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Hello, and welcome to the Podcast on Haunted Hill, Episode 177, My Name Is Gav.

And I'm sitting here with...

Wowee, my name is...

It sounded like I was in the middle of something.

Oh, what could it be in the middle of?

Cooking something, you're like, oh, that egg's gonna spill out the pan.

I was thinking more sexual.

That's what I thought.

Well, that's what I meant by that.

Eggs gonna spill out of the pan.

Hello, welcome.

That's a bedroom move, isn't it?

The egg spiller.

Well, talking of bedroom moves, this is a special episode.

Yep.

This is episode 177, The Double Bacon Sandwich.

I like to call it that.

If you listeners hadn't noticed from previous episodes, Dan likes Kevin.

It should be a name, when Dan met Kevin.

Kevin Bacon is a bit of a legend.

He's quite a versatile actor.

We've covered a couple of his movies.

We covered Hollow Man.

Is this all building up in a big round circle, coming back round to why you have this thing with Kevin Bacon?

Not really.

It's just because I mentioned his giant package.

Like, hang on here, Kevin Bacon.

No, I know.

I'm going to, I'm fully embracing it.

It's not just me.

Okay, go for it.

I fully embrace his big giant package.

No, in Friday the 13th, when we, all those years back when we covered it, it was, it was noticed by both of us, but I probably talked about it quite a lot more, that he was packing a lot in his swim trunks.

Bacon pork.

And he does like to get his dog out in quite a few movies, but he's a versatile actor.

Oh, he did in the Invisible One, didn't he?

We covered it.

Yeah, Hollow Man, but also he did it in, we briefly see it in Wild Things as well when he's in the shower.

I don't know this stuff.

Like, how do you, do you know all the mood, all the mood, new article on da da da da da da da.

Dan Bone writes about Kevin Bacon and all the films you can see.

Here's Peanuts.

It's called Kevin's Bacon.

Kevin's Pork, Porker.

So we are covering to Kevin, we thought, you know, let's, let's do him justice.

Hang on, so is that only two movies his dick's out hanging free?

There's probably a couple more.

I'm sure he's been there.

He's also played quite a lot of paedophiles as well, but he's also played a lot of paedophiles weirdly as well.

He's played like three paedophiles.

Oh yeah, he used to play, was he a bit?

He was Mystic, not Mystic River.

Yeah, Mystic River is the movie.

He was the woodsman, he was a paedophile.

Who moved, whose house got moved next door to a school.

You do get him every once in a while.

Do you remember Patrick Swayze, obviously, he hadn't had many films in a while, and all of a sudden he just pops up in Donnie Darko as a paedophile.

And then Kevin Bacon was also a paedophile in, what's that, Sleepers?

See, there's a thing of acting.

Obviously, there's two types of acting.

There's the acting where it's just like, I'm eating a biscuit, my name's Gav, and now I am someone else or whatever.

And then there's the, I am all the time this person, and that sort of thing.

How do you do that if you're being a paedophile?

I guess you don't take those roles if you have to act that way.

You can't really go meta with that one, can you?

Really?

Because you're not taking that home with you, like, oh, to go home and get on the old fucking computer, you know.

Oh, Jesus, Kevin.

Banging on Kevin's door.

He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm researching a role.

That must be, to do that, you can't actually, I've never even thought about that, to do that, you can't, definitely can't envision that side of your character you're trying to play.

There's no way you can envision that bit.

You might, you might do if it helps you with the performance, but.

Yeah, but you're assured that your soul's going to come through with disgust and not be able to do the performance correctly.

I guess, I guess there's a reason he took those roles in that it's a flawed character who's trying to find redemption.

In that situation where your character's like a fucking horrible, you must have to just go, okay, we're just going to have to bypass that.

I will play that character, but on the edge, just bypass the core subject.

Actors always say the most fun is playing a baddie, but I guess there's like, I'd like to play baddies by the way.

Yeah, but that's like, give me your money, come on.

Or like, I'm going to do Bank Heist or some shit.

It's not going to be like, let's go down to the underground and film children, you know.

Wow.

Well, we are covering, talking of underground, we'll be covering Tremors from 1990.

From Peter Filia to a Kevin Bacon movie of this evening.

So we're looking at one from the beginning of the 90s, Tremors, and 1999 movie about a ghost, a child and visions.

No, it's not The Sixth Sense.

It's the other one that came out that year.

And yeah, we're really very similar in respect in some ways.

But I think it's got more in common with the Changeling or the Shining.

But now it's quite funny at the time then that would have definitely been a thing.

But now, like, because it's so long past, you don't really put the films together.

So you can't go, oh, it's going to like it, but you don't think there's around the same time.

Every couple of years, you get these movie twins, don't you, where you get like Armageddon and Deep Impact or whatever it is that comes out from time.

And it happened this year.

We'll get into that.

We'll talk about 1999 anyway, because for me, that's quite a special year in the cinema and a lot happened.

So we'll talk about that.

But yeah, Tremors 1990, Stir Of Echoes 1999, probably Kevin's two biggest sort of horror movies, really, like Hollow Man, Friday the 13th.

They're not really, he was only a little bit in Friday the 13th.

And Hollow Man, probably not as horror, although we have covered it.

So that's what we're going to be chatting about, two very fun films, quite short and snappy as well, which are nice.

Always like a 90 minute runtime, as you do, Gav, as well.

Well, talking to movies and going to the movies, there's a new movie out at the cinema that people are going to see, all about death, killing you and chasing you.

I'm talking about the new final destination movie, Bloodlines, currently on point to be the highest grossing movie from a franchise, which is crazy.

It's doing really well.

Knocked the Thunderbolts off the top spot, which is the new Marvel film.

I went to see it.

Absolutely loved it.

Best Marvel film in about five years.

I wouldn't bore everybody with my thoughts on it, but it's got Kurt Russell's son in it.

Wyatt Russell, he's brilliant in it.

It's got Bill Pullman's son in it, Lewis Pullman, and he's brilliant.

Those two are really challenging their dads.

And in fact, Wyatt Russell, who got a huge mind crush on him at the moment, and I love him and everything from Black Mirror and it to everything he's done using that zombie Nazi one as well, Overlord.

He is in the new Spielberg movie coming out, which is a secret movie Spielberg's making about UFOs and the productions which coming out next summer.

Yeah, I did hear something like that.

But let me rewind that tangent now.

Sorry about that.

So Final Destination Bloodlines.

Well, there's 1D, 2D, there's 3D movies.

We've sat in a 4D fucking showing of Ghostbusters, that shitty Ghostbusters movie with the moving chairs.

But apparently, in Brazil, sorry, in Argentina, they take it to the next level because they were sat there in the cinema watching Final Destination Bloodlines, Gav, weren't they?

And what happened?

Yeah.

Well, I haven't read into it, but the roof collapsed.

I don't know more than that, really.

Yeah.

The roof collapsed down.

Did they go like, this is the shittest promotional like from the film studio possibly for this film?

Luckily, only one person was hurt and she returned to work after a week.

But even so, I'd want, I'd probably want at least an annual pass to that cinema as compensation.

Fuck yeah.

And how weird that would be, watching Final Destination.

At one point, I'd be like, wow, this movie feels so realistic.

I wonder what was being viewed at the time, though.

It was probably just a boring scene.

It probably wasn't like, if it had been like something collapsing.

Imagine if it was a construction site.

And you're watching like her thing happen.

I haven't watched that much.

I did actually watch part three the other day.

My middle child wanted to check it out, so we watched it.

Because obviously new one's out.

Sarah went to see the new one.

She said it's pretty good.

I will try and get to cinema to watch it.

I probably won't, but I will definitely be watching it.

My time is limited at the moment.

I have an annual cinema pass, but I've heard it's really good.

I've heard Tony Todd rewrote his own line in it because he knew he didn't have much time left.

So the line he delivers will make you have a tear in your eye when he says it.

And apparently he looks very ill as well.

Bless him.

But Tony Todd, rest in peace.

What a legend.

We've talked about that before.

It's good that he still was like, yeah, I'll do it.

Yeah.

Well, I went to them.

Like I said, I watched Thunderbolts.

Really enjoyed that.

I also little tangent about my children, because, you know, I'm a dad, if I haven't already mentioned it, twins.

So I'm trying to introduce them to films as they're turning four in a week.

Imagine if you were actually the father of Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but when they were little.

Imagine that one is massive.

Oh, daddy, I need some milk.

Oh, daddy, let me suck on your teeth.

The other one's like, can I have an egg?

Yeah, so I've been trying to get my kids into not trying to just show in them films.

So I sat them down a couple of weeks ago and said like, since they know about Star Wars and Stormtroopers and things like that.

So we watched 1977 Star Wars, which I used to just call Star Wars.

I don't call it New Hope, but some people call it New Hope.

They loved it.

We watched it probably three or four times in parts over the course of two weeks.

They really enjoyed it.

Their take away from it was Chewbacca looks like me, apparently.

They really like the wizard, Ben Kenobi.

They called him the wizard.

Oh, I love the kind wizard, daddy.

I'm going to call him a wizard from now on.

They really don't like C-3PO.

They said he's too silly.

I don't know why they just said he's too silly.

Yeah, they just don't know to articulate the correct word for him.

He's just a bit shit, really.

That's not silly.

He's just a bit shit.

But that's them saying he's a bit shit.

What else did they like?

They like the spaceships, the aliens.

They loved all that kind of stuff.

So that was cool.

So I felt really good about what happened.

I thought Empire Strikes Back is going to give them a bit of a shock.

I skipped that.

I skipped that one for the moment.

But I put on Return Of The Jedi this week and we watched the little bits of it.

And this morning, before nursery, me and Jack finished watching it, the last sort of half an hour of it.

And he had such a lovely moment.

He looked at me and he went...

As Darth Vader's face was revealed and he said, Daddy, why has he got boo-boos on his head?

And I said, oh, he's, you know, that's what he looks like under his mask.

And he said, is he someone's daddy then?

He understood.

And I said, yeah, he's Luke's dad.

He was like, but why were they fighting?

And I said, they didn't know, he didn't know that that was his dad for a long time.

And his dad was very naughty.

And he said, he went all quiet.

And he looked down and then he looked at him and he said, daddy, I will never fight you with a laser sword.

Oh.

And I said, oh, thanks, Jack.

And he said, and I won't throw you into the sand with the big mouth in it either.

I was like, brilliant.

Thanks, Jack.

It's good to know, good to know that your son won't throw you in the sarlacc pit.

It is good to know.

Yeah.

So that was cool.

And the last thing really about that, I have been to the cinema another time and that was because we're doing a thing at the moment where we're, our kids are starting school this year and they're in separate classes.

So we're trying to get them used to not being glued to each other.

So every weekend we alternate them and I take one of them and my wife takes the other one and we have a whole day with them.

So last Sunday was me and Jack and I took him bowling.

We really wanted to go bowling, right?

Let's go bowling nine o'clock in the morning.

We're the only fucking people in there bowling away.

And then I noticed that the cinema next door had a showing of The Princess Bride, really randomly showing The Princess Bride.

It wasn't like an anniversary or anything like that.

They just showed it at 10 o'clock.

So I went and bought tickets and me and Jack went to watch The Princess Bride and as our listeners will know, it's my favorite film of all time.

Also one of Jack's favorite films and Edith B.

She wasn't there.

And so I got to watch that on the big screen with my son and that was fucking brilliant.

I went to town.

I spent about 25 pounds on popcorn sweets.

I just gave him all the sugar.

I was like, just sit and watch this with me.

He was like, why are we watching it on the big screen, not on the TV?

And I was like, exactly, Jack, exactly.

Why?

This is brilliant.

So that was a really, really special moment.

So I'm really enjoying now that they've always been into films.

Does he have to have one of those little cinema suites, the plastic ones?

No, he actually sits on my lap, but my local showcase has got recliners.

So he sits on my lap, then I put the legs up and then we just chill with a big giant popcorn and sweets.

And it was brilliant.

It's better than watching the shit I normally go and watch with them, like Louis the movie or Peppa Pig, the movie or whatever, it's so much better.

I took them to watch Thomas The Tank Engine.

It was just three episodes of Thomas sewn together.