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Without further ado, let's let's check out Uh the list here the the reason we're all here.

Uh list of the the top thirty movies.

Uh thus far we are we are going to add uh an even dozen to that list today, which I'm excited about. It's uh it's gonna be a fun uh a fun list, I think. Um And because these things tend to run long, um, and because I want to uh value your time.

Uh and and also um you know, look, uh science is uh efficient, if nothing else, brutal efficient.

So let's uh let's get to it. Uh the first movie uh we are gonna be talking about is a movie from twenty twenty entitled The Hunt.

Um I uh the year this came out I really enjoyed this movie.

Still do. Watched it just the other night. Uh FYI. Um if you are around on Sunday evenings about six PM.

Uh I I intend to do kind of a end of the weekend Sunday night movie, uh just like from my own childhood. Uh because what is middle age and late middle age if not a desperate attempt to recapture?

So last time we did the hunt, uh you know, I I get to share movies with you guys on uh on cast is the platform.

And it's just, you know, hey, this is a movie I really like, let's watch it. Um and uh so it is, you know, a an emotional favorite. I I like this movie.

Uh I think I think i it's a lot of fun. Um the premise of the film, uh for those who do not recall.

is that um There is a a text chain that is revealed that alludes to a thing called the manor where liberal elites capture, you know, salt of the earth.

uh you know, Magatype uh Americans, drop'em uh, you know, in the secret compound in New England and hunt them for

And uh lo and behold, it seems like that's what's going on. Only that's not exactly what's going on, it's kind of what's going on. Um but uh a bunch of obvious mega types are being in fact on.

Um it is uh hosted uh not hosted, it is stars, uh it is starring Betty Gilpin.

Of um Glow. She was on Glow. She was also on like

Pirates of Silicon Valley, something like that. Anyway, uh another show that I did not watch.

Uh but I love her in this. I think I've I've seen her in a couple of things.

And I think she's very good at

uh in almost everything she's in. I think she's particularly good in this. Uh I mean she's the star of the show. It lets her do some fun shit. Uh she gets to you know play an action hero, but also this kind of

you know, allusion to how she is damaged as a person and that maybe this is something she kinda needed. And this is also against the backdrop of uh

some political commentary. And one of the biggest complaints you can make about this movie, and I don't disagree with it, is that there's a bit of both sidesism in this uh movie, much like uh Oh you know, South Park is sometimes um accused of that and, you know, of other kinds of sadness.

But I d I do believe that this movie is satirizing both sides of this argument. I think the the thematic point that it is making uh is that this is not uh like i th you know, one once that you go to extremes and become

you know, an enemy to your fellow man and communication breaks down, then just awful shit happens. You know, uh you can't lose the ability

And uh and because it leads to misunderstandings up to and including the nature of Snowball from Animal Farm. And there are a lot of animal farm allusions, which is also appealing to me because I have

Door, the book Animal Farm. Um so yeah, there's a lot of things about the hunt that I I personally like. Plus, there's a fight scene at the end of the movie that is

Tremendous. And like up there with uh uh They live, you know, the Keith David Rowdy Rowdy Piper fight scene, it goes on almost that long. And I I really, really like

Uh so again, number of things I really like about the movie. I understand criticisms of it of like the people want it to take one side or the other in in the in the political debate. I find something

Not brave, that's the wrong word for it. I find something very uh comforting about a film that's like, no, no, no, no, no. I like both of these extremes are are wrong.

And and lead to uh, you know, heinous outcome.

Um and yeah, so I the you know, I I understand it, I get it, but I I I'm kind of on the side of the hunt with this one.

Uh but I like the fact that it's saying something, right? Like some like uh look at Alex Garland's

Civil War, which is a a movie about a goddamn civil war in America, and it doesn't bother to explain the politics of that how or or how it happened. And at least with the hunt, it's like you may disagree with the politics, but it doesn't try to

Like yes, i its message might be about uh sort of centrism, but it doesn't

It is also not about a civil war in America, you know? And Garland's movie, I think, is far more cowardly.

Um in terms of of its politics than something like the hunt. Anyway, we're not talking about that, but I I do think that.

Uh okay, so where does the hunt land though? Where does science take?

Um it look, it's it's a pr uh a a a gory movie at times, like a gleefully gory movie at times. Um you can argue that the comedy is played a little too broad sometimes.

Uh, but it does have that tremendous Betty Gilpin performance. Um, just her explaining like why she kind of needs this hunt uh to be a a whole person perhaps.

uh is is pretty great. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh terrific performance at at its heart. Um some of the jokes do land. Um I think that when y it detours into um this kind of internment camp slash

embassy thing that it gets a little soggy, so that's not ideal. Like the pacing uh loses something there. But but you know, the end of the movie is tremendous. It like it has a terrific third Um so not not the worst fault.

I I think we can safely uh let's let's go back to our list here. Um I I think we can safely say that the hunt is Uh certainly better than we are still here.

Um it is it is better than sting.

Ooh, is it better than Arachnophobia? There I mean,'cause they are both kind of horror comedies. There's a little more bite to the hunt. As much as I like Jeff Daniels, Betty Gilpin is more fun. I think it's better than that.

I think it's better than immaculate.

Uh uh sweet home is an interesting discussion.

Um you know, we've talked before about Sweet Home is a bit niche.

But it's it's quite good. Uh but I think it you know, it's silliness and talk about dragging. There are some moments in Sweet Home that you're kinda waiting for things to happen. So uh let's keep going.

Um is it better than X Cross, which is a really fun movie? Huh.

Somewhere in this neighborhood.

Is it better or worse than near dog?

Doesn't have the style of near dark. Hmm Late night with the devil is also interesting. It's it's I feel like we're in this neighborhood.

I think it's better than X Cross. I think it's better than the stone tape.

Is it better?

Late Night with the Devil, also great central performance. Little bit of a less exciting third act than The Hunt.

Um I think I don't I don't think it's as good as Near Dark. I think Near Dark is

It's just a cooler movie. Like Near Dark is a vibe. And the hunt is really fun, but like I said, you know, it it's not without.

Uh I think it's I think the hunt might be better than late night with the devil um but not near dark. So I think um I think what we are saying here uh is let's put the hunt Just to be clear.

There is another the hunt with um Michael Manson. So not that one. The one from twenty twenty. Uh okay. Alright, let's uh let's keep going here. We got we got work to do.

Um let's talk about the strangers chapter.

Uh Rennie Harlan has proposed a trilogy of strangers' films.

Um The Strangers Chapter 1 is is the first of those. The only actor that I I was familiar with.

in the film was uh actually two, but we'll get to that. Uh one is Madeline Pitt.

who was from the Riverdale show and she's just this like very striking young woman. Like it it once you have seen her, you're like, oh wow. Like she's got this really fiery red hair, uh a bit of a uh

Like a Bryce Dallas Howard type where you're like, Oh wow, that's a very striking ginger young woman. Um and and so I remembered her from watching a little bit of River.

Didn't really know anybody else other than Richard Brake, who does not have a speaking line in the film, I don't think, but is in the background of one scene in a dime.

And clearly he is going to have something to do with something in this trilogy,'cause you do not cast Richard Brake to play guy who does not turn around in Donovan.

So that aside.

Um uh the Strangers chapter one uh

is a bit of a remake in some ways of The Strangers. Um, you know, we're back at it at at this cabin in the middle of nowhere, um, where You know, we're uh having seen vacancy recently.

One of the things I was reminded of uh w was that like the the mechanic and vacancy. There's a little bit of that of like, oh, our car broke down, we gotta stay in town, uh hey, I can give you a ride to this.

like Airbnb c uh kind of joint and that's where you're gonna be terrorized. Um there's some of that and

It d there's not an original bone in its body. It it is such a retread of the original Uh the strange.

that it it's almost distractingly so, like all the hellos written on the walls are there. Um the you know, oh my goodness, he somebody's in the house and in the background while our main character is in the foreground.

Um even the end is the same, only the end of The Strangers has that great line of, you know, why are you doing this? Because you were home.

Which is terrifying, right? Like that's what makes the stranger so great. Um, other than the fact that it

Uh you know, a pretty scary movie at the time when it when it originally came out, it was uh there weren't the glut of home invasion movies uh the way that there are now, largely because of the strangers.

And as a result Uh, all of that stuff feels real tired now where in the original Strangers it felt

You you know, at if n if not unfamiliar, at least tense. It still was a formula that worked, and now it's just so delusive.

You know, this just feels like a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. And you know, all the beats are there and I might have jumped once. You know, I'm not immune to it. Like there's a math to jump scares and

And sometimes they work. And so I'm not immune to that, but that's what it is. It's kind of a jump scare machine. But when you get to the the last line that they ate from uh the original of the, you know, why are you doing this?

The response is not because you were home, the it does its own thing, but it's just like everything about the movie, a little bit worse and a little bit dumber and a little bit less satisfying.

And, you know, the it the it ends with like a to be continued, like we're gonna do uh uh uh the Strangers chapter two. Uh uh apparently there's a chapter three on the slate. Fine.

Uh I I mean, will I see it? Probably. Probably. I'm curious what they do. Um

And and it there it there's such a like hey, here's a preview of the movie that you would like to watch. And that's the thing that kind of pisses me off about the stream.

Chapter one The Mos

Is that it feels like a preview for the movie that you should be watching. Like why stretch this out? We why remake the strange.

Why not just start from the place of, hey, you've probably seen the strangers, or if not, you've you understand the basic premise, or you saw Prey at Night or something.

Um yeah, it's just it's a it's a super frustrating movie. But what does the science say about the stranger's chapter?

Um with all that being said, like on a personal level, I would not tell you that The Strangers Chapter One is very good at all. But what does the science say? Um

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Let's start with uh you know, the cleansing hour is kind of uh has been our Mendoza line. It's a little bit further down the list.

Um but it like that is the perfectly cromulent piece of interview.

That is, there's nothing terribly exciting about the cleansing hour. Uh, it has some good points, but mostly it's just a very routine, by the numbers competent film that is not going to inspire a lot of love.

Passion.

Uh vacancy is a little worse than that. Vacancy is not a good

Um so that's kind of our line. Is this oops is this um The Strangers Chapter 1, is it worse than the cleansing hour? Yes, absolutely.

Um does science tell us that um oh, let me switch over to the list here.

Does science tell us that is better or worse?

Uh then terror news.

Uh, which, you know, is that kind of host style found footage movie. Um

That had at least some interesting moments. It's not a good movie, but there's some stuff about it that I kinda like. So better than that, uh Terranet is better than uh The Strangers Chapter One. What about The Exorcist Believer? Another

emerging litmus test on our list. Uh, which is competently done, but what's the point? Um The exorcist believer is dumb in its bad, but it in its own way.

So it's better than The Strangers Chapter One. What about the boring SN Goshen?

is The Strangers Chapter One

Worse than Goshib. Goship has that opening scene that's undeniably

striking, you know, like the CGI doesn't totally hold up and etc. etc. Uh and then the rest of that movie is just it's so forgettable. I you know, I watched it recently and the details are already slipping away from

Um, you know, it uh like i i it's its own like men in black memory eraser that movie.

Um... But Is the fact that it there's one good scene and then a bunch of boring nonsense and ghost ship does that scientifically make it worse than the Strangers Chapter One?

Which is j yeah, the yes, yes, because Ghost Ship is at least a complete movie.

Um Chasing the Devil, boy. Oh boy.

Uh that like it Chasing the Devil is amateurish. It has some original ideas though that are kind of compelling. Um

Is it scientifically better than The Strangers Chapter 1? Cause I'm thinking like the the devil inside is

the same kind of problem. I think chasing the devil may be worse. I think I think at least There uh uh the uh Strangers Chapter One is a more professional

production. And the Devil inside is both boring and

Yeah, like the like the the yes. The Strangers Chapter One, uh, your new number twenty five. Congratulations. Um, okay. Let's keep it moving.

Uh the first of a couple of found footage movies on this list, Life of Belle, I'm a subscriber to uh Screambox.

Uh I don't know why I'm a subscriber to Screenbox other than it's inexpensive and It was like a dollar more for a year of Screambox, or I could just rent Terrifier 2, which I wasn't excited to see, but I wanted to see.

Uh, because yeah, I'd heard such good things and I hated Terrifier. Um and I I wanted to see what the fuss was about. Um

And I do think Terrifier 2 is better than Terrifier. I will I will admit to that. I still don't like it.

Uh anyway, not what we're talking about. But Life of Bell uh popped up on the my screen box stream when I went over to check to see what was new.

Uh and it had been in like the top ten for um a few weeks when I I pop over to see what's going on over there. And Life of Belle is a found footage movie about a young girl named Isabel.

who is given a camera and is sort of encouraged to kind of film everything and be her own like movie star and so forth. And that's the premise for the uh why we're filming

As well as some security cameras at home and so forth. But it's the the the big question of the movie is is Isabel's mother going crazy.

Or is there something supernatural going on in in this?

And You know, the movie does finally answer that question in a way that that is kind of striking, but this is a great example of a movie that's like ninety minutes long.

Um, is that right? Maybe it's not that long. Maybe it's like an hour and ten minutes long. Maybe maybe it just felt long. But where nothing really happens for most of the movie. You have a couple of moments where you get an escalation of the mother

And and more unstable and then this young girl and her brother being terrified.

And then, you know, the end happens and there's five minutes of craziness and and then the movie's over. Um it's fairly by the numbers. The kid's not terrible and and not too embarrassing.

Um the mother is you know, less consistently good, I would say. Um The end is kind of interesting, but it's a very routine found footage movie.

Mostly it feels very amateur, even though the kids are not terrible. And in fact, there are a couple of moments like where clearly we got some candid

moments with the kids where they were just being kids and it feels pretty authentic and that's pretty good. But it's not enough to carry this movie.

Um Life of Bella is not not a good movie. It's not awful, but it's real dull. Like again, let's let's start with uh let's start with Cleansing Hour.

And um Life of Bell worse than the cleansing hour.

Which is more competent and more overall entertaining. Um Vacancy is better.

Terranet is better The Exorcist Believer Hmm Better or worse Is the Exorcist Believer better or worse? Gosha

Like we're w again, we're playing in this territory. Like Chasing the Devil is the other found footage movie in this range. Life of is is Life of Belle worse than

Mm, and maybe, maybe. It's not as bad as the boring as in Yellow Brick Road.

Uh and and it's better than Devil Inside. So I think in very short order here, we can safely say that Life of Bell finds its way to number twenty seven on our list.

Good, good. I like how this is going.

Uh thirty minutes in, good. All right, let's keep it rolling.

The Vampire Next Door, I think perhaps a Tubi original. Um sometimes I'm cruising through the Tubi.

And you know how uh if you pause over a movie it'll kinda show you

a glimpse, a few seconds of the movie or whatever, or the uh the trailer. And that's what happened to me with Vampire Next Door, where it stopped and was like, Oh, this looks like Fright Night. They're just doing a Fright Uh little did I know that was

completely what they were doing. Uh The Vampire Next Door is a movie about a nerdy young man who uh has a vampire move in next door to him. Um and Up to and including seducing his girlfriend, kind of.

Uh, except this time it's a lady vampire, not a man vampire. But like the music cues are kinda the same. He's got his nerdy friend, uh, Ally Evil Ed. Like

So much of this movie feels like Fright Night. It's not a one to one. Like the the the plot is not completely ripped off, but there are moments and scenes and sort of character archetypes and

Like i i you get it, right? Like there's no mistaking that this is a riff on Friday night.

Well, but what if um it was poorly edited and directed?

And the acting was not so great. And

Um, you know, there there were really no effects to speak of. And also, just the basic rules of vampires.

not explained in this movie. As we talked about recently with a movie like Abigail that that plays around

with vampire lore and vampire mythology. This movie seems to do that because you see the vampires out during the daytime, but It doesn't really address that or explain what vampires are, or you know, are they all feasting on blood, but sometimes they don't seem to need to, and it

Oh my god. Oh man, this movie made me so mad. Um But I couldn't stop watching it. I was like it is both completely Fright Night, but also A little bit Fright Knight too in a way and It just a little bit Renfield it.

I the whole thing is just this weird mashup of fright night esque scenes and music cues and bad editing and takes that go on too long and actors that definitely needed a second take.

um or better direction. It's like I I d I'm not blaming the actors for

the performances that they give because there are the there are moments where it kinda works, but i this is just a direction thing, folks. This this is you know, direction, d uh uh uh the cinematography, uh the like there was a bad or inexperienced DP who just didn't know how to light stuff.

it uh in a way that made it scary or moody or compelling and it has this like 80s veneer over the film to further the connection to Fright Night, but that just fails to it's a bad

It's a bad, bad movie. But you might ask, where does it fall in?

in our list. Where would a movie

Like the vampire next door end up on a list. Well, I think, you know, we can all say that it is going to be beneath the cleansing hour, and my how we're filling out some some of the bottom of this list.

It's it's worse than the strangers chapter one. It is equally derivative.

And equally infuriating because of its derivative nature, but uh The Strangers Chapter One is directed by someone who knows how to do it.

So uh Chasing the Devil has more interesting ideas. Life of Belle has more interesting ideas. Uh The Devil Inside has some moments and

Well, but it's pretty infuriating too. It has better acting and better direction. Yellowbrick Road is an incredible waste of time. Um But it is going for something.

It's just failing. And then Blackwater Abyss is an unnecessary sequel that is also dull and really has nothing going on.

Not really any good kills. I still think it's probably a slightly more interesting production.

um or a b a more competent production and then and then we're down to last uh sorry, Lost Voyage with uh Jud Nelson um which just becomes utter garbage uh at the end of it and Ugh

I oh man. It is not. Gods of the deep is worse. Gods of the deep is a I think Lost Voyage if we if we consider the science, Lost Voyage is A a better movie, but it's I mean only because some of the performances by supporting actors.

So the vampire next door right next door

Uh to Gods of the Deep and Lost Voyage. In the bottom three, surprisingly. I didn't think it was going to drop that low, but here we are.

Alright, let's talk about some some more interesting stuff, shall we? Let's let's get out of the garbage bin and talk about um let's talk about some Fulci. It was gonna happen sooner or later.

Uh might as well be now. Let's talk about House by the Cemetery.

House by the cemetery. Um so this is the Fulci joint in which A family moves into a house in which uh a researcher lived there before and had killed his mistress.

And, you know, like there's it's th some business with cursed houses and and witches and um and and and just general foolshi weirdness. Um This in my mind is kind of lesserful.

It's not bad. It's still it's still okay Fulci. And there's some really good stuff. Although the this also features the uh this movie. Uh warning. This movie features a young child named Bob.

And there is nothing weirder to me than hearing people refer to like a

you know, eight, nine year old as Bob. Bob first of all, Bob was my dad's name, so maybe that colors it. But Bob also feels like a guy that comes to fix your air conditioner.

Uh b not a child. But I guess, you know, bobs have to start somewhere. All bobs start as children. Uh you heard it here first.

Um, it's it's okay. It's okay. House by the cemetery is okay, Fulch uh, Fulci, which is to say that it's moody, it's got the, you know, uh Claudio Fabrizi music.

It's you know, got his his vibe, that sort of uh hazy dream like quality to things that are going on and um this question some really good like mannequin head decapitations in this and

Uh there's a knife through the back of someone's head where the tip comes out the mouth. That's a really good Fulci like ugh uh uh moment and yeah, it's it's good. It's good. It's not great Fulci.

It's not it's not great Fulci, but it's it's okay Fulci. Um which begs the question w how would a movie like House by the Cemetery fare?

on our list. Where does a Fulci end up?

On this list. Well, let's start with the cleansing hour. It's better than that. It's got more character than that.

You know, it like the lows of House by the Cemetery are lower than anything in the cleansing hour, but the highs are indubitably higher a as well. Um Strangely, it's it's under Paris feels like

There's a little bit of kinship there, even though the movies could not aesthetically be more different. But there is a a certain kind of nihilism.

Uh to it.

I I beg you to explain it to me in a way that does not involve uh a shrug and then well because Fulci Um So i in in the neighborhood, then we are still here is kind of an interesting question because we are still here on our list at uh number seventeen.

Um, We Are Still Here is inspired somewhat by Fulci. Strangely though, I think it's a better movie than House by the Cemetery.

Um so I think

House by the Cemetery is better than Under Paris. It it is not as good as we are still here, which is in many ways a Fulci homage, but is a more coherent, kind of satisfying cinema.

Um so interestingly, House by the Cemetery, number eighteen under uh We Are Still Here. Um okay.

That out of the way, let's get to our other Fulci on this list.

which is uh certainly better than average Fulci, that's City of the Living Dead. Uh this is the movie, ladies and germs.

Uh that when I was a kid.

um and saw the the vomiting up of the intestines, I was forever changed. This is what made me fall in love with Fulci, City of the Living Dead. Um used to con confuse this movie a lot with the Which I think might be Fulci's masterpiece, uh, for lack of a better word.

It is it it might be my favorite full.

Um but City of the Living Dead is real damn good and it's very rooted in Lovecraftian kind of you know, there's this a priest that hangs himself and Dunwit.

And Uh as a result that is set in motion the opening of the gates of hell and we've gotta stop it before midnight on this specific day and we've got a couple of teams of people uh doing that very thing, one of them uh with Christopher George of Grizzly and Day of the Animals fame.

And um another that is um led by, you know, some of the locals of Dunwich who are starting to experience

uh weird shit. Um, including a seance and like House by the Cemetery has a seance that goes bad as well, but uh uh City of the Living Dead have a seance that ostensibly kills somebody.

And

So that's the premise. That's that's what Fulci is hanging all the gags on. But it's just an excuse to do uh like the crazy shit like hey, this priest shows up and then you start crying blood.

And vomiting out your intestines and that's what kills And you know, these days, you know, with the uh the advent of Blu ray and and four K and whatnot, you can see the tubes, the filament tubes, uh that they use to

deposit the bloody teardrops in the eyes of the actor and but it's still a good gag. It's still a good effect. Uh the vomiting up the intestines is a great effect. Um

you know, there's a a scene where baggots just fly at all the actors and they're the real actors. Like, imagine.

being an actor and being told like we're just gonna use this like airplane engine to throw maggots on you and everyone else in the room. Um

There's good skull crushes. There's some good like end of movie just creepy zombie stuff. Uh, in you know.

in the in the basement of this place. It's not as bold as the Beyond, you know, uh this is criticizing it for what it's not and not for what it is, but it is um

It it it's good Fulchi. Like really good Fulchi. City of the Living Dead is really good Fulci. Um not his best in my my estimation, but good. And so let's put it on the list.

Uh let's just start with House by the Cemetery. Uh this is better than House by the Cemetery. It's better than We Are Still Here. It's better than Sting. It's better than Arachnophobia.

Um, it's better than Immaculate, it's better than Sweet Home, it's it's better than Amiv Amityville to the possession, better than house, better than X Cross. Um Better than the stone tape, said Better than late night with the devil.

Better than the hunt.

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Hmm. Better than is it better than near dark?

Better than Near Dark. Is it better than Abigail? Like the innkeepers, I feel like.

From a scientific point of view, it's a mo more coherent story. It's more thematically rich.

It's better acted. Like the Innkeepers is a much more elegant kind of film and it it it is a it is a better film.

Abigail is Abigail is real damn good. Abigail is real damn good City of the Living Dead just has the bottom.

And so City of the Living Dead, your new number five.

City of the Living Dead, number five on the list. Alright, alright, good. We are trucking along.

uh in and doing uh the Lord's work. Okay.

Uh let's talk about not that. Let's talk about uh the Phoenix incident.

Yeah. What about the Phoenix incident? Um

So, the Phoenix incident also found footage. Uh we're we've got a handful of found footage uh films here to go.

Ah. And the Phoenix incident is, of course, uh referring to the Phoenix light.

And it's both some found footage of uh these kids, and by kids I mean like twenty-year-olds, who are out, you know, having an adventure and run afoul of an alien ship that's shot down as F sixteen's, I think, um you know uh dog fight with uh these aliens.

And um yeah, and so aliens get loose on the planet and You know, kill a bunch of kids and there's a crazy guy who's got a compound and This is all done and found footage, and there's some book ending stuff where you have this major kind of guy who's like, Hey, by the way, um

You know, this has been going on for years and aliens are slowly making their way towards population centers and etc etc. Uh all a bunch of Um and I don't I don't think that the Phoenix incident is a bad example of this kind of movie, but it is an example of this kind of movie.

You know Um It is it is very much a found footage, aliens

chasing people around kind of film. But it it does have a look for the aliens that's kind of interesting. It's it's a little bit Starship Troopers, but it's it's interesting. They're going for something, and that's nice. Um Then you've got uh

Sorry, I'm uh I'm as I'm thinking about the the Phoenix incident, I'm I'm trying to think of other examples like there's the Phoenix lights, the Phoenix tapes, Phoenix uncovered, something like that. There's another one of these

And um I I do not remember what the name of of the other uh I'll have to look it up and we'll we'll do it on another list. But anyway, Phoenix Incident is um it it's it's fine.

It's not dull, and and so y give it credit for that.

Um but it i it does have some fatal flaws. Like this crazy guy that lives in a compound business is just nonsense and

I mean who could possibly even care? Uh so that stuff I don't think is very good at all.

Um you know, the friends are mostly okay and it's it it's fine. Like this is real background kind of entertainment as far as I'm concerned. So uh, you know, again, let's not screw around.

Let's uh put it on the list. Where does the Phoenix incident land?

on our list of films. Uh which now we have to scroll through. We are we have enough that it fills up more than a screen, which uh, you know. Uh fortune favors the bolt. Um Okay.

It is oh all right, let's start it with with uh uh the cleansing hour.

It's worse than that. I don't know that I would recommend the the Phoenix incident because it is not there's nothing exceptional about it, found footage-wise.

Unless you're just kind of into alien stuff and so I think that puts it in Uh this may be pretty quick.

Is it better than ghosts?

I mean Ghost Ship does have that beginning and then the rest of it's kind of dull. Whereas the Phoenix incident is there's at least stuff happening.

Um, so I think it's actually better and I think it's better than The Strangers Chapter One. Um I mean it is it's still derivative.

But You know, I probably had more fun with Phoenix incidents.

It at least has like, you know, Fleer cameras seeing aliens tear somebody apart. So on that level, I think maybe it I think I think it kinda is right here at like number twenty five.

That it's r it's Terranette is a slightly better movie.

Overall, and The Exorcist Believer is a slightly worse movie, even though it's more competently made. Uh, it has fewer

interesting ideas. I like I would rather watch the Phoenix incident over Exorcist Believer. Alright, well look, hey, you know, if we reach a decision

With this kind of effi efficiency, let's not let's not look it in the mouth. Alright, the Phoenix incident, your new number twenty five. Alright, folks. Let's get to a an honest to goodness real movie.

Um and talk about Overlord. Let's talk about Overlord. Um

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is uh a movie all about uh uh uh World War Two, you know, like the invasion of Normandy, D Day. You guys have heard it of it. Operation Overlord. Anyway.

Uh this is like, hey, this is a team, we're gonna go behind em enemy lines. Um our mission is to parachute in, uh find this uh radio tower in this little town, take it out, disrupt communication so that

Um it disrupts air support uh or you know, it h helps uh the the the air force move in, disrupts uh the the German lines and uh air defense. That's what I'm trying to do.