Too Scary; Didn't Watch - SCREAM

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

A grieving woman with a terrible boyfriend, a murderer in a ghost face mask, and some incredibly unfazed teenagers - we're recapping Wes Craven's 1996 teen slasher SCREAM! Come for the horrific murders and stay for Emily's impeccable Matthew Lillard impression. 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. Not this week, though. Not this week. I'm Henley. I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy, and I like watching scary movies. Hell yeah. If you can believe it. That's who we are, if you can believe it. What's been going on with us this week? Guys, I have been really diving into the thrilling world of

los angeles city council meetings and you are doing the work that we all should be doing and i appreciate that it's i don't know that i'm actually doing anything i'm just trying to learn how it all works um and stay aware of what's happening. I think for me, for me, what's made things feel manageable is focusing on one, like choosing a focus area. And so I'm pretty focused on defunding LAPD and LASD. A very good one to focus on. Because their budget is due in July 1stst so it's it's a time sensitive issue um but man oh man they really try to bore you out of paying attention they make it as boring

as possible then there's usually a public comment section where people call in and give their opinions, which are, have come to be very entertaining. It's people love to yell at our elected officials for not doing their jobs. And a good signature line that has become a real through line for a lot of the public comments is ending it by saying, I yield my time. Fuck you. Yeah, I really,

I really enjoyed that. I yield my time fuck you I really enjoyed that I yield my time fuck you oh it's fun yeah it's good it's really the first time I listened to a meeting and got to hear all of that boy did it really help me release

a lot well drain me but at first it invigorated me and then it drained me but it was like he's just hearing people be like fuck you fuck you to people who you think are doing a bad job is like really cool yeah um all of us yeah i feel like a local government is so mysterious in a lot of ways because i have never been involved in it and no one I know has ever really been involved in it and I feel like there's so much opportunity there like why aren't we all more involved

it's where we have the most power like as individuals to influence our surroundings and so I encourage everyone to start let's fucking get in there your neighborhood councils too people have power to do shit it's just really boring to get in there. Your neighborhood councils, too. People have power to do shit.

It's just really boring to get involved. Hey, guys, go out there. Get involved. You're going to hate it, but it's important. It's important. What's up with you guys? How's your week been? Mine's been pretty okay.

I'm just going to give a short little plug for Avatar The Last Airbender. I am fully hooked. It's, for anyone who doesn't know, crazy if you don't know. But for anyone who doesn't know, it's the animated series that's now

available on Netflix. Originally came out on Nickelodeon in 2005 it's a fantastic meditation on friendship and bravery and how to be like a good person

that sounds nice that sounds so nice a meditation on friendship and bravery aww and also the animation's really fucking That sounds so nice. A meditation on friendship and bravery. Oh. And also the animation's really fucking cool. So I highly recommend checking out Avatar

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on the podcast? I love that shit. I love that shit. I love to I love to be given a way to think about myself in a way that's like ooh what if it's this? You know like oh I guess

the like non-vain way to express that would be like understanding yourself better and and like yeah in relationships and it's why I like think astrology is really cool and I don't know as much about it as say Sammy does but I really like thinking like okay

how does this how do you express yourself or what are your motivations or how do you relate to other people and I think it's cool anyway I've been getting back into Enneagram. I listened to a podcast this morning while I took a walk that was a delving into my Enneagram number, which is number three. Pretty strong three.

The first time I read my description, I cried. And I listened to it today. And, and like, as I was walking and listening, she literally was like a 15 minute snippet of this woman who is, she studies Enneagram. Um, and every time she said something about threes, I truly out loud was like, yeah. Like, I just like really like so deeply resonates. I just think it's very cool. And the cool thing about Enneagram is it's all about like your inner self as opposed to Myers-Briggs is a lot about your external or like,

you know, personality based. Enneagram is driven on like, what are your basic, what's your basic motivation and then what's your basic fear? So when you find what your number is it really really gets at the core of you so i recommend it so if you guys want to look into your your enneagram type find your number it's that's fascinating and i recommend it i love it listeners drop your drop your enneagram number in the comments. Oh my God. Please do. Honestly, I really do love it. And let us know your astrological sign too while you're at it.

That too, please. Yeah. Well, you know what else is up with me this week? You watched a movie. I watched the movie. Which we haven't said what it is yet, but this week's movie is Scream. Scream. Woohoo. Which I've always wanted to

watch and truthfully did sort of watch at Halloween this year. Sammy, you had it on at your house in the background. We all sort of ended up watching it at one point. So I did know who the killer. I knew that in watching it this time and I had seen some moments, which I think is why I was like, oh, I could watch this. And it's great. It's so much fun.

It's so much fun. I know you hate when horror movies are described as fun, Henley, but it's fun. And it's great. It's so much fun. It's so much fun. I know you hate when horror movies are described as fun, Henley, but it's fun. Sorry, sue me. That's why I wanted to watch it. I didn't get a chance to this week, but I had seen part of it at Sammy's, and I've seen parts of it in other times, too.

But it looks fun. And also, the fashion moment is undeniable. The fashion moment is undeniable. It came out in 1996. So it's a very 1996. Can you believe? I truly when I was thinking about it today and re-watching

to take notes, Scream is going to be 25 years old next year. That's like not okay with me, but it is what it is. We're old. It is what it is. It's old. It is what it is. It's peak Courtney Cox. Oh, God. And it was just her

birthday. Happy birthday, Courtney. Happy birthday, fellow Gemini. Shout out to all my Gemini's out there. A Gemini queen. We do, I do just love her. But yeah, so Scream. 1996. Directed by Wes Craven. Wr kevin williamson starring

nev campbell skeet ulrich courtney cox david arquette matthew lillard jamie kennedy uh drew barrymore who is the top billed actor in this movie and she is not in it for long um and lots of other people henry winkler at one point i mean the cast the cast great cast it's a stellar stellar cast it's a stellar movie i love this movie i've seen it many times but i'd say this was my first time re-watching it since i've kind of developed this stronger appreciation for horror in general and And so it was a super fun rewatch and it's incredibly rewatchable. I'd say. Yeah,

it's, it really is a super fun movie. It is scary. Like, I mean, it's scary in a way that I can handle, which is, um,

it's not, I mean, I don't think necessarily going to give you nightmares. Right. Had I watched this 10 years't think necessarily going to give you nightmares. Right. Had I watched this 10 years ago, absolutely would have given me nightmares. Had I watched it probably three years ago, it would have given me nightmares. But it doesn't stick with you super hard. I did watch it last night when it was dark out.

But I did the thing where I was like watching it and also like had my phone up so I could, know like oh I'm just gonna like send a text or like I'm just gonna like open up Instagram and like that do that thing where I'm like yeah I'm like sort of watching but I'm sort of not and then today when I was taking notes even though it was daytime I was watching more closely and I got scared sometimes it is scary I think this is the type of movie that scares me even more than something like

the descent scares me which I know sounds crazy but like it's the idea of someone being outside of your house like looking through your windows, just ready to brutally murder you. And that does happen in this movie. And that does happen. And that stuff is truly so. Those are the scariest moments when you can see them like looking out the window to try to see who's there. I hate that.

I hate that. But I think because maybe just because of the ending, I'm like, oh, yeah. OK, that won't that won't be me. But I don't know. I don't know. I'm glad to have seen it. And I want to watch the rest of them. Are they good? I remember really liking Scream 4 because that's the one I've seen most recently besides this one.

There are four of them? Yes. There's a fifth one coming out by the same people who made Ready or Not. Yes. Yes. There's a fifth one coming out by the same people who made Ready or Not, right? Yes. So David Arquette is the only one currently signed on to it. Great. Oh, you love to see it. But I imagine more will follow suit. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed. Also, spoiler alert, guess who lives from 3-1? I don't know. Sound of that tune means it's time for Cocktail Hour. Hello. I am your new bartender

taking over for Sammy and seeing as I watched the scary movie this week, I could definitely use a cocktail. This week's cocktail is the stab in the back. Truthfully, most of these stabbings in this movie happen in the front, but stab in the front is not a common saying. So here we are. For this drink, you are going to need

one and a half ounces of orange juice, half an ounce of brandy, two ounces of dry white wine, and two ounces of club soda. This is a highball style drink. It's a very light and refreshing for the summer. You will build all ingredients in a highball glass over ice topping last with the club soda and you will garnish with an orange slice. And there you go. Good luck to all of us and cheers. Should we do some trivia? Trivia. Of this movie?

I have a couple little little guys. One is that the use of caller ID. I don't know how they have this statistic. It's not even a statistic. The use of caller ID increased threefold after this movie came out. Oh, yeah. Because he calls. Which I guess makes sense.

He calls a lot. You would now, you know, you'd want to know. Where's that call coming from? You'd want to know. Where's the call coming from As a side note did this ever happen To you guys in middle school Where I'm very clearly Putting a time stamp on when

I was in middle school But it was around when we all had We're getting caller ID and thought it was cool And great to have And did you ever get like three way Secret called In middle school Of course And great to have. And did you ever get like three-way secret called? Oh, of course.

In middle school? Yes. Of course. Thinking about Call R.D. reminded me of a time I got three-way secret called trying to ask if I liked a boy. My friend who was friends with this boy, he was a boy at the time, called to ask me if I liked him. And they had secret three-way called me, so he on the line but they did it the wrong way and so the boy who he was asking me about his caller ID came up and I was like are you at his

house and he was like no and then I went there they were secret three-way calling me oh my god you were kind of on you're on the good side of that happening though that I mean it happened other times I just won the night I can't I blocked I blocked all of them out but I definitely know I had some horrendous

traumatic three way experience. Oh it's awful. It's just another way for middle schoolers to be like absolute assholes. Middle school kids are so shitty. So shitty. Anyway that's a tell us in the listeners tell us if you got secret three way called and your astrological sign

and the astrological sign of who secret freeway called you um another trivia that i have my last little one so the end of the movie is basically one one long party like most of the movie takes place in this um party or you know party of. And that scene is 42 minutes long. And apparently it took 21 days to shoot that scene, all night shoots. So they did 21 night shoots in a row to film the final scene of that movie, which is brutal. And so apparently the crew afterwards had T-shirts made that said, I survived scene 118. And they all got those T-shirts as gifts to celebrate finishing shooting that long, long scene. That's fun. That's a little behind the scenes.

I love it. Sort of situation. Should we watch this trailer? Let's watch a trailer. I'm excited. Hello. Hello. excited. Hello? Hello. Who is this?

You tell me your name, I'll tell you mine. I don't think so. What's that noise? Popcorn. You're making popcorn? I'm getting ready to watch a video. Really? What?

Just some scary movie. You like scary movies? Uh-huh. You never told me your name. Why do you want to know my name i want to know who i'm looking at someone is playing a deadly game it all began with a scream over 9-1-1 someone who's seen one too many scary movies now he's taken his love of fear one step too far.

Do you like scary movies? Don't answer the phone. Don't open the door. Don't try to hide. Everybody, let's not expect God. oh my god that looks so fun that trailer is so that trailer makes it like the tone of that trailer is not quite the tone of the movie, I don't think. But it is. That trailer is all over the place. That trailer is all over the place. It's, man, it's really fun.

I'm really excited to be taking the lead on this retelling. Sammy, you have seen it. So you're going to help me out. But I'm going to try to do it justice. I will say it's so funny how again like drew barrymore is in this movie for seven minutes if that um and she's huge on the poster like it's mostly her face so this was like a huge time for drew barrymore it like this was she was super famous at this time. And so that was like a big misdirect. So she was actually cast as Sydney.

And that's, I guess, why Wes Craven signed on. And then she convinced Wes Craven to let her play this part because she's like, people will be so shocked because they thought they were coming to like see a movie starring Drew Barrymore. So it's a real, it's a, it's a trick. Brilliant idea. It's great. It's such a trick. I mean, I knew I'm, it's like a very classic thing that I, I knew going into it, but that's such a good trick.

And how cool of Drew Barrymore to be like, this is a better, this is a better idea. Yeah. I hope, I wonder if she got paid the same amount and had to work like a tenth of the days. Also, I would bet that she got paid generously. But also, it's not like she needed the exposure, right? So, like, I mean, hey, Neve Campbell ended up, you know, having a franchise. So, let's just get right into it. Let's get into it.

I also do want to just point out that this movie has been parodied so many times that i feel like i've even seen like car commercials that make fun of scream and like right there are just it's just everywhere this movie has been so infused into like everything that i grew up with that watching that trailer was just like oh i'm coming home yeah yeah it is it is welcoming trailer was just like, oh, I'm coming home. Yeah. Yeah. It is welcoming. It is just like coming home. I will say this opening scene, I'd never seen it in its integrity until fucking yesterday. But I was so scared of it. And I'm like so aware of this scene.

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Caller has a weird voice to her in the chair like, Hello, who is this and she's like well who are you he said well who who who are you like just being like very suspicious and weird and she says oh I think you I think she's so

like bubbly and like I think you have the wrong number and he's like do I she's like yeah it's okay no worries bye and hangs up like no big deal um calls right back she picks up hello hi oh you have the wrong number again

I know I just I called I called to apologize oh no worries it happens hangs up like she is unfazed um he calls back again At this point The third time she's like

Phone's ringing again Answers the phone He manages to keep her on the line That time he just starts talking to her What's that noise what are you doing Oh I'm making popcorn And She's like oh why are you making popcorn

Why are you making popcorn oh I'm just gonna watch a video oh yeah you wanna watch a scary movie yeah what are you gonna watch oh just some stupid scary movie you like scary movies listeners hang up at this point

hang up at this point earlier she it was one of the phone calls I think it might have been the one of the ones where she hung up at this point earlier she it was one of the phone calls i think it might have been the one of the ones where she hung up before this where um he's like don't hang up i want to talk to you she's like there are 900 numbers for that haha like you're being flirty no he is being terrifying um but he says what's what's your what's your favorite scary movie? Halloween. You know, the one where the guy comes and stabs a bunch of Home Alone babysitters. Girl, get off the phone.

She says, what's your favorite scary movie? He goes, guess. I don't know. Nightmare on Elm Street. Is that the one with the guy who has knives For hands She's like yeah Pretty cougar He says

So do you have a boyfriend And she's like Why do you want to know you want to ask me out Just like now she's having fun Now she's having a great time He goes so what's your name You never told me your name. She says, well, why do you want to know my name?

And she's like walking through her house as she does. She's making popcorn, talking on the phone, walks by like those classic suburban sliding glass doors that lead out to her backyard. Way too many windows in this house. Way too many. Way too many windows. It's nighttime. There's too many windows. No curtains. Yeah, many windows. It's nighttime. There's too many windows. No curtains.

Yeah, wide open. Wide open. She's like, well, why do you want to know my name? He goes, because I want to know who I'm looking at. And she gets scared. She gets scared. Fucking scary. It's very scary.

She hangs up. Finally goes and locks the door. Locks the sliding glass door and goes and like tries to lock some other doors. He calls again, as we knew he would. And she immediately picks up and is like, look, don't call. And he goes, no, you look. Now he gets rid of the like sexy voice, but it's still like weirdly sort of distorted. And he goes, no, you look. If you hang up on me again, I'll cut you like a fish. Oh, I hate it.

Yeah, it's he ramps it right up. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. It's no good. So, oh, and like at one point she turns the porch light on. There's nothing out there. Turns it back off.

But he's like, don't hang up on me again. We're going gonna play a game and she's like no no I'm not I'm gonna call police no no hangs up then the doorbell rings front doorbell she from inside the door goes who's there no one answers she picks up the

phone to call the police it rings in her hand she screams answers it and he goes you should know better than to ask who's there so like he purred her because he is at her house proof that he's there which we do not love she's like that's classic stupid

mistake don't ask who's there and and don't uh don't it's like as stupid as going out to like check on your porch to see if there's someone around um maybe something else that will happen at some point I don't know. And she's like, my boyfriend is going to be here any minute

and he's big and he plays football and I'll kick the shit out of you. And he goes, I thought you said you didn't have a boyfriend. She's like, I do. I have a boyfriend and he'll be here any minute. And he goes, his name wouldn't have to be Steve, would it? I guess what?

It is. It is Steve. She starts crying and he goes, turn the porch light on again. Or no, he goes, why don't you turn the porch light on again? So like he also saw her turn the porch light on before. Turns it on. Steve is tied up in his letterman jacket football Steve

could not kick the shit out of whoever this is tied up in a lawn chair on her patio he's bloodied he's clearly been like beaten up he's got duct tape over his mouth and it's like crying and like screaming and the guy on the phone

is like okay so we're gonna And the guy on the phone's like, okay, so we're going to play a game. And if you don't play, Steve's going to die. So you better play. You better answer this question right. We're going to, I'm going to keep it easy. It's going to be movie trivia. And she's like crying the whole time and pleading with him and like,

please don't do this. Please don't do this. And he's like, okay, here's, I'll start it off easy. What's the name of the killer in Halloween? She says, Michael Myers. He goes, good. that was a warm-up here's the real question uh answer correctly or steve dies what's the name of the killer on friday the 13th and she goes jason his name is jason he goes wrong the killer is is jason's mom mrs vorhees. She's like, no, I've seen the movie

20 times. It's Jason. It's Jason. He's like, if you've seen it, you'd know that I'm going way too into the weeks of this movie. Oh, boy, we're going to be here forever. He goes, anyway, wrong. If you really knew, you'd know that in the first movie, it's

Mrs. Voorhees, and then Jason shows up in the sequel. We hear a noise and he guts Steve, cuts open his stomach. Oh, I hate that. I hate that. Spill out all over the ground. She's screaming and crying

and he goes, okay, next question. This is for your life. What door am I at? Ooh. Very bad question. And then as she's standing by the glass doors, like freaking out, holding the phone, a chair gets thrown through the sliding glass doors. So she runs away from those.

She runs and gets a knife out of the kitchen. away from those. She runs and gets a knife out of the kitchen and we see behind her the shadow of Ghostface Killer, the guy in the scream hole costume. We've all seen it. We've seen it. Listener, you've definitely seen it. Listener, if you haven't seen it,

you're fucking lying. You've seen it. We see him or it. I'm just going to say him. We're going to say him. That's fine. Runs by in the background. She, meanwhile, sees outside that her house is like in the middle of nowhere. Where does this movie take place? I don't know, actually.

But California? I don't know. But they all live on like in these on these houses that are like on big stretches of property with no neighbors, like every single person. Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, she's like sort of in the middle of nowhere. But we see she's clearly home alone. But we see in the distance she sees a car coming towards her house.

And we assume it's her parents coming home. So she, like, sneaks out. She sees that the killer's in her house. Manages to get away from him and sort of sneak outside. But he finds her and he stabs her. Stabs her to death. Meanwhile, her popcorn burns.

There's a fire in the kitchen. We see her parents come home and they're like, oh my gosh, what the fuck happened? Where's our daughter? They walk outside and they see their daughter, Casey, also gutted, like Steve, and they see their daughter Casey also gutted like Steve and hanging from their tree

she's super dead and that's the end of Drew Barrymore in this movie and I imagine it would have been quite shocking if you went there expecting to see a Drew Barrymore movie yeah pretty pretty wild opening scene very good very scary great

okay cut to um now we're meeting all our main characters Pretty wild opening scene. Very good. Very scary. Great. Okay. Cut to. Now we're meeting all our main characters. So Sydney is Nev Campbell. So we cut to this same night, presumably. Sydney is in her bedroom looking, like, remarkably virginal. Like, ponytail with a scrunchie like flowery flouncy night

gown dress like very clearly like the sweet girl right um she hears something goes out to her window and her boyfriend billy pops up scares her but it's just her boyfriend um this is

skeet ulrich a very very hot very very young smoking hot boy do we screamed it. Smoking hot. No question. No poll. You guys get it.

You guys get it. Very much young Johnny Depp vibes aesthetically in this movie, too. We won't pass. We won't talk about what we think about him as a man. But look, also hot. So he pops up, scares her. She screams. Her dad knocks on her bedroom

door because he heard her scream. She answers the door. Billy has hidden. Her dad essentially says, lets her know that he's going to be at a conference all weekend. She knows. He's just like reminding her, I'm going to be gone this weekend. Here's the hotel I'm staying at. She's like, okay, okay.

Love you, Dad. Thanks. Good night. Dad leaves. Billy pops back up and he's like, you know, I just wanted to visit you. It occurred to me I'd never snuck through your bedroom window. He said, I was watching The Exorcist on TV and it made me think of you. She's like, what?

I mean, you think of me? And he said, well, yeah, you know, because they edit out all the good stuff. You know, it's kind of like our relationship. We started off really hot and heavy. We were R-rated, you know, right on our way to NC-17. But now we're sort of edited for TV. What a

dick. So he's pushing her to have sex with him. she's... Points for subtlety though like what or like weird he's gonna lose those points pretty fast and just so you know the subtlety sarcastically it's just like what a weird thing to say it's weird it's very weird to tell your girlfriend she reminded you thought of her while watching The Exorcist because your relationship has been edited for content. Yeah, and he's like, no, I just

was just thinking about you and I'm not going to break your underwear rule, but I thought maybe we could do some over the clothes stuff. That's literally the line. Oh, boy. And she goes, yeah, okay. We can do that. They get on their bed. They make out for literally like three seconds boy um and she goes yeah okay we can do that they get on their her bed they make out for literally like three seconds and she's like okay good night

um and he he goes and like goes to sneak out her window and he's like you see what you do to me this like classic like fucking fucked up dude line of like come on you're driving me crazy um you see what you do to me she's like before he leaves she goes well would you settle for maybe a pg-13 relationship and then she flashes him and then he calls her a tease and leaves super fun you love it oh what a healthy relationship it's really healthy they're having fun both people people are. Totally. Next morning at school, Sydney shows up.

Everyone is talking about the murders that happened the night before. There are cops at her school, a bunch of reporters from different stations. We see Courtney Cox's character. She's a reporter. We don't get fully introduced

to her yet, but she's there. She's reporting on the murders. Sydney sort of looks at her and we feel some dislike there, but we sort of move on. Sydney's friend Tatum, interesting name, played by Rose McGowan, is telling her what happened and that the murders that happened last night, telling Sydney and goes, I mean, it's the worst crime we've had in this town since and then um looks at sydney and stops talking um so awkward awkward something has happened here um uh we just get a nice little moment where we see that henry winkler is the principal of their school how fun um because sydney is called in to be, they're calling all the students in one by one to question them, the sheriff about the murders, about where they were last night. They call Sidney in and

the sheriff and the deputy, whose name is Dewey, played by David Arquette. He is also her friend Tatum's older brother. So just some fun dynamics that happen there. But they call her in

and they're sort of, they're clearly like, sorry to have to do this to you again, Sydney. It's clear she is familiar with the sheriff. She's maybe familiar with being questioned in this way. So that moment, they don't actually suspect her of anything. It's pretty brief, but they're like, sorry, we were questioning everybody.

Sorry about this. Um, after we cut quickly to Sydney and her friends having lunch or just hanging out after they've all been questioned, they're sort of all still chatting about it. Her group of friends are, uh, Billy, her boyfriend, Tatum, Tatum's boyfriend, Stu, uh, played by Matthew Lillard, um, stew uh played by matthew lillard um and randy played by jamie kennedy um so that's that like core group i just want to point out that these are this the same character tropes that uh this movie and cabin in the woods have a lot of similarities so they are the they are the virgin the whore the athlete the

scholar and the fool and those apply here too and it's just fun both scream and cabin in the woods are are making fun of the characters and the tropes like aware of them subverting them having fun with them that's so fun so nev campbell syd's the virgin. Tatum's the whore. Stu is the fool. Yep. I know Jamie, what's it, or Jamie Kennedy is the scholar, which doesn't quite make sense, but it's because he, like, knows everything about the movies. So, he's the, like, go-to knowledge guy. Scholar.

And so, then the athlete, or at least, like, the, like, he's, like, the hot guy. Yeah. Billy Skeet is the hot guy. Yeah. Billy Skeet is the hot guy. Yeah. And as previously stated, he is hot. He is hot. He is hot. So they're all talking, chatting afterwards.

Stu is going on about how like, oh, it's definitely they didn't question you guys at heart because it was definitely a man. This murder could have only been done by a man. And they're like, like oh that's so sexist um Stu is being really crass and gross um and like making jokes about being gutted um and

too soon too way too soon um way do you hear what happened to Sydney before this because it'll really be too soon. And Randy's like, wait, Stu, didn't you date Casey before she dated Steve? And he's like, yeah, for like a minute. And he's like, didn't she dump you for Steve?

And Tatum's like, no, you dumped her for me, right? And he's like, yeah, I was with Tatum last night anyway, whatever. So they're like joshing with each other, but also like. Casually accusing each other of murder. Casually accusing each other of murder, yeah. Casually being like, you're capable of getting another human being. But I think that you might have killed someone. Yeah, we learned that Randy's a huge movie buff.

He works at a video store. He's like kind of nerdy in like a movie way. Then we just got to Sydney getting off the school bus at home. She's home alone. Her dad's already gone at his conference. Talks to Tatum on the phone. She's going to spend the night at Tatum's this weekend. Or starting that night, she's going to be sleeping at Tatum's house.

Tatum says, I want to come pick you up at this time. And then she reveals Sidney's like, you know, it just feels like deja vu all over again. All the cops cops the reporters so it's around this moment that we learn that her mother was murdered raped and murdered a year ago awful

so yeah pretty awful she falls asleep on her couch the phone rings I think first it's Tatum Tatum calls and is like She falls asleep on her couch. The phone rings. I think first it's Tatum. Tatum calls and is like, I'm running late. Sorry.

And she's like, OK. Then maybe she falls asleep. I don't know. Whatever. The phone rings. She expects that it's Tatum. It is. Hello, Sydney.

I can't do the voice again. Can I do the voice again? I think I lost it. Whatever. It's the killer. He's like, do you like scary movies? He's doing the same sort of voice being like well who's this now who's this voice now who's this new person give me a name um she thinks it's randy her initial instinct is like okay randy right very funny yeah okay i like you know oh you're a murderer i don't know she like thinks it's funny yeah okay I like you know you're a murderer I don't know

she like thinks it's funny yeah also because they don't know the details of the phone call from right she doesn't know to be afraid of strangers calling she doesn't know to be afraid of this yet but she thinks it's Randy but eventually starts to get scared he asked if she likes scary movies and she's

like no it's always the same stupid thing like a dumb girl with big boobs who like runs upstairs instead of running out the front door. They're insulting. And he's like, well, I'm on your front porch. So she like walks out to the very scary scene, which like opens the door and walks around her porch, looking around, looking around. Nobody comes. But she's starting to get freaked out. And then he pops out of the closet.

Ghost face and attacks her he's the big knife every time she finally manages to get away from him goes up the stairs gets into her bedroom locks the door and he's trying to break his way into her bedroom through the locked door that ends on the

second story she's's screaming. She goes to call 911. The phone line is down. She does a very smart thing that I didn't know you could do, which is on her computer, she, like, types in to call 911, and her computer calls 911 somehow. I don't know. Manages to place a 911 call, and I think

the killer maybe sees that 911 has been called. But anyway, the killer stops trying to come in her room. She looks and he's not there anymore. And then up her window, Billy pops up. Another jump scare. She is so relieved. She like hugs him and is like, Billy, oh, my God.

He's like, I heard screaming. She's like, oh, my God, oh, my God. He's here. The killer. He's here. He's like, it's OK. It's OK. It's OK.

And he drops a cell phone. god oh my god he's here the killer he's here um he's like it's okay it's okay it's okay and he drops a cell phone and so she and i guess it's 1996 not everyone had cell phones so that was alarming i guess um yeah she starts backing away from him like really freaked out because all this has been happening from a phone call. And so she runs down the stairs away from him and he's like, Sid, Sid, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's fine. Opens the front door and

Dewey is standing there holding the mask up because he had found the costume but that's another jump scare. She screams and thinks it's him. It's Dewey. And he's like, it's okay, the cops. So cops have arrived. They arrest Billy. And he's like, it's OK. The cops. So cops have arrived. They arrest Billy. And he's like, it wasn't me. It wasn't me.

But he's the only person there. And they found the costume like not worn on the ground. Courtney Cox's character's name is Gail Weathers. She's a reporter. She shows up at Sidney's house and is like, Sidney, Sidney, trying to get the scoop. Sidney gets away to go to the station to be questioned about what happened. We get a little bit of Courtney Cox, Gail's character when she fat shames her cameraman because she had told him to get out of the van and start shooting what was happening. And she's like, when I tell you to hurry up, that means like get your fat lard ass out of the van and it's awful.

And then they're like friends. She's like she's a bitch. I'd say that's when we're like introduced to her as she is like a vulture bitch with like no. She does not care about Lloyd reporter. She like cares about getting the story. She does not care about the sensitivity of anybody's feelings around their you know family members being murdered last year she's just like or yourself may be being murdered she's just like what happened what happened tell me like mike in your face very like aggressive

yeah she's a bitch we go to the station they're trying to contact sid's dad um because you know his daughter almost got murdered they can't reach him and's like, he's not at the hotel he said he was at, but we'll track him down. Don't worry. We'll find him. Meanwhile, the sheriff is questioning Billy and Billy's dad. And he's like, what are you doing with the cell phone? Billy's like, lots of people have cell phones nowadays.

They're like, check the phone record. You'll see that I didn't make those calls. And they're like, okay, well, we can't. The results won't didn't make those calls um and they're like okay well we can't it will the results won't come through until the morning so they're holding billy overnight sid clearly thinks that it's billy um he gets like taken you know into custody or whatever when she's sitting in the room it's like sid sid you know me you know me tell him wasn't me and she's like won't look at him and it's just crying. They've also been dating for like two years, they said at the

beginning. So this is not a new relationship. Yeah. But, you know, not great. Yeah, the fact that she immediately thought like, yeah, it could be him. It could be him. My boyfriend? It could be him. There's a fun little back and forth with this. So Tatum comes to get Sid and take

her to their house, which is where she's staying that night. There's a fun back and forth where Tatum's like, Dewey, are you done questioning her? I Sid and take her to their house, which is where she's staying that night. There's a fun back and forth where Tatum's like, Dewey, are you done questioning her? I need to take her home. And he's like, Mom told you when I'm wearing the uniform, I'm a man of the law and you have to respect me. She's like, OK, Deputy Dewey. And all the other cops are laughing at him. And it's like very cute.

David Arquette is super likable in this movie. He's like a little doofy sweetie. But he's like, takes it out the back entrance of the station. Because at this point, a bunch of reporters, including Gail Weathers, have showed up now at the police station. Because it was, you know, the hottest story last year. She had this salacious murder happen in her family. And now it's back again. So there's all these reporters. Yeah, it's awful.

She's in high school. It's fucked. But so Dewey says, you know, take Sydney out the back door so that you can avoid all that out front. So they go out the back door. Gail Weathers knows there's a back door, goes around the alley, tries to interview her, sees them coming out and is like, Sydney, Sydney, tell me about what happened tonight. Sydney asks, how's your book coming? And Gail goes,

really well, I'll send you a copy. And Sydney punches her in the face. Oh, hell yeah. I love that. Yeah, pretty cool. Sydney does not like Gail. Gail's clearly writing a book about her dead mother.

That is the implication. So then they're at Tatum's house and their little twin beds in Tatum's bedroom very 90s high school girls having a sleepover. Tatum's mom comes in and I mean God love her. She doesn't know what

she's doing but she comes in. She's like, Sydney, honey, there's a phone call for you. At which point you're like, no, don't make this girl answer the fucking phone um she's like it's my dad and she's like no it's not your dad but um it's someone who asked for you and so sydney answers the phone and he's like oh hi sydney um wow yeah i know you Locked Billy away but looks like You got the wrong guy again What does this mean What does this mean

Sydney screams and they like Hangs up the phone like oh boy Don't give that girl a phone call Come on she's dealt with enough But that's all that happens there The killer does not show up he just places that phone call So Next morning in Tatum's kitchen, the news is on.

They are doing a news story about how one year ago, the girl who was, you know, Sidney's mom was raped and murdered one year ago. The man who did it is currently on death row. Thanks to Sidney's testimony. His name is Cotton something. I don't know. Weird name. But he is on death row thanks to Sydney's testimony his name is Cotton something I don't know weird name but he is on death row the guy who raped and murdered her mom has been caught thanks to Sydney

Dewey reveals that Billy's phone record was clear that he didn't make those calls and so he's been released so we go to school there were reporters again all over the front lawn this time Sydney goes up to Gail and there's a fun moment where Gail's been like hounding

her like crazy since the beginning of the movie but she goes to walk up to Gail's van and Gail goes stop right there because she got punched in the face and is like now afraid of Sydney she's like I'm not gonna I don't want to fight you I just want to talk to you so we learn yeah Gail is writing a book about her mom's murder.

And she's writing it about the fact that Gail thinks Cotton, the person that is on death row, is innocent and was framed for the murder. And Sidney's like, you called me a liar. You're like spreading all this hateful stuff and saying that this rapist and murderer is an innocent man. And Gail's like, I think that you're wrong. I don't think that he did it. I've had many conversations with him. I think that these murders that are happening right now are related to that. I think that there is an innocent man in prison and the real murderer is walking free.

And Kat just like a look in Sydney's eye and she goes you're not so sure anymore are you? You're not sure that he really did it. Yeah Sydney's like he I saw him like wearing his jacket leaving. Apparently Sydney like saw the murder happen

or the aftermath of the murder and Gail was like well you saw someone wearing his jacket and I think someone framed him for that murder. Anyway little bit of doubt now has been put in sydney's mind about that i also want to just mention that the transition song is the peaky blinders theme song i play it really frequently throughout it's a red right hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Siege. Fun. That would be really disorienting for me watching that. It is. It is kind of bizarre because, yeah, I

didn't remember that. So heavily associated with Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders. And then Peaky Blinders starts. We jump right into an episode. Fun mashup.

It's a fun mashup. But yeah, but then so Gail like gets all excited when Sidney leaves and she's like, oh, my God, this is gonna be like the story of the year. I'm gonna sell so many fucking books. Oh, she says she says to her to Kenny. She's like, can you believe this? Like, I think that these murders are related. And that means that like if I'm right about this she goes we could we could save a man's life the guy the innocent guy on death row

and she goes can you imagine how many books I'm gonna sell so she's like still kind of a bitch but honestly kind of fun she's fun she's fun we don't hate her um we're in school or lockers a guy and someone in the full scream head to toe a ghost face

costume like runs through the school like screaming Clearly it's just a prank but you know Scary not fun Everyone in this movie is Alarmingly casual About the fact that their classmates were Gutted and they're Just like isn't that crazy glad it wasn't me

Anyway haha funny funny funny Really really aren't taking It seriously at all yeah um but Sydney sort of like goes tries to run away from that or not she's not scared but she's like man fuck this and goes down the hall runs right into Billy

who she's clearly is still a little bit afraid of him like she's on edge and the way she interacts with him is like a little still Sydney's like you don't you don't think it was me right like they released me my phone was clear you know it wasn't me um and she's like oh yeah no no i i know i'm just like you know i'm sorry i'm on edge um and he's like no it's okay you know i just clearly i have a girlfriend who would rather accuse me of being a killer than touch me. Very cool. Oh my god. Love this shaming. Look,

Skeet is two things in this movie. Hot and bad. And that's what you have to know. He's hot and bad. And he's like, she's like, what? How could you say that's not true? He said, you know, ever since

you know, ever since your your mom you've just like been really different and she's like yeah it was fucking insanely traumatic my mom was murdered he was like yeah a year ago um and she goes yeah a literal year ago a year ago tomorrow my mom was murdered and he's like well i think it's about time you got over it. I literally think those are the words he says, that it's about time you got over it. Not an empathetic man. Not an empathetic man. He wants to fuck his girlfriend.

Ew. So he deserves to, because that's how it works. So she is mad and runs into the girls bathroom where he can't go We cut to we see a little Moment with the principal with Henry Winkler I don't know his principal name he's Henry Winkler he expels The two students who are wearing the screen

Masks and takes them off of them and they're like This is not a fucking joke Your classmate was your two year classmates Were murdered this isn't funny you're expelled But this scene is Wild and very freaky he's holding like one of those huge pairs of

scissors that are like only in schools that are silver and like really with a black handle like huge school scissors and he keeps like putting them in his because he goes to cut the mask up because

he's like this is so insensitive and gross but it's like holding the scissors up in their faces and the sound effect of the scissors is really intense you keep thinking someone's gonna get stabbed and like he's like being freaky with the scissors freaky with the scissors

you know I don't like scissors but it's weird it's like intense moment but nothing happens he just expels them meanwhile in the bathroom Sydney's in the stall and she overhears two Mega bitches Talking about um

Like ugh I don't even believe Sydney that that happened she probably made her all up for attention Or maybe she's the Murderer she's so fucked up Cause she watched her mom get killed so now she's All fucked up um She's probably a slut just like her mom This is like real things that these two

girls are saying. Yeah, she watched her mom die and it like really messed her up. Teenagers are bad. They are bad. Teenagers are bad. Teenagers are bad. But they're basically just like calling her mom a slut and saying that she's a lying

murderer. She's upset about, Sydney's upset about hearing that. That is so awful. I would like to think that slowly but surely teenagers are getting better. I think people, teenagers are not as mean as they used to be. I think they are different. But I don't know any.

I don't know. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope. I hope, I hope, I hope. I hope. Okay. Outside the school we see Gail now trying to question or like get information out of Dewey and starts flirting with him. And that's fun also because we know that eventually they got married in real life. This is where they met, I think. This is where they met and fell in love.

And it really is nice. And they have really good chemistry. And apparently they're also still on good terms, even though they're divorced. I texted Joel while watching immediately and was like, I chemistry and apparently they're also still on good terms even though they're divorced. I texted Joel while watching immediately and was like, I really hope that they're still friends because I love to see them fall in love. There was part of me that thought you were going to be like,

I texted Courtney while I was watching just to see how she was feeling. I texted Courtney. I just really quick texted Courtney. Hey, how are you and David? We're on texting level of friendship, but I need to ask, how are you and David? We're on texting level of friendship, but I would, I need to ask, how are you and your ex? Um, I forget to ask. Um, so she's flirting with Dewey.

Um, she like mentions that her main demographic for her show is men 18 to 24. Um, and he's revealed that he's 25 and he's like, so, you know, I was 24 for a whole year. Um, he's into her. She's like kind of famous cute famous in their zone and he's like you're much more beautiful in person anyway he's into her they make an announcement that school is cancelled for the rest of the

day and that there will be a city wide curfew starting that night Stu decides he's going to host a party to celebrate not having to be in school and not uh and because he's an asshole um he's the fool archetype um and matthew is so great he is so good in this movie this was i mean you have to see it this was his prime time he was in a bunch of stuff around this time this was golden Matthew Lillard years and I miss

I miss him I miss this time he's capable of doing crazy things with his face his face is incredibly expressive his face is like made out of play-doh I think I appreciate him more now I remember as a kid like really not liking him like thinking he was like because he's always obnoxious and everything I think he's like

plays yeah like in stupid like I'm like so much. But he's so good at it. Great. It's so good. So he's going to host a party that night to celebrate. We cut to back in the principal's office. The killer comes and murders him.

I don't have to tell anyone. It's pretty brief. He gets murdered. Henry Winkler. Henry Winkler. We see him get murdered. So sad. What a nice man. I think. Well, no, I know. I text him. Great. We see later Sidney is talking to Tatum and finally

expresses a shred of doubt. She's like, you know, it's just sort of got in my head. Like, if I am wrong about that him killing my mom, like, what else am I wrong about what does that mean and Tatum's like you gotta don't get in tune your head like let's have fun tonight we see

the ghost face killer run by in the bushes not a great sign it's still daylight though it's still the afternoon so the whole group of friends goes to the video store where Randy works to rent a movie for that night. Randy is talking to Stu, saying he still suspects that it could be Billy, who's the murderer. And he's like, it's standard horror movie shit.

Like, it's got to be the boyfriend. But Stu's like, oh, just because you want to go out with Sydney. And he's like, I don't know. Do you think I have a chance with her? And Stu laughs in his face. And he's like, oh, just because you want to go out with Sydney. And he's like, I don't know. Do you think like you think I have a chance with her? And Stu like laughs in his face. I was like, no. Stu's like, well, what about her dad? I think it's probably her dad.

Like, why can't they reach him? He's gone missing. And Randy's like, the dad's a red herring. I'm telling you, this is like horror movie tropes. It's just trying to distract you. It's fun. That's fun. It's fun.

It's fun. We're really playing into the whole thing. And he's like, I'm telling you, it's just trying to distract you it's fun that's fun it's fun it's fun we're really playing into the whole thing and he's like I'm telling you it's it's Billy we can't get you know distracted and then Billy comes up behind him being creepy as fuck like Billy is scary he's a scary dude Billy is a scary name too

it really yeah it really is he's scary so Billy like comes up behind him He's like hey how do we know that you're not the killer And Randy's like yeah man I mean if this were a scary movie I'd be the prime Suspect which is also fun We know we know what we're doing wink wink wink wink

Um But Randy does not like and does not Trust Billy um aside from the fact that He also wants to fuck Sidney I guess. We see everyone locking up for curfew. The sheriff, meanwhile, tells Dewey that they traced the phone

calls and that they came from Sidney's dad. And Dewey says, well, could the calls have been cloned? And the sheriff's like, look, we haven't done the full investigation, but let's not tell Sydney anything until we're sure like let's not like the sheriff's really sensitive

to the fact that she's been through a lot and is like let's like not involve her in this moment but like just be aware that that's where we're at right now where is the dad they can't find him he was supposed to be at a conference they the police tried to track him down and couldn't he's missing

essentially okay um but so now he he's their prime suspect and they're thinking he's missing because he's committing murders guilty um yeah he's in a mask running around with a knife um so we go to stew's party we see outside of stew's house gail pulls up with her news van she and her camera guy Kenny pull up outside the party she's relentless on the tale of this story Dewey is also at the party just to keep watch on

everyone make sure they're okay the sheriff tells him like hey keep an eye on Sydney and he's also he's like a sweet guy and it's his sister's friend so he's watching at the party but he sees the gales there and is you know really into her and sort of first turn he's like I'm gonna like go walk into the party and just make sure

everything's okay do you like want to come with me and she's like yeah oh my god I would love to and stashes takes a like little video camera so he she goes into the party with him and stashes a camera in the house now they're getting footage of the entire party. So that's a win for Gail.

Meanwhile, Stu asks Tatum if she can go grab them some more beers. She goes to the garage and she grabs a bunch of beers in the fridge. Her arms are full of beers the door is locked behind her back into the house so she's like oh that's annoying door's locked goes to open the garage door

suburban house where you got that electronic garage door that comes up it starts moving up and then it stops and goes back down turns around ghost face standing in at the door holding the button. She also thinks it's Randy.

Everybody thinks that it's Randy just playing tricks. She's like, oh, very funny, Randy. You know, you better take that costume off. If Sid sees it, she's going to freak out, you know, because someone wearing that tried to kill her yesterday. Also, like, is this costume just ubiquitous? Like everyone can get their hands on one of these, I guess. Well, they did reveal earlier that they couldn't trace the costume because

they're like, you can get this at any five. It's just like a standard Halloween costume thing. Yeah, but it is like, I guess everyone has it. So, yeah. So, she's like, okay, Randy, let me through. And then he stabs her in the arm. So, she's like okay randy let me through um and then he stabs her in the arm so she's like

oh this isn't randy this is a real killer with a knife um so she tries he's like coming up on her she smashes a beer bottle on him so she's got the advantage for a second tries to escape through a cat door or like a doggy door. Very small. Very small. Smaller than a woman's frame. Door in the garage door, the electronic door. I mean, God love her. She's got to try to get out some way, but inevitably she

gets stuck. Her bottom half is stuck outside her, like at her shoulders. She's like stuck hanging out of this cat door. He presses the button to lift the garage door up. So now she's stuck and hanging. Keeps going, keeps going. I guess they're strong enough to do this.

It slices through her neck and kills her. Head doesn't come all the way off, but that's where she is died from a neck injury. Bad death. Not good. Not good. No. So now she's just hanging up there out of the cat door dead. Meanwhile, Billy shows up at the party. Good old Billy. You love to see him. He shows up being like,

Sid, I just want to talk to you. I guess they haven't talked since he told her to get over her mom's death. Jesus Christ. Stu's like, like yeah you guys can go talk like in my parents room they're out of town go like you know go go talk in my parents room and they're like aha very smooth Stu and Cindy's like no we do need

to talk like I'll talk to you that's fine so they go upstairs meanwhile Gail goes back out to the van and they start, she and Kenny, her cameraman, start watching the footage of the party. Um, they're like, oh, awesome. We have like a camera in there. They realize because in the video, she's still walking out of the house, but she's at the van watching that. They're like, oh, we have like a 30 second delay.

Um, they're like, no, whatever. That's fine. Well, she goes like, let's just record it. That's fine. Upstairs, Billy and Sidney both apologize to each other. I don't know, Sidney. Don't think you need to apologize, but fine. And then Sidney tells him she's he's right and she's ready to have sex with him.

So they get ready to have sex downstairs. There's a whole group of people. Te, having a party, watching a horror movie. Is it prom night that they're watching? A Jamie Lee Curtis horror movie. It's Halloween. Oh, it's Halloween. They're watching Halloween. And Randy, the big movie buff, they're all really anxious to see Jamie Lee Curtis's tits.

They keep being like, oh, when are we going to see your tits? And he's like, we don't see your tits yet because in these movies she's always the virgin which is why she survives so he like gets up he's like look let me tell you guys the rules of horror movies number one only only virgins survive at the end so you can never have sex number two you can never drink or do drugs and they're all holding beers they're like oh we're all over drinking um and then he's like three never say I'll be right back because that's how you know that you'll never be right back and then Stu goes like I'm gonna go get another beer

I'll be right back and they're all like oh ha ha ha horrible um Dewey meanwhile goes back out to the over to Gail's van cause he's crushing real hard and says hey I just got a phone call about a report or abandoned vehicle um down the road i gotta go check it out like you want to come with me and she's like yeah uh i would love to i'm trying to get the scoop i'll do anything for that scoop i'll do anything for that scoop um upstairs sydney and billy are making out uh she looks like she doesn't want to be doing it i

wouldn't if i were her that's for sure any that's she like it's sort of like sort of maybe like trying to stop it but then leans back in and goes for it again but it's not good to see cut back downstairs the phone rings um we see randy answer it and it is a phone call from i don't know who telling them that the principal has been murdered and guess what has been gutted and is hanging uh outside the school oh boy at which news all the other teens randy's like shaken up not great news all the other teens in the house go oh hell yeah let's go see it before they take him down yeah fuck the principal we hate school we're teens that's crazy they're a bunch of sociopaths it's insane and they all leave they all leave to go check out their dead principal, except for Randy, who stays and Stu, who went to go get some beer and Tatum, who's dead.

They don't know that yet. But so all those teens like get in their cars and race off to go see the principal. Gail and Dewey, we cut to their walking down the road to find this abandoned car. And the teens leaving the house are flying down the road in their cars like zooming to the school um and they are gonna hit them walking down the road so dewey at the last minute pulls gail out of the way into the woods um and then she kisses him um and he's very sweet and even he like clearly has been wanting this his whole fucking life. But he stops because he's like, I can't. I'm on duty, which she thinks is like very funny and cute.

But right next to them, they see the abandoned car. So like, oh, shit, they get up. He looks at it and says, this is I don't remember her last name. It's Sidney's dad's car. So he's like, oh, fuck. It's Prescott. This is Neil Prescott's car. That's... What the hell is he doing here? So they go to run

back towards the house. They're like a little ways down the road to find this car. So they're like, oh shit, we have to get back to the house. This is not good. He's our prime suspect. His car is here. We cut back upstairs. Sydney and Billy have just had sex and she they're like Billy's

sitting on the floor by the bed Sydney's on the bed like sort of putting her clothes back on and says hey um what was your what was your phone call and he says what and she says well I know when you get arrested you get one phone call so who was your phone call

and he goes it was my dad I know when you get arrested, you get one phone call. So who was your phone call? And he goes, it was my dad. She says, no, the sheriff called your dad. I saw him. And he says, well, he didn't he didn't answer when I called him. Oh, and she says, OK. She's like she she looks like she doesn't really believe him. But she goes and then she starts like laughing as if she's telling a joke. She's like, you know, it would just be and be really clever for you to use your one phone call to call me so that I would think the killer couldn't possibly be you because you were in jail.

And he looks suspicious as fuck when she says that. Oh, no. But stands up and goes to her and goes like, what do I have to do to convince you that I am not a killer? And then he gets stabbed. Ghostface pops out. By the killer. Ghostface. Ghostface pops up.

Stabs him a bunch of times. That's a good way. That's a good way that's a good way to convince her uh stabs a bunch of times seemingly to death uh and he sort of collapses so now sydney's running away from the killer again is running through the house runs through a room that i guess is stew's bedroom it's a very it's like cluttered but there's like a doll hanging upside down from the ceiling it's like a freaky weird room stew's a very it's like cluttered but there's like a doll hanging upside down from the ceiling it's like a freaky weird room stew's a freak um stew's a freak i didn't notice it when i was watching last night probably because i was like i'm not scared i'm not scared what it was

what's this tech say but when i was re-watching today i saw that room and was like this is not a nice room to be in but goes to the room puts down like a surfboard to try to keep the door shut the killer gets in so she goes out the window out like outside the second story window to try to like get away has nowhere to go he reaches through to get her she falls down looks in front of her and sees the garage door where her friend tatum is hanging dead. Freaks out. Looks back up to the window where the killer just was. He is not there anymore. Not a good sign.

Cut to, so she like starts running away. Cut to downstairs. Randy is watching a scene from the scary movie. And Ghostface is like behind him, but he can't see because he's watching the movie and it's a fun moment where he's saying Jamie like talking to Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie but his name is also Jamie which I thought was a fun little one too

where he's like Jamie look behind you he's right behind you Jamie come on behind you Jamie but it's Laris the killer anyway so there's like double meaning fun clever fun but we don't see we cut away to Sydney running up to the news van

where right now it's just Kenny the camera guy in there because Gail and Dewey are still down the road. So she like opens the door and comes in and is like the killer he's like he's in the house and they look on the screen the footage they have in the house and they see the killer standing behind Randy.

And they're like, oh, my God, Randy. Like, there's the killer's right behind you. And they see on the screen the killer walk out of the house and not kill Randy. And so they open the van door and Kenny looks out towards door, sees the front door wide open and goes, there's a 30 second delay. And his throat gets slit because that 30 second delay was long enough for the killer to get to the van.

Oh no. So Kenny's down. The killer tries to go after Sid but she gets away. Dewey and Gale run back to the house. They make it there. They don't see this happen,

but they've made it back like a second later. Dewey says, is there a phone in the van? Use it to call 911. So he goes into the house with his gun to see what's going on. Gail goes into the van to call 911. She opens the van, sees blood pooling everywhere outside the van.

Calls for Kenny. He's not there. Goes to successfully calls 911, I think, from the van. And then Randy pops up next to her driver window and she freaks out and hits him in the head with the phone and knocks him out and goes to drive away. We see that Kenny is on the hood of her car. And she's, like, screaming. And there's blood everywhere on her windshield. And she has this phone number. She's like, Kenny, I'm really sorry, but you need to get the fuck off the hood of my car.

And, like, drives the newsman. Drives down the street. Sydney comes out on the road to be like, hey, hey, pick me up. Help, help. But Gail is freaking out. And she comes out of nowhere. So she swerves to avoid hitting her. Runs down a hill. Crashes pretty bad into

a tree. So Sydney has to run back to the house. Sydney runs up to the house and is calling for Dewey. Dewey opens the front door and walks out and she's like Dewey and he goes, Sidney!

And falls forward with a knife stabbed in his back. Killer comes up behind him, pulls the knife out of Dewey's back, comes after Sidney. Sidney locks herself in the police van and then, like, gets into the car and locks the doors. And then the killer

shows up in the driver's side door holding the keys that he took from Dewey and just being like swinging them in front of her face tauntingly. And then he like drops down, right? He like drops to the floor and so she just like can't see where he is. And she like

goes to lock the doors from the inside and then he like, she like locks one door and he unlocks the other one and she locks the door and he unlocks the other one and then she looks around and he's not there. He loves to do that. He loves to just disappear and all of a sudden not be there anymore. Which is way scarier than still being there. Yeah.

And so she's looking around and we see the trunk opening behind her. And he starts to try to come in through the back. She manages to escape. Oh, but when she's in the car car she also manages to radio her location on the police radio she's like i'm at this house the killer's here um we don't hear a response but presumably the call went through she runs into the house or she runs towards the house and picks up dewey's gun off of him because he's laying you know potentially presumably dead on the well Marnie said that Dave and her can't send scream five so spoiler

but so he's laying on the ground and she takes his gun off of him and turns around and both Stu and Randy are now coming up to the door being like Sid Sid oh my god let us in let us in and she holds the gun up to both of them because she doesn't know who the fuck the killer is

he's wearing a full head to toe costume she's just like fuck everyone like what the fuck is going on and keeps holding and they're both blaming each other randy's like it's stew he like went crazy and stew's like it's him like let me in sit oh my god please let me in and she's just like doesn't know what the fuck to do she locks them out of the house has the gun then we see billy uh come like stumbling down the stairs like bleeding and like holding onto the rail and being like sydney and he like stumbles down the stairs she helps him up and it's like oh my god i thought you were dead and he's like no i've just been like i'm stabbed um he doesn't say that i'm stabbed i'm stabbed i'm just stabbed. And he's like, it's OK.

It's OK. Here. And she like helps him up. He's like, it's going to be OK. Here, give me the gun. She gives him the gun. He goes to open the door. And she's like, no, no, no.

They're out there. They're out there. He opens the door. He lets Randy in. And Randy goes, oh, my God, you guys, it's Stu. He's gone mad. And Billy turns around and goes we all go a little mad sometimes no and then shoots randy what and reveals he like takes a finger and like licks the blood off his shirt and reveals that it's cornstarch. So he's not hurt at

all. It was a trick. Wow, he's really bad. It was a mean, mean trick. A dirty trick. Stu then comes into the house, holding the voice box, going, Hi, Sydney. What the fuck? So it's both of them. Two killers. It's both of them. What the fuck is the motive? Two

killers. We're getting there. Ready, Henley? So they come and they sort of corner Sydney in this lovely kitchen with the big island. Bring her to the kitchen. She says, like, you guys are fucking crazy. You'll never get away with this. And they are like, well, we got away with framing cotton and killing your mom. Holy shit.

Yep. Holy shit. She's like, why the fuck? What is wrong with you? Why would you do that? And they're both acting like full on crazy now. Like Billy has always been creepy, but now he's just like fully like, yay. She knows I'm a killer.

I can just like be a crazy killer. He goes, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive isn't it did norman bates have a motive maybe i'm just a psychopath what we put oh god and they say like maybe we put your slut mother out of her misery like they're the amount of times they call her mom a slut in this movie is fucking insane wow i wish she hadn't had sex with him. Wow, that really just does not make it better, does it? Losing your virginity to the person who killed your mom is pretty bad. It's not good. It's pretty much a worst case

scenario. I would be pretty upset, personally. So yeah, he's like, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive. Maybe I don't have a motive. Maybe I'm a psychopath. Or maybe, maybe your slut mom was fucking my dad and that's the reason why my mom

left and abandoned me maybe that's my motive is that a good enough motive for you oh definitely equal definitely equal crimes and then I wrote this line down because it's really good it's the sickest burn ever he goes maternal abandonment causes serious deviant behaviors.

It certainly fucked you up. It made you have sex with a psychopath. Oh, God. He's evil. What? He's so evil. So he's like taunting her about the fact that she just had sex with him. It's horrible.

Yuck. Oh, it's evil. It's really bad. And then Stu goes, because Stu's like, his vibe as a murderer is just like, I'm crazy. That's why I kill people, because I'm having a good time. He's unhinged. And Stu goes, yeah, that's right. You're not a virgin.

Now you got to die. Those are the rules. Ew. And then he, so he's holding the gun. He's holding Dewey's gun and he puts it down. And he goes, oh, Sid, I got to go get, this is the best part. Sid, this is the best part. I got to go get the surprise.

There's a big surprise ending. I'm loving this impression. It's really good. I hate it. It's spot on. Sid goes into the other room and brings her dad in, who is, his mouth is duct taped. He's tied up. He's clearly been beaten up.

His mouth is duct-shaped. He's tied up. He's clearly been beaten up. They put the voice box that he had just used in her dad's pocket, the cell phone in her dad's pocket. They're like, this is the best part. Will, we cloned the phone calls or his cell phone. So it seemed like calls were coming from him. It's perfect. One year after the murder of his wife, he went crazy and killed all the kids in the town and killed you and then killed himself.

And so they're going to shoot him and make it look like a suicide. And they're like, we're going to be the only two survivors. He left us for dead. So then they stab each other to make their story plausible. Oh. Um, so Billy gets a knife and Stu's like, yeah, Billy, come on. He's like being really crazy. Like, right here, right here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Billy stabs him, I think, deeper and harder than he anticipated. So then he takes a knife and goes to stab Billy. And then so he stabs Billy pretty hard because he's pissed that Billy stabbed him pretty hard. And so then Billy takes a knife and stabs him like four times. Oh my god. They just do a little stab back and forth for a minute. That's enough man.

That's too many times. Yes. Man. Oh. Dude. Billy. That's enough man. Because at this point he's like really stabbed

a lot um Stu has now been stabbed too much one might say um and Billy goes alright just grab the fucking gun so we can finish this Stu goes to grab the gun and it's gone it is no longer on the counter where he left it and he goes oh we got a

problem man um and they're like what the fuck we have to find the fucking gun and or where he left it. He goes, oh, we got a problem, man. And they're like, what the fuck? We have to find the fucking gun. And Gale weathers to the rescue, pointing the gun at them. And this is a very funny, sort of

cheesy, but perfect moment where he goes, oh, I've got an ending for you. How about the savvy reporter spoils your plan finds the gun shoots you guys and and it all works out or something like that and sydney from the kitchen goes i like that ending it's very funny oh my god cheeky cheeky it's cheeky cheeky cheeky gail goes to shoot. Nothing happens. And Billy kicks her in the stomach, knocks her out.

She falls on top of Dewey. And he goes, yeah, it works a lot better when the safety isn't on. And he holds, points a gun up to her head and says, this is Gale Weathers signing off. But before he shoots her, Stu goes, Billy. Oh, no, man. they've taken their eyes off of sydney they turn around she's gone sydney and the and the dad are both gone so they're like fuck we have to find her and now billy is like pissed he's been pretty cool calm collected this whole time um you know murdery psychopathy um and but now he like, you bitch! He's like screaming. He's like, where the fuck are you, you bitch? Get back here! The phone rings.

It's Sydney on the voice box being like, oh, do you guys like scary movies? And like taunting them. And he's like, bitch, where the fuck are you? And she's like, oh, I just called the police and they're about to come and arrest your fucking asses. Meanwhile, Stu is dying because he's been stabbed too many he's like stew we gotta we gotta like fucking find her and he's like i can't man i'm bleeding

out man i'm losing a lot of blood i'm losing a lot of blood. I'm losing a lot of blood. I'm feeling woozy, man. But meanwhile, so Billy, like, gives Stu the phone. And so Stu's, like, still on the phone with Sidney. He's like, did you really call the cops? She's like, yeah, I really fucking did. He's like, oh, my parents are going to be so mad. Oh, my God. He's so stupid.

Meanwhile, Billy has the knife and is, like, tearing apart and like tears a couch open and gets covered in feathers. Tearing a couch open is really funny. Is he looking? Do you think she got inside the couch cushions? Is he looking inside the cushions for Sydney? In what? Did she sew them back around herself? Like, no.

But then he opens a closet, a more plausible place for a human to be uh it's like a coat closet there's a lot of stuff in it and then we just see a big umbrella come through and stab him in the chest he drops a gun this ghost face killer comes out of the closet sydney rips the mask off reveals that it's her. Billy is down on the ground, stabbed, but from up behind her, Stu comes in, tackles her.

So they start fighting. They are, they end up sort of tumbling their way into the living room. Sidney gets the upper hand and pushes, one of those like

big, deep 1996 square televisions that are like wider than they are tall, you know, deeper than they are tall, pushes it over Stu's head, both smashing his face and electrocuting him at the same time. Cool. So there goes Stu. Randy reappears being like, oh, my God, he got shot like in the shoulder. So he's OK. And she's like oh my

gosh i thought you were dead and he says no i'm i've never been happier to be a virgin taking it back to our funny rules about the virgins can't die um but then billy comes up attacks it again tackles her and then lifts up the knife and justice is he's going to stab her, he gets shot. Gail shoots him successfully this time. And she goes, safety's off this time, fucker, or something like that, which is fun. A lot of one-liners. So then Sydney takes the gun from her.

They all stand over Billy, who's laying down bloody on the ground, and Randy goes, be careful. This is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back for one last scare, and Billy's laying on the ground, and he goes, ah! He just pops up when the supposedly dead killer comes back for one last scare. And Billy's lying on the ground. He goes, oh, he just like pops up and literally just like screams. And she shoots him right in the head and goes, not in my movie.

Oh, my God. Then we cut to outside the house. The sun is rising. And Gail is talking to a new cameraman because hers died. Swap him out. Swap him out. Swap him out. Swap him out. And is like, okay, you've got this. Anything for the scoop. Anything for the scoop. Anything for the

scoop. She's like beaten up, like bloody fucked up. She's like, this is Gail Weathers putting in the story of the century. And like starts telling the story of what happened is she like walks up to the house while there are like cops converging and it's all end credits.

Oh my God. We did it. A perfect film. That was great. I love it so much. It's it's truly so much fun. It's super fun and it is really scary and everyone is so good in it. I just love it.

I had a great time and I will be rewatching it again. I think I meant what I said. It's super rewatchable. I'll be watching Scream 2 about which I also know the killer because that was on at your house on Halloween 2. Sammy. No, and that's helpful for me. No, I'm glad it makes it easier for me to watch. Okay, good.

I think actually I'm realizing now that I saw the end of Scream 2 at your house, Sammy. So I thought I was assuming that was going to be the end of Scream 1. And I was confused for the latter portion of this. Would have been a hard left for us to get to the ending of Scream 2 at the end of Scream 1. I was like, how is this? I don't know. One reason why it's so, it's like of a fun, scary movie besides all the meta stuff and just like the ridiculousness of the characters is that one thing that makes scary movies more scary is when the people are like reacting in a real way to the stuff that's happening around them.

And the fact that everyone is just like kind of so casual and like nonplussed about the fact that they're friends. kind of so casual and like nonplussed about the fact that their friends seem oblivious to the fear that they should be in and to be fair it's because some of them are the murderers but

yeah there's a lot of like aside characters who are really unfazed about the murders happening in their community I will also say I think there's something about yeah, like she makes it out and our like good guys do sort of eventually succeed. That makes it a

little less scary too. It's like not trying to make you feel like shit this movie, you know? It's a happy ending as far as horror movies go. Yeah. The killers get their just ending. Also, it is surprising. It is surprising

that it's like two of the friends. It's definitely surprising that it's two of them. It's a very cool misdirect that they like, quote unquote, kill Billy, but then he's back, but then he is the kid. They do a good job of the whole time being like, well, it's obviously him. He's so fucking

creepy. It's him, and then he dies, but then it's still him. I do like that. Right being like, well, it's obviously him. He's so fucking creepy. Right. It's him. And then he dies. But then it's still him. I do like that. Right. Right. Yeah. It's super clever. I mean, it's just obviously playing with all the tropes, but then making them feel fresh

again. Like this, I feel like started a new wave of horror. Like I know you did last summer came after this. And I feel like that. I guess I don't know enough about the teen slasher but I feel like this really revitalized it in a new way because it was so successful because it's so fucking good

it really is super fun I'm very glad to have you know reached my nearly my 30s being able to watch Scream because it's really fun proud of you I think it makes me want to watch Scream because it's really fun.

Proud of you. I think it makes me want to watch Cabin in the Woods even more because I do think movies like this are the kind of scary movie that I could have fun with because it is about like this is like a roller coaster to me in terms of scary movies where it's like you're scared then it's a release then you're scared then it's a release

then and you're laughing and it's fun as opposed to like hereditary. Oh, everything is awful and I want to die. Yeah. Yeah. I'm proud of you. I'm glad you watched it and I'm glad you liked it. Henley, I think you should watch it too. Me too.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe just that Matthew Lillard performance in the end. I did. A pretty perfect representation, but you should maybe watch it. Yeah, that's true. I feel like I got enough Matthew Lillard through Emily, for sure. That was a spot on impression.

Thank you. Did we learn anything? What did we learn? In the opening scene, I learned Just don't have open windows Get some curtains for your windows Always Don't hide in the couch cushion because the killer will look there The killer will look there

Do not Sew yourself into the couch It may seem like A pretty safe place but They're going to look there And let me tell you what the way they do do it is by stabbing a deep long hole all the way through. So if you're there, that is a bad way to go.

I would say mostly just don't date an asshole. That's a good one. Yeah, don't date an asshole. He's such an asshole and you know what? I don't care how hot he is. I said it. I agree. I concur. I'll second that. Oh God, I've been to too many city council meetings. I second that. I agree. I concur. I'll second that. Oh, God, I've been to too many city council meetings.

I second that. I second that motion. Yeah, no, if your boyfriend is constantly a piece of shit to you, break up with him. If he's shaming you. If he belittles the fact that your mom was murdered, that's a bad sign. Really bad. Real bad sign. Break up with him.

Really bad, especially if he's doing it so that you will Have sex with him Bad Big red flag Wow I really enjoyed that Anything else Or should we choose a voice There's a

There's either I mean there's Ghost face Or I was really liking That stew voice too So we have I'm gonna do stew For sure I'm gonna do stew

Okay can we get another Taste of it so we can Yeah man I don't know I'm losing a lot of blood man I'm losing to do, Stu. Okay, can we get another taste of it so we can, uh... Yeah, man, I don't know. I'm losing a lot of blood, man. I'm losing a lot of blood. Man, you stabbed me too much, man. I don't know, something like that.

Do you really call the cops? I'm sort of losing it, but... Oh, well, okay. Thank you, Emily. You freaking killed it. Um... And from all of us here... Goodbye, man! goodbye, man! Goodbye, man!

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