Tremors (1990)

Derek and Kristen head out to the desert to jump around on the rocks and watch Tremors!

Transcript

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I'm getting ready to watch a video.

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What's your favorite scary movie?

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Uh I don't know.

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You have to have a favorite point comes to mind. Hello, and welcome to the Silver Screens podcast. My name is Charles. Hi!

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Hi, Charlie!

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So glad you could make it. The hosts are expecting you. Brightest way to the dungeon. Please watch your step and try not to trip over the corps. You'll be joining the terrifying trio for tonight. Make yourselves comfortable on the couch. Right over there. And they'll be with you shortly. Oh. And one last thing.

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Every day.

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It's no doubt.

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Screen team! How are you guys doing? Welcome to another episode of the Silver Screams Podcast. A podcast where two horror movie buffs watch scary movies and then talk about them. I am your host, Derek Schneider, and I am pleased, as always, to be joined by my wonderful co-host, Kristen Marlowe.

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What it is.

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Kristen, how you doing?

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I'm doing well, thanks.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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Let's keep it uh keeping it simple.

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Keeping it brief because I I feel like we could really dig deep, deep down into what's been going on in our lives because that would be a whole episode since we sat down across from each other and talked. Uh yeah, I I apparently didn't realize this, but Max's contract had a uh a mandatory grieving period, so we weren't able to record new episodes while he uh after he left the show. So that's you know, unofficially why we were away uh for so long and it definitely wasn't, you know.

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I just party I just partied daily to grieve a lot of of Max.

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Hey, we all grieve in our own ways, you know?

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Like Grieve used real loose.

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No, it has been has been a while since we've gotten to sit down and talk, and I'm very glad to be back and ready to talk about a movie.

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A good movie.

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A good movie. I like this movie, one that we have mentioned before on this podcast, but never really dedicated an entire episode to.

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Spoiler alert, I like this movie.

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I mean, people already have seen the episode title in Spotify or Apple Music, so you know that we're talking about the wonderful 90s hit Tremors. It was a major, major upset in our in our Shocktoberfest bracket.

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Only you were upset by it.

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I don't know. I guess some fans might have been upset. I was very surprised that it usurped the that I finally made Max Cave. The higher seated Halloween.

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Listen, I still stand by. He would just suck him underground, dude.

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You you put up a good case for it and it pulled out the win.

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Especially stomping around, he'd get eat. He'd get eight, for sure.

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Yeah. I think it's kind of appropriate that we're talking about this too, because I wanted to bring something up here. When we were talking about what movie we're going to cover, I started looking up some info and stuff because it's been a while since I've watched this movie. Yeah, me too. One of the things I noticed is that there was some buzz floating around on the social medias about a potential Netflix series uh coming back uh supposedly this summer. After doing a little bit more digging, though, it looks like it's just rumors right now or in very early stages of the process. I think they have to acquire the rights to Tremors from Universal or something, is one of the things I was reading.

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Or they already have it and they just want to put out the feelers. Maybe the whole thing is uh strategically played that they just want to find out if people want it.

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Yeah, they could before they waste the money. I mean, this so one of the things that also like part of this rumor was that it was going to be, you know, members of the original cast returning to reprise their roles.

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Yeah, because it's not a it's not a sequel.

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Not a sequel, no.

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It's just like a a modern time forward same cast.

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So if this was if this was actually happening, what would you want to see? Like what would what would make your heart happy if you sat down and popped this on on Netflix and watched these eight episodes?

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Man, I don't know. I mean I don't I don't want like too much and for somebody who is like overly said on this podcast that I really do like modern stuff, I really don't want them to really mess with the the trimmers that much with the graboids.

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Yeah.

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Um I just like them the way they are. Even having re-watched them, I think that they're still fucking dope.

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Yeah.

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I don't think they need to be CGI'd. Like I think the way they are.

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Yeah, I think I would definitely want to see something with more practical effects. Definitely. Um who knows how it would go though, how it will go if it does happen in the future. Um I'll probably like it anyways. Yeah, I mean, l let's be honest, I'm gonna sit down and watch it no matter what.

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If the cast doesn't change, I'll probably I'll probably like it.

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Yeah, it would be interesting to see like where they are in their lives after, you know, after everything that happened.

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Yeah, I mean I just imagine it's like Kevin Bacon marries the the girl and they got and then they have like a kid and the kids like I don't know fighting the the graboids. I don't know, whatever, something. You know? I'm here for it.

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Netflix, if you if you need any ideas, hit us up. Yeah. Alrighty. Well, I I think we should just get start talking about this movie because I am I'm really excited to talk about it. Do it. But before we uh start talking about this movie, I really quickly want to let you know that the giant worms that are underground and sense vibrations and will chase you down across the desert aren't the most dangerous thing here. No, that would be the spoilers up ahead. So if you have not seen Tremors, what are you doing?

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Where have you been?

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Where have you been? This that's the other thing. This movie's about to celebrate its 35th birthday.

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That's wild.

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35 years since this movie came out.

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You must have been not living under a rock because the tremors would have got you.

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Yeah.

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Uh but I don't know how you missed this one.

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Yeah. Uh so go out, watch it, and then come back and listen to this episode. And we're just gonna take a quick little break right here. So don't go away, Scream Team. We will be right back. And we're back. We're talking about tremors today. We are talking about tremors.

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All right. And not the ones that just make your like hands shake or whatever.

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Yeah, not the not like aftershocks from like an earthquake, even though I think that was actually one of the one of the like sequels, like subtitle things. Like tremor. I think it was like the third or fourth one. It was like aftershocks or something like that.

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I'm pretty sure I I saw the second one, but I can't definitively say that. Yeah. Because it's been so long, but I've never seen any after that.

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So yeah, we're not talking like earthquake aftershocks. We're not talking about the shakes you get when you drink too much uh you wake up feeling like shit the next day. No, we're talking about the actual graboids.

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The actual ones.

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Uh so to properly do that, I think we need to talk about some of the stuff that went into making this movie. And the only way that we can really do that is by going into our wonderful segment, D's Deets. Dee Dee Dee DEET. All right.

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I'm so like I'm still so driven to say douche. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense, and it's you, and it doesn't rhyme anymore, and it's like a whole thing.

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I know. It's it's tough. Like, yeah. Still still think about him. R.I.P. R.I.P. Max. Uh all right. Tremors came out in 1990. Uh the IMDB synopsis here is natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one. Uh directed by Ron Underwood. Top build cast is Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McIntyre.

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That's right.

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Just wonderful, wonderful cast.

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It was a good cast.

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Yeah. Uh estimated budget. You wanna wanna take a crack here? No, definitely not.

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It's gotta be kind of lowish. Highish for its time, but lowish for now.

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Probably high for its time. Uh 11 million.

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I was gonna guess 13. I should have guessed.

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I would have been close. You you do this every time. Like you always get so close. Or at least you tell me.

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Not every time. Sometimes my number is way off.

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You at least like say that you're like, oh, I was gonna guess this number.

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I think every time every time I've said it out loud, I have been so far beyond like where the actual number is that I just became embarrassed about saying it.

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You're just afraid to like commit to it. You should just do it. No. Uh maybe. Opening weekend in the US and Canada was only 3.7 million.

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Uh losers, what were they doing?

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I don't know. This I'm trying to think of like so this film came out January 19th, 1990.

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Ah, January's a bad month for movies.

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It's not a great month for movies. I'm you know, wondering if there was anything else that was coming out that time that, you know, overran it or something. Yeah. Uh gross US and Canada was sixteen million though. So eventually made its money back. Plus a little more.

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And it's still going.

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Still going. Still still a beloved film. Uh so jumping into some trivia now, uh, there are actually only two interior sets in the entire movie. Walter's store and then Bert and Heather's basement. Every other shot is an exterior shot.

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That's true. I hadn't thought about that until this moment.

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Yeah. I mean, there's like other buildings and stuff that you see. Yeah, but you don't ever see the inside of them. You don't ever see the inside of them now. Uh although Tremors was not a big hit during its theatrical run, the film became a runaway smash in the home video market and ultimately tripled its original box office gross with VHS sales and rentals. Yeah, that was back in the day, like when you know, you could really redeem the cost like when you got to like rental and stuff like that.

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They couldn't keep it on the shelves at Blockbuster back and then. You know. When that was a place.

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Well, here's a big one. Uh Kevin Bacon originally resented being in Tremors, only agreeing to do it because he needed money for his new marriage and upcoming newborn child. When the film was not financially successful, Bacon feared his career was over, and in the following years would refuse to acknowledge the film's existence and even called it the worst thing I ever did. However, Bacon would eventually come around to Tremors, calling the filming of Tremors to be the single most fun time I've ever had making a movie in my entire career. In 2012, and later admitting in t a 2020 interview, when I was making Tremors, I was very depressed and at a low point in my life, and I kinda blame Tremors for all that. I was bitter against it, and I thought it was like a career killer. I never watch my movies more than once. Some of my movies I've never even seen before and have no desire to, but I've watched Tremors a dozen times. I love it so much, and I spent years trying to capture the same energy we had on a set of tremors. It's one of my favorite films of all time.

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I love that.

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Little side thing here, just because we're talking Kevin Bacon. How many degrees of Kevin Bacon do you think you have?

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God, you know, I know so many fucking celebrity it's like weird how many people I've met, so I feel like it's probably not very far.

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You're we you feel like you're pretty close?

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I feel like I'm pretty close. I would guess like three.

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Okay. I'm gonna say four just because I know you and I can't possibly think of anybody else that I could have met that.

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Yeah, I don't know. I could be like two, I don't know. Thinking of the celebrities I've met, I'm like, have they met Kevin Bacon? They must have. I've met Jude Law. Has he met Kevin Bacon?

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I feel like he's met enough people for like because it's a thing. Like he had to have met like a lot of these people. Yeah. So yeah. Uh whatever, whatever your number is, mine's one more just because I know you. Okay.

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I could be like, I could be two or three.

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Then I'm three or four.

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Okay, cool.

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And that's D's Deets. D-dee-deeet did Kristen. Yeah. Let's talk about this movie. Let's do it. One of your favorites. This is one that you have talked about a few times on this podcast. Like just in our conversations about it, we were talking about the isolation factor when Max and I talked the thing. Uh, we often, you know, bring this up because of you, like having that isolation factor with this movie and everything, the similar theme there. Uh, you talked about, you know, your time growing up in New Mexico. Yeah. And playing tremors.

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It's true. I was uh I was just telling that story today actually. We were at we were at the playground and the kids were playing the floor is lava at the park, and um and I was like, man, I was like I was, you know, telling my friends about the podcast, and I was like, Yeah, we're doing it on Tremors uh later today. And uh I was like back back in my day, uh we used to play trimmers instead of the floor's lava, so we would yell somebody would yell trimmers and then we all had to get up somewhere high and whoever was the lowest one down got eight. Um but yeah, that was like a real thing that happened in my New Mexico childhood life a lot. That was a very a very fond memory for me.

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And that's like playing it like in the setting, like too because New Mexico very similar to where this is taking place.

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So yeah, and I was the youngest of my four siblings, and uh it was just like or my three th siblings, but um yeah, it was just like I felt like I always got shafted, like I was on like the little dumpy rock that I the fastest thing I could get to, and it was like not good enough. I was like, okay, cool.

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Yeah, I feel like it would be a little different if I was playing something like that as a kid in a suburban neighborhood, like wouldn't quite have the same effect.

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Yeah. When there's literally nothing else except you making the sounds, like you kind of it starts to feel real. You're like, oh shit, like what if they are under the ground? I don't know.

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Anyways. I was thinking a lot about this one in our run-up to this episode too, because this was probably one of the first, like, closer to horror movies that my parents let me watch when I was a kid. And I say let me watch because I remember seeing Alien on my own, like accidentally on TV. But this one was one of the first ones that they actually like sat down and popped in with me to watch with me and everything. And I get that because this is like watching it again, and it had been a long time since I had watched this one, so getting to watch it again, I really saw like how this would be like okay, yeah, I can see how my parents would want like sit down and let me watch this one to kind of get a temperature check on how I'm gonna handle like movies like this. Can they show me other ones?

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Yeah.

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Um I think I've talked before about like Poltergeist being one of my mom's favorite movies growing up, and I remember watching that with her too. Uh, but yeah, this one was one that I w remember watching and what I remember being scared of too.

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Yeah, we definitely watched it as a family. I have I have a memory of that for sure.

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Yeah, like not a lot of swearing or anything in this one.

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It's yeah, Luke and I talked about it. I was like, I was like, ah, this would be, I feel like we could let At Atlas watch this movie. Not like, you know, it's four, not like today, but you know, in a couple years. Like I think it's Is it PG 13?

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I think it's PG 13.

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I think so too, but I'm like, I don't think it needs to be that. Not that it not that it's PG, it's got dead bodies, so I get it.

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They do drop a fuck in there once. So I think that's what like keeps it at a PG thirty yeah, it is PG 13.

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Yeah. Um, but like it's just like it's not a it's not an overly scary movie while people die. It's like it's not it's not like super graphic or I don't know. Maybe it's just like some that I like.

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You see some blood, but like most of it is the alien, like the graboid blood that you see, which is just goo. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I uh that's actually one of the things I was gonna ask you is how long do you think you're you're gonna give it before you get Atlas to watch this?

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I don't know. You know, he hasn't seen anything particularly traumatizing, but we are like a I am, I can't say we. Uh I just don't like if he has questions, I just answer him pretty honestly. And there's I don't hide anything from him, so he you know, he's like, Where's your dad? And I'm like, my dad's dead. Uh like we just we have pretty casual conversations. Um but I will say that I'm like sitting here thinking, we also at the playground today, there I don't know if you guys have ever been to if you live in Tacoma, if you've ever been to Old Town Park, there's a trash can at Old Town Park that seems like a pretty normal trash can, but today we watched a truck come to empty said trash can and they pulled it out of the ground with a like a little crane hooked up because it's like in the ground, the trash can goes into the ground, so it's like this eight-foot trash bag that has to come out. It was the weirdest, wildest shit I've ever seen. But my child, as this is happening, we're all like, wow, that trash bag is like so long, it like goes into the ground. And my child's like, is there a body in there? And I was like, fuck. Like he has never seen any. I don't know why he said it. He's just a weird kid. Um, so no, I don't know. Maybe I'll wait a little longer.

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He seems like he's primed for like starting the starting to watch for trimmers soon. Have you guys watched any other like kid kid-friendly like scary movies like Beetlejuice or like um Coralline or any of those?

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No, no. He is I think the closest like a scary movie used real loosely is like um Hotel Transylvania, which is yeah. Uh, but that's about the most he's seen that I think you know that has at least monsters in it. I that's the best I can tell you.

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My niece and nephew are nine and ten now. So they're kind of approaching that age where it's like that's a good age. Yeah. I was like, I'm I wonder if like my nephew, I'm pretty sure would not do well with scary movies, but my niece, I'm pretty sure, is probably like between the two of them. If I had to pick one to like watch a scary movie with, yeah. It would probably be my niece. Yeah.

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Um I mean this movie came out in 1990, right? 1990, yeah. Yeah, so and I'm pretty sure I saw it basically like right when it came to TV. I didn't go to the theaters to watch it, but um, so I was probably like five or six. Yeah. So I mean I was definitely like like we're talking about like I'm I'm sitting here suggesting that Alice could watch it. I mean I definitely watched it. Yeah. And then it turned out just fine, guys. Yeah, look at us. I'm totally fucking normal.

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Totally. Yeah.

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But yeah.

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So yeah, that's our that's our history with Tremors. Uh let's talk about the actual movie itself. Yeah, let's do it. Uh what were what were some of your favorite uh favorite scenes here? Like just when you thought about this movie or when you when you think about this movie, what are like some of the scenes that like really like stick out in your memory?

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Uh that's that's a different question than the question you asked at the at the start just now when you said what's your favorite scene or what are scenes you like?

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Um let's start with like the ones that stick out. Because those because those aren't necessarily your those might not necessarily be your favorites. Share them. But the ones that like really like when you somebody says like, have you seen tremors? Like, these are the things you first think of.

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I can tell you that I remembered the the uh the ending since we're out. We gave the spoiler away alert um the spoiler alert away, but um I very clearly I have not seen this movie in probably like 15 years or something, like a really long time. Um maybe longer than that. And uh I could before I watched it, I was like, what are what do I even remember about this movie? What did I what have I seen? And I remember the the Graboid shooting out off the abyss and then exploding at the bottom. Um so I definitely remembered that as like a it's like a core memory for me of that. That that was like the way they killed it with the explosive. And definitely those stupid explosives with the white tops. Like I remember being like, I could make this at home, because that's like what he says in the movie. Like I was like, Oh yeah, they definitely have those. And we actually made those as kids out of sticks. We were like, These are our explosives, and we carry them around in a little backpack, but yeah, yeah. We went hard on German, clearly.

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Yeah, that ending scene is definitely one probably the main one that sticks out in my head. Just seeing the worm shoot out and you know go diving down to the rocks below.

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In its entirety for sure.

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Yeah, yeah, because that's one of the first times you really see one of them fully. Yeah, he like kind of digs it out. That's it. They dug out one. And so you get to see the size, but you never yeah, you never really see it. Yeah, and the sounds of them too. Like, that was one of the things watching this that I forgot had like didn't really stick in my mind uh or stick with my memories of this movie was the sounds that they made. Yeah. And it's kind of funny, like when you watch movies like this, movies that were like so like pivotal in your childhood, yeah, and you remember things about them, but there's like there's like context that you don't remember totally. I remember that scene, but I never remembered like that the explosives actually like scared them away.

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Yeah, I didn't remember that either.

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So like when I was watching it for for this episode and they were doing that, they're like, oh, these actually scare them away, we can throw them where we want to go and they'll move away. And so at the end there, when he throws the the one throws it past him, yeah, it makes him go forward. It makes it go faster because otherwise they probably would just would have stopped wherever the sound stopped because that's what it does in a few other parts of the movie too. Yeah. So yeah, clever thinking there, and then it was like one of those context things that's like, oh, that's that's why I went shooting off the edge. Uh that and the uh that in the shop scene. That scene in Walter's shop where he gets eaten, like right after they uh unplug the the Pepsi cooler that That's like super noisy. Uh that always kind of stuck out in my head because that was like probably I remember watching that as a when I was watching that as a kid, that being the scariest moment for me. Yeah. Was when it came up through the floor of the shop and and got walked. I did not remember that. Yeah.

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I was like, oh yeah. That's how he does. And then as I was watching it last night, I was like, what a like Jaws moment as he's like he's like half inside of the mouth, you know, and then he's like waving around the room, and I was like, man, this is.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

Yeah, those are the ones that definitely stick out in my mind for me. Like that and them being on the rooftops. Like I remember that very vividly.

SPEAKER_04 22:42

I don't remember that either. I remember the rocks, but I don't remember the rooftops. I did not until I obviously.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Um so moving on from moving from most like memorable, like just like thinking about it, like first first thought scenes. What about like now that we've re-watched it uh for this episode? What were some of your favorite scenes out of this film?

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Yeah, there are like two scenes. They're not they're gonna be surprising, I think, to everybody, but there are two scenes scenes I kind of love. One, probably not that surprising, but is when they first get one of the trimmers to eat the explosive and it blows up and the orange inside slime goes everywhere. That's pretty dope. I love that scene a lot. Um I just think it's like it's just cool that they're like they figured out how to do it, and you you're like, okay, cool, the other one's gonna die, but they're smart and they figure it out. So um but the other scene I think will surprise everybody. I just think it's like such a glorious having rewatched it, I was like, this is my favorite scene from the movie. Um it's just so perfectly like that time stamp. And it's when the the three main characters, the scientist chick, I can't remember her name. It was uh Rhonda. Rhonda, thank you. Um when her and Kevin Bacon and Earl Earl. Yeah, Earl, sorry. It was one of those. Well, I don't even know Kevin Bacon's character's name, I just call him Kevin Bacon.

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Valentine McGee. Oh yeah, Valentine.

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Well, whatever. Okay. It's Kevin Bacon. Yep. Uh so Kevin Bacon, Earl, and Rhonda are all on the rocks for the like the first time, and they're like, well shit, like we're never gonna get back. How do we get to the truck? It's the thing has been sitting there for hours waiting for them, it never went away. And she is like, Oh, we could take these sticks and we could pull vote, pull vote from rock to rock. And so she like does it, and then they do it. Earl doesn't make it the first time, and it's just like and then there's the scene immediately following this of all of them going at the same time over the rocks.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

They're like in sync, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

It was just it felt like such a like a Goonies moment almost, you know? It was just so perfectly '90s that it was just like it's a really nice little time stamp of just what a funny thing to add to a movie.

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But it was that really so charming. So that's one of the ones that like I like one of the things that stuck out for me, and I think it might play into this for you, like as one of the pieces that makes that just like so perfect, was the music selection for this movie. Like, it's just very upbeat, like when they're like going across like it's often it's like a far wide shot, and they're it's just like silhouetted almost them against like the sun.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

It's like it's like from Lion King, um, where they're crossing the log and it's like yeah, Simba and Timon and Boomba, and it's it's like that. It's I swear to God, it's like a similar vibe that I like a happy feeling of you're like, these people have united. Enjoy.

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Yeah, it it this movie like does have such a 90s feel to it. And it's probably like part of it is probably nostalgia. Yeah. But the other part of it too, I think is just like the the elements that were put into movie making, like during these times and everything. So like the music selection, like I was saying, yeah, there were a lot of times where it's like it stuck out to me not in a negative way, but just one of those things that like felt odd because of like the way that modern horror movies are sort of made and everything. Like everything is very everything is very moody. There's hardly any like upbeat, like cheerful music. But this was just like, you know, everyday life in the Nevada Valley kind of kind of vibe to it.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

I loved it.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Yeah. But yeah, that was I remember, yeah, thinking about that scene. That was one of those ones that is just like especially like the part where Earl tries to make it across and doesn't make it.

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Well, and then Kevin Bacon goes and he like spits on his hands.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

Yeah, like really makes it really hams it up and then uh goes and does it.

SPEAKER_04 26:40

It was a little silly, but perfect. Yeah. Truly treasured. What about yours? What was your favorite scene?

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Oh man. So definitely the the shop scene uh where they're all in there and the graboid comes up from the floor. Like, while that was a memorable one for me, like I watching it again, I was like, yeah, that's a cool yeah, that's a cool scene. I definitely see why it stuck with me for so long, too. I think one of the other ones, one of the ones that was funny to me, sort of like if I'm gonna pick like a 90s feel scene for this, it's gonna be when Earl and Val are driving from one of their jobs, and like that was the other thing, like one of the context things that I didn't remember is that these two are just like guys that just do odd jobs around town for like different people, just like scraping by like 10 bucks here, 15 bucks there, and yeah, everything. Um back in the 90s it was probably a little bit more, but like the part where they're driving this is early on in the film, uh they're driving away from one of their jobs, and they see somebody out in the field, and it's Rhonda. Uh, she's a um a student, like a geology student, yeah, and who's there on like a summer program kind of thing, doing studies and stuff. Uh they see somebody out there and they make mention of like somebody who was there. It was like the last student that was in town for that, and uh they have this realization that like no, he just left, like this is the new person, and then so they like Val like steers off the main road and starts barreling towards this person, and like he's lit he's thinking about like the person that he wants it to be, and it's just like this like stereotypical 90s like ver vision of like the perfect female, basically like Pamela Anderson, yeah. Like he's talking about have long blonde hair, like yeah, something about her like perfect melons or something like that. Yeah, great rack and like legs that go on for days or something. It's just it's so just like goofy and just typical, like redneck kind of normally I would find that stuff to be like cringy, but it's really not.

SPEAKER_04 28:49

It's just like it's so perfectly placed and like it's not it's not like too much, it's just enough to be like for the time.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Like you I feel like maybe for you and me, it's like probably just the right amount. Like if you if you get somebody younger watching this, they'll probably look at that as you know, like straight problem. Yeah, then he pulls up and it's Rhonda who's got like short brown hair.

SPEAKER_04 29:15

She has like the sunscreen on her nose that's like white.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

The thick, yeah, the white white nose from the sunscreen. Uh yeah. Yeah. And then they like Earl like giving him shit for it. Like on the whole red back and everything, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

Yeah, that's a good scene. He and he like veers off and just like it's on the road. He's just like going through the bushes. He's like, he's so excited. Yeah, it's really funny.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

I think one of my other like favorite things, partially a stick out, but like one of my like rewatching it, one of my favorite uh set of characters is uh definitely Bert and Yeah, well Reba McIntyre, whatever her name character name is. Heather Gummer. Yeah. Yeah, Heather and Bert Gummer.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

Uh I had forgotten about that whole firearm scene in their basement.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

I think, you know, like thinking back like that, I think that might have been one that stuck out for me too. I think just because it's like so iconic. And I feel I think it's the second one, because there was something when I was watching this movie uh that I remember from my childhood, and this is probably from seeing the second one, it's because I just watched it and it didn't happen, uh, where Bert's sitting in his basement and he's got a trophy head of one of the graboids on his wall. And I was like, I feel like I think it's like seeing the basement scene that like triggered that memory. I was like, oh yeah, he eventually like mounts this thing to his wall, and or it's like at the end of the movie, and then it comes up, the end of the movie happened, and I was like, Where'd it go? And the so I'm like, it's probably the second one, and it's probably early on in the second one that they talk about that. Yeah, but Bert and Heather are two basically like survivalists, like over the top preppers, like doomsday preppers. No, they're like doomsday preppers, like full-on arsenal, like mounted to the ball. How much shit they have. They've got like elephant an elephant gun and like a glass case and everything, which they end up using on one of these things too.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

And was it that whole scene was very funny.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Yeah, the scene where it it's coming up for them because they've got like something, some I'm not sure what this does because I've never like either.

SPEAKER_04 31:25

I saw this. What Derek is talking about right now is she puts the bullets into this machine and it looked like there was like sawdust. There's like stand or something. And then she like turns it on and it does something.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

I don't know what it does, it's vibrating, making a really loud noise. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

Sounds like a rock polisher, but I don't know what you would need that for for bullets. I don't own a gun, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Scream team, if you're out there and you can do what does this do?

SPEAKER_04 31:46

I could Google it, but I'd rather you tell me. Yeah, it's it's more interactive that way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

So yeah, they put the bullets in into this machine and turn it on and it starts making all this racket, and the the ones down in town, it's not far. Like they can see Bert and Heather's house from town. Yeah. Um, but they see like the the dust and everything kicking up as these things go take off towards towards their house. Yeah. And then as they get up there, uh they're communicating via radio. They're trying to warn them, but they can't quite tell until they gets up there and runs through the wall of their basement and is you know, just kind of sitting there like waving back and forth and everything, unable to do anything because it's no more dirt. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:29

But it's cool, it's dope. I mean, that scene is pretty cool. I yeah, I don't know why I don't I didn't remember it, but it's uh it's a it's a cool way that it dies. Yeah. I mean, you know. It just gets shot to death. Just gets shot to death, literally. But like a lot of so many bullets. It's ridiculous. I was like, how do you have this much? But they were yeah, they're c they're kind of wild.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

What about scenes that uh that maybe like you had forgotten about or thought about and uh weren't as big of a fan of? Like, was there anything in this movie that was like you you watch and you're like, man, I don't remember this, but that's kind of like kind of whacker?

SPEAKER_04 33:10

You know I think the only thing that's coming to my mind, uh the truth is that I really like most of this movie um in its entirety. Um I think the only thing that I can like really think of is like when they're on the rocks and they're like going to bed that first night right before the pogo sti pogo stick scene. Not the pogo stick scene, the um that that is a real scene in this movie, but the um the pulvo pole scene. So they sleep on the rocks, um, and and like in that scene it's like dark, and he's like, I don't mean to be crude, but I gotta go to the bathroom. Oh yeah. And then there the you know, Kevin Baker's like, Oh yeah, me too, and Rhonda's like, yeah, I gotta go. And then that was the end of the scene. I just find that like stupid. It was it was a stupid thing. Like it didn't need to be there. Yeah. I was like, okay, cool, we get it, they're gonna go to the bathroom. I don't know why you needed to kill those two minutes, but great. So that was it for me.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Yeah, that one and part of it, and I get like this is sort of like a plot like plot armor, I guess is what they call it, to like keep keep the conflict going and making putting obstacles in your character's way. I get that like that's what you have to do. Um but the like increased the like learning intelligence of these things was a little strange to me. Like when they're when they're in the cat like um tractor and pulling that big like pipe trailer or whatever uh behind them that's carrying everybody else in the town, they're trying to get up into the mountains because these things can't move through rocky terrain. So during their trip there, they see them off in the distance and they're like kicking up a bunch of dust and everything, like they see dust plumes coming up out of there, and everyone's like, What are they doing? And like, oh whatever, as long as they're doing it over there, it's not a big deal. And then as they're like trekking through this, they come across this section of road, and the tractor just like sinks, like nosedives into this into this pit. The the worm set a trap.

SPEAKER_04 35:13

So I don't know, I don't hate that.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

I get it. It was just one of the it's like the can the convenience factor like of like these things learning to set traps and everything. It's it's like okay. I feel I feel like if they learned well enough to like set traps, they probably would have known well enough not to eat something that like wasn't you know human or or anything. Because they ate that bomb. Like they just gulped that up.

SPEAKER_04 35:41

Yeah, but they like sucked the car under the ground and ate the fence post. They ate the fence post when she had to take her pants off.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

Yeah, that's true. Well, they were pulling it in because she was attached to it. I don't know. Listen, man.

SPEAKER_04 35:53

I'm they don't know that they're not at the human isn't attached to the look, I'm I'm grasping at Barbara's.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

That's because you love this, you love this movie so much. There are no bad scenes. There's like there's there's some stuff. Like it's 90s, it's cheesy. I don't care. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

I stand by this, it's a great movie.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

I I still absolutely love it, but there are things that are that are kind of cheesy and and weird about it. So if I had to pick something, that would be my my nitpick about this film. Talking about things that you love. I know. Tell me more. More that you love about this film.

SPEAKER_04 36:29

Okay, so you guys, the first dead body we see uh is is old Edgar Edgar up on the little electric tower or whatever. Now I don't count him as a death. In my tally, there's there's seven people uh that died. While there are there are some more.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

I was I was just about to like mention something when you were bringing him up. I was like, this is weird because we don't see him die, and by Kristen's metrics, this wouldn't count.

SPEAKER_04 36:54

Correct. And there are a couple of other times that that happens um where we see some bodies but we didn't see them die. Um so for the sake of the count, I think it's seven. I'll go over them briefly in case you forgot, Derek, so you can choose your favorite. Um we have old Fred, he gets sucked underground pretty early on in the movie. Um we have Carmine, who technically gets eaten off scene, but we know. We know that we know it was gonna happen because the the thing got stuck around his leg and he got drug off and definitely got ate. Yeah. Um we get Howard who's crushed by that rock slide. Uh we get uh Doc eaten alive while sucked underground. And I think that's the one with the hat and his face is just sticking up in the ground.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Yeah. Yeah, that's the one where where yeah Val and her all go find him.

SPEAKER_04 37:44

Uh and then you get Megan who's in her car, but her car gets sucked underground. She goes. Um, and then you have Walter Chang, who you you so dearly. Love that scene. And then um the last one, Nestor, who also gets sucked underground. Real uh creative sucks on sucks under the ground uh there for ya. Um you know, we need a moment of silence for the four the four graboids that die. Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

So for my favorite and the sheep, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:14

Because we always lose animals.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

R. Ip sheep. R.

SPEAKER_04 38:16

Ip sheep.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

I uh while I am kind of tempted to go Megan because if if I was doing the Christian Marlowe metric where the way that I would least like to die, I think it would probably be that you're getting sucked, you're in your car getting sucked underground, and the car's filling up with sand and dirt, and you're kind of like basically suffocating if before these things get to you.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

That's best case scenario.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Yeah. Uh I think I am gonna go with uh Walter though. Like just cause it's like you were saying, it's kind of like that Jaws death. Like it comes up out of the ground, grabs him, and the waving from side to side. Yeah, shaking him from side to side while all the like chaos of the scene is is happening and everything. And yeah. Yeah, I'm going Walter.

SPEAKER_04 39:06

Um I'm gonna go with a surprising one. Uh while I while I will give a uh a shout out to to Doc just because I like the face in the ground. For some reason it didn't eat his whole body. They just leave his face under the hat. Whatever, that's fine. Um I do like that. Uh I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Howard. Not even by a grab boy, just crashed on the rock slide. Yeah. Man, that was sucking. Like you see your friend get drug off, you have no idea what's happening. You're like, why? And then you just get fucking slammed with rocks out of the out of the blue. And I feel like that would probably be painful and and and slow unless one hit you in the head immediately. So he was probably trapped and struggling for a while, is is how I painted it in my head.

SPEAKER_02 39:49

Yeah. All right. Well, after we talk about these films, we gotta give him a rating, and on this podcast, we use the scream scale. But the uninitiated, the scream scale is a scientifically perfected system where we award the films that we watch a number of screams from one to ten. So, without further ado, Kristen, how many screams are you giving Tremors?

SPEAKER_04 40:07

Alright. So listen, if it was based on just do I love this movie, it's a tin. Ten screams all day, all night. But in saying that, it's is this movie scary? Now listen, I'm the wrong person to ask because I grew up in the desert. So to me, this movie was this movie was scary. I legitimately was like, oh, could they be? Uh, but also kind of turned it into a game, which means I wasn't probably that scared about it. Um I don't know, guys. I mean, I'm gonna give it a s it's a five. To me, it's a five of scare because I'm me. Uh but it's a ten in quality. In your heart. In your heart are you giving it ten screams. Yeah, but in real life it's it's five.

SPEAKER_02 40:52

In your in your scientifically calibrated scream scale. Yeah. It's a five.

SPEAKER_04 40:57

Yeah. But it's a ten if you've never seen it.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

For me, I uh I'm kind of in the same boat as you as far as like my feelings for this movie are definitely like up there. The nostalgia hits hard. It still is a fun watch. Yeah. Um it's very much like a 90s movie, it feels that way. Like we talked about uh in the discussion there. Scary, scare wise, now like as an adult, obviously not that scary. As you know, a five, six-year-old kid, yeah, way scarier. Um but for me, like where this where this film sits in sort of this genre of horror movies where it's kind of like sci-fi leaning, uh big monster monster movie. Uh, I still I still enjoy it, and I think they did this genre well. Like they did this kind of movie well for what they were setting out to do, especially with the kind of budget that they had back then, too. Uh so for that I'm going to give Tremors seven screams. Alright. Well, that wraps up our our trip down memory lane, our our wander down the nice, dusty, dirt road of Nevada. And we are going to we're gonna we're gonna stick on on a little bit of a theme here, at least for this next one. We'll see we'll see where I haven't seen you in that. I see what you did there, though. Yeah, but I only know the name. I've never seen this movie. Just from the name, you know. We are going to stick on theme here, at least for this next episode. We'll see where the rest of this month goes for us. Uh we are going to be watching the 1994 Big Bug movie Mosquito. This is this is another one that I remember being at a friend's house.

SPEAKER_04 42:51

I've never seen this movie in my life.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

I was at a friend's house and we watched this one. And this is defin this one definitely has like from like we were talking about sort of the scenes that stick out, like when you think about a movie. For me, like when the probably the only thing I remember about this movie is like probably the opening scenes, like the opening scene with a couple in a tent. Um, and you'll see it when you watch it.

SPEAKER_04 43:19

Uh I'm gonna probably hate it. I'm putting this out in the universe that I probably will not like.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

You are probably not going to like it. And just based on what I remember, which is that one scene from probably the beginning of the movie. Oh no. Yeah, it's it's gonna be a goofy, like no, you know, this one just from what I remember on that, I was like, I feel like this one leans a little bit more into like the eighties. It borrows a little bit more from like the eighties style, like monster movies and stuff too. Still gonna be like some great practical stuff. Like I think this one's gonna have some really good kills in it. Like, you're probably gonna get to see some pretty creative stuff with the mosquitoes. Uh yeah. Well Chris is like, I'll be the judge of that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:03

Listen, Scream Team, you guys need to go watch this movie. Come back for next week's episode. Yeah. And listen to me fucking tear it apart.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Yeah, go watch it. It's on show. Streaming on shuttle right now. This movie will suck. Alright, well, that's gonna do it for us. Uh Scream Team, I want to thank you guys as always for being such awesome, faithful listeners, those the handful of you that are probably still listening and downloading episodes. Kristen, thank you so much as always for being such an awesome co-host. Your only co-host. My only co host. For now. For now. Like I am I am talking to people about I do want to bring some guests on. I think we'd be like, I think it'll be good to have like an additional voice uh on here. It's always nice to have you know differing opinions and stuff. And I think like this dynamic. We know the people know what's gonna come from here. I'm probably gonna love the movie. You're trash on dunk on the movie. I gave this one a 10 in my heart. You did, yes. Uh uh, so yeah, uh again, thank you, thank you, audience, thank you, Kristen. And as always, I'm Derek. And I'm Kristen. And we'll catch you next time. Stay spooky, Scream Team.