Too Scary; Didn't Watch - [REC]

Episode Date: December 9, 2020

A TV presenter, some fire people, and a penthouse that will make you question everything you know about penthouses - we're recapping the 2007 Spanish found footage zombie film [REC]! Join us as we discover the worst progression of lighting: fluorescent > no lighting > night vision. 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.

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And you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. 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 am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley, and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy, and I like watching scary movies, and I like telling Emily and Henley about them. Spooking them good. Spooking them. She likes to spook us.

She's so good at spooking us. What is up with us? Probably nothing, huh? Probably nothing. Yeah, absolutely nothing. I honestly don't have anything fun. What happened to me this week? Nothing interesting.

I wanted to say a thank you to everyone who tagged us in your Spotify. That's so true. Yeah. That was very fun for us to see. And it just made us feel so good. It really did. Oh, it's so nice. It's so cool.

Yeah, it was such an exciting like two days of starting to see. I know. I've never had such an exciting. I was like, oh, my God. Oh, it's so nice. It's so cool. Yeah, it was such an exciting like two days of starting to see. I know I've never had such an experience. I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. What else do they listen to if they listen to us? And that was really cool, too. Yeah. Seeing the other things that people were listening to. I think I texted you guys. I was like, I was like, three people have shouted us out on their Spotify playlist or whatever. We were so excited. And then it ended up being so many more than that. And I would have just been so excited if it had only

been three people. We're incredibly flattered. I feel incredibly flattered and honored, honestly honored to be able to do a thing that you guys listen to. While we're talking things out, thanking folks,

I'd like to thank the reviewer who mentioned Riverdale. Oh nice. Thank you so much for the great review and also thank you for the reminder that I got to get back into Riverdale. I will say I have dreams about the cast of Riverdale fairly often. No way.

Do you really? I so I swear. Oh my God. I love that. I had one like a week ago that's amazing mostly is it is it Cole is it KJ it's mostly Cole KJ is a featured player though I would say just I've often I've often had dreams that makes it sound like they're all sexual they're not some of them are but it is mainly that I'm like I like, I'm also hanging out with the cast of Riverdale. You attend Riverdale. Hi.

Maybe. Yeah. I like have had many dreams where in the morning I'm like, oh, man, we're not actually friends. Just thank you to all of you. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Love you. Thank you for being the absolute fucking best in the whole world.

I was just going to say another thing that's up only for me right now because again we do not live in the same place anymore. So Los Angeles is shut down again. Which is important because things are very very very very very bad. Some of you don't like it when we talk about how

things are bad. But look I don't like it either. it's just true um things are really bad so just everybody's just pleased to keep being careful and safe and and you know just like this is temporary but we have to you we gotta just get through it um yeah and so you know i'm also not gonna be working for the next few weeks just because my work is shut down I didn't get laid off again so

you know give me some recommendations for like new things to watch because I flew through the freaking crown a new podcast see I've started listening to Game of Roses it's super fun and I've never really been a podcast person because I get overwhelmed by the amount of options.

But now that I like will be crafting a lot and sitting and need things to listen to. I'm like, wait, I should get behind some podcasts. So anyway, I'm looking for Rex, which Sammy, do you have a segue? Oh, perfect. That was smooth. And it's really smooth the way i addressed it right it's a segue in many ways because one on the on the quarantine front speaking of quarantines since we are entering lockdown phase number two we figured why not get back into some quarantine themed horror and the wreck that i have oh my god it never ends is this week's movie which is wreck it came out in 2007, directed by Jaume Balaguero,

Paco Plaza, written by Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza, and Luiso Bordejo, starring Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terrazza, Jorge Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso,

and Javier Botet. Javier Botet was mama! I was hoping you didn't know that, but yes. Oh, damn, sorry. No, I was hoping you didn't know that, but yes. Oh, damn. Sorry. No, I mean, it's okay. Yeah, I did a lot of research about Javier Botet.

Me too. He's a fascinating guy. And then that led me on a Doug Jones. Uh-huh. Which is like similar, but different, but fascinating. Yeah, Javier Botet has Marfan syndrome. I won't say. Never mind. I'll keep it a Marfan syndrome. I won't say. Never mind.

I'll keep it a secret for now. Okay. For now. Wait. I did not realize. So, first of all, is this movie in Spanish? Yes. Ooh.

Second of all, when you said quarantine horror, I just assumed it was another movie like Host that came out like now. No, no. But it's not. other movie like host that came out like no no no it is um a found footage uh spanish horror film that just focuses on like a building being quarantined so the content is i thought the same thing emily when i heard that it was another quarantine one i figured it was a recent guy so listeners now you know how little work Kenley and I put in. Sorry, Sammy. Sorry, Sammy. Had you been really excited? A lot of a lot of

listeners have recommended this one, especially after we did host a lot of people wrote in and said we should do rec. I'd never heard of it before all the recommendations sammy or emily had you guys heard of this one no i had definitely heard of it um but i had never seen it and i'm very glad that i've seen it now it's super fucking good and very is it very scary very scary you guys before recording this episode my mom asked me if this would be an episode she'd be able to listen to. And now I'm like, well, we'll find out by the end of this episode if it's when she can do. Welcome to Cocktail Hour, the best part of every week. And this week's drink is a rage gin and tonic. This is a Spanish gin and tonic

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They are delicious. So serve yourself something good and cheers. Is there any trivia on it? We got some trivia. So it is a found footage film kind of in the style of like a, it's like a woman that's like a a tv reporter talking to cameras she's like out on a shoot type thing and um the actress who plays her her name is manuela velasco and she really is a tv presenter so that's fun um she was great in it and the budget was 2 million

it made 32 million nice not as huge of a return as some other found footage films we know And the budget was $2 million. It made $32 million. Nice. Not as huge of a return as some other found footage films we know. Sure, sure. But I will say. I would take a $30 million return. I mean, it's still, yeah, it's still very good. But it's not Blair Witch or Paranormal Numbers. But it is Spanish. And it was not, like, popular, I don't think, in America until in 2008 they did an English language remake of it called Quarantine.

And after that came out, they then re-released this or maybe even released this for the first time in America. And so I think it got more popular after the remake came out. Do you think filmmakers are like pissed when their movie gets remade? Or is it because I mean, then it's an opportunity to go, hey, this is actually the movie that you want to watch. Or do you think they get bummed out that then it's like, well, somebody else took it. Filmmakers weigh in. Let us know. else took it filmmakers weigh in uh yeah let us know you gotta go the michael haneke route who um made the original funny games and the american remake funny games oh you gotta do them that's

the trick that's the trick it's is i didn't know for so long that freaking um the departed is a full remake it's a chinese film i've only seen the Chinese version which is I don't know maybe not common and it's really good so I won't watch the regular Departed because I'm like I've already seen it yeah I mean I think remakes in general are usually worse also I'm sorry I just said

regular Departed to refer to the remake that's not that that's no one's not regular no one's not called The Departed right? that's true right no

it's Infernal Affairs is the English title but I don't know I just hated myself just now for saying that I didn't even notice you said that

I didn't either I flagged it immediately and now I hate myself too yeah I hate myself too the most horrifying thing as always is our own brains so what were we what did we talk about sammy i will say that this movie has three sequels there are four rec films in total um and i've heard the sequels are all pretty good

um this is another film that was filmed chronologically. That's always noted in the trivia. And it's just an interesting thing that some movies do. I kind of get it for horror. I was going to say for horror, especially it does. I like because you want to. Yeah,

I think probably for acting, it probably helps to ramp up your performance as you go. And then kind of another one that I feel like should genre that should record or film chronologically that doesn't is is like a romance. I feel like often you hear stories about like day one on set. We had our sex scene. Yes, yes. And I have not I've never done anything that intense but i have had like okay first day you're gonna make out and it's like i don't know not that it ever

gets more normal but it is just a weird way to go i'm also thinking about like found footage in particular like think if a blair witch project was filmed like way out of order wouldn't that confuse the actors you know what i mean to try to do found footage out of order feels like extremely difficult. The continuity would be would feel very tricky. I think it's always tricky, but that might make it really. Yeah. And these actors were not given full scripts. I think they were given like.

I feel like is that a common in found footage? Like improvising? Because they're also like the filmmakers in a way they usually hire like not wait if the whole point is to feel like not an actor yeah it's just footage it's not a movie right yeah so it shouldn't feel like super rehearsed i guess makes me wonder how many takes they do of things in in movies like this i have a lot of questions about found footage films. Me too. Me too. All of a sudden, I'm really curious. Well, because there's, I mean,

the goal of them must, like, or not the goal, but, like, they look, like, sloppy in a way because it's supposed to be handheld, non-professional, but they're so, like, meticulously crafted. Like, it can't be sloppy and shitty. Yeah, it's not careless right

it has it almost has to be more intentional because you can't make up for anything like i'm thinking about like it's also by it inherently or maybe not maybe they find a way to fake it single cam right like like you can't get multiple angles of something you can't get coverage of one person's face and then the others like you get the one thing that you get right so from a filmmaking standpoint it is it's super impressive found footage films i i through this podcast have just gotten much more of an appreciation for found footage films are there found footage films that aren't horror i think so that might be bad which maybe i'm wrong maybe there are movies that are that that aren't bad. But I don't know that I want to see like a handheld rom-com.

You know what I mean? Was that like J.J. Abrams movie technically found footage? The one with the alien and the kids? Yeah, Cloverfield. Super 8? Oh, Super 8, no. No, it's super. There are parts that are like what they film because they're making a movie, but the film is okay but cloverfield is found footage but i guess it's horror that's horror yeah and

then i wrote this down oh wait first it would there's no sets built this is filmed in a real building in barcelona on the ramla de catalunya and it follows some firemen. And I just wrote this down because I thought it was funny. The directors toyed with the idea of following policemen, but decided to go with firemen as they tend to be more popular and accepted. Oh, wow. Honestly, yeah. Especially true nowadays. Yeah.

Especially true nowadays. But it's like, yeah, firemen are firemen. Fire people? What do we call them? Firefighters. Firefighters. Fire people. Also, my dad was a firefighter my whole life.

My dad's career was a firefighter. Why don't I know the word? Anyway, the fire people. They are first responders that don't have guns, right? Like they respond to emergencies. You call 911, you get fire people they are first responders that don't have guns right like they respond to emergencies you call 911 you get fire people and they are but they all they can't arrest you and they they don't it can't escalate to them killing you yeah their their job is to help you and save you they feel like actual public servants not military people there, too. Thank you, fire people. We love what you do.

Fire people, we love you. Oh, I'm an embarrassment to myself. Honestly, firefighter now sounds like a made-up name. Firefighter. Firefighter. It does sound silly. It sounds like someone's like, my job? What do I do?

Oh, I'm a firefighter. Yeah, I fight fires, which is fucking cool. It's literally what they're doing. I fight fire. I mean, they are fighting fires and it's amazing. They are and it's dangerous and again, thank you fire for what you do. It's a hard, important job. It's so hard.

Especially out here in California. Thank you for what you do. And in Spanish, the word for firefighter is bombero, which is a fun word. Very nice. That's all I got. So let's watch this freaking trailer. Let's watch it. Hello? I think we've lost the main underwear right now. I think we've lost the main underwear right now.

Call out to me. ¡Ahhh! Tranquilízate. Bien. ¡Tráemala! ¡Tráemala! the quality of the screams of that child, maybe child. Oh, my God. It like, oh, it's like nails on a chalkboard. There's something about the sound design in this is wild. The screams. It's also it's like nonstop screaming the whole movie. I couldn't even handle it in the trailer. I was like, I'm glad I don't have to listen to the whole movie. I couldn't even handle it in the trailer.

I was like, I'm glad I don't have to listen to the screaming anymore. It's only been like 30 seconds of it. At the very beginning, just the shot of them walking into a building, it looked so Spanish to me and I was like, oh, I want to watch this movie. And then I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I won't watch this movie. Oh my God, Sammy, tell us

everything. Start from the very beginning. Sammy, us everything start from the very beginning sammy this time start from the beginning stop starting in the goddamn middle you just starting willy-nilly anywhere you want i hate it start at the beginning okay so oh i'm really excited i really fucking liked this movie okay let's hear it i used to love back to school shopping so much that i would tell my mom that i wanted to work at staples when i grew up because i just loved getting all the things that i needed that i would use every day in class i still to this day have nightmares about showing up in class without notebooks or number two pencils. Really scary stuff. But luckily I wake up and I realize I don't actually need notebooks or number two pencils anymore. But this fall there is something that I will be using every day and would be terrified

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She works for a show called While You Were Sleeping. And so it's her and her cameraman. Her cameraman's name is Pablo. And they're kind of setting up a shot. She's in a fire station and talks straight to camera. we will be following a group of firemen on their nightly activities. If they get a call, we'll follow them. We're just going to see like a day in the life of a fireman. We see like they've after she's recorded her little intro. They're kind of walking around talking to a few of the firemen and Pablo still recording. This is just to set up the recording device. He's filming a lot of the time. A lot of it is, it's like real time. That's the thing I like

about found footage movies is that the justification for the camera is always a fun little trick. Yeah, it's fun. And there's it's a fun element. There's times where she's like, if it gets boring, cut. So there's times where it just like cuts out and then starts again. I love that too i love it's very it's a super interesting technique it's fun um so they

are in the fire station we meet two firefighters that are kind of their handlers i guess um and their names are alex and manu and they show them like the fire trucks and the little pole that they slide down and um the dining hall and whatever some of the some of the firemen are asleep it's kind of quiet and you can see that Angela is like wanting something to happen she's like wants that alarm to go off because she's bored um but she gets a little interview with Alex and she's like okay let's uh let's have a little interview in front of the camera and she basically is like what's a regular night like and he's like well it's usually pretty pretty boring actually like people think we're fighting fires non-stop but usually we we don't get calls or if they do it's like someone uh locked their keys in whatever i don't know like they get like less

exciting calls than you and imagine and she's like well hopefully something exciting happens tonight oh be careful what you wish for angela yeah be careful angela as a viewer you're like oh i think you might i think you might get something very exciting. And you won't. And we're watching an episode of While You Were Sleeping, and it's boring. I like this idea for a show, though. It's kind of fun. While You Were Sleeping.

I like it, too. I bet something sounds spooky, but it seems like they're presenting it as it's not spooky. I imagine it more as a documentary,, almost like a dirty jobs type thing. Right, here are all the things you don't think about that go on when you're leading your life. People who have the night shift. So interesting.

Yeah. So her and Pablo are kind of wandering around. They're like, is anything going to happen? Finally, that alarm rings. Everyone jumps kind of wandering around. They're like, is anything going to happen? Finally, that alarm rings. Everyone jumps out of their beds. The firemen slide down the fireman pole. And Pablo's like, I can't slide down with the camera, which I thought was funny. And she's like, oh, shit.

Yeah, like, let's run. So they have to, like, go a different route. Angela and Pablo get in the fire truck with Alex and Manu. And on the drive there, they are informed that they've gotten a call that an old woman is locked in her apartment, stuck in her apartment. So they get they drive, they get there. This is all like incredibly shaky cam, by way because not all of it but for the most part like he's just kind of running after like not trying to get great footage most of the time so it's like very very shaky cam so they go in there's some police already there they're making their own alternate movie there's an alternate wreck that is following those police officers

um but so you know how barcel Barcelona has apartment buildings are sometimes like connected to shops on the ground floor with the metal. Especially in that zone. Like Las Ramblas is like a big district. Yeah. And so they go into the basically like bottom ground floor of this apartment building. And a few of the residents are already downstairs kind of looking shaken up. And they come in and they're like, we heard screaming. She was screaming.

And it's kind of there's a super frantic energy to this whole movie. So we see like a woman and her daughter are people are like in their pajamas and there's a woman holding her daughter she's like i'm the one that called the police like um the woman was screaming we can't get her out okay so the woman herself didn't call somebody else somebody else called because of the screaming and it appears she's locked in. Yes. Not great. Not good. So they go up to, oh, and we kind of learn that this woman is a little weird.

She never really goes out. No one knows her too well. And so they go upstairs to go to her room. The staircase is super claustrophobic. It's like a tight little staircase that wraps around each floor so like kind of a spirally staircase this is unrelated but oh my god that reminds me of when i moved to spain to study abroad my building didn't have an elevator because they're like these old little yeah buildings in spain and um i was on the fifth floor which is sixth floor because there they do like ground floor and then one and then Two and then three and I moved there so I had

A huge fucking suitcase full of everything And I didn't entirely know where I was going And this little white girl that doesn't know what the fuck she's doing And I like chugged Pulled this like Fifty pound suitcase up six Flights of stairs in this teeny teeny Stairwell and like making all

This noise and it's all these little Spanish ladies in their apartments and so when I met my host I was like it was very not how I wanted to start things so I'm very I'm like triggered by this staircase

this movie's gonna be triggering for you cause the staircase comes into play a few times. Oh, boy. I hope there's no suitcases. No suitcases. Okay, good. But so they're all kind of running up the stairs.

The firemen talk a bit with the cops. There's two cops that come in with them. So we've got two cops and two firemen and Angela and Pablo. And the cops are very very much like stop filming, stop film. Like every time they turn to camera, they're like, turn the camera off. And we're like, why are you here? And Angela is very much like, we have permission to be here. Like Pablo, keep filming, keep filming.

And they're running upstairs, trying to get into the old woman's room. The door, they use like a mallet to open the door. They like bust it open. They go into her house. There's a long, skinny hallway. And at the end of the hallway, you just see her like silhouetted and wearing what can only be described as a nasty nightgown oh my god wait that's not what we saw in the trailer right that was a child we saw in the trailer right okay okay okay and she is just moving a little weird moving in not a normal way

is that javier botet sorry don't tell me i won't tell you they move closer to her and we see that she is covered in blood and they're trying to calm her down she's kind of she's just breathing really heavily they're like ma'am ma'am it's okay they find out her name is Conchita they're like Conchita it's okay it's

okay we're gonna get you help we're gonna get you out of here they get her like kind of calm for a second and it's like the one okay we're gonna get you help we're gonna get you out of here they get her like kind of calm for a second and it's like the one of the cops is the one closest to her and he's like it's gonna be okay ma'am we're like gonna get you the help you need as he turns back to everyone else she lunges at him knocks him down starts biting him oh no zombies someone else's butt all over her right and and the cop is screaming and they run to like pull her off of him and as they're pulling her off she has like his skin in it her mouth and it shows it like ripping off for like a foot it's long like tendons or

something and she has normal human teeth i guess human teeth are pretty strong yeah i do not like the use of the word tendons in that description oh and one other thing she did that was really disturbing to me is she pulls up her skirt and you just see her underwear and there's a few shots where you see people's underwear in it and in this and it's just really unsettling because why can't i put words to it but it's it's just like shows that you're not in your right mind i guess right it's like yes i think that's what it is it is just like we don't do that why are you right it's like not the not the norm like it's yeah just normal like social behavior right and so you like know something is wrong. I was about to say Conchita is such a sweet little name. I wish I wish we had names like Conchita, but she's not sweet.

No. So they they pick up the injured policeman, carry him downstairs screaming. I mean, Angela's screaming, Pablo's screaming. It's all very intense. And they're running him down. They're like, we got to get him to the hospital. They run down to the first floor and try to open the door and they can't. It is locked.

No, no, no, no. And it has plastic sheeting on the front. And like we see like police lights coming from outside. Yeah, because there's all those people outside and from a loudspeaker from outside we hear that this building health authorities have sealed off this building for safety reasons oh my god wow i mean shit like that really is the scariest fucking thing yeah i know we're in a version of it now it's not quite the same but that is not quite there are slight slight variations um wow, that is so scary. Oh, my God.

Wouldn't you just do everything you could to get out of there? Like, where's the mallet? Give me the fucking mallet. So the fireman, the fireman is doing that. He's like he's going to the other side of the apartment building trying to open up that. Also, what happened in the last fucking 15 minutes where you had to seal this building down yeah like can you get some of us out of here like what we've only

made it 15 minutes um yeah so this is also yeah 15 minutes into the movie and it just like does not let up from this moment on our inciting incident so the screams begin now Sammy you're gonna have to mimic some of the screaming.

Oh, my God. It's going to be. I disagree. But OK, so, yeah, the fireman is trying to find a way out. He opens the metal like gate thing that goes to. He's like, what's through here? They say it's a textile shop on the other side. So he's trying to find a way out. They run that side it's locked down over there too there's there's cops outside that one saying stay away from the glass like you can't come out the cop gets like immediately on a power trip because they have like announced that he's in charge basically through the loudspeaker they're like just like followed the officer's orders inside and you see like this cop just immediately be like i'm in charge and so he's like screaming what an interesting trivia to read that they they decided to not make cops the

protagonist so they instead very clearly make them the villain well done i buy it i mean i guess at this moment conchita is kind of the villain but i'm gonna bet that conchita it's not her fault yeah it's not her fault she became a zombie goddamn motherfucking zombie um but so the cop is like screaming at angela to stop filming and she screams at him so good and is like like we have a right to be filming what's going on in here. Like something wrong is happening and we're fucking filming it. Like, don't tell us to stop filming. They're trying to find another door out. The mom and her daughter are she's screaming like my husband just went out to get my daughter's medication.

Like she's sick. She needs her. They're still inside the building. Everyone is still inside the building that lives in the building. I thought they were all outside. No, they're inside with the firemen, the cops.

So then who's outside? Just the rest of the cops. A lot of like, it seems like almost like a SWAT team is outside. Okay. So when we first arrived, although people that were there, they were like on the ground floor inside the building. Yes. I see.

Okay. In like the lobby or whatever. Right. Okay. So they're all kind of still in the lobby. And this mom is starting to panic. Like my husband is out there with medication. My daughter is sick.

We need to get the fuck out of here. there with medication my daughter is sick we need to get the fuck out of here and as they're everyone's like screaming at each other a body falls from the between the staircase and hits the ground so hard it's a big jump scare everyone screams and someone runs to go help the guy. It is Alex, the other fireman that was. Who fell? Well, fell. We're not sure. Oh, no. False seems unlikely.

But he his head almost explodes. I mean, it looks very bad. And someone goes to, like, grab him. and they're like, don't move him. Don't move him. Where did he come from? How far above? I mean, the force of impact looked like, I think it's only a six floor building, but it looks like he must have fallen from at least floor four. I think floor four is where the old woman's apartment is.

And he was still there. I guess so. We brought the cop down. Oh, no. Oh, no. apartment is and he was still there yeah i guess so we brought the cop down oh no oh no um so now there's two critically injured people and they're like we need medical attention in here everyone is freaking the fuck out he's not dead yeah it sounds he's not dead yet he's had an explosion i know it didn't i mean it just looks really bad but it's pretty pretty smashed it looks very smashed but i guess i hate that i wish he was just dead because it's worse honestly to just have a suffering person like that especially in the

when you he can't go to the hospital um and then there's we start getting our screams coming from upstairs. We just hear horrible, horrible screams. All of the screams in this movie. Well, no, I guess there's regular screams, but a lot of the screams are very animalistic, very non-human sounding screams. non-human sounding screams and so they hear that they go to like uh i think the cop and the other fireman uh manu and the cop in in charge run up back to the room he says to the camera, Pablo and Angela stop filming, and they follow and continue to film. They go back into the old woman's room. They don't see her.

They're going down the hallway. She's not there. They can't, looks empty and quiet or following, going down the spooky hallway. They left her there when they pulled the cop out i think they just ran to try to get out of the building right except for maybe alex yeah i think so and so now they're they're back in and then a girl runs across the hallway like a teenage girl holding her arm and screaming like holding her arm as if she's

been bit she collapses and falls down in front of them without anything happening and they're like oh my god like she's dead she has died oh no and then we see conchita re-emerge back where she was before, covered in more blood than ever, and she charges at them. How old is Conchita? I would say 70s or 80s. Oh. Wow. And

she charges at them, and with that horrible scream, like ah! I can't do an impression. I don't know why I even tried. But and the cop shoots her. Wow. OK.

Mm hmm. OK. Things are just going to get worse. And so our cop who's been bitten. Bitten. Yep. Not bit. Isn't is bleeding out right now.

He's with us still. I think he's on the ground floor. They left him like leaning up against the wall so they're not carrying him. But yes, he is bleeding out. Not going to be good. There's also an old couple down there. There's a Japanese family. I tried to look up on IMDb, um, their names.

And a lot of the people in this movie are just, like, called, like, the older couple is Abuelo and Abuela. The Japanese family is just Japanese man, Japanese woman, Japanese boy. Uh, the mother is just credited as hysterical mother. Um, and then there's also an older Spanish man and his name is Caesar. And so they're all kind of staying down in the lobby, freaking out. Yeah. Now there's two dead people, two very, very badly injured people. And they're just like.

The armed girl and Conchita. Uh-huh. Dead. Okay. And they're like, we need to get out of here. They go back. They find another side, uh, like through a house, out of here they go back they find another side uh like through a house one of the apartments i guess they find there's like a you know window to a fire escape

or whatever they try to go there people are on outside of that they're putting down like plastic tarp right at that moment and they're like stay away from the windows bnc protocol has been enacted a health inspector will be coming in soon angela is like what the fuck is bnc what's happening so late in spain it's like they don't even care that it's midnight they have people on the job just ready to do an inspection it's wild they've had their siestas they're ready to go they inspection. It's wild. They've had their siestas. They're ready to go. They stay up so late. How could they possibly do it? God, no. Not in these daylight saving times

hours at 5pm. How do they do it? I'm ready for bed. Angela's like, what the fuck is BNC? What is happening? What is going on? This must be illegal. And the firefighter looks a little concerned and he's like bnc means biological nuclear chemical oh god um oh there's one more person resident in the building his name is

guillem that guillaume guillaume and he is like the building manager and he is also a medical intern and so he kind of gets the two injured people set up in on tables in like the textile shop and is kind of trying to do some very

quick and dirty help. I love that in a horror movie where you have someone who's like I know some stuff. Yeah. It's very fun. Certainly not enough. We get some real good shots of their bites, which are bad.

Oh, the Alex is also has a bite right on his face. Oh, no. Gross. So he is alive. And with a smashed head and a bitten face. He is not well, but he is alive.

What is the lighting like at this point? Good question, Henley. Is it like fully bright? Is it dark? Do they have all the lights on? Like, what's going on? Yeah, you know, Henley, you're not going to like it. I would call it a fluorescent quality.

Okay. That changes everything. call it a fluorescent quality. Okay. That changes everything. It is. I mean, it is obviously nighttime, but... They don't have warm lighting at least. It's not too warm. It's not soft.

It's not warm. It's not cozy. It's like lobby lighting, you know? Yeah. Not flattering. Not... Cold, harsh lighting. Got it. No thanks. Sterile, sterile lighting. Not a fan.

So then Angela's talking straight to camera again. She says, it's 2 a.m. You know, we've been in here for hours. They're not letting us out. We have two very injured people who need medical attention. And she goes to interview Guillaume. Guillaumeillem i'm assuming that's a name i know so i feel like it's guillem g-u-i-l-l-a-m-e right or something like that a-u-m-e guillem guillem guillem oh guillem i don't know um so she kind of interviews him and he's like yeah i've never

i mean never been in a situation this serious. Like this is really bad. He also says like the fact that an old woman did this to like two adult men is really confusing. And I don't know how she did that. And so hopefully like once the health inspector comes in, he can tell us what's going on. Cause like,

this isn't normal. It's also not normal for old ladies to bite P.S. Yeah, that's a little out of whack too. Age aside, I don't feel like, I feel like that's maybe the point to focus on. Good point. And I'm gonna know that I've heard, I'm gonna go with Guillem.

Anyway. Okay, Guillem. So Angela goes and interviews kind of a few of the residents. She interviews the Japanese woman and the little girl, Yennefer. She's seven and she's like interviewing her and she's like, and you're feeling sick. You need your medication. And little girl's like, yeah. And my dog is sick, too. He's at the vet. Like, I miss my dog. What happened to your dog, Yennefer? Did the old lady bite you? He's definitely safer at the vet than in this goddamn horror movie.

And then she interviews the mom. And the mom is like, I'm absolutely going to sue. Like, the second we get out of here, I'm suing. Like, who? Who is she suing like who who is she suing i don't know then they interview the older spanish man caesar and he's like combing his hair and seemingly excited to like be on camera like maybe uh maybe he wanted to be an actor gives off he's got like a neck he's like i got a kerchief on his neck and a thin little mustache. And he's like, are you rolling?

And they're like, no, not yet. But they are. And he's combing his hair. They're like, if you have one side that you prefer over the other, it jump cuts to him sitting the other way, facing the camera the other way. That really made me laugh. That's fun. And then he says, it's's the chinese they eat raw food uh chinese japanese i don't know he's just like super racist right off the bat and then the main cop has gotten some information i guess they

have like i'm sorry sammy would you call him a top cop? I guess I would call him the top cop. That's the technical term. To be fair, I do think the other cop might have been the top cop, and I think that's why this cop is getting a bit of a complex. He's not been in charge before. So he says that the health

inspector's coming in. I guess he got some information through his walkie-talkie. They told him health inspector's coming in. There's got some information through his walkie-talkie they told him health inspectors coming in they'll need there's a possible infection in here they're gonna need blood samples i say there is one they're gonna need blood samples from everyone and he's basically doing a roll call to make sure everyone is down in the lobby he's like who lives in apartment 1A, who lives in apartment 1B. He talks to the Japanese woman and she says, my father is upstairs in his room because he is ill. And they're all like, he's ill. It's him.

It's him. These racist motherfuckers. I know. it's him and these racist motherfuckers. I know. And the, and they're like, what she means to say is that he's like paralytic and in bed and like,

can't come downstairs. Yeah. Yeah. And the mom is a real bitch and is like, what if he's the reason all of this is happening? Um, tensions are high constantly in this movie. It's never relaxing. The thing that I feel like is a

universal truth is that humans pretty much don't act their best under pressure like this. Yeah. Fear brings out the worst in people. Pretty ugly and gross and bad. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. They're doing the roll call. They're like, who's in this? Who's in this roll call they're like who's in this who's in this and they're like is anyone in the penthouse and the um guillem says um that's owned by some guy from madrid he hasn't been here in years it's basically just like empty it's been sitting empty for years and so everybody else is down there and so the health inspector comes in cuts through the like plastic sheet that's quarantining the building he is in full hazmat suit everyone that we see like get little peeks of outside the doors are in hazmat suits you hate to see it and the yeah doctor comes in and he's like give me a rundown what's happened they're like we've got

these two injured people he's like okay take me take me to them and like keep everybody else together down here like i don't want anybody out of sight like i want to know where everybody is at all times basically and he also is like why the hell is their tv crew in here turn that off um they follow them it's like does nobody watch my show i am a freaking show on tv does nobody know who i am nobody recognized me uh so the the pablo and angela follow the doctor and the new top cop and manu they manu and the cop close the door on them. They're like, no, you're not fucking coming in. You're not filming this.

So they find like another another side of the room. They climb up on a table where they can film through like an open little window crack. Nice. So we're just seeing like this, you know, shaky frame half blocked by a window of the two men laying on the tables. And they both look very bad. They're like gray. The health inspector comes in and handcuffs one of them to the bed. Smart.

And takes a blood sample while he's handcuffed. They're like, okay, we gotta cuff the other guy to take his blood. As they go over to him, he jumps up, attacks. And who's this? Alec to the cop? Wait, who's who? Who's attacking? Oh, who's attacking?

It's the cop. So the first one who was bitten. Okay. So we're getting a sense of the speed at which this gets to you and he attacks oh oh oh guillem is also in there he attacks guillem because guillem has medical training and and the health inspector basically grabs the cop and manu and is like get let's get out of here closes the door after them and is like um they're like gm's in there gm's in there and he's like he's been bitten like he's fucked basically okay so he knows what the fuck is up in this building yeah it's like he's seen it before. It seems that way. Oh, no.

And he closes the door. Guillaume is like pounding on the door like, let me out, let me out. And he says they're both handcuffed to their beds, like just stay away from them. He says that the time it takes to take effect varies by blood type. Oh, God. And within seconds, Guillaem smashes through the glass they all run panicked um angela and pablo they're all running to get back to the other side of this metal gate thing that they can close down so that they're back in the lobby they do that they get it closed in time they seem to know a lot about how the zombie thing works already. They already know the blood type rule.

Yeah, I'm not trusting this health inspector guy. Yeah. Also, like, why on earth? I guess timing is everything, but they let these fucking firefighters come here. And only 15 minutes later, they knew there was fucking zombies here. They knew how it works. It's true. Some better communication would have really saved a lot of grief.

This is a movie about the failures of communication. Like so many horror movies. Like life. So they close down. They close the little metal gate thing. They're on the other side. They're like, okay, tell us what the fuck is going on. You clearly know more than you're saying.

like okay tell us what the fuck is going on you clearly know more than you're saying the doctor is like okay we got a dog a vet called a vet called us it's the dog no the dog shows up again a vet called us and told us that a dog um came in and it it died i, and then came back to life hyper aggressive. They had to tranquilize it with like seven different tranquilizers. It was attacking all the other animals and they had to euthanize it. Oh, shit. No dog is safe in a horror movie. You said the word dog. Even ones you don't see.

No. Yeah, this is off screen. Also, you can euthanize a zombie. Interesting. Hmm. Yeah, I'd say the rules on how to kill them are a little confusing in this. It's never fully explained. That's fine.

And Angela turns to him when he says this and says, was the dog's name Max? So the little girl had said her dog's name was Max. And the guy says, yeah, like, and we, oh yeah. And we traced him back to his chip, traced back to this apartment. It's also very funny that he knows that it's like the vet called him and said, we got this dog. His name is Max, by the way. He absolutely wouldn't know the dog's name. There's no world in which he would know the dog's name that's true but then they all turn to face Yennefer and her mother and uh she's like

she just has tonsillitis like it's not she's not sick with that she just has tonsillitis and they're like approaching her and they're like well we just need to be sure like we need to take a blood sample from her and as they're approaching her Yennefer attacks bites her mom's face. Oh my God. Jumps down and is like and runs upstairs.

She's the girl in the trailer. Is she in a nasty nightgown i feel like she was maybe not probably they're all yeah they're all like in pajamas she runs upstairs they can't stop her they obviously don't want them to get close to her but the mom goes to run after her and they're bitten they grab her but it's her daughter and she's like she's having a mothering instinct of wanting to still protect her daughter they grab her she is gut-wrenching screaming like yeah i don't know she's like screaming her daughter's name bloody murder and they she is so like frantic that they handcuff her to the staircase, like the staircase banister.

I mean, she got bit. So, yeah. Yeah. Okay. And so then the doctor is like, we need to inject Yennefer with this. I don't know. Some sort of injection. So they already have a cure for the zombie thing is it

like a rabies shot or something they have something they're so prepared and we don't know yet if it is like an antidote or just a sedative um but we go up back into conchita's apartment and conchita and the girl are gone. They are not where they were. I bet they're in that fucking empty penthouse. Ooh, that empty penthouse is definitely coming back. So they're, like, scanning the room. It's empty.

And then we see Yennefer, and she's just standing there, and she's now covered in blood. And they're kind of calmly approaching her like, it's OK, like we just need to give you a shot and then it's going to be better. And as they get close, she launches at him and this crazy fight like the sound of these screams. fight like the the sound of these screen I mean it's almost I wrote down a coyote fight mixed with a pig squeal oh my god it's horrible horrible horrible sounds no no no no so she she it was the um cop that was trying to give her the shot so she she's bitten him and in the a commotion like um angela pablo and manu are trying to run out of the room and they turn back and see that the cop is

holding the little girl like holding her holding her back and he's like she bit me like didn't use these you bit me like run like basically save yourselves. A little sacrificial move that was kind of unexpected. Oh, yeah. And as they're running out the hall, the old lady pops out. Rah! Oh, no! And Manu, like, he still has the mallet that they use to, like, break down the door. Wait, she got shot!

Mm-hmm. So shooting them does not work right yeah she's she's right back to it okay and so the arm girl where's she he mallets the old lady in the face knocks her down she jumps right back up and then he like mounts her again real hard and it it knocks her down good they all they all run down stair the staircase the japanese woman is running up because her father is in the bed she's running up to save her father and he and they're saying like no no don't go up there don't go up there and then from below we're hearing like no don't come down here don't come down here and it's so like frenetic and stressful and this claustrophobic staircase and so they end up

running down and the metal gate they're the men on the other side of the gate are basically starting to open it from below they're they're able to push it up and so the doctor and uh manu are like holding it down um but there's no way to lock it. And so it's just them holding it. Angela like goes to help them hold it. And they're like, basically, we can't hold it. The mom is locked, handcuffed to the staircase. And Angela's like, well, how do we unlock her?

How do we unlock her? Like, we got to get her out of here where the keys for the handcuffs and they're like well the cop had the keys it's the cops handcuffs and so they're like we can't unlock her and the mom why do we want to unlock her because at this point she is still human and they're I feel like just they don't want to leave her in that state. Yeah. I think they're not thinking it through totally. I think you gotta leave her there. But it is really

sad. She's screaming like you can't don't leave me here. Don't leave me here. Please. Please. I hate that. I hate that. The health inspector kind of looks at them in a weird way and then runs upstairs and they're like what the fuck like help me hold this door closed and basically they're like we can't i'm not going to be able

to hold it like we all gotta fucking make a run for it and they run they run upstairs the woman is scream mom is screaming like don't leave me here all the zombie guys go straight for her and like she's like ripping she wasn't her up gone yet she's gone now they're ripping her well did you say what the fuck biting biting her um and the racist old man like calls them into his apartment and it's like come come in here and here and here and they close the door behind them and the zombies like come up quickly afterwards and here and here and they close the door behind them and the zombies like come up quickly afterwards and are banging on the door but this is a pretty sturdy fast zombie they're fast and this but this is a pretty sturdy door and caesar is like so in

the room now we have um angela pablo manu and caesar and angela is freaking out saying those men were eating that woman like they were eating her like what the fuck is happening. They were literally eating her alive. Gross, gross, gross. And Caesar is like, it's OK, like they can't get in here. We just stay here until they come and save us. And she's like, no one's fucking coming to save us. Like they don't give a shit about us. Like, obviously, they're locking us away to just.

Yeah, they're leaving us here. They're leaving us here to die and caesar's like they care about the doctor they'll come for the doctor and they're like where the fuck is the doctor like he's not here he ran and he's like no he's in here he's in here and manu is like manu's like that motherfucker like he's pissed that he left them to not hold the gate closed anymore and runs in to, he's in the like bathroom, I guess, or like a hallway.

And he runs in like you asshole. And the doctor's like, I'm bitten. I'm bitten. I'm like, stay away from me. He ran away to, to get himself away from everybody.

And the doctor like pushes him out of this room and it closes this other little gate i guess it's not a bathroom it's like another little hallway and closes a little gate locks it and throws the key out this doctor is very responsible and he's like leave me and the cop who is now a zombie had the syringe. He's the only one who had the. Yeah. Yeah. That's not great. No, I don't.

Yeah. And so they're like, well, fuck, like, let's I'm going to jump out of a fucking window or something. And they start going to. So and the reason they're not is there's a SWAT team on the other side. What with the guns? Yeah, I think the building is surrounded. And as they try to start opening the window from the loudspeaker again, again they say stay away from the windows or we will be forced to take drastic measures and so oh good god i mean i guess they really don't want a whole zombie outbreak in the entire yeah i guess that part i can understand

um but then caesar says i think i know a way out. There's an underground storage area. Oh, Henley, you're going to hate that. No, no, no, no, no. I think it leads to the sewer system. Even worse. But the door is locked. We're talking dark and filthy. Yeah. They're going to shawshank their way out.

But it's locked. And Monty's like, well, where's the key? Where key where's the key and he's like the intern has the key um he has all the keys he's the building manager he has all of the keys it probably in his room and as he's saying this the doctor like hands burst out through the gate and grab Caesar, bite his head. Oh, no. And blood is like pouring down his head. And Angela, bless her, is still like trying to save him

and like pull him away. I'm sorry, Angela, but no. It's done. It's done. No. And Manu, Manu has gotten the picture

and he's like, he's been bitten wait let's fucking go and we need to get to this intern's room and uh get these keys and get out through the sewer system and she's like which room is he in and he's like fuck I don't know I don't know which room is his they like look out if you can hear us what room is he in before you die? They're now, I think, on the second floor is where Cesar's room was.

And they're like looking up and looking down. There's like horrible screams coming from both up and down. And they're like, which way do we go? And he's like, well, we can go look at the mailboxes

and see which one is his. So they have to go down and up. So they'll have to go down and then back up. And it's just the three of them now. Manu, Angela, and Pablo, yeah? Yes. So they run down and then from below, the Japanese man is running up.

He is now a zombie. And Manu punches him in the face and snaps his neck. Like, okay. It's very quick and he just is like, Manu's

trying to fucking survive this. He is doing it. I want Manu on my side yeah we're we're we're feeling good about having manu on our on our team here um so they run down they go to the mailboxes and uh figure out which apartment is the is the interns and then as they turn back they see the mom handcuffed to the staircase who is now full zombie and one of her hands is still handcuffed but one is free i assume because it was either eaten off or something but she is kind of like because she has some uh range of motion now they like didn't notice her when they

ran down because they were too frantic but now they realize like oh she might be able to reach us and we have to pass her again to go back up the stairs christ the stress i mean the thing that really gets me about movies like this i'm so stressed it's very very stressful i guess is it a release sammy from like your own stress i think so. I think it must be that. I was thinking about that because I really enjoyed it. Like I was really happy that I saw this. Because that's the thing about anxiety, right? Like we always search for a place to put it.

So maybe it is helpful to feel stressed in a context like this because your body does somehow release some of that, but it's not on anything in your own head yeah i think i do wonder yeah yeah because i did i liked this movie i liked watching it and i i did have a moment of being like how do i like this why why do i like this and i think that's right i think it is like controlled anxiety. That's like not happening to me. But OK, so they have to run past zombie mom. They're like, fuck it. Let's do it. Zombie mom. They run.

She charges at them, making all sorts of horrible screams. But so our other zombie friends are not down in the lobby. No, I guess not. They're somewhere. It's hard to keep are not down in the lobby. No, I guess not. Oh, no. They're somewhere. It's hard to keep track of everyone in this building. Seems like most people at this point, though, are zombies. Yes, it does seem that way. So they run past her.

They successfully make it past her, though it's very scary. And as they're running up, that teenage girl from before runs down. She's not dead. And she makes horrible, horrible screams. I love that everyone is described at this point. It's just, it's horrible. It's bad. They make horrible sounds.

Oh, you'd hate it. Oh, you'd hate to hear it. And she, like, scares them enough that the camera drops. And so we get this scene from like the floor angle. So we see only their feet. And again, you see teenage zombie girl's underwear. She's not wearing pants and it's just like her underwear. And you hear that Manu has her in like a stranglehold.

And he is strangling her. And she's dying and like screaming and dying. And we just see her like feet flopping around in her underwear. And it's like such an upsetting shot. That's horrible. Also, I understand it's the point of the movie. We're watching a movie. But Pablo, put the camera down and fucking run

are you kidding me are you kidding me i will say they do like address that a few times with um angela being like people need to see what's happening here people need to see what's happening so she's like you film it angela i'm trying to not die yeah fair absolutely i think people have seen enough too at this point I think people would get it. Or I'd be using this camera as a weapon. I am chucking this camera at a zombie's head for sure. But so then we hear Angela crying in a really, really gut-wrenching way that we haven't heard her cry before. And she panics, says, she bit panic says she bit me she bit me i got bitten

and um and pablo says no she didn't no she didn't like i saw it i was watching angela she didn't bite you it's okay and angela is just like sobbing like i got bit i got bit she bit me and he's screaming no you didn't no you didn't um And then the lights in the building turn off. And there's a. We've been waiting for this. We've been waiting for this. The only thing worse than bad lighting is no lighting. No.

Oh, man. Imagine being in an apartment filled with apartment building filled with zombies and no lights on. It's pretty bad. Yeah. You definitely want to just jump out the window at that. Yeah. I feel like in moments like this, I'm just fucking kill me like get me out of it like i don't want to get eaten alive i guess yeah i guess you your adrenaline all you can think about

is surviving but i imagine being that scared like really that scared yeah i would be paralyzed i wouldn't be able to make a single decision. I want to die just thinking about it. Yeah. No. Horrible. All my anxiety, all my real fear, my scariest moments have been mental. They've been of my own doom like mental

making. Having an actual life threatening situation. I'm going to be killed by a zombie right now. I feel right away from a zombie right now. It'd be fucking awful. It would be awful. I'm basically trying to say that it would be awful.

In case we needed that little commentary to help us figure out. Yeah, it would be bad is what I think. And so Angela yells atablo to turn the camera light on he turns it on and the japanese woman is right there lunges at him manu sees it grabs her and then yells angela the mallet angela gives him the mallet and he he raises it above his head

he's about to smash her head in and the camera like they just continue running. It's good like this shot specifically stood out to me as just like damn this is good camera work because it's like just not showing you him bashing this woman's head in but like you know

it's happening. Do we ever see Pablo? Or do we just hear him as a character? We do not see Pablo, no. I wonder, now I'm very curious if Pablo is a DP. If they have a... They must, right? That's gotta be...

Yeah. Which is, I feel like other found footage movies we've done, the camera is either like in Paranormal, it's like security footage, or Blair Witch, they are all doing the camera, either like in paranormal it's like security footage or Blair Witch they are all doing the camera but they probably have a legit cameraman right filming this movie right which is very cool um yeah that's a good question I wish I had done some research not really an actor I mean in this right he's really an actor but I, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah. No, I mean, it's good. It's good, effective camera work for this purpose.

I was impressed and very upset. But OK, so now they're running up. They now know which room Guillaume lived in. And so they get there. They open the door. They are searching for the keys but it's kind of a big apartment and imagine just like looking they're like ransacking it they're like opening every drawer like where the fuck are they they can't find them it's so stressful to a fucking yes basement sewer situation yeah and like they are hearing screeches in all

parts of the building now and then we hear that kind of like low battery sound on the camera where it's like and it goes quiet for a second and so it's still filming but it's not recording audio and for the rest of the movie the audio kind of dips in and out like it's only able to record audio some of the time and it's like malfunctioning a bit and it's so scary seeing like so you always think sound is the scariest and i mean i do think sound is one of the most important things in horror but it's still very fucking scary to see like shaky handheld footage and people panicking with no sound. It's like. Yeah.

Well, and like then if it kicks back, like every time it kicks back in, that would be jarring, I imagine, too. And then they finally find a ring of like 30 keys. There's so many. And she's like, which fucking one is it? And they're like, just take them all. Just take them all. many and she's like which fucking one is it and they're like just take them all just take them all and um they're they're trying to run there she's like where did manu go where did manu go they she looks over the banister on the stairwell and literally a zombie like pops his head out from

every floor and looks up like it's like almost a funny shot but it is also just like oh fuck like there's so many of them and they're all below which is like where they want to go i think yeah yeah and they're just like well we can't they run up because all of them start running up and they're like we have no choice we have to run up and they run up into that penthouse, baby. There we go, baby. The penthouse returns. Oh, no. And they close the door behind. It is pitch black.

Angela is basically hyperventilating. She's so panicked. And Pablo's trying to calm her down. Like, you need to calm down. You need to calm down. And like, don't worry. This is the apartment that was sealed off. No one's in here.

Because it's dark. And she's like, I don't worry, this is the apartment that was sealed off. No one's in here because it's dark. And she's like, I don't care. Turn on the fucking light. Get the camera light back on. And he turns on the camera light. And this apartment is not good. Oh, no. Sammy, no, you've got to be kidding me.

I know you were thinking that this was going to be the happy ending. The shock of the movie. You kept calling it a penthouse. A penthouse by definition has to be nice. It has to be good. If I know one thing about penthouses, it's that they are good and nice.

I thought we were going to be making a cocktail and we're putting on counts. We're wearing furs. We are drinking champagne. Oh, no, no, no. Not in this penthouse. In this penthouse, we've got lots of religious icons. We've got crosses on every wall.

Lots of Jesus. Lots of Jesus statues. Now, does God protect you from zombies from zombies well here's where things get fun so there's okay there's uh there's newspaper clippings all over all of the walls it's filthy there is like medical equipment in there there's like beakers and shit. Oh, my God. Did this person make the virus? Well, they're like, she's like, what the fuck is all of this? What is this? They're reading newspaper clippings on the wall.

And she's like, Pablo, look at this. The headline is Vatican is investigating possible possession of a girl. Oh, my God. We're getting demons also? This is where I was really like, oh god i was not expecting this whoa and we read some of the the articles on the wall it's the madero girl is what it's all referring to madero girl and she's like these all of these clippings are about the same fucking girl. What the fuck is this? And then we hear footsteps running above them.

They're, again, in the penthouse, the top floor. There's no floor above them. And she's like, what the fuck is that? They run into the next room, again, covered in newspaper clippings, not just as bad as the last room. And she finds, like... Is there room and um she finds like is there furniture and stuff yeah there's furniture just everything is covered in like newspaper clippings and files like kind of like hoarder-y and like tons of like religious icon things and she's going through

medical files of this they find medical files of this girl the madero girl and then they find a tape recorder and she's like what is happening presses play on this tape recorder and we hear a man's voice say i finally isolated the enzyme the problem is that it's unstable it deteriorates when it comes into contact with oxygen but i'm optimistic if it all goes well we will have a vaccine soon and she's like what the fuck is he talking about what the fuck is he talking about fast forwards and we hear him now say something unexpected happened the enzyme is not only resistant but it has mutated it behaves much like flu this leads us to a horrible conclusion. It might be contagious. The telegram from Rome has arrived.

The Medeiros girl must die. I must eliminate her and all signs of her existence. And Pablo says the Medeiros girl, she must have been here. She must have been here. And Angela is like, I don't like this. I don't like this. We need to get the fuck out of here. So he was trying to create a vaccine for being possessed? I mean, we don't like this. I don't like this. We need to get the fuck out of here. And so that he was trying to create a vaccine for being possessed.

I mean, we don't we don't get a lot of answers here. I would. But maybe maybe they called whatever she had being. Yeah, they thought it was possession and it was this virus. Right. Whatever it is. Yeah. OK.

And so they're kind of they they run. They're just like, fuck this. Let's see if we can find a way out through here. But it's still the tape is still playing. So we still hear the man saying, finally, my prayers have been answered. This decision should have been made years ago. But this apartment has been empty for years and years. And now we're finding out that even when he was there him and the madero's girl were there

for years i guess if he's saying this should have been made years ago he says this has all been a big mistake i must follow the procedure i'm going to seal off the room sealing her in should work if if anything goes. God help us all. Well, something went wrong. So his plan is just to seal her in in a fucking apartment and like let her die in there, I guess. Let her starve to death.

That's too risky. That's not how this works. You can't just shut her into a regular apartment. If you have a situation where you're like this person needs to be sealed off from society to die, don't just

get them a penthouse. Also, how is he like taking care of her before? And who is he? We don't know. We don't know any of this. I have so many questions. I have a lot of questions too. Why don't they make a prequel to wreck? I mean, there's three sequels. But what about a prequel? One of them might be a prequel I mean there's three sequels but what about a prequel one of them might be a prequel

what about just sort of a document that explains or a docu-series on rec I would like a docu-series so they're running and then a jump scare an attic door falls open

no that's where the sound. Oh, my God. The Madeira girls in the attic. Oh, no. Oh, no. Pablo, this crazy motherfucker is like, maybe there's an exit through the attic. We know. Sir, don't go to the attic.

If things are bad and a door opens itself you don't go through that door it's crazy you do not and angela in to her credit is like fuck no i'm not fucking going in there like don't you dare go in there and he's like okay i'll raise the camera i'll film what's in there and so just we get to see the whole rotating what And what's his plan? To immediately review the footage? I guess so. And so we just now are doing a 360 scan of a scary, scary attic. And you know something's going to be in there. And eventually a little boy slams his hand onto the camera.

It goes black. We hear Pablo yell, shit, the fucking light broke. He broke the light. And Angela's screaming and screaming like, what was up there? What was up there? It's completely pitch black. Pablo's like, it's okay. It's okay.

I'll turn on. I have the night vision. I'll turn on the night vision. Now we're in night vision. the other scariest way to be and it does definitely go in that order too it's fluorescent nasty light no light night night vision that's the order of scary and we see um Angela you know the look of just someone who can't see and she is feeling or she is waving her arms around screaming. I hate and they filmed it. One of the trivias was like they actually filmed it in complete pitch black.

And so she really couldn't see. And it was like, well, yeah, I mean, how else, I guess, would you film it? But it's hard. Yeah, it is hard to get that like look of right unfocused eyes but you know what i mean yes yes and it's like it makes them like oh just this nasty like glassy look to them they like they look almost like opaque your eyes it's so creepy so he's reaching for it so he's like it's okay it's okay and as he like touches her she's like like screaming he's reaching for it. So he's like, it's OK. It's OK. And as he like touches her, she's like, I like screaming. It's OK.

It's me. It's me. And we still are uncertain about if she was bitten. Yes. She says she was. She said she was. And I feel like she would know better than he would. But I mean, yeah, it's like it's a hard thing to be unsure.

Yeah. That was one of my qualms while watching. I was like, I was like, just look, you can see. Yeah. Like where? I guess the light did go off right then. Sure. But like then I would trust the woman who says I was bitten.

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. But OK. OK. So, OK, now we're in night vision and we're scanning the room and we don't see the little boy again. I don't know who he was. I've got a question. And we're scanning the room and we see something in the distance from further back in the apartment. And Pablo is like

shh shh shh there's something here there's something here and this silhouette is not good and here's our Javier Potet oh no

you know it's not going to be good you know and it is the we, to assume this is the Madeiro girl. It, uh, she has very, very long white hair. Her face is, I don't even know how to describe it. Her, her like jaw almost looks like it has collapsed. Like she has no, she has like no chin and just kind of like bloody mouth.

This is also like through night vision. But other than that, she's incredibly tall and skinny. And yeah, Javier Botet is very limby. Long, long limbs. And again,

she is just in underwear. So her boobs are out. She's saggy, saggy boobs. Oh, long limbs. And again, she is just in underwear. So her boobs are out. She has saggy, saggy boobs. Oh, she's old now. She's old. Zombies age. Fascinating. But she can't see them.

And so Pablo is like, she can't see. She can't see. Be quiet. Be quiet. And again, Angela is basically hyperventilating. And she's just like. and again Angela is basically hyperventilating and she's just like and

the Madeira girl comes in and basically starts like messing around in the kitchen like she's clanking with like pots and pans it's really weird I don't know what she's doing but he's like we got we can sneak by her we can sneak by her she's cooking

she's busy in the kitchen and oh my god wait and i'm sorry i should remember this but manu is yes so sorry when she looked over the banister and all of the zombies like popped their heads up manu was one of them okay by manu manu is no longer okay and's so so the zombies cooking. She's in the kitchen and cooking and they're sneaking by her. We're getting this night vision look of her like back. And then she notices them. Of course she does. She turns and we see her knock the camera.

Camera falls. We can't see what's going on. We just hear horrible screams and Pablo screams uh the camera is like spinning for a second we see that Angela has found it and is trying to use it to see what's happening and she spins it and we see well, first we had seen the Madeiro girl, like, slam her fists against the wall. Like, almost like having a tantrum, which I thought was interesting because she's been in there, I guess, since she is a girl. Oh, she just was, like, locked away. Yeah.

And then Angela pans the camera and we see that she is, in fact, eating Pablo. Yeah. Oh, God. Bye, Pablo. And then she turns to Angela and her long arm smacks the camera out of her hand. The camera falls and we see Angela has also fallen right framed perfectly in front of the camera. So we can just see Angela's face. I mean, Angela's used to being on television. She knows how to work.

Yes. Oh, my God. She knows how to find her mark, hit her mark. Yes. And so she is laying on the ground, like, looking frantically around and then also trying to be quiet. Because now the Madeira girl we don't know where she is anymore and it's quiet for a second

and then as if she is pulled from her angles ankles Angela is pulled out of frame screaming and that is the end of the movie oh my god you know I love And that is the end of the movie. Oh my god!

You know, I love an ending like that because at a certain point you're just like, yeah. I mean, you're not getting out of this, right? There are no survivors. There's no fucking way you get out of this. Are you kidding me? Everyone's a zombie. You're dead. It's not looking good.

No survivors. Those are the scariest horror movies though the ones where just everyone dies there isn't even a final girl like it's just everyone we're just done she is a final girl but then the final girl dies i guess i think the madero girl's the final girl yeah that's true how did the madero girl even survive, what was she doing in the kitchen? Cooking! What was she doing that whole time? She learned to cook! Yeah, I mean, there's lots of

unanswered questions, which I kind of like and it really makes me want to see the sequels, because I think it gets more into the kind of religious the religion side of things. And the sequels are all so they made a remake but then the sequels are all Spanish films I would imagine

right? The like legit sequels. I think so. I think so. But yeah man the fucking makeup on Javier Botet is really fucking scary. I mean he's incredible. So he has Marfan syndrome and it's a genetic disorder that yeah affects your

connective tissue and makes you have like very long limbs so he is six foot seven and weighs 123 pounds holy shit man he found his fucking calling that rules I mean yeah I was like I need to look up photos of him regularly

to not be scared of the Madeira girl. And it really helped. So if you've watched this movie and you're scared of the Madeira girl, just look up Javier Botet. He's super cute. And I just he seems delightful. Yeah. And he was.

We'll post some photos of him. He is really cute. He was Mama. He was Slenderman. He's been in The Conjuring. He's been in. He was Mama. He was Slenderman. He's been in The Conjuring. He's been in, he was in It Chapter Two. Yes. I think he was in an Insidious.

He's a perfect Slenderman. Yeah. I went on a whole Doug Jones thing with Doug Jones is an actor who's also in a lot of Guillermo del Toro movies. He plays the dude whose name I don't remember in Shape of Water. But, oh, and in Pan's Labyrinth, the hand eyeballs guy. But I went on a thing with him, too, because I had listened to, he was in an episode of fucking, wait, wait, don't tell me, that Eugene Guerrero, previous of our podcast guest, who

I just absolutely adore, was a guest on. And so I got really into looking up Doug Jones. Also, really limmy, really specific, weird body. Weird. absolutely adore was a guest on and so i got really into looking up uh doug jones also really limmy really specific weird body weird you get what i mean weird is subjective he's got a perfect body we all do but well suited for creature or stuff yeah it's it is interesting because it is like we have been so shown that there's like only one body that's okay to have basically like i feel like we don't see a lot of different bodies and then we have to post this picture henley i'm gonna make you post this picture yeah send it whoa that's wild and wow i like I do. Yeah, of course, these roles are perfect.

But it's also like, can we see them in also non-monster roles? Yeah, right. Exactly. Like, do we need to other them even more? And I think you're right, Sammy. It's like, I mean, every body that lets you live and move is a perfect body. A body is meant to carry your organs and like let you live um and yeah we've just decided which ones are aesthetically good right and which are

aesthetically freaky or whatever and like right it's just a person with a body yeah not to turn this into a whole fucking thing. I understand. I'm just like a fucking petite white lady who the fuck cares what I have to say about anything. But it is just such an interesting conversation once you begin to peel back the layers. I would love to see him cast as not a monster in something. That would be cool. Yeah. I want to look up interviews with him now. I watched a few.

Because I also am like, like i mean it must also be such imagine him like growing up right like it was such a challenge to be that quote-unquote not normal person in every circumstance in your life and i want to know how he came about the decision to be like i'm gonna fucking use this to be this guy and i'm gonna have a fucking incredible career and i'm gonna be the guy who does this thing yeah i mean he's fucking he's great and he's great and all these other he's like got such a good like presence and he's like yeah i mean he's great yeah we talked a lot about in our our mama episode the way mama moves is like spectacular right it is so cool right like him as a performance performance artist is so yeah he's great wow man but yeah

i have a lot of fucking questions about about this movie like to do some sequels how did the dog get it where was the transmission you know yeah Where was the transmission? You know? Yeah. Where was the transmission? That was never answered. When did you know? I guess to answer your question, what is she eating? Maybe dogs. Maybe she finds a way to eat dogs. And how long can a zombie survive without being fed?

Clearly a long time. A long time. Long enough for her tits to sag. Javier Boutet was in The Conjuring 2 as the part we all liked the least, Crooked Man. That makes sense.

Of course he was Crooked Man. That was a creepy one. Very cool. And I would really I will say this, you will enjoy looking up, again we're not talking about him, but I went down a rabbit You will enjoy looking up. Again, we're not talking about him, but I went down a rabbit hole and I'm interested.

You will enjoy looking up Doug Jones. Just do a Google search and Doug Jones actor, because there's also a politician named Doug Jones. Doug Jones actor. The photos of him in a Google image search are very interesting. He likes to contort himself. And I don't think he has this same condition i think he just is a tall thin man yes but he photographs in ways that draw attention yeah to his body yeah i mean it's fascinating it's like it's a it's a form of performing right it's like using your body as art and it is yes Yes, Doug Jones was a mime for a while.

Sammy, thank you so much for doing the goddamn service of watching a horror movie for us. I would never watch this movie. And I'll go ahead and say this, too. I don't think my mom can listen to this episode. Yeah, this is not one for your mom, Emily. I think she'll find it to be too upsetting, particularly that mother-daughter zombie shit. Yeah, that's the whole daughter

stuff. It's not going to be good for her personally, which is maybe good because I did mention Erotic Dreams with the cast of Riverdale, so perhaps good for me. Good all around. Yeah, so we'll have to do some sequels because we have some answers that hopefully those will So perhaps good for me. Good all around. Yeah. So we'll have to do some sequels because we have some answers that hopefully those will, you know, some questions those will answer.

We're also getting close to when we'll have to pick our holiday horror, which is fun. Yeah. So if you guys have any holiday horror suggestions. Yes. We had. Yeah. I mean, we could always just do Krampus every year. We could do Krampus again.

We had intended to do potentially Black Christmas last year, which maybe we'll end up doing. I hear the original is quite good. We should do Black Christmas. But I loved Krampus

and there's only one Christmas horror as far as I know that stars our gal Toni Collette. So I don't know. It's true. I don't know. It's true. What's it going to say? Should we scream our goodbye? I think we should.

Oh, God. Not a huge scream. Our best version of a coyote pig squeal. A coyote fight pig squeal goodbye. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do anything close to that. I don't know. Okay. I need anything close to that. I don't know, but I'm going to try.

I will try. So whisper like a low volume coyote fight pig squeal. Goodbye. From all of us here at Too Scary Didn't Watch. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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