#14The Dark and the Wicked: Family has never been so close

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All right world welcome i hope everything's going good with with the outside world we're in our bunker right now what are we hiding from i don't know hoop fest oh it is it's spokane it's hoop fest weekend we're We're high and low. We're hunkering down. We're escaping town. I'm escaping town for it. Yeah, we're dark souls, so we don't like to be in the sun. It's just hot. And I don't know anyone who plays. Yeah. Do you? No. Yeah, so HooFest takes place in Spokane. It's the world's biggest three-on-three basketball tournament. There's like tens of thousands of people that play in. Woo. Ooh. And then we're like, what? Let's leave. Hey man i'm excited go check out a cave i'm not excited about bringing you know who but who i won't name names we won't put them on blast but why are you being so it rhymes with f and rude rhymes with smell seed i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm excited for all of us to ago glad you invited her but uh anyways let's close the tab who fest is great who fest weekend holla holla holla holla holla holla anyways how is my beautiful co-host my novia. Angelus sorry i just had a flashback of a couple conversations we had this week i'm great nobio how are you pretty good do you want to enlighten the crowd i think i know the conversations you're talking about do you want to talk about it. I don't think it's absurd. Well, the first one was, I'm very curious, Richard, where's left and right? You are Italian and Native American. I have Native American. I'm not full Native American. I know, but that's your main that you're made up of, right? Amongst other things, yes. Amongst other things. So there was an ongoing joke that you're mixed with other backgrounds. And so we got Richard. Mainly Irish. They keep saying I'm Irish. I didn't say mainly Irish. I said you have to have some Irish. If I'm Mexican and I have Irish, you definitely have Irish. Anyways, we got Richard a test. And he got his results back over the weekend. And he. This is bullshit, dog. It ain't accurate. This is all I keep hearing all week. It's not accurate. I keep getting rants. listen we've my grandpa tracked our lineage for like a long time like we were our family was in italy grew up in italy we're italians and this stupid ancestry got it wrong the fact that my brother took a different test and got legit italian percentage we have both the same mom and dad, that tells me these tests aren't the most accurate. They just go off of their own results, like their own testing stuff. Do you want to share what your highest percentage of... Yeah, dude, it tried to say I was German. No, I mean, I got German Emmy, yes. But I'm heavily Italian. It said German, Eastern Europe, and Russia, and I was like, Richard, you sit on a throne of lies. Guys, if you could see my face... Like, I'm sure you have on Instagram and TikTok. I am Italian. I have an Italian nose, Italian ears. Anyways, I just think it's funny because you will not let it go and you're so upset about it. Dude. Oh, my God. And every time I see you, you keep bringing up your grandpa's, like, heritage, like, their book and everything. Well, when you greet me with Gutenhaus or whatever, like. That was me. I don't want to hear that shit it's all jokes man oh yeah so funny so funny, you're italian ancestry says that you're german it's all good i was born in mexico and i have so much spanish and but even europe i know and i have that too but like yours is even i would But dare I say inaccurate as well. But you know what? Time will tell. I will prove you wrong. I'm going to do several different tests. I'm going to show you how different these are all going to be. I'm so ready to see how much you're going to invest in this test. It's going to be insane. And I don't have to. I can transfer the DNA to a different company. You can do that? Yeah. Because you own it. It's your DNA. Good luck. What's up? That's why they make you sign all those click yes. that you're signing your life away when you sign up. I know, but you can transfer it over. Trust me. Well, once you find out the process, let me know. Will do. Will do. Cool, cool beans. Wow. Way to get this up to a hot start. You made me laugh. What's close to that tab? Oh, my God. She won't stop laughing at me, guys. It's okay we like you just fine you're making the mic pop dude like the look in your eye of just like thinking like what i could potentially procreate with a german like the disgust i was like dude it's not real, i am as tan as they get no it was funny because all this time all i've ever heard from you is those two and then it says that you're like three percent native. Dude fuck that dude fuck the ancestry.com it's garbage we're throwing it out you in line all this time it's inaccurate dude i don't even give a fuck their markers do not have my dna apparently okay okay if anybody has suggestions of uh which ones uh i should uh partake in please let me know yes please do see if there's a better more accurate yes so guys as you can imagine this is how my week has went um just ridicule and laughter at me but But, Angelus, how has your week been? It's been good. It's Friday. It's Friday? Yes. Well, that's fun. Did you get your jobs done? No. Your audits at the audit factory? I got my big one that was outstanding for a while done. And I'm moving on to the next big one that we're supposed to get wrapped up here soon. So it's like, it's our busy season for reals, for reals. We have deadlines at the end of September, but there's so many big governments that need federal audits by September 30th. Nice, folks. So be on the lookout for that. That's exciting. If you're in the Washington State, eastern Washington, you might see Angeles. We're in west Washington, babe. What? No, we're not. West of Seattle. We're eastern. Oh, eastern side of the state. I thought you meant like us and like Washington, D.C. Oh, yeah. Wrong Washington, bro. If you're in the Pullman, Spokane area, I'm coming for you. I'm just kidding. Oh, my God. I joke, I joke. Okay, well, that's our, yeah, that's what's going on in our lives. So, do you want to cover business real quick before we get into what movie we're covering? Sure. So, as many of you know, and thanks for the participation, we have a giveaway that we're doing. And we had let you guys know that we have found a winner. I mean, we're announcing it today on this episode. Very exciting. And as a reminder for the giveaway, we had many of you ask or we asked many of you to kind of say what your favorite horror movie was or your favorite episode of ours. And then like on TikTok or Instagram, like the giveaway. And many of you did. Thank you. And Angelus, did you do you want to announce the lucky winner? The lucky winner that will get a Blu-ray copy of Poltergeist 3 is Handle Jen Bond Rod on Instagram. Woohoo! Exciting times! Yeah, so we'll be reaching out, getting contact information, and shipping the baby out. Yep, so looking forward to that. Yeah, that closes. Do we have any more business that we want to cover? That's all the tabs for the business. All the tabs. As of this week, I believe. Yep. Okay. And we got a big giveaway coming, guys. We're approaching 3,000 downloads, 1,000 followers on Instagram. I'm excited. And we got one lined up. Angelus, you got to be right. You're excited. I'm not going to give away what we're going to. No, it's big. Bridger broke the bank. Yeah. He went all out. I pulled all the strings. To the point I'm eating Top Ramen right now. You reached out to people everywhere and got the goods. Yep. We're flying you out to Universal Studios. I'm going. That'd be funny. You'd be like, well, fuck you did. But yeah, no, we'll announce that here when we hit those numbers and we're hitting them quick. It's coming fast. So I anticipate here, gosh, in the next month, you think? Think maybe a month or so yeah maybe so yeah yeah thank you guys thank you this is all a thank you to you guys for your support and honestly you guys have been great so we appreciate you yes thank you thank you for following listening giving us a chance we know there's like so many options for horror and movies and podcasts out there and you can spend your time listening to any of them but you know but you listen to us two dumb asses i'm fucking speak think for yourself hey i'm just happy man even that one listener hey we see you we see you we love you yeah we're getting on working on getting more stickers because we had a couple people reach out asking for more stickers yeah the stickers are popular and guys we try to like tailor make the stickers for you so like we ask what your favorite horror character is and then we'll add stickers of that too yeah not just our logos we like curate it we have our actual a review corner Vienna do it and she's very good at it she's very good. Anyways, let's close the business tab, huh? Close. Now, the movie we covered this week, I'm pretty excited about. You've never seen this before, right? It was my first time. And this movie, when I initially saw this, and when I saw it twice, even this time, it gives me the creeps, man. It freaks me out. I don't know why this movie does, but it does. Do you want to announce the movie? movie we did a spinny wheel and the winner the wheel with all the movies that vienna did last week remember oh yeah yeah random selection yeah random selection so the movie that was selected was the dark and the wicked now if anybody if you haven't seen that i highly recommend and we'll talk about it in depth here but thread careful tread carefully yes it's dark it is this is okay Okay, this is probably the darkest we've went so far, huh? Yeah. We were like, horror, comedy, happy laughing, and then we went, vroom. Yeah, this one kind of sucked all the air out of it. Like, it was kind of depressing, I'm not going to lie. But in that, I still had fun. There's always, in this genre, room for that. Obviously, we look for the scares, too. Your initial thoughts on this movie? Dude, this movie fucking fucks. Right? Yeah i didn't overhype it because i've been talking about it for so long that you need to watch it you've been talking about it since we met and i honestly was scared to watch it all this time because you kept bringing it up and you're like you need to watch this you need to watch this and i was like i don't want to fucking watch this by myself you told me how much it freaked you out the first time you watched it like i don't want to go through that alone i need to support buddy, That's so poor, buddy. You had Vienna. Yeah, it's not the same. We watched two back-to-backs this week. This. Oh, man, what a palate cleanser. So next week, I think we're going to, we watched it already, but we're going to cover it next week. The palate cleanser was Hell House LLC. That was another one that was fucking freaky. I know. You were like, oh, you had Vienna. I had you on one side and Vienna on another side. and every time there was something scary, you guys were shoving me and pushing me and grabbing me. I was being pulled to pieces. We're very dramatic people when we watch movies and especially if it affects us. Richard was shoving me in front of the TV. I was like, no, no, no. Oh, man. I get very animated. I start screaming and stuff. I can't control it. I talk. I'm like, no. Reminds me of Malibu's Most Wanted. So you guys take a little bit of the scare away from me that when you guys are doing that, because I'm trying to like go through the scary phases and then I'm being pulled and being pushed and hiding behind me. Yeah, no. So you really like the movie? Yeah, it was really good. Nice. We'll see if your opinion changes as we dive deep into this. So, yeah, no, the dark and the wicked. kid if you haven't seen it that's definitely a high priority to see it shutter yeah oh yeah it's a shutter original too which is awesome i'm starting to like shutter more and more i've always liked it but man they are up in their game we showed i i'm stoked you showed maria your mom when evil oh yeah i thought she would be more more freaked out she was gross thought I thought you heard her get up at one point. She's like, oh, cabrón. She had to run out. She's like, what did I miss? Which we got to cover that movie. I think that might be our next foreign one. No, you know what? Our next foreign film, the one you keep wanting to do, it's an older one. Which one? With the rocker, the metal guy. Oh, my gosh. Yes. What's it called? El Dia de la Bestia, The Day of the Beast. It's a Spanish movie. It's like a horror comedy. It's good. We got to get that on the calendar. We'll figure that out. But anyways, back to The Dark and the Wicked. kid this movie had a budget of approximately four million dollars but the thing about this movie and it's kind of unfortunate because i don't think it got its roses and i think it's very underrated and overlooked this came out in the thick of it 2020 this came out in and the pandemic totally fucked this up it was scheduled to release in april of 2020 originally when shit was going down as everything was closing yeah and then it got pushed back to november november and then we're in the total closed down theaters it didn't do it justice because it ended up grossing roughly 836 000 in the box office but the film did gain more attention and viewership through streaming services which really took off during the pandemic especially the video on demand platforms after a theatrical release and that helped contribute to its overall revenue you i did see there was a i found four like internationally countries where i had the biggest hit to the first one being mexico followed by russia netherlands and south korea, wait repeat that sorry i was reading my notes oh my lord outside of the u.s the top four countries where it had like a big hit and made kind of a good chunk of money was mexico russia, Netherlands, and South Korea. So I suspect in Mexico because it has that. Possession. Yes, it has that kind of demon stuff. And you guys love that shit. It freaks you out. I like that. That's cool. So, but the highest grossing movie of 2020 was, I don't think I've ever heard of this, The 800. Have you? The 800? Yeah, it's a Chinese war film directed by Wan Hu. Despite the global impact of the pandemic on the film industry as a whole, the 800 movie managed to gross approximately $461 million worldwide. Dang. This film was particularly successful in China, where it became a major box office hit. Have you heard of this? No, I was going through the list, and a lot of these movies, I only know because of streaming services. Not because of theater and again it's because if I can came out they came out during COVID yeah so and I so I caught a lot of movies during the you know everybody did shit wasn't going down. And there were some good ones that came out. Do you have a list of horror movies that came out? Yeah, so I found a lot of these. A few of them I haven't heard of before. And I added some to our list. Another top one that I saw is called His House. It's about a couple who's a refugee and they escape a war zone in South Sudan. And they move to this English town when there's something evil lurking beneath the surface. Surfaced the host also came out during 2020 at quiet place too how do you feel about the quiet place movies i i'm i'm gonna admit it i'm not a big fan no freaking way oh you don't like it no i had heard you before talk about the quiet place oh do you like it i i'll watch them i'm not saying they're terrible i just i don't like it there's some effect parts anyways continue sorry to cut you off i like them i think they uh i don't know it's just something to watch the other one that came out was the platform which i had you watch remember i like that one yeah that one's pretty good set in a futuristic world there's like prisoners and vertical cells i i wouldn't say i wouldn't go down i think it's horror jason i think that's more of a psychological like thriller, it's a vertical cell oh my god. It fucks with you okay if you like movies that fuck with you and you're just trying to figure out what's going on give this I feel like this movie for me you know that I love psychological thrillers I have watched this a few times and I love it every time, highly recommend it and I feel like not a lot of people talk about it like people that enjoy this type of movies so I didn't know this movie existed until you showed it to me Yeah. So it has a really messed up thing, like the theme of it being, there's a lot of things that go in there. There's like political, social status, all these things. There's vertical cells. And it's in levels. And essentially, you're seeing everyday inmates above you eat as the inmates that are at the bottom of this vertical cell starve to death. The Invisible Man. How'd you like that one? I like it. I enjoyed it. It was pretty good. With Elizabeth Moss from The Handmaid's Tale, and then Oliver Duxon Cohen from Mad Men, and then he was also in Hunting of Hill House, Hunting of Bly Manor, The Possessor. I don't think that I've watched this, have you? I've never seen it. The Possessor at all looks interesting, though, because Cronenberg made it. Brandon Cronenberg, I think that's his son who made that movie. Underwater also came out. I actually really like this movie. I don't think I've ever seen it. It's another like... It's like a thriller underwater. It's Kristen Stewart, Jessica Henwick. Oh, that's why I didn't watch it. They go on a drilling station that's at the bottom of the ocean. Yeah. And stuff happens. One of the wall starts breaking down, and they have to walk across the seabed. Taylor Lautner just bursts out. Oh