No, you're very good this year. You were the most part for the most part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone's really, really great. Even like the guests who were there to screen like their own movies commented on like how well the movies were either received or like people reacted to them in ways that they don't typically react to them just because everyone's there have a good time. And I don't know. Yeah, I really, I think it really amps up and elevates all of these movies to be more enjoyable than they might be if you were watching them home alone by yourself. A hundred percent. That's that's what I was gonna say is all these movies are better in that environment than they would be at home. Like I probably wouldn't have enjoyed half of what I saw just just sitting at home by myself or I would have paid my pants in fear. Well, there's that. Yeah, getting to laugh with the crowd or getting to hear everybody's reactions makes it so much fun that it's it's really you can't really replace it. Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, Meg, you kind of had a good segue there about the first movie. So we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about more movies specifically that happened at the Music Box of Horrors 2024. And we're back on the Overtalking Podcast joined by Meg, Nick and Cam to talk about 2024's Music Box of Horrors. But yeah, I'm just gonna say I always stay the whole time. I am so sad that I couldn't make it the whole way. And I think I know what may have contributed to it. I didn't get a drink my magic mind that morning. I swear to God, I think that might have been it. I stayed downtown the night before to get a better seat in line because that's the only way you can like get good seats because people line up super early. And I didn't bring my magic mind with me and I should have but that's the mental performance shot that CJ and I have been drinking for several months now. It's got a little bit of caffeine. It's got a little bit of mocha. I got a little bit of metropics. Got a bunch of different things in there that helps boost my mental performance throughout the day. And I think it might have been a little bit of kick that I was missing that day to help give me the energy to stay the whole time. And it's one of the nice things that we've been talking about it lately is that it can be a subscription that is shipped to your door every month. And that's what CJ and I do. We pop it in the fridge and then it's just there every morning. We drink it along with our coffee and it gives us the energy and focus we need to get through our day. And I didn't have it that day. And that's why I couldn't make it but we love it. Our listeners can get 20% off a subscription by using code over talking pod 20 at checkout. That's o-v-e-r-t-a-l-k-i-n-g-p-o-d to zero at checkout using that code or by going to magicmind.com/ over talking pod 20. And be sure to use that code at checkout to get 20% off your subscription of Magic Mind. We love it. Check it out. All right. Well, let's get back to the marathon. Meg knows I drink Magic Mind every morning. Can you confirm, Meg? Every morning. You've got to have a Magic Mind. It's so good. Do you like Magic Mind? I do like it. Yes. Yeah. The more you drink it, the more effects it has on your focus too. And I genuinely feel like it's helped me. That's not bullshit. I swear to God. Yeah. Some mornings he'll be like extra dragon and he'll be like, oh my God, I didn't even drink my Magic Mind today. And it's just like, oh, all right. Cool. So does it make your head bigger? No, does not make your head bigger. Okay, that's good now. All right. Let's move on to the less disclaimers I have to do. All right. So let's get to the movies. Yeah. So like Meg mentioned before, Will Morris is one of the people who programs this every year. And he came on and introduced the first movie, which was a silent film called Suspense. Meg and Cam were here for this one right at the beginning. And it actually had a live score by somebody named Max McCathy and it also had Molly Reich there playing the cello, I think. Yeah. But yeah, here's the quick synopsis for that abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house. A mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them. It's a pretty good summary. Yeah, I mean, it's about as long as the film was 10 minute film. In past years, the silent film has been like almost two hours and like is really tough, even with a live score to sit through that. So this year they chose a super short one. I didn't know that. I actually loved it. I could talk about it. Is that all right? I think it's so cool. Like the live music part, I missed the past two years. So excited about it. I was actually disappointed to see how short it was because I thought it's like, oh man, like I don't know. Like did that silent movie like they didn't have an original like music audio to it that they didn't use and that we listened to or it was a movie just silent. Back in the days, they just had an organist that worked for the movie theater and they would play during the movie. What's I'm saying? Was there an organist that played during that movie? Would you say like there was an original music portion of it? I mean, but it would be a person live. It would be a person live in the theater. It would be recording. It would be different every time. Yeah. I didn't know if they had like someone could write the music to it, right? But I think it's cool that like they took it and then like kind of made it what they want. And I think it's cool how like I would love to see that done by someone else and you'll see how different or better or worse it'd be because I thought that was really cool. It was cool. There was a couple moments, I think like when you first see the tramp like looking around in the house and the cello comes in and it's like a real jolting noise and I saw a bunch of people jump from that just because it was like the cello hadn't really been playing that that loudly or that sharp and yeah, it got a bunch of people and that was really, really fun. Oh yeah, you're waiting. I'm sorry. We're over talking here, right? This is the point. It's okay. There were cool people sitting in front of us who like were very jumpy and I appreciated having them there as someone who's so jaded to horror movies at this point to be like, oh okay. I'm glad that people are actually finding this scary. That's good. They played those same two votes for a while and then right the cello comes in not expecting when it was even going to come in. My favorite two parts were when the guy got hit by the car and then when the guy whose car he stole, he just apologizes at the end because he realized, oh you're trying to get to your wife. It was very understanding of this movie. So yeah, so nice. Guy steals a car to go home to save his wife, hits someone at like top speed. The guy who's just like, oh no big deal. He walks away and then the cops finally catch up to the man who stole a car and when they saw, oh it's because another man was in his house and he's like, oh okay, you're not in trouble for stealing that car anymore. I was hoping for a little death though. At least one death and like some like squirting blood but we didn't get any of that didn't we? Nothing like that. Two early. They didn't even know what horror films were. Yeah. So we did see where the shining got its acts through the door inspiration. That's where it came from. I guess is what Will mentioned before the movie and a lot of inspiration from Stanley Kubrick came from that. Yeah. Yeah, he called this a proto slasher. So like before the slasher was like a genre or sub-genre of horror. This was like one of the things that people point to is like something that inspired that. And I thought it was that's kind of where they went with the score for the live performance. Max McAfee got on stage and explained that he wanted it to feel like if John Carpenter had like a Halloween-ish score for this and that's like exactly what it felt like. It was pretty cool. Yeah, he did a great job. So it was similar. You'd say I was wondering I didn't know it is John Carpenter's stuff sound like. So you'd say that he did it justice. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Kind of repeating a couple months. He's very Halloween. Yeah. It was good. All right, we got to move on. Otherwise we're going to be here forever. So that's suspense. Real quick ratings. I'm going to give it out of 10, right? That's what I do. I'm going to do 8 out of 10 for me, Meg. This is your killing, Megan. Yes, I gave it a 6 out of 10. I'm right in between 7. Okay, perfect. Moving on. The next movie was 1946, the spiral staircase. Here's the really quick synopsis on a stormy night. The mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer. Meg, what do you think of this one? I really liked this one. Probably one of the most badass female characters in the matriarch. She was awesome. She was in bed for most of it. Her two sons were taking over her mansion. She had all of these people working for her. But yeah, she just kind of spoke her mind and was super badass. And I loved her. Main character did not speak the whole time. And it was interesting to watch her try to like communicate with everybody. And I think they just mostly talked at her and she just like nodded along. It was fine. But yeah, I actually thought this was really, really good. And I would watch it again. It was definitely suspenseful, definitely thriller. I guess kind of a hoo done it because there's a few suspects in it. But yeah, it was really, really good. Yeah, no, I really enjoyed it too. There were some unique characters and one of them was like kind of a womanizer. The brother of the main guy, I guess, is the way I would describe it. Oh, I thought he had got it. I thought it was straight for an open showcase. Well, the guy in reference, he walks into a room and sees a woman crying and says, "Oh, I love seeing when a woman cries." Because it makes me feel more powerful than them or something like that. He was such a squeeze ball. Yeah, yeah. He was super creepy. He was the step brother, the two brothers. They were step brothers. And yeah, he kept trying to get the attention of this one server woman and just kept like, would play the piano and be like, "Blanche, if you don't come over here, I'm going to keep singing." And she had, she was like trying to do her work. She's like, "Dude, stop." He's like, "No, I'm not going to leave you alone till you give me what I want." He was a super creep. He played it very, very well. He was real slimy. Loved it. Yeah. Can I have any of those thoughts? Oh, I got emotional at the end when she finally said some words. Remember that part? I was like, "Oh, no way." So that was awesome. I thought I could do it without like 20 minutes of it. Probably like, I did enjoy it, but I think there was just like, they could have kind of a little shorter. But I love those like, I don't know, between 40s and 60s, time frame or movies. I think they're cool. I enjoyed it. The doctor, what a honky was. That's all I got to say. Yeah. We got to see a few of those kind of era movies during this marathon. I feel like they're a lot older movies than they usually are. And I really enjoyed that too. I enjoy it. All right. Quick round table. For me, I'm giving it a 7 out of 10, Meg. 7 out of 10 for me as well. Cam. I'm at a 6. Okay. Cool. Next up is The Crazy's 1973 George A. Romero. The military attempts to contain a man-made combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town. Cam, what were your initial thoughts about this movie? Was it what you thought it was going to be? I was expecting like gore. Like when he said it was like, whoa, they kind of go far in this one. I'm thinking like crazy deaths and like, you know, just blood everywhere. But the plot, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it was. Was it a virus or a bacteria or I don't even know that. But I mean, it kept my attention so I didn't join. I think it was, I was that one that had some funny things in it. I can't remember, but it's not. They're all enjoyable to watch again with the group. I find it funny and yeah, I had no clue what was going on and I was just trying to figure that out. I don't think I did, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, Meg, what did you expect to this movie was going to be and then what do you think it was instead? I completely agree with Cam. We were told it goes, it goes a little far and I was like, okay, I'm like, I'm ready for some gore. I can take it. Like we've been here long enough that they should bring on something a little more intense. It definitely did not line up to what I had in my head. I don't think anyone really went crazy in it. They were just kind of acting a bit silly, a bit goofy. Maybe like they all got laced with drugs or something like at LSD or something. They're just kind of being kind of silly a little bit. Yeah, it was the first kind of thing. I was bringing that in a little bit. Yeah, a little bit of the very first guy, I think tries to murder his whole family and burns his house down. That, okay, so that opening scene, that opening scene is what I was like, yeah, okay, great. This is what we're going to see. This guy's clearly gone mad, but then that never, crazy happens again. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I thought all of them would. I thought they all would kind of start to like go on murderous rampages or something like that. I would have loved that. Like it kept getting crazier and crazier. Right. Because when it starts off on that note, you're like, okay, now I know what I'm in for. But yeah, I think the one one lady character who was the daughter who ended up getting raped by her dad, spoiler, that was the part, I guess, that we were warned that it went too far on. Nick, you don't have to watch that anymore. You know what happens? I don't know. I was a little bummed that I didn't get to see this one. So I assume this doesn't stack up to his zombie movies. You're gonna get to see someone get raped by their dad. Come on. No, it didn't, for me, at least it didn't hold up to what I thought it was going to be. This was remade in the 20, 20 knots. I think I don't know exactly one, but and I saw that or at least parts of it on like AMC for your fest. And I thought that was kind of more of a straightforward movie, but this original, the crazies. Yeah, half of it was like a, like a military drama or like, like explaining that like the military doesn't always have its fit together. And it's kind of a haphazard and miscommunication. Just the mishandling of an outbreak from the military's perspective is what it mostly felt like. And then it dipped into like what the what the main characters were doing to avoid the crazies or try to get out of the military's like lockdown. But yeah, it definitely did not live up to what I thought it was going to be at all. I was expecting some gore, I was expecting more. I know. I know. I did too. Your mileage may vary. I know other people who do really like this. So it, but for me, I was pretty tired and was falling asleep during certain parts, just because I was overwhelmed with all of the military quick talk back and forth. Yeah, but I mean, I think when you're like, this is a, a Georgie Romero film, you kind of expect a certain level of, of gore, I guess, or just like a certain. Oh, is that what he's known for? Is that what he's known for? He did night of the living dead, right? Is that? Yeah. So zombie, zombie films, you're like, I'm expecting something like that, but it didn't wasn't there. It was fine. It was just, yeah, a little too long, a little too focused on the military that I got bored. Yeah. All right. Quick round the table, Meg. What would you give this movie out of time? I gave it a five. Cam. Romero more like, for a marrow. I'll give it a four. Yeah, I'll give it a four or two. All right. Moving on. Meg, this is where you dipped out, I believe. Is that correct? Yep. I bounced. All right. You bounced and subbed in is Nick. That's right. You get a top down, Nick. Sorry, Nick, for sitting there. But almost right, because you missed the, or you only caught maybe part of the short. I didn't see any of the short at all. I saw the movie that came after it. Okay. So before the next movie, they showed a short, it's a 1983 short they can find on YouTube called possibly in Michigan. And a masked man stalks a woman through a stopping mall and follows her home. And in the end, their roles are reversed where the heroine deposits a mysterious hefty bag at the curb. That's a horrible explaining for what happens, but everyone kind of like is singing, songy talking to each other during this. And I actually recognized it almost immediately from TikToks that were going around earlier this year. And I think that's what will the kind of curator was explaining that brought it back into the zeitgeist because this is a 1983 short. And yeah, it's got this really creepy, like, sing, songy dialogue that goes on during this. I don't know how else to explain it. Cam, can you do any better than me? It was a short that wasn't short enough. That's what I'd say. Oh, that's fire. No, yeah, it was. I took it as, you know, like that, that like new age, like form of art where people just like get naked for SpaghettiOs on them and like say they're like doing God's work and like really thinking like I have thought it was that well put together in a session. Yeah, how do we get into that? Where do we find that film? Yeah, I mean, I could get, I'll go straight away. I gave it a zero out of 10. It was. I would even call it a movie is short or whatever you want to call it. There were a waste of my time. Oh, man. I thought it was creepy. There's this creepy, like masked guy who has his mouth open following him around. And I like the sing, songy thing, just maybe just because I know from TikToks. I gave it a six out of 10. Wow. All right. You can describe this one to me when I first showed up what just defined. I mean, we didn't do it. It was not helpful at all. Go watch it. You can find it on YouTube. It's just out there, possibly in Michigan. All right. But then Nick, you finally then did enter the theater that I arrived. We arrived just in time for, oh boy, I'm not going to be able to pronounce this correctly. The best. Zibakana or the English title is Hell's Ground. And the quick synopsis of Hell's Ground is, well, maybe not that quick. In the spirit of E.C. Horor comics of old, the film tells the story of five teens that get lost on their way to a rock concert, are menaced by a flesh-eating mutation, and then fall into the collections of a family of backwards killers. Yeah, that's pretty much it. But yeah, this is a movie that is part English, part Urdu is the language. I think it's a Pakistani film is what he said. And yeah, I mean, I don't think I've ever seen any Pakistani film previously. I can't think of any. So yeah, anyway, this is kind of a new experience for me. And yeah, I thought it was really interesting how the teens in this movie kind of more often talk to each other in English. And they also changed into more American garb at 1.2 when they're like sneaking away from their family to go to a rock concert, and I thought that kind of culture idea was interesting. I don't really know much about this. I'm not going to speak moronic because I'm going to make it fool myself. But yeah, anyway, I thought this was interesting. I couldn't tell during the movie if it was bad at parts, or if it was intentionally bad. But either way, it was funny to see with an audience. And that's what all I got to say on it. Acting or bad what? Bad writing? Like really obvious, clefait tropes. Like at one point, the main girl is with the guy and the guy's like, so we're alone. But like their diseased friend and everyone else is missing. And I was really weird. Yeah, I kind of feel bad coming like show up in first thing. But like, this was my least favorite of everything we saw. I thought it was kind of a mess. Like, they couldn't decide what horror element they wanted to use. Like, I feel like it had every monster you could possibly conceive of. It had like the the like evil dead style, like the camera is the monster coming towards you. But then there's also the road has like zombies all over it. And then they pick up a guy that's like, I'm going to suck all the blood out of you. And then there's like a Texas Chainsaw massacre, like slasher style thing. And almost none of it like fully resolves except for the Texas Chainsaw thing at the end. So I was just kind of confused of like, which, what is the monster here? What's the bad guy? I don't really enjoyed it. Like, I think he said like, getting it's a blender of all of them. And my thought would be like, hey, Pakistan hasn't seen like horror movies like that. So we're going to put every damn thing that American does in horror films into that film. And for whatever reason, I thought it was that that typical one like, oh, oh man, we're we should break up. And I love those like typical horror movie jokes in there. I, I, I, I just enjoyed the whole thing laughing through it. It was awesome. Yeah, I, I remember laughing through it too. I'm going to give it. It was funny. It was funny to watch with an audience. I don't know if I would be watching it at home alone. I would find it even remotely watchable. I think this is maybe where the differentiation there is there. So I'm going to give it a five out of ten for me. Nick, what would you rate this? Four out of ten. Okay, Cam. A solid eight. Eight. I was like, I, there's some of the ones like, even though the next one we'll talk about, like, I was like, is this going to continue going on? This one, I was like, give me more. Okay. All right. Nice. Well, yeah, then next up was 1963s, The Haunted Palace, and which was preceded by Roger Korman tribute to died earlier this year. Who made a lot of these older 60s, 50s horror movies for cute, but this had Vincent Price in it. One of two Vincent Price movies, at least that I saw in this festival. And yeah, the quick synopsis is a warlock burned at the stake, comes back, and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendants of the villages that burned him. And yeah, it's Vincent Price playing the original warlock, and then Vincent Price playing the great grandson. And it's the Vincent Price show pretty much for this movie. But, you know, I really enjoyed it. Cam, what do you think of this? I wanted to enjoy this one. Like, I thought it'd be like, I thought it'd be better. I don't know. I was looking for it to be better though. For whatever reason, I know it was low budget. You can clearly tell like everything that was made was a set and not like actually at a place. So for whatever reason that like made it weird for me, even though it shouldn't. But I can't have new stuff during it, but it wasn't awful. What do you think, Nick? I really like this one. I thought the possession thing and the Vincent Price show of it all really worked for me. It turned out that it's based on a HP Lovecraft novella, I think. Which I thought was really neat. Like, I only know HP Lovecraft's stuff like 10 gently through stories like this. I've never read any of his actual stuff. But I really enjoyed this one a lot more than I expected actually. Yeah, I am more on the side of Nick. Yeah, I thought it was an interesting intersection of Roger Korman, Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe. I think it was based on his story, but HP Lovecraft also had some elements, or maybe it was a cross of multiple things. I know, I think it was Edgar Allan Poe, the name sounded like it. Like Edgar Allan Poe like movie, but I don't think I thought it was Lovecraft's story, no? Yeah, so I did look it up. I'm not, you're not doing a trivia for this. No. Yeah. Okay. So I looked it up and it did say based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem and an HP Lovecraft story. Okay. The Edgar Allan Poe poem, it's not, there's nothing, there's no element in it, but he, the narrator says part of the poem at the beginning, and Vincent Price recites another part of the poem at the end. But there's no actual story elements that are about that. But it is much more based off the HP Lovecraft story. Gotcha. Okay. So there's one to throw another big name to be on a title card, basically. Yeah, basically. Corbin did a lot of actual Edgar Allan Poe movies. Like there, there is a raven and cast of a Monte auto and stuff like that. So I, I'm guessing it's just to go along with the Corbin theme of doing, doing Poe stories. Gotcha. Gotcha. More brand recognition. Yeah, makes sense. I don't have much more to say on this. I, I thought it was an enjoyable story that moved at a decent pace for me. I, I, I'm always down for a Vincent Price movie. And I, I've probably seen other Roger Corbin movies, but I, I can't think of any, but so this might have been my first, I'm not sure. But I'm going to give this an eight out of 10 for me. I really enjoyed it. This was the kind of perfect spooky October movie for me. Um, maybe Cam, you go next, no, and then I go left. Oh, I noticed four for me. Okay. Okay. It was an eight out of 10 for me too. I think that was my first Corbin movie as well. And I really liked it. Nice. Cool. All right. And then next up, Cam, you only saw part of this, but you should have stuck around because I, I, I, I literally only that because I was like falling asleep because I was so tired, but it was, it was, I loved everything that I saw during it. I'll tell you that. You'll have to, you'll have to spoil the end for me though, because I want to know. I'll tell you after, because I don't want to, I don't want to do it on the show, but next up was the 1990s, prom night three, the last kiss. Uh, and I had not seen prom night one or two. I don't think any of us have, right? No, this is my first entry in the prom night universe. So the quick synopsis is Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the 50s, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton high school looking for blood. And that is missing a major part of the plot where she, uh, becomes the sexual haunting of a, one of the high school boys and is like his girlfriend who is helping him, uh, become less average. It's, it's like straight up a comedy. It's like just a comedy. I mean, there, people get killed, but it's, uh, it is the one of the funniest things I've ever seen, uh, at least maybe with an audience, but like I think even at home, like there's, there's major jokes in there that are like, just hilarious. I don't know. I loved it so much. Um, Cam from the little bit you saw, we had, what, what did you think? Oh, it was absolutely hilarious. It's like, it must have been 90s, right? It was like extreme 1990s. It screamed like a 90s movie to me. And it was like, for me, I probably had a whole budget, but it seemed like a well put together like movie. I, I enjoyed it fairly from the killings to the this, the humor. Like I was consistently laughing. I think it always better like when, you know, after with people too. So I have nothing but good things to, to say about it. Uh, I think I did like it was the guy who wrote it, like, or directed it there. Yeah, the writer and director was there. Um, I think I was like, I really like this one and I wanted to see the first two. I believe he actually wrote the second and third one, right? But in no way were they supposed to have any connection to the first one, actually, but they decided to pick it up. And I think I don't know if there is a connection, but I enjoyed it from what I saw. I hadn't disappointed. I left early. Yeah, it was, it was pretty great. You left to finish it on your own sometime. Yeah, sounds good. I'll do that for sure. What would you think? Yeah, uh, 100% on board. I thought it was hilarious. It set the tone perfectly when one of the first kills was, uh, somebody's hands getting stabbed with ice cream cones. Um, yeah, that is a real thing that happened in that. And probably not even the weirdest thing that happened in that movie. It was, it was hilarious. It was well done. It wasn't, it wasn't scary in any conventional means. It was just, uh, just really fun. Yeah. Good time. Yeah. I, there were, there were so many jokes throughout it. I think one of my favorite parts was, um, just like randomly you would hear like an intercom announcement in the high school. Oh, those were amazing. Can you think of it? I can't think of any. Okay. There was one I really liked. Like, Oh, it said come to crayon. Like, no, uh, man. I think one was like auto club is canceled today due to an accident. Oh, play with yourself. Remember the, the chess club is canceled. You can play with your little library library. Were there lots of that? They're all pretty, that's, that's awesome. Yeah. I think when one of the teachers get killed, it's like, Hey, science classes cancel for today and the memorial is in the afternoon or something. I don't know. Really good. All right. I gave it a nine out of 10 because I, I frickin loved it. Um, Cam, do you want to throw a rating on for the party? Oh, yeah. It was like eight and a half. Wow was there. I guess that I only went because I knew I'd crash if I did it. And Nick, uh, seven, seven out of 10. Nice. Cool. All right. And then, uh, just the boys, Nick, Nick and me for the last movie here. Um, or we both throw in the towel. Yeah, we threw in the towel. Uh, we'll get to that in a second, but, uh, this next movie was 2016's the Alchemist cookbook. And we also had the, the writer, director in attendance for that as well. Um, and the Alchemist cookbook is a, uh, about a self made chemist, Sean, a reclusive, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods suffers from a pill popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of the alchemy go awry, he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous. Um, and I don't think this is a spoiler, but he's, yeah, he's basically trying to make a deal with a literal demon in the woods to get gold, I think. Uh, literal gold. I assume. I don't know, man. This dude was like literally crazy because he was missing his pills for most of the movie. So. So yeah, there's basically like two different reads on the, on the movie. And I guess it's, it's up to you to decide which one's real. But yeah, he's, he's doing alchemy to make gold and he's going to make a deal with the devil to make gold. But on the flip side, he could be, uh, just, just has a severe mental illness and he's actually out in a trailer cooking meth for he and his brother and, uh, and then doesn't, doesn't get his pills. So it gets progressively worse. Yeah. Um, yeah, that's, that's, that's basically it. Yeah. So I don't, I don't know about you. I didn't like this movie, but I can't stop thinking about it for the life of me. Um, I don't, I don't know what it like it was, it was technically well made. There are definitely like unsettling and well done parts of it. I thought the main actor who is only one of two actors in the whole film was he did a really good job. It just, the whole thing did not hang together for me very well. Um, I was mostly bored and, uh, yeah, I just, I didn't care for it. Yeah. For me, the pacing was probably the biggest right hardship for this movie. Um, it was really slow at parts. And again, yeah, there's only two people and mainly just one person in this movie. And so that's, that's difficult to run the whole movie that way and keep her interest. But I agree. I think there's like a lot more memorable moments from this movie than there were for a lot of the other ones for me. Um, like there's some really compelling imagery and really creepy shots and moments in this movie that I definitely won't be forgetting anytime soon. So I, that's, that's a really good point. Yeah. I just, I, I wanted to discard this movie right away because it immediately ended. I was like, thank God it's over. I did not like that. And then the last 24 hours, I just, I, I keep running the whole movie through my head. So, I mean, there's something that's got some sticking power in it. I just don't know what it is. Yeah. Um, well, that's all I can talk about. I don't know. I don't have anything more to say than there's some creepy shots in this. It's a creepy idea. Um, it goes to interesting places. And if you want to check it out, I, it's probably worthwhile, but um, it's definitely not my favorite, but yeah, there's some, there's some interesting and unique ideas and images explored in this movie. But for me, I'm giving it a four. Nick, four for me too. Yeah. Cool. All right. And then everyone on this podcast was no longer at the music box of fours. Uh, the next movie was Jaws. And I think all of us have seen Jaws if not once more than once. It's one of my favorite movies, but I've seen it at the music box before. That's the, the, the first one. I think it has the first one. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Um, yeah. For me, Jaws doesn't feel like a music box of four is movie. It feels like a summer movie for me, but uh, I don't know. I was tired. I didn't sleep great the night before. And I was like, that's the perfect excuse to go home and get a little bit of sleep and come back in the morning. Um, and that's just what Meg and I did. So Meg, we came back at 8 a.m. We did. We did. We're recording this the day of that, by the way. So this is all super fresh. Um, Meg, what was the, uh, the movie we saw at 8 20 a.m. Well, that was the one I was the most excited for, even though I've seen it once, maybe twice, poltergeist. Um, that was, I felt like a great way to start my day off to watch that. Never seen it live in the theater, let alone on a 35 millimeter print. It was awesome. Was so good. It was just as scary as I remembered when I was a kid and saw it way too young. And it was the first movie that ever scared me. Um, still, still holds up. Amazing. Yeah, it was really, really, that's just a great movie. I hadn't seen it forever, but this is one of the earliest movies I remember actually scaring me. Um, I remember literally, I have a vivid image in my mind of me watching it alone in the dark in my family room when I was younger. And one scene coming on a meet, literally screaming out loud full volume for like a full minute. Um, was it the tree? No, it was the clown. The clown? Okay. Yeah. It was either the tree or the clown was the worst. As a kid, it was very, very, very scary to see anything like that before where they like actually play into like your deepest fears of like a toy in your room becomes close to life. And it's like hiding and like attacking you and drags you under the bed. Like, Oh my God. He first of all, that kid clearly did not like that clown doll from the beginning. Like that life's like child size, life size clown doll kept, kept avoiding it, throwing sheets over its head and stuff. Why did they have it? Like, why keep it and always set it up in a chair facing them while they slept? Like have a creepier toy haunt you every, every single night. It was maybe they like it's her in the daytime. And I don't know when the thing was really creepy. That definitely set off my fear of clowns as a kid. I did not like that thing. Is that the origin? That is that and the, um, episode of, um, what, what was it? The clown from? Yeah. Are you afraid of the dark? Thank you. I kept just thinking dark. Yeah, that and are you afraid a dark episode is what launched that fear, which I'm pretty much over now because, you know, I sat in a movie theater with Art the Clown and survived, but I hate clowns this day. They're just very creepy. So yeah, that was, it was really fun. There was a lot of scenes that I didn't remember in that film. And it was actually a lot funnier than I remember too. There were some really good, funny moments. Yeah, you caught a couple things with the oldest daughter. She was, she was a 16 year old daughter who basically like was there but didn't experience any of the ghost or poltergeist or any, she didn't experience any of that. She just like ate cereal, went to school, hung out with her friends, and then came back at the end with a huge hickey on her neck. And there was, yeah, and there was something where they're like, we're staying at a hotel tonight and she's like, oh yeah, I know that one. It's like you're 16 years old. What the hell? So that was really good. She was pretty funny. Craig T. Nelson was awesome. Obviously he was great in it, but yeah, a couple scenes I thought could have been a little bit shorter that kind of dragged on for a little bit, but really good. Really spooky, still very successful moments in there. Some good. I don't know. Was it CGI? What was it at that point? How did that house? I don't know how they did some of these thoughts. I don't know how they did it. I don't feel like a lot of them. It was a terrible thing. Yeah, there was some really cool stuff. Yeah, 1982. So I don't know. But yeah, I don't have much more to say on it than it really holds up. And if you're looking for something really good to watch, that's still scary, but as a classic poltergeist is the one. I'm going to give this a full 10 out of 10 for me. Oh, yeah, I got to see this. Yeah, I'm coming over to watch it sometime. You know, you should don't watch it alone, too scary. I can't do it. I wouldn't be able to watch it alone. I can't do it. You can come over anytime. I gave it a nine out of 10. I don't know why not a full 10, just maybe because some of the scenes dragged on a little bit. But yeah, it's really, really good. Yeah. I'm not a 10. How how so else do you 10 out of 10 for you guys? That is for me. Absolutely. This must be really good. Yeah, it's good for different reasons for me. But all right. And then we finally got to the last movie. And I know this is running a little hot. So we'll try to go through quickly. But the last movie shown at 10 30 a.m. was a 1963 movie called the comedy of terrors. Also, this is the other Vincent Price movie. An undertaker who hasn't had any customers in a long time is forced to pay one year's background to get money. He starts to kill people, which brings absurd results. This was just fine for me, honestly. I agree. Yeah. It wasn't over the top funny, although there were some moments that I was laugh out loud, like, you know, cackling at. But but in general, it was just fine. It didn't hit super hard. I don't have much more to say on that other than it had Peter Lori and Boris Karloff also in it, which was pretty cool. But yeah. Yeah, I agree. No, it was there was definitely I think I think they said it was meant to be a kids movie. They meant to market it to kids. I don't know how that would have worked. It was rated G, but yeah, it was meant for kids. And when kids watched it, they were like, I do not get this, which makes total sense, because how would you? And it was pretty pretty dark for a kid's film. The guy's like murdering people to try to bury them for money. But yeah, not my favorite Vincent Price film, but still quite enjoyable because of the cast. Some really good little goofs in there. Definitely worth worth a watch if you're if you're feeling like it. But for the name comedy of terrors, I thought it would be like way funnier or way more slapstick, I guess. But it wasn't quite there. Yeah. All right. Any kind of an issue like in a programming problem, like you just watched the masterpiece that is for you guys to then watch that. Maybe. Well, I was really looking for because I think they always seem to end the marathon on a lighter note. Like one year was Ernest Scared Stupid, which was so fun. They always do like something targeted to younger audiences and typically. Yeah. So I knew that was coming, but it just it just didn't quite land. I think I had high hopes because of it being a Vincent Price film, but it just, I think the first half of it, I was like, when's this going to get funny? And then a good stride. Yeah, first time seeing it. But it was good. And honestly, at that point, I think we were just like, okay, I want to go home. I was still tired. Honestly, I was like, how do you get home yesterday, Ken? I Ubered home. Oh, did you? Yeah. Oh, man. Rading, Rading, Rading. I gave it a six out of 10. I also gave it a six out of 10. And that's it. So we skipped a couple movies. We missed elevator, the bottled fools. I kind of want to see that. I don't know what it is. Tales from the dark side of the movie. I have seen that before. And nightmare, AKA nightmares from a damaged brain, which Megan and I saw the last five minutes of it through the window into the theater. Rading, Rading, Rading. Based on that alone. Yeah, I would actually really want to see the whole movie because that was a crazy ending. It looked really, really good. But I heard people complaining that they were too tired to enjoy it. So yeah, that's how I feel about most of the back half of these marathons. And that's why I went home this time to sleep. So do you think you enjoyed the last back half a little bit better because you went home and probably would have I probably would have not have rated pulse guys as high if I was completely sleep deprived? Because at that point, typically, I am just counting the minutes until it's over. Which is not great, right? Like, I want to be able to enjoy the movies. And yeah, coming back somewhat more fresh in the morning was the way to go, at least for this year. I could always follow up and watch those other movies another time. But yeah, that's going to be it for this episode of the Over Talking Podcast. Next week, tune in while Meg and I, it's just Meg and I again, and we're going to be talking about all of the movies besides these that we watched in October. This you see day. We miss you CJ. Please go back soon. But until then, this is what I do. I only talk about horror movies. So I watch the horror movie every single day in October. And then they just come to talk about it. But yeah, please tell other people, spread the word. You can find us at Over Talking Pod on everything. Call Texas at usacat1591. We spend it no monies. We spend it no money and advertises it like a show up. Please tell friends spread the word. We'd really appreciate it. Thank you. And drink your magic mind. Thank you, Cam, Nick, and Meg for joining me. Do any of you have any words of wisdom to end the show here? I love the Over Talking Overlords, where are they? Oh, they came and they came and left really quick, but they're really tired. They're a bunch, okay. Are they not canon anymore? They're still canon. They do typically show up at the end of every episode, or my meter, mind you, to do all the things already you said. They're probably with CJ taking the week off right now. We'll see us stuff, yeah. I just assumed if they're going to come out at any time, it would be in October. But they don't like when you put a label on them, so they like to keep it out. Yeah, they want to keep it spooky, keep it a surprise, that's fine. I guess the guests should just keep their thoughts and opinions themselves then, that's fine. That's right. Continue. So, yeah, this was a lot of fun, another one in the books. And everybody go watch this movie off of this list. Man, drink your milk, mind, magic, mind. And as we always see at the end of every single episode, I like watching women cry. Isn't that what the guy said? Something like that. Yeah. All right, bye. No notes. This episode of the Overtalking Podcast was edited and produced by Ken. This week's special guests were me, Cam and Nick. 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