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Podcast Number 9, The Last

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Man on Earth, 1964. Warning!

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Spoilers ahead. We

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love to revel in generational differences. The

1:01

boomers are all like, whereas

1:04

the millennials are so, and Gen

1:06

Z, wow. And don't even

1:08

get me started on Gen X. And

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culturally, every generation is

1:12

different because they have

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different technologies, styles, music,

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lingo, economic circumstances, etc.

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Someone born in 1972 is going to have a

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different sense of humor and way of communicating than

1:23

someone born in 2002, of course. But

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as different as generations can be, this

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notion is actually pretty universal. You can't

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take a snapshot of any 40 year

1:33

old at any point in history that

1:35

didn't think the kids weren't pieces of

1:37

shit and absolute idiots. It's

1:39

just that we didn't actually start naming generations until

1:41

the 1940s when the baby

1:44

boomers came around. The boomers were

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such a notable group of births in America's

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post-war era that we named them after

1:51

the boom. And it actually takes

1:53

until the 1980s before we start thinking about

1:55

what the next generation will be called, let

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alone what their archetype will be. get

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Generation X borrowed from Douglas Copeland. Gen

2:02

X, having grown up latchkey kids in

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the suburbs, are feral and quiet. They're

2:06

disaffected and shady, but are they? I

2:08

don't know. I see Gen X qualities

2:10

in me as a 1975 birth,

2:13

but also I can see aspects

2:15

of myself that confirm I'm Virgo

2:17

Rising. It's just archetypes. It's true-ish.

2:21

The naming of the generations didn't change

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the fact that 19-year-olds are funny, smart,

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and fucking annoying, whether they were born

2:28

in 2005 or 1935. What generational naming

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did was give us all

2:35

teams to play for. The

2:37

Boomers are self-important assholes, but

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Gen X were self-reliant and

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unintrusive millennials, self-flagellating whiners with

2:43

twee tastes, but Gen Z,

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they're self-loving opportunists who think

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they've invented everything. Yay,

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my team. Fuck your team. That's really it.

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But thinking old people are out of touch

2:53

grumps and young people are ignorant idealists has

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nothing to do with the year you were

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born. This week's film, 1964's

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The Last Man on Earth, like the Richard

3:02

Matheson novel it's based on, deals

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with generational transition, even if the

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generational transition isn't specifically about age

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or year you were born. Dr.

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Robert Morgan is the last of

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his kind, and the new ones

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are coming up. They fear and

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loathe him as he fears and

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loathes them. But are they

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really that different? The new vampires will

3:23

try to restart society. World history is

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littered with revolutions that lead always to

3:28

the same place, disparity and discontent,

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lather, rinse, repeat. We all think we're

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going to do it right this time.

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Hi Cecil. Hi Jeffrey. What's

3:37

your favorite dish that features

3:39

garlic? I mean, there

3:41

is something to be said about

3:43

just roasted garlic. Just spread on

3:45

toast. Yeah. Just

3:47

straight up little salty garlic on toast.

3:49

It's so yummy. Oh, it's all num,

3:52

num, num. I love garlic. I love

3:54

garlic so much. I mean, garlic

3:56

is it like there's no favorite dish because it

3:59

just makes like If it doesn't have garlic

4:01

in it, is it a dish? Yes.

4:03

Breakfast cereal. Yes.

4:06

Porridge. Absolutely. A

4:08

little fruity pebble, shave a little

4:10

black garlic on top. French toast.

4:13

Oh, yes. Give

4:15

me that black garlic French toast. I

4:18

remember when I worked in Dallas

4:20

back in my 20s, I remember my friend

4:22

Tim, like if we were at the theater,

4:24

if we were working late or something, if

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he would order pizzas, there's

4:28

a local pizza place and Tim always got

4:31

just a hamburger pizza with garlic and they

4:33

just did just thick ass lumps

4:35

of garlic all through that pizza. And

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hamburger pizza is so kind of boring.

4:40

But when you slap giant chunks of garlic

4:42

on that thing, it was so good. Oh, yes.

4:45

I mean, it sounds like a meatball. It's

4:47

like a meatball pizza. Yeah, that's basically it.

4:49

Yeah. It's one of my favorite

4:51

things actually just when I'm making

4:54

food, like chopping garlic,

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it's so satisfying to like smash it with your

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knife and then just do that just hard rough

5:01

cut all over. That's great. Oh,

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yeah. So much

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fun. And the smell too, I was just, during this

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movie, there's so much about the smell of garlic and

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the presence of garlic that I

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just started thinking, I was like, oh man, I started

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this too late. I wish I was making dinner. I

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wish I could just do like that. You know,

5:19

when you brown it, you start browning the onions

5:21

and then you throw the garlic in for a

5:23

minute. Smell is overwhelmingly good.

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Oh, yeah. Top three favorite smells.

5:29

Absolutely. Essentially, what I'm saying

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is me and you, totally not vampires. Totally

5:35

not vampires yet. This

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movie really would have been a good like

5:43

dinner in a movie, kind of

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like to pair. Like there's some movies that

5:47

lend themselves, others that don't. And this one,

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garlic and steak, I think would be

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the meal for this movie. I

5:54

was thinking a lot about this movie when I

5:57

was kind of just jotting down notes about how

5:59

approachable it is for for someone who's horror

6:01

averse, because it really is very

6:03

approachable when you talk about a movie that

6:06

doesn't have any blood. Doesn't

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really have any jump scares

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to speak of. It doesn't,

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it fits more like

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a sci-fi thriller maybe,

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but I think more than anything, it's just,

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it's, you know, I

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mentioned it being about like generational transition

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that kind of has an air of that to

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it. But ultimately this movie is just about loneliness.

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It's just about being alone. And there's something

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about eating food that

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makes you feel comforted that

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I think this movie needs that pairing. Especially

6:41

if you live alone, cooking for one, cooking

6:44

for one, is there anything

6:46

more sad than cooking for one? You're

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like, I'm gonna make this big old meal

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and I'm gonna eat a quarter of it.

6:55

Ah, this is substance for my

6:57

body. Okay, I

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did that. Now my body is fed.

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Cheers to me. Cheers to me. I

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clink my own glass. I

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was just thinking about how much in

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the 20th century, like the mid

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to late 20th century, we were

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horror films. There was a lot of Richard

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Matheson stuff happening. This is another

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Richard Matheson novel, which is based off of

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the novel I Am Legend, which

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was later made into, oh,

7:29

I think The Omega Man is. The

7:31

Omega Man. And I Am Legend with Will

7:33

Smith. And I did realize, I found out

7:35

that he also wrote The Incredible Shrinking Man

7:37

as well. Yes. Which

7:40

is also a movie about isolation

7:42

and loneliness. Yeah. And

7:44

when we did a trilogy of

7:46

terror, the little fetish doll, one,

7:49

the African fetish doll, that

7:51

is based off of his novella or short

7:54

story. Oh, interesting. As well,

7:56

yeah. Also about isolation and loneliness.

7:58

Uh-huh. I think. We have a

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theme here. We sure do. It's

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so funny because I think

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when the algorithm says, well, if you like

8:08

this, you'll like this. I

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will be the human algorithm and say, if

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you like Ray Bradbury, you'll love Richard Matheson.

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So, yeah, get after it. I've not read any of his stuff.

8:19

It's very of that time. It's very

8:21

of that mid-century. He's

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right there with, I would say, Ray Bradbury

8:26

as far as these creepy,

8:28

interesting, cool stories. There's

8:31

so much Bradbury and Matheson

8:33

DNA and Stephen King writing. Okay.

8:35

To this day too. So,

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let's talk about this movie

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starring our beloved Vincent Price.

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The last man on earth.

8:45

Such a good opening

8:47

set of shots of the empty city

8:50

streets. Yeah. They

8:53

go out of their way to not say the

8:55

name of the city or state that they're in

8:57

in this movie, but the novel takes place in

8:59

Los Angeles. It takes

9:02

place in, I believe in Compton actually

9:04

is the neighborhood Compton, Englewood area, South

9:06

LA. Okay. But

9:09

these empty city shots, empty

9:11

apartment buildings, streets, just no

9:14

one outside, no cars moving,

9:17

the blazing sun, the kind

9:19

of hazy, dusty air, the

9:22

dreary music. And then we start seeing

9:24

dead bodies just strewn on steps in

9:26

the road. There'll be like two or

9:29

three. Yes. This

9:31

is not, the masses have been

9:33

wiped out and are like ... And

9:36

I think that's the thing is we've

9:38

evolved so much in our understanding of,

9:41

quote, the end of the world,

9:43

unquote, since 1964. There

9:46

was quite a few moments where I was like, I feel

9:48

like there'd be more bodies. Yeah.

9:51

I feel like there would be less

9:54

groceries, less

9:56

gas, like if it's a warning

9:58

of a heavy No, those

10:01

grocery stores are empty. This

10:04

is like he's like, doop-a-doop-a-do, shopping, shopping.

10:06

Oh, look, sides of beef, you know.

10:09

Right. I

10:12

will get to I have questions about

10:14

how good any of that food is

10:16

still in those grocery store. Absolutely. Like

10:18

who grew that garlic? How

10:21

long has that beef been in

10:23

the tele counter? Three years, three

10:25

years. It's interesting. This

10:27

movie, this movie is like this

10:30

movie was an Italian production and it was

10:32

shot in Rome. And, you

10:34

know, Vincent Price is kind of very famously on

10:36

record for saying, you know what

10:38

city does not look like Los Angeles? Rome.

10:42

Correct. And apparently,

10:44

like shooting this movie was really difficult because they would

10:46

have to get up at the crack of dawn before

10:49

the cops were out and kind of shoot

10:51

it guerrilla style because this was a super

10:53

low budget movie. And there's

10:55

actually one take. I think it's with Ruth.

10:58

It's either with Ruth, maybe with the wife. No,

11:00

I think that like you can see

11:02

her breath. Like they're so

11:04

like it is so cold. She

11:07

you could actually visibly see her breath. Amazing.

11:11

You know, just a nice chilly Los

11:13

Angeles morning. This

11:18

also this intro has one of my favorite

11:21

apocalypse movie tropes, because I think we got our

11:23

style was or scare was into the world is

11:25

how we got to the I think. Which

11:28

it has the community church and that's the name

11:31

of it, by the way. Community church. And they

11:33

have a movable type sign that just says the

11:35

end has come. And that

11:38

cracks me up because I'm just thinking about like church

11:41

people and pastors like what a

11:43

cynical pastor. Like there's no

11:46

gather together in our time of need messaging.

11:48

There's none of the like we're going to

11:50

not even a Bible verse. No, no, it

11:53

is. You're fucked.

11:55

Good luck. Yes, baby. And

11:58

that was probably like the janitor. You

12:00

know, whoever showed up, the last person to

12:02

show up at work that day. He's

12:05

like, I don't know. This is the end. Goodbye.

12:09

And we see Dr. Robert Morgan played by

12:11

Vincent Price asleep in his house and his

12:13

alarm goes off and we get a lot

12:15

of voiceover. This

12:17

movie has two really,

12:19

really rough framing devices. One

12:22

is the constant voiceover is, I

12:26

think of an era, I think we don't really,

12:28

we try not to do voiceover as much anymore

12:30

unless it's doing something more than narrating. And

12:33

the other thing was the middle, I

12:36

would say third of this movie is

12:38

just one big flashback. Oh yeah. Back

12:41

to his life. Yeah, it is a solid

12:43

three actor. It's like act one, a day

12:45

in the life of the last man on earth. Act

12:48

two, life before the fall. Act

12:50

three, the others. Yes.

12:55

We see his calendars and he says, it's been three years, 1965 to

12:57

1968. Another

13:02

day to live through, better get started. I

13:04

mean, it's three years. Is that

13:06

all it's been since I inherited the world?

13:10

Is what he said. Now, I have

13:12

to say, this movie, this movie is

13:14

older. This movie is, for

13:16

all of its negative critique

13:18

on the, you could say it's a little bit

13:20

slow paced. It's got some clunky narration.

13:24

When you start your movie with another day,

13:26

I got to get

13:29

up. I was like, oh no, this is

13:31

going to be a hard watch for anybody

13:33

with depression. Because I

13:36

have felt that so many times where I'm

13:38

like, well, here we go

13:40

again. The sun has

13:42

risen. Did you get some strong

13:44

like 2020 depression vibes from this? Did you,

13:46

I started feeling back to summer of 2020

13:48

of just, well, same as you just said,

13:57

another day to live through. You can't go anywhere. You

13:59

can't go out. I thought I

14:02

was living in the country as well. And so you

14:04

just like there's, I

14:06

know the city was a whole big thing at the

14:08

time too, of going through the

14:10

early pandemic times. But yeah, this movie brings

14:13

that all back, or at least it did

14:15

for me. It

14:17

was not horror

14:20

scary, but horror

14:22

sad, horror tragic. Like

14:25

horror on we. Horror on we,

14:27

that's the word I'm looking for. I

14:30

like your framing of like the three acts, right? Like

14:32

act one is kind of day in the life. He's

14:36

got garlic wreaths all over his

14:38

house. He's marking days.

14:40

He's got security. Yep. He's

14:44

got a station wagon and he's

14:46

got a generator. He's all set.

14:48

The world, everyone is wiped out on the planet.

14:52

And he kind of just has access

14:54

to whatever he wants. And

14:56

he's going to go through his day. He's

14:58

going to try the shortwave radio once

15:00

again to no avail. Yep. No.

15:04

And he also is going to run some errands. He's

15:06

got his daily chore list is one,

15:10

today he realizes he doesn't have

15:12

enough mirrors, these vampire

15:14

beasts that only come out at

15:16

night. So he's got the whole day to do whatever he wants.

15:20

They don't like garlic. They don't like mirrors.

15:23

The movie stays away from,

15:25

they don't like crosses, which

15:27

is really interesting. They

15:30

kind of steer clear of the, they're diving

15:32

into the vampire tropes, but they don't really

15:34

get into the crosses, keep

15:37

the vampires away, which I found

15:39

sort of interesting. It's pretty secular

15:41

vampires. I think when I

15:43

watched this movie as a younger person,

15:45

I was really impressed

15:48

with that. Yeah. Like

15:51

we're using the term vampire and

15:53

garlic and, you know, stakes through

15:55

the heart and all that, but

15:57

really they're not vampires. No,

16:00

they don't have the classic vampire feel,

16:02

which is always very kind of rooted

16:04

in religion. Yeah.

16:06

And I was like, I was really fascinated

16:09

by that. They're like, we're going to science

16:11

the fuck out of vampires. This

16:14

movie was an inspiration to George A. Romero.

16:17

Oh, yeah. Later this decade would do

16:19

four years later would do Night of the Living

16:22

Dead, which is another movie

16:24

that has zombie at the core. This

16:26

movie has vampire at the core, but

16:29

both are very similar when

16:32

you look at how the undead move

16:34

in Last Man on Earth and the

16:36

undead in Night of the Living Dead

16:39

and how they sort of behave, the

16:42

idea that there's something that has just run

16:44

through the bodies of the dead

16:46

and has brought them back to life.

16:50

The other errands he's got to run is

16:52

basically to clear the dead bodies off of

16:54

his front lawn because he's got dead on

16:56

dead on his

16:58

front lawn and take them to

17:00

the big fire pit out on the edge of

17:02

town. You know, you got to

17:04

run to the dump every once in a while. I got to

17:06

drive out to Marina Del Rey or wherever

17:08

that is. I don't know. No, it's actually

17:11

looks up in the hills. So Eagle Rock,

17:13

I guess is where the big pit of fire is.

17:16

Yeah, I found this really interesting,

17:18

the kind of the notion that you

17:20

would just have all day to do

17:23

whatever you want and then all night

17:25

you just got to be boarded up in your house so

17:27

he can go get more fuel for his car

17:29

and for his generator. He can go to the

17:31

mirror store, which I love that

17:34

there's a whole ass mirror store. Whole

17:36

ass mirror store. I love how carefully

17:38

Vincent Price chooses these mirrors. He's like,

17:40

no, too gaudy. No,

17:42

that one has a weird hanging thing.

17:44

I'll just take these square ones. Okay,

17:47

great. Done, done, done. Such

17:50

solid practical choice because later he's going to have

17:52

to hold those mirrors up to the, you know,

17:54

he's going to have to fend off the undead

17:56

vampire people. You need something portable. Yeah. No,

17:59

yeah, you don't need a... a big you

18:01

do not need a full size wall mirror in

18:03

that situation. No. Uh,

18:05

he also runs to the store to get more

18:07

garlic out of their deep

18:10

freeze or whatever. I'm like, how

18:12

long does garlic last in

18:14

the fridge? And also who's growing that

18:16

garlic? Is that three year

18:18

old garlic? Because that

18:20

would be mush. Yeah, this, this movie

18:23

doesn't really consider a few things. Like

18:25

one, gasoline goes bad. Oh, I didn't

18:27

think about that. And yeah, gasoline definitely

18:29

goes bad. It's a little bit

18:31

like your medicines. They

18:33

go bad too, but it's, it's

18:36

sort of nebulous as to how long, like it

18:38

doesn't have like an exact clock on it. But

18:41

at a certain point, gas is no good. Gasoline

18:43

is no good. I can't imagine

18:45

garlic lasts that long. Who's

18:47

growing the coffee beans? You know, I'm sure there's a

18:50

lot of coffee to be had, but you

18:52

know, listen, there's a lot of food store for you

18:54

if you become the last person on earth. But

18:57

fresh food is not going to be old.

19:01

Yeah. But I do,

19:03

I think it's interesting that this movie takes

19:05

that they're like, you know what? We're not

19:07

going to worry about the practicalities of this.

19:09

It's really more about you're the

19:11

last man on earth. You have everything

19:13

at your disposal. It's

19:15

not about the, the sort

19:17

of the hunting foraging aspect of human

19:20

life. It's really about the, okay, you

19:22

have everything you need. Now

19:24

what do you do when you get the sads?

19:26

Yeah. Yeah. And

19:29

I do appreciate it. I'm kind of

19:31

like nitpicking about the unrealisticness of that.

19:33

For sure. But no, as

19:35

soon as he walked into that grocery store and

19:37

those, like the shelves were

19:39

fully stocked, I was like, oh girl,

19:42

this food. What happened?

19:45

Did everyone like, I mean, and it's really

19:47

interesting, you know, movies about contagion. There

19:50

is like, everybody

19:52

doesn't get sick at the same rate. You

19:55

know, people go on, you know,

19:58

like again, going back to

20:00

20. 2020, when people were like, we need toilet

20:02

paper, all the toilet paper, all the paper towels.

20:05

There's a shortage on paper towels

20:07

and hand sanitizer. Yeah,

20:10

he's definitely in the throes of

20:12

depression. He talks in this opening

20:14

act about how eating

20:17

bores him now, that it's

20:19

just fuel for survival, which

20:21

again, going back to early

20:23

pandemic times, right, where you're

20:25

just, well, we're here all

20:27

day and then we're just going to make more

20:29

food to eat the food and then to watch

20:32

the movie to stare at the wall to

20:35

lather, rinse, repeat. He's

20:38

also drinking very heavily.

20:41

The movie doesn't deal super hard with it,

20:43

but I know, you know,

20:46

the book deals with his alcoholism a little

20:48

bit harder, but we see

20:50

it demonstrated in here that he

20:52

is hung over one day after

20:54

drinking a whole fifth of... He

20:57

loses an entire day in the church. Yeah.

21:00

You know, and he makes a mention that, you

21:03

know, he's like, I'm so frustrated,

21:05

but I cannot let anger overtake me

21:07

because reason is the only thing that

21:09

protects me. And

21:12

I do find it really interesting about

21:15

the threat of the undead at night,

21:18

because when we first see them come

21:20

out at night, he makes it back home this

21:22

first day, just in time, we're good. He gets

21:24

in, he locks the doors, he puts the new

21:26

garlic wreath up, everything's all set, and

21:29

these zombie-like vampire undead

21:31

creatures come with sticks and they're

21:33

just banging on his windows, boarded

21:36

up windows going, come out,

21:38

Morgan, we'll kill you. Come

21:40

out, Morgan, you hear? Morgan.

21:43

Morgan. Yeah. Morgan.

21:46

I love this because the movie

21:48

tells you, it's not hokey.

21:51

The movie is actually telling you, these

21:53

are slow threats. You know, they'll get

21:56

you if you're not careful, but

21:58

ultimately they can't do... much they're pretty weak.

22:02

Yeah. They're pretty stupid.

22:04

Yeah. And ultimately,

22:06

the real horror, the

22:08

scare in this is the

22:11

sadness. It's the disaffectedness,

22:14

the loneliness, the Gen

22:16

X qualities,

22:18

the latchkey kid just- Counting the

22:20

hours. Yeah, counting the hours. I

22:23

think there's an interesting kind of

22:25

parallel to be drawn between kind

22:28

of the relentless zombie,

22:32

ineffectual Morgan, we're

22:35

outside, come out and play, Morgan,

22:37

come out, Morgan. And the

22:39

wind in act two, the sort of, it's

22:42

not going to kill you. Well, I mean, it might, if

22:44

it has these weird space germs or whatever the fuck,

22:47

but it's that thing of like, it's not

22:50

tornado level wind. It's

22:53

not frantic zombies

22:55

ripping down walls. It's

22:58

just constant scratching.

23:02

And it's the consistency that is like, really

23:06

frightening in a not

23:08

jump scare. It's the opposite of a jump

23:10

scare. It's a long, slow boil kind

23:13

of scare. Yeah, it's that

23:15

outside, those outside noises of something is

23:17

always wanting to get in, you know,

23:19

a modern movie, like it follows kind

23:22

of has this, there's always something that

23:24

is just on your heels, that

23:26

is just always coming for you. It knows

23:28

where you are. And it's moving very slowly.

23:30

It's not hard to get away from in

23:32

the short term. Just

23:35

like with Dr. Morgan can get away

23:37

from his depression with alcohol in the

23:39

short term. Sure. But at a certain

23:42

point, it makes it worse, you know,

23:44

and yeah, and it becomes harder and

23:46

harder. And it's also relentless, like it's

23:48

unceasing. Yeah. Yeah. I

23:51

mean, I don't think it helps that he's

23:53

playing like jazz records and

23:55

his lights are all ablaze. Yeah. Which I

23:57

know the movie I Am Legend does much

24:00

more about. sort of survivalist kind of take

24:02

on it of like hiding your tracks, making

24:05

sure your compound is, you

24:08

know, safe and secure, but also hidden.

24:11

This movie has none of that. Like they

24:13

know his name, they know his address. I

24:16

found some critique online that somebody wrote something

24:18

that was like, Oh, I didn't think about

24:20

this, which is, why doesn't

24:22

he just move? I mean, all he'd have

24:24

to do is

24:27

just pick a new house and

24:29

they'd have no idea where he

24:31

was. But he is so in

24:33

his own depression that

24:35

even that is too much for him. That's

24:37

it. That's totally it. He is a character

24:40

who cannot get out of

24:42

his own way of doing things, which is sort

24:44

of why it made me think of like the

24:46

generational differences. It was

24:48

a very strong thread in the book

24:51

and very strong here in the movie too of

24:54

he doesn't believe that

24:56

the plague is happening when it

24:58

first comes out. Yeah. He definitely

25:00

is while his partner

25:02

Ben, who later is kind of the

25:05

lead of the undead zombies, but his

25:07

lab partner at the science

25:09

workshop that he's at, you

25:12

know, Ben is the first one to be like, dude,

25:14

these are fucking vampires. He's

25:16

like, no, no, we don't believe in vampires.

25:18

That's not, you young kids these days with

25:20

your crazy. Just don't believe anything you see

25:23

on TikTok. The

25:25

world is vampires. Yeah. Okay.

25:28

Billy Corgan. No, let me do

25:30

my scientific research on bacilli. And

25:33

it's interesting how he like Dr. Morgan,

25:35

like flip flops, like

25:38

in that act too, he really does. He

25:40

like everything Ben says is like

25:42

he, no, no, no, no,

25:44

no, no, we got to burn the bodies. Burning is

25:46

the best way. Then

25:49

later he's like, maybe

25:51

not, maybe now that it's come home, it's a

25:53

little more personal, maybe not the best way. He

25:56

just is very stubborn. He's a

25:58

one track mind. And. Yeah. I

26:01

think that is a trait of getting older

26:03

too. You

26:05

know, you kind of know what has always worked for

26:07

you and what has worked for the world and you

26:10

find what you believe in that works

26:12

and you do that thing. And when

26:15

something new comes about, it's

26:17

very hard to accept that

26:19

new thing. And

26:22

so now that he's had to accept this

26:24

new thing over the last three years, it

26:27

becomes very hard for him to get

26:31

rid of anything that was old. He

26:33

cannot let go of his wife. He

26:35

cannot let go of his house. He cannot

26:37

let go of his routine. His daughter.

26:39

I mean, like he has those dolls. Like

26:42

when he's sort of going through his daily

26:44

thing, he's like, well, he certainly has a

26:46

lot of dolls. And then we see later

26:49

why he's sort of holding on to this

26:51

past. Yeah. And

26:53

it ultimately is going to be his undoing

26:55

at the end when he cannot leave his

26:57

house, even though he's been forewarned. He

27:00

has an opportunity to get out and he's like, no, no,

27:02

no, no, no. I can

27:04

still solve this with science. She's

27:06

like, no, no, you can't actually. That's

27:09

not where we're at anymore. And

27:11

I'm the cure. Yeah. I'm the cure.

27:15

Yeah. They're like, yeah, but we don't really

27:17

want to be cured anymore. Yeah. No,

27:19

we don't actually. We actually have a pretty cool way

27:21

of doing things here. And we

27:24

don't need your corrections, old man.

27:26

Oop. Oop. The

27:28

other thing that I haven't mentioned yet, which is

27:30

what he does during his daytime errand runs is

27:33

he just goes block by block. He

27:35

has a map of the city and

27:37

he makes stakes on his wood turner,

27:39

makes wooden stakes and he goes door

27:41

to door, finds sleeping

27:44

vampires, wakes their asses up and kills them

27:46

with a stake. Yeah. This

27:49

sequence is interesting

27:52

because it's so disaffected, like

27:55

in an action in a more action

27:57

oriented horror movie, this would be like.

28:00

fraught with tension, you

28:02

know, you know, sneaking

28:04

into houses and struggle.

28:07

This is like just one

28:09

lazy swing of a hammer done.

28:12

Another lazy swing of a hammer done.

28:15

Yeah, he's going around and the look

28:17

on his face is not evil

28:20

villain. It's not hardworking superhero.

28:22

It's just a guy running errands.

28:24

It's the same face you have

28:26

when you're walking

28:29

your clothes to the laundromat. Yeah,

28:31

pumping gas. And when you're pumping gas, that

28:33

is all there is. I

28:35

was so impressed with this movie. I think it's

28:38

so, I think it

28:40

sets in such an interesting tone. It

28:42

really commits to this

28:45

theme of loneliness and depression

28:47

and isolation. And also

28:49

just the day to day

28:51

of what you have to do. Again,

28:53

as to bring up Brecht, but that was

28:55

my upbringing in writing and the way he

28:58

talked about how you build a scene, how

29:00

you make scenes for actors. And

29:04

what somebody does is so important to who

29:06

they are. But more important

29:09

than that is how they do it. And

29:12

that tells you as the audience how

29:15

to react. And

29:18

the other thing Brecht had always talked about with his

29:20

heroes and anti-heroes and villains and all of that,

29:22

which is he

29:25

wanted the audience to laugh when the character

29:27

cried or to cry when the character

29:30

laughed. And we have a

29:32

great scene in here, a couple of moments

29:34

where Vincent Price starts laughing and

29:36

you feel sick at his laughter.

29:39

And then that laughter turns to tears. Like

29:42

it's literally, I have to laugh to keep from crying,

29:44

but he ends up doing both. He

29:48

wonders how many more of these stakes am I

29:50

going to have to make before all of them

29:52

are destroyed? A

29:54

lot, my dude. World population

29:56

at this time is probably a couple

29:58

of billion. So good luck. You

30:01

know, he has to haul them in his station

30:03

wagon out to the pit of fire

30:06

and throw those bodies in. Again,

30:08

does he? Is

30:11

he just making more work for himself? Yeah,

30:14

he is. Like, you

30:16

know, this idea, like, we're going to establish the pit

30:20

in Act Two, and he's kind of

30:22

committed to the pit, I think, for traumatic

30:24

reasons. Yes. But it's

30:26

interesting, this idea of, well, you've got

30:28

lots of gasoline. Why not just, there's

30:30

bodies littering the road. If

30:33

you're worried about those bodies, just set

30:35

them ablaze where they sit. Yeah.

30:38

You know, I mean, maybe that's a hazard.

30:40

I don't know. Fire hazard. Well,

30:43

yeah, you could get ticketed for that, Cecil. Oh, is that? That's

30:45

a misdemeanor. Yeah. Oh, man. You

30:48

can't just be set in fires anywhere in

30:50

a post-apocalyptic world. Yeah. Yeah,

30:52

I think that's it. I

30:55

love that you brought up the trauma. Yeah,

30:57

he is traumatically bonded to that fire pit,

30:59

as we'll see in the second act. Why?

31:02

Yeah, again, I think he just doesn't know

31:04

how to get out of his old way

31:07

of thinking about things about us versus them,

31:09

about survival. And it's

31:11

funny that given how the

31:13

undead that harass him at his home every night

31:16

just are so ineffectual. Yeah.

31:20

Like, they have two by fours

31:23

and they kind of knock down a plank

31:25

of wood every once in a while. But

31:28

it's really like, it's like watching a

31:30

moth try to get into your

31:32

house. It is not. He

31:34

sits them out like we would a mild

31:36

hailstorm, you know? Yeah. Like,

31:39

yeah, they're going to cause some damage, but

31:41

ultimately you're safe inside. And

31:43

he somehow feels like whatever

31:46

these undead things are, they're

31:50

obviously harmful to the world and I need to go

31:52

out and kill them. I need to go out and

31:54

hunt them. It is very like, colonialist

31:56

thinking, it's very manifest destiny thinking, it

31:59

is very much the way in which

32:01

we kill off plants and

32:03

animals to make room for humans.

32:05

And he is just reliving that

32:07

exact thing just as a solo

32:09

person. Yeah, square by square, block

32:11

by block. If I just continue

32:14

every day and just do a little bit every day, I

32:17

will have successfully

32:19

become the last man on earth. And

32:22

I think more than anything, he's just

32:24

depressed and he needs a thing to do. And this

32:27

gives him a purpose. It fills

32:29

his life with some purpose,

32:31

whatever that is. Okay,

32:35

so on the second

32:37

day, he goes up to the church

32:41

that his wife

32:43

is... Well,

32:45

his wife isn't... I don't

32:47

know, she's not buried there, but he's

32:50

leaning over like... I don't know. Yeah,

32:52

it's weird because we're going to get into what happened

32:54

to his wife, but I don't know

32:56

if he... He's leaning

32:58

over a beer, like a tomb sort

33:01

of thing. Yeah,

33:03

it's like a tomb, like a

33:05

marble coffin, which I do wonder

33:07

if his wife is

33:10

actually in there. I think she probably

33:12

is, is my guess. But

33:14

he spends the day kind of in a

33:17

hungover stupor, praying

33:19

over, talking to Virginia, his dead

33:21

wife. He loses track

33:23

of time. And he's like, oh

33:25

shit, it's already sunset. And

33:29

he's got a... There's

33:31

all the zombie vampire people outside

33:33

being like, he's just pushing them

33:35

over and kind of... Yeah,

33:38

just one push, down they go. Five

33:41

or six at a time, no problem.

33:44

There's no sense of... And this is the

33:46

case in the book too, there's no sense

33:48

of infection. So

33:51

he gets bitten by

33:53

his wife in the book, but

33:55

he doesn't get infected. I mean, we do

33:58

mention that maybe he's immune to it. later

34:01

on. But yeah, he

34:04

in a zombie movie, you're like, I cannot, even

34:06

if they're slow, weak zombies,

34:08

I can't go out there and fist fight

34:10

them. Yeah, because

34:12

there is that risk of

34:14

cross contamination. But he

34:16

gets back to his house. And there's

34:18

Ben and the other zombies, you know, slowly

34:21

coming at them, but he gets through them

34:23

with his mirror. That

34:25

mirror. Look at yourself.

34:29

Look at yourself. Oh,

34:31

I can't. I look

34:34

terrible. Oh,

34:36

God. And

34:39

then when he gets back home, he starts watching

34:42

old movies of his

34:44

wife and kid at the circus. And listen,

34:48

I've watched a lot of old home

34:50

movies from when my granddad

34:52

had a Super 8 back in

34:54

the 70s and 80s. But

34:57

he apparently hired like a DP,

34:59

like a professional to do these home

35:01

movies. It

35:03

is very much this is not what home

35:05

movies look like. And

35:08

I think this is where some of the low budget, you

35:10

know, sort of hammer horror, Italian horror kind

35:13

of creeps in a little bit where they're

35:15

like, look at this beautiful wife with her

35:17

bouffant hair and her child. But

35:20

it's like from five rows back,

35:22

like he's like on stage at

35:24

a circus and then cut to

35:26

a perfect shot of like a

35:28

very obviously like stock footage of

35:32

circus, just generic circus. Look

35:34

at chimpanzee. Right. Completely

35:36

different film stock. Yeah. But

35:39

yeah, he's all got like Roger Deakins out

35:41

here like running the camera for it. Yeah,

35:43

that's amazing. But he's this is his he

35:46

laughs wickedly at the tragedy of life

35:49

that morphs into just sobbing.

35:52

Yeah, broken up only by Ben Corten

35:55

pounding at the door being like Morgan

35:57

come out. Flashback

35:59

Cecil. Act two. Yes.

36:02

Three years ago, we're at a kid's birthday

36:05

party. This is for little Kathy and

36:07

all of her friends and all

36:10

the parents and whoever else. It's just back

36:13

in the normal times. Just the normal times.

36:15

Look, it's look how innocent. He

36:18

tries to film his wife, Virginia. Oh, no, my

36:20

makeup, my hair. I know. The

36:24

60s were rough. But like, she's like, oh, no,

36:26

my hair, my makeup. Her hair is

36:28

perfectly done. It's

36:30

like huge. And then

36:32

she really goes, oh, oh. Yes. Oh,

36:36

no, no, I couldn't I couldn't possibly be

36:38

filmed. Oh, but since you're already

36:40

rolling. In my pearls and

36:42

tweed suit. I

36:48

love this quick reveal. So we

36:50

got these really quick setups. Kids birthday party. Oh,

36:52

Virginia, just the time when they were, you know,

36:54

when she was still alive and everything was going

36:57

great. And then we hear

36:59

little Kathy, their daughter be like, it's Uncle

37:01

Ben. And here comes Ben

37:03

Cortland, who has been the head

37:05

zombie in present day. This took me a

37:08

minute. This took me like a scene and

37:10

a half to put that together. Yeah. Ben,

37:14

I don't think is actually, actually

37:16

an uncle. Just he's like the way

37:18

you, you know, your kid

37:20

calls your best friend, uncle, so

37:22

and so. Like the way my cat

37:24

Reba calls you Uncle Cecil. That's

37:26

right. So I'm like,

37:28

hello. Hey, look,

37:30

I got something for you. Oh, it's

37:33

a mouse. But

37:36

Ben is a co-worker at that. The

37:40

of I forget the Mercer

37:43

Institute of Science and Learning

37:45

or whatever. Chemistry. Ben

37:49

is telling Robert he

37:51

shows him an article being like

37:53

plague claims hundreds is Europe's disease

37:55

carried on the wind. What

37:59

do you think? Dr. Morgan of

38:01

this. Hogwash is

38:04

what I think. I'm a scientist,

38:06

not an alarmist. You work

38:08

at the CDC sort of equivalent private lab?

38:16

You all should know better than anybody

38:18

what's going on. Maybe not necessarily reading

38:20

articles, being like, I don't know. And

38:23

it's later when Ben is like, I've

38:26

heard stories that they're vampires, stories

38:29

from who Ben? What

38:31

kinds of stories? Who's telling you these stories? You

38:34

just saw it on Twitter. You haven't

38:36

actually read any articles. That's

38:38

right. Fact check. This

38:41

is maybe not the movie to show your relatives

38:43

that don't believe that the

38:46

vaccine. I know. I

38:48

thought a lot about that as well.

38:51

The sciencey, y and C stuff in

38:53

this movie is a little shaky and

38:55

also just Robert's whole mentality of like,

38:57

no, I don't even believe in universal

38:59

disease. What is that? What

39:01

would you define as universal disease? Right,

39:04

Robert. It's

39:06

also like his work ethic is

39:09

very much shut up

39:11

with your crazy conspiracy theories. Just

39:14

keep doing the work. But

39:16

the work isn't we should be doing

39:18

work that is like affecting people. Now there's

39:20

people that are sick and dying. No.

39:24

It's like an instrumented, microscopic,

39:28

inching forward little by little. I

39:31

know it seems futile, but that is

39:33

science. That is how we

39:35

science. That is how we're going to science. I

39:39

know everybody's dying. We

39:41

are going to do this one block at a time, square

39:44

by square, inch by inch. Yeah. Yeah.

39:48

This movie definitely goes hard into this character is

39:50

stuck in his old ways. He cannot break free

39:52

into anything new. But

39:55

all right, so that's block one of the

39:57

flashback block two seeing two is the is.

40:00

Cathy is in her

40:02

bed, so we assume this is

40:04

days, weeks later, but

40:06

she's covered in a mosquito net. Which,

40:09

at first I was like, okay, it's a little princess

40:11

bed. That's not that bad.

40:14

Like no, that's a malaria net. I

40:17

know. He's like, oh, uh-oh. I

40:19

don't know if that princess bed is going to keep out

40:21

the wind germs.

40:25

Virginia is also sick. She

40:28

can't- Man. You

40:31

know, she's in front of Bob, in front of her

40:33

husband, it's like, no, no, no, I'm fine. I'm

40:36

fine. She's getting up, putting on her robe,

40:38

and as soon as he walks out that room, she just like

40:40

slumps over a chair. Collapses. Yeah. Again,

40:42

the 60s, not a great time for women. They're like- No.

40:46

They're like, no, no, no, I must be full face and makeup. Hair

40:48

done before my husband gets

40:51

up, so God forbid he sees me without-

40:54

Right. ... in

40:56

a natural state. You

40:58

know, they're talking, husband and wife are chatting

41:00

in the scene about, well, there's still no

41:02

vaccine. He says, maybe let's

41:04

not send Kathy to school. Okay.

41:07

And she's like, well, maybe you shouldn't go to work.

41:09

And he's like, this is my

41:12

work to figure this thing out. And

41:14

he says, everything's going to be all

41:16

right, sweetheart, which is a

41:18

sentiment he expresses many

41:20

times over. He thinks everything will

41:23

be okay because he says it will be okay.

41:26

But you can also kind of tell Vincent Price is

41:28

a good enough actor. Like in his eyes, he's saying

41:30

it, but he does not believe

41:32

it. This is all

41:35

that surface stuff. If we just say it, we

41:37

just perform it, then it's true.

41:40

And we don't have to worry. It's

41:42

very American, very Midwestern actually, right? Like

41:44

this notion- Just keep smiling. Yeah. And

41:47

eventually that smile will become authentic if you

41:49

smile hard enough. But at

41:51

the lab, we've got these bacilli that

41:53

are rapidly multiplying.

41:57

Sciencey YNC, whatever in this movie.

42:00

appreciate the fact that they've just short

42:02

handed the science down to look

42:04

inside this microscope. You see these, you

42:06

see this graphical image of, of, of

42:09

bacteria all lined up perfectly. Every

42:11

time I show you that know that

42:13

that's vampire infected. That's, that's the vampire

42:15

gene. Great. Ben is

42:18

not impressed with this repetition

42:20

of just keep studying this

42:22

bacteria. He's radical. He's

42:24

a rat. He's been radicalized. He

42:27

is on Twitter. He's been radicalized

42:29

in vampire theory. Yeah.

42:31

He believes that the dead are becoming

42:34

vampires. And he says, well, I've heard

42:36

stories that, you know, that they're, they're,

42:38

that people who have died have come

42:40

back. And why, Dr. Morgan,

42:43

are they only seen at night because

42:45

vampires fear the sun? Maybe

42:47

we should study this. Bob at no

42:49

point in time thinks, okay, semantics,

42:53

right? Maybe vampires

42:55

aren't real. However, we

42:57

do have anecdotal evidence,

43:00

not strong. That's not strong, but

43:03

this is how you pursue things in

43:05

science is you take anecdotal

43:07

evidence and you test it and

43:09

you say, okay, Ben, can

43:12

you get me some numbers

43:14

on people coming

43:16

back? Or is there a person

43:18

we can actually go study who

43:20

has come back? The fact that

43:23

they don't really study any of

43:25

these people, like the, there's no

43:27

behavioral science in this at

43:29

all, which is why I think that,

43:31

you know, when I watched this, I think I saw this like

43:33

my, you know, my twenties, kind of like early on in my

43:35

horror movie, watching Korea, I was like, I was

43:38

like, they're using the word vampire, but

43:41

there's a vast difference between classical

43:44

Bram Stoker-y romantic

43:47

vampire and

43:49

this. And I think what

43:52

makes this film really interesting

43:54

is that it is kind of on the

43:56

tipping point. It's not like the

43:59

George A. Romero. tipping point just

44:01

yet, but it

44:03

is that feeling of divesting

44:07

romance from this

44:09

V word. Yeah. This

44:12

isn't the Dracula with the

44:14

blood red lips and long black cape.

44:17

Right. And it's very much,

44:20

he's turned away from the

44:22

light of the Lord and

44:24

is now this hedonist that is bored

44:26

of everything because he has to live

44:29

forever. It's interesting

44:31

that it's very much

44:33

mundane vampire. It is

44:35

interesting that you bring up the kind of

44:38

the vampire on we, which is the bored,

44:40

the hedonist who has to live forever. I've

44:42

fucked everything. I've tasted everything. Humans

44:45

are just vermin that are just around for

44:48

me to eat. And

44:50

Dr. Morgan is the flip. He's

44:52

the tails to that heads, right?

44:54

Yeah. Is that he's the

44:57

human who will not

44:59

live forever, but is condemned

45:01

to live out his life, bored,

45:05

anti-hedon, like non-hedonist. He's the

45:07

bored vampire hunter. He's

45:10

like the eternal Van Helsing that's like,

45:12

oh my God, another day. And he doesn't even

45:14

get to fight them. Another steak on the lathe.

45:16

Yeah. Got to like just another

45:19

day, another steak. Yeah. Yeah.

45:22

I mean, Van Helsing, at

45:24

least if you watch the modern movies of him, he's

45:27

very action packed. His

45:29

life is not boring. I know, right? Yes.

45:32

But in this case, killing vampires is

45:34

tedious. It is like ... I mean,

45:36

it's also like this is the machine

45:39

age. It's the

45:41

age of massive factory expansion of just like,

45:43

hey, just do this. Just make

45:45

this one widget. Put this one widget into this

45:48

thing and just you are a human

45:50

compartment. Just do that every day. Yeah.

45:53

Just that one action over and over and over again. Yeah.

45:56

So Kathy is now very sick and

45:59

is ... blind, she cannot see

46:01

anymore. And they know that is one

46:03

of the symptoms of this disease. And

46:07

he tells Virginia,

46:11

you cannot call a doctor or she

46:13

will be reported. You do

46:15

not let anyone in this house, which

46:17

is very bossy mansplaining, but it's also

46:20

so true when we

46:22

find out what happens when you get reported. Yeah.

46:26

Yeah, there's no in between. No.

46:28

Which is why the third act

46:30

is so interesting is because right

46:32

now it's like you go from

46:36

healthy symptoms,

46:39

dead. Yes. Body

46:42

back out the door to the pit. To

46:44

the fire pit in Eagle Rock. Yeah. No

46:46

in between. We

46:48

actually see a demonstration of this outside the

46:50

house and we see a neighbor woman and

46:53

there's a giant kind of like a military

46:56

cargo truck where MPs and masks

46:58

are like taking away a body

47:00

bag from her, which we presume

47:02

is probably her husband or maybe

47:04

a child and throwing it in

47:06

the back of the truck and

47:08

driving off as she's like screaming

47:10

like, no, you can't. So

47:15

Bob tries to go see Ben at his house

47:17

and Ben is now fully garlic on the door.

47:20

You know what? You didn't take me seriously. We're

47:22

in the full throes of this shit now. You

47:24

take care of your life. I'll take care of

47:26

mine. Peace. So

47:28

Bob tries to go back to work and

47:31

Dr. Mercer who runs his Mercer Institute

47:33

of Ivermectin research or

47:36

whatever he's doing. And

47:38

Mercer is like, you're the only one who wasn't

47:40

afraid to come in today. And Mercer

47:42

tells him, I think this is such an

47:45

amazing scene, for a minor

47:47

scene because Mercer says, mankind

47:50

won't be destroyed. We're

47:53

all, you know, when I'm right down from bait and what he

47:55

says, but he reiterates the

47:57

same thing that Bob has been saying. It's

47:59

just, It'll all be okay. Everything's fine.

48:01

Yeah. Everybody just likes to panic.

48:03

You know what? Women are always going on

48:06

about some dumb shit. You know what? The

48:08

kids are always going on about some dumb shit,

48:10

but you know what? It's all reactionary shit. I

48:12

mean, just keep it. We'll just

48:14

keep at it little by little every day. It'll

48:16

be fine. It's always worked.

48:20

And honestly, he's not wrong

48:22

where this movie ends up. It's just that

48:25

us specifically are not going to be okay. Yes.

48:28

But he's not wrong. Humankind

48:30

won't be destroyed. Humankind is very resilient.

48:34

Apex Predator creatures are pretty resilient.

48:37

Adapt or die. Adapt or die. And

48:40

that's what this movie is going to demonstrate, that

48:42

there is an adaptation that occurs. And

48:44

if you're not willing to go along

48:47

with that biological shift, but

48:49

I think metaphorically we can talk about if you're not

48:51

willing to go along with the cultural shift happening in

48:54

the mid 60s when this movie was

48:56

being made. We've got a

48:59

lot of shit stirred up after the Korean War

49:02

and more shit stirred up about the

49:04

ennui of this boomer

49:06

generation who's 18 years old when

49:08

this movie comes out and is about to hit their

49:12

peak of cultural shifting. He

49:16

comes back home. Virginia

49:18

is very sick and sobbing and

49:21

she says, Kathy got taken away.

49:24

I called a doctor because it got so bad.

49:27

I just couldn't. Yeah. I

49:29

just couldn't stand it. And they showed up in

49:31

a truck and just took her. My

49:35

question was, did Kathy die and then

49:37

they took her or

49:39

did they were like, oh, she's that sick.

49:42

Yeah, wrap her up. Let's throw in the pit.

49:44

I know. That's the thing. The

49:48

death occurrence when it goes from like you're

49:51

very, very sick to death. I

49:54

mean, it sounds like it's kind of conflated. It's

49:56

like you get so bad dead. Yeah,

49:58

because we're going to. see that when

50:00

he goes out to the fire pit. Now, when

50:02

he comes back home, Virginia is dead. Yeah.

50:05

Like it happens that quickly. So

50:09

Bob races to the burn pit and he just

50:11

is trying to figure out which truck came in

50:13

from Market Street. And all of these guys are

50:15

like, we are just doing our jobs. I don't

50:18

know. I drive a truck. I just get here.

50:20

I don't know where I just was. We just

50:22

doing this all day, get out of our fucking

50:24

way. And he's like, but my daughter is in

50:26

there. And one dude says, Mr. A lot of

50:28

daughters are in there, including my own. Fuck off.

50:31

Yeah. Woof. And

50:34

then when he gets home, Virginia is

50:37

dead. And he says, no,

50:40

Virginia, verge. That's what he calls her verge.

50:42

I won't let them put you there. I

50:44

promise. He carries her

50:46

out into the hills at

50:49

night, digs her grave and buries her.

50:52

So sweet. No unnamed death

50:54

pit for you. You get an unmarked

50:57

grave in the hills. Much

51:00

better. However,

51:04

later that night. Yeah. This

51:07

is a good creepy horror thing. This is

51:09

so haunting. Let me in.

51:11

This reminds me of like, you

51:13

know, like old fashioned ghost stories.

51:16

Like who's got my arm? You

51:18

know, like who's got my golden

51:20

arm? You know, it's just

51:22

that like quiet haunting voice on the

51:24

wind. And you can

51:26

see the the doorknob is like shaking like

51:29

somebody's trying to get in, which is not

51:31

a thing that the undead have

51:33

been doing, you know, later in the

51:36

later in this is like, I think it's it's

51:38

such a I know this is happening before the

51:40

undead part of the first act of this movie,

51:42

but there's

51:45

a familiarity with

51:47

trying to work a doorknob. She's

51:50

fresh. And it's

51:52

also she found her way back to her

51:54

house, which means there's

51:56

cognitive function. They're calling like they

51:58

know his name. There's

52:01

cognitive function, it's like much

52:03

decreased, but it's still

52:06

human. There's

52:08

a movie coming out this year called Handling the

52:10

Undead and it is based off of the novel

52:12

by John Lindquist who wrote Let the Right

52:15

One In. Okay. It's a great

52:17

book and in the same way that Let the

52:19

Right One In deconstructs the vampire mythos,

52:21

Handling the Dead kind of

52:23

deconstructs the zombie mythos. And

52:26

it deals with it in a very similar

52:28

fashion to what's happening here with this Virginia

52:30

situation when she comes home. That there's a

52:32

muscle memory to their ability to

52:34

speak and know things and do things

52:36

that they're just repeating what they're doing.

52:39

I don't know if that movie will be good. Early reviews

52:41

have either been an incredible

52:44

masterpiece of thoughtful cinema and this

52:46

movie is boring as shit. So

52:48

I don't know. We'll

52:50

see. But I am interested in

52:53

that idea of muscle memory as a zombie

52:55

trope. I think it's really, really, really good.

52:57

It's haunting, as she said. Flashback

53:00

done. We saw what happened to

53:02

his wife and kid. But it's still

53:04

not explained. We just see

53:06

Virginia sort of hot, like drifting

53:09

towards the camera with her

53:11

freshly undead face. Yeah.

53:13

And then it cuts back to Robert

53:17

sort of wallowing. Yeah. Well,

53:20

it cuts back to the time when he had

53:23

present day when he had rushed

53:25

home at Twilight. He got

53:27

attacked and he left his car

53:30

out on the front driveway. And so the

53:32

zombies are all there smashing his car. We

53:34

hate your car. So

53:37

he has to go, which is fine. He can

53:39

go shopping for a new car. In fact, he can get the

53:41

exact same model and we're good. Like

53:44

that inner monologue is like, oh, look at that

53:46

convertible over there. That would be fun.

53:48

There's a time when I would enjoy that. I

53:51

need the trunk space. So I'm just

53:54

going to take this one. I laughed

53:56

when I saw him get the exact

53:59

same car. The exact same car. But

54:01

that's 100% in his character so deliberate

54:03

as a choice for the writers to

54:05

do the director to do this because

54:07

he cannot stop

54:10

living his life. He

54:13

cannot make the transition.

54:16

He cannot move forward. He

54:18

is stuck in stasis and his stasis

54:20

is I need to just be doing

54:22

a thing. And as

54:25

much as he hates the repetition of his life

54:27

as the last man on earth, I

54:30

don't think being the last man on

54:32

earth made him this way. I think

54:34

it just accentuated that that's how he

54:36

has always lived. You

54:38

wake up, you do your coffee, you

54:40

go through work, you get home, you

54:42

listen to jazz records, you drink, you

54:45

fall asleep, lathers repeat. But

54:47

he finds a dog. There's a sweet

54:49

little black poodle looking thing.

54:53

Like a friend, a companion. I

54:55

haven't seen a living thing, an

54:57

actual living thing in three

54:59

years. Which also begs the question like are

55:02

animals affected by this? I

55:05

mean the way he reacts to that dog you would

55:07

assume. Cats, dogs, birds,

55:09

horses, cows,

55:12

chickens, sheep. All

55:15

the animals gone or

55:17

infected. He tries chasing after

55:19

it and he

55:21

needs to work on his friendliness skills.

55:24

He's so desperate for companionship because he's going to

55:27

come about with Ruth too. Yes.

55:30

But you know what? He want to pet that dog. I

55:33

pet that dog. And

55:35

he's going to run up a fucking mountain

55:37

to pet that dog. Yep. I

55:41

feel you. I feel you so deeply, Bob.

55:44

I love you. Just

55:47

screaming at this dog. Yeah. Running

55:49

through the hills. People get mad at the

55:51

park when I do that. So their

55:54

dogs come back.

55:57

They shouldn't make that dog so cute. They agree.

55:59

a man, but

56:02

while he's chasing this dog, he finds something interesting,

56:04

which is undead,

56:06

dead vampires, but

56:09

they've all got stakes through their

56:11

heart and they're like metal stakes.

56:13

They're like spears. They're like spears.

56:15

They're iron, right? And he's like, wait a minute,

56:18

someone else is out here killing these people or

56:21

not. That's the nice signature. Later

56:24

that night, the dog shows

56:26

back up and is wounded

56:29

and sick,

56:33

but he doesn't realize that at first, right?

56:35

He doesn't realize what the wound is and

56:38

he's like, we're going to have lots of

56:40

happy times together. You'll see everything's

56:42

going to be fine again with the, if

56:44

I can just get back to my normal life,

56:46

I'll be happy again. I mean, it

56:48

also has like, it's found his

56:50

Wilson. Yeah. And

56:53

it's like, look, Robinson Crusoe, I have

56:55

someone to talk to. Like I have a, look,

56:58

it's a thing that I can project

57:01

onto. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,

57:04

you're a vampire dog. Oh fuck. He

57:08

realizes that the dog is bleeding and he takes

57:11

the blood and he puts it out of the

57:13

microscope and he sees the bacilli on there. Nope.

57:16

And he laughs because he's defeated. Yeah.

57:20

The very next scene is the next day in

57:22

the daytime, that dog is wrapped up and he

57:24

is burying it. Staked. Staked.

57:27

A stake through the blanket in the dog.

57:29

Yeah. He's a man

57:31

of black and white. He

57:33

really is. But

57:36

then he runs into a

57:38

woman in the daylight. I'm

57:42

not going to hurt you. He shouts as

57:44

he chases her up a hill. It's

57:46

just running, screaming at her. She

57:49

looks frightened and runs away. No, no, no, no,

57:51

come back. I'm not going to hurt you. It's

57:53

not like, oh, just let me buy you a

57:55

drink. I was really

57:57

taken by. This

58:00

scene in the book is so profound

58:02

because it really goes hard into

58:05

how scary he is because he

58:07

not only chases her, but he

58:09

is so protective of like, you

58:12

don't understand little woman, how

58:14

dangerous it is out here. And he drags her

58:16

back and locks her in a room. And

58:20

when he shows her the garlic, like we do

58:22

in this movie, he comes out with the garlic

58:24

and she winces away. The

58:27

book kind of, she has a really great

58:29

explanation. He's like, why are you flinching from

58:31

the garlic? You're infected. And she's like, no,

58:34

you chased a woman up a hill, locked

58:36

her in a room and then just start

58:38

putting a stinky ass root vegetable in her

58:40

face. Yeah. And you wonder

58:42

why I'm flinching, you're terrifying. And

58:44

I'm like, excellent explanation,

58:47

my friend. I mean, there's

58:50

echoes of that in this. Like I think it's

58:52

a... I think they sum that up really well

58:54

here. Yeah. This actress that

58:56

plays Ruth does a really good job of

58:58

like, you're terrible.

59:01

I know you're super excited about

59:03

being not the last man on

59:05

earth, but in fact, you're

59:08

terrifying. Yeah. He's

59:11

actually sort of scary to

59:13

her for obvious reasons here.

59:16

But he knows she was out in the

59:18

light. So she can't be a vampire, but

59:20

maybe she's just, she must be infected. And

59:23

she says, I lost my

59:25

husband and she

59:27

was like, I assume you lost your

59:29

wife and was there a child too? And

59:31

he doesn't want to talk about it. He

59:35

wants to do a blood test on

59:38

her. She's

59:40

like, don't touch, just leave

59:43

me alone. I got to get out of here. And

59:46

he's like, you can't because the undead

59:48

are out there banging on the house. I'll

59:52

decide what you do from here on out. This

1:00:00

is a vampire thing, right? Then

1:00:04

he also mentions that one of those

1:00:06

vampires is Ben Cortland, and he says,

1:00:09

I'm so desperate to drive

1:00:11

a steak through his heart, just like

1:00:13

all the others I've done. Just

1:00:16

someday I'm going to steak him like I did all

1:00:18

the others. But that one

1:00:20

in particular, because he keeps showing up at

1:00:22

my door. Yeah, and that dude sucked because

1:00:24

he was a younger generation. He was such

1:00:26

a millennial. He used to be my

1:00:28

friend. This is where he says,

1:00:32

back when I was in Panama, for

1:00:35

who knows why, but back when he was in

1:00:37

Panama, he was bitten by a bat,

1:00:39

and he thinks that bat may have

1:00:41

been infected with an early form of

1:00:43

the bacteria, the bacilli. I

1:00:46

don't know the difference. It's not the same thing. But

1:00:48

the bacilli is, was at

1:00:51

a weaker form and his body developed an

1:00:53

immunity to it. Why were

1:00:55

you not studying that? Three

1:00:58

years ago? Agreed. I mean, I know you

1:01:00

probably didn't make that connection then, but if

1:01:03

you're the only one showing up at work.

1:01:05

He's working for a snake oil salesman making

1:01:07

ivermectin and instead of working for the CDC.

1:01:11

So she's so

1:01:13

overwhelmed by all of this, and she's filled

1:01:15

with emotion, and she kind of dramatically runs

1:01:18

into the other room because she

1:01:21

there's mirrors everywhere. There's garlic everywhere.

1:01:23

We know she's infected, and she is trying

1:01:25

to get out this vial that

1:01:28

she has of medicine to inject herself

1:01:30

with it. But

1:01:33

he comes in and stops her. And

1:01:37

she was like, this medicine keeps the germ

1:01:40

at bay. We've had it

1:01:42

for some time now, and he gets so

1:01:44

mad about we. Oh my God. We? Wait,

1:01:47

we? The

1:01:50

title of this movie is wrong. Which

1:01:54

I think is so interesting because he

1:01:57

just ultimately does. not

1:02:00

like or want change. He thinks that

1:02:02

he does, but when confronted with it,

1:02:04

here he is confronted with a group

1:02:06

of people who have developed

1:02:09

the very thing that he's been researching and

1:02:11

trying to do. It makes him mad to

1:02:13

know that this has happened. And

1:02:16

as she even said, she's like, your

1:02:18

technology is way behind what we've got at

1:02:21

our compound. Boy, she, she

1:02:23

read him hard when she was like, I

1:02:26

was actually sent to spy on you because we

1:02:28

were thinking you might have way more information than

1:02:30

we did, but you actually have a lot less.

1:02:33

Oh no. Oh no. There's

1:02:39

a new society. She's high up in this

1:02:41

new society. There's a whole new society of

1:02:44

infected people. So they

1:02:47

are vampires, but they're

1:02:49

not, they're infected

1:02:51

living humans. They

1:02:53

have developed some vampireish qualities,

1:02:56

allergy to sunlight, to garlic,

1:02:58

to mirrors. But

1:03:00

they're not dead. But they're not dead.

1:03:02

And they're very highly functioning. And it

1:03:05

is the undead that it's the people

1:03:07

who die that then come back to

1:03:09

life. They're the dangerous ones. They're dead.

1:03:11

We actually have to get rid of

1:03:13

those because they're not

1:03:17

people anymore. They're

1:03:19

just, and so she's early on, he does

1:03:21

say that they, they have a tendency, like

1:03:23

the dead eat the

1:03:25

weak ones is what he says. Yeah.

1:03:29

So they've got it. So now these, the

1:03:31

undead are kind of the predators and we

1:03:33

sort of agree between Robert and this new

1:03:35

society of vampireish people that the undead ones

1:03:37

are the ones we have to kill. That's

1:03:39

why he was seeing all those stakes in

1:03:42

everyone. And

1:03:44

he's the audacity of Bob

1:03:46

here to go, oh,

1:03:49

and you want me to join. She's

1:03:51

like, Oh no, you

1:03:54

cannot join. No, we

1:03:57

tell stories about you. You're

1:04:00

horrible. Yeah. Because

1:04:02

when you go off on your daytime

1:04:04

killing sprees, you've actually

1:04:07

staked a lot of people that were

1:04:09

not dead. Yeah.

1:04:11

That were infected, but not dead. You're

1:04:14

literally a serial killer. You're

1:04:17

the boogeyman. Yeah. We

1:04:19

talk about you as if you're a legend, like

1:04:22

you're the boogeyman. I

1:04:24

feel a title in there. What?

1:04:27

I feel a title to it. You're an awful there.

1:04:30

Yeah. And that's

1:04:32

the name I am legend comes from that. You

1:04:36

are legendary to them in a bad way,

1:04:38

the way ogres are legendary, the way Jack

1:04:40

the Rimmer is legendary. You sneak in in

1:04:42

the day and you kill our children and

1:04:45

we don't know where you live. We're trying to find out.

1:04:47

And he's saying, I didn't know. And that doesn't ... Of

1:04:50

course, it doesn't matter that he didn't know. And

1:04:53

she says, listen, I'm supposed to keep you here till

1:04:55

they come. And she draws a gun on him. He's

1:05:00

like, oh, so you're just killing

1:05:02

as you go. You're supposed

1:05:04

to be some peaceful new society. And

1:05:06

she's like, listen, the beginning of all

1:05:08

societies is not gentle. Which

1:05:10

good point. Yeah.

1:05:13

I was like, revolutions are rarely

1:05:16

bloodless. She

1:05:19

does have some sympathy for him because she

1:05:21

sees him as a person having spent time.

1:05:23

I mean, obviously she's scared of him.

1:05:27

She's not in love with him. She doesn't like

1:05:30

him, but she understands him. It's

1:05:32

sort of like the difference between being

1:05:35

mad at somebody online for having

1:05:37

horrible opinions about the world. And

1:05:40

then actually being around somebody with those

1:05:42

horrible opinions, even if they still are

1:05:44

expressing them. She

1:05:47

passes out though, I guess

1:05:49

because she never got her medicine. Is

1:05:52

that why? Or is it just because it's not

1:05:55

good sixties and she's a woman? I don't know. I

1:05:57

mean, she literally just throws that gun aside. in

1:06:00

a fit of tears. Yeah. Just throws herself on

1:06:02

the bed. It's

1:06:05

a bit of that. But I think ultimately she

1:06:07

has to pass out because

1:06:09

he decides to do a little emergency,

1:06:13

unconsensual. Yeah. Blood

1:06:16

transfer. Yeah. I know

1:06:18

she said she didn't want me to test

1:06:21

her blood and I'm not. Instead,

1:06:24

I'm just going to give her my blood. Unbelievable.

1:06:27

It's the most audacious thing

1:06:29

he does in this. I

1:06:31

know he's been around killing

1:06:33

people. Yeah. But that is

1:06:35

in an unconscious way where

1:06:37

you don't realize that

1:06:39

those are living people that you've killed. Yeah. Still

1:06:44

bad, but there is an ignorance there

1:06:46

that is plausible. Whereas this is, no,

1:06:49

I'm going to take a person who seems very happy

1:06:51

with where they are in their lives

1:06:54

and I'm going to change them back to

1:06:56

how they used to be. This is some

1:06:58

gay conversion camp shit. Yeah. And

1:07:01

she wakes up and is like, what are you doing?

1:07:03

He's like, did it. I saved you. I transferred

1:07:05

my blood into you. The antibodies

1:07:08

and my blood works. See, look, you can see yourself in

1:07:10

a mirror. You can smell garlic. She's like, yeah, this

1:07:12

garlic smells great. Oh, I look good in this mirror. Fuck.

1:07:15

Now what? Too late though,

1:07:18

because the new society has showed

1:07:20

up. And they're

1:07:22

out there running down the undead and they're big

1:07:24

vehicles. Wow. They're

1:07:26

black turtlenecks. Fucking

1:07:31

beatnik generation showing up and take

1:07:33

over everything. Yeah. This

1:07:38

goes back to Village of the Damned. That was also

1:07:40

a early 60s film where we're

1:07:42

talking about, there's a

1:07:44

new generation coming up and it's scary as

1:07:46

shit. Yeah. This cultural

1:07:49

revolution is happening. There's

1:07:52

not a violent revolution here in America.

1:07:54

There is a cultural revolution and it

1:07:56

hurts and it's hard. Yeah.

1:07:58

And thankfully we got that out of our system

1:08:01

in the 60s and now everybody's very cool with

1:08:03

any kind of cultural shifting and change. Everybody's

1:08:05

great. No more violence. We're all

1:08:07

good. But she says, they're coming

1:08:10

to kill. They're coming

1:08:12

for you specifically. They're coming

1:08:14

to kill you. Oh,

1:08:16

there's one other thing. Right

1:08:18

before that, he

1:08:21

gets so obsessed with his accomplishment

1:08:23

about transferring his antibodies

1:08:26

or whatever from his blood into

1:08:28

hers that cures her, quote unquote,

1:08:32

that he forgets

1:08:35

about the undead outside. And that's

1:08:37

when Ben gets inside and attacks

1:08:39

her. And

1:08:41

it looks like he bites her again, which

1:08:43

means she's just infected again.

1:08:45

She's just infected again. Yeah. Or

1:08:48

something. Something. Who

1:08:50

knows? Honestly, I don't think the new

1:08:53

society is upset by anyone

1:08:55

who's not infected. There's

1:08:57

a time when Robert could have fit in. They're

1:09:01

upset that he's out there murdering the

1:09:04

infected. The army vehicles show up.

1:09:06

We see it's this great sequence where Ben

1:09:09

manages to get up on the roof, undead

1:09:11

Ben, and they gun him down.

1:09:14

How does he get up there? I don't know. He

1:09:16

can't even use a two by four. He can't even use a

1:09:19

doorknob. I do not know how

1:09:21

he got onto the roof. There's

1:09:24

a brief chase sequence. Bob is hiding

1:09:26

in the brush. He makes a break

1:09:28

for the police station to get

1:09:30

a bunch of their weapons out of

1:09:32

the armory. And Cecil.

1:09:35

Oh, this tactic. He has

1:09:37

a bag of grenades. And

1:09:40

I want you to tell me what this man was

1:09:42

doing. Well, they're smoke bombs. I think they're smoke bombs.

1:09:44

Oh, is that what's happening? Okay.

1:09:47

But the way Vincent Price is just poof. I

1:09:49

know. Poof. I'm

1:09:52

like, what are you doing? Because you think they're

1:09:54

grenades and he's being chased by like 10 people.

1:09:58

And instead of throwing the grenade at the. the

1:10:00

people, he just sort of, yeah, just sort of

1:10:02

like tosses it over his shoulder. Like you would

1:10:04

toss salt over your shoulder in

1:10:06

the kitchen. Yeah. Like, oh,

1:10:11

also he's just leaving

1:10:13

them in a trail, like breadcrumbs behind

1:10:15

him, which defeats the point of the

1:10:17

smoke bomb. Yes. Like to

1:10:19

create a smoke screen. Indoors.

1:10:22

Sure. That makes sense. But

1:10:25

like out in a courtyard. Yeah. And

1:10:29

it really is. It's just a mask,

1:10:31

their ability to see all of the

1:10:33

men you have on your side of

1:10:35

the war. Uh huh. Yeah. But as

1:10:37

a single person, you're pretty easy to

1:10:39

spot. So the grenade,

1:10:41

the smoke grenades cracked me up

1:10:44

so much. Oh my

1:10:46

God. Yeah. This chase sequence is,

1:10:49

it's no invasion of the body snatchers. Let's

1:10:51

say that it's less

1:10:53

cat and mouse than it is just, I

1:10:56

don't know. Cat eats mouse.

1:10:58

Yeah, it's weird. He runs

1:11:00

to the church wherein

1:11:03

he gets shot

1:11:06

up on the front steps, like shot in

1:11:09

the gut. So he's wounded. Nobody

1:11:12

is, again, this movie doesn't deal with,

1:11:14

like there are no crosses in this film. Like I

1:11:16

don't even think there's a cross in the church. Like

1:11:19

you kind of only know it's a church by the

1:11:21

rows of pews and it's set up like a church.

1:11:24

But I don't think I, maybe there is. I

1:11:26

just remember thinking like this is a spare church,

1:11:29

like a sparse church. Inching

1:11:32

close to him, you

1:11:34

can see that they're a little

1:11:36

afraid of him because he's a

1:11:40

serial killer, basically, with

1:11:43

weapons. And

1:11:45

they slowly corner him and he, see, so

1:11:49

would you call this repentant behavior?

1:11:52

You know, when being chased by an angry mob, I

1:11:55

think the best tactic. Don't

1:11:58

try to reason with them. Don't say. film.

1:14:01

Yes, lads. How approachable is this movie

1:14:03

if your horror film averse scale

1:14:05

of one to 10, one being not at all

1:14:08

approachable, 10 being very easily approachable for the horror

1:14:10

of verse. Like I'd give The Last Man on

1:14:12

Earth like eight vaccination passports out

1:14:14

of 10. It's a 1964

1:14:16

film. As I said at

1:14:18

the beginning, you're not going to get much in

1:14:20

the way of blood, gore, even jump scares. Like

1:14:22

the acting, the performance, the whole style of it

1:14:25

is very stagey. But

1:14:27

listen, this is

1:14:29

going to trigger some 2020 COVID

1:14:34

depression era stuff, just

1:14:36

general depression, extreme

1:14:39

loneliness, this whole

1:14:41

pandemic apocalypse thing. Like it's

1:14:43

hard and also dog

1:14:46

death, child death, wife death, all

1:14:49

the tragedies that go with seeing that sort

1:14:51

of stuff happen. But watching your life sort

1:14:53

of stripped away from you is kind of the

1:14:55

horror of this film is on we, as

1:14:57

you said, Cecil, I think is the perfect

1:14:59

word to describe what type of

1:15:02

horror this is. But

1:15:04

I still say it's very approachable. I think it's a

1:15:06

very smart, smart movie for all of

1:15:08

its hokiness at times. But

1:15:11

eight out of 10 in terms of approachability, if

1:15:13

you're a little squeamish about horror, as

1:15:15

a horror film, just in general, what do

1:15:17

you think, Cecil? As

1:15:19

a horror film, this is a difficult one

1:15:21

because it does feel

1:15:23

like homework. Like you're going back to

1:15:25

a different time, a different type of

1:15:28

storytelling. It is

1:15:30

very low budget, overdubbed

1:15:32

Italian, you know, like

1:15:35

not the greatest production value.

1:15:39

However, I think the source material

1:15:41

is so kind of revolutionary and

1:15:43

visionary as to what will come

1:15:45

in the 60s, 70s and beyond

1:15:48

that I got to bump it up a couple. And

1:15:52

yeah, I would say seven out

1:15:54

of 10 carefully chosen mirrors. Let's

1:15:58

figure out what movie we will watch. Watch next.

1:16:00

You've got a scare die. I've got a style

1:16:02

die. We'll roll those up, see what movie fits

1:16:04

those two things. Cecil, on

1:16:06

your scare die, if you roll a one,

1:16:09

our next movie's scare is isolation. Two,

1:16:11

planes, trains, and automobiles, a

1:16:13

vehicular scare. Three, a

1:16:15

vampire. Four, bad mom

1:16:17

or bad dad. Five, cult.

1:16:20

Six, aliens. Scare's

1:16:23

aliens. So what do we got? That's

1:16:26

a three. We're going

1:16:29

to keep it going with vampire. It's

1:16:31

a vampire. It's a vampire. Okay, great.

1:16:34

So let's figure out our vampire movie

1:16:36

style. If we roll a one, our

1:16:39

vampire movie's got to be from the Southern

1:16:41

Hemisphere. Two, it's got to

1:16:43

be a splatter film. Three, it's

1:16:45

got to be a sequel, a prequel, or

1:16:48

a remake. Four, it's got to be

1:16:50

a cult hit, meaning it's got a cult following. Five,

1:16:52

it's got to be from the 1970s. Or six, Wild

1:16:57

Card, just whatever vampire movie we want. All right,

1:16:59

what do I got here? Six,

1:17:02

Wild Card, Vampire. Oh.

1:17:04

All right, you want to

1:17:07

tell me what you put on this list, Cecil?

1:17:10

First off, we have Daughters

1:17:12

of Darkness. Oh, okay. Which

1:17:14

is a 1971 film. It

1:17:17

has that 70s lesbian

1:17:21

vampiros, bisexual vampire vibe,

1:17:23

but with some interesting

1:17:25

kind of political undertones

1:17:27

to it. It is

1:17:30

full camp, full glam.

1:17:32

This is one

1:17:34

of my favorites. The

1:17:36

other one that I have is Blood

1:17:38

for Dracula. Don't know this one. Which

1:17:41

is another 1970s film that I

1:17:43

have not seen. But

1:17:46

this has got Udo here as

1:17:48

Dracula, and it's a take on

1:17:50

the Dracula story, but

1:17:53

I think this has also got some

1:17:55

interesting maybe kind of undertones to it

1:17:58

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