Doug Loves Movies - Chris Cubas, Joseph Kahn and Anna Lore guest

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

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Get 15% off your first Brooklinen order and save extra when you bundle. Doug hates candy wrappers, screening babies, sticky seeds with 50 as it pops, or kernels in his teeth. They're still not one that he won't see, because Doug loves movies. Hey hey hey everybody, my name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies. Wow, that was more spoken word than sing-songy and I can't say that I mind it. It's true, this is Doug Loves Movies coming to you once again from the High Ball at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar location as part of Fantastic Fest

in Austin, Texas! Yes, ye and ha, one of each. It's Tuesday, September 24th, 2024, 2 p.m. But don't you worry, I've already got a 420 state of mind. Some people worry. Some people are like, that guy, he's better be high. I'm going to get my guests out here in a moment. Hashtag, but first, it's time for Doug Plugs.

I warned earlier about unnecessary wooing. And there you have it. But thank you. I'd say about a quarter of the audience played along on that Doug Plugs thing. They're going to really be put to the test in a moment. This Sunday, September 29th, Douglas Movies is back at Rooster Teeth Feathers in Sunnyvale, California. That's a real club and a real place. And on Saturday, October 5th, Doug Loves Movies is gonna be at the Santa Cruz Comedy Festival. Beautiful Santa Cruz, California. For all of my dates and deets and links,

go to douglovesmovies.com! That's douglovesmovies.com! Yeah! Come on! Shh! Wally? Dad dancing? Did you say dad dancing? Dad dancing? Could it be dad dancing? Oh my goodness.

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because I'll just put my stuff in my bag. And then you come and set it down somewhere and everyone has the same fucking bag. It's quite a system. All right. So I'm going to start with one of the best things first that I brought in the prize bag. This is a bag tag, you know, luxurious leather or whatever it is, fake leather bag tag that says only murders in the building on it. Yeah, I thought that would get a good ooh out of everybody. I'm gonna save the biggest ooh for last. This is funny. I was doing a show here the other night,

a Master Pancake Show, and it was a VHS edition, and one guy just walked up to me and handed this to me, and I don't know if I was supposed to look at it and hand it back, but before I knew it, he was gone. But it's, he, uh... he really dropped it and dashed. Maybe he thought I might be offended, because it's a cartoon all-stars to the rescue review

with, like, Winnie the Pooh and the Smurfs and Daffy Duck, to name a few alphas in there. And at the top it says, drugs don't stand a chance against these guys. And then the blobby guy from Ghostbusters is up there in the corner giving a thumbs up. You know, if you're listening to the blobby guy about whether to use drugs or not,

that seems ill-advised. Or you might already be on something. to use drugs or not, that seems ill-advised. Or you might already be on something. So anyway, it's that song VHS, I'm giving that away. That's like one of those things I think you have to get rid of or you're cursed. They had a benefit, my friend Brody Stevens, very funny comedian, they had a benefit for him

and his catchphrase was, enjoy it, enjoy it. And it's that and I think he also liked Coca-Cola a lot. But anyway, it's a fun red shirt that I got in multiple sizes and this one's not my size. Some Douglas Movie stickers. Oh, this is fun. They gave us, when we saw apartment 7A here at Fantastic Fest, they gave gift bags

that said the Bramford on it, which is the building in the movie. And this is a big, giant-ass, thick-ass cookie that says the Bramford on it. It's a cookie in the shape of a mansion. I mean, just the privilege there is insane. Or lack of it. I don't know what it says about our society.

Oh, and I got some pins from T-Pins. One says family sucks. That's not a pin from T-Pins. That's a key chain from the movie Blood Relatives. That's in here. Yeah. Austin made one of my pins, Doug Benson. But what is this, Terry? The certified clown pin for staff and volunteers only. Holy shit, certified clown pin for staff only. You sure you want to part with this? Yeah. Alright. Alright, is there more than one pin?

There's a terrifier in there. A terrifier? Oh no. That clown is scary. Did you see him walking around without makeup on? He looks like a total pussy. I bet very nice man. He seems like a very nice man. Same smile though. All right. No, he seemed cool.

I saw he was hanging out with Barbara Crampton at the airport. Hashtag great story. All right. This is going to be super fun. We've got two new B's as I like to say and one super old B. Not in age but in appearances on the show. Maybe we'll bring that up again later once he comes out here. Please welcome Chris Cubis, Joseph Kahn, and Anna Lor. Just look at them. They're here. Let's meet them individually, alphabetically, by first

name. So that means hello, Ana. How's it going? It's Anna Laura everybody. Hello. I'm so thrilled to be here for my first ever Doug Loves Movies experience. How many fantastic fest experiences do you have under your belt? This is my first fantastic fest. Oh my god, it's just all firsts all the time. I'm sure you've had many firsts while you've been here because that's what this festival is all about is just making random things happen that's like that's never happened before. Oftentimes it will not happen again because people think better of it. You know I also was hanging out with Barbara

Crampton at the airport. Yeah? Yeah. Why didn't she get a selfie with, she got a selfie with the Terrifier guy and was like, he's really nice. Yeah, I met him as well. I'm blanking on his name right now,

but I did think he looked like a total pussy. He's got three names. He's one of those three name types. You know? Andrew Scott Feldman. That's my guess. He's one of those three name types. Ugh. You know? Oh, we can't be expected to remember. Andrew Scott Feldman. That's my guess. That's your guess? Yeah, might be right. I'm one of those three.

We can't be expected to remember three names. It's that kind of name. No, no. But what's the most fun thing or interesting thing that you've experienced at Fantastic Fest? Oh, wow. Well, you know, I'll tell you what, environment people love me. Like the first day when they had the clowns and the stilt walkers and the, every single one of them talked to me.

And I actually think, I think it's the same quality that leads people to cast me in horror films. I call it victim face. Which is like, there's something that's like, ah, I just want to either bother or kidnapper. And, uh... Yeah, you can see the persecution out there on the regular. They really go after the, uh,

the ones that aren't, you know, giant men. Got our shared giant men around here. You know, one of my first jobs was... Still Walker just stays clear. I was going to go on a tangent about one of my first jobs was at a haunted house, and so I can relate to picking a victim out of an audience. And if you're going through a haunted house and you're not screaming no one's gonna try to scare you because it's not

fun so if you want to get the good scares when I go to a haunted house all my friends know I I'm not even scared I'm just going the whole thing because I want them to be like, a screamer's coming. So are you promoting a specific thing that you've done here at the festival? No, not this year. Just for fun, yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah, my friend said it's a good time every year

and I don't know, I just needed a little like injection of movie magic, you know what I mean? Like it was just one of those years where it was like, I need to like see some cool shit. I need to, honestly, the first day I got here and I sat down at the Alamo and I was like, oh, we're just watching movies the whole time. I was like, this is awesome.

It's a great idea for a festival. Yeah, then you do a five movie day and you're just sort of like, hmm. I'm not, I'm only, I'm over the chicken fingers. I actually didn't get into the secret screening last night and I was a little bit like, thank God because I'm going to go eat like non-movie theater food for one day. It's true, when you can't get into something that's the fallback is to do something good for yourself.

Just take care of yourself for a few hours instead of feeling sad about getting all FOMO about it. I just cruise across the street to Uchi and everything's good again. Oh my god, Uchi. Is it so good? It looked good. It's sick. It's freaking sick. I shouldn't even tell people because everyone's going to go and I won't be able to get a seat. Okay. So, yeah, those haunted house thingies, you know, I prefer the monster that is around the corner and they're just gonna go after whoever it is sight unseen to get that, you know, around the corner scare. Yep.

Oh, so, but you do have a movie coming out that this crowd would be into. Yeah. Another in the Final Destination series. That's correct. Final Destination colon. Bloodlines. Yes.

All right, so it's going back. I'm glad you said the colon. It's a prequel? I can't say anything about what it is. You can't say anything about it. I know back. I'm glad you said the colon. It's a prequel? I can't say anything about what it is. She can't say anything about it. I know, because I'm not here promoting it. We're not on the press tour yet.

I can say that the word's final destination will be in the title of the film, as well as a colon, the word bloodlines. Yeah, that part's been announced. You don't have to worry there, that part's been announced. You don't have to worry there. That part's already out of the bag. But thank you for being here. And I would next like to introduce,

as promised, alphabetical by first name, his 27th appearance on the show by my count. It's not, I'm not an accountant. I'm not a numbers guy, but I think it's 27. It's Chris cubis everybody You know I also briefly worked in a haunted house setting at a youth community center as part of some community service that I was doing when I got caught smoking weed in the mall parking lot when I was like 17 and when I got caught smoking weed in the mall parking lot when I was like 17.

And I accidentally stained a bunch of people's clothes with fake blood, and they didn't count those hours because people were too mad, and I had to do more community service. How's everybody doing? Woo! Woo! Oh, that fake blood'll get you every time.

I was like, what? I was like, ah, you know, they make it for a reason. It's gotta be able to be washed out. It was not. It stayed in the walls of the community center. They wouldn't sign my paperwork. Oh, my goodness. Have you done it?

You haven't participated in any fantastic fest stuff this year, I assume. I have not, but once I met Pierce Brosnan at Uchi, that was pretty cool. That's a great story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My fiance was like, oh, let's go take a picture. And I was like, I'm drunk.

I don't want to take a picture. And then she went up to go take a picture, and he was like, no, thank you. Oh. And I was like, you got, see, I saw that coming. I stayed back. That's so clever, turning it into no, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah coming. I stayed back. That's so clever, turning it, no thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, thank you. That's a good way to play. Thank you for, it's quite an honor that you want that. But I have eel to attend to. We were outside, we're not monsters. Oh, that cute little outside patio area. Well, I mean, we were like waiting for cars. So it was after dinner.

Oh, I see. We're reasonable people. Can I tell you something about Uchi? You sure can. We tried to go there the other day. Got there at 4 o'clock. That's the move, because you can probably get bar seats. Why are you telling them this?

Because I don't live here. Plus, that's what's great about it. It's such a great restaurant. You want people to be able to experience it. But my girlfriend and I got dropped off by a ride share out in front of the place the other day when they were supposed to open. Valet comes up to us and immediately, like, oh, I know what's about to happen. Sorry, we're closed for a private event. So you can't eat here now. Here's a card for $25 of food and beverage

in the restaurant next time you come back. I hadn't even said shit. When the guy came up to me, like, oh, they're closed, we'll't go somewhere else. Yeah, but You know they just hit you off at the pass like you can't even fucking complain No bitchin here's $25 you can get three quarters of a meal What am I supposed to do eat this right now? I'm hungry I Time this perfectly all right

I timed this perfectly. All right, also joining us, I'm so excited about this. He has a movie in the festival that I have my ticket to see in the second show in this week during Fantastic Fest. But his name is Joseph Khan, everybody. Well, hi, Doug. Nice to meet you. I am so excited that this happened over ex-formerly Twitter where there's a few of us left over there and I just sort of pushed out into the universe the idea through a tweet that Joseph

be a guest on the show because I'm a fan of his films and I'm looking forward to seeing Ick. And it works. He's a guest because I just bugged him on ex-formerly Twitter. So it's still a little useful, I guess. Yeah, it's still useful. Yeah. At first I was like, this is misinformation. I thought he said he's going to come, but he's not going to come. he doesn't even run this account. Well, to be honest, Fantastic Fest also reached out to me. Yay! Thank you, Fantastic Fest. Yeah, you gotta hit him with that one, two. But also, like, I'm

sure since you're here, you enjoy seeing the films, the kinds of films they're showing here. I do. This is definitely my genre. This is why I came here and became a filmmaker. It's funny, I don't know if a lot of people know, but I'm primarily a music video director. That's what I'm known for, for like Taylor Swift and Britney Spears and Gaga and all that stuff. But the only reason-

We don't need any bad blood. Yeah. But I mean, if you really watch those videos, they're all based on movies. And I am basically an outcast from movies that had to live in the wilderness of music videos to survive and I get to come back every once in a while and make a movie without any help from Hollywood. I have to put my own money into this stuff and that's how I get to make movies. Well you're like on like a six year plan approximately right like every six or so years you could have

something come out. This one was eight. So it's eight years since Bodied. We had that weird little extra blip in there. But Bodied is not only amazing, but you can just say to somebody, hey, let's watch Bodied and put it on. And they'll be like, oh, thanks for showing me Bodied. Like it's happened to me on multiple occasions

that people just really get into it. Have you seen it? No, I was thinking, I need to be shown bodies. Yeah, yeah. And I go all the way back to, of course, I love TORQ. And you guys know TORQ? Woo! Not enough people know TORQ.

Trust me on TORQ. If you decide one night, let's, you know, let's instead of Netflixing and chilling, just Torque and chill. Get it wherever you can get it. Torque was when I realized there's something extremely wrong with my filmmaking. Because, you know, before you're there, you know,

you think you're the next Steven Spielberg, right? That's what you think you're making. You think in your head, this is calibrated in a way that, because you like it, you're making a film that you like and you like Steven Spielberg, therefore it must be like Steven Spielberg. It's nothing like Steven Spielberg. It turned into this weird Japanese animation,

like self-reflexive meta biker film with Ice Cube in it. And there's a very small audience for that. Yep, that's me. There's two of us on the stage right now. I'm the audience, I'm the guy. That audience is here today. Yeah, yeah. I'm the guy that was into it.

But like, it's just got, it's got genius. There's so many funny lines in it. And Adam Scott is graded into it. If you're Adam Scott, if you like, Severance and Step Brothers, he's so funny in it. I actually, when Adam Scott came anded into, if you're Adam Scott, if you like Severance and Step Brothers, he's so funny. I actually, when Adam Scott came and auditioned, and this is before he was really known or anything like that, and I saw his performance,

I rewrote the part for Adam Scott. And it was written very straight, he wasn't even a villain. And as soon as I saw Adam Scott's performance, I was like, okay, we must rewrite this because this guy's going somewhere. That's awesome. Yeah, it's really good. So, but we need to learn more about, I have two questions. The first one being, does every one of your movies just have a one word title? Is that like a thing with you or just a coincidence? Yeah, because I'm visual and I can't put two words together.

just a coincidence. Yeah, because I'm visual and I can't put two words together. You just settle on one. One word that describes it the best. So that's my next question is how did you come up with the best title I've ever heard, which is Ick? So Ick is something I say way before it became a social media thing, like Ick. You just walk around going, Ick, I don't like ick, you know? So I was doing that, but more than the title itself, I became a dad in the last six years.

One of the reasons why it's been an eight year stretch as opposed to a six year stretch is because I had a kid for the first time and I essentially adopted a step kid too, who's now about 12, and they're both daughters, and I started realizing, what am I gonna make a movie about next? and what do I wanna watch with my kids? And I wanna watch horror films, but we're not making

horror films for kids today. It's very strange. It's all grounded horror, it's all very serious, it's very extreme, and I love all these movies. Trust me, for me as an adult, I love these movies, but I can't show them to my 13-year-old. So I wanted to make them. I think she would love heretic with

Hugh Grant that was really what a charmer he is Yeah, so I just wanted to make a movie that you know Maybe my kid will watch with me one day or maybe not but either way they can I can feel okay Showing it to them and I feel like we used to make those type of movies. We don't make him anymore So now as an active rebellion, that's my movie, a teen soft rock horror movie for kids. The last great, like kids could probably watch it because it was mostly just, you know, disgusting fluids and stuff was Drag Me to Hell. Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm very excited that Ick is, you ICC sounds like it's the same sort of... All of your films have, you know, they're a share of serious moments, but also it's just very clear that you want to make fun movies, and that's like goal one. I think the most important thing is that the audience just enjoys it, you know? Whether or not you extract meaning out of it, that's up to you on a personal level, and there's a lot of filmmakers doing incredibly wonderful,

subtle work like that, but I just wanna party. I'm too big. Yeah. Great answer. One more question. This goes out to all three of my guests. I ask everybody on every episode to recommend one movie, be the champion of one movie that you think people would see

that they would enjoy. Start with you, Anna. Uh-oh. Okay, we'll go to Chris. Chris is ready. We will come back to you. I just started my Hooptober watch season, if anybody's Hooptober, a couple of you. There's a guy on, a dude named Cinemonster on Letterboxd, he's been doing it for like, I think this is the 11th year, and he makes like a criteria list of horror movies to watch

for October. And this year it's like watch movies from six countries, eight different decades, watch something that was made in Texas, watch something led by a black woman. So it's like a list of criteria. And I just started my list and I watched Peter Fonda's Race with the Devil, if anybody's ever seen it, movie Rules, shot in Texas.

So he and his wife and another couple are on vacation driving around an RV and they Accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice and now they got a get out of small town, Texas It fucking rips. You don't know who it's like 1972 or something like that. So everybody may be in on it's like that paranoia vibe. It fucking I loved it There's a rattlesnake that jumps out of a cabinet on the RV it's awesome I love that movie so yeah watch race with the devil don't watch six paranormal activities in a row which I've also done in the last two days I'm assuming no one on the stage is part of those movies if they are. I'm in all six of them. Ah, fuck.

Well, you could have been, because I for sure fell asleep a few times. She plays Creaking Door. I mean, that just felt like you were, like, aren't so many of those just like watching security cameras? It's just oops all jump scares. I looked online and people, I'd never seen them, and that's part of you have to watch a whole franchise. So I was like, oh, I'll watch these. I've never seen them before.

And the first one's like smart. It's like a little clever. It's cheap. Like they made it for like 15 grand. It's like a bunch of like, oh, camera moves or whatever. By the sixth one, there's interdimensional time travel and a ton of CGI demons. And I was like, you have lost the thread my friend.

Alright. Ride with the Devil? Race with the Devil. Yeah. Pardon me. Race with the Devil. I just picture the the poster for that movie like like it's real action and real like fiery red and the devil but there's a big RV you know right there there's a big RV Peter Fonda standing over the top of it with a shotgun there's the other guy like screaming or whatever you've nailed it yeah well it's not a great sign that I remember the poster more than the movie but I definitely see it I also just picture just like it's just a very it's a wild movie it's a wild ride or race with the devil all right we're back to you again did you think of something I'm still kind of

panicking so because listen it's a tough question I hate being asked recommend a really tough question I'm responsible for somebody else's enjoyment. I was thinking, I think there was a little Instagram thing that was like pick your top six movies or whatever. And like, you've got mail and Ratatouille are on mine. I cannot recommend a film to this crowd. Well, you got to be careful out there because, you know, on the red carpet at Things, now they have...

The letterbox is out there. They're just like, Steve Martin, what's your top four? They're waiting. He's just like, ah, something French. You know what I really did like? I'm gonna completely blank on the name, and so this will be a fun exercise for all of us together. It's a Carol Kane movie about a group

that is putting on a play about the Nazis during, it's in Austria. Nazi times. No, it's... I really thought someone was going to help me out here. I was going to say clue, but I was wrong. It's like a... It's like the same name as a Shakespeare play.

I watched it last year, and it's a really, really fun... That should narrow it down if it's to be or not to be. To be or not to be. That's what it is. And it was a really, really fun. Oh, black and white or in color? Black and white. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, so you saw the original.

The original, and I can't remember the guy. Yeah, Mel Brooks remade it with him and his wife and Ben Proft. I haven't seen that one. But the original one. It's a solid story. It's really one of those stories where you get to feel good about being mad at Nazis.

Yeah, and you also get to feel good about being mad at Nazis. Yeah, and you also get to feel good about no bloodshed really. Like what a theater troupe can really accomplish. You know? Yeah, it does. Look at this group of actors. They really, they had a huge impact in World War II. And yeah, it's fun.

I like things like that that have costumes and mysteries and mad, like mixups and stuff. I was like like that that have costumes and mysteries and mad, like mix-ups and stuff. I was raised on Monty Python. That's a great to be or not to be. That's not only a great recommendation, but it truly is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. And you got mailed as being a great classic as well. What'd you say? Sorry. That's okay.

All right, Joseph. Okay, so. What do you got for us? I might be excommunicated from Fantastic Fest for this. Oh, just keep it between us. Okay, so the original Crow is one of my favorite movies of all time. Alex Poy is a fricking legend, genius, very influential.

I actually liked the reboot. Whoa. Yeah, and let me tell you why, okay? How dare you. Because when I watched it, I was like, okay, is it as good as the first Crow? Not by a long shot, but if this was not a Crow movie, and it, I was like, okay, is it as good as the first Crow, not by a long shot. But if this was not a Crow movie,

and it was an original piece, and had nothing to do with the Crow, and you called it something else, and you watched it as a standalone movie, it fucking rocks. It's crazy, right? Because it's about a guy who has no superpowers. The only superpower he has that he uses is that he can't die.

So he can't flip, he can't do anything, he just literally, he can't die. So he can't flip, he can't do anything, he just literally, he can't die. So that's how he does all his fight scenes. He gets ripped apart and stuff like that. Spoiler alert for the crow, I guess. Yeah. He has no power, and I thought, that's an interesting take on a superhero.

And then on top of it, it's visually really pretty. I mean, it's not like the Gothic version of the original crow. It's like that Eastern European, I made it in Bucharest version of it, you know? But for what it is, it's got an awesome visual style. The entire idea that he's an acid rapper, essentially, and that whole sort of Gen Z aesthetic was really well done. And when I watched it, just even the ending and the twist and the turns, I was like, if you hadn't seen The Crow, this is actually a really good movie.

If you don't think of it from that perspective, and it was an original piece, you'd go, oh, that's a really cool movie. And if you've never seen a movie at all, you'd go, that's a really cool movie too. That's a great review. If you've never seen a movie, it's pretty good. Yeah. Check out this one. Then you might go back to never seeing movies.

Crow 2 is still crowing, what's it called? I think it's just The Crow. Oh, they just call it The Crow again? I think it's just The Crow. But it's supposed to be the same story or Crow Jr.? They just took the IP and took some things they liked and did some other stuff and changed things for no reason. That's usually a good formula for a reason.

As a Crow movie, it doesn't work. As a Crow movie, it's terrible, but compared to the first one, compared to even the sequels, but if you just take it as its own weird entity, like just extracted from that whole universe, and if someone had just made an original piece like this, I think people would go, wow, that's pretty cool. You know what, this is actually one of my favorite things

that I see in movies when you're watching like the third thing in a franchise and you find out that they took this it was an original script and they were like Can you make it into an equalizer movie? You know and they like I love that because it makes some of the most original Movies actually when you go in you know the other thing I also realize is that you know like we watch movies very judgmentally Right now you know and because of the social media and we're always waiting for the most clever thing to say about the movie and we're judging each other on what we say on it, but when I watched

The Crow, it was literally, I was just bored, I was in the middle of nowhere and I wanted to see a movie and I remember the last time, it happens to me every once in a while, like when I saw Clear and Present Danger when I was a kid, it's not even my thing and the opening credits is just a force, right? And I almost cried, because I was like, wow, I'm watching a movie, and this is great, you know? And when I watched it cry, I was just receptive. And it's like a sailor who hasn't had sex.

It doesn't matter what the prostitute looks like, I'm having sex, you know? It feels just... Man, those paranormal activity movies weren't so bad. You gotta be rethinking about yourself, man. They're like a cheap prostitute. They're not bad at all. You know what, I was gonna say I love that the name of your

podcast is Doug Loves Movies because I tell people now, I'm like, I'm a movie liker. I don't want a hot take. I don't want to pick apart why the third act didn't work. If I was entertained the whole time, if I enjoyed it, that's what I want to see out of a movie. Yeah, I know.

Yeah. But that's why I complain so much about what happens in movies is because I love them so much that I want them to all be great and great for me. So I've definitely backed off of, I don't argue about opinions anymore with anybody because like if you loved it and I didn't, great for you. Like you win. You know, I sat there going, I don't argue about opinions anymore with anybody. Because if you loved it and I didn't, great for you. You win.

I sat there going, I don't like this. I wasted my time. But you got something out of it. Good for you. In the theater, I like almost every movie I see. Until I get 100%. Mummy! I'm in the movies.

It's dark. I'm not looking at my phone. I've got a snack, I'm usually a little high. This is a great experience. Yeah. And then if I watch it again at home, I'm like, oh man, last Christmas was fucking terrible. But in the theater, I was like, ah, you know, they all came together at the end. Yeah, there is something about, I still do really love the movie going experience, and

that's what I love about this festival is not only do you get to see all these great movies, but every seat in the theater is full and it's all people that have the same attitude about movies. Like I've seen 14 movies so far and I've never once been like, I wish that person would shut up. You know, none of that kind of stuff happens.

I know Alamo Drafthouse has a chain, is very strict, but it's still at a festival, everybody's just so into it. I mean, that's one of the things that's, because I've been doing this film festival circuit before, and I've just started again, and I've gone to some of the super prestigious film festivals, and the crowd is different.

They're walking around, they're like, how can you impress me? How can you, you know, how can you sort of meet my intellect? And Fantastic Fest is different, it really is. You can feel it. The people just wanna be entertained. They just really want to find something together. They'd rather love it than have something to shit on.

But they will shit on it if they don't love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is I think the only thing, you go in with an open mind, you go in wanting to like it, that's all you can do as an audience member. I go and I go, oh, I want to have fun, and then if I don't, then we'll talk later. But you know what, you always have something to say

was at Fantastic Fest. I have yet to have an awkward pause in a conversation. That's what I really like about it, is whether you liked the movie or you didn't. And I think this probably speaks to the larger culture too. I think this is why, like you said, people are watching movies to be judgmental, because it's a great conversation, you know what I mean?

Whether you loved it or hated it, talking about a movie is so much fun. But I feel like here, it's like, there's a collective want for a good movie. Yeah, yeah, totally. And that's different, that's a very different vibe. Totally, yeah. This thing's a collective want for a good movie. And that's different. That's a very different vibe. This thing's a movie amusement park.

It's just like, what ride did you go on today? I want to go on that one tomorrow. It's just very, very fun to hear the word of mouth. And I also love just seeing movies with, oh, I hear that they do something to a rat in this movie, but I don't know anything else about it, so here goes. And I thought Patton did a great job as the voice of the rat. There's probably never been a Pixar movie at Fantastic Fest, I don't imagine.

But they're breaking down walls, like I mean, even for a genre fest, they're bringing in some really interesting things that wouldn't necessarily fit just into science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Wait, do we have science fiction, fantasy, and horror? Not really. Well, yeah, that theater company saves the day. That couldn't have happened. So anyway, great recommendations recommendations everybody. The Nazis were bad that's science fiction. Oh clearly I meant that. All right so thank you for

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And I've devised some games to play. And I should mention that I forgot to mention earlier that some figurines from the film Robot Dreams are also in the bag. A film by Pablo Berger. All right. The first game we're going to play today is something that I like to play whenever I'm in Texas because it originated here in Austin at Cab City Comedy Club and on local radio. It's Alex and Jason and Deb's IMDB game.

All right, here's how the IMDB game works. Chris has probably played this before. Everybody's got a top four, best known for at the top of their IMDB page. So I'm going to list an actor or actresses top four slowly. And your job is to buzz in with your own name, just say your own name and I'll call on you. And then tell me what actor or actress I'm referring to. And we can do it at any time.

At any time, but once I say that first title, as you can imagine, there's a lot of people in that first movie that it could be. So there's a lot of people in that first movie that it could be. So it's a risky move because if you buzz in and get it wrong, it's negative one point. I'm gonna keep track and everything. And, but if you do get it right,

if you got it say on the second title, then you get a chance for two bonus points because you get to name two more movies that person might have in their top four and those would be worth a point each if you succeed. Which I think Chris has. I think Chris has done it. That sounds likely but those days were long ago. Yeah it goes after a while because you got to, there's so much new trivia to put in your head all the time that it presses out the old stuff. Yeah, actually I think Chris is at a disadvantage here because his head is filled with paranormal

activity. That's true. That's the only thing you can think of right now. A movie with no recognizable actors in any of the films. Yeah, and then after you watch all of them in a row, you can barely make sentences or do anything quickly. OK, so I'll start naming the movies this person was in. Buzz in with your own name when you're ready to guess.

The first title is classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yeah. Smart not to buzz in. A lot of people in that one. The second movie is called Fight Club. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The third movie in this person's best known for is Formula 51. Chris, Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf is correct. It took me a second.

It is Mr. Loaf. We're clearly gonna lose. Hold on. He's in another movie? I know, right? We really went through his whole filmography there, but he was in a few things, but he's in a fourth... They chose a fourth one.

A fourth one more than those. Good luck guessing it, is all I'll say. Is it... Black Dog? Not Black Dog. I thought he was in that Patrick Swayze truck driver, I'm a bad dad movie. He might be, but he's not, that's not what they went with. They went with a pretty similar genre, Spice World. Good old Spice World. So you only got one point for that Chris,

but you know that might be all you need ultimately. We'll see what happens. All right, round two. The first film is called Two Leslie. I've been saying it wrong all this time. I never saw that movie. That lady got nominated for best anyway, yeah

the second Title is a TV show sometimes a TV show will sneak into these things and this TV show is called Marrone Nope, that's used what word marrone Okay, I got you now Marron the man is called Marron Marron. It's... What word? Marone? Marone. Oh, okay. I gotcha. Marone. Marin. The movie is called Marin. Marin. It's called Mazzie Marin.

Marin. Nope. I'm telling you, Chris. Marone. The movie's called Marone. It's just so weird to say it nicely like that. Marin. The Bad Guys is the third title and then the fourth title is almost famous. This is a tough one I'll admit. Yeah I got I am drawing a blank. All right we're just gonna move on. Nobody has to get it. You've seen that happen on Jeopardy.

Sure. Sometimes all three people don't know. And this was a tough one, especially because it's probably a little misleading that I kept saying Marin, Marin, Marrone, because the actor in question is Mark Marin. God damn it. Who not only starred in the show about himself, but has also been, he's got quite a acting resume,

and he's always really good, I think. I think he does a good job. So anyway, no points for that one. No. That means no points for everybody. So you're all still neck and neck, except for Chris being a whole point in the lead. Here we go.

The first movie that this person is best known for is The Natural. The second one is a movie called In and Out with an ampersand. But it's not, it has nothing to do with the hamburger restaurant. The third title is The Firm. Now these are just sound like porn titles. You gotta get firm before you go in and out, we're all there. We got it, yeah. And number four, the fourth title in this person's, best known for, Cocoon. Oh, Chris, Wilford Brimley.

Yes, it is Wilford Brimley. Another point for Chris. No chance for bonus points, so, let's play one more round. Is he, who, is he like the pitcher's mound in the natural? Who is Wilford Brimley? He and Richard's farm, like, you know, Brimley, like, you know, when he was like 42,

somebody decided he looked 65. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he just played old guys. Like in Cocoon, he was only in his 50s, I think. But in the natural, there's like sort of a Statler and Waldorf, you know, two coaches. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Him and Richard Farnsworth.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is both like crusty and mustachioed. On a side baseball movie, I just watched Field of Dreams for the first time. And I recommend if you have a chance to wait for your dad to die to watch Feel the Dreams, do that. It'll hit you right in the fucking gut.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That movie's really intense. Here's the thing. I bet it was kind of not that good. But Food Boy, when he starts playing catch with his dad, I was a sobbing mess. Yeah, it's a little cheesy.

But also just the way everybody commits to it. And did did you pull it out for little James Earl Jones tribute? No, it was like two days before he passed. Oh, so you're why he passed away. One more residual check and punched out. I'm actually from Iowa nearby where the real field of dreams is. Did you drive? Was that one of your cars? One of your parents cars at the end when they all, everybody showing up? No? Okay, I'm sorry. I thought that was, would have made sense.

Does anybody, older people in your family talk about the time that happened? Holy shit, do you know there was a bunch of ghosts playing baseball like two miles down the road? We just thought that's where Jack Nicholson lives. Cause he likes a good hedge maze. All right, so congratulations Chris. Oh, okay, well let's do one more. Okay. Yeah, but you won that game. Shakespeare in love.

Sliding doors. Chris? Joseph, I think I heard you. Gwyneth Paltrow? Gwyneth Paltrow is correct. I can get Tom Cruise and Gwyneth Paltrow, Wilford Brimley and Mark Marr- I don't know. Can I tell you that- Holy shit, that wasn't just for fun.

That was for like now you have a chance to make it a tie, but first Ana with this. Ana with breaking news. I'm so bad at podcasts. I'm always talking at the same time as someone else. I was just gonna say that this whole festival to me has just, when people start listing movies around me, my palms start sweating, I get really nervous. The whole festival has felt to me like that I think you should leave Sketch where Tim Heidecker is just listing jazz musicians. Like every conversation I'm in, I'm like,

nope, I did not see my dead naked grandma. But, but. That was close, there's one close to that, or there's a few close to that title. Any, you say any violent thought out loud, and there'll probably be a title similar to it. Ed and his Dead Mother? Yeah, at the festival.

That's a, oh it's not here, but that's a movie. Yeah, there you go. Way too many words for Joseph in that one. Yeah. Okay, so you can tie this up or even win it Joseph if you can name Two more movies that would be in her top four. See that's the trick. It's like what is the IMDB algorithm? Are they going off like like her movies some tell you like or some picket themselves? They get high D Pro or is it going off her most popular movies?

Cuz I guess I'll just go with the popular movies. That would be like Seven and Iron Man. There's some golf applause in the audience, indicating they thought those were good choices. And I can't disagree with those choices being great, but neither of those two made the top four. They went with... This feels like she put it together herself. But also, it's also, you know, these are big movies she was in. The next one is Emma, the Jane Austen movie. And then the fourth one, you're right in the zone because it was Iron Man 3.

Oh, okay. You're not going to give him a point for that? Half a point? He it was Iron Man 3. Oh, okay. You're not gonna give him a point for that? Iron Man 3. Half a point? He meant the Iron Man franchise. Well, I mean, at this point, he still would lose to Chris, but yeah, sure, you get half a point for that. So congratulations to everybody, though.

That was a great first game. And, you know, just relax because there's 17 more games. And you know, just relax because there's 17 more games. And Chris is going to go first in our next game, which is what I call, Whose Tagline Is It Anyway? Very popular game. Most movies, a lot of movies have a tagline. You know a movie that managed to squeak out there and never come up with a tagline is our good friend torque it says from the producers of

Triple X and Fast and the Furious or something like that And there's no tagline which would it's a be a fun movie to have a fun I mean there's almost no title because no one could figure out what to call it One of the producers said we shouldn't call it torque because movies with cues and a bomb and he was correct Wait, but that can't be like always true, right? If there's a cue in the title, it's gonna bomb I don't know name it. I'm trying to think of a single movie Silver I'm trying to think of a single movie with a Q in it. Quicksilver? There's those quarter mass movies? I can't think of...

Yeah, Queen's Gambit, but that's TV. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It might be true. Quantum of Solace. Quantum of Solace arguably the best James Bond movie. It has a Q and a name no one's heard of two words in, and yeah. That one was always a mystery, Quantum of Solace.

But definitely the only James Bond movie where the villain dies because he has to drink motor oil in the desert. Definitely. Huh? Definitely. Okay, so, as you can tell, I looked up TORQ and couldn't find a tagline for it,

but I did find, this is as an example, we're not playing the game yet, Cancel Your Future. Does that ring any bells? That's my movie. Detention. Oh, is that, is that Bodied? No, that's Detention. That's Detention.

Oh, fuck. Man, you've made a bunch of movies I like. Sorry, I've been sitting here not realizing those were all made by the same person, I like Bodied. I realize that's that Battle Rap movie, and then Detention was also cool. That's cool, man. Thank you, thank you. I haven't seen them, so will you just describe

the plot of all of them to me? Oh, Bodied, a white battle rapper says horrific things to people, but that is the nature of battle rap, so it's cool. And then Detention is fucking indescribable weird. A kid gets Detention, but there's like time travel. It's very hard to describe. It's the kid from seeing the Hunger Games movies.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't think of his name. Josh Hutcherson? Yeah, there he is. He just walked in. Anybody could show up at Fantastic Fest. I made a video on Instagram that made it look like the audience just started chanting, we want our money back at Sebastian's tape.

It's so stupid. I even said breaking fake news on it because I knew somebody would take it seriously. Like, that sounds just like Austin. They would boo him just for playing that role. Okay. Here's how his tagline is, it anyway works. The aforementioned tagline of a movie, I will say it out loud, and then we'll take turns on this one. So we'll start with Chris,

and then we'll go to Joseph, and then to Anna, and if you figure out what it is, take a guess. If you can't think of it, it's no big deal because it's very tough to narrow down all the movies ever made down to just one tagline. But some of these are more descriptive of the movie than others. So it's just, you just gotta listen to it,

try to figure it out. And we'll start with Chris. In this town, you're either one or the other. Okay, so you're in a town and there's two things. In this town, you're either one or the other. In and out. That is incorrect. We all knew that though.

That was just a fun answer. Joseph, what do you think? Stupford Wives? Yep, you're either a robot, sexy robot, sexy domestic robot or other. But no, that's not it. It's a great guess. Anna? Oh man. Yeah, just like one of those movies where there's like... Marley and me. Or me, that's it. Yeah, just think of one of those movies where there's like...

Marley and me. Or me, that's it. Yeah, you're either Marley or you're me. Like there's not... there's definitely dividing lines between... you can tell which one is the pet and which one's the owner. But it's none of those were all terrific answers, so this is gonna be fun even if these are too difficult. But you have to be either the quick or the dead.

God damn it. I just watched that. Like a month ago I showed it to my fiance for the first time. I just watched it. I think it's so fun. I think it's great. She had less of opinions on it, but I thought it to my fiance for the first time. I just watched it. I think it's so fun. I think it's great. She had less of opinions on it, but I thought it was great.

I love it. I love that movie. Fucking Lance Hendrickson hanging off that horse with ribs. You gotta be down for like a series of shootouts, but you know, not unlike a series of rap battles, it's how you shoot it. Like it's just, he uses every possible angle that could be used in a gun.

It's the best Doy zoom move out ever. Like it's like dolly zooms in every shot. Yeah, it's amazing. Wow, really blowing skirt up Remy. Remy's dress today, his kilt. Okay, let's do another one and we'll start again with Chris Don't set him off

Don't set him off. Okay. Now I'm gonna read the tagline. I was just saying that About Chris in general. Uh, shit. Don't set him off. Uh, no clue. Uh, Hulk. Real economy of words there, because it could have been like, whatever you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't set him off. This is just, don't set him off.

What'd you say? I said Hulk. Right, you want to set him off. Sure, I know it's not right, but. It's a great example drawn a blank I just realized that another good guess would be mr. Rogers movie the Bob Ross movie I don't know the names of these movies but they made him all right Joseph set him off so that sounds like like power or electricity or something like that. This is super obscure. Wes Craven made a movie in the 80s about a guy that had electricity as power.

So shocker. That's going to be my answer. Shocker. It's a shocker. That's not the right answer. I'm surprised. This should be the right answer. I'll go back and change it later.

We'll fix it in post, but what's your guess? Anna, do you have a guess? You know, I'm glad I'm third on all of these because at least out of every movie in the world, two have already. Yeah. You were gonna say shocker? Yeah.

It's a narrowing down that happens. My odds are way better being the third one here. It's a good position to be in. Wally? Wally? That robot will fucking go nuts on you. You do not want to set him off. But also, this is supposed to be, I guess, a pun on his name because you set off fireworks

and you light a fuse or a John Wick. Yeah, not a good tagline. I mean, you don't want to set him off, but you might as well just be more clear and just be like do not Don't don't kill his dog kill his dog nail it yeah Yeah Could have just said that on the poster also would have helped people because I know a lot of people Didn't want to see that movie because they were worried. It would be traumatic and it is That's the point I had the marketing clip for that movie stuck in my head for five years when they have

Keanu Reeves going, he's like, people keep asking me if I'm back. Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. Right, and it was the first in the series. He's doing the on back lines that, you know, Pagino did in Godfather 3. He's doing it in first movie. He's already like, I was out. I'm back for this first adventure. I guess that's why there's so much room for prequels and stuff with the John Wickie verse. Alright, so we're back to Chris again. Yeah, but you know, somebody will get one. I feel good about it. We'll see. This one, maybe not.

All right. If you thought the other two were easier, we're in trouble. This one is. I'm on my way. What? No, I'm sorry, that's a text I got earlier. No, that was the tagline. I'm on my way.

Yes. Yeah, no, man, what kind of vague as a, why would you make that the tagline? How is that getting people to your movies? I'm starting to think I'd be pretty good at coming up with taglines for movies. Yeah, just fucking random word generator a sentence and you're good.

I'm starting to think this is a job I could have. First sentence you say, you just like. There was a time where the taglines would be like, he's a cop in Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills cop. And like, all right, I get it, let's do this. Yeah, Doug, why couldn't we have taglines like he's a cop in Beverly Hills?

Well, some of them are easier than others. Yeah, I'm on my way. Yes. Fucking the Martian. I don't know. Trying to come home, I don't know. Also, this is super fun today. I'm having a great time.

But when I got here, I was like, it shows this could be an hour, hour 15 tops, and we just are about to hit hour 15. And there's so much more to go. So is everybody all right with the? Everyone? All right, cool. Okay.

I'd bet the people that run the facility, but the audience deserves a vote as well. I just wanted to clear it with somebody, but I don't think anybody minds. They've had it written down initially for two hours. I'm like, it's not gonna be two hours. But guess what though? I think it's gonna be two hours.

All right, here we go. I'm on my way. It sounds like obviously the character is what's being sold, right? And it sounds like obviously the character is what's being sold right and it sounds like a star And it sounds very Schwartz and like Schwartz and Negarian But I don't think it's one of his bigger movies if it was So it's somewhere between Eraser and Running Man I'm gonna go with Running Man. I know it's not it but way and whatever

I mean that was like that was brilliant man. I'm gonna go with the running man. I know it's not it but way and whatever. I mean that was like that was brilliant. Like if you showed your work the teachers still just go yeah I gotta give it to you. That all made sense but that's not the one I've got written down here in the spot where it says the right answer. So, Ana? Yeah, and kind of to just take it off Joseph, I'm feeling like it's someone who's starting somewhere and he's going somewhere else.

And he's announcing that he intends to go to a second place. So he's probably, I'm thinking it's a guy who's on his way some way. And I'm going to go with Cars. Cars is a great answer because I'm sure they must say that at some point. You know, because they are always moving around that's the tagline for a fellow named Dick Tracy he'd always like in the comic books and in the movie he'd like look at his little detective watch that had little pictures on and stuff and you know he's talking to it you know he's be like I'm on my way I'm on my way and

then when Disney made a movie that was destined to fail because it cost so much money and turned out just okay anyway you're saying the budget was mostly gone by the time they got to taglines? Yeah. I'm just saying that you're giving up on this movie to come up with the tagline, I'm on my way. But I guess if you see the picture of him talking into his watch, it makes a lot more sense. If you see that and you know comics from the 40s,

you might get the connection. Yeah, I guess if we saw a picture of Dick Tracy looking at his watch, we would have guessed that one. Yeah, I think so. Alright, Chris. Alright. I think this one is unbelievable timing, but here it is. The only way out is back in.

Oh. The only way out is back in it's not well, man I'm just gonna move. I'm gonna say it even though I don't think it's right Godfather 3 No, that's a similar line, but not the same. Yeah. He says they keep pulling me back. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Yeah The only way out is back in, Joseph. Oh gosh. All right, so there was this Sylvester Stallone, Guy Pearce movie that I never saw, but it was something about a prison in space,

and they had to get back into it. So whatever that movie was, that's what I'm going with. Space Jam in prison. That's incorrect. Anna? Is it the film In-N-Out, not The Hamburger Restaurant? Maybe In-N-Out 2 would have been good. This is the tagline for

John Wick Chapter 2. Wait, but can you imagine going to see a movie called In-N-Out, the only way out is back in? That's a great, that's a missed opportunity. Is there a colon in there? Is it In and Out, colon, the only way out is back in? You're gonna get, one of you is gonna get this one, I swear.

Okay. All right, Chris You're first. Yeah, it was supposed to be the safest room in the house It was supposed to be the safest room in the house Yes, I sure did I was thinking that Ryan Reynolds, but it's safe house and not safe room, nevermind. I like, I always used to say the tagline for safe house is no one is safe, no one is house. I sure did mean safe house, nevermind. All right, Joseph?

I don't know how I could be wrong about this. Panic Room. Yeah. It's Panic Room. That's what, yes, absolutely. It's so fun that someone got one right, but it is sad that I didn't get to come up with a joke answer. Well, you're gonna do, you're gonna close this out.

You're gonna go first on this next one, and you tie it up with Joseph if you get it. Whoever gets it, or Joseph could walk away with the win. Wait, was that the first point? That was the first point in this game. In this game, yeah. That was the first point away? That was a Do we go back to zero or do they get to keep their points from nobody keeps anything ever An answer is esoteric as these goddamn taglines

What movie has a tagline on it? Face your fears. What do you think the chances are that I'm gonna get this? If you think about the key word being face, that might help you, but I can't say anything further. She's too young for this. You think you know it? I think. Well, maybe not. My only guess is face off.

No, but good guess. They're not above putting a word from the title in the tagline. It happens. After I'm on my way, all bets are off for me. Even a movie called I'm On My Way, which you used to have as a tagline. I'm on my way, I'm on my way. What do you think it is Chris?

It's killing me because I do think I know it but I can't get it out. Face Your Fears is... Yeah, I got nothing. Let's give it to Joseph. He's smoking us anyway. No, it's just I don't know if this is quite a movie, but and I didn't know you actually had a tag. Oh, you're just going to recount the experience? Is this when I was walking down the street?

Faces of Death. Oh. I got you. No, no. What the fuck? No. Yeah, no snuff films. I've made it into my

trivia, trivia games. But I'll consider it. I'll take it back to the head office. Is it, it's not cliffhanger? Oh, we're just going twice? No, it's over. I was just fucking playing. It's over. I'm just milking it because it's fun that nobody knows.

But it's also not that obvious, but it's for the wicker man. And so Nicholas Cage and face, those are both in the ballpark. I was saying face your fears because he gets covered in... His face gets covered in bees. And he does not care for them. He does not care for having all those bees in his face gets covered in bees and he does not care for them he does not care for having all those bees on his face he's not like candy man walking around going yeah i got bees on my face big deal congratulations joseph you won that game before we all get too excited it just means that he gets to go first in our last game, which will determine the true winner today and who goes home.

Who has to fly home or drive home with all of this contraband. We're going to find that out after these messages. We'll be right back. We're back! That is such a refreshing break. That second break, I really have a whole new burst of energy after it. Plus I'm just excited to say that Joseph gets to go first in our last and final game. We'll switch the order this time. It'll go Joseph, Chris, Anna, because there's

nothing like an arbitrary thing. I love it. Anybody can win in a game I call the little search engine that could. Woo! It's a very, very good game. They got a search engine on that IMDB. We referenced it earlier. It's a little hard to figure out sometimes, but generally, you know, it's whatever's being plugged into, whatever's being searched the most tends to, seems to emerge the highest. So I typed a word into, oh by the way, I know we just went to a commercial and came back and everybody's probably long forgotten about it, but both of those last

two games also had a theme that was running through them, through all the answers. In the first game, everybody I mentioned, all those people, their birthday is on the day this episode is coming out, September 27th, Gwini Peltrow and Meatloaf, happy birthday. And I know neither one of them are gonna hear it for different reasons. And, and, and whose tagline is it anyway? Every title had Ick in it. And in whose tagline is it anyway, every title had ick in it. Oh nice, love that.

Isn't that fun? Go see ick everybody. October? Nothing. We're not distributed yet. Oh okay, okay, well this is good that we're getting the word of mouth going early on it then and get somebody to do the right thing.

That's right. Looking for a home. Alright, so I typed a word in today and then I wrote down seven movies, the top seven movies according to the IMDB algorithm, most popular, with that word in it. So you're going to take turns, after I tell you the word, you're gonna take turns guessing movies that would have that word in the title. And you're each gonna ultimately get three guesses. We'll take turns, we'll go through three times.

So you might get, you know, hearing other people's answers might give you an idea of something, might spark something. And then also, you can go to the person who you're playing on behalf of, you can go to them once and say, hey, help me out here. Do you have a title that you think

to have finished high up on this list? But you may not need it. You don't have to use it. It's just there. I feel like I probably won't need it. All right, I didn't, you know. Your person that you're playing for heard you say that, so they probably don't feel so good about it.

No, I just- They want to help. I think that having zero points in two rounds so far- Oh, I see. You meant it the other way. Yeah. Like, you know, like, you're not, why even bother? You should probably, if she's playing for you, you should probably go home now. That attitude.

Now you never know, this one's, this is a crazy one. It could go, could go in anybody's direction, but Joseph, like I said, gets to go first. The word that is in all seven of these titles is it. What do you think is the number one movie with the word it in the title? I'm going to go with it. It is a terrific guess. It's the number one movie on the list. Why wouldn't it be? It's called it. It's the exact word that I typed in. It's right there. Now question, is this a full title situation? Do you think that that was inaccurate?

Is it... Oh. Is the first one that and the second one is different? I think so, yes. Ah, interesting. Is that what it means? It's your turn, yes. It Chapter 2. That is on the list. I wasn't sure if it was It Chapter 1 and It Chapter 2

or not. Oh, and here's how the points work. For number one, Joseph got seven points. And it puts him in a nice position in the lead. And your movie, It Chapter 2, is number four on the list. So that is worth four points for Chris. Now, Anna. These games are making me feel like I've never seen a movie in my life. But you thought you've got a couple rumbling around there that have the word

it in them. Yeah, it's chapter three. Is that your official guess? Um well what do you what do you think? You could go to your lifeline immediately. Oh, can I use it multiple times? Just once. Well you can do it right now. Oh hold on let me think about this. I'm just gonna go with it chapter three because I feel like I'm gonna need them later. Okay. They haven't made it yet. It's not a thing yeah I think they told the whole story in the two parts, which is weird, because there's no two-chapter books. But, you know, John Wick's only four chapters thus far. But no, I'm sorry, that's not there.

But you're still in this, and you can still use your lifeline on the next round. We're back to Joseph. What's your next guess for movies with it? So this is IMDB. This is the internet movie database. See, what's your next guess for movies with it? So this is IMDB. This is the internet movie database. See, that's the thing. Is IMDB full of just people that are randomly looking things up or are they actually film

lovers? Because if you're a film lover, this should be on it and I don't know if it is, but it happened one night. It's like one of the greatest movies ever. Yeah I did that thing where it won best director, best picture, best actor, best actress, all of those. Best screenplay, I think. It's not in the top seven. I'm sad to say it's not in there. But that was a terrific guess. You're still in the lead. You're still winning. Chris needs to pick out one that's a little bit higher up on the list.

So I have a couple. Neither of them are like, I mean they're more recent than that, but I'm trying to think what is like in the zeitgeist and I can't really think of, I'm just gonna go with It Follows. Well you know this crowd. This crowd likes it but I don't know about IMDB.

I'm gonna go with It Follows because It is number three on the list. Yeah. Yeah. Chris has got five more points for that one. But there's still a six pointer and then a few little ones. What's your next guess on them?

I have great news. I did think of a movie with the word it in the title. What is it? It's a Wonderful Life. It's a Wonderful Life is on the list. It's number two. Hey. I mean number six.

I'm sorry, number six. A jerk. It mean, number six. I'm sorry, number six. Oh, jerk. I'm such a jerk. It's number six, but I got confused because it's worth two points. This is the fourth hour of movie trivia I've played at Fantastic Fest. And that's the first question I've gotten right.

Yay! I try to tell people before the show, it's going to seem like really hard, but then, you know, you might do it. You might find success. My lifeline is squirming. So no. Oh yes. Do you have a? My lifeline just shook his head no at me.

I looked over and he was like. You have one? No, no, I'm not calling right now. I just got one. No, no, I'm not calling you now. It's my first point ever all by myself. Yeah, just let her enjoy this moment, dude. No wonder you're coming solo next year.

Wait, did we learn that during the break? Or the listeners are like, what are you talking about? That is a call back for the room. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so we're back to Joseph. Man, I'm... All you need is one of these little ones. There's the seventh one.

The fifth one. Set it off. Oh, that's great. That's a good answer. That's a good answer. Not on the loose. No sadly. You don't want to set it off. So I have one lifeline but it's iffy. Oh. You got one that you feel? Oh they both got it. You want it? I'm playing for you so you can have it if you want it. It could happen to you. Not what I was going to guess. I'm going to say what he said. Oh, really?

You like that better than yours? No, not at all. But if, oh, OK. I was going to say. I don't think mine's that great. He shouldn't have told you, but it's fine. You already won the game. So this is just for formality.

I'll go with Bring It On. Bring It On is a, they're both good answers. It could happen to you, Bring It On. They're both probably in there somewhere, but they're not in the top seven. But just for show off points, would Ana or your Lifeline like to say one more answer? Yes.

Let's go Lifeline. It's IMDB, so it the Lifeline. It the TV movie? It's a good thing there's a chair between you and me because I would come at you so hard but that's a really nice chair. No TV movies. Come on. Well, to be fair, the other game, there was a TV show in it, so maybe he got a little confused. But I prefaced it. Well, then fuck you, man. I made excuses for the other one. But is that the only one you have? Do you want to give another one?

Bring it on? He just said bring it on. Were you over there just thinking you had it locked? You were like, it, the TV movie's gotta be in there. I don't even think, you know, you have to click on movies or TV when you're, when I'm doing this. So I'm sure it did quite well on the TV list, but it's not on the movie list.

Sorry, Ana. That is fine because I feel like we're a perfect match. He said two movies that everyone up here already said, and I've just been naming Pixar films for an hour and a half. Now, be fair. You did name a movie that didn't exist. That also happened. I probably named several movies that didn't exist.

I'm up here thinking, is It's Amore a movie? Oh, almost certainly, right? There's probably like a shitty lifetime movie with like a man and a woman sitting on a slice of pizza on the cover. But before we celebrate Chris's win and get out back into the hot, hot heat, number seven on the list is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Yeah, so

that's it. Number five, It Comes at Night. Yeah, which I don't want to know who that is and I don't want them for a roommate. And then number two is, I'm so proud of everybody in this room because this movie has been just a whirlwind of bad, weird press all around it. It ends with us. Yes. It ends with us, number two, because of course people are looking that movie up and going, when can I see it for free? And then weigh in with my opinion. Oh, it also sucked or whatever.

But congratulations, Chris Cubis is our winner. Come up and get your prizes. You didn't even help him. Yet you win. Congratulations, dude. You didn't even help him, yet you win. Congratulations, dude. James is going to get a lot of attention walking around with that bag full of stuff. Some good stuff in there. Luggage tag. Do you need a luggage tag?

That VHS cassette tape is worth its weight in gold because it you know what it doesn't weigh very Chris cubis what would you like to plug and promote when are you gonna go first just check me out a lot I'm at Chris cubis on all social media and look out for me on the master pancake twitch streams I'm on there a lot right on thank you. Always great having you on. Joseph Khan, great first appearance. I'd love to have you back again sometime. Like, you know, we could even do a six-year plan whenever you have a movie coming out. That's what I've been doing with Jeffrey, Jeffrey Wright, Edgar Wright. And I got Jeffrey

Wright in the head because he's in that crazy Rule of Jenny Penn movie that played here. That's Jeffrey Rush. If you get a chance to see it. Oh and I say Jeffrey Wright? So many Jeffreys. So little time. Can I have a point for that though? Could I have a point for that for knowing for Jeff? All right everybody gets a point. I call it a participation point. The kids love getting them. I only got one participation point. You just participated and I gave you a point. If you had participated earlier. But Joseph, like I said, thank you for being here. Chris and I both really do love your movies.

And everybody, just get the word out about Ick. See the remaining screenings. Do you know when they are here? It's tomorrow night. So yeah, tomorrow night. Everybody's here. If you haven't seen, has anybody seen Ick already? Whoo! Okay, so you didn't really care for it?

They're into it, so that's cool. Is that, do you have family and friends here? No. So that was legit, that was legit woo for Ick. So congratulations on that. Thanks for watching. Anna Lor, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me.

Final Destination, 72. Before that, though, actually, I do. I am in a show called Hysteria on Peacock that comes out in October, I think October 17, as Bruce Campbell in it. It's about satanic panic in the 90s, and it's going to be really cool. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that.

That sounds awesome. Also, I have to say when you're editing this, you're gonna have to edit me laughing into the mic the whole time. Oh no, that's okay. And also... No, somebody had to. I clap when everyone else clapped. Every time anyone clapped I was like... Oh, I think that'll sound good to the listeners.

So that's two participation points. I'm running out of participation points. I don't usually bring any because I normally don't give them out. So I was really unprepared for that. And also is they them? Could people watch that? They slash them is also on Peacock, yeah. Yeah, there you go. They slash them. And it's been a great afternoon of saying the punctuation in titles aloud. And I'd like to thank Alamo Drafthouse and this beautiful bar, the Highball.

Great place to hang out when you're seeing movies at Alamo or Alamo South Lamar in Austin, Texas. I got some plugs. Douglas Movies is, like I said, is gonna be in Sunnyvale, California this Sunday. And then I'm gonna be at the Santa Cruz Comedy Fest and Wise Guys in Salt Lake City. And thanks again to all of my guests, Chris Cubas,

Joseph Khan, and Anna Lor. I close every episode with the last line of a motion picture, sometimes famous, sometimes weird. This probably qualifies as both, but in honor of Fantastic Fest, it's the last line from the movie, from 1965, Fantastic Voyage, where Raquel Welch and some other scientists made themselves small and went into a dude's bloodstream? Yeah, it was kind of a prequel to the inner space I guess when they finally decided let's just put one person in there and let's make it Dennis Quaid

All right as always cracking myself up always, open that door, please.