Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: TUSK

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

Forgot to post this last week but FYI our bonus recap for July was for Kevin Smith's TUSK! A freaky nasty film that we had to sneak in while Henley was away...  Please enjoy this teaser, and check out the full episode on our Patreon. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. 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 a HeadGum Podcast. 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, bonus episode for the month of July. Second bonus episode for the month of July in the year 2023. Hello. Hello. Um, no Henley with us today. No Henley with us.

I feel like we'll be entering probably a stretch of Henley-less episodes. Yes. I mean, she'll be here when she can, but she's got a lot going on, folks. She's moving. She's pregnant. She's got a kid. It's frankly too much. It's a lot of stuff.

But she'll still be here absolutely whenever she can, and there's a hole without her. We will persevere, and we'll try our best to make it just as freaking special as is possible without Henley present. We're going to do our freaking best. And she's going to be really, really, really, really happy that she's not here right now. Yeah. I thought, why not? Well, Emily and I texted last night that it's true i participated in this a perfect time to do a movie that henley has said very many times that she never wants to do and i think she means it like we've done some of

the ones she's like no i'll never do it and this this one, she's truly always like, no, I'm not. No, we're not doing it. I'm not doing it. And well, Henley ain't here today. Yeah. I kind of I'm like curious to see if she'll feel still a little bit of FOMO. Oh, interesting. I thought you were going to say if she's going to feel a little bit mad that we did it, even though she's not here.

Yeah. Maybe a little bit of both. Yeah, I think I think she might. bit mad that we did it even though she's not here yeah maybe a little bit of both yeah i think i think she might but i think her main feeling will be of relief and that is because our movie today is tusk oh god oh god came out in 2014. Written and directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, and Haley Joel Osment. Friend of the pod, Haley Joel Osment. Friend of the pod.

At least for me, for now, friend of the pod. Yeah, we'll see after this episode if we're still friends. Could be a friendship ender. A friendship ender friendship just really damages the friendships beyond repair uh tusk is streaming on hbo max for those of you who want to watch it why would you this was my first viewing of it and i knew this is actually one that i read the wikipedia for beforehand okay so i knew what i was getting into going into it and i think it's because henley had talked about how much she hated this movie because she read the wikipedia for it i was gonna say she also did not see it but she did read the wikipedia and is still that upset about us never covering it and

i should have i should have trusted that and not agreed to do this but i have to know why why is it so bad what's wrong with me that i hear that and i have to know why as opposed to just being like okay well then no thanks yeah you're gonna really hate it as well and you will know why soon enough great great great before we get into recapping it i will tell you that it has a 46 on rotten tomatoes a 55 on metacritic and a 5.3 on imdb wow didn't even make the six to seven scale no on a six to seven scale that's it's a really low on that by that metric um okay okay you do you see edwin it came out didn't you and i didn't what year it came out 2013 2014 2014 okay and this is actually an A24 movie, which I didn't realize. So one of the early A24 movies.

The budget was $3 million. It made $1.9 million. Oh, not enough. Not enough. And some trivia for us. The movie was shot in 15 days. Oh, shit. It does feel like it feels like a pretty small production it's mostly in one location and a lot of it is just two people in a room talking to each other the script is pretty

good like i feel like a lot of it is just like tension building of two people having a conversation which i like uh it starts by saying that it's based on a true story and i'm just saying that to remind us to talk about that more later because i can't get into what that means without spoiling things okay and emily doesn't know anything really about the plot of this what i think it is but now that you've said that i'm like no way is i i always assumed it was a man turning into a walrus okay yep that's all i mean all i have to say about what i think that movie is that's all i got that is on track on track okay and i'll tell you more about the true story at the end The other stuff I wrote down was just

About Kevin Smith this is not a trivia about This movie but Clerks 3 came out last year I just didn't know that at all Wait Clerks 3 came Out like in 2022 That's what it says

What? Isn't that weird? I don't know why that made me feel like a Mandela effect. Like, that's not correct. Because you think it came out like five years ago. Or not at all. Or ten years ago. Or never. Yeah.

Huh. Very interesting. That one's got me stumped. I don't know what else to say. Yeah. And I didn't realize that Kevin Smith also directed a movie called Red State. I mean, I've seen like, you know, Clerks and Mallrats and Dogma. And I feel like those all have a pretty similar type of vibe. And Red State is way different from those movies.

And so I was just very surprised to learn that he had written and directed that. And it was just as I was like looking up this movie because the main one of the main actors in this in Tusk, Michael Parks, is also the main actor in Red State. Red State was I don't really remember a lot of specifics, but I remember being very upset by Red State. Okay, cool. And so I guess it makes sense that Kevin Smith directed both that movie and this movie. But that's kind of all the trivia that I have for now. Again, we'll get back into the true story at the end okay and i also don't think we should watch the trailer until the end so oh until the end okay well maybe or you know maybe we're not out of time maybe um so should we just get into this recap yeah it's now

or never so it's now the band-aid off It's now It's happening now It's now It's happening to me It's happening I'm in it The trigger warnings Oh no I don't even know what really to say

Oh no But I will say one There is a discussion of child abuse Okay And then just a lot of other bad stuff as well. Okay. So buckle up. Oh, a blanket trigger warning.

Trigger warning, it's bad. Just watch out, you know. Just sort of generally get, you know, be on the lookout. Mm-hmm. Just have your wits about you. Yeah. If you would like to hear the rest of this episode, you are going to want to head over to our Patreon

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