The Friday Nightmares Podcast

Hello, and welcome to the 105th episode of The Friday Nightmares Podcast.

Today on Friday Nightmares Podcast, Scottie and I try to find a new way to record now that Skype no longer is a service provider.

So that's been its horror movie within itself.

But my name is Heather Powell.

I am one half of The Friday Nightmare Podcast, and I am coming to you today from Waterdown, Ontario, Canada.

And with me, as always, Mr.

Smoke Show Crawford, coming to you from the town of Swartz Creek, in the county of Genesee, in the state of Michigan, in the United States of America, in the North American continent, in the Western Hemisphere, on the planet Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Fully vaxxed, boosted and waxed, and ready to climax.

And if you can, please get me wet and feed me after midnight.

I'm the man with the glorious beard, aka mother of cats, aka the man with the humongous ego, aka Scott Howson, aka Scottie Hugh Hottie, aka Spanky, aka Hey Scott, aka I'm bald.

At least that's what my youngest calls me.

That's so kind and just so descriptive.

What more do you need to know?

Yeah, well, it's beautiful because since Jaden loves to call me bald, Erika bought me this shirt that says I'm not going bald.

I'm just getting more head.

That's pretty funny.

You see, that's wife material right there.

Exactly.

But yeah, this whole freaking Microsoft Teams bullshit.

Screw you, Microsoft.

Skype was easy and you could do it for free, and now you got to do this premium bullshit, and this is dumb.

Yeah.

So spoiler behind the scenes.

We tried Teams, didn't work, because you have to have a premium account.

And then we went into Google because I was like, okay, it says you can record on Google Meets, and of course you have to preview and count, but luckily it gives you a 31-day trial.

So this may be the last episode ever of Friday Nightmares Podcast.

Yeah, because we love recording, but we didn't invest in money, come on now.

We made $15 a month.

So I'm still using the same freaking headset that I bought when we first started this podcast, we're crying out loud.

Yeah, we're not like big budgets like the Dummies of Horror Podcast, you know what I mean?

You know, they are the beef wellingtons of horror podcasting, so you know, obviously they are rich and have so much money because you got to be a rich person to be able to have people...

Well, we don't ask for handouts in Patreon.

Let's just put it that way, Scott.

We're hardworking, hand jobs.

That's true.

We're like, oh no, we don't want money, we just want sexual gratification.

So we'll try to figure out Discord.

That will be, I think, the hot thing that all the young kids are doing.

And so these two elder millennials will somehow figure out how to use Discord in the next 30 days, which can't be that hard.

AI this now, we can Google AI.

I mean, yeah, I'll say, like, I have Discord for my gaming laptop.

And correct me if I'm wrong, Tim, but I think that's what you and Luffy are using now to record.

I'm not sure, but yeah, I use Discord on very rare occasions when I played online with my buddies when I was playing Magic.

And it's a mess trying to figure out things out for me.

Like maybe it's because I'm old and technologically, just not with it, but yeah, I was confused trying to figure out my way around that damn site.

We're like, why can't things be simple like they were back in the day of Skype?

Yeah, back in my time, you know.

I don't care that there was all these porn bots constantly trying to call me, God.

It gave us attention.

It made Scotty and I feel like someone cared.

Exactly.

Well, we'll get right into the movies.

I do have my nephew today who naps like a boss.

So I just put him down for nappies because I didn't think he would care about the horror movie podcast.

We're going to go watch Serbian film later, of course.

Of course.

Of course, solo as well.

I figure we may as well.

I don't know.

What's some martyrs?

Yeah, dead girl.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

Just get a little nice taster of Winnie the Pooh blood and honey just so he knows how fucked up his aunt is early on.

Absolutely.

So we'll jump right into it.

It's been a while.

It might be even longer before I figure out how to record stuff.

So, yeah, I'm going to figure out, try to figure out Discord, too.

And maybe together we can bring our powers together.

Yeah, with our powers combined, we might figure out Discord.

Right.

Though I do think Facebook can record stuff, too.

So I'm going to look into Messenger as well.

Anyway, I don't know, this kind of just sums up the year.

Maybe it's a sign because these movies haven't been great.

There's been a handful of very good films I have seen, I will say.

Or films that were just really good because they touched me in special places.

I like it when I'm touched in special places.

But it has been a year.

It has been a year.

Maybe it's a sign.

Right.

Good God.

So we'll start off with, I'll start off with the first one on our list.

The Woman in the Yard.

This is a, I don't know, also known as the Babadook.

Oh, pretty much.

Anyway, don't let her in.

It's a tagline for this one.

In the aftermath of her husband's death, Widow Ramona struggles to raise her two kids, is hindered by the arrival of mysterious woman with supernatural abilities.

This wasn't a horrible film by any stance of the imagination.

It was very much a paint by numbers film.

I see you gave it two and a half stars.

I think that's a very fair rating.

Yeah.

It's basically Blumhouse trying to be A24.

Yes.

A little too little too late.

Like we've been there, done that.

Like Erica and I both kind of called what was happening.

Oh, yeah, it was pretty easy.

Like in the first ten minutes, you were like, and this is the movie.

I will say the main character, Daniela's dead wilder performance is excellent.

I think she is a great actress.

I think she prepares the role well.

Actually, I didn't have a beef with any of the acting in this.

No, neither did I.

It was just the story was dumb.

Yeah, it was dumb and it just, yeah, it's been been done before.

Like it's almost like paint by numbers exactly like some of the other movies we've seen.

Like it's yeah, and obviously like slashers are all paint by numbers, but they add something.

This was just it just felt like it was a copy and paste.

Like this was like, oh, Boba Duk was too much for you.

You didn't feel like watching it.

Here you go.

It's the same film only shorter and less metaphors.

Exactly.

But you know what?

It was a simple, easy watch.

It filled a void.

I don't think it's going to get like a worst of the year.

I don't think it deserves that.

I think it understood its assignment and was less than 90 minutes long.

So give you credit for that film.

But yeah, definitely, it wasn't, I don't know.

It's what you would expect.

If you've watched horror movies for the last several years, more than just five of them, you know what was going to happen to Scotty.

Oh, 100%.

Right?

But this next one you just saw.

Yes, I did.

So Erica and I just sat down on Friday night and watched Until Dawn, which has 103 minute runtime every night, a different nightmare.

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers.

Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a mass killer and horrifically murdered one by one, only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

So this is based off a PlayStation 4 video game of the same name, Until Dawn.

And this was one of my favorite video games that I had played in that generation.

It's basically a choose your own adventure style horror movie, except you're like, you basically play almost like the director of the movie going, okay, I'm going to have this character be an asshole and make the dumbest choices because I don't like them and I want them to die.

And you'll just have like, and then, you know, these events happen and you're playing the playing out throughout this movie.

So, it's kind of hard to make a movie where there is no set story line, if you're basing it off the video game, because there are so many different pathways you could go down.

I love what they did with this, with the whole kind of Groundhog's Day, they die, wake back up, they die, wake back up, and having to kind of try to figure out how to get out of this scenario before it's too late.

The acting was decent all around.

I wouldn't say anything amazing.

It did have the girl from the Hellraiser remake that played the main character in that, and she...

I liked her a lot.

I thought all the characters were decent.

The gore in this was pretty awesome.

There were some really fun kills.

Peter Stormar is in this, and which is awesome because he is also in the video game as his own, and he basically is almost kind of playing the same character.

Yeah, a lot of nods to the video game.

The story line definitely goes in different direction.

But me being a huge fan of the Until Dawn game, I went in expecting them to try something different because like I say, it's kind of hard to...

What would be the point of just remaking the game as the movie?

Because it would just be pointless.

It almost plays out like a movie as it is.

So I like what they did.

It's a nice touch.

I had a lot of fun.

There are definitely a lot of nods to the source material.

And yeah, this is definitely an 8 out of 10, maybe an 8 and a half out of 10.

Like, I am definitely going to rewatch this.

And with the way the year is going, this may make my top 10.

We'll see.

But yeah, I definitely recommend this one.

I found it to be a lot of fun.

Some people I've seen are complaining about it, saying that it's too confusing and it doesn't stick to the source of the video game.

But if you go into saying this is going to be a fun horror movie with a bunch of different fun kills, you'll have a lot of fun.

And you know what?

I'll take what I can get, Scotty.

They're right.

Yeah, right.

Especially this year.

Jesus Christ.

Like I'm like a hungry, hungry dude at the bar.

That's just like anyone will do.

Anyone with a heartbeat.

Anyone with a heartbeat.

So we're, oh, I never even said where you could find Woman in the Art.

It's available on like Google and Centiplex and YouTube if you decide that you want to rent it.

Both Scotty and I didn't love it.

So we obviously don't think it's worth the price.

But what about this one?

Where can we find this one?

This one actually just became available to buy and rent this week on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Video, Fandango at Home, and YouTube.

And you recommend it?

Yes, I highly recommend it.

I had a lot of fun with this one.

And I think when you watch it, you'll have fun with it, too.

I will like it.

I already know I'll enjoy it.

The next one, I'm so glad that you went next, because I watched this movie so long ago that I forgot until I really thought about it.

I'm like, oh, yes.

So this movie is live streamed.

As a team, it's Scott's favorite, social media influencers.

He loves them, actually.

It's his favorite genre of films.

I love that.

My favorite.

This is why Skype ended, because Scott doesn't like social media influencers.

They targeted Scott specifically.

They did.

As a team of live streamers embark on a haunted house challenge, they quickly realized that the scares may be more real than they anticipated, like our haunted house and Skype no longer existing, us being unable to use Teams, just feeling like we don't know what's going on.

With each twist and turn, they must navigate through the terror and fights to survive the night.

This is a found footage film.

I can't remember if it follows all the found footage rules.

The characters are quite obnoxious in this.

I will warn anybody to watch this.

I know.

Shocking.

Influencers that are obnoxious.

No.

And like, they're supposed to be obnoxious, right?

But it was fine.

You know, I will say it captured my attention for the 91 minutes.

The plot moved pretty quickly.

You know, basically, they go out to this house and it turns out, it's not supposed to be a haunted house.

It's just supposed to be a place they're chilling in the woods kind of for the weekend.

And then things do not go as planned.

And I did enjoy it.

For what it was worth, I thought that it was a quality film.

I see David Garrett here has given it three stars and a pretty good review.

And I think that's fair.

But I will say the social media influenced characters are annoying.

So if those characters annoy you, then you may not want to watch this movie.

But if you are a found footage completist and you enjoy social media influenced horror, this could be one for you.

Unfortunately, it's not available on Tubi.

This would definitely be a watch that I would say to people, if it's on Tubi, check it out.

It is only available on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon, YouTube, and Fandango.

I would say this is worth to rent it if what I described sounds like your thing.

And see, I am torn, because I am a found footage aficionado completionist, but I hate social media.

So it's like, I'm going to watch it, and I'm probably going to hate it.

And the thing is, we get screeners from our friends.

So it's a little bit of a different situation.

But for the other folks out there, I would say only watch this if found footage, and social media influencers are your thing.

Good to know.

Yeah, yeah.

Did you watch this next one?

I did not.

Oh, okay.

So as I was watching this, I'm like, oh, that looks like it was filmed in Hamilton.

Oh, yes.

Yes, the whole thing was filmed in Hamilton and the most shady rundown areas, which gives you an idea.

This felt like a made-for-TV film.

Anyway, it's called It Feeds.

Well, Ashley Graham's in it.

That gives it away, does it not?

Who is she?

I recognize that name.

She was in a lot of TV movies and shit in the 90s and 2000s and shit.

So anyway.

I recognize her, but I can't picture her.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It Feeds.

A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.

Sean Astin Moore is in this movie, and I'll be honest, he's the highlight of this movie.