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Now, come on. You're the one who's upset. What's it about? I'm worried

sick over you.

I mean, something's happening. I don't know.

It's changing. Don't you realize it?

Well, I changed my hairstyle.

Everything is ready, my darling. Do not be

afraid. Soon we'll be together again.

This sandwich tastes as dry as hell. Hello,

and welcome to hello. This is the Doomed Show. I am Richard.

Folks, I am beyond excited

to be beyond talking to Mark.

Hello, Mark. You're beyond welcome. Thank you.

I'm beyond glad to be here. Beyond elated,

beyond evil. We're beyond Beyonce

at this point, folks.

This is Beyond Evil from 1980.

Mark and I, we were trying to figure out who picked this, and I think

this is a joint effort because, spoiler alert,

this is a great film. There's a reason

it won three Oscars. I mean. Whoa, that was not in the trivia.

Okay. I think if I put it out there, it's going to make it a

reality. They'll get the retroactive Oscars.

Exactly. They're beyond overdue, let me tell you. Oh,

yes. This is going to go on for a while.

Yes. Let's. Let's just pun ourselves to death here.

So director Herb Freed brought us this beauty.

He was the mastermind behind.

Was It Graduation Day? And Haunts,

which are both fine films. Writers Paul

Ross and good old Herb Fried. And David Bowne.

David Bown, I believe, was also producer on this.

Maybe. Did he boun. Was he one of the Bowners?

I can't believe I said that. Did you know that Mr. Freed was

a ex rabbi? What?

I was watching the extras on this and, yeah, he was a former rabbi.

Wow. Yeah. You can go on. That's all I wanted to

say. Go ahead. That's a. I'm saying that that's a career change. I'll let

you sit with that for a little bit. Man. Processing,

Processing. I think David Bowne is a producer. He also helped

bring the world the mighty Graduation Day.

I have found a trailer for this bad boy. I'm gonna

drop this right here. Enjoy. The trailer for the beyond,

starring Katrina McCall and David Warbeck.

Just kidding. It's beyond evil. All right.

Me, you're like, wait, what did I take notes? Oh, no.

Beyond Evil is a terrifying journey beyond life,

beyond death, beyond evil.

You need that house like a hole. In the head, sort of goodwill.

For more than two centuries, the evil within Casa Fortuna

lay dormant. What he means is

the place is supposed to be haunted. It's all a Legend. Everyone on the

island knows Alma Ma lives.

You changing.

Don't you realize what strange force possessed

the husband? John Saxon. I can't

fight anymore. The wife, Linda Day.

George. I want my wife back. I don't care what it takes.

The lover, Michael Dante. Leave that place

now before it's too late.

As long as your wife remains within her reach, she's in danger

of contamination. Possession.

Can'T be.

Beyond evil. Will scare the

hell out of you. I was gonna read

the VHS tape. The. The VHS plot synopsis on the back of

the old video treasures, but it is four paragraphs

long. I'm not going there. So I'm going to go ahead and cheat

and read from IMDb. Some kind soul has written one

sentence. An architect and his wife move into a

colonial mansion where the demonic presence of

the original owner's wife takes residence.

I like that. There you go. That's all you need.

I don't know if you know this, Mark, but when I read these things,

I try to read them so that people listening can't

understand what the plot is. I read them as badly as possible.

So I try to make it like an abstraction kind of thing. I go beyond.

You do? Yes. You go beyond. Above and

beyond what's required. I'm well below beyond at this

point. We're gonna spoil this movie.

Promise. I can't recommend it enough, especially if you

can find this thing cheap. I have no idea if. If this is one

of those ones that Vinegar Syndrome has phased

out yet or not. I'm hoping. Can you still go beyond evil?

This world? Oh, yeah. You can. Oh, yeah.

Nobody's buying this. 16 bucks. Go for it. Everybody give.

I know what Linda Day's gonna get for her birthday from me.

Yes. Oh, she just throws it on the

pile with the rest of them. Oh, Linda. So many of

these. So in the cast. This cast is phenomenal.

Got John Saxon, who?

No shame. Here I am, man crushing. Always have had

a man crush on John Saxon. But he is fucking

ripped in this. Shirtless John Saxon in this film. I can't

believe they could find a shirt that could contain him. Even that. No,

no. Yeah. There's a moment in this movie, folks, where he almost

beats the shit out of somebody. And my brain.

My alarm bells sort of going off in my brain like he

trained with Bruce Lee. Everyone get out of there.

Like he could kill this building, much less you

and your puny ass. He looks phenomenal in this movie.

Oh, my God. I didn't expect that. I'll be

honest with you. Like I didn't expect, like, I knew he was in shape,

but I didn't expect that. Like, I was like,

oh, there's John Saxon. It's like an Easter egg for

the viewers who are like it. John Sexy Saxon

is what I call John Sexton. That's beyond sexy.

You know, it's great. All I could think about now is his performance

in My Mom's a Werewolf. Oh,

yes. Now that's a Blu Ray I want right there.

What a magical piece of cinema.

Next up is, of course, the old bastard herself, Linda Day

George. Two years before she would scream bastard

one too many times in pieces right

before. Was she in Graduation Day as well?

I know her husband was, but I don't believe she was. Yeah, good old,

good old, good old Christopher George gone

way too soon.

Yeah. I love Linda George so much. Oh, it's. I'm thinking of mortuary.

She's. Yeah, she wasn't same year, I believe. His pieces.

Sorry, his pieces. Not as this one. What a, what a masterpiece that is as

well. She's just so fun in everything

she does. Lietta and I were having trouble with her makeup

in this movie. Yes. Okay. One where her face is like

white. Yes. Lietta thought it might have been a cosmetic

touch up, but I just assumed that it's.

It's hot. And she was smiling a lot and it

just, she just sweat off her smile lines.

That's what I'm thinking. Because she's got some like serious smile lines.

Yeah, I chalked up to witch possession. Hey, you can only

go beyond the makeup chair. So many steps.

I don't know. We got. She plays. Oh,

yeah, they're married in this movie. Larry Andrews and Barbara Andrews.

Yeah. We'll get into their, their wonderful, wonderful plot here.

They're being led astray somewhat by Michael Dante,

who plays Del Giorgio, which I thought

his name was something. Del Giorgio.

I didn't realize that Del was the first name until quite

far into the movie. But this guy is quite

interesting. He was in an Elvis movie that I like called

Kid Galahad. See, I love him from Willard.

I love Willard. Oh, no, I'm thinking of Kid. I'm sorry, I'm thinking of Kid

Creole. Oh, my bad. God, I haven't seen

Willard in a thousand years. Is he like a villain in that?

I just remember he was in it, actually. This is horrible.

But like, I, I remember crushing on Ernest Fortnite

as a kid. I don't know.

Hey, he's a big personality. I guess.

I always think about him on that talk show. Do you remember him on that

talk show and they were talking about how he stayed young so long, and he.

He whispers, yells into the guy's ear. It's because I

masturbate a lot. Oh, no. Ernest Fortnite said this.

He literally said it on. On live tv. I may

need to stop for a moment. Oh,

no. I did not know this ever. But yeah, he was in Willard. Let's get

back on track with the rap movie. Yeah, he was in Willard.

Oh, yes. Adele, Giorgio. He's our. He's our shifty guy here

doing some deals. Next up, we have someone

named Mario Milano as Dr. Frank Albinos.

This guy is something else. I don't think I've ever seen

the other movies he did, but.

Okay, now hear me out. Did he not look like kind

of sexy Jerry Stiller? I will absolutely agree with you.

That's a. That's a Ben Stiller's dad. I just.

Because it took me forever and halfway through the movie, I screamed to Walter,

Jerry Stiller.

Is that your safe word? Yeah, it kind of shuts everything down, if you

know what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I get you. I get you. Next up,

we have the ghostly presence of Alma Martin, which is.

Lietta's grandmother's name was Alma. I love that name, actually.

It's a cool name. Wait a minute. I think someone in Walter's family was an

Alma, too. I believe this is. She's played by Janice.

Linda. And Janice Lind found her

TV show. She was in a lot of shows, but she only ever did,

like, one episode. Except for Another

World, she was that for 33 episodes. But she just

seems like a very soap opera y type of person. So I was surprised

that, you know, she wasn't on One Life to live for 700

episodes or something like that. But she's great looking mean.

In this movie we got Dr. Solomon, who's a quote unquote healer,

self described healer. This is David Opetoshu.

Good for you. I am probably butchering that,

but yeah. Freaking movies and tv.

But what about horror? Let's see. I didn't.

Twilight Zone. Yeah. Like TV shows and stuff. Like, you know, you. Because I

thought I knew him, but then I went back and looked. I'm like,

no, I don't really. He's got that face. Yep. But was he ever

on Murder, She Wrote? That's what we really want to know anyway.

Yes. So he's our healer. He's gonna reach into some people and

take out their guts. Those are the primary people in

the cast. Can I mention one more person, please. Because I'm

losing it. So Alma has a

no good husband. Esteban. Esteban.

Esteban. And that's Zito Kazan. Okay. He's got the. He's got the

mustache in the picture. Yes. But I know it because as a

child, there were three things that terrified me. The Bermuda Triangle,

killer bees and Bigfoot. And I just. Oh, and quicksand. I gotta throw in that.

Oh, of course. He was in a TV movie called Satan's Triangle that I

remember terrifying me. So I want to throw that out there because that actually,

you know, I'm. Trying to remember if I saw that I was on a.

I was on a TV binge of watching,

like, supernatural slash, like, weird phenomena

type of movies. So I watch, like,

Overlords of the ufo or I can't

remember the name of that one. But anyway, okay,

he's in that werewolf. TV series, which I can't find anywhere.

I want that so bad. I remember when that premiered. I thought that was so

good. I was all. When I came out, that was

great stuff. I'm a big werewolf guy.

Talking about mixed blessings, about getting old TV shows on

dvd. Finally, we were talking about Tales

from the Dark side. Have you seen. What'd you say?

Hey, we've watched that Halloween episode of Facts of Life a lot

with Claire. When she gets dippity dooed. I don't remember the dippity dude.

Okay, this was the one where they thought Mrs.

Garrett was a cannibal and was feeding people human meat in her sausages.

Oh, that's great. That's a great episode. No, I grew up watching that show,

so I'm surprised I don't remember the dippity too.

That's where they turn Blair around. Her hair is, like, real big. Someone screams,

oh, no. She's been dippity, dude.

No, we're talking about how the Tales of the Dark side.

Tales from the Dark side DVD set is unwatchable.

Yeah, some of those are really bad. Brutal. Like, I never

thought that downloading people's VHS tapes

off of, like, Internet archive would be preferable

to an actual, like, set. So, yeah, we're gonna jump into this plot.

You know, here's the thing about this movie. We can't do

the whole movie because it is. Every scene has something fun in

it. I managed to get this down to, like, 13 or 14

key elements here, and I'm still leaving stuff out.

Yep. And some of the plot really just goes nowhere.

Like, there's stuff they introduced. It's like, well, we're done.

Yes. This. This is a Troma Team release. This is one of their.

Not a Troma Team production, but one that they distributed. So they've got that

forever in the. The Beyond Evil lineage. They'll always have

Troma Team. Although this was filmed

on MGM lots, so who knows? We get

a nice opening with what I call Afro Satan

or Kabuki Kiss makeup credits.

We have some fire spinning and some,

like, blades and flying around. And this just

guys looking really, for lack

of a better term, like from the islands. Like some kind of island nation

somewhere. It's supposed to be Hawaii, isn't it? But this. They never

went anywhere near Hawaii for this movie. This is all in

California. All of it. Yeah. I love it. And they.

They also try to make it feel like a third world thing, too, because there's

always this impression that American

money goes really far here. But.

But it's supposed to be Hawaii. Okay. Doesn't it

feel like a Philippine horror film? Yes, that's what I thought they were going

for. Yeah, it totally feels like that. Brilliant.

So we have a couple getting married in

this strange island nation.

And they are.

The wife is very coy, maybe a little too coy.

She's playing fun games with her new hubby, and they get separated. And she

goes to this creepy old mansion where a

mean old white woman stares at her from the window. And what happens

when this occurs? So she sees

what I immediately thought was Bette Davis, but no, they couldn't afford Bette Davis.

But there's this woman looking out the window. And then instead

of, like, departing the premises, the woman stands there

frozen in fear as a column falls towards her and

then pins her arm to the ground. On her wedding day.

Yes. Yeah. And I'm sorry, a stone pillar.

Yes. On your arm. That arm is not broken.

That arm is gone. She gets rescued by our

healer guy, and he just stares at the house like,

you son of a bitch. In the house. I'm gonna get you.

And then we cut to Linda Day. George and Jock

Saxon, whoever he is, showing up at the airport,

meeting up with their pal Del Giorgio. And I

think this is where they talk about Barbara

like she's not there. Is this. Is this right? Yeah. Well, okay. So,

yeah, first her hair looks amazing because it's all curly. And then

she's wearing that leopard thing. But real quick. Yeah. So then they're driving

back to, like, their hotel. And so we've got to understand.

So John and Del are business

partners, right? Del was formerly married to

Barbara. Mm. So Del's Driving

John's shotgun. And Barbara's been back, but for

all intents and purposes, they either think that she's dead or deaf

or she's like the wind is too loud with the open window because they're just

discussing her like she doesn't even exist right

there in the front seat. Like she can't hear in the backseat. Right. It's pretty

horrible. I think. Their pal Del is

supposed to be getting them an apartment while John Saxon is

working on his construction project. But the apartment,

quote unquote, isn't ready. So they go to this hotel

and we meet Dr. Albano, who rescues Barbara's

bag for her. And he matches everything

else. Yes. And he creepily hits on her, of course. Yes. And then

we see him wheeling and dealing with somebody about this whole construction

project. So we get the idea he's a shady character, too. Well, the mustache

doesn't help. And he orders a Campari,

which I think would, according to Lietta,

would be disgusting if you just got a glass of Campari.

I mean, you. You make a Campari with other ingredients

in a drink. You don't just drink Campari. I'm sorry. I think

as long as you follow the drink with the hot buns that the guy's

giving them with the fire twirling underneath his ducks,

I think it would go down just fine. The local culture, I'll put

that in quotes. You know, the local culture of downtown

la. The dude is spinning the fire and

just like throwing it all over the place. Holding it with his feet,

holding with the back of his thighs. So he is hairless. He's completely burned

all the hair off his body. God bless him. So it's a Polynesian

themed restaurant, and anyone who's not

like main cast members are pretty much Hispanic.

Yep. But it's supposed to be Hawaii. Okay, there you go, folks.

I love it. Do. Do with that what you will, everybody.

So at dinner, Del has a girlfriend that's there with him,

but he, you know, he's making this big show of

how he and Barbara used to be an item

and she just blurts out,

well, he's dynamite in bed, if that's

what you mean. Referring to John Saxon and just making the

dinner completely shut down. Completely awkward and

weird. I love that part. Oh, my God,

so much fun. Men love him. What can I tell you?

He's got them all conned. Hope he's as good with you as

he is on the job.

Well, he's dynamite in bed, if that's what you mean.

So finally he reveals to them, there was no apartment. It's just this big,

giant mansion. And he's acquired them for nothing. Like,

they're. How did you do this? Did you steal this

house from somebody? What's going on? The catch, of course,

is that it's haunted. And, you know, we all want to know who it's haunt.

Who's the ghost who's haunting the place? And the name Alma Martine

is thrown around Del's date.

Immediately, like, does the sign of the cross. Yes, the cross. And then drinks,

like, a little shot. She takes a shot. She's so nervous.

So then we have a flashback. We hear a little bit of the story,

how this couple killed each other in the house. But in the flashback,

what do we see, Mark? What happens? Okay, so Alma's,

like, kind of prim and proper. And basically, if you're at

all familiar with Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of Lizzie

Borden from the TV movie, she looks just like that. So get that in your

head. So her first. And the marriage

was arranged. So she comes out and her first meeting

of Esteban is with him and two other women,

like, at his knees. So this is who you're married to.

So it starts off very poorly. And he's

married her really for, like, access to, like, land. Isn't it,

like, basically just for shipping purposes?

And so she decides that really for love. That's why

she wants to get married, which. What a weird concept.

So she decides that if he's not gonna love her, she's gotta, like, make a

pact with Satan, basically, to get back at him. And it

kind of goes downhill really quick from there. And I wrote in my notes,

esteban, my dude, what are you wearing? Oh,

I'm sorry. So Esteban looks like Howie Mandel in

a really bad production of the Pirates of Penzance.

Just saying.

I couldn't even describe it. I was like, buccaneer.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God, it's so good.

Pretty much. So. Yes. So. So now we know the

story of what happened. And of course, she. She kills him.

She makes his neck all crunchy after he poisoned her. So, yeah, after he killed

her, she dies. She comes back from the grave.

I love her look. Her corpse look. Which is

just a little blood in her forehead and just screaming and like.

Ms. Lee Press on nails, kind of. Yes. She snaps

his neck. And of course, the very first night,

immediately, Barbara is experiencing haunting

things. There's a scratchy throat demon. But even

weirder than a voice that would be talking to you in your house, a disembodied

voice. There's a fucking statue of Satan. Now,

by that he means a Pier 1 paper mache effigy of

Satan. That's at the top of the stairs. Hey, I worked at Pier 1 Imports.

I would have gotten a 10% discount. 10%?

10%. That's all they gave us. I guess it was. That was the only place.

It was the only retail place I worked at. I didn't shoplift

from. Now, can I say something really quick,

please? Madonna owned that house for a while. Yes, that is

in the trivia. So, no, it's fine. The big

mansion that they show in this movie was owned by Madonna

very briefly. Or maybe not briefly.

I'm just wondering how long she lived there. That's great. So she got a stalker

and she realized that people could jump the walls easily. And then that's when she

sold it. Gotta get out of there. You gotta get out of there.

Speaking of amazing sequences.

So the next morning, the locals

are delivering the luggage of

John Saxon and Linda Day George. And because they hear a

noise downstairs, they look over on their balcony and their fucking

lugg just flying from the doorway. No one

will set foot in the house. They're so scared, they are pitching

their in through the front door.

I laughed and laughed at that.

What was the luggage that the monkey would destroy in the commercials

at Samsonite. Samsonite. Holy.

Yeah. Oh, my God. I laugh so hard at that now.

Do you think that's how they delivered Madonna's luggage as well?

Sean Penn made them do that. Oh, no,

that was Sean Penn thr the luggage. We at American Tourister know

that when your suitcase is out of your hands, it's out of your hands.

That's why American Tourist suitcases are reinforced with

strong stainless steel frames and solid locks that won't

spring open on contact. Sure, you may

pay a little more in the beginning, but it'll

sure pay in the end. American Tourister.

It's not just how good it looks, it's how long it looks good.

Of course, we have some incidents of Supernatural where

Barbara's just glowing green from the top

of the stairs. They love the green in this. They sure do. And John Saxon's

going, are you all right? Like she's fucking irradiated.

But. And then, of course, the devil statue almost falls on Jock.

Keep saying Jock. Yeah. You shouldn't do that to me because I'll get that image

of Jon in a jock strap. I'm very sorry. Yeah, don't do that. Very sorry.

Don't do that. So we get to

see Dr. Frank and Dell having some words

about this whole construction project. There was.

There was some funny stuff at the construction site where John Saxon

is trying to explain why this building is not structurally sound,

and he turns into a blah, blah, blah moment. Oh, these supports

aren't going to hold up anything. Oh, yeah. Let's go get drinks tonight,

right? Yes. Yeah. Did you notice it was an earlier

scene at the construction site where the. The smarmy

doctor was there, too? Did you notice his, like, kiss boots?

Yes. Those were amazing. Wow.

Yeah, those were some platform shoes that man was rocking,

dude. I mean, gonna rock and roll all. Night and party every day.

I wish that. I wish people just bring those back. Like, everyone wants

to be taller, right? Oh, my God. I'd be all over those things.

There's a line of dialogue. I did not write down the whole thing because I

was running out of space to write it down. I'm gonna look for this desperately,

Larry. John Saxon, he wants to get romantic.

And Barbara's like, no, not tonight. I don't want to be touched.

And he's like, what's wrong? And she goes, I just

feel like. The real me took off somewhere and. Left a yuck in its

place. Left a yuck in its place.

I guess it's better than, like, the Three Stooges leaving a.

Yeah. Oh, man. I went. I really went beyond the. Beyond the

joke on that one. See, I was actually going to say that when you asked

me how I was doing. I was going to say, well, the real me took

off someplace and left a yuck in its place. Oh, man. We were talking

about. We were talking about Rocky Horror earlier. I'll say.

It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.

Then Dr. Sullivan, our healer pal, introduces himself

to Larry, and he's like, what you need is a healer.

And then what happens?

There's something about Barbara being gassy. Can we talk about that?

I just. Okay. There's a scene with her boots for no

reason, and she's standing at the kitchen sink, and she's got

her boots. And then from behind her comes this mistake,

which, for all intents and purposes, almost looks like she's past visible

gas. It comes up between her legs.

I'm so sorry, but it really does. People. It's so

strange. And then, so earlier,

Alma, like, did the whole demon thing. She actually punctured

her left hand with a knife. And then she got this, like, a.

For awful, I think. Yeah. No, it's for Alma.

It's for Alm. Yeah. So then

Barbara does the same thing at the sink after she's been flatulent.

And then, you know, John comes in and asks if she's okay, but she

isn't. She's feeling yuck. Yep. What a yuck. Yeah.

So she goes to the hospital. He takes her to the hospital and

the doctor, Dr. Frank is on the case and

he's, he's, you know, giving her, trying to give her a prescription.

And she literally laughs in his face because

she doesn't believe in medicine or math. Or math.

Or math. Yeah. Or that birds can really fly.

I'm so scared if she does that birds are fake,

I'm out of here. I can't deal with that shit.

Or a good makeup artist apparently. So she, yeah,

she definitely fired her freaking stylist after this movie

later we have Dr. Frank making creepy house calls

and a little bit of car trouble for Dr. Frank where

he's driving down the street and Barbara puts the whammy on his car and the

doors fly off and the hood

and it does a complete 180 spin out thing. And then as it's going

off a cliff, it fucking explodes.

Oh, it's so good.

But before this, he does warn her not to go to the crypt because it's

a grisly place to go. Which of course immediately she heads there.

What a great line. I love that line. Yeah. Oh, it's grizzly.

Grizzly. Now if it's a Grizzly Adams place to go,

I would be there. Hey, then you got to use the fire to burn all

the hair off. That's a lot of hair on Grizzly Adams.

A Hairless Dan Haggerty. We wouldn't know who he

was. We wouldn't know who he was. Who are you? Ben,

come over here and identify this man.

Ben. Gentle Ben. Larry's very worried. John Saxon.

I called him John Saxon for like the first half hour. Now I'm just calling

him Larry because that's his character's name. He goes to the hospital

to get the test results because he's really worried about Barbara.

And he throws a freaking tantrum

at the hospital where he just chews out this poor woman

behind the desk. But there was no tests ever taken.

Dr. Albinos is a frickin liar.

And he roughs up a couple of orderlies and I'm

terrified for them. And it came out of nowhere like that punch just

came out of nowhere like I think I left in the Walt's

lab. It scared me to death.

Dr. Sullivan shows off his healing magic for

Larry. He's Pulling freaking tumor out of a lady.

And Larry is not immediately, like,

you're a fraud. Like, I remember when I

was a kid watching a special about how these people who

pretend to do surgery, mystical surgeries,

are frauds. And they tuck little pieces of meat in,

like, in their hand, like, in a little, like,

pouch. Pretend to pull out a tumor from people with fake

blood. But I knew this was real because

her phone latex was so convincing with that nipple.

Hey, if it's in a movie, it's real. It's real.

Yeah. No, that's funny you brought that up because we were talking about the same

thing. That totally reminded me of that. Yep. That's awesome.

The cultural knowledge that we bring to this show, let me tell you.

Yes. Among Hawaiian tribes

at the time. Yeah. And Polynesian tribes and Hispanic tribes.

I want. I want it to be real. Get.

Get this. Get this tumor out of me.

So later. I did not

write any of this down. This is just my. Probably my favorite sequence in

the movie where Larry goes home and Barbara comes

in with a black mask on. Yes. It's a thermal

mask she's wearing for her face. And I

wrote in my notes, this entire conversation

is crazy. I can't even process anything that's happening.

It's just a wall of an exchange

that is just so great. It's about her being crazy and getting

weirder and weirder and weirder as the movie goes on. But it's just.

I love it. After this, we have a little

construction site. Whoopsie. What happens at the old building

here? Well, now. Okay, so there's a couple

things I need to talk about. One of them is that Del refuses to wear

a hard hat, and he's their boss, and he's just roaming around this construction

site without a hard at all, which I find disturbing. Okay. But anyway,

I guess more importantly is that the demonic

presence has decided that it needs Larry

out of the way. So it activates this crane

with all this, like, scaffolding and stuff on it to basically kill

Larry. But instead, fortunately,

it kills, like, an expendable construction worker who doesn't really matter.

Poor guy. Yeah. So that. He's just.

He's just. But now the effect was pretty. Pretty cool.

Because at first I'm like, they just killed someone because he really was expendable.

It looked pretty good. But. Yeah. But Del saves John.

How long do you want me to go on? Because there's a lot about this

that I find really strange. Oh, please hear it.

So, okay, so Del pushes John out

of the way and then John says that the power lines

aren't working, which is important because he's worried

that if Barbara finds out there was an accident,

she's going to think it's John. Yes, exactly. But the power lines

aren't working. But somehow she's going to find out. I don't know.

Okay, so they go back into the construct

Adele's office and have a drink on the work site.

Yes. So there's alcohol on the work site.

So then John says, hey, Dell, why don't you go

back to my house with my wife, who was your

ex wife, and let her know I'm okay. I'm gonna stay here

and work now that I've had an alcoholic beverage.

But you do this for me. Okay? That's what I wanted to talk about.

Now I'm done. No, it's fine. And I think in that conversation is when Dell

blames women. Oh, yeah. For all the problems in the world. Del is

a piece of work, people. Yeah, yeah. Dell's something else.

Oh, boy. Sometimes I'm thinking his Del seen John

Saxon with his shirt off. And does he want Barbara out of

the picture? To have John Saxon Larry to himself,

man. Because he seems like he really wants Barbara out

of the picture. Oh, man. I have an uncle who reminds

me of Delay. Not in a good way. I have

like a sleazy uncle who kind of reminds me of Del.

I love it. Adele goes back to, you know, let Barbara

know that everything's okay, and it's immediately

weird. She's acting very unlike herself.

Just being flirty with him and everything is very weird.

Sure enough, they start kissing, but it's. She's way

too needy. She's way too into it and creeping him

out. And she throws his ass over the ledge with

her psychic powers or just pushes him where his

body unceremoniously will be like in a

ravine for the rest of the movie. I think you're downplaying

her green starburst eyes. Yes, that is

a key feature. If you look up this movie anywhere, you will see

laser eyes. Like glowing green eyes and laser

eyes. So Richard, did he walk there on foot? Because where's

his car? Maybe her psychic powers drove it to

an empty parking lot. I can't believe you thought of that. It's awesome.

Okay, so real quick, can I interject something,

please? Because a little earlier on we see that her

wedding ring finger is getting

swollen. Yeah, I was just going into that. Oh, go for it.

Oh, my God. So disturbs me. It looks a little irritated

at first and I Immediately, I'm like, that's disgusting.

Makeup team, you're doing good. But then it gets worse and

worse and worse until her finger looks

like the monster's finger from the

Creeping Flesh with Peter Cushing.

That's so disgusting. It,

like, it. It looks like you would just throw up

if you touched anything because the pain would be so intense.

Her nail looks like it's gonna pop off. Yes. From the pressure.

It's disgusting. And you'd have to cut the wedding band off. Like,

sliding it off is no longer an option. Yes. I won't go into details,

but I had an infected fingernail once. Just the tip of my fingernail,

and it hurt so bad. If I put my hand

on anything, touched anything, I would start crying.

It hurt so bad. And it

was just a hangnail. It was just a hangnail.

And I was such a goofball as a teenager, I didn't know

how to deal with it until it was hurting me to the point where I

was, like, crying. I don't know how I'm alive sometimes.

I'm such a. Yeah, yeah. So.

So, yes. Her ring fingers looking gnarly as shit.

It just gets worse. And kudos to whoever did the special effects on that because

it was so disturbing. Yep. So Larry,

John Saxon guy, he has lost faith in hospitals because of

the incident. So he takes Barbara

to the healer, and this goes great. What happens when they go see the

healer? So, okay, you bring.

Not on Larry's part, but the healer's already said that

he thinks there's something wrong with Barbara. Yep. Yep. So I'm.

I'm cool with. With Larry doing this, but. But what was the

healer thinking? So he's doing another one of his, like,

operations on a younger girl. And of

course, it goes horribly wrong because there's a witch watching,

and the girl dies on the table. And then the healer looks, like, shocked that

this was happening. I'm like, what were you thinking the outcome was going to be,

sir? And then she storms. And then she storms off,

and, like, she's upset. So Barbara storms off

because she doesn't have faith in healers. So much

drama. So much drama. Yeah. Or the Internet.

She doesn't have faith in the Internet. Yeah. She needs some supplements.

Yes, she needs something because she has faith in nothing. My favorite

part here is when the healer was working on the one lady,

he pulled a little tumor out. When Barbara fucks

up his surgery, like, totally blows it for him. An entire

organ is trying to fly out of this poor little girl that he's working On.

Oh, it's so funny. Yes. Later, we find Del's

body. The police find Del's body. And, you know,

they're vaguely suspicious of Larry and Barbara.

Like, what happened here? What is he doing at the bottom of the ravine

just outside your mansion? And then the movie

breaks for a moment. We have one of the weirdest

editing kerfuffles that's ever happened

where Lietta and I kept going back to watch this editing nonsense.

So John Saxon is, like,

talking to the healer and then he's

leaving. And they have a stunt double, a not

John Saxon in his jeep, driving around the streets of la,

AKA Hawaii. And it cuts back to he and the healer talking in

a different location. Yes. And I'm like, whoa,

whoa, whoa. What are we doing? It is awesome.

It is so awesome. There must have been some shenanigans.

I know. There was a little bit in the extras about one

of the master copies of the film getting destroyed

in an editing machine. Or was it Alma? It was

Alma. She. This film was cursed. I think so. So one of

the master copies of the film, they at mgm,

they running it through a winder, and the little

spindles that hold the. The film in place weren't

threaded correctly. And it just chewed up the film.

So one of the reasons the movie looks the way it looks is they had

to make it the whole movie from like a not

color corrected copy. Interesting. So this movie

was supposed to be really bright and colorful, like even more bright and colorful

than it is. Oh, interesting.

And that cost them some distribution deals

because the movie didn't look very good. The actual print they were sending distributors

didn't look very good. That was from the producer

interview, I think. Interesting. Yeah, it was crazy.

So anyway, we got a big showdown. What happens in this showdown? I mean,

it's completely bonkers. I like when, like, Larry comes

home and she's at the top of the stairs looking like Elizabeth Montgomery from

Lizzie Borden. Right, right. And she's like, you know, help me. And then

just disappears right in front of his eyes. But he's, like, nonplussed by any

of this. He's like, oh, I gotcha. Like, this happens all the time.

It's just part of being married. That's just the

way she is. So that happens.

And then there's so much green. Like they do the green reverse.

Yes. And you get like green like laser beams shooting

and everything. And then she gets the.

You get the, like the man voice kind

of coming from the witch.

Yeah, yeah. Well, also,

the healers come back With. With Larry as well in tow.

Right. Yeah. So the healer's on the premises as well, and they decide that

they have to destroy. Well, we kind of skipped something, didn't we?

I'm sure we did. The healer's family member goes

back. Leah. Yep. Yeah. And gets attacked by

a electrical cord which fries her and leaves nothing but beads and hair

and dust, which. I love that. That was the director's wife,

by the way. Oh, really? Yep. That was his wife at the time.

Like a Dario Argento with Dario Nicolode

thing here, huh? He's got a killer on camera again and again and again.

Man, are you mad at me?

But. So they decide that they've got to destroy the crypts to

rid the world of the witch. Yes. In doing so,

I feel like I'm jumping around too much. Don't. Don't worry about it.

My notes have stopped completely already. I thought

I was gonna remember everything.

So in doing so, the witch turns

basically to smoke once she's destroyed. Right.

And then she basically turns to like, I put like a witch

in the wind, and it just dust and she blows away.

And you also can kind of see that it's a wig with the skeleton

disintegrating. So cool. And then they get that Satan

overlap from before with the guy with the curly hair.

But then they decide to leave. And I'm thinking, no,

you've got the house to yourself now. Because the witch is like, ding dong,

the witch is dead. You can stay. But then they leave,

which I'm like, but, Richard, why? I don't understand why

they wanted them in that house so badly to begin. Like, the doctor

and Del. Like, it seemed like a purposeful that they want him

in the house. And I don't understand why. It's just baffling.

Okay, yeah, but that was beyond evil. And I don't feel like.

I mean, no offense, but I really don't feel like we did it justice.

No, absolutely. I was just gonna say, folks,

we left out over half the movie to make

sure this discussion wasn't a point by point thing.

Because, I mean, it's. It's just so. This is such a freaking

phenomenal experience to experience.

Oh, also, real quick. Yeah. Once the doctor dies,

there's no more mention of him. Like, no one cares that he's disappeared from this

earth. Whatever just goes flying through a wall. So many unanswered questions

that it's just like, oh, well, never mind. Who needs it?

Who needs it? So, yeah, so both doctors are just destroyed.

So, yeah, Dr. Albanos blown up.

Dr. Sullivan goes flying through a wall. And that's it.

Yeah.

So the real get for this movie is Pino di Naggio.

Oh yeah. Who does the score. And there's a couple moments where,

where I'm like, I think Pino was. I'm gonna make anything.

Cuz there's some really weird cues in this freaking movie.

I mean, I like the music, but there's moments where I'm like,

this was shot by somebody named Ken Platten or Plotin

who worked on Hide and Go Shriek.

Wow. I, I something, isn't it? So that's a, that's an

experience. That movie's beyond a slasher.

Edited by Richard E. Westover.

I'm wondering if he wanted to take his name off of this one,

but. Yes. What did he edit? Ah, he edited some

pornography. Good for him. He edited a movie that a lot of

the people who worked on this worked on Tomboy.

I was gonna ask if you've seen Tomboy? I, I have seen the,

the follow up. The follow up. Are they made by the same person?

Well, her. Herb Free directed it. Okay, I'm getting.

Yeah, because there's a movie that's in this same guy's credits the following year called

My Chauffeur. Oh yeah, with the girl from April Fool's Day.

Yes, I'm very familiar with that movie. That movie was very.

What? Very weird to watch when I was 10 with my parents. Well,

yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. But I've never seen Tomboy.

It's got Betsy Russell. Yeah, it was from cheerleader camp. Yeah.

Wow, that's crazy. I need to catch up on that.

And I need to watch my chauffeur again. Confront my childhood fears.

That's gonna drive me crazy. What is the actress's name? I love her. She just

kind of disappeared. I love that actress. Not in a call HR way.

Just like she's really cool. Deborah Foreman. Yes, Deborah Foreman.

I really like Deborah Foreman. She's amazing. She's amazing.

I, I forgot she was in Valley Girl. Oh yeah.

I haven't seen that forever. Is Valley

Girl. Is E G Daily. And Valley Girl. She is.

I don't like because I love EG Daily and

I don't like that they like. I feel like her nude scene

was just like not really necessary and they totally into it.

Yeah, yeah. I mean it was, it served the plot. I mean

not the nude scene, but this, this her sex scene served the plot.

But she didn't need to be naked for that. No. I love EG Dailey.

She's amazing. Trivia wise, we talked about Madonna's

house. But did we talk about it enough?

We went beyond all the details.

So director Herb Freed apparently got along so well with Linda

Day George that he cast her husband Christopher George

in Graduation Day, which I thought was very sweet. And other than

what I learned about the film nearly getting completely destroyed by mgm,

did you have any other trivia about this little wonder?

I do not. I apologize. But there really. I couldn't find a lot on

it. And I do like how I'm just gonna say it. I think you're scared

and that's why you're still sticking to the MGM story. Because,

you know, it was Alma. I'm just gonna say it. She was destroying

the film. I'm not afraid of her. I'm putting that out there.

You should be afraid. Yeah. Don't hide it.

Flash em your copper toned tan. Flash em

the dark tan. Flash em the fast tan.

Flash em a copper tone tan. Get the tan. You gotta flash

with Coppertone lotion oil, New light formula

oil. Then.

This movie. So, so, so. Mark, I feel like I know

how you feel about this movie. Tell me about your Beyond

Passion. It's shirtless John

Saxon. It's Linda Day George

at her finest. I'm not joking when I say this.

There are some of her line deliveries that it's so

sincere. Like when she's like, you know, if this really

is a haunted house, I need to know. And I'm like, yes, she does

need to know. Don't hold out on her.

You know, you got smarmy Jerry Stiller

just. I'm telling you, the green reverse,

the, you know, the witches. Ms. Lee Press on nails.

It's got it all. Your Polynesian dancers pretending to be Hawaiian

who really aren't. It's incredible. I don't.

Yeah. See this, people? You need this in your life. It's beyond entertaining.

I love it. It goes. It exceeds.

It exceeds beyondness. Yeah. This is

one I had never heard of before the Blu Ray

came out, bought it sight unseen and just.

I've loved it ever since. It's just so fun.

I want to show this to. I want to show this to people. This is

a party movie right here. Big time fashions

are epic. Everyone is tacky, either in

Hawaiian shirts or in white suits.

And, you know, the big. The big tall heels

on all the men's shoes. The story is very simple.

Like, simple as in the setup is simple. The plot

is insanely complicated. The effects

are fun. The dialogue, every line is a riot.

I remember Thinking this felt like a TV movie

the first time I saw it. Totally.

Where the mild cursing,

nudity, and some of the gore, which is never explicit,

but there's some gore in this movie. That one girl gets her head

split open and that. That dance. The nude girl,

which is the only nudity in the movie, which is like silhouetted. Yeah.

Yep. So that's crazy.

The echo Echo Azerock is the chants when

Alma's doing her thing, which is the chant. We didn't talk about that. The chants

are amazing. Like it's a Wiccan chant. That they're actually like doing that,

like at a win. What? Yeah, it's amazing.

The chants are amazing. I think one is Iko.

Iko. Yeah, let's get

it all in there. It's pretty cool, folks. The only thing bad

I could say about it is I wish they would gone back into the

city, the. The Hawaiian city some more, just to mix

it up. They spend a lot of time at the house, a lot of time

outside the house. But I mean, that's me searching for something to nitpick

about. I. I just love this so much.

Oh, my God, what a treat. We did

a gift. We went. We went way beyond what any

other podcast would do for beyond evil. Except I didn't watch

all the extras. But, you know, I always say

this when I finish a movie, I don't want to see it for another year.

I like. And everybody has clips of the movie in

there to pad out the interviews.

And I understand showing a small clip of an example

when the person's talking about a specific scene, but I always

feel bad for Blu Ray companies who are like, we can't just put

a five minute interview. We have to make it a 15 minute spectacular

with credits, the beginning and end, and all the clips from

the movie mixed in. I'm like, no, you don't.

Let's. Let's make it snappy here.

Well, sometimes they're like longer than the movie. Like you get a movie

documentary about. The movie, which I love when that happens. What was

the movie? What is the one where it's. The guy

is trying to come to terms with the childhood trauma and they have the

big piece of wood. It's a. It's a wooden

marionette. Is it the Fear? Was that what that

one was? It's a 90s movie or an 80s. The one that vinegar

syndrome put out. Yeah. The covers like wooden, right?

Yeah. 1985. The fear. Yeah.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, that DVD

or that Blu Ray has a Feature length

making of that movie. It's crazy because

that was a passion project apparently. Yeah, some of those things are.

Yeah. Yep. That was Vinegar syndrome. I like the sequel.

Okay, it's. It's. It's an hour long documentary, but still it's an hour.

Yeah, yeah. Plus commentary tracks. Multiple commentary

tracks. The sequel takes place on Halloween and it's a

really wonderfully half assed Halloween spooky

movie. So I recommend the sequel. What's it called?

So it's the Fear and then the sequel's called like

the Fear Halloween Night. Really? I did not know that

existed. Oh, it's called. It's got two titles. The Fear

Colon Resurrection and the Fear

two Colon Halloween Night. So you got your choice.

And the. The Fear. I think the original is actually good.

I don't love the characters in it. They're a little like

strident for me. They're. They're all dicks.

But they bumped that up with the sequel and everyone's just

preposterously mean to each other and everyone's

unlikable and it just happens to be Halloween.

And they're dressed like their fears and then they get killed off by their

worst fears. That's kind of a fun premise. You should check it out.

It's real stupid. It's. One of. You might have a

reverse good time with it. But Mark,

before I let you escape this.

I know we've gone beyond. I can't even think of any

more puns. What is a recently

seen by you movie that you love? It can be

any genre. It can be an old favorite or a new to you.

Watch. What do you got? So I'm gonna bring to the

table the Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch. Oh my God.

Yes. It's from what? 1968.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa,

I hope. Yes, but it's like a fairy

tale, like gone horribly wrong.

It's super creepy. The visuals are like amazing.

Actress. The little girl. I'm sorry. So basically, I don't

want to spoil it. It's basically a orphan who gets reunited

with her birth parents. And it's not

a dream come true. It is amazing. It's based on. I haven't read it.

It was based on a manga. Apparently. I'm not familiar with the manga,

but the movie is fantastic. Arrow Videos

has put it out. I highly recommend it. It is so.

Visually it's just stunning.

I love this movie. I would make people watch this. Like I

would want to sit down and watch this with people just for their reactions.

1,000%. I love it. I saw that

months before the Blu ray came out. I had found a download

and it just blew me away completely. And then out of

nowhere they announced that Blu ray. I was so excited.

And it is one of the

best representations of. Of 60s manga

adaptation. Like, a lot of the manga I read is

from the 80s and the 90s and some modern stuff.

It took me a while to get into the old

60s stuff and the 70s stuff because it was so.

It felt really, for lack of a better term,

like basic, kind of like I was like, ooh,

the very broad emotions, very big.

Everything's very like shock panels, you know,

like where people are, they turn around and see something scary and the whole panel's

their face, their mouth, just making an O circle, you know.

But I started to love the tone of those

60s manga and snake Girl and the

Silver haired witch. Nails it, nails it, nails it,

nails it. All of the important details you need are just left

out. All you need is the premise and

you're going, you don't need any stuff to explain anything.

And they keep throwing more and more weird red herrings at you. And it

gets bigger and more complicated. Holy shit, that movie's

great. Yeah. I want to say it was the same

year as another absolute masterpiece from Japan.

Let me see if it's the same year. Yes. 1968 was a

magical time. The Living Skeleton.

This I don't know. Okay. Directed by Hiroki Matsuno.

This is the guy who did. Oh, no,

he didn't do very much. Never mind. No connection. Other than

the same year and another black and white great Japanese

horror film. This looks amazing.

Richard Criterion put that out in a box set called

When Horror Came to Shochiku.

Yep. When Horror Came to Shochiku. And it

was. I hope it's still available for sale.

Yep. You can still add it to cart. Apparently it's got the X from Outer

Space. It's got Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, the Genocide,

which is a genocide, which is a killer bugs movie.

And then the Living Skeleton is an absolute

banger. So that's amazing. Okay. But yeah,

sorry to hijack that. No, no, I heartily

recommend the Snake Girl. It's just so fun

and feverish and. Wild and

I love the little girl. Like she makes the movie because she's just

so sweet. Yep, she is. She's grade A awesome. She just

has that energy and they let her run with it. So she's.

She's precocious to the point of like, why does she need foster parents?

Just Give her a freaking apartment. She's gonna live her life.

She did what she wanted. Oh, yeah. So I

have been. Aside from taking notes for movies

for this show, I have been filling my days with television

instead of movies. But in my defense, I've been watching

feature length episodes of my

favorite. One of my favorite shows of all time could almost be

my favorite show of all time, which is Inspector Morse,

which is a British mystery show. Started in the

80s and then wrapped up in the early 2000s.

The cast had kind of moved on, but they came back and did specials,

which is why if you look on IMDb it looks like the show was on

for like 35 years, but they just made

some extra bonus episodes and then that was it. But the

show was so popular, it spawned two series.

It had a sequel series and a prequel series,

and it's all British as hell. And Morse

is a opera loving, literature loving

police detective who's very grouchy and shitty to

everyone and his. His long suffering sergeant.

And it's just. I love this show so much,

I can't even. So now. How are you accessing this,

Richard? So there is a.

I have the DVD set, but. Oh, okay. Okay. It's also streaming

on Britbox because of course Liette and I are fake

British people and we have Britbox and Acorn and PBS

and all these. The only thing we don't have is BBC America.

The shows that they were trying to make that were like

crossovers, we just didn't like them. We're like, nah, we'll just watch British

shit. So I have seen

30 episodes, 25 episodes. They're all an hour and

40 minutes a piece. Is a commitment to watch an episode.

I have seen this entire series like six, seven or eight times over

again. Oh, that says a lot about the series. Yeah, it is

my favorite. Are they standalone? Like, could you just.

Yes. Or do you need to. Okay, they're all standalone.

You kind of want to watch the first episode just to get the

dynamic of how Inspector Morse

met Sergeant Lewis. Just to kind of set up things.

But you can watch any episode after that. Doesn't really matter. It does build,

though. Like, their relationship has ups and

downs where they don't get along and then

they get along really well and then some shit goes down. So you're not

gonna be confused. It's just

a detective story, but everybody who's anybody

is in it. Lots of great. If you like British tv, you'll see all

the faces you recognize showing up in there. Yeah.

Awesome. You threw me a curveball. I didn't think you were doing this. Oh,

man, I. I had a day to watch

movies and I was just having a crappy day, so I just was like,

no, I'm gonna watch Inspector Morris all day. And I did just

that. And Lietta is a bigger fan of the sequel

series Inspector Lewis, where the same

actor who plays the sergeant, he's all grown up and has

his own. He steps into the role as the main detective

of the show. And it's a great show, too. The prequel

series is all right. I don't hate it or anything. It doesn't quite work for

me. It's set in the 60s and has a very,

very different actor playing young

Morse, which is fine. They replaced him, but they went in a different direction.

Okay. And they definitely made him just almost a

different character, but they set up all the. The building blocks

of who he become, you know, as he gets more and more bitter and curmudgeonly.

I don't know what that's like. Same. I'm not

well on that road myself. Well,

that's cool. That's cool. But, man, I think we did it.

I think we did, too. Another episode complete, folks.

Thank you for listening, Mark. Thank you for hanging out

once again. It was beyond awesome. Oh,

man, we will be definitely back talking about something.

We've barely scratched the surface of our list. So Spice World.

Stay tuned for Spice World. I've still never seen that.

Okay, we need to stop talking and then you go watch it and I'll wait

right here. Spice up your life, everybody,

and slam. Your body down and wind it all around.

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