Hello, welcome to Happy Your Time.

My name is Tim Murdock and.

My name is Matt Emmert.

Happy twenty twenty six.

Everyone.

Now, this is our second episode of January, because our first episode was an interview, but this is our first movie review, first time recording for twenty twenty six.

How you feeling, Tim?

Great?

I was just down in the rain and my hair is wet.

Yeah, and Tim's also stuck in the holidays.

A lovely holiday sweater.

I actually really like that, thank you.

I think it's blood.

It's blood.

It looks like a bloody Christmas.

And this is a new shirt.

This is Return of the Living Dead.

I just really like familiar.

I really like the like bright blue?

Is it bright?

I love it?

Is Lena quickly of course it's well trash.

Yeah, you remember we asked.

They were like, so what did you think of Remember the name was supposed to be Legs and then they changed it to trash.

Hey you're trash, I know, like, what's your character's name trash?

So basically you're trash, right, yeah, exactly, So Tim, how are your holidays?

I first post New Year's post holiday trip.

And by the way, correction because in our last episode of twenty twenty five.

I said Tim was going to Ohio, where he is from.

Tim did not correct me.

We were both wrong.

I was just like, you know, that sounds right.

We'll go and tell everyone where you actually.

I actually went to Savannah because my two brothers lived there.

They live on Skidaway Island.

And yeah, I didn't know they lived on an Eye.

I don't even know if that's true.

I think it's true.

Oh I don't know where I was because for nine days and nine nights, my brothers they like to have martinis and they say, Tim, do you want one?

And I say yes?

And so how many martinis would you say?

Total?

You had?

You know?

I actually didn't have Martini's.

I had a dirty Shirley, which is basically a Shirley timfle with fudka because I'm twelve.

Okay, you are a dirty shirt.

I have a dirty sh sound like almost like a gay slur, A little dirty Shirley, dirty Shirley.

I know, but it was so cool.

My sister in law, Laurie, she put him in these huge like glasses with a straw.

I was like, I love you again.

I only talk about the one time I visited your family, but like they kept alcohol flowing.

The drinks were going well.

We were in First we were in Hudson, New York with my family.

Then we were in Van Buren, Arkansas with Jacob's family.

We had a great time.

Mark my brother in law.

He is an amazing cook, so he like cooked all these intricate meals.

But he also made me some old fashion like whiskey drinks.

But did you make you out dirty, Shirley?

I really like like old fashions and Manhattan's.

I don't know if I've ever seen you drink a whiskey coh.

Yeah, I've had a is Jamison count Yes.

Okay, Okay, so I think I've said this on the podcast in the five years, but I once went on a date to see what's that like?

It's like a circus cle?

Yeah, that was a date.

It was a it was a nice date.

It was it was.

Like it was a first date too.

And so of course I don't have any money on a dog walk.

Why didn't you stay with that guy?

I don't know.

I think we're still friends on the face pages.

Okay, So anyway, I wonder if he's listening, that'd be funny, he'd be like that's a good day.

He got a Jamison drink and I said, I'll have what he's having.

I'll have what she's having.

I think it's Jameson and coke and I said yes.

Oh so it made the cirk to solay like very like.

You're won drink?

Well.

It was so damn strong.

I think I actually had two because at intermission He's like, do another one.

I was like sure, So I was like, oh.

I was never into whiskey until Jacob.

Jacob used to drink whiskey and he could just like sip it.

I needed to be mixed with something like a cocktail or something.

But I love old fashions.

For some reason, I've totally moved away from vodka.

Like vodka, even the smell of it makes me feel nauseous.

Although it's in my Halloween party punch, it will always be in that.

But usually like I could you do a shot of vodka?

I mean I could, but I mean I've barfed vodka many times now.

That is how you measure a good time.

We actually I can speak to this.

Tim and I went to a holiday party together and they had this last holiday season, they had peach flavored jack Daniel's whiskey and it was so sweet and we both were like, caepe it coming.

I had like three and I woke up with no hangover.

It was good.

Now.

The shots they were pouring, they were like that mini shots, so they weren't quite but like.

It was for like a mouse, like I just hit your hand, mouse out.

Yeah, So any other highlights from your holiday?

Tripped him?

Uh?

You know what it was?

It honestly went by so fast.

I mean, like, uh so ridiculously fast.

Yeah, I mean like, but then when I got back, I watched dogs for six days and I caught up on some television.

Yes, I know.

Well there's been tons of stuff and we'll probably talk about it more in our after show, which if you want our bonus content, you can become a Patreon at patreon dot com.

Slash Happy Horror Time starts at one dollar a month, but for five dollars a month members, we do all sorts of bonus episodes and an after show where we talk about anything and everything.

Well, I thought you're gonna say when you said one dollar.

It starts at one pm.

It starts at one pm every day.

Everyone sign in.

It sounds like I might be busy.

By the way, are you you have Netflix?

Right?

I?

Oh, god, wow, I.

Know I've got the three p's Prime Paramount and Peacock.

I was gonna say some other piece, never Penis anyway, you know what, you'll always have them.

I was gonna say that Netflix started this thing called Best Guest Guests Live, and it's like a live quiz show where like you can win thousands of dollars and I tried it once and you never are gonna win because you have to guess it first among like ninety thousand people.

But somebody has to win.

I get these notifications that it's like Best Guess Live is on in five minutes or Best Guess Lives.

That's always thinking like happy hard Times on live.

You know, who knows.

Maybe at some point we'll do it.

We'll give away what's the grand prize?

I think it was Guess on Stranger Things.

No, but it's like two hundred thousand dollars.

But you have to anymore.

But here's you have to be not only the first person to guess it, but they have like sections and if you get it right around the same time as others, you all split it.

So if like one hundred thousand people, get it right, You wouldn't two bucks?

Oh, I you know they used to.

I remember there there was a game on NAP or something.

I remember I would win like seven dollars, three dollars, like four dollars.

Yeah, so you were in the money.

I'd say the most I made was like thirty dollars.

Hey, that's like a good scratch.

Thirty dollars the duration out I just kissed this.

But thirty dollars for the duration that I've played.

Oh oh total?

Yeah.

Yeah.

By the way, we in Arkansas with Jacob's family, we got all these scratcher tickets because you know, it's a different area, and none of us won anything.

And I was like, I've definitely had a ton of when I don't win, but usually when a bunch of people get scratched, someone wins something.

Nope, not a ticket.

I don't two dollars.

I don't want a brag.

Oh, Savannah.

In Savannah, we did the same thing and I won one ticket and five dollars.

You know what, you are taking me out to lunch?

You know.

I don't even think I've claimed my money.

I think I just gave it to my brother's husband.

Gay in the three piece penis pelvic exams and would be another one.

I don't piranhas I it was Paramount.

I don't know what your crime inc Peacock.

I can't believe you don't have Netflix anyway, I know.

Okay, So look, horror is not okay.

January is not a big time for horror.

And we were looking for a very like beginning of the year horror movie to review in our first episode, and it was Slim Pickens.

Let me tell you Tim's.

We did find one because there was a new movie, a zombie type of survival thriller called We Bury the Dead starring Daisy Ridley.

Now if you don't know her by her name, you definitely would recognize her face.

She was in the Star Wars Star Wars prequel.

That's a lot to say Star Wars pre five series.

No way, she was in like, sorry, not prequel.

She was in the because you know how they did.

The prequels a long time.

Agoy, okay, let me sell you don't care.

I don't care.

Okay.

She was in Star Wars like episode seven, eight and nine, and so.

I mean, okay, this is a legit question.

She was in all three of these films.

Yes, yes, okay, because I did recognize her because I have gone to the movies.

I have seen the trailers.

I appreciate these films.

I'm not seeing.

You want to know something awful.

I saw episode seven and episode eight, and I didn't see the final one.

I never saw.

I know seven was the Force Awakens.

Eight was I don't even know the names.

I'm so bad at Star Wars, which is why I confused the prequel series, which came out when I was like in college, and the sequel series which started in I think twenty fifteen or something.

But anyway, she became a big name because those were huge movies.

Absolutely huge.

I appreciate them.

But like if someone was like, hey, Tim, we's it done and watch this thing, I'd be like sure.

I'd be like sure, I would watch the one I haven't watched.

But I, like, you have seen all the Star Wars movies maybe once in my life.

I've never been a Star Wars person, but it made her a household name.

And then after the last Star Wars movies, she I don't want to say disappeared because we looked at her.

She's probably tired.

Those movies probably take for everybody.

God, we looked at her Wikipedia IMDb page and she's been in stuff, but not a lot that's mainstreamer that people would recognize.

But I will say when I watched the trailer for We Bury the Dead, I immediately recognized her.

She has a face that you immediately recognize, and you know, because I'm like, that's the Star Wars.

She has a face made for the big screen, Like she's gorgeous, and she looked flawless in every single scene in this movie.

Even though she's like hunting zombies and burying.

I feel like if I was like her job, are we jumping in now?

Yeah?

Jump in her?

The movie called We Bury the.

Dead, the movie be called the movie.

Be called yes, And so like her, she's called in to pull out bodies from houses because there was some kind of what is it?

So basically like the exposition that we get at the beginning is that the Americans accidentally detonated some weapon off the coast of Tasmania, which was it was an accident and when it exploded it killed tons of peace people, but it also some sort of electromagnetic pulse.

It was like a pulse electromagnetic weapon that suddenly made everyone's brain activity just completely sees and they just fell over and died immediately.

And apparently this accident murdered five hundred thousand people in an instant And so you see on the news.

Like, hey, isn't that called social media?

Yeah, yeah, actually you're good one because your brain season.

But the Daisy Ridley's character Ava, her husband was on a work trip in Tasmania and she hasn't heard from him.

So they're recruiting people to go through all of the towns in Tasmania and just literally.

Pull them out of their house, line them up.

On the street, identify them and then bury those Yes, hence we bury the dead.

But okay, so the way they were doing this was very disturbing.

They would put like their also say postcard there, what's it?

Would you travel past?

Yeah, and take a picture with it right here, and like their face.

I was like, this is dark.

It's dark.

Well, first off, like, even thinking about weapons of mass destructions scares me because I know our country.

Every country has them.

They're usually nuclear.

But like the more science expands and and evolves the idea that there maybe could be some sort of weapon that literally could like this, like everyone just drops Dead is terrifying.

Uh so that alone is scary, But.

The premise of this movie is that they tell everyone that, hey, there's one little caveat here.

Some of those people that are dead they come back to life, right, they're not themselves, and.

They show their teeth down to like nothing to go.

Yes, I do do asmr with it to it because I can't.

Like well, I mean I can't do it great, but it's like it's like their teeth grinding their teeth, grinding their teeth down to like their gums.

Do it to it.

What it's gonna hurt, But I'll do it lately.

It's like that, but mag to find to the point grows really being gross.

But the thing is is the reason why this is kind of like a zombie ish thriller type survival horror movie is that when the people come alive and they haven't just discovered why or who, it's just some random people come alive and they get agitated.

Okay, so it's not like twenty eight days later, and it's not like Walking I never watched Walking Dead.

I think you did.

Yeah, yeah, how many seasons did you watch?

I didn't last till the end, but I lasted about seventy five percent of the way through.

That sounds like a weird like sex comment.

I lasted a long time, Tim.

Not a fault.

I didn't even give it a chance.

Tim walked out.

I walked out.

I was like, I'm not interested.

I don't know why I'm not interested.

Like a lot of people, and I mean a lot of people, they come up to, they go, Tam, why no walking Dead?

Not that, Hey, I'm not interesting.

We've talked about this where there's subgenres of horror that we gravitate toward and there's certain ones we don't.

And I think both of us aren't the biggest zombie movie.

Yeah, but I do like Return of Living Dead.

I like the one on your shirt.

I like the old one, the new one, the nineteen ninety one, I like the Tom Savini's I love all that.

But I love Okay.

So in this movie, they have to establish why what she's tracking down is her husband, which she loves so much.

And I know there's a little twist ending and I'll save it, but they start off by showing like their love for each other, like just lashback connection, which goes on throughout the entire film, but like The first one is the couple pointing out that they have things in their teeth.

Did you notice that?

No?

I didn't.

I mean she's like, you've got.

Something in your teeth and he goes, oh I do.

Like it's like it's like it's I was like, okay, this is I couldn't connect to that.

See, I mean, okay, this movie.

I just want to say this right here.

This movie has had a lot of layers, and I've got to say I actually really liked this movie too, and I was surprised to say yeah, no, no, I was surprised because and this is why.

And then I'll save more for the end.

But it was a very unique approach to your zombie ish apocalyptic survival thriller.

Aka, I've never seen a movie like this.

The zombies weren't even really the focus.

The focus was more this girl and her hunting down her husband to see what happened to him, and her kind of not wanting to accept the fact that he had died because there was like unfinished.

Business, like he may or may not be dead because he's in Woodbridge, which is, like, I guess, a very hard place to get to.

I want to say Australia.

No, it was in Tasmania.

Okay they filmed not Tasmanian double not that there was no devil except for the weapon that went off.

Yeah, I mean, she figures that he's dead.

She hasn't heard from him, and literally it wiped out everyone.

It's not like you people were immune to this.

But she needs to see it with her eyes because she does don't want to accept that her husband, who she loves so much, was dead.

And throughout the movie she keeps flashing back to moments throughout the relationship.

But I think the reason why that I think did some of.

The flashbacks worked for me and others did not?

Yeah, I mean I think that it's like if every flashback was a monumental event, then it just seems too big.

Like sometimes is going to sound really mushy.

Sometimes the dumbest little moments between you and your partner are the most memorable ones.

But you know, it's been a while, it has saying Okay, well think about it with.

I am not on a TV series, I'm not a series regular.

I'm a guest star in What Life with My life.

Partners, you know, but think about if you lost someone from your family like you wouldn't only remember the big like birthdays and trips.

You'd remember like the time that I had something in my teeth.

Yeah, like or something we'd remember like a joke or something.

It makes me sad thinking about because it's like those are the little moments that stand out in a relationship.

But I guess the reason why this movie really worked with me is that, first off, there was a lot of emotional depth to this that I wasn't expecting in a movie like this, Like, this is not just zombies running after and attacking people.

The zombies don't well, there's a lot, but it's not like what we're used to.

No, And also it's not they're not There aren't zombies everywhere.

But when there are zombies there, they're able to build the tension in a way that really works.

They're either hiding in the shadows, they're walking up behind the person, and they're grinding their teeth in yeah really Like it's hard to listen to because if you when you watch it and you see them grinding their teeth, like that would ruin your teeth.

But it makes it so unnerving, you know, and the.

Camera absolutely loves the leading actress like I was so rooting for her.

I mean, I didn't were all rooting for you, Tyra Banks, but I mean what, I honestly didn't really care she found her husband or not.

I just wanted her to live.

Oh yeah, I was like, she's doing all this because she would.

I mean I me personally, granted, I'm not in a relationship right now, so it's I mean, okay, you put it in family terms, Yeah, okay, So yeah, I guess I would do this.

As if you were trying to find your family to get closure or something.

Now, the thing is is that a lot of the people that volunteer to track the dead and bury the dead are just people that are trying to help out.

She of course has this ul terrier motive that she really wants to seek out her husband.

In fact, her husband was in an area that's off limits to people and she has to sneak away to get sound.

There was she killing to that sounds?

Was she killing time too?

Before they'd let her go there?

So she's like, oh, sure, I'll do this very horrible task.

Yes.

So basically, when she first arrives in Tasmania, she asks about the area her husbands and they're like Hey, there's fires there.

Nobody's allowed there, off limits.

So she goes along with the plan of just being a volunteer, and she actually meets a guy named Clay.

Now the actor who plays Clay, his name is Brenton Swaits, and let me just say he is sex See.

Yes, I mean, like, I love an old school movie when both leading lady and leading man are like ridiculously good looking.

Why has it gotta be leading lady and leading man.

What if it's leading man and leading man, or leading lady and leading lady.

That's all great too.

I'm just saying like it was.

It was an eye candy for my eyes there, everyone was way Let.

Me get this straight.

Was it eye candy for your eyes?

Yes, as opposed to eye candy for your mouth?

Yes?

Stop doing that or I'm gonna put you.

I'm gonna bury you, bury me.

We buried the co hosts, Yes, I ury mad.

I know.

But what about that moment we shared when you found that stuff in my teeth?

You know what, I forgot it.

I'm gonna hit you over the head with a shovel and bury.

Oh my god, wait, I see what you're saying.

Though obviously they're a beautiful.

Right right, I'm just saying Clay.

His name's Clay.

Yeah, And I don't even remember her name, uh Ava, I'm not even gonna pronounce that the girl from Star Wars, the girl from Star Wars.

Yes, they're both so beautiful.

I wanted them to get together instantly.

And the funny thing is they don't, but they do develop, they develop a friendship.

And the thing is is that you don't really find out why Clay is there until the end.

Like everyone it seems like, has something to prove or some reason that they're doing this, because, as Tim said, it's not the most glamorous task.

You're literally pulling dead bodies out of their houses, taking pictures with them so that the authorities can dump them in a big burial.

Like she always noticed, like there was sometimes when they went into these houses, like he'd like bash the windows in, pull out the bodies, and like she would always be like, oh my gosh, one of them's moving, and he'd would not be scary.

Yeah, let's talk about that.

So they warn all these volunteers that, hey, some of these people just become alive again.

We don't know why, but if you can counter one, you pull this flare.

It's like this pink flare.

The authorities come and literally just shoot the person in the head.

I thought they did.

I thought they pulled that pink thing for the pink smoke, so the scientists would study them.

That would have been smarter.

But no, the military, we're just killing them exactly.

And so actually there's one person in like some scene that says something like, oh, I wonder why they wouldn't want to study them, and I thought the same.

I was like, Okay, this has been you know, it killed everyone, but some people are revived in different states.

Don't we want to study why they've been revived, what's going on with their brain?

No?

Do we just shoot him and kill him right away?

Right?

I was like, oh, okay, yeah, okay.

So in the beginning, like her and Clay, they're working together, but they do encounter some people, but liked him said, they don't seem that afraid, and I'm if I saw.

And the zombies that they do encounter at first are scary.

Also, I was gonna say, are very calm, though they're not like running after that.

Yeah, they're not out and going like bright.

Yeah, but they're scary as fuck looking like they have all the like like, uh, what is it the gross looking facial stuff.

Yes, they've got liquids that are coming down the face.

Gross like everything, like their eyes look all cloudy wind don't forget the teeth and the teeth grinding.

So finally Ava tells Clay her plan that she wants to find her husband, and Clay's like all up for it, and she's like, if we steal this motorcycle, we can go through whatever barricades and escape.

So they steal this.

Motorcycle to go and on their way, they like have this one stop and they get stopped by a military guy.

Right, but before that, when when right when the military man finds them, he's like, oh my backhurst and she's like, oh, I'm a therapist, so she starts massaging his bag.

Yeah.

I'm actually glad they didn't because I didn't want this to be a romantic you.

Know why, because there was more to this movie than Jeff girl falls in love with guy.

First off, okay, number one, she's on a hunt for her husband, so I don't think she's gonna fall in love a decision number number two, it's just too typical.

Like again, I'm not.

Saying, I know this movie did not go the path that we all know and we didn't need it.

And I mean, of course there was tension between them, but I'm kind of glad that it didn't get to that point.

With that said, when this military guy finds it.

Another leading man that like, I was like, oh my gosh, we already have Clay.

We also get this guy.

Yeah, like Coles Smith, and he plays a military guy and basically he stops them and they tell them what they're doing, of course they're not allowed to, and he first says, Okay, I'm going to talk to Clay on my own.

And then suddenly.

Clay disappears and he says, oh, your your friend ran off, and we're wondering.

Like, did you think maybe he killed her?

Oh?

Absolutely, yeah.

I was like, oh, I was like Clay's dad.

Yeah, I was thinking, oh my god, they just killed mister Hatty Patati and we don't know why and what ever, Well they didn't, but Ava is alone with this military guy and this is where the.

Movie it suddenly becomes its own little short film.

Oh yes, I was thinking the same things.

Just like everything that we've Because the movie has a really good, big budget and like they're like these big shots of like towns and like these big long streets with cars and vacancies like this, And then all of a sudden, it becomes like a little film where it's just this military man and the girl from Star Wars, and it now becomes.

This stand off between them.

It becomes really creepy, and it takes a turn because he takes her back to his house.

He says he's gonna give her a ride to like where she needs to go, takes her back to his yeah, yeah, and then he starts telling her about how his wife, his pregnant wife, had died during this disaster or whatever, and he basically and it gets really creepy because he wants Ava to put on her clothes and pretend his wife is dead wife's clothes, pretend she's her, and dance with him.

And she agrees to do it, just for one dance because I think she thinks, oh my god, if I don't do this, I'm in danger, right.

Right, And he said, like, if you do this for me, well, I'll take you to your husband.

So he puts on the headphones, which she can't hear, and they're like dancing.

And she's creeped out because remember, not only is she pretending to be his dead wife, but like she was a dead pregnant wife.

So he goes and starts touching her stomach pretending that she's pregnant.

It gets really well.

And also this is another flashback comes in where she has one with hers Was she pregnant at one time?

No, but she was trying to get pregnant, and I thought of that she was disassociating from him and remembering a dance she had with her husband, so she wouldn't be so fucking creeped out by this guy who's like, pretend to be my dead pregnant wife.

They did have flashbacks so that she was having fertility issues, like she took a pregnancy test and she wasn't pregnant.

Obviously they were trying to get pregnant and couldn't.

But like, this is creeping out.

But then the guy freaks out on her because she didn't take off her own wedding ring and he's like, you got to put on like my wedding ring, and she's like no.

And then she runs across the hall.

As she opens the door, she shuts the door she's leaning against the wall.

I'm sorry.

The door turns around and sees in the very Halloween kind of fashion with the gravestone, it's his ex wifex wife, his pregnant wife, dead pregnant wife laying.

On the pregnant I'm talking nine months pregnant on the bed, just sitting like dead there, like he's kept her body there.

But it gets worse because she makes her way.

She like climbs out a window.

She makes her way to the barn right well, she.

Tries to get the keys.

This is actually a pretty cool scene.

She tries to get the keys to like the military, like what is that thing?

Just like tank some vehicle, and then like he's coming down the stairs and she's reaching for the keys and she's like, f I gotta run.

Yeah, And I was like, good, maybe get the ki maybe get the case.

Is running.

But she does make it to this barn and she finds out and I thought this was interesting and I wish I had seen more of this.

But he has a bunch of the revived dead people aka the zombies chained up in the barn and he's been studying them.

He has like a chalkboard with like time of like when they woke up all these different things and he's trying to figure it out.

Now you have to assume he's doing this because he wants to try to revive his wife or something.

But for me, I actually was like, I want to see some of this info.

I want to know about it.

Yeah, this was interesting here, like the chalkboard and everything, but like it was creepy because they were chained like in a circle, so they could like potentially get to her.

So she had a really good idea.

I think she had like a screwdriver or something, and she put it behind her back and then it was almost like she was pulling like a Friday thirteenth Missus Vorhees.

I'm sorry, Amy Steele.

Yeah, I was like Abe Steele acting like Missus Vorhees.

She's like yes, yes, oh, yes, yeah, that is good.

She did.

She did, she tried to say, because you know, he's so demented that if he wanted to think she was, she's trying to pretend to be his wife just to get him close.

So doesn't she stab it.

In his like they hug or something, and then like she stabs him in the neck.

He drops to the ground.

She's like whoop, whoop, I'm out of here.

Now she gets those keys.

Yeah, but the thing is, don't forget the pregnant wife because that comes into play later.

But that whole scene, now, I didn't mind it.

It was definitely it brought the suspense up and it added a creepy element to this movie.

There it's almost like the movie stood still because like it was very exciting with Clay and the motorcycle and like what was gonna happen to them?

And like are they gonna do it?

But that was where my mind was, like, forget the zombies.

Are they gonna do it?

But I mean, like all of a sudden, then it comes to a screeching halt with this military man.

Which was fine.

It was because I didn't I did not think this hour and thirty minute movie was gonna go that way.

I I this is my opinion on that scene.

I I agree that it did bring the movie a little bit to a halt, but I and I'm just guessing for what the filmmaker was trying to say in this movie overall.

Now you're this is gonna this is weird that I'm saying this because I rarely say this.

I've said on the podcast a million times that I hate when horror movies like are some representation of grief.

This movie, I really like this movie, and I do think it was sort of a metaphor for grief in that I think it's like people not being able to move past someone close to them passing away, or even not accepting it.

Like think about her trying to hunt down her husband knowing that he's probably dead, the military man not accepting that his wife is dead.

So, and the reason why I think I like this movie versus others where everything is just a manifestation of grief is that if this movie had nothing to do with grief, it would still be entertaining.

You would still have her and him burying people, hunting down zombies, looking for the husband, and things like that.

So it still was a good movie with out that, but I think that added some like emotional death day.

It made you feel something more than you would normally feel in a zombie movie.

She did not lose focus at all.

She's like my husband, my husband, my husband.

So like the flashbacks, at first, I was kind of like wait what, and then you know, because it just took me out of it for like a second.

I can handle it.

I can handle it and handle it.

But I I don't even know what I was saying.

You were saying the flash flashes, but she never lost focus.

Yeah, I apparently did, but you you are focused.

In three seconds there everyone.

I gotta be like, what if I can only imagine if Tim was searching for me?

Where am I?

I'm like, where's that?

Oh?

Look at that cute guy?

Oh?

Sorry, you'd be like, seeing at.

Is that guy?

Is that that got cute?

Yeah?

Hey, come back to life, Come on, come on.

So she finally escapes.

There's another scene that's a little bit different for this movie, but it also works because of the emotion in this movie.

She makes her way to this like r V where you see a picture of it's a family a dad, mom and kids, and you obviously they've died or she sees their bodies.

Outside, and she has the background of pulling people out of houses.

She's like, I can certainly do pull them.

Out of an RV for the night.

She lined up the family of four in a row, and then she got into the RV and she had an axe and she's like, I'm gonna get some sleep.

Well, there's a creepy moment because the dad of the family wakes up and they film it in a way where you think he's like you think he's walking around the RV like he's gonna hunt her.

But then she wakes up and she witnesses that all he's doing is digging a burial plot for his family.

So this like woken up, revived zombie of a person is not violent and actually still has some of his humanity in him, and she kind of just observes him.

And that's why when I saw the scene, I was like, why aren't these scientists studying these people to see if maybe there's some sort of cure.

Because the dad was still acting like a dad.

He's like, Oh, I'm doing the right thing for my family.

I'm gonna bury thing.

And he still looks zombie is right.

And so she's like, you know what, I'll help you.

Yes, she helps him.

Her and zombie dad are digging the graves.

But then, and I need to know your the title Her and zombie Dad, that's what it should be called.

She helps him bury his family, but then she takes the shovel and she slams him in the head, and I remember thinking like, why couldn't she just leave him be.

What is she gonna do like drive around with the RV with the dad?

Well, no, no, she doesn't have to take But I guess why did she have to?

And maybe she figured she's putting him out of his misery because the soldiers are gonna kill.

Him anyway, it was for the best.

It's for the best.

God, my god, I'm totally Annie.

But also, do you remember in the movie Psycho two when he at the very end of giving away Psycho two and with a shovel?

Did you not think about immediately?

I didn't.

I was just there's a million movies and TV shows where someone's hit someone with a shot.

I don't know a million.

I mean, I know you there's at least one hundred thousand count them actually respond in the comments if you can think of a movie where someone hits someone.

Over the head with a shovel, I would love to.

See if I got one.

Death becomes her?

Oh yes, I mean there's a million.

The TV show Revenge, the main girl hit I think, was it or one of them hit someone with a shovel to knock her out in the finale anyway, one of the season's finales.

Okay, moving on.

But so she you know, knocks this guy and basically kills him.

So he keeps dead with his family, but he was already sort of dead.

So anyway, Ava gets down to the resort where her husband, well.

She also takes on one more one more zombie by herself down the street with.

One that was running at her.

Yeah, that was the only violent one.

And what's funny is that there are various scenes in this movie.

They could be like a twenty eight days later twenty eight years later type of field.

Yeah, I mean the movie out of one hundred percent, maybe went there like maybe five percent.

Yeah, I was gonna say maybe, thank god because we've seen that movie.

Yeah, and this movie had more to say with it.

So anyway, she makes way down to the resort where her husband's at.

She's looking around for it, and basically she finally steppe to her room and she finds her husband dead on the floor in the room and she's kind of like talking to him, and then you get a flashback and you find out that they had a big fight right before he left, which, let me just tell you, like you hear that from so many people who've lost someone Like that's why It's like, obviously we all get in fights with people and we're never thinking this is the last time.

See that's that saying, don't good, don't go to sleep mad.

Yeah, well, don't let someone leave angry, because if you don't get to see them again, it's horrible.

So she let him leave.

She didn't want to, but they had gotten in a fight.

But then she sees in his room there's two glasses of wine, one with stick, and she finds one of his coworker's IDs, So he was sleeping with another girl.

I was like, what a great twist.

I love that, like he's having an affair.

But then again it's revealed there's another twist.

There's another Chris, because she reveals so while she's there, Clay comes there and we're so thankful that he's not dead.

And apparently he just wanted to escape the military guy because he knew he was creepy, and he like asked her how she escaped.

Of course she killed him.

But she then reveals that their fight before he left was caused by she had had an affair, so she actually cheated first.

He was very angry.

He left for this trip, probably in a revenge sort of mindset, slept with this coworker and then gets wiped out by this.

Do you know what the movie should have been called?

Revenge affair?

Zombie affaiir zombie a zombie affair there it is, yeah, but then it sounds like you're cheating with a zombie.

It grows hot.

Anyway, so she Yeah, So there's all these different layers of it.

So what you think saw it when you're watching this was this like perfect marriage and she's searching for her husband because her love of her life.

They were having their issues, but I kind of appreciated that because no, no relationship is perfect.

Yes, mine mine was.

That's why they're not you're not still in the right.

Yeah, it was so perfect that you can't be perfect perfect.

You're like, we're done to perfect.

No, But every relationship has its issues.

And I can't even imagine if your partner you get in some big fight and then they leave and then they pass away.

It's just awful.

You're laughing, emotional.

I know that's I love that you are.

No, and just thinking about like what you're laughing.

I'm just thinking like how just because the.

Twist of the movie was like having affairs, She's having a fair.

I'm just and she sits with him and she keeps saying, all right, get up, get up, because again they've been told that the people that become alive again are people with unfinished business.

Kind of conversation would she have with the zombie.

She probably would like in her mind, she would be like to say everything she had to say, and.

Then he'd go.

And she goes, you know what, she's like cheating fuck her and he goes and then she said, stop grinding your teeth and he goes.

Exactly no.

But I think that she needed closure and she she got it.

She got it because she talked to him even though he didn't revive.

But like, there has to be some meaning in the fact that he didn't come to life, like maybe in his mind, okay again, I'm just trying to look for Like from the filmmaker's perspective, maybe when the husband left on that work trip, he was done with their marriage and that's why he didn't care about like sleeping with the coach, right, I think that's it, and that's why he didn't have to get up again out yes especially, And so it.

Looks like there were two glasses of one.

There were there were.

There was one with lipstick, but we didn't get to see the girl's dead bodies.

Where was she?

Well, there was one girl that they showed.

It looked like she was just a yoga instructor, like just smashed your face up against the mirror, going like no there is.

Because remember this weapon deployed and just everyone, no matter what they were doing, just drop dead.

And the funniest thing is that you find different scenes.

They stumble upon a bachelor party where there's a ton of guys on couches and their strippers.

One is on the hole, there's one leg like this like, oh, I was like that's kind of funny.

That is funny because it's literally like could you imagine like doing the most random thing and then just dropping dead?

So like, I hope I wouldn't be like like taking a poop exactly exactly.

Well, then somebody would have to take you out in the bath.

Right and like showering, I don't want to be just.

At that point, who cares if you're naked.

You'd be like.

I'm shying, I'm shy.

You would get zombie.

You would become alive again just to get a towel over you.

You're like, I'm like, no, that's good.

That was good, Thank you zombie.

So she has this like she has sort of disclosure with him, and then she has this big conversation with Clay and they both kind of tell each other why they were doing this, and she that's when she admits that she had had the affair, but she could, you know, she he was leaving and she didn't want him to leave, and so she had to find out if he was still alive or whatever.

And then Clay he talks about that he has an ex wife and a kid who've always thought he was just a loser basically, and he wanted to kind of prove to them that.

He's like, you know what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna bury some dead people, bury some dead people, and you know what, life turned around.

But I didn't kind of get an understanding as to each other.

Did that wife and kid respect him more or he unknown?

Right?

No?

And I think those I think his girlfriend, I'm sorry wife.

Or was an ex wife or the mother of his kid.

Right, I think they moved on without Clay.

Yeah, So it's weird because then it's literally like, Okay, she found her dead husband and then Clay and her reconnect and then it's like party.

They start swimming drinking.

Okay, So this is the one scene not that I like, I loved this movie.

I really did.

It was short, it was it was an hour and thirty two minut.

I love it.

And so they they're like, hey, they go into the pool of the hotel and they're swimming around and drinking a lot, which is totally fun.

And all of a sudden, randomly a a zombie comes in.

She kills it, and they're just like okay, like they were.

It was literally like they were swatting a fly, like they're partying, and then zombie comes in.

She goes and actses it and she like goes crazy also, and.

He's like huh okay.

And then they go to sleep and like they show him snoring in his stomach on like.

We were, and they're in the same bed.

But I don't think anything happened.

It sounds like a very friendly thing at that point.

I will say I did think maybe they would sleep together because she now we found out Hey, well, first off, she's discovered that her husband was cheating.

She knows he's dead, and they have this bond, so you think maybe.

But at the same time, I'm happy they kept the buaton I do just because it was different.

But it was different, and I respect the different.

You just want to see him naked, but just show I mean, like, they're both beautiful young actors.

Let's show us.

Oh my god.

So uh so okay, So they leave this resort and you don't know, like just say it.

There's they are driving away and the ending of this movie, they're driving and who do they stumble upon in the road at the very end but that pregnant wife, the woman from the military guy's pregnant wife, but her stomach is not big anymore and there's blood all over her legs like she's given birk.

Clay says, let's just go around, and she's like, no, I gotta see this baby.

So they do.

Hear the baby.

You hear a baby crying, and that signals to her, oh my god, maybe this baby hasn't been affected by the weapon.

Like the baby's not remember the zombies don't talk or anything.

So she goes and she finds what looks like a perfectly healthy human baby, and like Clay comes up and they hold it and they kind of take it.

Baby snatching yeah, she stole that.

She was like like, where my baby?

She's like, where's my baby?

I gotta I gotta che teeth war my baby.

As So they take the baby, but I will say it's like a hopeful ending.

Yeah, like they're like, but there's still I mean, couldn't they make their own baby.

I mean they if they get together.

Remember, first off, there's nothing to show that they have been this is my sign for getting together.

Right.

If they get together, there's nothing to show that they're gonna get together and not just be friends.

But if they were to, I think that they are going to try to give this baby a life.

Remember she was never able to have kids.

He failed his previous kid.

So it's almost like this new baby is like, yeah, it's like a second chance for them.

I can't believe I'm even asking this question.

Ask it the baby the mom was a zombie.

How does the baby not become a little zombie five.

I'm thinking that whatever messed up every human's brain and just baby.

Yeah, because of baby's brain, first off, isn't fully developed, it's still developing even as it's born.

That maybe it was able to withstand it being still in her belly when it happened, because remember it happened like a few weeks ago.

I think so she the baby was yeah, yeah, well not nine months ago.

But like so, yes, questions that won't be answered.

But no, I don't care, you know, it's it's just that I think I like this movie because it did have the horror elements that you would want.

It had scary zombies, but it had something more like you were saying, it wasn't your typical zombie attack movie.

We've seen that.

I'm because you just said that, like you've seen that a million times.

It went in so many different paths like oh, in this scene, this is where they hook up, they didn't hook up.

Oh in this scene he's gonna die.

He didn't die, and the baby's gonna be zombie.

The baby wasn't a zombie.

No, like Final Scare.

It wasn't that type of movie.

You know.

It definitely wasn't Jump Scare.

No.

The movie I always say, this was beautifully show.

It was beautifully shot.

Really.

It had these like big like expansion scenes.

I don't even know if that's the word expansive.

Yes, thank you, like like it looked great.

It did.

It looked great, and I read it.

They filmed it in Australia, so they were I mean, it wasn't Tasmania, but it wasn't filled in the filmed in the US and some air or Canada, and they're trying to make it to be some like big other sort of area.

So that was nice.

I just think it was well that the writer and director was Zach Hill.

Hill ditch Hill, ditch, ditch that Hill.

Hey put the baby in the ditch ditch.

That bit Hill.

Yeah, And but I think that I just feel like the word that.

Comes to mind is like thoughtful.

It just felt like a thoughtful horror movie in the now.

Look, I'm all for horror movies that aren't thoughtful.

I like stupid horror movies, but this one wasn't.

It was definitely not stupid.

Yeah.

But I also and again, this is the first time in a long time that a horror movie that had lots of themes of grief and acceptance did resonate with.

The end of the world.

Do you remember the movie Red Dawn?

Yeah?

Yeah, okay, remember at the beginning of the nineteen eighty four not the read.

No, I'm not gonna remember specifics.

Well, in the beginning of red down.

There were like men coming out of the sky and there was like red.

It was red.

They had like these It was dawn, it was done and it was red.

But no, it reminded me of read Don just like the constant, just like this is the end, like.

That apocalyptic feel again we've seen in a million movies, and it has this kind of depressing feel to it, like anytime like humanity's been wiped out in any area.

It's not the most uplifting thing.

And and but I was I didn't know, were you expecting that when she found her husband that.

He like I knew he was gonna be dead.

There was no way to go.

But I knew he was dead right when the movie started.

Yeah, yeah, Did you think he would have been revived as a zombe?

Because that I wasn't sure about.

No, but do you no, No, absolutely not, You're an idiot.

No, But you know it came to my mind instantly.

Was the nineteen ninety Night of the Living Dead when Barbara says she goes she has like a famous phrase, She's like, we're them, they're us or do you know what I'm talking about?

I do, I don't know the phrase.

I don't know what word for word, but like it was saying, like, what's differentiating us from them?

Well, you know, it's funny because in this movie, again it's also asking those things, like those questions of if there can be some humanity in the zombies?

Yet why we show humans are the ones who detonated this weapon that like wiped out our entire and entire group of people.

Yes it was an accident, but it's like, who's worse us the zombies?

The zombie dad was actually burying his family.

You know.

There was at one point where Clay and the girl from Star Wars were hiding behind a truck and like there was like a man coming down the road and they were like, oh my gosh, like they're not gonna hurt that man coming down the road, and it was like, oh, you just saw.

The thing is is like you're saying, like they're as soon as anybody would find a zombie fide or a live dead person, the military just goes in and shoots them.

And I think the reason they didn't go the route of, oh, let's study them is because I don't think that was the point of this movie.

I think the point of this movie was to me.

The point of this movie was like acceptance when someone close to you dies, or the want to not accept you know how you've heard about it, like people when they hear about someone dying in like an accent, they don't want to believe it.

Some people don't ever want to move on.

Some people can't move on, and I understand that.

Yeah, well very different.

But yeah, so I feel like this movie like had this message of it's like accepting that people around you do die at some point and you have to move on, but you don't want to.

And even with the dead people that became revived, even the military didn't want to keep them around, just get rid of them.

So it's like everyone has a different level of acceptance for when someone close to them dies.

There's also it's also about like closure and all those like the unsaid things in your life, Like you don't want to leave things unsaid, Like in a way, I've just thought about this the title we Bury the Dead.

It's almost like you bury the things that you don't want to talk about, but you don't get a chance to talk about it.

Then they're buried forever.

Oh my goddamn, I just figured it out.

You really did and one of the things I think she was probably burying is that she probably had the hots for Clay.

She was burying those feelings, right or vice versa.

I think she was burying that.

Do you looked at it that way?

I looked at it like, Wow, this girl's so lucky she gets to ride a motorcycle with that hot eye.

Tim, I wouldn't expect anything different.

He was really hot.

And like rugged, like he was like a man's man, but he.

Was like but he was like a not like rugged, like you know, the sun's been on him, like.

Well, like he had very tan.

It was very tan.

But it's not like she like beard, right, Like it wasn't gruff.

He was like, but he had tattoes and he was very much too.

Oh yeah, he had tattoos and he was just like a drinking, like cussin whatever type of guy.

Right.

You know.

It was when when they had was staying at the hotel, like they'd work all day pulling the bodies out and then they would party at this random hotel, all the volunteers, right, all the volunteers, and like she was in her room, I was like, how could you even sleep?

Like, ah, gotta go to sleep tone.

I know, it's such a bizarre thing.

And also this is I can't believe I'm thinking about this, but it's like, I assume they were volunteers, so they weren't getting paid for this.

So was the company or whatever that got them together?

Are they providing them with.

Meals and they're reading at the hotel?

Oh?

Yeah?

Remember there was one point where it was actually very sad.

They like they were like what looked like craft services.

Obviously it wasn't like the equivalent, right, So they looked over and the mother was like, not my son, no, and they're like like, gotta eat.

Gotta eat.

I know, it is weird, and also it's like I I was there was another question in my mind, and this never had happened when the dead, when they did get agitated, if they attacked and bit you, would you become one?

But I don't think they even wanted to explore that angle of zombies biting and becoming one.

Did we were?

I mean, I guess there was one zombie that tried to attack her, but all the others didn't.

I don't remember did any zombies bite anyone in this?

I don't know.

They weren't about the brains.

They weren't about like canab.

It wasn't about like I got bid, I've become one.

I think that this it's it's weird because it's not even They weren't zombies in a traditional sense of zombies.

They were just like undead revived people.

But they wouldn't turn me because in twenty.

Eight days they got bit and they literally had seconds.

Yeah, and that's how most zombies films are.

I just think they didn't want to.

I think that he set out to make a certain type of movie and he didn't He did want zombies to be a part of it.

But it was so much more than that.

Like we said, it didn't really the zombies were very secondary.

It wasn't like a pulp culture like zombie film, like hey look at us where zombies and it was like, hey, look at this possibility of us messing up and all these people dying.

Yeah, and like a very understandable thing.

If some weapon killed a ton of people in a certain part of the country and everybody lost people close to them, there'd be a ton of unresolved business that people didn't get to say to significant others.

There'd probably be couples like that who had parted during a fight, like these are real world types of things.

Obviously, the zombies was just like an added horror element, and I'm happy for it.

Again, I don't think that this is I'm happy that for that horror element.

I think that I think that this movie, even if you don't look too deeply into like the meeting.

Obviously we talked about it.

But I think if you don't, even if you don't look too deeply into the meaning of this movie, you can still enjoy it for what it is.

It's you're gonna think about those unresolved feelings with people you've lost because you just have to.

That's what the movie's about.

But I think this also can be enjoyable even without all those metaphors.

I actually think it's one of those like what would you do in this situation kind of movies, And I like that it was asking questions for you, like morally, like what would you do?

And I thought, I like that.

Yeah, I mean because it's not like like on your T shirt, like that's just fun.

It's pol Oh yeah, that was just fun.

It was kind of like comedic zombies that whole movie Where were you?

But you were you laughing during this movie all the time.

I think I was laughing, but just inappropriately.

I don't.

I think the only time we laughed during this movie is because they had so Tim and I had a dumb thing in the movie theater where every time they do a flashback of the husband, we were like, oh my god, he's alive.

He's like she found them, she found the movies.

It's a flashback, but like we were just being done, but they were.

There was a lot of them.

There were, Yeah, there was a lot of flashbacks.

I mean it's I was like, don't forget.

She's still focusing on her husband.

Everybody.

I guess, how else will we learn about their dynamic since he's already dead?

Well, I mean again, if I remember the movie correctly, the first time they showed the husband, she's like, you have something in your teeth?

Like I was like so funny that I don't remember that.

I just remember their wedding and the dance and the pregnancy.

I thought they were guests at weddings.

No, I think that was the wedding.

Was he?

I don't know.

She flashed back to somebody else's what well, I mean, like you people's dror Drew.

I just thought she was like dressed to the nine.

She was white at another lady's wedding.

You're burying the dead.

I am burying Tim.

There's something in your teeth?

Is there?

No?

I just had Sarah Patchkin.

I'm interested to see more from this filmmaker.

I didn't recognize anything that he had done because he's only done a handful of films.

But he did do Did you see nineteen twenty two?

No, I at least saw nineteen twenty three.

That's not like something.

It was an adaptation of one of Stephen King's No.

I remember when it came out.

I did not see it.

I didn't see it either, about like a guy and his son, who I guess murders his wife.

Dark also But anyway, he did that movie and he did some other ones.

But I think that I don't know.

You know again, this isn't I'll say this about this movie.

First off, I recommend seeing it if you can too.

It's playing in limited theaters, which means it's not going to be at every little theater down the block.

But if you can see it, find a theater, see it.

If not see it, why it looks like a big budget film, or it's such a little budget that they made it look like a big budget.

I think that it was definitely not a big budget film.

I can't find the budget.

It was in some film festivals last year.

I guess it released initially at south By Southwest, which is huge, of course, and did pretty well there.

It's gotten good reviews.

Again, this is more of an I guess i'd call it like an artsy zombie movie, because it isn't your regular zombie.

I agree, yeah, but I.

Think it was a good one.

And you know what, I am pleasantly surprised that the first movie we reviewed in twenty six was a movie we actually liked, because I wasn't expecting many in January that we would like.

I am currently writing a signal.

I'm writing, how do you write a signal?

Tell me?

I am currently writing a sequel.

It's called what We Bury Our Feelings?

And with that, everyone don't bury your feelings.

Tell everyone you love that you love them.

Live like it's your Latin kidding.

I'm not gonna do all that.

Inspiration.

Yes, yes, have a happy hord time.

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