Full Transcript for TSOL173 - Buddy

a little bit of comedy 00:02:17.509 --> 00:02:20.969 added in there, and a lot of personal opinion? 00:02:21.389 --> 00:02:24.030 How about you, Jen? I do. Okay, because it took 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:26.800 you a second there. Join us on Sex, Love, and 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.020 Serial Killers. It's available on all streaming 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:32.919 platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, 00:02:33.419 --> 00:02:36.080 you name it. Come over and give us a listen and 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.340 tell us what you think. We look forward to hearing 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:41.080 from you. 30 Screams or Less starts now. Corey, 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.219 what did you think of Buddy? Well, turns out 00:02:43.219 --> 00:02:45.379 I did need a nightmare version of the shows I 00:02:45.379 --> 00:02:48.280 grew up on. Which is a deeply concerning thing 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:52.080 to learn about myself at this age. Barney, Mr. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.479 Rogers' Neighborhood, Pee Wee's Playhouse, they 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.139 all came to mind the second Buddy started. Except 00:02:57.139 --> 00:02:59.259 somebody swapped the lesson of the day for a 00:02:59.259 --> 00:03:01.860 body count. It's the kind of thing that would 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:04.599 make my parents cancel cable. Every bright color 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.060 and cheerful little song I trust as a kid now 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:09.180 feels like a trap. And I want to thank Buddy 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:11.379 for that. And as we've said on this show a hundred 00:03:11.379 --> 00:03:14.280 times, I live for a director who does not give 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.250 a fuck about touchy subjects. But he goes straight 00:03:17.250 --> 00:03:20.229 for the one nobody wants to touch, which is killing 00:03:20.229 --> 00:03:23.349 kids. And it just keeps doing it, non -stop. 00:03:23.590 --> 00:03:26.509 With a completely straight face and zero apologies. 00:03:26.889 --> 00:03:29.669 No hand -wringing, no wink to the audience, no 00:03:29.669 --> 00:03:32.050 please don't be mad at us, just a murderous unicorn 00:03:32.050 --> 00:03:34.469 in a dream. I have never been so entertained 00:03:34.469 --> 00:03:36.629 by something I should probably feel bad about, 00:03:36.810 --> 00:03:39.030 and I'm choosing not to examine that too closely. 00:03:39.310 --> 00:03:41.689 Honestly, it takes guts to make something this 00:03:41.689 --> 00:03:43.949 twisted look this much like the shows we loved. 00:03:44.150 --> 00:03:47.050 Most filmmakers would flinch. Casper didn't, 00:03:47.050 --> 00:03:49.569 and I respect it deeply. And the way you respect 00:03:49.569 --> 00:03:51.990 a car crash you can't look away from. Fucking 00:03:51.990 --> 00:03:54.210 great. You know what's funny? I was kind of thinking 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:56.789 about this too. Someone came up with this idea, 00:03:56.930 --> 00:04:00.150 right? And then the movie companies were like, 00:04:00.310 -->

00:04:05.810 let's fucking green light it. That's... Like, 00:04:05.849 --> 00:04:08.210 think about that for a second. Because this is 00:04:08.210 --> 00:04:12.860 a very unhinged concept for a movie. And... It 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:15.099 looks like a kid's movie. It looks like something 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:17.939 straight out of. It does. And even did you hear 00:04:17.939 --> 00:04:19.680 that? Like when this first came out, there were 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:21.839 parents taking their kids to see this movie, 00:04:21.899 --> 00:04:24.339 not knowing what it actually was. Fucking reading 00:04:24.339 --> 00:04:26.540 my mind because I was about to go. Oh, my God. 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.639 I think that makes it even better. The pure negligence 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.560 of fucking parents has been like, oh, yeah, it 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.839 looks good. You know, let's just take our child 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.920 to it. And meanwhile. He's just fucking annihilating 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.819 kids and whoever gets in his way. And so he can 00:04:44.819 --> 00:04:48.680 start each episode over and then just repeat 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.740 the process over and over and over. This was 00:04:51.740 --> 00:04:55.500 a fun movie to watch. I enjoyed it. I had a good 00:04:55.500 --> 00:05:02.730 time. Man, crazy. Absolutely crazy. I just think 00:05:02.730 --> 00:05:06.790 it's so stupid that parents did that. Okay. If 00:05:06.790 --> 00:05:10.199 I was a dad. Like an actual dad. Everyone calls 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.040 me dad, but if I was an actual dad, I would look 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.079 at this and go, I know better. I'm going to take 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.139 a look and fucking at least watch a trailer. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.160 But no. They were just like, I need time to myself. 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.040 Get the kids in the fucking theater and let them 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:26.699 watch this shit. The only thing I can think of, 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:29.259 it's like you said, all you got to do is watch 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:31.000 the trailer. You're going to know what this is. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.160 But the only thing I can think of is you have 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.160 parents at home with their kids or whatever, 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:37.439 and they'll be like, let's go see a movie. Let's 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:39.920 just go to the theater and see, like, look at 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.339 the posters on the walls. Like, you see a poster. 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.019 The marketing was fucking genius because it's 00:05:45.019 --> 00:05:47.259 just a picture of Buddy. There's no violence. 00:05:47.379 --> 00:05:49.819 There's nothing. It just looks like a movie about, 00:05:49.980 --> 00:05:53.660 you know, a kid's TV show. Just like we grew 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:55.579 up on. Well, I don't know about you. I don't 00:05:55.579 --> 00:05:58.519 know what existed in your time. But me, why did 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.819 you look up at the ceiling like that? Rocks and 00:06:00.819 --> 00:06:07.360 sticks. Rocks and sticks. All right. But that's 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.600 what we had for entertainment back in those days. 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.879 It is. It is. I remember those days. I think 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.120 we've talked about that before. Yeah. Like we 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.720 just discovered fire. So that was trending. Yep. 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.540 But no, that's the only explanation I can come 00:06:21.540 --> 00:06:23.319 up with because there was a lot of that shit 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.160 I was reading when this movie came out that the 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.560 parents were just pissed off because you walk 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:29.540 in and there's just kids getting fucking killed, 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:32.220 like right off the bat. What did you... How did 00:06:32.220 --> 00:06:34.360 you not know other than, like I said, you just 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.060 were looking for something to do and you went 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:38.959 to the movies and whatever. Yeah. Hey, that's 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.420 on them. As far as I know, every fucking kids 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:44.079 movie is basically PG. Yeah. If you don't see 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.449 anything that's PG on it... Don't watch it. If 00:06:47.449 --> 00:06:50.870 it's unrated, if it's like M or R or anything 00:06:50.870 --> 00:06:52.970 like that, that's a clear indicator of like, 00:06:53.050 --> 00:06:55.069 oh, this is maybe a bad idea to bring kids. But 00:06:55.069 --> 00:06:57.209 that's like, that goes back to my point. The 00:06:57.209 --> 00:06:59.790 poster was perfect. It was. It didn't, it did 00:06:59.790 --> 00:07:03.069 not scream horror movie. No, not the slightest 00:07:03.069 --> 00:07:05.470 bit. This is kind of genius marketing, like you 00:07:05.470 --> 00:07:09.370 said. So this kind of reminds me of when people. 00:07:10.370 --> 00:07:13.649 can't watch a movie and they're like puking and 00:07:13.649 --> 00:07:16.170 having a heart attack and all this shit that, 00:07:16.290 --> 00:07:18.449 you know, it makes the rounds on the internet. 00:07:18.529 --> 00:07:21.230 Like, Oh, this movie was so crazy that people 00:07:21.230 --> 00:07:23.889 were puking. Terrifier. Pure example. Yeah. Prime 00:07:23.889 --> 00:07:28.290 example of that is the barf bags. Uh, they knew 00:07:28.290 --> 00:07:30.069 it was going to, that was Terrifier two, right? 00:07:30.149 --> 00:07:31.829 When it was in theaters and people were puking 00:07:31.829 --> 00:07:34.350 and then Terrifier three, they actually gave 00:07:34.350 --> 00:07:36.810 people at certain theaters like puke bags when 00:07:36.810 --> 00:07:39.209 you walked in. Yeah. I think that's how it went, 00:07:39.290 --> 00:07:42.189 but. Yeah, it's the same kind of concept is that 00:07:42.189 --> 00:07:44.910 parents were

fucking traumatized by this movie 00:07:44.910 --> 00:07:48.250 and kids were crying and all this stuff. And 00:07:48.250 --> 00:07:51.470 dude, something like that is all it takes because 00:07:51.470 --> 00:07:54.629 now people are interested in seeing a movie where 00:07:54.629 --> 00:07:59.209 parents were so like. negligent that like they 00:07:59.209 --> 00:08:02.509 their kids watched a dinosaur slaughtering children 00:08:02.509 --> 00:08:06.790 on a big screen oh my god oh my god yeah it's 00:08:06.790 --> 00:08:08.910 it's just it's just the fact that this movie 00:08:08.910 --> 00:08:12.329 made it to theaters and it was it did well too 00:08:12.329 --> 00:08:15.209 and it had a pretty good cat like you have two 00:08:15.209 --> 00:08:17.750 pretty big big name actors in this movie yeah 00:08:17.750 --> 00:08:19.290 you're beating me to the punch here everything 00:08:19.290 --> 00:08:20.930 you're saying right now is something that was 00:08:20.930 --> 00:08:22.730 just about to come out of my mouth three minds 00:08:22.730 --> 00:08:26.290 and Yeah, great minds. I mean, you and I, our 00:08:26.290 --> 00:08:28.910 wavelength has been delayed for a couple weeks 00:08:28.910 --> 00:08:31.629 now. We've had a lot going on. So we apologize 00:08:31.629 --> 00:08:34.210 for the delay. One was a death in the family. 00:08:34.330 --> 00:08:37.509 Another was internet gone for nearly a week. 00:08:37.850 --> 00:08:41.230 Corey was on vacation. It was chaos. Absolute 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:44.970 chaos. These few weeks that we were gone. So, 00:08:44.970 --> 00:08:48.509 yeah, we've been on a little hiatus. For a lot 00:08:48.509 --> 00:08:50.590 of the stuff that was happening. But one of those 00:08:50.590 --> 00:08:53.190 things that did happen was Corey went to see 00:08:53.190 --> 00:08:56.190 Halloween Horror Nights. And I am fucking jealous. 00:08:56.730 --> 00:08:59.029 Corey, tell me about Halloween Horror Nights. 00:08:59.169 --> 00:09:03.480 Well, second year in a row I got to check this 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.860 out. Yeah, I mean, it's a fun experience. The 00:09:05.860 --> 00:09:07.720 problem is you got to get there really fucking 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:11.149 early. Because, or I know everyone says it. You 00:09:11.149 --> 00:09:12.830 got to get an express pass if you want to see 00:09:12.830 --> 00:09:15.129 all the houses. But I'm not paying 300 fucking 00:09:15.129 --> 00:09:17.070 dollars for an express pass when I already paid 00:09:17.070 --> 00:09:20.470 150 to get into the fucking park. It's infuriating. 00:09:20.470 --> 00:09:23.850 But I realize I'm complaining here. You got to 00:09:23.850 --> 00:09:25.450 splurge if you want to see everything. Because 00:09:25.450 --> 00:09:27.649 like, you know, the park, I believe it opens 00:09:27.649 --> 00:09:30.009 at 6 p .m. So we get there right about the time 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:32.750 that it opens. I beeline it straight to the Aussie 00:09:32.750 --> 00:09:34.490

one because that's like top of my list for me 00:09:34.490 --> 00:09:36.429 this year. I really want to see that Aussie house. 00:09:36.590 --> 00:09:39.519 Two hours in line. So by the time we get through 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.980 the house, I'm pretty sure it was like 8, 8 .30, 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.519 9, something like that. We have a 6 a .m. flight 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:47.460 on Sunday. Yeah. I want to see Hellraiser, and 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:50.139 I want to see Sinners at least still. Fucking 00:09:50.139 --> 00:09:52.580 two -hour wait for both of them. Granted, Universal 00:09:52.580 --> 00:09:56.139 or Halloween Horror is open until 2 a .m. I just 00:09:56.139 --> 00:09:57.940 don't have the patience to stand in line that 00:09:57.940 --> 00:10:00.940 long. That's fair. And again, the wife is not 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:03.600 the biggest fan of this type of thing, so I just 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.049 didn't want to put her through it. Yeah, I really, 00:10:07.149 --> 00:10:09.029 unfortunately, only got to see the Prince of 00:10:09.029 --> 00:10:11.070 Darkness stuff this year, which was unbelievable. 00:10:11.909 --> 00:10:13.870 I don't know if you read anything about it, but 00:10:13.870 --> 00:10:15.840 the way they set the houses up. This particular 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.419 house is each section of it is based on a really 00:10:19.419 --> 00:10:21.580 popular Aussie song. So you've got like Bark 00:10:21.580 --> 00:10:24.340 at the Moon, the whole werewolf graveyard stuff. 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:26.940 You've got Crazy Train. They literally set up 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:29.100 a train inside and you walk through the train 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:31.340 and the song's playing as you're walking through 00:10:31.340 --> 00:10:34.120 it. All the walls are like skulls and stuff and 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.320 you have people popping out at you. It's really 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.779 cool. They did an amazing job with it. I think... 00:10:39.980 --> 00:10:42.299 No, it didn't. House of the Year this year was 00:10:42.299 --> 00:10:44.559 actually Hellraiser. And I'm even more upset 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.460 now that I didn't get to see it because I hear 00:10:46.460 --> 00:10:49.600 they did just, Doug Bradley did all the, I believe 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.539 the voice work too for Pinhead. Which is cool 00:10:52.539 --> 00:10:54.659 because he's basically just like, like he just 00:10:54.659 --> 00:10:56.659 did the, I just played through the new Hellraiser 00:10:56.659 --> 00:10:58.259 video game. I don't know if you played that yet, 00:10:58.299 --> 00:11:00.220 but that might be like one of my favorite games 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:02.620 of the year. Doug Bradley also did the voice 00:11:02.620 --> 00:11:05.220 work for Pinhead in that. But yeah, I'm sad that 00:11:05.220 --> 00:11:07.279 I didn't get to see Sinners and I'm sad that 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.539 I didn't get to see Hellraiser. Evil Dead Burn 00:11:09.539 --> 00:11:11.539 was another one, but like, I don't understand 00:11:11.539 --> 00:11:15.460 unless you go to these things multiple times 00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:17.620 a year, like if you're a resident or whatever, 00:11:17.820 --> 00:11:20.500 how you can see everything. But you can, man. 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:23.009 I did it. I remember when I got the FastPass, 00:11:23.250 --> 00:11:27.090 I was able to check out everything. So it's okay. 00:11:27.289 --> 00:11:30.610 I'm a little spoiled because I was able to get 00:11:30.610 --> 00:11:32.990 the FastPass, I think, for very cheap because 00:11:32.990 --> 00:11:36.490 I had a connection back then. And then the first 00:11:36.490 --> 00:11:38.350 night I went, I didn't even fucking pay for it. 00:11:38.409 --> 00:11:41.669 So lucked out. But the first time I went, yeah, 00:11:41.730 --> 00:11:43.889 I only got to see a fucking house. I mean, think 00:11:43.889 --> 00:11:45.789 about it. If you checked out two houses, that's 00:11:45.789 --> 00:11:48.129 like half a work day. Yeah, exactly. Especially 00:11:48.129 --> 00:11:52.480 with the wait times. It's crazy. Yeah. So I absolutely 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.759 would pay for the Fast Pass, the whatever pass 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:57.960 you want to call it, because, yeah, you cut down 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.519 on time like crazy. So I'm jealous. I went there 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.779 one year, and I thought it was so awesome. Real 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:07.539 quick, though, did you see the opening of the 00:12:07.539 --> 00:12:09.259 Halloween Horror Nights? Because they do this 00:12:09.259 --> 00:12:12.100 whole spectacle at the beginning. Yeah, it was 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:15.120 Oddfellow and... What is it, Oddfellow and Jack 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.440 the Clown, I think? I can't remember the characters' 00:12:17.580 --> 00:12:19.360 names. I'm going to look at this shirt right 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.620 next to me. Well, I know it's Dr. Oddfellow, 00:12:21.700 --> 00:12:25.139 because he does that whole spiel, which is fun 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:28.139 as hell. Because when I saw it... Jack and Oddfellow, 00:12:28.220 --> 00:12:30.379 yeah. We saw it. It was cool. They had them set 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:32.240 up right at the entrance, and they had these 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.980 posts, these podium -type things that they were 00:12:34.980 --> 00:12:36.879 standing on, and they were just fucking harassing 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.919 people as they were walking into the park. Oh, 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:40.820 yeah. It was cool. You would stop to take a picture, 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:45.600 and they'd yell at you. Keep moving. Yeah. Super 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.179 entertaining. One of the best times of my life, 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:52.399 checking that out. You and I are going to have 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.200 to go down to Florida, though, and actually take 00:12:55.200 -->

00:12:58.159 advantage of Halloween season. Because not even 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.299 just Halloween Horror Nights. I went to Busch 00:13:00.299 --> 00:13:03.000 Gardens once, man. And Busch Gardens is fucking 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:06.500 top notch as well. Yeah. I mean, I went into 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:10.240 this one scare area. And as soon as I walk in. 00:13:10.490 --> 00:13:12.710 They're playing fucking music from the Doom, 00:13:12.830 --> 00:13:17.370 like the game Doom 2016, you know, with Mick 00:13:17.370 --> 00:13:20.009 Gordon. So they're playing that music. And, you 00:13:20.009 --> 00:13:22.090 know, the zombies is fucking cars that are just 00:13:22.090 --> 00:13:25.049 like broken down. And it's awesome looking. They 00:13:25.049 --> 00:13:27.909 did a great job. Got some cool rides there. You 00:13:27.909 --> 00:13:29.970 know, they got their actors going around doing 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:33.309 all sorts of shit. I'm sure you saw a slew of 00:13:33.309 --> 00:13:36.490 that at Halloween Horror Nights because. Those 00:13:36.490 --> 00:13:38.809 actors, they call them actors. They do some really 00:13:38.809 --> 00:13:41.629 cool stuff. So definitely jealous, but you and 00:13:41.629 --> 00:13:44.129 I need to make it a point to go down there together 00:13:44.129 --> 00:13:48.509 to not subject Joanne to that lunacy. I agree. 00:13:49.490 --> 00:13:52.610 It's cool, too, because I know there's lore to 00:13:52.610 --> 00:13:54.250 Halloween Horror Nights. I don't know if you've 00:13:54.250 --> 00:13:56.210 ever heard of the director. The director, no, 00:13:56.269 --> 00:13:58.049 but I know they planned shit like a year in advance. 00:13:58.149 --> 00:14:00.210 Yeah, so the director is one of the original 00:14:00.210 --> 00:14:03.789 icons, I guess, and they've been during the last 00:14:03.789 --> 00:14:06.200 night of Halloween Horror this year. So we went 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.940 October 31st, which was my birthday. The last 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:11.240 day was November 1st. And I guess on November 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.440 1st, there were videos playing throughout the 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.779 park that were teasing next year's character. 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.139 And people seem to think it's the director, which 00:14:19.139 --> 00:14:22.860 is going to be next year's icon, based on what 00:14:22.860 --> 00:14:24.879 they showed. You can see it on social media. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.519 But yeah, I guess he was like one of the original 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:31.200 icons for Halloween Horror Nights. Jack and Oddfellow 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.279 were also previous icons. But I'm curious, like... 00:14:34.460 --> 00:14:36.940 next year what the the big ips are going to be 00:14:36.940 --> 00:14:39.360 because like everybody's tired of stranger things 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.639 because stranger things have been here about 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.240 the third time maybe scream like people like 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.940 scream really needs a house but people don't 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:49.440 think that they're going to be able to get the 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.600 ip for it for whatever reason i don't know i'm 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.799 interested regardless i really wish that obsession 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.019 got a house this year especially with the popularity 00:14:59.019 --> 00:15:03.299 uh nikki was at or uh hollywood They had Nikki 00:15:03.299 --> 00:15:05.639 walking around the park. That's cool. But they 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.080 didn't have that in Orlando. But Orlando did 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.120 have an Arthur Clown in the scare zone. So they 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.840 had a whole ass scare zone called Downtown Clown 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.059 something. I can't remember what the exact name 00:15:18.059 --> 00:15:19.799 was, but they had killer clowns of outer space 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:22.259 in there, which was awesome. So you had the three 00:15:22.259 --> 00:15:24.620 clowns walking around just fucking scaring people. 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.399 This one scare zone of the year too. And then 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.279 there was this one section where we watched and 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:31.830 they did this whole performance where... There's 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:34.309 a scare actor, reminded me of Harley Quinn, but 00:15:34.309 --> 00:15:36.710 they would drag somebody out behind the stage 00:15:36.710 --> 00:15:38.470 and they would bring them and they'd sit them 00:15:38.470 --> 00:15:40.129 down in the chair. And then they have like a 00:15:40.129 --> 00:15:42.350 wheel, like a wheel of fortune. And then each 00:15:42.350 --> 00:15:45.850 option, it was just die or really die. And it 00:15:45.850 --> 00:15:47.870 would just spin around. Yeah. And then she would, 00:15:47.929 --> 00:15:50.110 whoever that she would pull out and put in the 00:15:50.110 --> 00:15:52.230 chair, she would kill. But it was so fucking 00:15:52.230 --> 00:15:54.769 crazy because she would get the crowd going. 00:15:54.870 --> 00:15:56.990 Like, do you want to see this guy die? Do you 00:15:56.990 --> 00:15:59.350 want to see blood? And it's like, we as humans 00:15:59.350 --> 00:16:01.960 are cheering for this. And I'm like. Yeah. Joanne 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.960 said it made her nauseous because, like, we're 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.100 cheering for this guy to die. Like, I'm clapping 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:08.659 my hands. I'm like, yeah, fucking stab him. Yeah. 00:16:08.700 --> 00:16:11.840 You know? Right. But it was cool. It was really 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.960 cool. Yeah. And then they had the Terrifier set 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.200 was clearly the one that, again, most packed. 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:20.639 You couldn't even get close to this thing. Yeah. 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:22.399 Well, he was playing Santa, right? So they had 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.360 the scene

from the mall set up. So he had his 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.600 Santa, you know, the Santa chair. It's just like 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.179 going to the mall. It was like the scene from 00:16:30.179 --> 00:16:33.529 the. Terrifier 3. However, they had someone dressed 00:16:33.529 --> 00:16:35.870 as Little Pale Girl, and they had someone dressed 00:16:35.870 --> 00:16:38.549 as Victoria, and the Victoria makeup was so fucking 00:16:38.549 --> 00:16:43.590 bad. Really? So bad. Like, in my mind, I'm thinking, 00:16:43.669 --> 00:16:45.850 man, I gotta email Samantha and be like, have 00:16:45.850 --> 00:16:50.440 you seen this shit? What did they do? No idea, 00:16:50.539 --> 00:16:52.860 man. Looks nothing like her. I'll have to check 00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:56.220 it out, but that's a lot of work to do for an 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:58.500 actor. I'm sure they have fucking all sorts of 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:01.590 people doing... makeup and stuff like that but 00:17:01.590 --> 00:17:03.149 i don't even think it was makeup dude i think 00:17:03.149 --> 00:17:06.049 it was just a fucking spirit halloween latex 00:17:06.049 --> 00:17:09.869 mask yeah yeah yeah uh well that's not good but 00:17:09.869 --> 00:17:12.049 other than that sounds like it was awesome yeah 00:17:12.049 --> 00:17:13.690 it was great we went through four nightmares 00:17:13.690 --> 00:17:17.089 which was cool um i never expected to be walking 00:17:17.089 --> 00:17:20.930 through a whole theme park based on fortnight 00:17:20.930 --> 00:17:23.630 yeah but It was cool. They had the battle bus. 00:17:24.250 --> 00:17:26.470 They had some really cool spooky music playing. 00:17:26.670 --> 00:17:28.849 They actually had scare actors walking through 00:17:28.849 --> 00:17:31.349 there, jumping around and scaring you. They created 00:17:31.349 --> 00:17:33.329 these characters that I've never seen before. 00:17:33.450 --> 00:17:35.710 They were not in the game at all. No shit. They 00:17:35.710 --> 00:17:39.509 looked like alien. I don't know. It was neat. 00:17:39.650 --> 00:17:42.069 It was really cool. Walked through Springfield. 00:17:42.069 --> 00:17:43.769 Obviously, that has nothing to do with Halloween 00:17:43.769 --> 00:17:47.009 horror, but it's there. It was cool to see all 00:17:47.009 --> 00:17:49.410 that because I've never been to that part of 00:17:49.410 --> 00:17:52.130 the universe. before yeah um but yeah good time 00:17:52.130 --> 00:17:55.029 the downtown clownville or whatever the hell 00:17:55.029 --> 00:17:58.109 it was called man just fantastic they also had 00:17:58.109 --> 00:18:00.789 this um other guy i think it was just a character 00:18:00.789 --> 00:18:02.809 they made up but he was doing like ventriloquist 00:18:02.809 --> 00:18:04.849 stuff like you'd walk up to him and he had the 00:18:04.849 --> 00:18:07.309 the puppets and he was doing the string thing 00:18:07.309 --> 00:18:10.069 and telling a story yeah it was it was cool i 00:18:10.069

--> 00:18:12.329 just wish i got to see more houses but unfortunately 00:18:12.329 --> 00:18:14.849 time wasn't on our side this year hopefully next 00:18:14.849 --> 00:18:17.410 year yeah we'll be able to yeah hopefully next 00:18:17.410 --> 00:18:20.779 year like you and i can just go Yeah. But who 00:18:20.779 --> 00:18:23.299 knows? Well, let's see. Maybe we can be pressed 00:18:23.299 --> 00:18:25.119 for it. Don't ask, don't get, right? I'm going 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.700 to reply. Yeah, maybe next year we'll have 20 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:30.740 followers and they'll let us go in. Perfect. 00:18:31.059 --> 00:18:33.599 Yeah, we'll see what happens. How many times 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.599 have you gone? Just once, but I was able to see 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.180 every single house when I was there. So what 00:18:38.180 --> 00:18:40.440 houses were there when you were there? There 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.279 was the... What were the big ones? Stranger Things, 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:47.519 Last of Us. There was the Chucky House as well. 00:18:47.859 --> 00:18:51.079 What else was there? There was, like, this Bigfoot 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.660 house, which, not bad. There was a classic Monsters 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:58.319 one. What else? There was... I'm drawing a blank 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.619 on the others. But those were, like, kind of 00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:04.759 the heavy hitters. Heavy? Heavy hitters. Well, 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:08.160 I don't know. I mean, like, The Last of Us was 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.440 pretty jammed and awesome, by the way. Yeah, 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.200 because they were riding the hype of the show, 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:14.519 right? Yeah. Because I think that was the same 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.299 year that, like, what, the first season came 00:19:16.299 --> 00:19:18.829 out. Yeah, that sounds accurate. Yeah, I think 00:19:18.829 --> 00:19:20.829 around the same time frame, but it was great. 00:19:21.269 --> 00:19:24.670 Oh, wait, Oddfellow had his own place. It was 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:27.690 like a circus -type deal, so that was cool. But 00:19:27.690 --> 00:19:28.990 yeah, there were a few of them I got to see. 00:19:29.089 --> 00:19:31.190 I'm bummed I missed out on the Ghostbuster one 00:19:31.190 --> 00:19:33.549 the year after those, but hey, that happens. 00:19:33.589 --> 00:19:35.069 I didn't have any money to get down to Florida. 00:19:35.269 --> 00:19:37.589 They did a Ghostbusters house? Yeah, it was based 00:19:37.589 --> 00:19:40.190 off of Frozen Empire, which I would have checked 00:19:40.190 --> 00:19:42.549 out. I mean, I liked Frozen Empire. Good, not 00:19:42.549 --> 00:19:45.049 great, but definitely would watch again. But, 00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:46.869 yeah, I think we should go back into the movie 00:19:46.869 --> 00:19:50.930 because the fact that this had, like, known actors 00:19:50.930 --> 00:19:53.970 in the movie kind of blew my dick off. I'm,

like, 00:19:54.009 --> 00:19:56.529 watching it. I'm not even realizing that Patton 00:19:56.529 --> 00:19:59.990 Oswalt and Keegan -Michael Keyes is, like, a 00:19:59.990 --> 00:20:02.869 fucking ginormous unicorn. Even Topher Grace. 00:20:03.109 --> 00:20:05.329 Like, I didn't expect Topher Grace to be in this. 00:20:05.430 --> 00:20:09.529 Dude. Same with Ted Mosby's fucking mother. I 00:20:09.529 --> 00:20:12.250 was going to say. So, Krista Milioti, dude, isn't 00:20:12.250 --> 00:20:14.970 she up? Wasn't she for the Penguin? Wasn't she 00:20:14.970 --> 00:20:17.650 up for an Oscar or something for that? Her performance 00:20:17.650 --> 00:20:19.869 in that show? Maybe Academy Award. Something. 00:20:19.910 --> 00:20:21.769 No, I'm sorry. Not an Academy Award. Like a Golden 00:20:21.769 --> 00:20:25.529 Globe, maybe. Or a VMA. Or an Emmy. Maybe an 00:20:25.529 --> 00:20:28.630 Emmy sounds actually more accurate. Yes, a VMA. 00:20:28.769 --> 00:20:31.309 Best Kiss Award. No, but seriously. I don't know. 00:20:31.349 --> 00:20:33.910 The fact that this movie was like, I'm curious 00:20:33.910 --> 00:20:35.829 what the budget was because you have several 00:20:35.829 --> 00:20:38.069 A -listers in this movie. Obviously, they got 00:20:38.069 --> 00:20:40.890 to get paid, right? Yeah. But it did well. And 00:20:40.890 --> 00:20:42.869 like the marketing alone. I mean, I remember 00:20:42.869 --> 00:20:45.750 seeing like on TikTok before this movie was even 00:20:45.750 --> 00:20:48.190 announced, like this viral fucking unicorn was 00:20:48.190 --> 00:20:49.869 just popping up and no one knew what it was. 00:20:49.990 --> 00:20:53.069 Just Buddy the Unicorn everywhere. Yeah. And 00:20:53.069 --> 00:20:55.890 just insane viral marketing for this film. Crazy. 00:20:56.349 --> 00:20:59.170 2026 has been a pretty solid year for horror. 00:20:59.349 --> 00:21:02.109 I mean, we talked to Jose Mangan about this, 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:05.849 and that was in 2025. 2026, I mean, we had Obsession, 00:21:05.950 --> 00:21:09.880 Buddy, Resident Evil. Backrooms. Back Rooms, 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:11.940 another one. What was another? Like, there was 00:21:11.940 --> 00:21:14.019 another that fucking slayed at the box office 00:21:14.019 --> 00:21:15.859 as well. Evil Dead Burn. Yes, Evil Dead Burn. 00:21:16.059 --> 00:21:19.720 Hokem. Hokem. It has been, like, nonstop bangers 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.880 of horror movies this year. And Buddy is no exception. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.890 Buddy is... Original. It feels original. It feels 00:21:26.890 --> 00:21:29.170 something different. You know what, though? It 00:21:29.170 --> 00:21:31.849 reminded me of that movie that we reviewed way 00:21:31.849 --> 00:21:34.910 back. It was a Peacock exclusive. It was a guy 00:21:34.910 --> 00:21:38.250 who ran a children's TV show, and the only way 00:21:38.250 --> 00:21:40.569 you can watch him is on some sort of tape, and 00:21:40.569 --> 00:21:43.690 he would suck

kids into this world. He was like 00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:46.450 a demon. What the fuck is it called? I'm looking 00:21:46.450 --> 00:21:48.849 it up because I know what you're talking about. 00:21:49.109 --> 00:21:50.569 It was like Mr. Something. It's a friend like 00:21:50.569 --> 00:21:54.140 you. It's a friend like me. Mr. Crockett. Okay. 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:57.140 Mr. Crockett. So yeah, that one, that was a good 00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:59.980 one. That reminded me, Buddy reminded me a lot 00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:02.440 of Mr. Crockett because of like the whole children's 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:05.420 show aspect. But I didn't think I would see a 00:22:05.420 --> 00:22:09.019 movie where we basically have a Barney type character 00:22:09.019 --> 00:22:13.750 killing people on screen. And dude, I, you know, 00:22:13.750 --> 00:22:16.710 I loved, I loved like the practical effects or 00:22:16.710 --> 00:22:18.930 like, I don't want to say practical effects, 00:22:18.970 --> 00:22:22.529 more like what they did. two buddy when he was 00:22:22.529 --> 00:22:25.069 getting injured and shit like that like he got 00:22:25.069 --> 00:22:27.849 set on fire oh my god yeah it reminded me of 00:22:27.849 --> 00:22:31.029 child's play yes exactly half of him is burnt 00:22:31.029 --> 00:22:33.670 you see fucking bone and like his face is like 00:22:33.670 --> 00:22:36.670 just in half yeah he kind of reminded me of fucking 00:22:36.670 --> 00:22:39.190 chucky after he got really fucking destroyed 00:22:39.190 --> 00:22:41.690 um it wasn't the first one was it was like the 00:22:41.690 --> 00:22:43.930 second one the second one he was like all fucking 00:22:43.930 --> 00:22:46.990 melty but it was cool i thought it looked awesome 00:22:46.990 --> 00:22:51.819 the set design unreal unreal Yeah, and they don't 00:22:51.819 --> 00:22:54.380 even really need to do a lot because it was a 00:22:54.380 --> 00:22:59.119 show. Yeah, but it was so colorful and cartoony, 00:22:59.259 --> 00:23:01.960 and I thought it was cool. Clearly, there was 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.119 also puppetry happening with Strappy or whatever 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:07.140 the fuck. Oh, yeah, the backpack you have to. 00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:10.279 Yeah, the backpack fucking thing where it had 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:13.160 the moving face and everything like that. So 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:15.740 there was some clear puppetry happening. I thought 00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:17.279 that was awesome. Obviously, we don't want to 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.740 give too many of the scenes away. The funny thing 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:23.339 about this movie is that we see that whole first 00:23:23.339 --> 00:23:27.000 scene and we start to get a glimpse of Buddy 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:31.019 the killer fucking unicorn. And he's stabbing 00:23:31.019 --> 00:23:33.819 the mailman and he's like burnt in half and all 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:36.700 this stuff. And I'm like, is this like the end 00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:40.059 of the movie? Because we escalated real fucking 00:23:40.059 --> 00:23:41.700 fast. Oh my God. And it's almost like. Yeah, 00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:45.140 there was zero hesitation on the violence because 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.359 like there was that scene in the beginning with 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:49.299 Josh. I think this might even have been when 00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:52.480 the title credits started. But you hear, like, 00:23:52.539 --> 00:23:55.759 stabbing or something off screen. Yep. And you 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.059 hear Josh saying to stop and that he's hurting 00:23:58.059 --> 00:24:00.460 him. Yeah. Like, stop, you're hurting me. But 00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:03.619 all that shit's happening off screen. I know. 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:05.380 And we know what the movie's about. It's too 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:07.880 bad. So, yeah, man, this thing really kicked 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:10.599 off with a bang. Zero to 60 immediately. You 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:13.700 know what I love about this is that he regenerates 00:24:13.700 --> 00:24:19.559 by having, like, by ending the episode. So that's 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:21.299 why I was kind of thinking like, shit, is this 00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:24.180 movie already done? Because, you know, he was 00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:26.799 like killing kids and stabbing people and we 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:29.400 set on fire. And then like, you know, he grabs 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:31.619 one of the kids and he starts singing this song 00:24:31.619 --> 00:24:33.940 and you see the credits rolling. And I'm like, 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:37.460 oh, shit. Okay. Is this fucking done? And then 00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:41.059 like that stops and he's back at it. He's back. 00:24:41.140 --> 00:24:44.119 I'm like, oh, that's fucking cool. So like every 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:48.390 episode, he just continuously regenerates. It's 00:24:48.390 --> 00:24:50.609 not like a complete restart or anything like 00:24:50.609 --> 00:24:53.829 that. All the kids that are in this fucking little 00:24:53.829 --> 00:24:57.950 magical unicorn -type world of his, they're aware, 00:24:58.170 --> 00:25:00.950 and they know that they're part of something 00:25:00.950 --> 00:25:02.869 that is just happening all the fucking time, 00:25:02.990 --> 00:25:05.029 and they're starting to see some fuckery that's 00:25:05.029 --> 00:25:06.789 happening. They're starting to notice, like, 00:25:06.809 --> 00:25:09.910 okay, Buddy isn't exactly the friend that we 00:25:09.910 --> 00:25:14.549 kind of want. Buddy's kind of a dick. Yeah, he's 00:25:14.549 --> 00:25:16.150 not the kind of friend that you want. He's kind 00:25:16.150 --> 00:25:19.660 of a dick. What kind of confused me is that in 00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:23.460 the middle of this movie, we full stop. We basically 00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:27.500 do a barbarian type situation, right? Like where 00:25:27.500 --> 00:25:29.839 you have this one movie at the

beginning and 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.019 all of a sudden it flips to something else. I 00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:35.160 wasn't even sure I was watching the same movie. 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:37.480 I was like, what the fuck just happened? Yeah, 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:38.720 because it goes to real life shit. We're getting 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.480 Topher Grace and Ted Mosby's fucking wife. I 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:44.960 can't remember her name. Help me out here. Kristen 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.960 Milioti. So we got. Topher Grace and Kristen 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:51.299 Milioti out of nowhere. And well, she's a mom 00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:54.240 and there's a couple of kids in the family and 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:56.380 she keeps having this vision like there's a third 00:25:56.380 --> 00:25:59.380 kid and the husband thinks she's crazy, right? 00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:01.920 She's not crazy. Apparently it happened, but 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.740 fucking he's a demon of sorts. I don't know. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:07.380 It's very fucking weird. But man, this movie, 00:26:07.460 --> 00:26:10.660 it went from like your chaos of buddy into that. 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.640 Now we're like, okay, are we in the fucking like 00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:17.759 sci -fi type realm? Yeah. And I was wondering 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:20.099 where the hell it was going. And then they finally 00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:22.299 went back into that buddy world, I'm going to 00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:25.059 call it, where it's like a TV show. I don't want 00:26:25.059 --> 00:26:28.019 to give away too much, but in the middle of this 00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:30.640 movie, I got real fucking confused for like a 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.339 moment because it didn't feel like a good transition. 00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:35.680 It just felt like one to the other to the other 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.200 type deal. So I was like, what the fuck? But 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:41.650 I still had a fun time watching it. an absolutely 00:26:41.650 --> 00:26:45.069 absurd premise i don't understand how these actors 00:26:45.069 --> 00:26:48.029 actually were like you know what yeah let's do 00:26:48.029 --> 00:26:51.190 this like they're fucking um okay let's picture 00:26:51.190 --> 00:26:54.980 this for a second they're they're asian they 00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:57.220 go you know what i've got the perfect movie for 00:26:57.220 --> 00:26:59.900 you how would you like to be a killer unicorn 00:26:59.900 --> 00:27:02.839 children's show character and be the voice of 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:05.299 that and keegan michael keys is like yes i'm 00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:07.640 down he'll do anything yeah he will do anything 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:10.630 he's uh Yeah, he's hilarious, though. He's got 00:27:10.630 --> 00:27:14.769 this amazing comedic timing. But Patton Oswalt, 00:27:14.869 --> 00:27:18.009 Chris Amelioti, Topher Grace, these are all names 00:27:18.009 --> 00:27:21.390 that you

know, and it's just funny to see them 00:27:21.390 --> 00:27:24.170 all in this kind of movie. Because I was thinking 00:27:24.170 --> 00:27:27.430 this was going to be fucking low budget, real 00:27:27.430 --> 00:27:30.910 independent, not like actors that you're used 00:27:30.910 --> 00:27:33.720 to actually seeing. I was shocked when I was 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.140 like, oh, wait, this fucking Clint Howard. I 00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:41.160 was noticing that like Clint Howard is doing 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.819 like these like random one off appearances later 00:27:43.819 --> 00:27:46.059 in his career where he just like shows up for 00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:48.220 five minutes and then dies. Yeah, basically. 00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:51.960 I'll take it. I mean, it's Clint Howard, you 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:55.400 know? Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. I mean, he's always been 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:58.279 in really weird movies. I mean, he's just a weird 00:27:58.279 --> 00:27:59.980 dude. Well, he kind of looks like a weird dude. 00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:03.240 I mean, he was. Like, you know, one of the hillbilly 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.420 guys in the Waterboy. But hey, I mean, he's got 00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:09.460 a niche. He uses it. He constantly has work. 00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:11.720 He just plays a weird character in every one 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:13.759 of them. It was a very weird character, man. 00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:16.880 He was like an oversized child who wanted to 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.980 do stuff with a freaking cowboy. Just what you 00:28:20.980 --> 00:28:24.849 said just now sounds so fucking ridiculous. I'm 00:28:24.849 --> 00:28:27.710 aware. I'm absolutely aware. It's fucking crazy. 00:28:27.930 --> 00:28:31.529 It's a crazy concept. Man, it is. A weird ass 00:28:31.529 --> 00:28:34.670 fucking movie. So, Corey, I don't think we want 00:28:34.670 --> 00:28:37.750 to give away too much about this movie because 00:28:37.750 --> 00:28:40.690 it's definitely a movie to check out. But I think 00:28:40.690 --> 00:28:42.970 we should go into it. Corey, what do you give 00:28:42.970 --> 00:28:45.150 Buddy? Obviously, it's a five out of five. I 00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:47.289 went into Buddy expecting a goofy little movie 00:28:47.289 --> 00:28:49.529 about a murderous unicorn and came out genuinely 00:28:49.529 --> 00:28:52.130 impressed, which is incredibly inconvenient for 00:28:52.130 --> 00:28:54.390 me because we have a podcast where we love shitting 00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:57.529 on movies. I had my eye roll fully loaded and 00:28:57.529 --> 00:29:00.009 ready and this movie just wasted it. instead 00:29:00.009 --> 00:29:01.970 i got something that knows exactly what it is 00:29:01.970 --> 00:29:04.269 it captured that feeling i had as a kid watching 00:29:04.269 --> 00:29:06.630 shows that felt a little too dark for the time 00:29:06.630 --> 00:29:09.569 slot except now the villain is a unicorn with 00:29:09.569 --> 00:29:12.009 that body count again truly the upgrade nobody 00:29:12.009 --> 00:29:14.710 asked for and everybody needed the writing is 00:29:14.710 --> 00:29:17.329 sharp the plot is original and nobody in the 00:29:17.329 --> 00:29:19.869 cast treats this like a joke which is the only 00:29:19.869 --> 00:29:22.529 reason it works shocking i know a movie where 00:29:22.529 --> 00:29:25.029 people take things seriously now let's talk about 00:29:25.029 --> 00:29:27.089 the young actors because they carry this thing 00:29:27.410 --> 00:29:30.430 Delaney Quinn is outstanding as Freddy. I have 00:29:30.430 --> 00:29:33.410 no idea how old she is, but she's already embarrassing 00:29:33.410 --> 00:29:36.009 adults who do this for a living, and I hope they 00:29:36.009 --> 00:29:39.029 all feel it. She sells every scene, and not once 00:29:39.029 --> 00:29:41.509 did I feel like a kid reciting lines she memorized 00:29:41.509 --> 00:29:43.990 in the car. This lives up to the hype and nails 00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:46.410 the nostalgia without cheaping out. which I did 00:29:46.410 --> 00:29:48.289 not expect from a movie with a killer unicorn. 00:29:48.549 --> 00:29:51.289 I'm convinced Casper is our age and spent decades 00:29:51.289 --> 00:29:53.190 plotting the meanest possible version of our 00:29:53.190 --> 00:29:55.410 childhood, and honestly, good for him. Somebody 00:29:55.410 --> 00:29:57.630 had to fucking do it. Yeah, I'm glad someone 00:29:57.630 --> 00:30:01.029 did it, because this movie was, like, it really 00:30:01.029 --> 00:30:03.789 did, like, play at our childhood. Because when 00:30:03.789 --> 00:30:05.789 I'm watching it, I'm absolutely thinking Barney. 00:30:05.829 --> 00:30:09.529 I mean, Barney was still, um, like, I grew up 00:30:09.529 --> 00:30:13.170 more on Sesame Street. But Barney was like that 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:17.509 next era of like children's shows. And like it 00:30:17.509 --> 00:30:20.069 was the tail end of me being a child and entering, 00:30:20.250 --> 00:30:23.609 you know, teen years. So I still got a little 00:30:23.609 --> 00:30:26.130 bit of the Barney. But ultimately, I was getting 00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:28.890 a little too old to watch that. But yeah, I'm 00:30:28.890 --> 00:30:31.670 going to go into my review now. Again, I got 00:30:31.670 --> 00:30:34.420 to say. What a bold -ass movie to greenlight. 00:30:34.579 --> 00:30:37.319 A movie like this having some actual known actors 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:39.740 tied to it as opposed to a bunch of indie stars, 00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:43.079 I wonder what their initial impression was when 00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:45.099 their agents were like, hey, I got a movie about 00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:47.539 a homicidal children's unicorn that you would 00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:50.059 be perfect in. Like I said, just absolutely bonkers. 00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:53.160 It's a bonkers premise. So I'm going to go a 00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:54.960 little different, though. I honestly think

I'm 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.460 going to go with a 4 out of 5 on this. Fun as 00:30:57.460 --> 00:31:00.240 hell movie and a very unique premise, so I can 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.099 see why there was a bunch of hype around it. 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:04.759 I however felt like it dragged on a little bit 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:08.160 with a fairly short runtime of 97 minutes. Without 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.160 going into too much detail on the scenes, I was 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:13.359 kind of confused on some of the twists, including 00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:16.039 the ending. The score was perfect, practical 00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:19.299 effects were great, and the set pieces were unreal. 00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:22.569 I think... If I gave this a second watch, there's 00:31:22.569 --> 00:31:25.289 a possibility I might bump it up to a five out 00:31:25.289 --> 00:31:27.750 of five. But for now, I'll stick with the four 00:31:27.750 --> 00:31:30.509 out of five. So it's definitely a movie I would 00:31:30.509 --> 00:31:33.589 watch again. Be sure to check out Buddy on VOD. 00:31:34.380 --> 00:31:36.759 All right, everyone, help out our algorithm by 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:39.680 liking, following, and subscribing to us on Facebook, 00:31:39.900 --> 00:31:44.259 X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, YouTube, and Slasher. 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:47.279 Yes, all of them. No, we're not sorry. Leave 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.640 us a five -star review on every podcast platform 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.220 you use so strangers can also regret listening 00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:54.650 to us. Tell your friends, too. because misery 00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:57.390 loves company. Our intro and outro music is courtesy 00:31:57.390 --> 00:32:00.549 of Andrew Scott Bell. Go listen to him on all 00:32:00.549 --> 00:32:03.269 major streaming platforms. And if you see Winnie 00:32:03.269 --> 00:32:06.109 the Pooh, Blood and Honey on vinyl in the wild, 00:32:06.210 --> 00:32:08.690 be sure to buy it immediately like a responsible 00:32:08.690 --> 00:32:10.890 adult. We're part of the Shining Wizards Network. 00:32:11.309 --> 00:32:13.990 Wrestling, heavy metal, horror, basically everything 00:32:13.990 --> 00:32:16.109 your parents warned you about. Go check them 00:32:16.109 --> 00:32:19.809 out at shiningwizardsnetwork .com. Visit 30ScreamsOrLess 00:32:19.809 --> 00:32:22.789 .com to buy some merch. Want us to review something? 00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:25.529 Contact us through our website or scream into 00:32:25.529 --> 00:32:28.210 the void on social media. Same difference. Also, 00:32:28.269 --> 00:32:31.170 freshen up your face with beard octane and save 00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:33.289 some money while you're at it. Be sure to use 00:32:33.289 --> 00:32:36.430 the code 30Screams10 at checkout to save 10 % 00:32:36.430 --> 00:32:39.369 off your order because your beard deserves better 00:32:39.369 --> 00:32:43.109 than neglect and regret. Smell good, look alive, 00:32:43.329 --> 00:32:46.700 and scare people for the right reasons. I'm Steve. 00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:49.259 And I'm Corey. And thanks for listening to 30 00:32:49.259 --> 00:32:51.259 Screams or Less. And don't forget to drink your 00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:51.519 beans.