Too Scary; Didn't Watch - 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

Episode Date: March 25, 2020

An underground bunker, barrels of acid, and Molotov cocktails (does everyone just inherently know to make those??) - we're recapping 10 Cloverfield Lane! No guest this week; we are still in real-life quarantine so we chose a film that reflects the times. Join us as we become terrified of the otherwise lovable John Goodman. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I'm too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also way too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy and I like watching scary movies. Do you still like watching scary movies? More than even after circumstances. More now than ever. What are you referring to, Henley? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. The apocalypse?

The end of the world? Right. Right. Did anything scary happen to us this week? On that note? Oh, my God. Just a wee bit. Things have been all around terrifying.

I got scared going to the grocery store today. So everything is regular. Everyday occurrences are now scary. You went to the grocery store today. So everything is regular. Everyday occurrences are now scary. You went to the grocery store today? I didn't know that. What was it like? I'm sorry. I didn't tell you.

No. I went to Albertsons and it was okay. People were actually keeping a good distance from each other. Were they limiting how many people they were letting in? No, but I saw that at Trader Joe's there was a line. So I believe they were doing it at Trader Joe's. But at Albertson's, it wasn't overly packed. And so they weren't.

But there was also no food. Oh, were they out of everything? Just like all canned food and frozen food. But I still got some stuff. But my story that I wanted to tell is not scary and you guys have heard it because it's my favorite thing but i just think everyone should hear it in this dark time oh it's really good a funny story um i had a plumber come um to replace my toilet inside a very old toilet well i had i don't have like a full bidet. I have a bidet attachment.

But Sammy, I mean, I think it's amazing that it's been a boon for bidets. I mean, it's like. I mean, yeah, I've called it. I've been trying to tell everyone. They're awesome. Finally, people are listening. I had a bidet attachment and I said to the plumber, you don't have to put that back on. I can put that on after the toilet's on. Don't worry about it. I know how to attach it. He said, oh, no, it's no problem. I can put it on.

And so he attached my bidet attachment and tested it and squirted himself in the face and got bidet water in his mouth. That's really good. I'm very happy for you that that happened. Oh, I'm happy for everybody. Yeah, when you texted that to us, I really laughed. What about you guys? Emily, anything particularly scary happen to you this week? Oh my goodness.

Anything particularly scary? I mean, no. It's all, everything is scary. Oh, I mean, I guess, have I talked before about the rat living in my walls? Yeah. Wait. Oh, you talked about the bees before. Okay, so they thought

there's been a rat in my walls for a year? I don't know. A really long time. It's gotta be huge by now. It's huge know. A really long time. It's got to be huge by now. It's huge. Rats never stop growing. Fucking massive. Yeah.

So like sort of the noises used to come and go. But in the past couple of months, it's been very consistent. And I finally got just very annoyed by it. And so we had pest control come in. That's who found the bees Because they were looking for the rat And they found the bees And they were like

They're probably drawn by the bees But it's been living here for a long time So I don't know, whatever So they got rid of the bees, haven't gotten rid of the rat And I'm stuck in my home 24-7 All the time now Just listening to that rat.

Just listening to that rat scratch on the inside of my walls. And it will be like this for so long. Oh, no. And I don't love it. Oh, boy. It's not good. Well, I guess my scary thing, which isn't actually scary, and maybe we should rename this, this little talking corner. In these times.

In these times. Where everything is much scarier. But my brother is quarantined at home with his four-year-old and his two-year-old. And he's been potty training the two-year-olds and sharing lots of videos of this experience. And I have been laughing really hard at the videos. They're incredibly entertaining. It's basically the two-year-olds just talking to himself while sitting on his fake toilet for like long periods of time. Yeah, because when they're learning, they just sit there for so long periods of time. That's funny. Yeah, because when they're learning,

they just sit there for so long. My brother also just got the new iPhone recently and is like very excited with all the video editing features that it has. So we're getting it from all angles. What an interesting time this is. Truly. I mean, and a big interesting part of it is

we're currently in three separate homes. Yep. First time. It's not as crazy as I was expecting it to be. It doesn't feel that weird. Hopefully it sounds okay. I don't prefer it, but I don't hate it. I don't prefer it, but I don't hate it.

And to reflect the times, we chose a movie that is also, you know, isolation-ish. Wow, I can't wait. This week's movie is 10 Cloverfield Lane. I'm so fucking scared, you guys. I'm really excited. We did an Instagram question, and this one was requested a lot.

So congratulations to everyone who requested it. Congratulations. You win. Congratulations to you. It came out in 2016. It is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, written by Josh Campbell, Matt Stecken and Damien

Chazelle. Isn't that interesting? Wait, what? Yeah, this was pre I feel like Whiplash wait that's the guy right or no yes yeah whiplash is his superior film in my opinion um i mean we're gonna have to have an argument about that sammy la la land is obviously la La La Land losing to Moonlight is one of my favorite thing that's ever happened. It's so funny. Anyways, produced by J.J. Abrams, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr.

Only three people. Pretty much. Pretty much just the three with a little voice cameo by Bradley Cooper. OK. Wait, Sammy. I feel like getting his voice work on. I feel like you love Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Is that true?

I do. And I don't know why. I thought so. I've forgotten why. I just like her. But there must have been a movie I saw her in at one point that I like. I demand a reason. I just like her.

That's okay. And she's really good in this. It's okay to like her. But there must have been like a first thing, you know? You don't have to defend it. That's okay. And she's really good in this. It's okay to like her. But there must have been like a first thing, you know? You don't have to defend it. It's fine. You don't need a reason. Thank you, guys.

Oh, you know what was scary this week? I'm jumping back. We can cut this. Let's hear it. I mainly just want to talk about this with my friends. Did you guys see that Imagine video? I mean, how could you not? Oh, my God.

The Gal Gadot. Yeah. It really made me laugh. I didn't actually watch it because I was already cringing not watching it. Watch it because it's bad. It's upsetting. It's just so crazy that all these people were like, this is what the world needs. It is very Jenna Maroney.

It's what you called Emily. god it's so shockingly unnecessary to a crazy degree i can't stop thinking about it mainly that's just i just can't stop thinking about it yeah it's pretty insane um no guests this week no guests this week no guests for quarantine I mean you know I think it's fitting everyone is trapped alone in their homes so you know just be alone with us no extra guests no it's just us friends here

just us we're not friends with our guests hi guys it is cocktail hour We're not friends with our guests. an ounce of lime juice and a half an ounce of egg white. You will combine all ingredients in a shaker and do a dry shake, meaning no ice, for about 30 seconds and then add ice into the shaker and shake for another 30 seconds to a minute and then strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a grapefruit twist. I didn't have a grapefruit twist, so a lemon twist will work just fine. Cheers.

So trivia, I guess, is the next thing we do. And I don't have a ton. But Mary Elizabeth Winstead was the only choice to play the main character. They did not consider anybody else, which is pretty wild. Oh, I bet you love that, Sammy. I think she's great. I get it, I guess. But still, you don't hear about that happening a lot.

True. And then the other thing that I know is that this script was previously not related to Cloverfield. Cloverfield, you know, is the found footage film from, I feel like, a while before this movie, like 2010 or something. And that one's Aliens or? Yes. And so this script had nothing to do with that and then it came to jj abrams who um produced the first cloverfield and he wanted to make this movie and just kind of loosely tied it into the universe to maybe get it a bigger box office get people more interested um but yeah it's by no means so wait was it not even called Cloverfield did they add that in to make it fit

the original title was The Cellar spooky yeah I don't love the way that sounds that's all I got cool and I want you guys to watch the trailer okay And I want you guys to watch the trailer. Okay. Fuck. Understand I feel the madness inside I think I'm alone now There doesn't seem to be anyone around something's coming

Something's coming. Um, whoa. Watching your guys' reactions on mute was really fun. I remember when this movie came out being like, ooh, John Goodman is a scary guy. And that was like interesting to me. Yeah, John Goodman is scary is so scary. He's so good. He's such a good actor. He's so good. That's one a good actor. He's so good.

That's one of my favorite trailers of all time. I love that trailer. It's a really good trailer. Also, yeah, I didn't realize this movie was about being stuck in isolation. And boy, did I relate to everything happening up top there. It's a really good movie, and I'm excited to tell you guys about it. Tell us about it. Let's do it.

Which I guess I'll do right now. Right now. Do it right now. And it starts right now. I'll do right now. Right now. Do it right now. And it starts right now. And it starts right now. Oh my God. My favorite YouTube video of all time. It's the best one.

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We don't hear what she's saying. She looks upset and she packs up all her shit and she leaves her wedding ring on the side table and leaves. So she's leaving her, I'm assuming, fiance. And then she's driving in her car and goes to a gas station and there's a creepy truck behind her that she notices and gets a little weirded out, kind of turns away, hides her face and gets back into her car, gets back on the road. And she's listening to the radio. There's news reports of all the power going down in certain cities, like rolling blackouts in a couple major cities. And then her phone starts to ring, and it says Ben, who we presume is her ex, that she has just left. She doesn't answer. Or wait, she does answer, but she doesn't speak. And so he's just on speakerphone and is saying,

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Why did he do that? I think he's just friends with J.J. Abrams. And I don't know. Oh, got it, got it, got it. Okay. It seems like truly anyone could have done that. Anyone. They probably paid him a million dollars to do that.

He's so insane. I'm really, really a cool million. He was like, I'll do it for a million. Easy million. I'll do it for a cool million. I'll do it for a mil. And he starts calling again. She's looking at the phone and as she's looking

at the phone, a car crashes into her car. Her car flips, tumbles off the side of the road, cut to black. She wakes up in a cellar with her leg broken in a brace and

her leg is handcuffed to the wall um she is in her underwear and has a little mattress and she has iv in her arm and she sees in the opposite corner of the room from her there's her stuff her cell phone her backpack and her clothes. So she uses the IV stand to kind of fish it over, grabs her phone, no service. And just as she's doing that, she hears footsteps coming, and the door to this room locks, obviously, from the outside, and it cranks open and in comes uh john goodman whose name is howard and he is incredibly scary um and she's you know begging him what you would do like please please please my um please just let me go no one has to know this happened you can let me go. No one has to know this happened. You can let me go. And he's kind of not really saying anything. He gives her food, I think, and then turns to walk out. She says, I was meeting my boyfriend. He'll send the police to come look for me.

And he says, I'm sorry, Michelle. No one is looking for you and closes the door and walks out. Oh, and he gives her crutches and he says says start practicing with those because her leg is broken um she then kind of fashions one of the crutches into a um like a knife kind of sharpens the edge of it and is standing by the door ready to stab him the next time he comes in. He's not showing up. So she decides to light a fire. She sees a little air vent and she balls up her shirt, I think, and lights it on fire in the air vent to set off the fire alarm to draw him back in. She tries to stab him. He reacts in time, grabs her, and injects her with something that knocks her out. She wakes back up a little while later with him sitting across from her in the room. And he basically says, I found you on the side of the road. You had been in a horrible

accident. I saved you. I brought you here. Like, you're lucky to be here. You're lucky to be alive. And there's been an attack. And it's not safe outside anymore. And we're safe down here. She says, where's here?

He says, we're under my farmhouse. Yikes. Do you believe him as an audience member? Or are you like, this guy is bullshit? No. Yikes. Do you believe him as an audience member or are you like this guy's bullshit? No. No, you don't believe him. Okay. So she's basically also doesn't really believe him.

And she's like, oh, she's doing the thing that I feel like women would do in this situation where you're kind of trying to manipulate the person. I mean, like, oh, my God, that's so awful. Like, my parents are going to want to know where I am. I should call them. Like, sort of playing dumb. Yeah. And he's like, Michelle, your parents are dead.

Everybody that's not in here is dead. Like, you're not getting it. Everyone's dead except for us. Does he say what this attack was? He says he's not sure. He says it could be the Russiansians but it could also be aliens and like we don't know there's no way for us to know um all i know is that there has been an attack and the air the air outside is not safe and it probably won't be safe for at least one to two

years so we're gonna have to stay down here he's like but don't worry i've prepared for this and like you're so lucky to be here you're so lucky to be here like we're the only ones left so she's obviously very freaked out yeah i mean no thank you um he leaves her she gets some sleep and then wakes up and she looks and sees that her room door has been left open. He is letting her out now. And does he explain why he handcuffed her? I don't think that he did. I guess just because he figured she would try to run away.

It's for his safety as well. He says that at some point. Like, this is for my safety too. I don't know that you're also saying that. Okay, because she has a broken leg sure sure sure how did she get the cast on not to nitpick already but it's not quite a cast it's like just a brace kind of but she has a big she's doing she like can't properly walk she has to use crutches to walk um but so she's she's using a little crutch and is walking out and directly out of her room is kind of a food storage area. And in this area, we meet Emmett, who is, um, a guy about her age in his thirties, who's kind of sitting there. His arm is in a sling. and he's seemingly not super panicked.

He's kind of chilling. And she's like, how do we get out of here? And he's like, oh, he didn't tell you? Like, we can't. We can't get out of here. So he seems like brainwashed maybe? We're not. Yeah, we're not sure yet.

But he doesn't seem to be trying to escape. We're not sure yet, but he doesn't seem to be trying to escape. And then Howard comes down and says to Michelle that it's bathroom time, which I hate. No. And he takes her upstairs. So upstairs, there's like two levels of this bunker. The below is her bedroom and the food storage. And the above is their common area and Howard's bedroom. Emmett sleeps in the food storage area. He doesn't have his own room.

Okay. So in the common area, there's a TV, a bunch of board games, the kitchen, and the bathroom is in Howard's bedroom, and it's just a toilet with a curtain and he tells her to go and she says I don't have to go and he says well you'll have to go eventually and so go right now because I can't escort you all the time and she says I can't go with you standing here and he says I'm not a pervert just go and so she goes and it's just I don't like it. No, don't see why you would. Nothing comforts me more than someone saying I'm not a pervert.

Right. So reassuring. So I believe you now. Oh, great. And so back in the common room. I don't know. Perverts are notoriously honest. perverts are notoriously honest exactly um back in the common room she's kind of looking around and there's a stack of magazines um like gossip magazines basically and she looks a little confused there's two men in here and howard says those were megan's and he says me Megan isn't with us anymore. Okay. He's like being creepy, right? He's very creepy.

Like you're put off by him, but not necessarily like, oh, he's definitely like a murderer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she's kind of still pressing him for answers, saying, can't we at least try to get in contact with someone outside? try to get in contact with someone um outside he points to a radio says i've been trying every channel on that radio there's nobody like nobody is out there and he said you know i'd been planning for this a long time um i built this bunker and we're just so lucky. And she's kind of looking at him crazy. And he says, oh, you think I'm crazy? And he says, he says, crazy is building your arc after the flood.

Which is just a line that I like. Boom. Okay. So he can tell that she is thinking he's crazy. And so he says, I think it's time that you met Frank and Mildred. And then takes her up a stairway. Each part of the stairway, you have to unlock. So he has this big set of keys, unlocks the first door to the set of stairs, un a second door and then a third door and the last

two doors he said this is the closest i could get to an airlock so you have to you know go through one door lock it behind you and then at the final door that's now facing the outside world at at um ground level level there's a window so she can see out. It's daytime. They're in a big, like on a farmhouse. So it's a big cornfield in front of them. And she's like, oh, like it looks. Cornfields are scary.

They are scary. But she's like, it looks, it looks okay. But he says, look over here, shows her that his pig pen, the they're they're like disgusting they're look like they've been torn apart and there's flies and they're rotting and he said that's what happens when you're out in the air is it like are frank and mildred the pigs they're the pigs yes ah yeah and so she's a little freaked out and like okay maybe and then she notices his truck and gets a flashback of the car accident and remembers that it wasn't an accident and he drove she recognizes the like the headlights on the truck and he came around from behind and plowed her off the road

and so she now was it the same truck she saw at the gas station? Yes, it was. No. So she's now... No. So she is still incredibly suspicious. Yeah. Smart.

So she later is downstairs with Emmett back in their bedrooms and kind of asks about Howard, like, what do you know about Howard? And Emmett says he used to be in the Navy and he hired me to help him build this bunker a few years ago. And she says he didn't kidnap you. Didn't you break your arm trying to get out? And he says, no, I broke my arm trying to get in. And she says, this attack that he's talking about, like, don't you think that's bullshit?

And he says, no, I saw the attack with my own eyes. And I came here, like, the first thing I thought was I got to get to that bunker. And he said, he says he saw incredibly bright lights in the sky. He said it's nothing that I'd ever seen before. Wasn't lightning, wasn't an explosion. It is nothing like I've ever seen before. And I just knew something really bad was happening. And when I got here, I could see that Howard knew it too.

And so I fought my way in to get in here. Well, and so this will probably come to be explained but things were maybe in sort of chaos before this quote-unquote attack it sounds like maybe there was some yes it sounds like maybe there were some warning signs it wasn't like out of the blue even for her yeah okay like maybe people didn't know what was happening yet i don't like that um okay so then they have a group dinner all three of them sit together at the dinner table john goodman is pours them each a beer what a good host and emmett is very talkative very chatty he's talking about how many tattoos he would have gotten if he knew like the end of the world was coming and howard like slams his

fist down and it's a jump scare it's really scary and he's like you're like your your humor is not funny i we got to like find a clip a clip of john goodman's performance in this because he's so fucking good um but he's basically really irritated by emmett and tells him to like shut up let us eat our dinners in peace did we sense any tension between them before like are they he doesn't really like emmett well what he doesn't like is that michelle likes emmett more than howard and so there was a part earlier in which. That's going to be nasty. She stumbled on her crutches. And Emmett went to help her.

And kind of. And helped like grabbed her. And Howard screamed at Emmett. Don't touch her. You're not allowed to touch her. So Michelle picks up on this. Interesting that he's weird with women. Yeah.

That's a surprising character trait in this person. What a surprising choice. But Michelle picks up on this and she's eyeing his keys on his. He also has a gun in his belt, by the way. He's got a gun and keys on his hips. And she starts flirting with Emmett to get a rise out of Howard. She kind of puts, she keeps asking him to pass her things,

puts her hand on his hand. And then Howard snaps, grabs her by the throat, pins her against the wall. And says like, do you think I'm stupid? Like I can see what you're doing. Promise me that you're going to behave yourself.

And she says, I promise. And he says, promise what that you're going to behave yourself and she says I promise and he says promise what I need you to say everything and she says I promise I'll behave myself and she goes back to sit down and we see that she has gotten the keys from his belt oh hell yeah she's

so smart I like this is really interesting I feel like this is all has a lot of the trailer is just the beginning of this movie, which is good. It's not like the trailer gave away the whole movie. Right. So she's really nervously sitting there holding the keys. They kind of keep talking for a bit. And then pretty quickly, Howard, he just kind of always goes to touch his keys just to see

if they're there, and she sees him reaching to touch them, feels that they're not there, and she grabs one of the beer bottles, smashes it over his head, throws her chair at him, and runs

to the locked doors up to the ground level. Oh my gosh, so wait, how far into this movie are we? This is early. This is about 20 minutes in. This really is all in the trailer. Yeah, I love it. Oh my God, this is awesome.

That's my favorite type of trailer. It was going to be the climax of this movie, but we are nowhere near it. No, no, no, it's early. So she runs up, but it's like a really stressful scene because she's obviously like fumbling with each of the locks he's getting closer to her she keeps throwing things at him she has to go through all the different locks she makes it to the top and locks the top door where she's in the airlock area so he can't get in so she just has one door between her and the outside world and one door between her and

Howard, who has no key and can't get into where she is. So he's banging on the window of that door screaming, no, no, no, you're going to get all of us killed. You'll get us all killed. And she sees that there's now a new car there that wasn't there the first time, a little sedan. car there that wasn't there the first time a little sedan she says there's a car there's a car and as she's looking out a woman slams up into the window and her face is like covered in sores sores yes um and the lady is screaming please let me in let me in let me in let me in please please please please please and uh howard is yelling don't let her in don't let her in don't don't you don't open that door don't open that door and she's like please please please it barely touched me at all it barely touched me at all i'm fine i'm totally fine and this lady gives a really good performance i was i think she's

guys i was overreacting it's fine and. She says, it barely touched me at all. I'm fine. I'm totally fine. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in, you bitch. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead's obviously getting really scared, backing away, doesn't open

the door. The woman starts banging her head, starts like cracking her own head open on the glass. There's like blood pouring now onto the onto the glass and then we cut to mary elizabeth back down in her bedroom she decided not to open that door yeah honestly the better choice i think wow holy shit um whoa whoa whoa whoa so now this is exciting this isn't where I saw the movie going. I can't wait to find out what happens next. I also just really like that moment.

You guys, it really touched me. That scene's on YouTube, so you guys should watch it. Guys, believe me. So she's now down back in her bedroom in the basement. And Howard is changing light bulbs in her room. And he says, he's kind of comforting her and he said he says i know it's hard realizing everyone you know is gone and it's really scary and i'm really sorry and he says and i have a confession um i ran you off the road. Okay, so it's not even a secret.

He said, when I got the news of this attack, I was frantic. I was in a panic. I was driving crazy, and I hit you. It was an accident, but it was my fault, and there's nothing I can do to undo it. But you're here now, and this is the safest place to be. Yeah, you'd be dead otherwise. Oh, and then he tells her to take a shower. He says, you don't know. Even being near that window, you might have gotten some amount of exposure to anything that's out there.

You should shower. Here's some fresh clothes. He gives her some of Megan's clothes. And we have not yet learned what happened to Megan. We don't know what happened to Megan. So then Michelle goes upstairs. She's now in Megan's clothes and showered. And Howard needs stitches from where she hit him with the beer bottle. And they have kind of their nicest moment up to this point where he says, you know,

you're going to have to do it. I can't do it for myself, and gives her some alcohol, and she stitches him up, and he gives her back a box of stuff that was in her car, and there's like a sketchbook where she drew some clothing, and he says, what is all that stuff? is like a sketchbook where she drew some clothing and he says, what is all that stuff? And she said, I used to want to design clothes. And he tells her about Megan and then goes into his bedroom and pulls out a photo of Megan and shows it to her. It's like a school photo. And he said, this is Megan. She, you know, was my daughter and her mother took her away from me and they went and moved to Chicago. And now like they're probably dead. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead is now trying to like comfort him and says like, you don't, you don't know. Like, we don't know what's going on out there.

Like, she could still be alive. She getting a little bit more like on board with him. I think after seeing the woman, she's like, oh, he's not lying. Like it is. There was an attack and it is dangerous. Something is definitely up. OK, I'm not convinced. So then back downstairs that night as she's like going to bed, her and Emmett are talking through the wall and kind of sharing some of their backstory.

We hear that Emmett lived his life in a 40 mile radius and like kind of regrets not having done a lot of stuff in life. of regrets, not having done a lot of stuff in life. And she says she regrets specifically this one day she was at a hardware store and saw a dad pulling his daughter too hard, like by the arm. And she says, you know, my dad used to do that with me and my brother was there to usually take the brunt of my dad's anger. But this little girl didn't have that. And I, in my head, like, saw myself going and telling her dad to stop and standing up for her. And she, the little girl, like, tripped. The dad hit her and I panicked and I ran like I always do when things get hard. Then we get to the fun and games portion of the movie. in, you know, relative harmony. They both believe that Howard is right and that the world outside is bad

and that they are safe in this place. And so it's a little montage of them playing their board games, watching movies. There's a jukebox in there, listening to music. And things look nice. Great. um and things look nice great um and then the bunker starts shaking like an earthquake kind of and they like defer to howard now like michelle's like howard howard what is that like you see like she's she trusts howard now and um he's like it's okay okay. Be quiet. And you hear kind of helicopter-y noises, but also kind of monster-y noises. They don't sound quite normal. And he says, sounds like helicopters, this is phase two, that the bomb or attack or whatever was phase one, and that this is now the ground strike sending people in to wipe out whoever was left after the first attack.

Are they keeping track of how long they've been down there? I don't know. I mean, I'm sure they are, but it's not actually mentioned, so I can't say. But the montage, I mean, it's been at least, I can't say but the montage I mean it's been at least maybe I'd say maybe a month I'm not really basing that on anything though just your gut instinct

just on all of her outfit changes in the montage okay so then an alarm starts going off and he says that's not good and they go downstairs next to her room there is a little trap door that is stuck and he says, that's not good. And they go downstairs next to her room. There is a little trap door that is stuck. And he says, that's the air filtration.

Something is something's wrong with the air filtration. And if we don't reset it. Oh, it's an alarm like of their own. Yes. Surroundings. I see. OK. Not like an outside.

Yeah. And he says, if we don't reset it, we'll all suffocate eventually. So we need to reset the air filter. But the little trap door to get to it is jammed. And so the only way to get to it is through the vents. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead, excuse me, Michelle, is the only one who will be able to fit. So she has to crawl through these vents. She eventually gets up into the room where the air filtration system is.

He tells her he just needs to flip the switch twice. She does it and it seems to work. And there's a little ladder in there that goes up to another little air hatch thing out to the outside world so she can see sunlight. So she climbs up just to go have a little look. And on the window panel has been carved help with blood on it. Oh. And we know that nobody else could fit in there other than probably Megan.

So it's health is written on her side. Yes. It's carved in on the inside and it has some blood on it and she climbs back down the ladder and finds an earring that matches the earring that Megan was wearing in the photo that he showed her.

And that's what she had used to carve help into the window. So she has a little talk with Emmett and pulls him aside into the room where, I guess into Howard's room and she says I found this earring he told me that Megan was his daughter shows Emmett the photo that he showed her and Emmett says that's Brittany she went to my high school she went missing

and nobody ever saw her again and what okay so Brittany is Brittany his daughter or britney's a photo of another i think megan is his daughter and britney is who he kidnapped to replace his daughter after his wife took the daughter away wow and a polaroid falls out of Howard and Brittany on the couch together with Brittany looking like a straight up prisoner. She looks so sad. And he has his arm around her like they're a couple.

Oh, gross. And so Emmett's like, oh, fuck. Okay. So he abducted this girl and they're trying to make a little plan. He's like, we need to get his gun away from him. We need to tie him up and we need to, I don't know, make him confess, they say, which is like, what? Who cares?

We already know. Anyways, she is. So you're trapped down there, apparently. Right. Because of the air anyway. So what the fuck are you going to do? Right. the air anyway so what the fuck you gonna do right um so she sees uh the shower curtain thing that like covers the bathroom area and has a thought because she does clothing design and sewing stuff

and she draws a little picture in one of the magazines over a model in the magazine and shows it to emmett she says i think i could make us one of these. And it's basically a hazmat suit. She's like, I think I could only make one, but it's something. If we tie him up and get his gun, you stay here with the gun with him. I'll go outside and get help. It's the best they could come up with. There's not a lot of great options. That night, Emmett goes into the main room where Howard is watching a movie and goes and grabs some scissors from the kitchen and says to Howard, you know, I was thinking the radiation must be super high outside. So even if, oh, because Howard made Michelle shower after she did the air filtration thing. shower after she did the air filtration thing. And so Emmett says, you know, the shower curtain or anything she touched in there might be covered in radiation to kind of get in his head. So then he takes the shower curtain off, throws it away. So then they can take it out of the trash to start

trying to make a hazmat suit with it. So there's a little montage of them kind of measuring and cutting it out, using duct tape to put it all together. And they look how to make a ventilator with water bottles and something else. I'm not sure, but homemade ventilator. So they're making a big, they're making a hazmat suit. And then she's michelle's back downstairs and howard comes in and says i need your help with something takes her upstairs takes emmet too and opens this little cabinet and there's a big barrel in it she says what's in the barrel and he says roll it into the bathroom he puts on these crazy heavy duty gloves opens opens up this barrel, and it is filled with the acid. And he says this is whatever kind of pearl cork acid or whatever.

It dissolves anything instantly, human body down to the bone. And Emmett's like, why are you showing us this, Howard? And he says, do you think I'm stupid? And opens his hand and shows that he found the scissors and one of the water bottle like ventilator mask things. He says, tell me what you guys were doing with this. What are you planning? Oh, God. emmett just goes to take the blame he says it was me it was me michelle doesn't know what you're talking about

um i was trying to make a weapon i don't know i'm sorry michelle had no idea it was just me and howard pulls out his gun and shoots emmet in the head no i didn't see it coming i was so lulled i was so lulled into a false sense of security the sound design goes to like that ear ringing it like zooms in on michelle and she's just so in shock and she can't hear what's happening, kind of stumbles back, falls against the wall. And Howard just comes in and wraps his arms around her. And you start hearing that he's saying, it's okay, it's okay, it's all going to be okay now. You heard him. He was going to hurt us. He was trying to hurt us. And now it's just how it was always meant to be. It's just you and me now. It just how it was always meant to be it's just you and me now it's how it was always meant to be it was just meant to be the two of us okay so john goodman

is officially a murderer and a freak and i hate him so it's official it's official she's back in her room she's been locked in there again is she handcuffed again she's not handcuffed again she's sitting there and he comes in opens the door and he has a bowl of ice cream and a cone of ice cream. And he's clean shaven, freshly clean shaved. Gross. As if it's a date. And he says, do you want a bowl or a cone? And she's like so freaked out and scared.

And he says, Megan used to always want a bowl. You could get a, you can have a bowl. She said a cone was too messy and gives her a bowl of ice cream. Ew, so is it a date or is she his daughter? That's disgusting. I think it's like both and it's nasty. No. And he says, I know this isn't the life that you would have chosen for yourself.

Lol, no. He's like lol but i just want i just want us to be a happy family just you and me a happy family and um then he says okay i better go start dinner and goes upstairs she's she's kind of just about finished with her hazmat suit she's hiding the ventilator right because he doesn't know about that no he just found the scissors and didn't know what they were using it for and emmet lied um so she's hiding the suit under her little mattress and she's hiding the ventilator in the air vent because it's too big and can't go under a mattress. And he comes in to, she hears him coming, panics, like puts everything away quickly. He comes in and the air vent is not screwed all the way closed.

And he notices and she's like, oh, it's like been doing that. I don't know why. And he opens it and kind of reaches in we see him almost touch the ventilator he doesn't quite but then he turns around and he sees just a corner of her hazmat suit poking out from under the bed and he says get up and she's like and she says what and he grabs her by the hair and pulls her and like throws her to the other side of the room, lifts the mattress up, sees her little hazmat suit. And she runs out of the room and he goes to chase her.

And she throws through the like food storage room. She throws the shelves down on him and knocks him over. And so gets a little bit of a head start and runs into his room where they were with the acid barrel and sees like cut up Emmett dissolving in the acid.

That's not good. That was fast. What the fuck? And Howard makes his way upstairs and he looks really scary and mad and comes in and says, this is how you repay me for saving your life. And she says, no, this is and knocks over the acid onto him. He slips and falls like face first into the acid. She grabs the doorframe and like flings herself through runs back downstairs

because she has to grab her hazmat suit and um as she's running downstairs we see that the acid burns um a lamp wire and starts a fire um and it's blocking now the exit. And so her only way out is now air vent. So she ties her hazmat suit to her ankle and is going back up the stairs from the basement area. And Howard is there. And his face is all fucking burnt off. No, no, no. Disgusting. there and his face is all fucking burnt off no no disgusting um and she again i don't know thwarts him somehow knocks something he's like not doing well so she kind of hops over him hits him and

gets back into the main area opens up the air vent and crawls in there and then a fucking knife just starts stabbing and no and as she's crawling it's like stabbing from all different sides because he can hear where she is and so it's like stabbing by her eye oh because he can't fit in the vent he can't chase her so he's just stabbing at her and so she's frantically crawling as fast as she can, trying to dodge this knife. And then as she's kind of in the last stretch, his hand comes through and you see it has no skin. It's like muscle. What the fuck? And he kind of grabs her ankle and she uses her other foot to say like, don't fucking touch me or get your hands off me.

And like kicks his hand in a way that like, like deteriorates. And so she gets back up into that room with air filtration system and she gets the lock open. And she's changed into her hazmat suit at this point and so she's outside she gets outside and it has that shot that's so stressful that's i feel like in gravity a lot from inside the helmet where you're having like a panic attack and so she's just like and you're just up close in her face with like in the ventoline. And it's so stressful. And she runs to the truck. And as she's getting in the truck, she tears a hole in her hazmat suit and she has like a full panic attack, but she has her duct tape with her and she gets duct tape back over it. And then she looks up and sees a flock of geese flying through the air. No. I knew it.

And she's like, huh. And she takes her mask off. And it's fine. And she starts to cry. And she's really relieved. She starts to cry and she's really relieved. And then she hears a loud noise and steps on the roof of the truck and sees an alien spaceship in the sky. What?

And it's coming towards her and it drops something in the cornfield next to her. And she hears it starting to make a noise. It's like a creature has been dropped next to her. And we got a fun moment where she looks at it and says, come on. Oh, my God. This is my favorite thing about the movie is the whole time you're trying to figure out, is he crazy or is there like craziness outside? And it's both, which I think is really fun. Yeah.

Oh my God. She sees the sedan. The truck, I guess, doesn't have the keys or something. She can't find the keys. So she goes to make a run for the sedan to try to get in that to drive away. And as she goes to open the door, the car alarm starts going off. And then this fucking nasty little alien dog comes out of the corn field because it hears the noise and i don't know how to describe

it it looks i would say it's like an alien dog you know how there's always like the dog version of an alien it's like that it's like mouth looks like a little sphincter though it's like nasty with like a million little teeth like a leech or something i don't know it's nasty um so she runs into the barn to hide from it and as it's on the other side of the barn she goes through a little like chicken coop door and runs back out to the there's a neighboring farmhouse and she's running as fast as we can we can see the little dog farmhouse, and she's running as fast as we can. We can see the little dog alien chasing her, and she's running and screaming at the house, please help me, help me, help me, I'm right outside, help me, and we hear a loud noise,

and the alien dog whimpers and runs away, and from behind the house, this huge, it's like the spaceship, but we see that it's like, I don't know, like biotech. It's like alive. The spaceship is a creature. It's not a ship. It's just a flying huge alien thing. And it comes from behind the house towards her sprays out um like green fumes and so she's panicking trying to get the hazmat helmet back on and she gets it back on uh right at the last moment and gets into that truck and right as she's in the truck the alien dog comes back and is like jumping, jumping on the truck, smashing the window. Its little teeth are so close to her. But then again, the big alien comes close again and scares the dog off. Dog alien.

And the like huge alien ship has these long tentacle arm things and grabs the truck and is pulling it up. And she's being lifted high up into the air. She's probably 40 feet now above ground. And it's like lifting her and the truck into its mouth and has gross little mouth. Kind of like, I don't know if you guys have ever seen Evolution. I know Jenna has, but mouth like kind of like i don't know if you guys have ever seen evolution i know jenna has but it's kind of like that or it has like a nasty little butthole looking mouth no never seen it on its also didn't didn't i should have known this is where the movie was going because of the name but honestly just you're going in this direction i know this is crazy.

It's like a second movie. It's a different movie now. Yeah. It's kind of like a, because you also said that we were maybe two-thirds of the way through the movie. I don't know whether you'll cut that out or not, but it feels like a deus ex machina. Like, it feels like a crazy way to end any movie. Yeah. It is. It's really wild. Yeah, the whole third act

is just nuts. I'm very curious to hear what, if I could learn what it was in the script before J.J. Abrams was Yeah, the whole third act is just nuts. I'm very curious to hear what, if I could learn what it was in the script before J.J. Abrams was like, what if we make it blend with Cloverfield? Like, what happened after she left the bunker? I think it probably was still aliens and he was like, let's just make them Cloverfield aliens.

Why not? Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Okay, so it's trying to put her in its butthole now. And she sees in the truck a bottle of alcohol and some pieces of paper. She makes a little Molotov cocktail. She waits. Does everyone just know how to make one of those?

I guess. It seems like you just stuff paper into an alcohol. I feel like in all these movies and shows, it's like, oh, yeah, I'll just do that. It's like, I don't have to make one of those. Should I learn? We should learn. Is that an essential skill? She quickly whips one up. We need to I'll just do that. I was like, I don't have to make one of those. Should I learn? We should learn. Is that an essential skill? She quickly whips one up.

We need to learn how to do that, you guys. I guess we do. And waits till she's close enough and throws it into his little butthole mouth and explodes him. And this huge alien dies and falls and collapses and drops her. And she's kind of. Oh, but she's up high. She's up high. And so she's. I don't think she gets kind of oh but she's up high and so she's i don't think she gets knocked out but she's not well um but you know adrenaline's pumping so she

she keeps moving and um she makes a run for the barn again because there was a dead body in there that has the keys to the sedan. There's no keys to this truck. She gets in the sedan, drives away. She makes it away. She knocks the mailbox as she's driving. We see the address is 10 Cloverfield, hence the title of the movie. Which we knew.

Not really a surprise. And as she's driving away, the radio is on and it says, if you're a medical professional or anyone with combat training, please come to Houston. We need you. We're fighting them. We're gaining some ground. We're doing well, but we need help. And there's a lot of survivors that need your help. well, but we need help. And there's a lot of survivors that need your help. And she's driving past the Houston sign, like away from Houston. And as she's driving in the opposite direction, she has a moment of, wait a second, and does a little U-turn and goes towards Houston. And

the final shot is her driving down the freeway towards Houston and we see lightning in the sky and there's just like this another huge alien ship above the Houston city line and credits. What the actual fuck? story I mentioned earlier that I said that'll come back is basically she previously said all she does is run away from anything that's hard and that's just her little character arc is she's not running away anymore well she did really prove

herself I mean she destroyed John Goodman she destroyed an alien a massive alien I do not think I could accomplish such things. I don't know that I would want to. Whenever I hear about

things like this, at what point do you just go like, you know what? Fuck it. Honestly, seriously. I escaped a fucking pervert creep in a bunker just to have to fight an alien immediately? It's wild.

No! And she is mad about it. Good! What an interesting movie. Guys, it's a really good movie. It's unfortunately not streaming anywhere for free, but there's a $3.99 rental on Apple and I think it's worth it. So as you watch

this movie, does it feel very scary? Like, is the tone very scary? Yeah, so, okay. So describing it is probably a little less scary because I think what is so scary about this movie is the tension between the three, well, between Howard and the other two. And how every conversation with them is tense and we don't know what the fuck is going on in his head and so a lot of the scariness just comes from the conversations that happen between them of just not knowing what's gonna happen next so i think it is pretty scary i think um the final act is the most horror ish for sure like that corn that alien in the cornfield was i think the most traditionally scared i was um and the rest of it

is all like just like tension kind of real life more feeling like more feels impossible just being like abducted I kind of want there to be more though in a way I bet it would feel like more if we had watched it and it's only in the last like 15 minutes that you see the scope of the world and so you're

it's basically like starting a new movie at the end and then only getting to see 15 minutes of that movie and so leaves you wanting more of of that and cloverfield the movie is meant to take place time-wise before this movie at the same time i don't i don't know anything about that i don't totally remember cloverfield but i presume before but i feel like they wipe out the whole world so i don't know. I can't remember. I barely remember Cloverfield. I saw it one time in theaters when I was in high school.

And I remember actually enjoying it a lot because my high school class was on a field trip to Washington, D.C. And for some reason, we watched Cloverfield in theaters during the field trip. And we were like the only people in the movie theater and it was honestly such a great time um yeah I think I think it's good it it was great I loved it but I think what I would have your choice for a school group well I know I don't know why that happened but um what I'm I imagine what must have happened is that when she was in her car and they were having the rolling blackouts, that must have been the beginning of the alien invasion. So it's happening concurrently.

Yeah. So that was all happening while she was. That makes sense. The movie Cloverfield happens simultaneously and slash after. Yeah. Guys, can I tell you what? Tell us. What?

I love horror movies. What? I love horror movies. Emily! You love to hear it. I love to hear them. I love to hear them, too. I just want them to keep going, though. I'm like, what happens next to Mary Elizabeth Winstead? It's crazy because I've

actually seen so few, but I love them, and I'm really realizing how much i am i have i have such an appreciation for them and i am like really basically i'm just complimenting my own choices but i really i never would have known how much i love they are if it weren't for this so fun and great not me this podcast hasn't converted me yet. I'm still too scared. I will say I was too scared to do.

We did have the strangers requested and I was too scared to do that one because being quarantined does kind of change my my tolerance. I think we'll do it eventually. But in when the rest of life isn't when i'm not home alone constantly constantly like all the time for months on end probably um but yeah i think this was a perfect movie i loved it thank you listeners for requesting it thank you listeners thank you we love you guys so much thank you so much for continuing to listen to this podcast. And for giving us some purpose in this time where we are truly just,

I don't even understand what time is and what my body feels like and what it needs. But I know that once a week I get to do this and that's really good. It's the only thing keeping us sane. That's the only thing that matters. No voice, no voices in this movie. No. Guess not. Well, until next time.

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