Legion Podcasts - All Shows

The Podcast on Haunted Hill will contain spoilers and swearing.

I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work.

I saw this when I come.

And be one of us.

It is time to keep your appointment.

Hello, and welcome to The Podcast on Haunted Hill, episode 118.

We thought we'd do something a bit silly there.

And also, if you're a UK listener, and you grew up in the 80s watching Bullseye, the darts quiz show that was late Sunday afternoons with your family, then you knew that whenever somebody scored to the highest score possible with three darts, that the man would shout out, 180!

The guy that stood next to the board, yeah.

The darts was quite an 80s thing, wasn't it?

It's still going now, though.

Making money, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely.

But yeah, you don't have a quiz show about darts anymore, that's for sure.

No, you don't.

And the guy, the presenter, was only like in his 40s, and he looks like, I don't know, 500, I don't know.

He does, yeah.

It's just old school, just looks old school, doesn't he?

Looks like he's just been down the cold moines when he was one.

Whenever you, if you Google people who in the 70s, people in their 30s looked older than us now.

It's just like we've got moisturizer, we look after ourselves more, we take vitamins and we exercise more.

We don't smoke 700 cigarettes a day.

Yeah, and imagine what it would be like 100 years.

I know.

Be like, oh, is that a newborn baby?

No, no, no, that's a 70 year old man.

Well, AI has gone and learned how to reverse aging, you know.

Let's hope so.

Well, this is episode 180.

Thank you.

We're already on a tangent, which is great.

Gav, it's the summer.

It's hot.

You're sat here at Topler's, I'm in a vest.

And as is our podcast, Annual Tradition.

We like to celebrate the summer.

We do.

We have a little trip to Camp Crystal Lake.

So this episode.

That's made us hopping along.

With the backpack on.

La la la la la.

Come on, guys.

Gonna go for a swim.

Gonna smoke some weed and lose my virginity in a tent.

Oh no, there's a man with a machete.

Yes, we have covered all of the Jason movies so far over the last few years.

And we will be covering this episode Friday the 13th, part 7, The New Blood from 1988.

Yep.

And also we will be covering part 8, which is called, Gav, what's it called?

Part 8, I Can't Wait.

It's called that.

No, it's called Jason Takes Manhattan, which is actually Vancouver.

Spoiler alert.

Takes Canada.

Right up the bottom.

No, that's from 1989.

So we're going to be going into those two and having a lot of fun.

Jason Trivia and I love, probably our favorite franchise, definitely mine.

And I think yours though, over the years, doesn't it really become your favorite?

Yeah, it has.

It was Halloween.

And then as you get older, you're like, that, they're not very good, those, you know.

These ones are kind of along the line, apart from this, which we get to, just gushing it, trying to do something different.

Generally, it's the same formula.

It was the same looking killer.

It didn't have a part three, which went off and tried to be something else.

And it was fairly solid, you know, what you get with a Friday 13th.

And as I got older, it becomes more of a sentimental nostalgia.

The camp, the killer wandering around, you know, it's just something which is very formulaic.

But it's everyone knows that formula.

Everyone knows it.

You could put a parody in this in a family guy.

It's like very easy to have a camp with people, killer going on, everyone to know what that is.

You know, and he's got the iconic hockey mask, you know, it's just everybody knows Jason.

The look pretty much stayed the same.

Obviously, you had, yeah, you got a tattoo there.

Obviously, it started off with original spoiler was his mum.

Second one, a second one, not having a mask sack.

Third one, getting a mask.

Yeah.

And then going forward from that, and it's really something which I've been able to, as older, go back to and just know, oh, I'm just going to pick any of those, one of those movies out and put it on.

Apart from Manhattan, generally know what I'm going to get.

And Jason X, because that's obviously a space, but you do have to throw back to the cabinet.

And it's the only of those series I've got on Blu-ray as a collector.

You can actually buy on Amazon, not too expensive, the whole, well, not a whole lot.

Part one to part eight, there's a Blu-ray disc where all inside, they're quite compact, quite nice for it's about 35 pound.

It's not too much.

So I snapped it up when I saw that on Amazon.

I've still got them all on VHS.

Yeah, totally.

You still have them on VHS.

But out of all of them, you're right, that is the best one.

Do you have a fan of, what's your favorite?

My favorite is Six.

No, no, no, out of The Slashers.

Oh, Jason.

Oh, it's Jason too, okay.

Yeah, I mean, I do love Slashers.

I think it's probably overall my favorite genre in horror, only because about two or three times a year, I'll discover a film that I've never heard of slash never seen.

You know, and actually only recently I watched one, which I've never seen.

What was it called?

The Visitor.

Oh, yeah.

Never seen it before.

Yeah, you said that.

And it was basically The Slasher.

And I just, I love that genre and I love the sort of...

Yeah.

It's dumb because it's a bunch of dumb teenagers taking drugs, drinking, having sex.

But you know what you're getting.

And you know what you're getting, yeah.

And I do love other genres like Zombie Werewolf.

We discussed this, but it's just comforting to me.

And then for me, Jason is the king of The Slashers, really.

Yeah.

I love the whole, you know, especially like Kane Hodder behind the mask, you know, which we get in these two we're going to be discussing tonight.

He played him three times and yeah, it's just great.

So that's what this episode is.

Jason, Bill Murray has just arrived wearing his hockey mask.

So he's ready for World Of The Strange.

And it is actually a Friday night.

Me and Dan are actually recording this.

It's not the 13th, what is it?

20th?

It's the 18th.

Friday the 18th.

Not quite the same.

No.

But it's really, really hot.

Yeah.

And that's why we're doing it.

And talking of hot Gav, segue.

So I've been on holiday.

Oh, that was stressful.

It's because you've got little kids.

I know.

But it was great.

And we retain and hold on to the fun memories.

But there are times...

You've learned that from me.

Because all I remember is the bad memories.

Well, there are times when it's difficult with two four year olds who are completely overstimulated.

And everywhere you go, there's arcade machines and coin pushers, ice creams, sugar.

Lights, flashy things, sounds.

And they stayed up like two and a half hours, three hours past their bedtime every night because we were on holiday.

But it was fun and we did have a good time.

There's a Jurassic Golf course, but like a crazy golf course and swimming and all that.

So we had a really, really good time.

And while I was there, we stayed in a caravan.

So I'm not sure if the...

Sorry, do they swim?

Have they got little inflatable?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all go swimming, yeah.

I'm not sure if it's really got anything like this in the US, other than trader parks.

But we have like the caravan, the static caravan parks here in the UK, that you hire at the caravan for the week.

And what's nice is once the kids are asleep, it's just terrestrial TV.

So there is a reason for me doing all of this.

So I turned on the TV on my first night, the kids are asleep.

What was on TV?

Predator.

Predator.

You messaged me and I was like that's like, because I've done, I've messaged you from there before.

I think we've not been on holiday.

And you're like, I've got nothing to watch.

What's on telly?

And you turn it on.

It's like random.

I remember not to jump, but you're going to get in your limelight very quickly.

Very quickly.

I remember doing that with the kids when they're quite young.

And True Lies was on.

So I was like, well, I watched True Lies.

But it's Jamie Lee Curtis's dancing and the girls were a little bit younger.

So it was a whole thing.

And I said, oh, for God's sake.

It is because she is quite a sexy, a curvaceous lady, isn't she?

And then two nights later, and it was great to watch Predator, obviously.

And then two nights later, me and Alice take turns to do the bedtime.

So we do that at home as well so that you get an evening.

Every other night you get an evening as it were.

Very quickly, I just said an Arnie movie, which I watched on this holiday and you watched an Arnie movie on holiday.

Isn't that funny?

Oh yeah, how weird.

Well, another movie that I watched two nights later in the caravan, turned it on.

Literally, the credits were just starting.

Nice.

Jules Two.

Wicked.

And I was like, I actually almost prefer this to the first one in some ways.

The first one is a classic.

Don't get me wrong, it's a better film, but I love watching the second one because it's a slasher.

It's like a slasher movie.

It's formulae, it's got the teenagers.

The first time I came back, and very quickly for continuing yours, that was really great because you're on holiday as well.

So you could look at your camera and window and see the city, and then you're like, I was on that.

And you saw the view.

I sent you the pictures and the seat was right there.

So I was in LA, and it was the morning I was going to Universal Studios, and I'd managed to just sign into my Netflix in America, on the telly in the hotel.

So I had American Netflix and it had Jaws 2.

Oh, sweet.

I was watching it again.

I don't know if I really remember this movie, and it's quite great, because I was then off to the Universal Studios to go on the Jaws ride.

So it was great to do that at the same time.

So I really quite enjoyed Jaws 2, because obviously it's still got a lot of the feel, not the feeling so much, but yeah, it has a bit with the characters and the tone.

It hasn't transferred to the 80s or 90s.

It still feels quite, do you know what I mean?

It feels quite old.

Yeah, it's not 78.

Yeah, so it's in the 70s still.

So that's why I quite like it.

I feel the same way about Jaws 2 that I do about Halloween 2 in that, Halloween 1 and Jaws 1 are both fantastic blueprints.

They're untouchable film gods films, but those sequels actually are slightly more watchable because I haven't seen them as much.

And they almost take the formula and change it a little bit.

So it's like a little bit more unpredictable.

I love Halloween 2 just as much as Halloween 1.

But I think I've said before, sometimes I just prefer to watch Halloween 2 because I love the whole hospital thing.

It's the same with Jaws 2.

I love Brody.

He's really into his character by that point.

It's kind of like when Christopher Reeves in Superman 2, he's comfortable in the suit.

He knows his character by then.

And it's not like first time out, you know?

And you've got all the kids and everything in it, and you've got some quite brutal deaths in it.

And he's a bit of a hero, much more of a hero in it this time around.

You almost want him to say, how can the same shit happen to the same guy?

Two Christmases in a row.

You almost want him to say that kind of thing, you know?

Well, that's like that, actually.

Die Hard 2 is in the same ballpark as Die Hard because it's not too far from it.

So the main actor isn't too of a different visually aged, do you know what I mean?

Too much.

So it kind of still fills it even though it's a different production team or different directors, etc.

Yeah, you still get that feeling.

Yeah.

And the funny thing about Duelz 2 being on while I was on my holiday is, and this is my other little thing I wanted to talk about, hot films.

I've been watching films because it's been so hot here in the UK.

And the week before we went on holiday, there were three films I watched at home.

I watched Return Of The Living Dead, because that film always feels like it's really hot and everyone's sweating and it's just...

You just want to spank your monkey over the graveyard scene.

That's all it is.

Baby, that is crazy when she starts doing that.

I love the fact she comes on to the punk guy and he's like, no, get out here, lady.

I don't want that.

I'm not into that.

It's like, what?

What are you doing?

The funny thing is she had to wear an American for that scene.

Yeah, I think she shaved herself.

So that's why they're like, oh, no, no, you can't because it's too graphic.

You don't want to see your fanny.

It's too graphic.

I also watched Jules 1, weirdly, not knowing that it was going to be on while I was in the car.

Oh, I've never seen that one.

I just watched it.