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Jack, I don't know why you have to put on all your clothes.

You're only going to the living room.

Wear that nice robe I bought you.

For 42 years, I have gotten out of bed and put on my clothes.

I detest bathrobes.

Why you bought it is still a mystery to me.

Now, unless you want to go check on the dog, shut up!

All right.

Everything is ready, my darling.

Do not be afraid.

Soon we'll be together again.

this sandwich tastes dry as hell. Hello and welcome to hello this is the doomed show I am Richard folks

I hope you're ready to crawl out of a lagoon or a uh a canal with me and mark. Mark how are you?

I am much better now that I've seen Slythus.

Your outlook on life will improve once you've gotten Slythed.

It's a life changer.

It's like Star Wars Episode 10, Revenge of the Slythus.

Slythus, yes.

Darth Slythus.

Darth Slythus.

That's hard to say.

Never mind.

This is from 1978.

And it is directed by, written and directed by Stephen Traxler.

I know horror fans are very familiar with that name

Because he went on to be a production manager

On Waterworld

And Windtalkers

Yeah, I don't know why people would

It was sort of a joke

Spoiler alert, because this is a long trailer

But it's kind of great

But it's a great trailer

So we're going to go ahead and drop this long trailer in here

So just get comfy and enjoy yourselves with this magic.

It was a California summer, and in a sleepy little town called Venice, life seemed so easy.

Until that night, when terror stopped.

And then things could never be the same.

It's lit. Spawn from a nuclear hell, it forages for food to survive.

And last night's brutal slayings brings to seven the total number of Venice residents murdered in this bizarre series of ritualistic mutilations.

The locals are in panic.

Sure we're scared. Damn scared.

Where will this flesh eater feed next?

Hey, wise guy. Fred.

Where did you get this substance, Wayne?

How can this man's beast be stuffed?

It's like nothing I've ever seen before.

Will you survive the nightmare that is a slithous?

Slithous.

Man, I don't know what the hell I saw.

You'll scream and scream and scream again

as slithous attacks and the blood runs red.

Mr. Connors, why is it murdering people?

But what would cause such a change?

Why, the radioactivity, my dear.

We catch the badass, Mother.

I've got an adding that'll hold a great wife.

I guarantee it won't get away.

It's alive. We got it on the scanner again.

It's headed for the harbor.

Jeff, we're gonna follow it. Head it off before it reaches the boat.

Slippers, the demon of science on the sea.

A horror so outrageous that no one believed.

Until it was too late.

You ready to put the hook to the slimy beast?

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In the classic tradition of Preacher from the Black Lagoon and The Thing, comes now the most horrifying of them all.

Slithis.

For this engagement only, no one will be admitted without a Slithis survival kit.

These life-saving kits will be available free of charge.

The theater box office.

My favorite thing about the trailer right at the get-go is talking about how it's summertime in Venice Beach.

And I'm like, no, people are running around their winter coats.

There's nobody at the beach at all.

But my thing is both Walt and I want to know exactly what that flippant survival kit was.

What does that entail?

We will talk about the marketing for this movie and how it almost got people killed.

I've got quite a wonderful story from good old Stephen Thrower, his book Nightmare USA, a beautiful book.

I really wish they'd re-release it.

I'm sure, you know, resourceful people will find a copy online.

I'm going to read from the Media Home Entertainment VHS.

It proclaims,

Finally, nature unleashes its revenge.

And it's I-T ' S, not I-T-S.

Here's the plot.

From the pollution of our nuclear waste

came the killer we couldn't destroy.

Our worst nightmares come to life

with the terrifying, scaly monster - Slithus.

And that's it.

And that's all you get.

Do you think that maybe Slithus actually wrote this?

And that's why it was so bad, because he had that vision,

the Slithus vision.

The plastic bottle, yeah.

Yes, yes.

This was a listener request from our good pal, Glenn Del Rossi.

If you get a chance, check out his amazing Instagram.

Friend of the show, movie collector, cool dude,

glendale rossi thank you like i said we're gonna spoil this thing and uh we've got probably we're

i mean there's so much to talk about with this movie so if we get a little carried away with

the plot folks bear with us you're gonna freaking love it a lot of this cast didn't really work

again so i'm not gonna get too much into the cast this time around all i know is there's a lady named Jeff

Okay thank you, what is that about i don't know because that's but they're saying that's

the character in the movie yep yep i don't think that's right i i uh had the subtitles and they

make multiple references to her name being jeff it is jeff what is that short for jeffrina

jeffrina jeff lean

okay jeffrey may so the movie opens up and we've got a big fluter

Fluting away, blowing his flute on the music score

I apologize to the composer

Of this music, this is Steve Zuckerman

He made the music for this and I thought it was library tracks

I honestly thought they'd source this from

Public domain old timey library

But no, he actually composed the music for Slithis

And it's a professional sounding score

But it's not, I don't like it

not a big fan of the music in this movie it's fine i bet a year later someone gave him his

first synthesizer for christmas and he's like oh man i'll never have to hire flutists again

On a beautiful day in california town which is funny because if you look at imdb on the locations

where this was filmed you get street addresses like not just city county boulevard or whatever

literal street addresses because for some reason you can see lots of street signs they're very nice

street signs in this movie and richard i foresee a road trip for you and i in the near future then

yes we're gonna do the uh the slithus location scouting i hope someone else has done that

I would watch that I don't want to go to california it's far away it's far away mark

and slithus is there i know it's scary scary stuff um tell us about the slow-mo i guess i don't quite

why it's slow-mo other than to kill time because like you don't need to see a chubby kid throwing

a frisbee or running in slow-mo but darn it you get that he was husky mark he was a husky okay

so i want to point out he looked like little fat mark as a child like that was what i look like

so i in a way inadvertently star in slip it you had some memories come back from that from seeing

him i did i'm like oh my gosh that yeah that was me except i believe the child was not caucasian

right that's the only thing i can't claim there you go yeah but other than that you have witnessed

little fat mark on the throwing frisbee. Yep and they do this cool sound effect when he throws the

frisbee they like added a weird like to the to the frisbee and it's just it's very dramatic

and uh the kids go over the hill and what do they find on the shoreline of this

Oh, the poor poof-its.

They've been, the dogs, I'm sorry, dogs are poof-its in my household.

The dogs have been skinned and they're laying there and it disturbs them.

So they decide to go talk to, is it Mr. Payne?

P-A-Y-N-E and let him know about the dogs.

Yes.

The death of the dog.

But the one dog is clearly breathing.

His little tummy is going up and down.

So I'm like, oh, what good boys or girls.

Oh boy.

I was so glad they weren't real.

I mean, they were real, but I'm glad they weren't dead.

Yeah, no, they were especially skin like that.

That's amazing.

That's amazing.

This comes to the attention of our hero, sort of, Wayne Connors, played by an actor named Alan Blanchard.

Mr. Connors is a teacher who does not give a shit about his job, or he just has disdain for his students in general.

We meet him and his wife, Jeff.

Jeff is played by Judy Matulski.

And now Jeff, according to the writer, director of this movie,

he wanted her to be annoying.

That was his intention with this character,

which I don't find her annoying.

She's just rational.

I find Wayne way more annoying.

I know.

Yeah.

But now really quick.

So automatically there's a scene where they're in bed

and she has her, so it's a profile.

And I thought, oh my gosh, this could be Bring Steven.

Ooh, she does have that look about her.

Good call.

And then Wayne, if they couldn't get the actor they got,

I thought for sure it would be Burt Convy or Steve Guttenberg.

Dude, dude, Burt Convy.

I'm going to go for him over Guttenberg.

That's perfect casting right there.

Maybe if Greg from Brady Bunch is a little older,

it may be him too.

But yeah, that's freaking awesome.

So they're having a discussion about this,

whatever's killing these dogs,

because he himself found a dog by the water

that was similarly flayed or whatever.

And he doesn't care about being late for work.

He just wants to talk about this monster with her.

It's very cute.

And then that night, presumably,

we see that the monster has a plastic bottle

stuck to his face.

that's why he's mad he can't see.

Only in his eyes, yeah so we get monster vision and he breaks into a couple's house and this movie very confidently

shows the monster in shadows but pretty clearly especially on the blu-ray you can really see this

monster but what's important is this couple mark what is the deal with jack and his wife

Well, clearly Jack and Helen have other issues other than a sea creature in their house.

They definitely have.

I bet there's no communication other than like just belittling and griping at each other because they are so hateful.

Yeah.

They need marriage counseling.

I think that's why Phyllis broke in, honestly.

Oh.

Because all they do is like fight with each other.

He was a proto better help counselor.

He was doing a home visit and things went wrong.

yeah i love this so um there's this noise and he hates their dog because the dog like will get out

and destroy things and so he doesn't want to get out of bed he's yelling about this dog and when he

finally convinces him to get up because there's so much noise out in the in the house he gets up

starts getting dressed like fully dressed fully dressed and she does that every morning richard

yes honey put on your robe he's like i'm not wearing that stupid thing i've been getting

dressed for 42 years uh he's very set in his ways this is wonderful love him which is that why she

keeps a pistol in her nightstand yes that's how set in his ways he is um he gets murdered

immediately by the creature off camera and then she goes out with the gun and does that hilariously

i don't know how to hold a gun thing where if you fired a gun like that it would probably just hit

you in the face so she's shooting at it of course bullets have no effect on it she gets killed off camera as well but we see their corpses.

Now did you notice that like jack is just kind of bloody

but her skin has been sucked right off of her yes she's like a skeleton lane.

She was more delicious than him because her face is eaten off when they show her.

Now, do you think if he had just worn a robe, it would have been easier to tear it off and then his flesh as well?

It was like too much work. It was like unwrapping a candy bar.

Yep, yep.

And Felicis didn't have time.

He smartly put on his clothes and spared himself the worst of it.

Damn. Damn, mutt, that's it.

Jack, what is it? Is Regal all right?

Oh, of course he's all right. In and out like a tornado.

You're going to have a mess to clean up in the morning.

At school the next day, one of Mr. Conner's irritating students, because he teaches journalism,

and one of his students shows up, interrupts he and Jeff talking,

and is playing the radio for him about this couple has been murdered.

So he wants to go check it out.

And that's when Jeff tells him, you're not a journalist.

You're a journalism teacher.

But yet he has a past.

Did you notice he points that out later?

Yes.

Yes.

In order to become a journalism teacher, he became a journalist first.

Couldn't cut it.

And those who can't journal have to teach journalism.

I think that's how that works.

Right.

Now, just really quick, the two students, I want them to have their own sitcom, and I would watch that religiously.

Yes.

Dude, that would be awesome.

Yeah, I love those two.

They would have really, like, one of them would have, like, a really unflattering nickname.

And the other one would be, like, just a normal.

It would be, like, Jamie and Scraggleface or something like that.

Yeah, I was thinking Spex.

Because she had those white glasses on.

Oh, man.

Spex and Scraggleface.

This girl does not have a Scraggleface, whatever that is.

That's just the first thing I thought of.

Anyway, he goes to the house, which, of course, is unlocked.

And there's just no evidence markers, I don't think.

just blood all over the floor.

And that's when he meets the most important character in the movie,