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E215: Clown in a Cornfield (2025)

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Speaker 1

Hey, gang, how'd you work here?

Cut Above Horror Review?

Tonight we aren't clanning around as the three of us Bozo's Rate and Review twenty twenty five's clown on a Cornfield.

Episode two fifteen of A Cut Above is sweet and savory on the cop and it's starting now.

Got my life into pieces.

Speaker 2

Good evening and welcome to A Cut Above Horror Review, a podcast where we review all things horror.

I'm your host, Jacqueline, and tonight we'll be reviewing clown a Cornfield from twenty twenty five.

But John's already shaken, said the first one to meet everyone else on the show.

First up, it's John, John, how you doing?

And why are you shaking your head?

Speaker 3

I'm feeling clowny tonight?

I suppose Hi, Jacqueline, how are you fine?

Speaker 2

Thanks?

Happy to see you John, happy talking about this fine film you've chosen.

Speaker 3

A fine field.

Chef's kiss.

Speaker 2

Where if you made me laugh?

Next up, it's Hydroberg.

I'm sorry, I just saw that as I was.

Speaker 1

I guys, what's going on?

I just ran backwards through a cornfield?

And boy, is my ass sure?

Speaker 3

That was perfect?

What's perfect?

Dude?

Oh?

We broke Jacqueline already, what's going on in the show.

Speaker 2

Both of I came.

First of all, I think boso is like one of the funniest insults you can give somebody.

Speaker 1

Hey, boso, boso fucking bozo.

Speaker 3

Then was awesome that.

Speaker 2

He could say say it was so much disdain.

But it's not about you know, it's not like you're calling somebody a fucker or something like that.

It's like boso, but you can say it with the same tone of voice that you would call somebody a fucker.

Speaker 3

Dude, you're a boso.

Fuck off'sen here?

Speaker 1

Boso.

Speaker 2

It's Joey's dad.

It's one of Joey's dad's favorite insults.

Recently, they went on a road trip and Joey and I were talking about He was like, how many times in the course of this road trip do you think my dad called my MoMA boso?

Speaker 1

He calls it, he calls his mom.

Speaker 3

Kills his wife bo.

Speaker 2

I've never heard it.

I've never heard it.

Speaker 3

Wow.

If I called Lisa boso, she would like kick me in the nuts.

Speaker 2

I love I would love to see that.

In general, I don't think name calling is nice and I don't approve of it.

But if somebody's really being a bozo.

I think you should call them out.

Speaker 3

Well, I think what happened was I shouldn't have said that.

Speaker 2

He got it got it in the nerds.

Speaker 3

My testicles were in my throat.

Speaker 2

So I'm anyway, that just caught me off guard.

I hadn't seen your little name title there, Hydroburd, so I was reading it as I was like introducing anyway, bozo berg it is.

I suppose, oh lord, just just cloning around around up ah well, Fellas another week, another glorious episode to come, So let's let's do it.

Speaker 3

John, just us, just us three?

Speaker 2

Yeah, I had guess for a few weeks in a row.

Speaker 1

Now it's just we have just the three of us.

Speaker 2

We can make it if in the meantime, John, do you have any news for us?

Speaker 3

Oh do I Jacqueline?

Jacqueline, Oh, Jacqueline, I picked this one for you, Okay, Stephen King adaptation, However, I believe this is a Richard Bachman, the pseudonym first Stephen King.

The Long Walk trailer is out.

It's been out for like, like I think three months.

How'd you wrote?

You said it was like three months again teaser.

Yeah, So it's been out for like three months.

Jacqueline, I'm gonna throw it to you because you're a Stephen King, Stephen or Richard Bachman fan.

Oh, yes, what are your thoughts on this trailer?

Speaker 2

I think it looks great.

I read this book last year.

It was originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachmann, but everybody kind of figured it out before too long, so now they just publish it under Stephen King's name.

But I read this book last year.

There's nothing supernatural going on in it, and I've always said that, in my opinion, Stephen King's best work is when he sticks to the horrors of humanity and avoids the supernatural.

Like I think his stories that are based in reality are far more disturbing.

Actually, and this was no exception.

I love this book.

I think it's a little underrated and a little bit underread.

It left me feeling quite disturbed.

I thought it was harrowing, actually, and so I was excited to hear that they were going to make a film of it.

And I didn't hear about the trailer.

Actually, I know it's been out for three months.

I didn't hear about it until maybe a couple of weeks ago, and so I did check it out, and I think the trailer looks very good.

I think they're building up the tension of like this.

It's a contest basically of young boys, like teenage boys, who basically walk for days on end without stopping, and they have to maintain a certain speed.

They can't slow down, they can't stop to tie his shoe.

If they get a cramp too bad, you get three warnings.

And I'm not giving anything away, like this is just the premise of the story.

You get three warnings if you slow down or you stop or whatever.

And if you if you don't change whatever you're doing, that's getting the warnings.

You're you're done permanently.

And then you stay there, you win the long walk, you win money, You win money, and so it's it's a really dark concept and it's so psychological.

Like in the book, you're so submerged in the psyche of the of the main character and like what he's going through mentally and physically that it's just I mean, you really feel like you're in it.

And the movie looks very tense and disturbing and dark as well.

It looks like it's capturing some of the feelings that I have when I read the book.

Speaker 1

Is it young men in the book as well?

Okay, so I like, yeah, I like that.

I like that feel.

I think that helps you really like feel grounded with these kids.

To put it in an age bracket of young men.

Speaker 2

Yeah, they're kids, they're like sixteen.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you so you're on the cusp of like, I gotta be a man, I gotta do man things.

You got to leave childhood behind.

And and this test is like sort of that but personified, but just like, yeah, horribly.

Mark Hamill as the villain.

Speaker 3

Sort of guy, Oh my god.

Speaker 1

Interesting.

He does a great He's a great voiceover actor, so just to hear his voice constantly throughout the film is probably gonna be awesome.

Speaker 2

Yep.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

I like the seriousness of it, Like the it starts out a little bit like oh, it's a teenage film, you know, and it's like Nope, no, this shits serious.

It seems like maybe people didn't know what they were signing up for, or they just didn't take the seriousness, like as they didn't think how serious it was really going to be.

I don't know, but yeah, it looks interesting.

I hope it goes places for sure, Like I hope it's not just them on this long walk the entire like hope that I hope it's interesting enough if they stay on the long walk the whole time that it can go, you know, places thematically.

Speaker 2

And I think that's I think that's the question because when you read the book it's very psychological, and so you can handle that with written narration, right.

So for me, the question is will that translate to the screen?

Speaker 1

I have to deviate a little bit.

Speaker 2

I don't know right, So that that's the question going into it.

But it looks promising, John, what did you think of it?

Speaker 3

Well?

I want to bring up Hydrobruce point is that if this movie's like an hour and thirty five hour and forty minutes, yes it can move along it.

I like the way it was almost like a slow burn in the trailer because it's like you see these kids like waving at kids and adults and stuff like that, and they're just kind of like stoic at these people, and it was just like, oh boy, this could be like tragic and horrific.

So I actually really enjoyed.

Speaker 1

It if I could just just to back.

I like the tension that builds in the trailer and the idea of the exhaustion that builds as well with these characters because they're not going to get any rest through this long walk.

So you could just imagine how beat you're going to be and how beat they're going to be in the end of the movie.

Speaker 3

Probably, Well you get that set up too.

It's just like, you know, if you go lower than like three miles per hour, I think that's what it was.

Speaker 1

Speed.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yes, speed.

It is like it's like speed walking.

Speaker 3

Oh my god.

Speaker 2

In the book it was four miles per hour, which like if you put on a treadmill and like just see how that is trying to maintain that clip, Like that's a good clip for walking.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it's a brisk pace.

Speaker 2

So I'm glad they changed it to three because that just felt like untenable.

But yeah, in the book it was four, and sometimes there's mountains and.

Speaker 1

Hills and they should just change it to kilometers.

So it's like it has more broad appeal.

Speaker 2

Yeah, right, it'll be more successful globally.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

An interesting thing about the story is like in a lot of horror movies where you have like a group of people trying to survive something, is seeing the different approaches of different characters, Like there are some characters who are taking it very seriously and they are like ignoring everybody else.

They don't talk, they just walk.

And there's some people who are trying to like make friends, and you know, some people are antagonizing others, and it's like everybody.

There's a different dynamic among all the different characters, and you know, the main characters like sort of speculating like is this approach gonna get this person through or is this approach going to get somebody killed?

Like what's gonna work?

And what do I do?

You know, how do I play this?

Speaker 1

Yeah?

The cast is really going to carry this one, you know what I mean?

Yeah, the cast in the writing.

Speaker 3

Yeah, well I also thought about something interesting about them turning on each other, you know, trying to you know, as they're getting more tired.

Is like, you know, fuck each other up and you know, break your ankle or because they actually show a guy that's walking on his I guess left and that was gnarly.

Speaker 2

The look of terror and desperation on his face knowing he's going to get his final warning is just like, yeah, terrifying effective.

So I'm really looking forward to this one and I hope it holds up well.

Speaker 3

Cool coming out September twelfth, so next month, almost exactly a month from today.

Speaker 2

Oh well, you're right.

Speaker 3

Our other trailer that we had to watch for homework, dream Eater.

Speaker 1

Dream that's my favorite Aarosmith song.

Speaker 3

That's the song.

Yeah, exactly.

Hyderberg, what's your thought, Well, what did you think of it?

Speaker 1

What my thought was was, uh, you know, it looked it looked like an interesting found footage film.

I'm interested in the sleepwalking aspect.

I thought that because like sleep study, like that makes perfect sense having the sleep study be you know, why there's cameras everywhere and stuff like that to make it found footage.

I like that aspect sure, And why it's being recorded, you know, I don't know.

I don't know why we needed the blink and you'll miss it Eli Roth presents at the very end.

Did you notice that it pops on the green?

I don't know it's going to pull people in.

Yeah, I know, but it was well, then then push it a little bit more.

It was like and then it's gone.

It was like, uh, but anyway, but it looked cool.

I don't know.

I hope they didn't show everything in the trailer.

Unfortunately though, like it's a found footage film, so like those scares really matter, you know what I mean?

In a film like that, I feel like unless you know, in those films are better.

So but yeah, looks interesting.

What about you?

What do you think, Jaquelin?

Speaker 2

I think it looks great.

I'm a found footage fan and the concept of sleepwalking is very creepy to me, and so I'm I'm very interested in this.

And actually I think maybe I could even convince Joey to watch this because he's a sleep specialist and so yeah, he knows everything for us.

Yea, he will will trust me, he maybe, Okay, forget it.

I don't want him to watch.

Speaker 1

Yeah, he'll just sit there.

Speaker 2

He'll just sit there and nitpick, and I'll be like, people don't become possessed when they're sleeping.

Stop, be like, okay, never mind, thank you for thank you for talking me out of.

Speaker 3

That, bringing me back to reality.

Speaker 2

Yeah, thank you, never mind.

I'll tell you it's natural.

Speaker 1

I get it.

Speaker 2

So I I think this looks intriguing.

I will definitely make an effort to see this.

Uh yeah, I think sleep sleepwalking and just doing anything in your sleep there's a whole host of disorders where you do weird things in your sleep, like sleep eating.

There's a thing that there's a real thing called sleep sex.

Like there's all kinds of different stuff.

And I had a few, Like I had a few sleepwalking incidents when I was an adolescent that were like kind of unsettling.

So I, yeah, I like this.

Speaker 1

I just had a thought it was evil.

It's like a fight club thought.

I was like, hm, people that sleep sex.

I could stay outside and try and find a woman that's a single who's who's played with sleep sex.

Speaker 3

He's also sleepwalking.

Speaker 1

Anyway.

But I do think that's a great aspect of sleepwalking.

Aspect of it and the shared it seems like there's a shared entity that other people that have sleepwalking issues maybe like there's something that plagues them all sinister style something is it?

Speaker 2

Dreams of Nicholas Cage?

Speaker 1

Oh my god, Nicholas Cage.

Who doesn't what that movie about?

Speaker 2

There's that movie where he's in like everybody's dreams.

Speaker 1

It's just like that recent one from last year.

What was that called fear something?

I thought it was.

I don't remember.

Speaker 2

I don't know.

My little dream that's going way back.

Speaker 3

What do you think, John, I love how footage.

This movie actually looked interesting, and it made it more interesting because this is actually the first movie that Eli Roth Is is releasing in his production company.

I didn't realize that the name was called the Horror Section.

Speaker 2

Oh really, I thought it was called something else.

Speaker 3

No, it's called The Horse.

Speaker 2

Oh well then that's great.

Speaker 3

That's great the Horror Section.

I love it.

Speaker 2

So reminds me of Jockbuster and Movie Gallery.

Speaker 3

Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure, coming out in theaters October twenty fourth, So I'm interested for sure.

Speaker 2

October twenty fourth.

Yep, that's Megan's birthday, just like Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 1

So Megan have a good decisions.

Speaker 2

She's not gonna she texted me.

She's like, thanks for the birthday shout out.

I'm not going to see Mortal Kombat.

Come on, Maybe she and I can go see Dream Meters instead.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but it's motal Combat too, Electric Booglar.

Speaker 2

Oh well that'll that'll win her over.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Absolutely.

Speaker 3

But I'm stoked.

I'm stoked that Eli Ross started that product stream company and it's gonna be this, you know, something simple, yeah, not a bit budget.

Speaker 2

I trust Eli.

Speaker 1

The Cli Rusk coming up in the world.

We've mentioned him twice so far, I think recently at least twice, you know.

Speaker 3

So you know, if if he keeps working hard, he might do.

Speaker 1

Something in this He might make a name for himself.

He might you know, you might talk about him again on.

Speaker 2

The show, maybe maybe like every episode or something like somebody else, not yet, not yet.

Speaker 3

Yeah, anyways, Berger, you saw a bunch of movies last or crap last week?

Dude, you saw a lot go through room no spoilers.

What you thought of him?

All right?

Speaker 1

Tuesday night, I went and saw it together.

Speaker 3

Alison James, Frank.

Speaker 2

James Franco.

Speaker 1

It's the younger Franco, Dave.

Speaker 3

James.

Yeah, I meant Dave.

Speaker 2

Which Franco is it?

Speaker 3

It's d Dave Franco.

Yeah, Alison Brien Dave or married?

Speaker 1

Yeah, oh they are in real life they are.

Oh okay.

That explains okay, because there's a good chemistry, well interesting chemistry, an interesting film that plays on marital stuff sort of or couples things issues in a in an interesting way.

And then you know, obviously the the premise is together.

So if you've seen any of the teaser or anything, it's body come on it is there's body Heart.

It's good.

Uh, it's an interesting film, some good performances.

Alison Bree was great.

And then at first I wasn't enjoying Franco, but I realized it's more about his character kind of and sort of how he is just Uh.

At first I was just like, Okay, I see what they're doing here.

So, uh, it's a good movie.

I say go see it, you know, otherwise watch it on streaming when it definitely comes out.

I would definitely recommend it either way.

I saw Fantastic four.

I'll just say it's a good movie.

If you like Marvel films and Fantasy four, go see it.

And then as far as other horror films, I saw Weapons.

Speaker 2

Oh boy, religiously, the trailers for that I did.

Speaker 1

I did.

I saw that first one and then the one came on recently in the theater and I looked down like some funky shit was happening.

I was like, no, I don't want that.

I don't want to see that.

I want to see it like assault my eyes later in the theater.

Yeah, go to the theater and see it.

Speaker 2

Uh.

Speaker 1

There's some slow moments, uh, but like in a good way.

It builds tension.

It's an interesting some good performances, and I like the way the storytelling is is done here.

It's definitely I think you may like Barbarian bettery.

It's a sense of tone.

But I think this is still a step up in like like quality as far as like you could see the growth in Craiger, not to say that his other work wasn't good, you know what I mean, but I could see this is there's some more depth here and stuff going on here with characters, and uh, I liked it.

It's still got his his flavor to it.

So it was a fun theater experience.

Uh.

I did sit next to like a couple who had like a blanket, and I was like, all right, so like they were younger uh And I was like, I think they'll be okay because the other crowd was like you younger kids, not younger kids, but like teens maybe like lined up and one of them.

I made a better decision because I almost had to tell somebody shut the fuck up in the movie because like he the guy was jittery, Like I saw his legs moving the whole fucking time, and look, I get it.

I got adac.

But I could say, still like in a movie, but my brain still works.

I get that, like I'm still thinking about things, but I you know, I calm myself.

I watched the film this guy every time I got tense, only in the tense moments.

But he I think he got scared and this was his outlet, like he would say, so, oh no, no, oh, don't open the don't open the door.

Oh you think this is that?

Oh he talked to his buddy and like he's the only person talking though everybody else is.

There's some tense moments in the film where like just quiet and they use quiet effectively, and I'm just like I want to be like truck the fuck up, bro, Like I get he was there.

The guy's gonna open the door.

We all know they're gonna open the door right now, Like, let us watch him open the fucking door.

Speaker 2

In your mouth.

Speaker 1

Yeah, he didn't have snacks.

I think that was a problem.

Speaker 2

I should share the snacks.

Speaker 1

I I bit my tongue and I let it ride because I was like, I'm still enjoying the movie and I don't want to ruin his experience or anybody else's.

Speaker 3

He should have put a nipple in his mouth because he was a child, but wow.

Speaker 2

He was really out of nowhere.

Speaker 1

I know, he was the only one in his group who was talking.

The guy next to him, I think, was trying to not talk too much to make him talk more, you know what I mean, So I didn't talk more.

So anyway, it was I've heard a good, good movie.

Speaker 3

I've heard good things.

That sound bitch made seventy million dollars worldwide.

Job, Yeah, Zach, Zach kind of killed it with that one.

Yeah, Jacqueline, what didn't you see?

Speaker 2

I did go to the movies this past weekend.

It was not a horror movie.

But I did see the new Naked Gun movie.

Speaker 3

Oh shit, Leslie Millsen, Pam Anderson, come on it it.

Speaker 2

Was Liam Neeson.

It was not that.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

I always get those names confused.

Speaker 2

Yeah, they're similar, and it's kind of funny.

Actually yeah, so okay, confession time.

Yeah, I only just saw the original first Naked Gun movie from eighty eight, like a week ago.

Speaker 1

Jac the show so first lately.

Speaker 2

I have nothing has been better than Rocky Too though.

I'm talk about that movie until I die.

But anyway, no, the original Naked Gun.

I seriously just I didn't stop laughing the whole time, because the jokes didn't stop the whole time, Like it was so fucking funny.

That's just I can see why it's such a classic.

And I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier, but I've been thinking about that movie for the past week and just like laughing randomly at work when it's very inappropriate.

Speaker 1

Have you ever seen Airplane?

Speaker 2

Yes?

Speaker 3

Yes, okay, well I'm serious and don't call me surely O.

Speaker 2

I know you love that line.

But anyway, so we watched it because Joey really wanted to go out and see the new Naked Gun movie, and he was like, you've never seen the original, what, let's watch it in that way at least you know, have some basis for understanding.

So I will say the new one it has some funny parts, but it is not the same.

No, it's not wo I'm just kidding, Oh no at all, it's not.

In fact, there's quite a lot of like juvenile you know, humor, of course, but it's not the same like joke joke, joke, joke, joke, joke joke as the original.

Like there's quite a bit of it that's played fairly seriously.

And I was like, this is not the same leam Neeson.

I thought was interesting in that role, like he carried off the humor better than I would have expected.

But it was not an instant classic.

It did not hold a candle to the original.

So like, if you like the Naked Gun movies or that sort of movie, I think it's worth seeing once.

But I don't know that you need to see it in a theater.

I don't know, just my opinion, like.

Speaker 1

To watch Naked Gun two and.

Speaker 2

Okay, is oj in it?

Yes, yes, okay, And then I think the third one is like thirty three and a third.

Speaker 1

Yeah, some shit.

I don't remember how the quality of that one, but I remember.

Speaker 3

Telling I'll tell you.

I loved all three movies, like the originals, like.

Speaker 1

Of the Car.

Speaker 2

Houses, and like every joke hit, like every joke landed.

And I could see so much influence in other comedies that I like.

I was like, oh, this is clearly not like borrowing jokes, but the style of humor, you know, like anybody who likes wet, hot American summer.

I could see a lot of influence on that from yeah exactly.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

I think I think a lot of slots comedies that are trying to be like kind of subtle.

Take a lot from Naked Gun.

Like the one thing I loved to Naked Gun is like, hey man, you got like the big tall guy.

You can't see his face, but he's real tall.

He's like, hey, you got so much by your mouth and he scratches it.

He's like, no, the other side, it's like half of a banana.

Speaker 2

So yeah, so that was my movie theater experience.

And also the popcorn was not salting.

There's like no salt on the popcorn.

It was very come on boo.

So that's my review experience.

Speaker 3

I also saw a movie on streaming.

HBO Max just released the Final Destination Bloodlines.

Speaker 2

Oh what did you think?

Speaker 3

I fucking loved it.

I actually really enjoyed that.

You know, it's weird because it's like you think back to all the movies and I never hated any of them.

You know, there were some that were better than No.

The glass scene with the lawnmower was perfect.

Remember that hydroburg.

Speaker 1

I'm not saying I think okay fair.

There's no scenes that I can mention.

Speaker 3

But I loved it.

Yeah, Lisa and I watched it, and then I started I had or watch like one and two, and they're all on Max now, so it's like good one, two, three, four, five.

And then we watched blood Lines.

But fuck, that was fun.

Speaker 2

It's broken the curse.

It's broken the blood Lines curse.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it's the equal prequel sequel that we all needed.

Speaker 3

However, I was thinking about making the seventh one, so there will be another one.

Blood Lines to Electric Bungalow Direct Lobby.

Speaker 1

Oh my god, Oh my god, I got it.

Speaker 3

I mean, it's been it's been so long since I said that.

Speaker 1

Oh my god, it's been like two days since he said it.

Speaker 2

Two days.

Speaker 3

Well, I was listening to Dragula before we got on.

Oh wait there you go, mm hmm.

Well yeah, that's all I got.

Speaker 2

I'm glad it was good.

I can't wait to watch it.

And thank you for telling me it's on.

Thank you for telling me it's on Max.

Yeah, it's a fun one.

Speaker 3

It's a fun one, for sure.

Speaker 1

It's nice.

How'd you like to send off with Tony Todd?

Speaker 3

Dude, I'm glad you brought that up.

That was like it was almost emotional, like you might get a little teared up.

Speaker 1

I was talking right at us, you know what I mean, looking.

Speaker 3

Right at the camera.

It's like breaking the fourth wall.

Speaker 2

We happened to not talking about any scenes.

Speaker 1

Well, I mean he's in the trailer.

There's a moment for him.

Speaker 3

Well, you see him in the trailer.

But just kidding, I would say the send off to Tony Todd is probably one of the most beautiful send offs to somebody that had passed away.

So I'm not going to say anything else, but it was beautiful.

Speaker 2

Touch Well, John, I'm like you.

I I enjoy all the other movies in the franchise.

Some are better than others, but that's a franchise I like a lot.

Speaker 1

So I'm at the premise.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, same, totally.

All right?

Is that it for news?

Speaker 3

That's it cool.

Speaker 2

Let's get into Clown in a Cornfield from.

Speaker 3

Twenty finally, Good Lord.

Speaker 2

John was your pick?

Why?

Why?

Speaker 3

Why why did I pick this?

Well, I'm I'm a I'm a big fan of Tucker and Dale versus Evils, so this, Uh, the same director did this movie and I I didn't have high expectations of it, but I was excited to see it and it came out on shutter like this past weekend, so I figured we should do a new movie and that's why I picked it.

Speaker 2

Okay, I'm glad you picked it.

Otherwise I would have made probably zero effort to see it.

Sure, I remember.

I remember when we talked about the trailer a few months ago, and I was like, uh, but yeah, so we'll we'll, we'll tear it apart tonight.

So John, why don't John, why don't you be the first to tell us whether clown in a cornfield fox or sucks?

Speaker 4

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

Speaker 1

You want me to tell you?

Please?

Speaker 2

Just shaking your head?

Speaker 3

Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1

Sorry, Sorry, it's like you don't even listen to a show.

Speaker 3

John.

Speaker 2

Oh, I forgot to give him the little weight signal?

Speaker 3

Is that?

Speaker 2

Okay?

Should we do it to get here?

Okay?

John, why don't you tell us whether it fucks or sucks?

Speaker 4

Please tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly doesn't one to suck a fuck?

Speaker 1

You want me to tell you?

Speaker 4

Please?

Speaker 3

No, keep keep both of those in.

That's perfect, Jacqueline.

I'm gonna tell you we're good.

This movie eats corn the long way.

Speaker 2

Oh my god, that was so specific.

Oh my word.

Speaker 1

Okay, So going into the doctor to see the doctor to get a coloneloscopy, this movie sucks.

Speaker 3

I'm sorry this movie sucks.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you text, I hadn't watched it yet in earlier this weekend.

You text like this movie is terrible.

Like why didn't you guys listen to me when I said six months ago this is gonna be terrible.

Speaker 3

This movie sucks.

Jacqueline, what do you think does a fucker suck?

Speaker 2

I am not gonna say that it sucks.

I feel like it's it's it's okay.

It does some things all right, but uh, it is lacking in some areas.

So I will say for right now, I'm kind of fridging on it.

I don't know that it fucks or sucks.

Hideberg.

Sorry, Bozoberg, tell us what you think.

Speaker 4

Please tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck?

Speaker 1

A fuck?

You want me to tell you?

Speaker 3

Please?

Speaker 1

I didn't mean to do that.

I hit the wrong bump.

Speaker 2

Oh god, this is so crazy.

Okay, Bozoberg, what did she does?

Clown in a cornfield?

Fucker suck?

Yeah?

Speaker 1

You know, I think this film, I think it starts out pretty good.

You know, there's some there's some foreplay, some intovious see being achieved here.

I kind of like what I'm seeing.

You know, I'm seeing some familiar, familiar things, but also something new a little bit, you know, something different.

Uh, you know, it's juicy, there's some gore.

I'm enjoying that.

And then you know, it tries to do something new at the end and a new move, and it just doesn't bring me home, you know what I mean.

It just it loses.

It had the nice rhythm going and I was getting there.

I was really getting there, and then it moved position and it changed its rhythm and it just killed the mood.

So it's like a semi fuck.

I guess, a flacset.

I might say, maybe there are some good points to the movie.

I do have some good points to make as well.

There's some It's not shit, No, it's not shit.

Speaker 3

No, this is no poultry guyst But again, it was just like, it didn't grab me.

Speaker 1

What is where was I supposed to grab you?

Speaker 3

Jent on my wing doodle?

Speaker 2

All right, John, will you drop the spoiler warning?

Please?

Speaker 3

You bet clown in Cornfield twenty twenty five.

If you have seen this movie, pause podcast, go watch it.

Come back to find out what we thought about it.

Speaker 2

All right, Hydroburt, sorry, boso Berg, do you have a reach around plot summery.

You might want to take off those clone gloves.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yes, I'm gonna feel that night.

Someone prowls around out of sight.

Nineteen ninety one Cornfield bathed in moonlight, barn party, rages, blond and fishnets, rock of ages, wound in the head from the middle ages, spitch blood in boyfriend's face, dies at his feet.

Something gives chase, he runs and scarecrow misplaced.

As our guy looks around.

Feet standing next to him on the ground those of a clown impelled with pitchfork, skewered like pork.

This clown no boso putting in work, the statistic killer not giving a fuck as he lifts him up.

The killer nos Skip ahead to the present.

Father and daughter time spent his eighties hip hop to her torment as they traveled to Kettle Springs, small U haul to bring their things, new job, new house, new beginnings, large home for just the two of them, no sell service.

Across from baypen Quinn meets Russ the possible friend.

First day at school, teacher played for a fool, prank, played detention after school.

YouTubers bring back local lore of killer clown from before, having lunch with her dad, I'm shore scheme to get some booze.

Counter guy confused, fight over Matt's grandma, a ruse getting drunk by the fire at prank transpires.

Cole reveals his sister's death from prior new doctor just looking for some bliss.

His wife is missed.

Her death caused a riff.

Quinn sees something in the background.

There were two friend o the clowns Founder's Day in town.

As they approached the date, called a tucker too late, throat slit, body wrapped in plastic drape.

Founder's Day ruined.

Group arrested, brought into the station, Matt bench pressing no spot or decapitation, an assault on an entire generation.

Matt's head on ice, the killer concise out from cornfield, arrow shot twice, raging barn parties over over his shoulder.

Shot gun from Rust comes over, Blast clown dead in his chest, laid to rest out of the corn more manifest rust.

The man stays behind with the plan, blows off a friendo's hand, hide and shed it not too late.

Rush stays behind to detonate makeshift bomb.

Group escapes through seward great they reach the road, bumping the sheriff done while on patrol.

He arrests Cole, Quinn's dad forced into surgery of his situation.

He's Leary stabs his captor, severs an artery in the cornfield.

Ronnie runs in the chainsaw, her intestine strewn very far.

Janet skewered with pitchfork.

That'll leave a scar.

Quinn captured by Freendo, the unmasking crescendo, crescendo.

Mayor Hill revealed to be the arsonist, though murder SIU side for Quinn.

Old Cole Dad saves the day.

Dar as a van through a hole in the wall.

Quinn runs over.

Mister Vern take back control in the wall.

Quinn runs over mister Vern takes back control.

Their plan goes south.

Sheriff Dunn takes a cattle proude to the mouth.

Quinn's dad took another route.

Mayor Hill dips Rush and Cole kiss.

A year goes by, Quinn commits heading to college.

Healed a music box left in her car.

The reveal there's still a clown in the cornfield.

Speaker 2

Nice hell, yeah, awesome really nice hyderb.

Speaker 1

Okay, so I get in there, I laugh when I get there or sometimes.

Speaker 3

Uh oh oh, Jacqueline again do it again, play it.

Speaker 2

No, the funny part was not the laugh.

The funny part was Hyderberg acting like it was him.

I laugh.

Speaker 3

Okay, So let me say this.

A big problem I had is that our director did Tucker and Dale versus Evil.

So I didn't have high expectations with this movie.

But it was like I expected better, if that makes any sense.

Speaker 2

There were least some expectations, you know.

Speaker 3

Yeah, But the thing is is like what he's like a late gen xer, early millennial, and he's trying to think of what gen Z would be talking about.

And it was like he tried to force that into this movie, and it just felt forced like throughout the movie.

Speaker 1

Actually it only felt forced to me at the end.

I honestly like these characters.

I felt these kids had genuine, like a genuine I compare this movie to like Thanksgiving, where I didn't like those kids.

I think the kids here were more developed, like their relationships.

I think the father's relationship could have been developed a little bit more weak without him spent too much time doing that surgery thing.

I don't know why, sure, and that's come of my complaints towards the end of the movie.

But I think the buildup of like her meeting being new kid at school.

I thought the actress was good.

I thought the acting was pretty decent.

So to be honest when you were like, this is terrible, but John, I don't know what you expect.

It's so fucking clown on a cornfield, Like it's not nobody's gonna win any I get that, but I think it's I think it's good.

It's serviceable for sure.

What they were showing me is that terrifier to me?

Speaker 3

Well, the friendo was supposed to be this like like super supernatural villain and then like you get the revelation that it's it's a reverse children of the corn movie.

Speaker 1

That's the worst part of the movie, that's exactly.

Speaker 3

But that was the problem I had with it.

It took me out of the movie.

I'm just like, Okay, so the adults are are trying to keep the kids out because you know, there was this big.

Speaker 1

Like a message movie.

All of a sudden, he's.

Speaker 3

A ship exposition dump by the dad.

Speaker 1

They didn't they didn't build him up though, like you their ad this movie.

He's a good actor and you don't use him really and there's no good Red agreed, and no I feel like they tried to acting.

Speaker 3

I just thought it just it just it didn't connect.

It was just like there was no gel to this movie, and like, let's keep it, you know tight.

It wasn't a long movie.

It wasn't like I had a problem with the Yeah.

Speaker 2

I disagree a little bit.

I hear what you're saying Hydroberg that it kind of becomes a message movie in the end, But I don't think that it comes out of nowhere.

I think if you think back, there's clues along the way as to this generational tension between the older folks who want to like you know, keep things as they are.

And I think there's like some political commentary here going on, like we want to keep our small town values.

Speaker 3

We want to make what.

Speaker 2

The fuck is it called radiator springs?

Speaker 1

What is it called radiator springs, kettle springs.

Speaker 2

Kettr like make kettle springs great again, and like yeah, and then you have the new.

Speaker 1

Radiator springs like cars, cars.

Speaker 2

Cars, yes, you can tell them, my mom.

But so there's this tension between the older generation that wants to keep these old traditions from like the thirties alive and have a town based on like corn syrup.

Speaker 1

Corn syrup, which is sugar trade.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and then you have the younger generation that wants to like move on to bigger and better things, right, and they aren't interested in old they're not interested in these old traditions.

And to me, that's just like the natural course of society, right.

And so I think that there are clues to that along the way that hint at this tension, you know that you know, on her first day of school, her teacher just really seems to hate kids, is angry at everybody, and like is mean for no reason.

I know, I'm an adult, but like that's I mean, that's a sour puss man.

Like if you hate.

Speaker 1

Kids, way to fucking embarrass him.

But so you got get your job, You got to keep you cool.

Speaker 2

Like yeah, well but it's like he's going off the rails even before that happens, and so it's just you can tell you yeah, he's just a bitter old man.

You know, he's not even that old, but you know he's of an older generation.

And she goes to the diner with her dad, you know, and the sheriff immediate is like, well, we've had some problems with the teenagers around here.

You stay away from that crowd.

And the waitress is just surly, like she hasn't even said anything to her, She's just surly towards Quinn for no reason.

And so there's just I think that it's hinted along the way in several places that there's tension between the way that adults think things should be done and this these you know, young adults who are getting ready to step into adult roles and they, you know, the way they think they want to do things.

Speaker 3

And yeah, a lot of movies tell but they don't show.

So give us, give us like a black and white scene of because like the mayor, the dad or the main dad is like, well, this is what happened.

We had generational Yeah, yeah, I mean, show us that lit little bit and it was like then it was hippies, they started a commune.

We just wanted to keep our town like like I don't know sure or like you.

Speaker 1

Know, just so they create the sort of lore about the killer clown to keep people.

Yeah, yeah, exactly like Scooby do Ish in that way.

Speaker 3

But then he also explains, okay, yeah, he also explains, you know, and the exposition is like no, but you are the worst your teenagers are the worst because you want to expand it and then it's just like it doesn't go anywhere.

Speaker 1

I felt like they were trashing on gen z you know what I mean, Well.

Speaker 2

Because it's not that they've hated all the youth along the way, like it's been like roughly every thirty years.

So they're like, in the thirties are these hobos, and the sixties there are these hippies in.

Speaker 1

The same amount of time that burnouts that fucking pennywise takes yes and now.

Speaker 2

And and you know, in the twenty twenties, it's you gen zs and you're the worst of all.

So it's not like they it's not like they want to keep everybody out or they want to like kill all kids.

It's just there's a generation that they feel is particularly like rebellious against the cultural norms.

I can't believe I'm defending this movie, John.

Speaker 1

John, that's funny.

I'm with you, though, John, Like I like the movie more when I thought it was a supernatural sort of element or something kind of or at least a guy behind a mask, but like somebody scary behind a mask one day, I.

Speaker 2

Never thought it was super natural.

Do you guys think it was super natural.

Speaker 1

In the beginning with like his he's skulking around and it feels like maybe a slasher or maybe like something more going on, the generational thing that skips well.

Speaker 3

I do remember in the in the trailers, like the three girls, you know, it's like they're each color covering each other's mouth, which was a great scene, and then all of a sudden, one of the friends comes around and covers the last girl, you know, covers the mouth like don't scream, and I like that.

I thought that was really good.

Speaker 2

That's my problem is I expected a horror comedy and there were a few good comedic moments like that, but there were like five of them.

I'm like, that is not distant.

No, no, like that is very uneven.

Like there were no jokes until I don't want.

Speaker 1

Of like a new girl in Town sort of story.

Speaker 2

With that, I thought it was mostly played very seriously, and then there were like a handful of jokes here in there, and I was like, oh, oh, this is what we're doing.

Like it was not a consistent tone, and I think that's a big problem, especially when you market this movie as from the mines that brought you Tucker and Dale Versus Evil.

That sets a certain expectation for the tone of the movie, and especially when you hear that it's called clown in a Cornfield, that sounds like it's going to be played for last Yes.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and I think that was a big Tucker and Dale.

Speaker 3

Did you've ever seen Tucker and Dale Versus Evil?

You will laugh your ass off like probably the entire Kitchaire.

Speaker 2

Yeah, but you will not laugh your ass off through this movie.

Speaker 3

No, No, not at all.

I mean you're just kind of like grown or grown and like do an audible eye roller's like, oh my god, are they really doing this?

And it was just like, you know, continuity of this movie.

It was just terrible.

It was just like, okay, so who's this and then this person dies and where did they go?

And they end up popping up and like they had this party at this bar, So where where did all those other.

Speaker 2

Teenage I know, I thought the same thing.

It's like there's like a hundred people there and then all, yeah, everybody's gone except for our five main characters.

Speaker 3

Yep, did they die?

Did they get burnt up?

No, they didn't show that.

Speaker 1

Or they just disappear and a reason why everybody's scurried or some shit or something I forgot.

Speaker 3

But they into the bar.

Speaker 2

No, not all hundred of them, well pretty much, I don't think so.

I think it's just our main characters.

Speaker 1

Because like in the beginning, I get it now that like they were killing the metal heads in the beginning, like the or the fucking alternative rockers.

I feel like we got jipped there.

This is an R rated film.

We get a girl, she entices a guy into a tease to start taking her clothes up.

Like what kind of girl, first of all, wants to go, let's go get naked in the cornfield because that's fucking comfortable, Like, we go take my clothes off there.

Speaker 2

But any talk about this when we did prom night that when you're a teenager, you don't give a ship.

But now we're in our forties, y'all, Like that's what these are forty something concerns, not concerns.

Speaker 1

But she takes them there and then like she her first of all, her death's off screen, you know what I mean, and which is like all right, it takes a little bit of fat of it.

And then they they take to the top.

Yeah, there's no topless scene like give me the come this way, you know, come this way to the cornfield for the top house.

Yeah, like it's not ready film, what are we doing here?

So I don't know.

I just felt like this is what the film it's going for anyway.

Speaker 3

So they saved it for the Gore.

I did like some of the Gore.

I thought that the goal was actually very good.

Speaker 2

Agreed agreed, uh for a generation.

So like the gen z Ers, they were like spending a lot of time like making fun of the nineties.

They're like, oh, this tone is stuck in the nineties.

But for a group of kids, that's insulting the nineties.

A lot of them looked very nineties, including the right or Strong lookalike.

I'm sorry, are we watching boy Mes World right now?

Strong?

Yeah?

Cole.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

So he was supposed to be the red Herring in a way, but he he's He's also played as good and like because he puts the money on the counter when they when they take the booze, like yeah, but you know, they just take it because they can't actually buy it legally, but they still pay for it, you know, which is funny.

But you know, I never felt like he was the guy I was like, all right, are they gonna make him the guy or you know, because he's got some steak and he's the youngest in the In the I thought there was a moment where like there's gonna be a reveal where like he's they make him look like a victim, and then his dad's like all right and he takes him down like the news wasn't real or something like that or some shit like that.

It was all a play that happening.

Speaker 3

I have no problem with Red Herrings throughout the movie of like who's Who's it gonna be?

Speaker 1

Film like this needs one.

Speaker 3

I know, but but but it's like like Will Sasso's character.

I love Will Sasso as an actor.

I mean the guy he does like phenomenal and impression to sheriff.

Yeah yeah, and you just like, no, he's he's a killer.

Like at the beginning of the movie, so it was no Red Herring when he like pulled off his mask, I know, and then the dressed up like fucking Joker.

I just went his.

Speaker 1

Makeup was different, like he didn't makeup instead of like the mask.

Speaker 3

But I know, but it looked like Joker.

It looked like Joaquin Phoenix, you know, he's just walking in me.

Speaker 1

I don't even mind that, except for the fact that they don't really do anything with his character.

He only shows up like one other time before the parade and then the house with the hey son.

You know, like there's no real development about his character.

Is he the guy he felt like he was supposed to be the guy from like Thanksgiving where it's like the mayor of the town or like I'm invested in the town and I'm the main money guy.

Speaker 3

You know.

Speaker 1

The company was his right paypen or whatever they're but they're not really putting out product right because nobody wants corns Europe, so you know.

Speaker 3

Well they again we get that huge exposition dump at the very end of the movie whereas he's like, you know, the son figures out, well, you're the one that burned this thing down because they kept blaming the kids of like an electrical fire.

They came in there and they were fucking with it, but it was the dad and it was just like.

Speaker 1

I could have worked out factory stuff in there more than you know.

Speaker 3

Like maybe yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Why would people stick around though, you know, go someplace else?

Speaker 2

Well, but okay, so there's an answer to that, though, is like there's a lot of dying towns in America where people stay because they can't afford to leave.

Yeah, Like is that if that's your generational home, Like you can't just like pick up and go to like a big city.

You can't afford it.

You don't have any idea where you would go, Like, it's just not so easy.

You have ties to the community, like falling apart as it may be.

So I think that's not uncommon, and I think those people and I think those those are people who really suffer and suffer from lack of resources when you know, the main source of commerce and in that community goes bust, and that's a problem.

Speaker 3

It's fight or flight.

I mean again, if I'm going to bring it back to realism, like back in nine to eleven, you know, Detroit, because I was working in radio in Michigan at the time.

It was like they've moved all the jobs to like Kentucky, to Georgia, you know, and people were going there in droves.

You know.

It's like California right now.

It's like it's so expensive to live there.

People are going to Las Vegas, they're going to Texas, they're actually coming to your state, Jaqueline of Florida, no income tax, Yeah exactly, So like like people, it would make more sense of like maybe there was just a couple of stragglers around, you know, maybe one sheriff and just a couple of people around, and they just want to keep outsiders out.

But it was like a whole town that they were trying to say, you know, we're keeping what.

Speaker 1

Are they trying to save?

Speaker 2

You know, I go, yeah, I think that has to be the case, because they're not going to bring a new doctor to a town where only a couple of people, a couple of stragglers remain, right, So you need that to make the story work.

Speaker 3

But I actually thought that was a really good scene because one of the guys got like shot in the chest by Shaka, and he's like pulling this stuff out and then like pulls the wool over the other guy's stabs him in his.

Speaker 1

Hand got blown off.

I didn't like that though, Oh.

Speaker 3

That's right, that's right, And he stabbed the guy in the juggular, and I thought that was a fucking awesome.

Speaker 1

See He's like that was cool, But it felt like a waste of the dad's character, Like time wise in the film, like he just sat there with this one guy, with these guys who won't take their masks off, and it's like that was the point where the film was just starting to derail from me.

It's like, all right, now you're introducing this sort of like everybody's the fucking clown.

Speaker 3

Yep.

Speaker 1

It takes the thread away.

And then the dad.

I wanted to see him more like have a heroic moment or something where he's at least going after his daughter or like something, and instead you sit him down in this like this veterinarian sort of office, like his little office or whatever, and just I don't know, it didn't work for me.

I like to kill though, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3

The kill was right.

Speaker 1

That part didn't follow me a lot of time to get there.

Speaker 2

I get it, But I I don't know, in a small town, maybe there's only so many places to go, Like if he wasn't at the you know, clinic or whatever doing that he wanted to early.

Yeah, But I actually like the relationship between Quinn and her dad.

I like this ongoing tension of like her being upset that they moved here.

You know, that's a common thing in these movies, like why do we come here, Like, you.

Speaker 3

Don't the mother who's died, and a little more backstory to that, because didn't you overdose?

Speaker 2

Yeah, there's only like one mention of.

Speaker 1

It, but yeah, I mean I didn't even hear that.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, the mom died of an overdose.

That's when she's sitting and talking to coal by the fire or whatever.

But I like it.

You know, we were I was talking about the you know, the generational tension.

I feel like you get a microcosm of that with Quinn and her dad because he wants to like start over and build a new life.

She misses her old life, and you know, you know they're both having trouble moving on, but in different ways, since you know it's recent and she's she's rebelling, and but then the dad is also kind of like assuming the worst about your intentions and actions, and you know, it's like you see her making stupid choices like don't sneak out of your house right after you just got caught, don't be you know, she got caught drinking and coming in past curfew and then she sneaks out again.

I love that moment where he goes into a room to talk to her and he realizes just to kill him.

Speaker 1

God damn it.

Speaker 2

Fucking teenagers.

But I like that relationship and I love the dad.

You know that you're in your forties when you like stop thinking that the teenage characters are hot and you start like looking at the dad.

Speaker 1

That's right, No, he's a cool character.

I did like their genuine I just wish.

Speaker 3

I did like the dad.

I thought it was a really dumb scene.

Is that when the dude brought her home in the jeep and it was just like he had that flashlight.

It was just like did you It was like get there?

Are you gonna go up there?

Speaker 1

You going?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

It's just like but.

Speaker 2

You know, like if she's kind of curfew, like yeah, I might be.

Speaker 3

Might well it was about scurfy.

She was curfew, yeah yeah, but but but she was.

Speaker 2

Yeah I thought that because of that.

Speaker 3

Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 2

And so yeah, they're in a new town.

He doesn't know anybody, he doesn't know who she's hanging.

Speaker 1

Out with, and she that's what I mean.

He finds out that she's he finds out that she's snuck out.

Yeah, and then he goes to go find her.

And then as he's doing that, then he gets intercepted and has to go do the surgery thing, and that's where I felt like we kind he lost momentum.

He was going to do something, and I felt like we could have deviated, have him you could have him interact with the clowns still somewhere, but having him now take him to the I think there was just a better way to do that than have him sit in the surgery area because there's like fifteen minutes past where they just cut back to him like there to build up that trap, you know, where he finally decides to run.

I don't know, but like killed pacing a little bit.

But I do think the movie, for the most part moves.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I think so too.

Speaker 3

I don't.

Yeah, I don't think this movie was boring at all, but I just it just didn't hit with me.

It just I don't know, it's just there was no gloom to this model.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I feel like it was very formulaic and despite.

Speaker 1

Some I like the guys gay, he's gay, Okay, So I have a that.

Speaker 3

Was pretty awesome.

I actually like that.

That was a nice little twist.

Speaker 2

Yeah, so I like that that was a thing.

But what I wish I wish that it hadn't been played for laughs because I feel like for gen Zers, like there's nothing funny about it.

It's not a joke, it's not anything unusual.

I feel like it's that's like somebody who's an older person wrote that because like in the time that we grew up, like a character being surprised gay like that was like.

Speaker 1

And the rough tumble like redneck guy being his lover.

Speaker 2

Yeah, like that would be a joke to our generation, like in the kind of movies we grew up with in the nineties.

But you remember in Son in Law that like girl on Girl Kiss.

I remember everybody in the theater being like, but in this day and age, like that's not a joke, and it's not even really a twist, Like I don't know, so I I think that was like maybe a little tone deaf, yeah, a little bit, but like to the wrong people, Like I think gen Z's are gonna be like, what's funny about that?

Speaker 1

Yeah?

Speaker 2

So yeah, So I like, like I'm all for having you know, gay characters in the movie and just but just played as like you know, like it doesn't matter that they're gay, like that just.

Speaker 1

Supposed to be a swerve because it's like, oh, you thought he was going to be the love interest, but he's actually got his own thing going on a little bit.

But like you said, yeah, it's played off as joking, and certain moments.

Speaker 2

I feel like I think that's just should have been part of the backstore, like oh, yeah, they used to date and now they are you know, it's like cold between them or whatever.

But like it doesn't it doesn't play well as a joke.

I think it just doesn't work.

Speaker 1

There's just that moment where he kind of like turns her down and then all the girls say like, oh, he always turns it down, like the first time.

Speaker 2

Yeah, anyway, but like, oh sorry, I was just gonna say I like that there's multiple friend ohs, I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 1

Yeah, okay, uh did you?

I don't know.

It just didn't really feel like it felt like not earned to me.

I guess she said, like there's some clues and stuff here that you know they they don't like certain outsiders or whatever.

But it just didn't feel that way.

Like when they came into town, I didn't feel like the real like hey, get out of town.

It's like it was only a little it was like a pocket thing.

It was like small, and the clown was like in certain moments, and then it just got big all of a sudden.

I don't know, it didn't feel yeah.

Speaker 2

Well, but I don't see it that way.

I don't see it as they have a thing against outsiders.

I see it as they have a thing against the youth, and who they see is like the bad youth, you know, like if you're like a straight a student, like good kid who's not doing anything, like they don't care, like if you're following those traditional family values.

But these kids are rebelling against that, and so those are the enemy, and so they're automatically suspicious of well, they're suspicious of Quinn.

She looks maybe a little alternative.

She's got some of that, Like she's not like the nineties, you know, plaid parents and like a choker.

I'm like jen Co, you guys don't you guys don't even know how nineties you are.

But yeah, it's not against outsiders, I think.

I don't think.

I don't see it that way at all.

I see it as like a prejudice against the youth and the desire for like progress.

Speaker 1

All the characters actually look like Hey, Arnold's characters.

Matt, Matt, the blonde hunky guy.

He was like, hey, Arnold, what do you think about him?

He's like working out his kill with the head.

Speaker 3

That was that was my favorite kill of the movie.

Speaker 1

And then they use it later.

Yeah, like I like bounced into the fucking cooler.

He picked it up and walked away with it.

Like there's some clown gags that work.

Yes, that's what I mean.

Like the tone is like we got cool clown moments like here, like if we're leaning into like the art sort of moments of it a little bit the performance.

But then like when they all just come out of the cornfield, it's like, okay, yeah, there's a reveal.

There's a shock of like oh shit, they're going somewhere different.

But to me, I just it didn't feel right, Like it just felt.

Speaker 3

Like but Heydroberg and I agree.

I mean it's like like when they go to the warehouse, you know, the one that burned down this warehouse, It was just like they all just like, well, you know, here's our big exposition dump of like of you know, we had hobo.

Yeah, it was just like, oh my god, And why was the dad painted and not wearing a mask.

Speaker 1

That's what I said before.

I don't know why.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it's just weird to me.

Speaker 1

Like if that's fine, if he's like this grandiose guy, but you didn't really build up his character.

I didn't know anything about him besides like, oh, he's that dude.

He's Cal's dad.

Okay, he's like the money man kind.

Speaker 3

Of well what was he was?

He the mayor?

He was the mayor, right.

Speaker 1

The mayor.

Speaker 2

But we well, another thing we know about him is that he's uber pissed at his son for you know, causing the spier and blah blah blah.

Yeah, and you know, so that's another case where we see that generational tension mm hmm.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

But but it doesn't make any sense because it's like the son figures out that that the dad actually caused the fire for the insurance money.

Speaker 2

So that's but the fire was just his like pretext for for being you know, mad at his son.

The real reason is because he's one of like rebellious No, it's because he's one of these rebellious youths and well maybe because he's I don't know if he knows about that, but just like he and his friend, they're like rebellious and they're bad kids, and they're shooting their YouTube videos and watching tiktoks and all the usual crap that older people give younger people ship about.

Speaker 3

Is that X?

Is that us?

Speaker 2

Because we don't hate the youth.

Speaker 1

Again?

Speaker 2

Like yes, oh my god, that that was amazing.

That that should have been the actual title of the movie.

No, but like it's not, that's not us just by virtue of being older a certain age, you know, if we were, if we were railing against the younger generation, for well, those tech talkers and YouTubers and bloggers and.

Speaker 3

Jacqueline I get to be honest, I've seen that more often than I'd like to admit.

I'm just like, are you serious?

This is this is what you want your job to be.

You want to be an influencer.

Get a real job, you little lazy fuck?

You know.

Speaker 1

I mean, hey, if you're making six figures, I'm not gonna cut.

Speaker 3

I agree, But like you're a flash in the pan, what.

Speaker 1

Are you going to say, We'll do something with it.

Speaker 2

And if you're coming up, if you're coming up in an economy where entry level jobs are being eliminated by AR and upper level jobs are being held ag yeah, and somebody wants to pay you money to make get Ready with Me videos or play video games like.

Speaker 3

Which, which is why I pull that back a little bit because I understand it.

But then I.

Speaker 1

Don't don't put stock in these people like oh, like I want to follow everything they do and say it's like some people are making characters of themselves to make money on the internet.

Speaker 2

Of course, and I'm just saying that.

Of course, young people do things that are foolish and aren't going to like work for them in the long run.

But that has been true since the dawn of time.

And the older Yes, the older generations can see what's around the corner better than the younger people can.

But those who I think have a little wisdom know that they have to learn it for themselves.

Like it's not that they're like they're bad, it's just that they're young and they're going to learn.

Speaker 3

Correct.

I agree with that on why are.

Speaker 2

You making me defend this movie, John.

Speaker 3

Because I didn't like it, Jaqueline.

It just did not hit with me.

I did not like this media.

It was like, like, I know again, I didn't have high expectations, but I wanted it to be entertaining.

Speaker 2

Yeah, it didn't even meet those low expectations.

Speaker 3

It didn't It didn't even kneel that entertainment value.

It was just like there were certain things about it.

I agree.

I agree with you, guys.

I think the acting was actually very very good, but it was just like it was so convoluted.

There were so many stories going on here, and like, to me, I think the worst part for me was the exposition dump in the warehouse of like the dad walking out with the makeup, not wearing a mask, but like wearing the makeup like the Joker.

It's like, who the fuck are you?

You know you're you're the you know the Kingpin.

Speaker 2

Be different, like.

Speaker 1

I got it.

Speaker 3

Ritualistic and he's going to kill his son because he knows that his son did not start this fire.

Maybe he said that, but he knows he didn't.

He knows that he himself the dad actually started the fire to get the insurance money.

He didn't start.

Nice little poll to Billy Joel, Hell yeah, I.

Speaker 2

Mean you set us up for it.

No, I don't disagree with you.

I don't disagree with you.

I just think that it some things better than you seem to.

But that's just a difference.

Of opinion.

Speaker 3

Well, I'm curious of that.

What did it do better?

Then you think that I'm saying.

Speaker 2

Well, well, it's like I said, it's just a matter of opinion.

I don't feel like, you know, the twist came out of nowhere, like the message, you know, I don't think that came out of nowhere.

Sure, And I don't mind that there were multiple clowns and stuff, and I don't know, I just I've I felt like minimally entertained by it, Like I would probably never watch it again.

Speaker 3

It just felt dumb.

I mean again, if they would have had I mean something as small as like if they went back to ninety one, and let's say these are older teenagers like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, and let's say that Will Sasso was one of those kids.

They showed him that it survived in these like he's realizing what's going on in this town.

Give us a little bit more of of why he's joining this.

I guess you would call it a cult, you know, A FRIENDO.

Speaker 1

That's a good point, actually, like show a little backstory in there, because instead of just just like a flash in the pan, just that quick, that's all it was Yeah, they show some ties like yeah, oh shit, that was so and so back when they were in high school or something.

Speaker 3

Yeah, the guy from the liquor.

Speaker 1

Established some red herrings there.

Speaker 3

Yeah, yeah they got robbed from But again Hydroberg, it wasn't red herrings.

They were all the killers.

Speaker 2

Yeah, the lore is skimpy for sure.

Like I feel like I'm more willing to accept the motive than ongoing every thirty year thing.

I'm like that.

I find harder to accept that they had to kill a bunch of kids in the nineties and then they burned down the factory, and now they're killing a bunch of kids in the twenty twenties.

It's like, and like you said, you know, we have these other members who they just show up and we don't really know why.

So I agree with that for sure.

Speaker 3

I like the loure of it.

I think it could have been a lot better.

I think it could have been a lot better of seeing you know.

It's like like even if they did like a transition scene of will Sasso as the sheriff, you know, as a kid sitting around the fire, and it kind of transitioned to with like he had the mustache and his hat and talking a lot by yes and whatever.

You know, that would have been kind of cool.

That would have been like, this is what we've become.

We accept what's going on in this town after this has happened to us back in ninety one.

I don't know, it just didn't make any sense.

I mean, I was hoping for more on this movie.

Speaker 2

I get it.

I get it.

Well, are you guys ready to start doing some reviews in Okay, it's your pick.

Why don't you go first?

Speaker 3

Oh?

Boy, I don't have a whole lot to say about it.

I did like the acting, like some of the some of the scenes were actually really great.

The kill scenes, Like, some of the kill scenes were fucking awesome.

I actually really enjoyed them.

Hydroberg did bring up the weightlifting scene with the guy with the axaw and it was just like cut off his head and it went into the cooler.

I thought that was very funny.

There was some very funny scenes in it.

But it's just like this movie did not connect with me.

I just thought that, you know, at the very end, it just really it pulled me out even more.

You know.

It's just like throughout the movie, I just kept going, Yeah, I'm still kind of in it.

I'm still kind of and it.

And then it was like this cult thing and it's felt so out of place.

You know, give me a little bit more, you know, cut some of these scenes out, put a little more of what the.

Speaker 2

Lore is of, like maybe of surgery stuff, maybe yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3

Yeah, what's what's going on with these people?

You know?

And I think it was you, Jacqueline that you brought up the surgery scene of the guy and getting his hand blown off and then the stabbing into the crowded artery, and it was like that was a cool scene, but it like, what was the point at that, you know, just another red shirt to get killed in a cool way?

Yeah, fine, and.

Speaker 2

It's a slasher, what do you want?

Speaker 3

And that's fine, that's fine.

But it's just like it was like no continuity of this movie.

It was very convoluted.

It was just it just felt like so jumbled for me, and it took me out of the movie probably halfway through.

And that's just went nah, the same for me.

But if you want to watch it, if you like a slasher with some gore, you're gonna enjoy this movie a little bit.

I'm actually gonna give this a three point five out of ten.

Eating corner on the cob the long way.

Speaker 2

Okay, eating corn on the cob the long way.

Speaker 1

You said, we call that corn on the throb.

Speaker 3

Yeah, corn down the throat maybe.

Speaker 1

Oh my god, that's very low.

I didn't.

I didn't think you were coming in that.

Speaker 2

Love not like John did not like this.

Speaker 3

I did not climbing around you know what I mean?

Speaker 2

Are you any cereal?

Speaker 1

No want sidebar?

You want to?

Speaker 2

I do want to know you're eating.

Speaker 1

Actually, I have some low fat Greek yogurt with some uh raw honey in it, some fresh blueberries, and a little scoop of way protein mixed in, very little extra protein.

Speaker 2

Is your yogurt plane or is it flavored?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

Speaker 1

No plane, I'm just trying to cut the most calories out ice protein.

Speaker 2

I like Greek yogurt anyway.

Sorry, I was just curious.

I know I'm hungry too.

Speaker 3

Jacqueline be next, what do you think horror film?

Speaker 2

Yeah?

So, I think at its like base level, I think this movie is like fairly generic and formulaic.

Honestly, I mean it feels like it's like, okay, we got to hit the beat, new girl move Okay, so, uh, murder in the past unsolved.

Fast forward to the future, new girl moving to town.

She's warned about the wrong group of friends.

She sneaks out, she gets in trouble.

Oh, now there's a big party.

A lot of people have to get killed at the big party, and then there's a showdown, you know.

Yeah, and so we got to hit all the beats, right, So it feels, you know, formulaic and generic, which isn't, you know, necessarily a terrible thing.

But it's not like, you know, it's it's really following the steps.

You know, it's following the recipe for sure.

Now I think it does add a little ornamentation on top of that that makes it a little bit better than just like blah.

I do like the character of Quinn.

I like her kind of like snarky, like sarcastic sense of humor, Like she's kind of unsmiling and like what and her relationship with her dad.

I like the dad.

He's trying so hard, you know, and he seems like a cool guy, and he's hot, and he loves his daughter, you know, and she's struggling and just trying to kind of find her way.

I do like the friend oh, thing with multiple clowns.

I like that.

You think it's just one at first, and then that one gets killed, and so you're like, oh, it's the danger over and then all of a sudden, just a bunch more step out of the cornfield.

I like that.

I like, I get it if people don't, but I liked it.

I think another thing that does elevated a little bit is the gore.

The kill scenes are pretty awesome.

I like when the liquor store guy gets his head absolutely obliterated.

I like when Quinn jams the cattle prod down the guy's throat.

I like the the girl in the cornfield accidentally running full speed into the chainsaw.

I like the guy you know, doing bench presses and the clown comes and puts the saw on the on the bar bell.

I like.

I like all that.

I think the gore is actually great.

Oh and one more positive, John, there's breath.

Actually it's supposed to be late fall in Missouri, and there's breath.

I saw breath when Quinn was running around, So just serious, Okay, four for the breath.

Speaker 3

For the breath, that's true.

Speaker 2

I did say that, so I I would say those are the positives and I I don't mind the message.

I don't mind the message of like the tension between the older and the younger generations.

Speaker 5

I like that.

Speaker 2

Now, what where I think it falls short is in I don't know that.

I fully think like that the the justification for their motive is sufficient, like it seems to they I get.

Okay, Like I I'm on board with like the older people hate the younger kids, and that's why they're killing them, Okay, But I wish it were something more.

No, But I wish that the reason for that among the older folks was more than just these kids are annoying and watch cat videos, you know what I mean?

Like I wish the kids actually had accidentally done something wrong, Like I wish that the kids had actually burned down the factory.

You know, it was an accident, but I wish that because they know, the adults know that the kids didn't do it, but they're blaming them for it and so, but that's their justification for hating the kids.

Speaker 1

But they know what, Like have the dad know that that he burned it down for insurance, but none of the adults know.

He's convinced them all that it was the fucking case.

Speaker 2

What's the dad's motivation when his son, I don't know, I don't know you're going to sacrifice your own son for that.

Speaker 1

So I wish you're right, nobody's involved really.

Speaker 2

Like, yeah, so I wish the reasons were a little more concrete, Like I wish the kids really had fucked up big time.

Not that I need the kids to be bad, but just like made a mistake, you know.

Speaker 1

And that leads to people not liking the way they act.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I know what you did last summer.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that's that's a good example.

Actually, Yeah, So that's where I think it's that's a big place where it falls down, Like, I just don't know that they would go so crazy as to kill all these kids just because they're annoying, Like okay, I mean all adults think that the twenty somethings are annoying, so anyway, or the teenagers.

I mean, another place where I think it falls down is in, like I said, in the attempts at humor.

I think, in and of themselves, there are some moments that are somewhat humorous, like the hand over the mouth that I mean, that's not a knee slapper, It's okay, I kind of like when the blonde girl and Quinn make it to the neighbor's house and they run upstairs and they want to call for help, but they're like, what is this phone?

Speaker 3

Where are the dials or where the numbers?

Speaker 2

And she like she's got the handset to her ear and she's getting a dial tone and she's like, I think the lines dead, Like she doesn't even know what a dial tone is.

So so there's some isolated jokes that work.

I've already said I don't love the gay thing being played as a joke because I just don't think it's like, it's not funny, but it's it's not consistent, Like this is not a horror comedy, and I feel like it was billed as one, or to believe that it was one.

I was expecting to laugh a lot more.

Like I mean, I would like if Hydroberg said I wasn't expecting it to be like an Oscar winner, but I mean I kind of expected like more of a Tucker and Dale versus evil level horror comedy.

So you know, that was that was a letdown.

It's like you can't just throw like four jokes in there and be like it's a horror comedy and like advertise, it is from those that brought you Tucker and Dale like it.

Just I feel like the expectations were not correctly managed there, So that's not great.

Beyond Quinn and her dad and maybe Cole and Rust a little bit, I feel like most of the characters are very cardboard and I don't really care about them.

I agree, you know, like basically everyone else, like the other friends in the friend group, are clearly just like little cartoon characters, the sheriff and the you know, the Coole's dad, Like they're cartoons.

They're just caricatures, so nothing really to like make me give a shit about them.

Speaker 3

I think Stephen Leo from Spoils or Her brought it up is like, if you don't give a shit about somebody getting killed, they're not worth it.

They're not worth it.

Speaker 2

Yeah yeah, yeah, no, I will say, I feel like that's a little bit made up for with the cool kills, you know, yea, the cool blood let me see.

Yeah, So I just I feel like that's weak.

So it's you know, it's I feel like the negatives almost like I don't think they fully cancel the positives.

But this movie ends up being very close to like neutral for me.

Oh at the very end, when she's packing up and leaving, where is she going?

Speaker 3

Never say I thought you going to college?

Speaker 2

It still looked like fall.

It looked like November.

There's like red and orange leaves on the trees.

Speaker 1

It was like, say, I believe college.

That's what I believed.

She wanted to college.

Speaker 2

This was taking place in the fall, and there's the there's nothing to show the passage of time, and the leaves on the trees are red and orange.

Speaker 1

To say it's a year later.

Speaker 2

If she was going to college, it would be green out.

Yeah, it would be like.

Speaker 3

August, August.

I don't know, late July.

Speaker 2

No, I don't think you leave in the fall.

I think you leave in August.

Continuity Jacqueline Well and regardless, they should say like have a great time in college or something like it, because it seems like it's the next day.

Speaker 1

Maybe she's gone off.

Speaker 2

It seems like, oh, we defeated the clown, Okay, now you should leave town and go to college.

Like what's what's what happened?

Speaker 3

Like I did like the scene a where like her dad like as they're leaving, showing her how to use the stick shift.

That was pretty cool.

Speaker 1

Yeah, well, yeah that was cool and she runs them over.

Speaker 2

Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1

My dad actually did this to me.

He gave me his car, my second it was like my second vehicle, and he was like, I'm giving you my Tracer, my Mercury.

Speaker 2

I remember that brand.

Wow.

Speaker 1

And I'm like yeah, and I'm like, wait a minute, that's a that's a stick.

He's like, yeah, I know, you're going to learn how to drive it learn and I was just like, oh shit, it was like learning how to drive again.

Speaker 3

So but nineteen eighty three, Ship Brown.

Speaker 1

We've been driving stick ever since.

And I was like twenty one, so that's cool.

And now I'm just like twenty eight.

So it's like pretty cool.

Uh yeah, so anyway, whatever, Yeah, what about this moment?

What about a moment where like they they like, oh, you're going to school, You're going to college, you know, congratulations cool And then like she dropped on the way out, she drops like her like certification for like getting accepted, and it's like clown school and oh god, yeah yeah a stinger My god.

Speaker 2

That now, see that would be a funny joke.

Oh yeah, that would be a funny joke.

Speaker 3

Yeah, good any Jack go and finish.

Speaker 2

So I don't know, and like if they clearly leave it open for a sequel, I unless somebody puts on the docket, I'm not gonna watch it, and I will probably never watch this movie again.

So I didn't hate it.

It didn't suck, but it didn't do much in the way to make me ever want to see it again.

So I'm gonna give it a five point five out of ten.

Eating corn on the cop the long Ways.

Mmmm mm hmmm, Berg, sorry, boso Berg.

What do you say?

Speaker 1

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, all right away?

Is this the moment where is this the moment where you want to guess what I'm gonna do?

Speaker 2

No, I want to hear what you say about it first, and then I'm going to guess your score.

Yes, I want to start this as a game, because I do this every time in my head and I just never say it.

Speaker 1

All right, all right, let's do it.

So some pros.

I like the characters, even if they are archetypes, you know, for the most part.

But you're right, Jacqueline, like they're like Tucker's not really that developed, Like he likes film, he wants to be a filmmaker, or whatever he likes doing scary movies.

Speaker 2

I don't even know which one Tucker is.

Speaker 1

Tucker was a black kid, the African American, and then Matt was the heart throb, and then Cole was the boyfriend possible red herring, and then there was I can't remember her name, Jessica, the blonde.

I don't remember blonde anyway, The blonde girl was better than I thought she was gonna be.

You know, there were moments where I thought she was gonna be your typical like caddy blonde, and she has some of those moments, but then there's moments too where she was like, actually nice to our main, our final girl.

So I don't know.

I thought the acting wasn't bad, honestly, Like I was surprised.

I thought the acting was gonna be gonna be bad and it wasn't.

Honestly, Like, maybe there's not a ton to these characters, but I thought they were acted well enough that I honestly enjoyed their they're back and forth and the moments with them better than I did the teenagers and Thanksgiving.

I would have liked more of that this and Thanksgiving, because I didn't think those teenagers really felt likable that much, and they felt like archetypes as well.

Just did it a little bit better.

But I thought this is an interesting premise for a slasher, and maybe maybe there is a way that you do the multiple clowns.

But for me, just like the way the film gets there and when it gives it to you, it just doesn't work for me.

The theme that, the way the tone of the movie at first was going, I just felt out of left field, Like the last third of the movie just I didn't enjoy the most.

I thought the effects though, and the gore were well done.

The gore especially, it's a mix of physical, like you know, practical and cg.

It looks like, you know, fucking some computer stuff.

But like that that kill with the convenience sor guy, Yeah, that was really good.

It's like an ivan that just smashes his fucking skull.

Uh.

I like that especially.

I thought the kills in general with the clowns were pretty cool too, a good bit of weaponry used.

The clown gags felt like deserved the corny at times, and that works for this sort of film, but I don't think there was enough of them.

There was some moments, like we said, with the head that falls in the cool and then he kind of picks the cooler and does like a side profile and like you hear like the horn or whatever whatever.

But it's not like it's not consistent.

Like you said, the film doesn't really lean into that theme like be that movie then, but it doesn't really do that enough.

It doesn't lean into the clown stuff as much either as much as say like Terrifier does, like that that's a clown movie.

It knows it's a clown movie and it's going it's gonna be a fucking clown movie.

This doesn't really do that.

It's weird.

It's like, oh, the clown's the killer Why why did you pick a clown as your town thing just because it's the I don't know, just because it's the fucking the mascot for the I don't know.

It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3

Do you think Killer Clowns from outer Space would have been a little bit better kind of a I mean, because they had more fun with it.

It just seemed like the Friends that.

Speaker 1

Movie more fun.

Friend though, I kept thinking of I want to be in this friend.

It should have been a moment at the gas station, what time do you close?

Well, I don't know what kind of question is that, what time do you go to bed?

Whatever?

Anyway, I thought it was I thought it was pretty well directed, though it just doesn't like it's not doesn't have that sampezz azz as Tucker and Dale Tucker DLLE was charming.

Yeah, because were great and and the writing was really good and funny, and we thought that that's what we were getting here, a funny film, a satire or like you know, maybe a parody or something of the genre or of this kind of film, you know, something funny.

But it's just that's few and far between.

Actually the jokes.

It's more of like a dramatic story with some slasher moments, which I did like the dramatic stuff between like her and the dad.

Like I wish there was a little bit more built up there actually, because I thought that was actually genuine.

I think they focused on that with the writing at least, and so that didn't like play out like you know, hollow.

At least it felt like maybe that was important for them, and then they forgot to really do the stuff that they're known for, which is the jokes.

The pacing was good, though, the kills were satisfying for the most part, and I did like our final girl, Quinn.

I thought she was really good.

It's a little dumb though.

It's a clown movie, uh, and they just aren't my thing, honestly, I'm not really a big clown movie guy.

The film doesn't it doesn't use a proper red Herring the way I thought like we we hardly use Kevin Durant.

I thought like you could have done something more with him or I don't know, I just didn't.

I didn't love the multiple killers gimmick, and the plot just falls apart at the end with the father and the surgery thing was just like a kind of a waste of time for me with that character.

I felt like you could have done something better with him and get him more involved in the story.

And the story just doesn't make sense as much in the end.

I get it like it's a little bit of a message film towards the end, and there was a message the whole time, maybe with clues to build up towards.

But I don't want to watch this movie a second time to even see if there are like more subtle too.

But the third actress doesn't do it, and it ends up just being like it Okay, gen Z's annoying.

Sometimes I get it, like, so what whatever?

Anyway, Yeah, I'm with you, guys.

I think I'm with you, Jacquin.

I think I'm gonna give Clown in a Cornfield the five point five out of ten.

Ouch, my butt feels real porn.

Speaker 2

That's what I was gonna guess.

You didn't let me guess.

Speaker 1

Oh what my measurement was gonna be?

Speaker 2

No, what number rating you were going to give it?

Speaker 1

Oh you want me to guess?

I thought you were like.

Speaker 2

No, no, no, no no no.

So I like to listen to you, and then I guess what number you're gonna give it, because I'm I'm often right, So I was guessing five point five.

Speaker 1

Actually I had it hired at first, but then I'm like, John kind of took me down more on the film, so I was like, there's well, I kind of felt like you said it was terrible, and then I'm watching them like this isn't that terrible?

But then it takes a turn where I'm just like, all right, I don't really I don't really love this film anymore.

Like I was enjoying it a decent bit, but.

Speaker 3

Well, I think the director did the reverse trope type thing again, but just not as well executed like he did in Tucker and Dale.

You know where they're the country thumbkins.

Speaker 1

That film knew what it was doing though, if.

Speaker 3

I did, it did.

But but it's also like the reverse trope, children of the corner or the adults.

Speaker 1

Or kill I guess that's what he's going for.

Speaker 2

But maybe I feel like this is a political commentary of our times.

I mean, Cole has a line in there that says, you don't care about the planet, you don't care about the next generation.

If you can't have things the way you want them, you'd rather just burn it all to the ground.

I think a lot of young people and they specifically feel that way about the whole.

Speaker 3

And that's fine.

I mean, it's that's what it is.

But they didn't play into that.

They played a lot into that with Tucker and Dale.

Speaker 2

M So, Hyderberg, what was your unit?

Ouch my butt hurts.

Speaker 1

My butt feels corny.

That's my butt, touch.

Speaker 2

My butts okay, feels corny.

Oh my god, Oh my god, that's disgusting.

Okay, all right, yeah, so we.

Speaker 1

Sorry, Okay, my god, okay.

Speaker 2

So four from John and five point five from both Heidiberg and myself.

Cool.

You guys want some trivia?

Speaker 3

Yeah, I can't believe.

Speaker 2

I can't believe I want that high on a movie called Clown and a Cornfield ship Jesus.

All right, you guys want some trivia.

Speaker 1

There's not enough clown in the cornfield.

To be honest, I'm gonna be nitpicky.

Speaker 3

I need more clowns Cloud.

Speaker 2

I mean, there are plenty of clowns and there's plenty of cornfield.

I don't know what you want.

Speaker 3

I need more.

I need more.

Speaker 1

I got a fever on the prescription.

Speaker 3

What I want you to do is play this cornfield and play more clown more cloud.

Speaker 2

All right, so there.

I mean, the trivia is not like you need to.

Speaker 3

Play the bomb.

Speaker 1

I went for it.

Speaker 3

Okay, all right, that's it, thank you, thank you.

That's all I need it.

Speaker 2

I think you should say that bump like for when somebody's acting like a clown on the show and just like.

Speaker 1

Like somebody's got.

Speaker 2

You bozo.

Speaker 1

Alright, stock though, in every movie that we watched, now whether the main character closes their bedroom door when they go to sleep.

Speaker 2

See you now you're thinking about it?

Speaker 3

Yeah, and milk and.

Speaker 1

We knew that already, so.

Speaker 2

All right, so the Trivita is not earth shattering, but you know, there's a few facts.

So this was a major win for I f C.

It was their biggest opening weekend recorded, with a gross of three point six million dollars, and it actually beat out Yeah, and it actually beat out the record previously held by Late Night with the Devil.

Whoa, yeah, from like a year earlier, and I don't have then on that.

I think it's like two point six Yeah, two point eight million.

The Devil grows two point eight million on its first weekend and this one had three point six million, So it was a good, good opening for them.

Speaker 3

I would say this is that Shuddard knows how to pick movies.

Again, I didn't like this movie.

I loved Late Night with the Devil, but they know how to pick good movies.

Speaker 2

What I loved about this movie is that it's on shutter, so I didn't have to pay for it.

You have to rent it.

Thank you, John Yea.

This was based on a novel what yeah there was?

This was based on a novel called Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Czar.

Speaker 3

I'm like, is that a Stephen King pseudonym?

Speaker 2

No, thank god.

Okay, we already wrote that book.

It was called it.

That's called Clown and a Sewer.

This was an interesting Actually, two of the characters in the film are named Rust and Cole, which is the name of Matthew McConaughey's character in True Detective Rust Coal.

Speaker 3

Oh yeah, okay, all right, all.

Speaker 2

Right, that's pretty good.

All the teenage protagonists are played by people in their twenties, and the actress playing Quinn was twenty five.

Speaker 3

Really, yeah, dude, she's like tiny.

She looked like she was like maybe sixteen.

Speaker 1

I know, this is what's her name?

I can't Who's Linda Cardellini?

Speaker 3

Linda Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I see that.

Speaker 2

I thought that from the moment I saw it was like, she looks like a young Linda Carr.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3

All right.

Speaker 2

Uh.

There's a total of eight at least eight Friendo killers in the movie, six of which are killed by the end of the film.

That means there's too dumb dun dum.

Okay, this is no.

There's definitely gonna be a sequel.

She has the Little Jack in the Box in her car.

I mean, there's gonna be a sequel.

Speaker 3

But she threw it out.

Speaker 2

It doesn't matter.

There's two killers still out there, so there's it's going to come back.

Some similarities with other movies.

Matt's Garage bench press kill pays homage to a classic kill from the movie Happy Birthday to Me?

Have you seen that?

I haven't seen that in a while, so I don't remember that kill, but I'd take an MDB's word for it.

The opening kill, taking place decades earlier, is very similar to Friday the Thirteenth.

There's parallels with My Bloody Valentine from nineteen eighty one, where you have a Canadian cast portraying American characters.

This was shot in Winnipeg.

With most factors, you have a town legend costumed killer.

You have copycats, a twist reveal, fictional rural town thriving on one export, and an outsider protagonist.

So similar to My Blood Valentine.

Different friendo weapons that are used also pay homage to classic slash our killers.

There's chainsaw freendo.

Yes, there's a knife friendo like Michael Myers or ghost Face and pitchfork freendo.

Jason worries, oh shit, yeah, so uh this The budget for this movie is one one million dollars.

That's amazing, Like, I had no idea the budget was that low, and in the box office it made ten point seven million.

Speaker 3

Oh my god.

Speaker 2

Yeah, wow, it's pretty awesome.

Speaker 3

Well, I'm glad they made that much money.

Again, it's I'm not hating on this movie.

I wouldn't.

Speaker 2

Yeah you are, but that's okay, No you can.

Speaker 3

No, I'm not hating on it.

I'm just like it didn't hit me, right.

Speaker 2

I get it.

Yep, I totally get it.

Speaker 3

Like I would say, do not watch poultry Guist.

I couldn't watch this one.

Speaker 2

Oh my god.

Is that the measuring stick for all things that it is.

Speaker 3

Actually for me?

I'm sure you guys are saying, yeah, I'd rather watch this in Allegoria.

Speaker 2

I don't know about that really.

Well, there's something about Algoria that's like so audaciously bad.

Speaker 3

It's rob zombies, Like it's just so.

Speaker 2

Like confidently bad.

It's like, I mean, it's just it's like kind of an amazing sight to see, like in this movie Johnny Awesome, it's just so aggressively bad that it's almost like watching a train wreck, you know that.

I don't know.

There's something like sickly enjoyable about.

Speaker 1

It, becaid rewatch because he's making that one movie based solely on one story on that, isn't he or something?

Speaker 2

Oh my god?

Speaker 1

Are you serious?

Speaker 3

He did the movie Little Bites, which came out I think early this year.

It's on shutter now.

Speaker 2

Little Bites that sound so cute.

I'm going to bury the Bride on our schedule.

Speaker 3

I'm actually gonna stay away from Little Bites because I don't want to offend you guys what.

Speaker 2

I don't know what he's saying?

Speaker 3

Little Bites?

That the Spider One movie Allegoria, what about?

Speaker 2

Why?

Why would that offend us?

Speaker 3

It probably sucks?

Oh?

I like, you know, no, I didn't watch it.

Speaker 2

No, like we can pick movies that suck.

I mean, look at the conversation we just had.

Speaker 3

I know.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Uh well, I hope next week's pick does not elicit the same reactions.

Speaker 3

It's yours.

Speaker 2

Ye, it's my pick next week, and I have chosen Sweeney Todd.

Oh I didn't write down the year.

Oh does anybody know what year?

Speaker 1

Well?

Speaker 2

Anyway, it's Tim Burton Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp.

So I picked that movie.

So that's what you should watch.

It's been a while since I've made you guys sit through a musical, So you are.

Speaker 1

Welcome seven.

Speaker 3

Swin.

Speaker 1

Let's see, I expect.

Speaker 2

A lot of I expect a lot of sing next.

Speaker 1

Week, biting and moaning.

Speaker 2

Oh no, it's it's okay.

If you want to bitch and moan, that's fine.

I know.

No, No, I was talking to John.

Speaker 3

No, I was talking to John.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I know you hate musicals.

I do.

You didn't hate Rocky Horror.

Speaker 1

Though, No, I didn't know that's being released on four kok edition.

Yep, I know.

Now you can see doctor Franklin footage, pubic hair like really fucking good.

Speaker 2

Yes, No, I'm just kidding with you.

Speaker 3

Bush hanging out at the g string.

Speaker 2

Mm hmmm mm hmm.

All right, So next week, y'all, Sweeney Todd, get ready to get musical.

Speaker 1

Start baking those meat pies, yep, start baking them.

Speaker 2

In the meantime, if you want to share your thoughts about cloning and Cornfield with us, what did you think?

Did you love it?

Did you hate it?

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You can also follow us on x at Cut Above Horror.

Speaker 1

You can follow us on Instagram if you want at a cut above one word dot Horror underscore review.

Speaker 3

Well, Heidroberg, I know that Senemigo's just released a new episode.

Wo'd you guys.

Speaker 1

Release Legend Ridley Scott's Legend Tom Cruise movie before he got his teeth capped?

Yeah, right before Top Gun came out, right, the fantasy film.

It's Matt's first official pick because Devil's Advocate was technically a two pm Todd pick that Matt just got behind.

So yes, So if you want to listen to Matt's first true episode and his taste in film, yeah, check it out.

It's a good it's a good conversation.

Speaker 3

It was a fantastic episode.

And by the way, you know, I agree with you guys or what you said, not Matt, Sorry, Matt.

Speaker 1

Look, that movie still has its place in pop culture and it's got one of the best, like Tim Curry mentioned him Curry again, ever, Oh my god, and some of the lines he gives are so like sexual and like I love him the way he speaks.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I look good.

Go check that out.

What do you guys have coming up?

Speaker 1

We got north By Northwest coming out next, which I just finished up.

And then after that we got Above the Law coming out, which is a great contract.

Yeah, bro, and I just finished the episode and I was I was laughing when I listened back to it because it's been a while since we recorded these episodes and I'm working on them now.

Speaker 2

And by Northwest Rob's pick, yes, probably.

Speaker 1

And they haven't seen it really, so I would.

Speaker 3

Say it was like what Citizen Kane of Oh my.

Speaker 5

God, Hitchcock Movies, movies, Oh my God, Above the Law is not the Citizen Kane of Stephens movies.

Speaker 3

But it is.

Speaker 1

Actually, I don't know if it's his best starts.

Speaker 2

To all the orson Wells of Action Films.

Speaker 3

Wow.

Anyways, Yeah, follow us on Facebook kind of a or review.

Give us those five star ratings on Apple podcast now, yes, yes, Grandpa, okay.

Speaker 2

Get out of my cornfield, Get out my cornfield.

Speaker 3

Give us those five star ratings on Apple podcasts.

Also give us five star ratings on Spotify.

Make sure you do it for a kind of bove and for sending me gifts.

Speaker 2

All right, well, fellas, it's been real hydroberg enjoy your yogurt and blueberries, and I will see you back here next week for Sweeney Todd and keep it corny,

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