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Welcome to a journey into the world of the delightfully dreadful, the charmingly cringe-worthy and the beautifully bad. My guest, Matt Fulton, and I have both been captivated by the unique niche of Australian films, and there is no better example than the cult classic Houseboat Horror.
Houseboat Horror – it's a name that elicits a myriad of reactions, and for good reason. From the infamous budget constraints to the eclectic cast and it's "Banned in Queensland" status, Matt and I dissect the myriad of reasons why fans so adore this film. And let's not forget the iconic VHS box art that has undoubtedly contributed to the cult status of this unforgettable movie.
Of course, a chat about Houseboat Horror wouldn't be complete without a dissection of its outrageous elements, from the nudity and music to the awkward kills. We scrutinize the digital restoration and the unintended hilarity that some of the lines bring about. We reflect on editor Clayton Jacobson and his uncompensated work on the film and then dive into the newly released Blu-Ray and special features that make Houseboat Horror the cult classic it is today.
So, grab a stiff drink, get comfortable, and prepare for a trip into the heart of Australian film culture.
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Pete: G'day and welcome to A Dingo Ate My Movie, a podcast
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where we talk about the weird and wonderful world of
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Australian film from the 70s, 80s and beyond.
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As always, I'm your host, pete, and today I'm joined by Matt
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Fulton to discuss what is considered the worst movie to
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come out of Australia, if you don't count the very excellent
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Mr Dundee Houseboat Horror from 1989.
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Here you go, matt.
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Matt: Oh good, how are you, pete ?
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I wouldn't really say that's like the worst movie.
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I'd say it's the best, worst Australian movie.
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Pete: Yeah, I think so too.
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It's actually I don't know if it's because I've watched it
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maybe three or four times in the last week or two I've kind of
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enjoyed it.
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It's definitely not as bad.
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Like I know, the blurb on the back of the umbrella release
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talks a lot about.
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They mentioned the room and I think they mentioned Bird Demek
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and a few of those other things.
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I don't think it's as bad as those.
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Matt: Well, the funny thing is, when I read that on the back of
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the cover, I thought wait a minute, are they rating my
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collection?
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Because I've got a copy of the room as well on my shelf.
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Pete: Yeah, I don't think it's as bad as what people think and
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it is a great bad movie, right?
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If you want to have a great bad movie, it's really good.
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I would like to watch this with like a bunch of mates.
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It would be really the best way to watch it.
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Matt: Oh, of course.
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And when I had my early passion for bad movies, some of my
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friends at the time just did not get it.
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And while I wasn't the cool one in school, I became even less
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cool.
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Pete: So they're going.
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What is this?
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Matt: Why are we watching this bad movie?
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For you don't get it.
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It's a piece of art.
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Pete: Exactly Someone else's art .
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So we just to give a bit of background to people, I don't go
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too deep into how we caught up and how we met up, but you and I
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have a mutual friend who's been on this show before, which is
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Jay, and we were catching up with Jay when he was in
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Australia recently and we were just talking about podcasts and
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I mentioned my podcast and you were like, oh, I know that
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podcast.
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And then we started talking about I think we're talking
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about houseboat horror as well.
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Matt: Yeah, the fact that I'm a long time listener, first time
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caller.
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And yeah it was just one was blown when.
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I'm going ah, this all makes sense now.
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I recognize the voices and they're just in.
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I put some thinking yeah, I'm going like I discovered your
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podcast by accident because, while I have podcasting
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experience the yeah, I was looking through again my passion
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for Ozploitation movies and Australian movies in general and
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I was searching.
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I'm going hmm, I really want to hear movie review about some
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Ozploitation classics or anything like that, because I'm
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probably doing those big blue cover releases and yeah search
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for it, and then I've gone.
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Oh, what's this?
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Dingo 8mo movie and yeah and it was great because I love long
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form type podcasting, because it was helped from travels to and
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from work.
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Pete: It's great for commutes, isn't it?
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That's why there's anything I miss about like working from
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home these days is I don't get to commute, so I don't get to
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listen to not that I miss the commute, mind you but I don't
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get to listen to stuff like podcasts quite as much, so I
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usually just put them on when I'm working, but then you can't
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really give them the full attention that you give them
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when you're commuting.
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But yeah, and I think, if I remember our conversation that
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day, you've got a bit of a history with this movie.
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Matt: It's not a direct connection or anything, but it's
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like a bit of a nerd best type discussion, kind of like what
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we're doing now.
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So it's me, but am I allowed to plug what I do as well?
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I'm not one person who does that.
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Pete: No, plugging is great.
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I mean, I don't have to pay you to come on the show, so I give
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you as many plugs as you can.
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Matt: Well, I'm a big Australian TV movie, especially when it
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comes to comedy, and I'm a big fan of the Vgen late show
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working dog team and spin offs and stuff like that, and I
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produce and co-host a recap podcast called the Champagne
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Comedy Podcast which is based all on working dog programs and
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degeneration and all that and myself and my co-hosts, which
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are spread all around Australia and overseas, we were doing
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recaps of the late show that was broadcast on ABC TV between
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1992 and 1993.
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And in season one was the episode of the late show where
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it was Tony Martin doing his segment on undiscovered
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masterpieces of the cinema and Houseboat Horror featured in it.
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And so anyone who watched the late show or all those jokes
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that go with it like I won't say anything because we will bring
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it up a bit later on in this episode, but it was nice
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features with it and if you're a fan of the late show, you
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became a fan of Houseboat Horror , all because it was so niche
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and so deliciously bad.
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It was good.
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And with that, with Houseboat Horror in the back of my mind,
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it wasn't until I was working in Canberra for a radio station
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down there and I owned a copy of Houseboat Horror on DVD, which
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I found funny enough at Paddy's Markets in the city at one time
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because we were walking through with my mate and I'm going oh,
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look at that Houseboat Horror, it's like $11 on DVD.
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I'll grab that.
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And my mates go why are you buying that?
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For I've never heard of that movie.
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And I went oh well, I'm going to have to get it now.
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So it's made your day so yeah, yeah, and it wasn't until there
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was a gig or a event that my work was at the time was
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promoting and I had a couple of Australian musicians in it.
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It was part of, like the APA told my life tour type thing,
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which, yeah, it's just a group of classic artists and one of
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them who was part of this tour was Brian Manix.
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And he had yeah, from Uncanny X-Men, and so he came in and I
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thought, oh, I better rush home because he's going to be a
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little bit, and I was only living five minutes away from
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work.
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I ran home, got the DVD, came back and got in the sign it and
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he just saw it and laughed at me and he go, really, really.
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And I went yes, please can you sign it.
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And he goes mate, this is the worst Australian movie ever.
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And he signed it in the sleep and yeah, I treasure that.
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And I was just so giddy that day and no one at work
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understood.
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And so Brian and I just shared a laugh or two about it all and
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told me the odd story he has.
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Now he embraced it not long after that.
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So it's like, yeah, fair enough , it's then cult classic, but
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yeah, so yeah, and so that's that little bit.
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And also I interviewed Gavin Wood, as part of my Champagne
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Comedy podcast as well, to talk about his experience on
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Houseboat Horror, which kind of reflects what's in the Blu-ray.
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Pete: He's like one of the high points of the film.
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Oh yeah, he's great.
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He's the best line.
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He's really good.
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Bar up, he's got the best lines .
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Speaker 4: Hey guys, girls, it's party time.
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Come up here.
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Gavin Wood: I refuse Magnificent , you'll bar up.
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Pete: The film crew shooting a music video traveled to Lake
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Infinity, where a vicious killer hunts them, and that's all it
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is.
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It's basically a Friday, the 13th ripoff.
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Matt: Yeah, you just know that with that concept of it all,
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it's going to be delightfully horrific.
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Pete: And it is, it is and the film stars.
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The film stars Alan Dale, who everyone knows from neighbors, I
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guess Christine Jensen, there's Animal McKenna.
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So Animal was like hey, hey, it's Saturday, sort of I don't
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know about royalty, but anyway he was, he was a big deal on hey
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, hey, it's Saturday for a while and John Michael Howzen and
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Gavin Wood and it was directed by well, it was initially
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directed by Ollie Martin, but there's a story about him after
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a couple of days going not directing anymore and it went
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over to Kendall Flanagan who apparently has directed quite a
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few things and TV shows and stuff like that, and Ollie
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Martin kind of just produced it.
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Matt: From that point on, yeah, Wasn't there one of them who was
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the one who had the heart attack?
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I think it was.
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Yeah, one of the producers had a heart attack in the middle of
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filming and couldn't continue on .
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Pete: Oh, I didn't.
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I can't remember that.
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I've listened to bits of the commentary, but not all of it.
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I don't remember that.
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And I'll watch some of the special features and there's
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lots of interesting stories and I know the most obvious one is
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nobody got paid.
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Matt: Oh, yeah, yeah, it is now the whole.
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If you don't get paid, you are at least I guess you can
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recuperate your losses by doing Q&As in the future Just hoping
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that the movie ends up being a cult classic.
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And yeah, that's a way of recuperating those losses.
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Pete: A lot of people.
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I think this is pretty con well , a lot of people consider this
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to be the worst Australian film ever made.
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Like I said at the top, I think you know the last Paul Hogan
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movie was probably pretty close to that, even though it was
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probably not an Australian movie , but we'll call it that anyway.
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The budget for the film has never been clearly stated.
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In the commentary I heard that it was estimated to be around
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225.
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But I don't see that reflected in what's on the screen.
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And the fact that they had a budget like that, no one got
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paid is well, I shouldn't say verging on criminal with clothes
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.
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Matt: Yeah, I was going to say that.
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Gavin Wood with the chat and I do apologize if I randomly bring
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that up and Tony, because that's the only direct resource
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that I've got, is that, yeah, a lot of the money came from the
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underground disco, which is mentioned a few times at the
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beginning of this movie, because they were pretty much the
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financial backers.
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Pete: Yeah, they mentioned the underground disco maybe four or
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five times in the movie.
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It's part of my drinking game from every letter.
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In 1990, the Queensland government banned this film
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under sections nine and 10 of the film review act which gave
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it that classic band in Queensland sticker and found
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actually a ideas letterbox.
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Matt: No, I'm aware of it.
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I've never used it, because letterbox is great.
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Pete: There's a user and they call Rod Williams I'll give him
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credit and he's got a letterbox list of once banned in
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Queensland, australia, and it goes through all these movies
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that were banned in Queensland and some of them are really
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obvious, like you would think.
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You know, like Houseboat Horror was one, they banned things
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like Dawn of the Dead and Silent Night, deadly Night, reanimate
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A Pieces.
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You know all the ones you would think of Mother's Day, friday
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13th, part Two.
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Surf Nazis Must Die.
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All this and I'm like, oh, there's almost a podcast in just
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going through those movies.
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Matt: Yeah, it sounds like it, doesn't it?
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It's like Queensland, what the hell you have no taste.
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Pete: Exactly, yeah, and the whole thing about the banning
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Queensland is a lot of VHS distributors.
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When this first, because my first memories of this movie was
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seeing the VHS box, I wish I'd actually got a copy of one.
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It would have been fantastic.
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But seeing the VHS box with the big banning Queensland sticker
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on it and at the time you know when you're looking in video
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shops there's quite a few movies where they actually a lot of
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distributors, went to the trouble of putting banning
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Queensland stickers on the, on the cover, on the cases, so
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people would get great.
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This is really good.
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Matt: I do remember that I think it was from because I was born
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in Brighton, sydney, and I do remember local video store,
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especially the corner store from where I was growing up, and
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they would have all those really squishy type VHS covers and the
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banning Queensland stickers on.
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I remember one of them being I think it was Peter Jackson's
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pure shit.
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I think it was or bad bad taste or whatever.
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Pete: Bad taste yeah.
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Matt: I remember that one always caught my eye because of the
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sticker on it and I got oh, can I watch this?
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And but I was way underage so I wasn't allowed to get the watch
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.
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Yeah, yeah, still haven't yet.
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I should really get around to watching it now that I'm in my
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you know, nearly that half century.
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Pete: Well, in 1989, I've been 62.
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So it would have been about 37.
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So not an issue.
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But, um, yeah, so I remember the VHS for sure and I think I
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my first time I ever watched it was on VHS.
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I found I actually found some information that it was actually
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shown on TV at some stage as well, in 1990 as well it was.
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It was put on commercial TV for a little while.
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Matt: Oh, like about 11 o'clock at night or whatever like for
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the Probably.
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Pete: Yeah, I think it was rated MA apparently and ran on nine.
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Win an NBN 1055 on Sunday, the 23rd of January has a 1994.
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And then it also turned up in 2000 on channel nine at 1 45 AM
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on the 27th of October.
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Matt: Oh well, that's just returning back from the
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underground disco type thing.
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Pete: It is, and that's all thanks to Ozmoviescom.
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I think it's a great website and they got some really good
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info on this movie, more than Wikipedia or IMDB or any of
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those sites, which is to be expected.
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I guess it's pretty niche.
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Matt: Oh, like the more independent or, you know, the
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smaller run websites.
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They are great to have.
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They've got more information because it's more or less
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passion projects from coming from people who are more
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dedicated to the finer detail.
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Pete: There's even a houseboat horrorcom, which is obviously a
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fan site of some type, and they're looking to try and all
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they were I don't know how old this is and how you know when it
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was last updated they're trying to get people that like.
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They're trying to organize a remaking houseboat horror.
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Matt: Going it on because it's if they can make speed on a boat
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with speed two, and you got, you know, titanic being the
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number one, or you know, like the one, the highest grossing
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movies of all time then.
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And then you've got the Poseidon Adventure and all those
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other type of boat related blockbusters.
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They can do that with houseboat horror, with like infinity or
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houseboat horror too.
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Pete: Exactly.
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I think that rather than remake it, they should just make a
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sequel.
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Yes, yeah.
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Well, if, if to be can do Titanic to, we can have
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houseboat horror too.
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Matt: And you know what I've seen Titanic to and yeah, yes,
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it's not too bad.
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Actually, I'm going how the hell are they going to cover
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this?
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And they did a pretty good job at it.
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Imagine it with a bigger budget or be even better, but yeah,
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it's, it'd be great.
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Yeah Well, I don't know if you got in your notes and I do
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apologize if I have the website wrong, but might have been
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Monster Fest or something along the lines of that.
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It was a few years ago where they did a prank or an April
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Fool's.
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Did you know anything about that?
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Pete: No, don't tell us.
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Matt: All right, well, where it was, it was an April Fool's
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article.
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Not knowing it's April Fool's, but they were saying that the
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latest release of Houseboat Horror coming out I think it was
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either Blu-ray or 4K, with all these extra added features this
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was in around around 2019, 2018, 2019.
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So, but it turned out it was an April Fool's article.
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But now look who's laughing.
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It's there.
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It's on Blu-ray now.
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Pete: You can watch it.
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Yeah, I mean, this movie is like definitely fits into that.
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Perfect, so bad.
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It's good genre of movies.
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You know how some movies are just like okay, it's another
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umbrella release, but I was.
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I wasn't so stupid enough to buy it.
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I was happy I bought it, I guess.
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But Winnie the Pooh, blood and Honey right, have you seen it?
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Matt: I haven't seen it, but I am aware of it.
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Pete: It's a bad movie, but it's not so bad, it's good.
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It's just a bad movie, right?
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Yeah, I was really.
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Just because I thought, oh, this has got to be.
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Because I never, I never thought at all that Winnie the
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Pooh, blood and Honey was going to be a decent movie.
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I always knew it was going to be crap movie, but I thought, oh
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well, it'll be so crap that it'll be fun to watch.
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But it wasn't.
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It was just boring.
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And whereas this movie is a hell of a lot of fun to watch and
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it's got really bad dialogue, it's got really bad acting,
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there's some really weird cuts and shots.
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Like especially there's that scene where John Michael
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Housen's talking to the guys at the at the boat place and in the
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middle of a shot of him talking we cut to this the other guy
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I've forgotten his name, the blonde guy who's a bit of a
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dickhead and he's making some weird face and it's just like
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that's some terrible cuts.
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But it's a really really fun watch and watching it I'd love
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to watch this with like mates that are really fun, like minded
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mates.
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I mean.
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You know, when you sometimes watch it with people that just
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don't some people get it, some people don't get it, but if
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you're watching it with you know , if I was watching it with some
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of the guys that I talked to on Twitter and wherever about
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horror movies and stuff like that, I think we'd have a great
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time.
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Like I'd love watching it with Jay, right, yeah.
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Matt: It would be fun.
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I watched it in line up for this podcast and I hadn't
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watched the movie in years but I watched it as a refresher, but
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with my wife and my wife has not seen the movie at all and, yeah
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, she's American and introducing her to this movie it was a lot
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of fun watching her react to this movie and did you like it?
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She understood the concept of it all where it was.
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Yeah, don't take it too seriously.
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Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of fun , so we enjoyed our night
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watching it.
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Pete: Oh, that's good.
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Matt: That's probably the politest way I could say it.
00:20:57
Pete: Yeah, there's so much stuff, Like I've got so many
00:20:59
notes, right.
00:21:00
Like there's the John Michael house and scene.
00:21:03
Like why would you have him in the movie?
00:21:05
He's in the movie for what?
00:21:06
Three minutes, basically.
00:21:08
Yeah, and I'm like does he play himself?
00:21:11
Is he playing himself in the movie and he's carrying this
00:21:14
horror book?
00:21:15
Why is he carrying this horror book?
00:21:16
It's like it makes no sense.
00:21:17
Matt: Could he be a deceler?
00:21:19
Pete: Well, no, that was it right, he was carrying a knife
00:21:22
in the way he was looking at the knife and all this, and there's
00:21:24
a.
00:21:25
Matt: Well, there was a fact that a big star like him of the
00:21:31
time just happened to go to Lake Infinity to chill for a holiday
00:21:39
.
00:21:39
Like, honestly, he's the Hollywood gossip man.
00:21:44
Like do you think he would have got overseas or anything?
00:21:47
No, but no, lake Infinity.
00:21:49
Pete: He's going to do some fishing.
00:21:50
He's going to catch some fish and figure out how to get them
00:21:52
off the hook.
00:21:53
I think, yeah, what to them?
00:21:54
Yeah, some really strange stuff in this movie, but I think
00:21:59
that's what makes it great.
00:21:59
There's a scene where there's that book nerd guy, the guy
00:22:03
reading the book all the time, right, and the book's called Sir
00:22:06
Garwain and the Green Knight and he someone says something
00:22:10
about it must have some great sex scenes or something in it.
00:22:13
And he says and then he starts talking about Nazis.
00:22:16
And I'm like what's, what's Sir Garwain and the Green Knight
00:22:19
got to do with Nazis?
00:22:21
Ha, ha, ha.
00:22:22
Ha Makes sense.
00:22:24
But I think that's what makes the movie.
00:22:27
It's so fun, right.
00:22:29
Matt: Yeah, I enjoyed the fact that when they were at the
00:22:32
petrol station where John Michael makes his appearance and
00:22:36
stuff the fact that petrol was twenty one dollars fifty.
00:22:41
Pete: Oh yeah.
00:22:41
Matt: For like for the fill up.
00:22:42
For the total fill up.
00:22:44
Pete: Yeah, I said that I was watching it with May, with my
00:22:46
wife, last night, and we both went oh my God, it only cost
00:22:50
twenty one dollars to fill the car with petrol.
00:22:52
Yeah, and they had three types of petrol at that petrol station
00:22:56
.
00:22:58
Matt: Yeah, it was a letter diesel and.
00:23:02
Pete: And unleaded.
00:23:03
Matt: Yeah, and unleaded yeah.
00:23:05
Pete: He said do you want number one, number two or number three
00:23:07
?
00:23:07
And for some reason he's he picked number two, Number two,
00:23:12
something, and he says that's diesel.
00:23:14
You want diesel?
00:23:15
He said no, I don't want super or something like that, it's
00:23:19
just.
00:23:19
It's such a great movie.
00:23:21
Matt: Sparkling dialogue right there.
00:23:23
Pete: Oh, the dialogue is fantastic.
00:23:24
And there's the bit where Alan Dale and I'm going to call
00:23:28
people by their actors names rather than their characters
00:23:31
names, I know and Alan Dale and the girl he goes to the
00:23:36
houseboat with, so Alan Dale plays the director of the movie
00:23:40
shoot right.
00:23:41
And they they're driving in cars and they're driving
00:23:44
parallel to each other on the wrong side of the road and I'm
00:23:49
thinking, hang on, they're not filming this with one of these
00:23:53
cars on a trailer, they're actually driving and it looks
00:23:57
like the way the lights on Alan Dale's face is like a light or
00:24:00
something shining up in his face so you can see him from the
00:24:03
other car and like they're driving on the wrong side of the
00:24:06
road.
00:24:07
Well, I mean, that's guerrilla filmmaking, right.
00:24:10
Matt: Yeah, and they're on their walkabout phones.
00:24:13
They walk.
00:24:14
The walkabout is being phone thing yeah there's massive
00:24:20
phones.
00:24:21
Pete: I know they get a call out in the at the end of the movie
00:24:25
as being supplied by Telstra in the credits.
00:24:29
Matt: Telecom you got to make sure you got to get the air
00:24:32
Right.
00:24:32
Telecom.
00:24:34
Pete: Have to get that right and that's seen.
00:24:37
That seems great.
00:24:38
And there's a guy who spins out after the.
00:24:40
He goes around and he gets out of his car.
00:24:42
Are you fucking idiots or something like that.
00:24:45
Matt: So yeah, that dialogue went quite long where on the in
00:24:51
the cars parallel to each other yeah.
00:24:53
So, it was just like, oh, like my cringiness was kicking in of
00:24:59
I was going to be another car or get off your phone.
00:25:01
Get off your phone.
00:25:02
You shouldn't be on your phone like that.
00:25:04
So it's right.
00:25:06
Pete: There's so many things wrong with that scene, oh great.
00:25:09
And the other thing that's really interesting about this
00:25:12
movie is Deborah Lee Farnes was the casting manager, or whatever
00:25:16
you call them, and she was supposed to be in this movie
00:25:20
playing I've forgotten the character's name again but the
00:25:23
strange, the strange woman who's related to the killer, and for
00:25:28
some reason at the last minute so I understand from watching
00:25:31
some of the extras on the Blu-ray at the last minute she
00:25:34
decided she wasn't going to do it.
00:25:35
I'd say she probably thought, oh shit, I'm not going to be in
00:25:38
this.
00:25:38
How am I ever going to meet Hugh Jackman if I'm in this
00:25:43
movie?
00:25:43
Right, and she opted out and the other actor came in like at
00:25:47
the last minute to do the Do the .
00:25:50
Matt: Yeah, that wasn't that Um Louise Silverson.
00:25:53
That's it, yeah, and the citizens are my apologies.
00:25:58
Pete: And that character is really is really strange.
00:26:02
Matt: I thought it's meant to be kind of like Jason or he's you
00:26:07
know like, kind of like the mother type.
00:26:09
Pete: Yeah, like Pamela Voorhees , yeah, yeah.
00:26:11
Matt: Yeah, pamela, that's it.
00:26:12
Yeah, kind of mimicked her style.
00:26:17
Pete: A little bit.
00:26:17
Yeah, yeah, it's really funny.
00:26:21
And then when she walks off with the final three survivors
00:26:26
at the end of the movie, I was like, oh, do they get killed?
00:26:30
Is she basically leading them back to you know the killer, or
00:26:35
is she actually going to help them?
00:26:36
I was like, please, kill animal , kill animal.
00:26:42
Matt: But that's the thing.
00:26:43
It's why this is where the sequel you know a potential
00:26:47
sequel could come in, as like, did they survive?
00:26:49
Pete: That's right.
00:26:50
It's exactly right.
00:26:51
Yeah, it's great.
00:26:52
What are some of the stuff that stuck out for you?
00:26:56
Matt: Well, obviously I got a big thrill out of watching, you
00:27:02
know, gavin Woods moment, yeah, when you know, guys, girls, come
00:27:08
up here, the views make me have set your bar up Wine.
00:27:10
So yes, so party time.
00:27:13
Sorry, I got to get it right.
00:27:14
Guys, girls, party time.
00:27:17
You know, come up here, the views make them sent you bar up,
00:27:20
you're well.
00:27:23
Pete: He does that and he does these, that he's got these other
00:27:25
scenes where they're sort of he's kind of almost like
00:27:29
commentating on what people are doing.
00:27:32
Matt: It's yeah, it's odd.
00:27:33
It's like it was like common tree before.
00:27:36
Common tree was a thing in on extras, on on physical media.
00:27:42
Pete: But he was doing it in the movie, in the movie.
00:27:47
Matt: But hey, when he's talking he's always in the shit, so,
00:27:51
but it was.
00:27:52
I was mesmerised by, like, the excuses that they had for one of
00:28:00
the character that's about to die, where I've got his name,
00:28:04
but the guy who was just having acts practice.
00:28:07
Pete: Oh my God, practicing for cutting firewood.
00:28:10
Matt: Yes, it's like oh, I'm just practicing while he's just
00:28:15
cutting away at the tree for no reason.
00:28:17
Yeah, it was like uh, geez, could he be the killer?
00:28:22
Why didn't he just?
00:28:24
Pete: he was so annoying to us, really happy when he went.
00:28:27
He was remember who's coming.
00:28:29
When everyone woke up that morning banging on a pot with
00:28:32
that, the good old wakey, wakey, hands up, sneaky bit.
00:28:36
Matt: Yeah, and then there was the whole oh, someone didn't
00:28:40
sleep in their own bed.
00:28:43
Pete: Oh God.
00:28:45
Matt: But other than that, then there was also yeah, I'm going
00:28:48
to do what you did too and that is just referred to him by their
00:28:52
real names.
00:28:53
So, but with Ellen Dale's, you know, his character's name is
00:28:59
Grant Evans, because I thought at one stage did I just say
00:29:02
Grant or Greg Evans, yeah, so it's that line where, um, where
00:29:07
Gavin Woods saying the guy's name and he says Grant arming,
00:29:12
and then he says Greg or something like that.
00:29:14
Pete: He gets it mixed up and I think I wonder if he did that
00:29:16
for you know, on purpose, or whether he just missed it and
00:29:21
thought Greg Evans, yeah, perfect match.
00:29:24
Matt: It's the perfect match.
00:29:26
Yeah, for like peaches and creep, yeah, anyway.
00:29:32
Pete: What a show.
00:29:34
Speaker 4: Like peaches and creep and the contra team Like
00:29:39
sand in the sea and the birds in the beach, like a monster and a
00:29:44
pearl, the guy and a girl.
00:29:46
What have you got?
00:29:48
You got a perfect match.
00:29:50
Yes, it's perfect match.
00:29:52
Now welcome the star of our show Greg Evans.
00:29:58
Pete: My best friend was on that .
00:30:00
Matt: Oh really, yes.
00:30:01
Oh goodness gracious, did they walk away with any prizes, or I?
00:30:05
Pete: can't remember.
00:30:05
I remember she told us a story one day and like she went on the
00:30:10
date and they're apparently very heavily like um chaperone
00:30:14
and stuff like that.
00:30:15
Ah, yeah, it didn't work.
00:30:17
You know, it was all like see you later at the end of the
00:30:19
weekend.
00:30:20
Matt: Yeah, we got a holiday out of it, and that was exactly
00:30:23
right yeah.
00:30:23
But when, uh, Grant slash Alan was directing the band members
00:30:31
when they were recording the video clip, and then it's like,
00:30:33
hey, you got to act like you're young and horny and like they
00:30:38
don't look young.
00:30:39
So maybe horny, yeah, but you know, when you got the they're
00:30:46
all scruffy looking, um, and it looked like they're in their
00:30:50
early thirties and some of the high on whatever.
00:30:55
Pete: Alan Dale was also very good.
00:30:56
Get off my lawn guy a couple of times in the movie with with
00:31:01
the whole.
00:31:01
Why are they still awake?
00:31:03
Why do you stop doing that?
00:31:06
Matt: Well, well, every time Alan Dale pops up somewhere like
00:31:09
um, you know I've judged me all you want, but I only watched
00:31:15
lost for the first time, um, roughly a year ago, like the
00:31:21
entire series ever since it came out on Disney plus and I've
00:31:23
finished it.
00:31:23
And then the Sinner's Alan Dale came on, um, playing the
00:31:27
billionaire you know show I went oh, housebird horror.
00:31:31
And then, you know, when he's popped up on the X files it's
00:31:36
either um, you know neighbors, or Housebird horror.
00:31:40
Pete: Yeah, he's actually had an interesting career.
00:31:43
To be honest, he's actually done quite well for himself
00:31:46
really.
00:31:46
Yeah, he's become a big movie actor or anything, but he's done
00:31:50
lots of TV.
00:31:51
Matt: Oh, plenty of it.
00:31:52
And the OC as well.
00:31:54
And um, yeah, just popping up in various well-known things and
00:31:58
then we don't give him much praise.
00:32:00
But it's other.
00:32:01
I guess Australia it's.
00:32:03
We would just go.
00:32:04
Oh, you're the neighbor's guy.
00:32:05
You're the one who dropped it of a heart attack in the show.
00:32:09
Pete: That's right.
00:32:09
He did too the other thing about Alan Dale in this when he
00:32:14
was on the phone to the guy called Harold and he was calling
00:32:17
him Harold.
00:32:18
I was getting major neighbors.
00:32:20
So look, oh my God, he's like he's talking to Harold again
00:32:24
from.
00:32:25
Oh that's fantastic.
00:32:29
Matt: So that's where it gets to meta.
00:32:30
Or you just go to reference here, reference there and yeah,
00:32:36
no, it's.
00:32:36
That is really good.
00:32:38
And the fact that, um, what, especially when animal or the
00:32:43
character that animal played um, he actually had some dialogue
00:32:49
which I was stunned at.
00:32:50
So I've never really heard his voice because on hey, hey, every
00:32:54
time I threw it to him, they he was just up to some something
00:32:58
mischievous or anything like that.
00:33:00
But he actually spoke and gone.
00:33:03
You know what, if you polished himself up, he could have
00:33:06
actually been a decent actor.
00:33:07
Pete: Yeah, yeah, he was annoying in this though.
00:33:09
Oh but his character was yeah, obviously, but it's almost like
00:33:14
they, like you were just alluding to, like when they
00:33:17
hired him for this, they were like, oh, just do what you do in
00:33:19
.
00:33:19
Hey, hey, it's Saturday and then it'll be fine, he's part of
00:33:22
my drink, he's part of my drinking game as well.
00:33:25
Matt: So yeah, well, when they're singing the song for the
00:33:30
clip or sinking to it or miming it, and the fact that he's
00:33:35
doing the drums, fine, but then he purposely hesitates to go out
00:33:39
of sync.
00:33:43
Pete: Yeah, it's really funny, like my wife's.
00:33:44
Like what's he hitting?
00:33:45
And it looks like he's got some very early.
00:33:48
Besides the bongos that he's always playing, he's got some
00:33:51
very early.
00:33:52
Well, not that it looks like a.
00:33:55
So I've got one.
00:33:56
It's called the SPD We'll we'll be at SPD 20.
00:33:59
Maybe it's a Roland electronic percussion thing I don't know if
00:34:04
it's a Roland or it's some no name one or something and they
00:34:07
usually have about 10, eight or 10 pads on them and you can
00:34:10
assign different sounds to them.
00:34:11
They've got the sounds or built in, et cetera, and and it seems
00:34:14
like he's got one of those and he's just using that, but either
00:34:17
way he's pulling his hand back and hitting the hand.
00:34:20
It's so funny.
00:34:22
Matt: Put it this way for anyone , for the younger generation
00:34:27
Think when you listen to this episode, think of him playing
00:34:32
guitar hero or drum band, guitar band or band hero, whatever it
00:34:36
is Rock band.
00:34:37
Yeah, rock band, yeah, yeah, yeah With the drum.
00:34:42
So not it's, but yeah it's.
00:34:45
I did also was ready for that gratuitous nudity throughout the
00:34:52
movie.
00:34:53
Pete: So what's with the scene where animal is walking up to
00:34:59
like on land, he gets off the boat and he's standing on a tree
00:35:02
and then there's a naked woman, who's not even in the rest of
00:35:06
the movie, just standing around near the water and he's I don't
00:35:12
know if it's like is it a hallucination?
00:35:15
It's like this really weird scene where you just get this
00:35:18
woman naked out of nowhere on the water.
00:35:21
Matt: Yeah, it's like that.
00:35:23
The producers have just gone.
00:35:24
Oh, who wants to get naked and be in the movie for a moment?
00:35:28
Pete: Yeah.
00:35:29
Matt: Yeah, they need to fill time.
00:35:31
Pete: There's some interesting nudity in this film, and and I
00:35:34
shouldn't say interesting nudity it sounds weird, but there's a
00:35:39
couple of scenes where there's some nudity, right, and it's
00:35:43
like okay, obviously they just want to do.
00:35:44
They've got everything else, they've got the violence and
00:35:46
they've got all this other stuff .
00:35:47
They've got the music, you know , those great hits by Brian
00:35:50
Manix, as they say on the cover, and all this stuff.
00:35:54
Matt: Yeah, it's.
00:35:55
This horrific flick contains nudity and knockout.
00:35:58
Brian Manix song hits.
00:36:00
Pete: That's it.
00:36:00
Knockout Brian Manix songs which we're going to talk about,
00:36:02
but other stuff.
00:36:04
You got other stuff.
00:36:05
Matt: Yeah, Um, I've got a note here which I didn't really fill
00:36:08
it out, uh, but hopefully if I say it it will trigger something
00:36:12
which you might know what I'm talking about.
00:36:14
But I think the line which I cack myself laughing over was
00:36:18
I've got here, don't fuck around .
00:36:20
Is what he said when a machete misses his head.
00:36:27
Pete: It's really interesting.
00:36:28
Did you watch this last night with the subtitles on oh?
00:36:32
Yeah, it's always interesting watching a movie with subtitles,
00:36:34
because sometimes the subtitles aren't exactly, you know right.
00:36:39
And there's a few, there's a few instances in the movie where
00:36:42
there's a start of a subtitle and then in brackets it says
00:36:46
inaudible.
00:36:47
Well, there's some places where the the subtitles don't really
00:36:53
match.
00:36:53
I'm not sure how.
00:36:55
I'm assuming these days they most likely use I'm not sure how
00:37:00
umbrella did it, but I'm assuming they most likely use AI
00:37:05
these days.
00:37:06
Matt: Right To well, yeah, they probably run it through like a
00:37:09
program, like D script, and then just go from there.
00:37:11
It's like, oh, that's close enough, it will do.
00:37:13
That's close.
00:37:14
Yeah, our budget doesn't?
00:37:15
We've just spent so much money on trying to digitally restore
00:37:18
the film.
00:37:19
Pete: Yeah, which they did a really good job.
00:37:21
We'll talk about that.
00:37:22
There's actually quite a few kills in this movie, there's
00:37:55
like 13, which is another, almost like a ripoff of.
00:37:59
Matt: Well, you counted yeah.
00:38:00
Oh, I guess.
00:38:01
Pete: No, I cheated.
00:38:01
I found a.
00:38:02
I found a link.
00:38:05
Matt: Yeah, I loved it when one of the guys you know when he got
00:38:10
starved with the syringe in the face and then the annoying guy
00:38:15
yeah.
00:38:16
Yeah, and the machete in the stomach.
00:38:18
But he's all to the ground in between the trees and like
00:38:22
really awkwardly, and then he does that whole last gasp of air
00:38:26
like yeah, it's like wow, give that guy a logie.
00:38:30
Pete: That was great, my wife thought that was hilarious the
00:38:33
way he died.
00:38:33
So, yeah, yeah, he's definitely dead, I think.
00:38:36
I think so, yeah, so yeah, this is 13 kills, eight males and
00:38:41
five females.
00:38:42
In this movie, I think my favorite one is probably, well,
00:38:48
besides, alan Dale getting his head split in two, which is kind
00:38:53
of fun Spoiler alert, if you're .
00:38:54
Matt: Oh Jesus.
00:38:57
Pete: But I think my favorite one is the woman that has the
00:39:01
horseshoe pushed into our face.
00:39:03
That's kind of something you've never seen before.
00:39:06
Matt: Oh the horseshoe.
00:39:06
Well, my wife and I were watching that moment and because
00:39:13
it was done in slow motion and the girl, the ladies just
00:39:16
screaming and going, no, it's kind of like why scream for use
00:39:20
that time and energy to get the hell out of there.
00:39:23
It's like, oh no, it's coming right for me, so yeah, but oh
00:39:29
well, it's it's hilarious.
00:39:31
Pete: I like I didn't.
00:39:31
I don't think they did a great job with it, but I thought, okay
00:39:34
, as a murder weapon.
00:39:35
I thought that's something I haven't seen before.
00:39:40
Matt: Well, I give credit to my darling wife, nicole, where she
00:39:45
said well, I guess she wasn't that lucky.
00:39:50
Pete: Well, I think I said something like oh, they're just
00:39:52
horsing around, so it's definitely one of those sort of
00:39:57
movies, right?
00:39:58
Gavin Wood: Yeah, that's what's so enjoyable about it.
00:40:00
Pete: It's pretty good and then Gavin Wood gets a good kill.
00:40:02
He gets the, the spear gun.
00:40:05
Oh yeah, well, he's trying to put a condom on.
00:40:08
Yeah, I know Right, he's talking to.
00:40:12
He's talking to his penis, telling it to get up because
00:40:15
he's gonna get lucky.
00:40:19
Matt: I did.
00:40:19
I will point out one of the other lines that he did say,
00:40:23
yeah, where one of the women was coming out and sees all the
00:40:26
blood and gunk and stuff like that on the wall with the
00:40:29
slaughtered animal, the guts and stuff like that, and then he
00:40:32
goes oh shit, what's top of asshole would do that.
00:40:34
So he's just sitting.
00:40:38
Pete: He says it too.
00:40:39
Matt: Yeah, so with his kind of VB, and yeah, it just calls it
00:40:44
out like that's.
00:40:45
That's brilliant yeah.
00:40:47
Pete: And as much as I like the horseshoe kill, I think actually
00:40:50
I think one of the best kills that's actually pulled off in
00:40:54
this movie is the one in bed where the woman stabbed from the
00:40:57
bottom of the bed.
00:40:58
Matt: Oh yeah, that's pretty cool.
00:41:00
Pete: That's actually pretty cool.
00:41:01
Matt: That reminded me of I think it was nightmare on Elm
00:41:05
Street or what's the They've done it a couple of time in the
00:41:10
Friday.
00:41:10
Pete: Films like they did it to Kevin Bacon.
00:41:12
Matt: Yes, that's the one yeah.
00:41:13
Pete: And then they did it in Friday, for I think in the final
00:41:19
chapter, or no Friday 3.
00:41:21
Sorry, I know my Friday 30 films a little bit too much yeah
00:41:25
.
00:41:25
Matt: Just just casually lying there in bed naked reading a
00:41:28
book and then like all right, wow, this book is suddenly.
00:41:35
It's really, really sharp.
00:41:38
Pete: Yes, it was pretty good.
00:41:39
It's pretty good.
00:41:40
I really enjoyed it.
00:41:42
Matt: And I do think one more line where another cast member,
00:41:46
where I think it was having a fight with the guy that the
00:41:50
murderer or the killer and he goes oh, piss off.
00:41:54
Pete: and then before he cops the machete, I actually said to
00:41:59
me at the time.
00:42:00
I said do you know what?
00:42:01
That's actually probably one of the more realistic kind of bits
00:42:05
of a written dialogue in this movie, because it's kind of the
00:42:08
thing that an Aussie would say if someone was trying to kill
00:42:12
you.
00:42:12
Be like, oh, fuck off or piss off.
00:42:14
Matt: Yeah, piss off you see.
00:42:16
Yeah, exactly Right.
00:42:18
And then we're like down the can.
00:42:23
I swear too much on it.
00:42:24
Pete: Yeah, you can swear.
00:42:25
Matt: Go because it's explicit we like oh where's Baba, oh, the
00:42:30
cunt's dead, Sorry yeah.
00:42:34
Pete: It's very Australian, very awkward.
00:42:38
It is very awkward, yeah, yeah.
00:42:40
Like I said, this movie is more fun than it should be and
00:42:46
obviously I like it way more than I should.
00:42:50
Matt: I agree.
00:42:51
I feel the same way.
00:42:52
I've got a newfound appreciation for the movie, like
00:42:56
I do.
00:42:56
Other than earning the Blue Ray , I still got the DVD as well.
00:43:01
Pete: And signed by Brian Mannix .
00:43:03
Matt: Well, I will confess I there was a stage where I had to
00:43:09
, unfortunately, sell the movie.
00:43:12
It's an instant regret, but I didn't make a hundred bucks out
00:43:16
of it.
00:43:16
I wasn't asking for that amount .
00:43:18
Well, I threw it up on there and even though it had signed
00:43:22
hey, matt, this is the worst Australian movie ever and yet
00:43:27
someone bought it because I had the photos to prove that.
00:43:30
I had Brian hold the DVD in front of me as well.
00:43:33
So just to prove it was it.
00:43:35
Pete: but I can't take your memory away.
00:43:38
Matt: No.
00:43:38
So I went and bought the DVD again and hopefully, if I bumped
00:43:43
into Brian Mannix again, I'll get an assignment again.
00:43:45
So, yeah, times were tough at that time for me, so yeah, have
00:43:51
to do stuff occasionally.
00:43:52
Yeah, but hey, now it's got two copies and I'm bloody loving it
00:43:57
.
00:43:59
Pete: The other thing that's interesting about this movie is
00:44:02
the amount of reuse shots in the movie.
00:44:04
Have you noticed that?
00:44:06
There's a few that I noticed.
00:44:07
One is when the killer's burning and there's the
00:44:10
flashback of somebody burning previously because of the movie,
00:44:16
people or something, and you know how there was like a prior
00:44:20
evil, right, the good old prior evil that happened, or the prior
00:44:23
.
00:44:23
Matt: Oh yes.
00:44:24
Pete: Yes, so the same shot of the guy twisting around and on
00:44:28
fire is the same shot at the end of the movie when the killer's
00:44:31
twisting around and on fire at the top of the boat.
00:44:34
Matt: Oh goodness, so there's that.
00:44:36
Well, maybe you budget cuts for that, maybe.
00:44:39
Pete: And then there's the dock shot from the water At the very
00:44:41
end.
00:44:42
You've got the bit where the hand comes up right At the end,
00:44:44
which is another Friday, the 13th, ripoff, sort of thing.
00:44:46
And there's a shot earlier in the movie, exactly the same
00:44:52
angle, but just the hand doesn't come up.
00:44:54
So it was probably just just before that happened.
00:44:56
And there's the bit where the guy's playing the piano in the
00:45:00
bar, the guitar plays, playing piano, and twice they go back to
00:45:05
them and he's playing exactly with the same piece and it's
00:45:07
exactly the same scene.
00:45:08
Matt: I'm sure that that it's the same scene and then they
00:45:12
just flip it all to make it look like there's a different scene.
00:45:17
Pete: The editor of the movie.
00:45:18
I actually want to find his name and give him some credit
00:45:21
because, like edited by Clayton Jacobson, where he was saying
00:45:27
that when they finished filming the movie, he looked at all the
00:45:33
rushes and he said there's no suspense in this movie and he
00:45:37
was saying that he actually shot a heap, made it did a heap of
00:45:41
shots, of insert shots, things like the killer's hand on a tree
00:45:45
or all sorts of other bits and pieces, just really short shots
00:45:50
that weren't originally shot to build some suspense in the movie
00:45:53
.
00:45:53
He and he did things like there was a park near Channel 10 or
00:45:57
something where the, where he was editing and they did a lot
00:46:00
of the shots there and and things like that.
00:46:03
He was saying that he worked, he worked on the movie for like
00:46:07
months trying to put it in and, once again, didn't get a cent
00:46:11
for it.
00:46:11
Matt: Well, I was going to say but wouldn't the suspense be
00:46:15
that the sampling of synths that's being used in it during
00:46:20
our moments?
00:46:22
Pete: of those synth sounds, man , yeah, yeah.
00:46:24
Matt: But that's great.
00:46:24
It is amazing how yeah like talking about the suspense and
00:46:31
stuff and there's only so much you can do when it's filmed on
00:46:34
tape.
00:46:36
Pete: Yeah, it's filmed on video , right?
00:46:37
Yeah, and that's the whole thing.
00:46:38
It's really and there's all the bits where I don't know if it's
00:46:42
the lens they're using or whatever it is where it covers
00:46:46
one of the corners of the frame.
00:46:47
If you watch the movie, there's lots of that.
00:46:51
Matt: Yeah, I'd say that maybe when it was on VHS and every
00:46:57
other TVs were for 4x3, that was kind of cut off.
00:47:00
So you know how sometimes you get the trimming or whatever
00:47:05
where it's.
00:47:05
We're never meant to see it, but because of the restoration
00:47:09
we get to see everything.
00:47:10
Pete: Get to see it a bit more.
00:47:11
Yeah yeah, didn't see any booms , though, any mic booms, but
00:47:14
maybe they didn't even use any.
00:47:15
Oh, did you find one?
00:47:17
Matt: I thought I briefly saw one, but I didn't make a time
00:47:20
mark on it.
00:47:21
It was either that or I also saw a camera shadow.
00:47:27
Pete: Oh, okay, yeah, because.
00:47:28
Matt: I'm a stickler for those things, yep, and I swear I did
00:47:33
probably see a boom for like a split second, but yeah, right.
00:47:38
Yeah, I wish I made a note of the time stamp for it.
00:47:43
Pete: The other thing is the bottle of milk.
00:47:45
Did you notice the bottle of milk?
00:47:46
When the woman pours the milk out for the cat and we come back
00:47:50
later in the things almost empty.
00:47:52
Matt: Yeah, I wrote it down on my phone.
00:47:54
Yeah, leaves milk out.
00:47:57
Pete: I lose the milk out as well, right, who does that?
00:48:00
Matt: Oh, it's just cringe worthy.
00:48:03
It's like the way and I'm going back to the very beginning, but
00:48:08
only because it's a beverage related thing is, when they came
00:48:11
out of the petrol station or the bait thing and they'll
00:48:15
having, they brought out coffees and they filled right up to the
00:48:17
rim, but there's no lead, so hot coffees in the car heading
00:48:21
out to like infinity.
00:48:22
That's going to be a disaster right there.
00:48:24
It is.
00:48:25
Yeah.
00:48:26
No wonder why the guy got burned, because it's you know
00:48:28
well, yeah, it's milk and coffee .
00:48:33
That's just no base, but that just don't care.
00:49:01
Pete: There's no safety Because I spent so much fucking time on
00:49:04
it.
00:49:04
I can't go without talking about the lyrics for the song
00:49:08
called Young and Groovy.
00:49:09
It's a centerpiece of this film , but it's just got the most
00:49:13
amazing lyrics like.
00:49:15
My favorite one is like tonight she's mine, I will never cause,
00:49:21
I'm not that guy, whatever that means.
00:49:23
And she's hot in bed.
00:49:26
She's coming soon.
00:49:28
At least that's what she says, and I don't know if that's like
00:49:32
she's coming soon because she's hot in bed or she's coming soon
00:49:35
because he's waiting for two layers of lyrics are like crazy.
00:49:43
Matt: That's why the knockout.
00:49:44
Pete: Yeah, it's another knockout hit from Brian Manix.
00:49:48
Poor Brian Manix, he wrote better songs.
00:50:15
Speaker 4: I think I said that earlier about the girl lost on
00:50:27
squirrel.
00:50:27
She lost her windowchair, that and she's hot in bed.
00:50:31
She's coming soon.
00:50:34
At least that's what she says.
00:50:37
She's on a date with you.
00:50:43
She's on a date with me.
00:50:44
She's on a date with you.
00:50:46
She's on a date with me.
00:50:48
She's on a date with you.
00:50:50
She's on a date with me.
00:50:52
Pete: You're on a date with me.
00:50:54
Oh, you're like 50 years and stuff like that.
00:50:56
Did you ever listen to that on Kenny X?
00:50:58
Maybe?
00:51:00
Matt: Yeah, again, like the, my previous work and all that was
00:51:04
working at classic hits radio stations and that they would be
00:51:08
played a fair bit.
00:51:09
So 50 years is a good, is a favorite song.
00:51:13
Yeah, I'd say that Brian is quite underappreciated.
00:51:18
Pete: And Kenny X men are a great little band, so of course
00:51:21
still gigging.
00:51:21
Matt: I'm not sure everybody wants to work.
00:51:24
Pete: No, no, that's a great song, I love it.
00:51:26
So, oh, no, not me yeah that's cool.
00:51:29
Matt: You go from that to I'm cool, she's hot.
00:51:33
Pete: No, right, can't put my finger on just what she's got.
00:51:38
She's got to hit at midnight.
00:51:41
And I couldn't figure out what was after that.
00:51:42
Neither could the subtitles, because the subtitles just say
00:51:48
at midnight, inaudible yeah, I love it.
00:51:51
And I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what that next
00:51:55
part of it was.
00:51:55
I couldn't figure it out.
00:51:56
So, brian Mannix, if you're out there, can you please send us
00:51:59
the proper lyrics please?
00:52:00
We need them.
00:52:01
We need them.
00:52:02
Most likely I'll get a takedown notice, not because of any
00:52:06
copyright issues, but because he just doesn't want to Please get
00:52:11
rid of this song.
00:52:12
But it makes the movie, that whole clip, the whole piece
00:52:16
where they're doing the film clip and this song's going.
00:52:19
It's so corny but it's really funny.
00:52:23
And they've got those two dancing girls, those two girls
00:52:26
doing that very 80s kind of dancing.
00:52:28
It's hilarious.
00:52:31
Matt: It just shows the era of that too, because no one's
00:52:34
flaunting their cleavage or not scantily clad.
00:52:39
But yeah, they're just there to enjoy and as our two models is
00:52:44
great.
00:52:45
Grant Evans say hey, you're young and horny.
00:52:48
Pete: It's amazing that the whole song is in the film.
00:52:50
It's like okay, this must be the song they wanted to put in
00:52:53
the movie.
00:52:53
And then there's a bit earlier where they're kind of playing it
00:52:58
on the boat, just with the bongos and the thing, and the
00:53:02
guitarist in the band is saying what a shit song it is and
00:53:05
animals, yeah, like it is a crap song.
00:53:07
Blah, blah, blah and it's like hang on, it sounds like then
00:53:10
they just he's just introducing the band to this song and then
00:53:15
later it's all done and produced and everything and they're
00:53:17
doing the film clip.
00:53:18
I'm like that doesn't really make sense.
00:53:19
But anyway, nothing in this film makes sense.
00:53:22
Matt: She's young and no hang on .
00:53:24
Can I kiss you?
00:53:24
No, can you One, two, three, four.
00:53:29
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, one, two , three, four.
00:53:32
She's young and she's cool and she's groovy.
00:53:34
She's young and she's cool by me.
00:53:38
She's young and she's cool and she's groovy.
00:53:42
Young and cool is all right by me.
00:53:46
I cannot like it.
00:53:48
Yeah, I know, man, but the song really is a bag of shit.
00:53:52
Matt: Well, you got any better suggestions about no, no Fence
00:53:55
brother.
00:53:55
Far a bit from it.
00:53:56
A criticised.
00:53:56
But does the word puke ring a bell?
00:54:00
Speaker 4: So what do you feel about it, guys?
00:54:02
I don't really feel bad about it.
00:54:02
Listen, everyone has to do your songs all the fucking time, no
00:54:07
matter how bad they are, and this is just like a fucking
00:54:09
fucking song from one session.
00:54:10
Matt: I've got good songs.
00:54:11
Speaker 4: I've got fucking good songs.
00:54:12
You've got good songs.
00:54:12
Matt: Yeah, I've got put in yeah , like the use of the jet boat
00:54:16
or the speed boat or yeah.
00:54:18
Yeah, it's like that they've gone, but we're certain money on
00:54:21
it, so we better made some use out of it, even though it
00:54:27
doesn't really make sense.
00:54:28
It's just used for filler.
00:54:30
Pete: Yeah, I was.
00:54:31
I said to May last night though I wouldn't mind going on a
00:54:33
houseboat.
00:54:34
I've never been on a houseboat before.
00:54:35
Oh, maybe not at Lake Yildon, that's where it was shot right
00:54:39
Lake Yildon Maybe.
00:54:42
Speaker 4: That would be fun, wouldn't it.
00:54:43
Matt: I wonder if any of the boats that they had featured in
00:54:46
this movie are still existing, like the houseboats.
00:54:49
Or, if they were, they'll be.
00:54:52
Pete: Anyone in Melbourne want to go out to Lake Yildon and
00:54:54
check for it?
00:54:54
That'd be great.
00:54:55
Let's give John.
00:54:56
Matt: Michael, a call yeah.
00:54:59
Pete: He's still live, right?
00:55:00
Yeah, he's still Some reason.
00:55:01
I thought he was gone.
00:55:02
Matt: No, no, no, You're probably thinking of Bernard
00:55:04
King or someone.
00:55:06
Pete: Probably someone like that .
00:55:07
Matt: Yeah, yeah, and like call John Michael and you ask him
00:55:11
about he'll get, oh, outrageous.
00:55:15
Pete: I loved him in nightmares.
00:55:17
Matt: Oh, you know what I'm saying.
00:55:19
Pete: He's so good in nightmares .
00:55:21
Matt: After we watched houseboat horror, we were in the mood for
00:55:25
a cheesy slasher film.
00:55:28
So keep with the genre.
00:55:30
And we watched nightmares, so it's like oh, that's almost
00:55:33
special abuse mate.
00:55:34
Oh, that's, it was a John Michael double feature.
00:55:39
Pete: Oh yeah, yeah, I love that movie.
00:55:41
It's so good yeah.
00:55:42
Matt: The good truth is sex scenes and everything.
00:55:44
Yeah, it's so nasty.
00:55:45
Pete: It's actually quite nasty, that film.
00:55:47
Matt: Oh, it is yeah.
00:55:49
Pete: It's very good.
00:55:50
Matt: Now we only got through about three quarters of it
00:55:53
before we called it a night.
00:55:55
Pete: Yeah, yeah yeah.
00:55:56
The song is amazing and it's definitely going to be on the
00:56:01
podcast.
00:56:01
Matt: Put it on iTunes, Brian.
00:56:03
Pete: Yeah, come on, put it on Spotify as well.
00:56:06
Matt: Yeah, $2.19.
00:56:08
Pete: I want to be able to add it to my my companion playlist.
00:56:11
I've got a companion playlist on Spotify where I try and find
00:56:16
the songs that are used in all these movies, and I've made a
00:56:18
playlist of them, so yeah you're going to struggle with
00:56:21
houseboat, that's for sure.
00:56:22
Yeah, there's nothing yet it's a bit of a bummer.
00:56:26
Matt: It's going to do the entire uncanny X-Men library.
00:56:29
Pete: Exactly Well, umbrella guys, come on.
00:56:32
When you did the man from Hong Kong, we got a soundtrack CD.
00:56:34
When you did Dead Kids, we got a CD of music.
00:56:38
Where's the soundtrack for Houseboat Horror?
00:56:41
Come on, Someone's got to do that.
00:56:43
God knows where the original recordings are.
00:56:45
Matt: Oh yeah, they're probably lost somewhere.
00:56:48
Yeah, Probably like where the I was going to say wherever they
00:56:53
found the video tapes, the masters for this, but no.
00:56:58
Pete: They'd be somewhere because someone they would have
00:57:00
been recorded in a recording studio, so someone would have
00:57:02
the masters somewhere.
00:57:03
Matt: Unless they were just that bad they just like burn these
00:57:06
burn them, the masters could be sealed up and at the bottom of
00:57:09
Lake Infinity.
00:57:10
Pete: They could be.
00:57:11
Matt: Yeah.
00:57:12
Pete: The other really important thing that I actually worked on
00:57:15
last night was creating a Houseboat Horror drinking game.
00:57:19
Matt: You're pissed, you must be .
00:57:22
Your face is all blurred.
00:57:27
Pete: And drinking games are really simple because you just
00:57:29
wait for things to happen and you take a drink, right.
00:57:31
So the ones I came up with is every is the title, the title
00:57:35
card, you've got to have a drink when the title card comes up,
00:57:38
because it's so good.
00:57:39
Every time you see somebody drinking or a can or a bottle of
00:57:43
VB, you got to have a drink.
00:57:44
When he flies buzzing, you got to have a drink.
00:57:47
Any time there's bongo drums being played, you have to drink.
00:57:54
Speaker 4: We were spokaneff with me, best friend.
00:58:00
Matt: Right here, I'm missing.
00:58:03
Pete: Any mention of the underground disco you have to
00:58:07
drink.
00:58:07
And then every mention of movie or film people you have to
00:58:13
drink.
00:58:13
Gavin Wood: All the time, do you ?
00:58:14
What worries?
00:58:15
Speaker 4: me about movie people .
00:58:17
Is they stuff up in them?
00:58:18
Gavin Wood: in their way.
00:58:19
Yeah, 40 teams of the same.
00:58:20
Yeah, it brings back memories that those movie killings a few
00:58:27
years back, yeah, they were making movies, they were film
00:58:32
people.
00:58:33
Pete: Any time animal seeks attention or his character seeks
00:58:37
attention and that one will get you very drunk because he does
00:58:40
it all the time.
00:58:41
Any mention of prior evil.
00:58:43
Or you hear any piece of the piece of music of the song Young
00:58:48
and Groovy.
00:58:49
If you hear a bit of that somewhere, because you hear that
00:58:51
a couple of times take a drink there, can you add any of that?
00:58:54
Can you think of any you want to add to that?
00:58:56
Matt: Any time there's, tell people to piss off or you know,
00:59:01
fuck off or anything like that have a drink Kessler.
00:59:07
Or when it's just something that is just not deemed safe at
00:59:19
all, like driving or coffees with no lids on it and just
00:59:24
stuff where you've got to think twice about it.
00:59:26
Or just scenes, just moments where it's like what are you
00:59:31
setting this up for?
00:59:32
Like, as I mentioned earlier, parts of that make sense where
00:59:36
he's just practicing chopping trees.
00:59:39
Gavin Wood: Just practicing, in case we need firewood.
00:59:43
Pete: But I actually that would be a good one Every time he says
00:59:45
he's just practicing chopping wood because there's three
00:59:47
drinks there.
00:59:48
Matt: Yeah Well, also brick phones.
00:59:53
Speaker 4: Sorry telecom.
00:59:53
Matt: Walk about phone thingies, yeah, so you see him every time
00:59:59
you see one in shot or being used drink oh oh, I'm in the
01:00:06
shit.
01:00:07
Pete: So let's let's move on and talk a bit about the Blu-ray,
01:00:10
because it's come out recently, because this movie I guess
01:00:14
sometimes on my podcast.
01:00:16
One of the things I'll talk about is where you can watch
01:00:19
this movie, right, and I don't think there's anywhere you can
01:00:22
watch this movie, which is going to make it very limiting to a
01:00:26
lot of people listening to the podcast trying to find the movie
01:00:29
if they don't want to buy the Blu-ray.
01:00:31
Like the great thing, no matter where you are in the world, all
01:00:34
the umbrella Blu-rays are all region free.
01:00:37
Even though they say region B on them, they're all region free
01:00:41
apparently.
01:00:41
So if you're in the US or wherever, you can just order off
01:00:45
their website and and it's it'll get it.
01:00:49
I don't think it's anywhere else Now.
01:00:51
I think there's probably a full version of this somewhere on
01:00:55
YouTube If you look, most likely probably not a great version,
01:00:59
it's probably your VHS or something, but that'll just add
01:01:03
to the add to the experience, right, but this is released.
01:01:07
I think it was released in June , right?
01:01:09
You can get mine too, a couple of weeks ago.
01:01:11
There's a standard Blu-ray, as you said, and there's a limited
01:01:14
edition set, and the limited edition set's got some really
01:01:16
cool lectures.
01:01:17
So there's 350 copies they made of that.
01:01:19
It's got a custom artwork slip case, which is quite nice.
01:01:23
It's got the little band in Queensland Pin.
01:01:25
It's got some art cards.
01:01:27
They kind of look like I guess almost like a lobby card, but
01:01:31
not quite.
01:01:32
It's got a reversible poster, which is really cool, and it's
01:01:36
got this great little 48 page book.
01:01:38
In some of the releases lately they've been releasing little
01:01:42
books and stuff and this booklet has clippings from the
01:01:48
newspaper articles or from fanzines.
01:01:52
It's got little production notes in it.
01:01:55
It's got just stuff about the Queensland you know the band in
01:02:01
Queensland movies and things like that.
01:02:02
It's really good.
01:02:03
Lots of special features right on the disc itself.
01:02:07
Did you have any special features that stuck out for you
01:02:10
on there besides the Late Show bit?
01:02:12
The Late Show bit is great.
01:02:14
Matt: Yeah, the Late Show bit is great, but I have to say I'm
01:02:17
disappointed in the quality on it.
01:02:19
So they've ripped it directly from YouTube.
01:02:22
But other than the Gavin Wood interview, which is good, and in
01:02:27
fact just beforehand I was listening to the commentary with
01:02:32
Tony Martin and the film historian Jarrett Gahan
01:02:36
Apologies if I've said his name incorrectly, but that was quite
01:02:40
informative as well, especially when Tony's admitting it's like
01:02:44
oh, I didn't have much to do with the movie other than talk
01:02:47
about it on the Late Show.
01:02:49
But the 30th anniversary Q&A the Monster Fest Q&A was really,
01:02:53
really cool and yeah, I haven't gone through all of them yet,
01:02:58
but ever since you know I don't want to take the steel your
01:03:02
thunder on this, but after you pointed out to me there was a,
01:03:07
there was an Easter egg in it I had a quick look at it.
01:03:10
Pete: And you found it.
01:03:11
Matt: I found it.
01:03:12
Pete: Yeah, so I'll spoil it In case you haven't found it,
01:03:16
because a lot of people have found it.
01:03:17
I think I posted something on the Umbrella Facebook site about
01:03:21
it and a few people look like they've found it.
01:03:23
Basically, if you go to the menus and you keep going to the
01:03:28
right until you come to the little blood drip at the end of
01:03:30
the knife on the main screen, then it takes you to like looks
01:03:35
like a student film that Oli Martin made or something called
01:03:38
the Dumbiner or the Dumberer or something.
01:03:40
Yeah, did you watch it?
01:03:42
Matt: I watched a bit of it and it's very arty and very weird.
01:03:45
Yeah.
01:03:49
It's because it's two guys yeah , a deaf guy or whatever going
01:03:51
around with talking and saying with headphones and stuff.
01:03:54
So yeah yeah, like I skimmed through a bit of it and he was a
01:03:58
bit.
01:03:59
He's either deaf or sensitive to particular sounds.
01:04:03
Yeah, yeah, because of his reactions to certain things.
01:04:07
So, yeah, I couldn't quite make heads or tails of it.
01:04:11
Pete: But that's very strange.
01:04:13
It looks like a student film because it's some of the cuts
01:04:16
have like different colored, like blackouts not blackouts but
01:04:20
colored outs.
01:04:21
Whatever the color is, there might be a blue one or a yellow
01:04:24
one or a red one, and I'm sure they all mean something.
01:04:27
But yeah, it's very strange.
01:04:31
Matt: I also watched as well the before and after, like the
01:04:36
restoration process.
01:04:38
Like they did the comparisons.
01:04:39
So while they did a decent job for what the source material was
01:04:44
, I figured, and the splicing of it, the way that they did it,
01:04:50
the comparisons, they kind of proved what I had thought the
01:04:55
entire time and there was some moments in it where the
01:04:58
restoration was too harsh.
01:05:00
So, like it looked like it was too burnt the color and when
01:05:05
they showed the part where the first victim of at the beginning
01:05:11
and when they showed the original footage, and then
01:05:16
there's it was, and on the other side of the screen it was the
01:05:20
restoration and the original footage.
01:05:23
You could see detail on her face and the color was a bit
01:05:28
washed and all that, but you could see, you know, specks or
01:05:31
freckles or anything like that.
01:05:32
On the restoration it was like it was airbrushed or too harsh.
01:05:38
Pete: Okay, yeah.
01:05:39
Matt: It was too bright, but that's just my observation for
01:05:41
being a bit OCD on that.
01:05:43
Pete: It's hard, though I think.
01:05:44
I think the problem really is the source material, right.
01:05:47
Matt: Yeah, so they they only could do what they could do with
01:05:49
it and they did a decent job for what?
01:05:52
Like yeah, directly, even though they got that disclaimer
01:05:56
saying it came from here and they had to upscale it.
01:05:58
Yeah and yeah, so credit to them for doing something with it
01:06:03
.
01:06:03
Pete: Yeah, no, it was good.
01:06:04
It was definitely a better experience than watching it.
01:06:07
You know, it would have been nice if they'd done like I think
01:06:11
they did with Razorback.
01:06:12
With their release of Razorback they had, like, the VHS release
01:06:16
as one of the extras.
01:06:18
Matt: Oh, okay.
01:06:19
Pete: Yeah, which would have been cool to see, like the
01:06:21
original release of it as one of the special features of the.
01:06:25
Matt: VHS copies are just like.
01:06:27
Should treat them like vinyl where it's got their warmth.
01:06:32
Pete: But yeah, so it's a good set.
01:06:34
It's definitely worth buying and you know it's a.
01:06:37
I guess.
01:06:37
To summarize my final thoughts on the film is fuck.
01:06:42
Speaker 4: I love it.
01:06:44
Matt: Well, I enjoyed it.
01:06:45
It was good to, but you gotta wait, watch it.
01:06:48
Wait a few years, watch it again and enjoy it with a stiff
01:06:53
drink.
01:06:54
Gavin Wood: Yes.
01:06:55
Matt: And with an open mind.
01:06:56
So just do not take it seriously and just appreciate
01:07:02
the quality, the underground disco quality.
01:07:08
Pete: And what happened to the underground disco?
01:07:10
Matt: That's a good question.
01:07:11
I'm not a Melbourneite or haven't been associated with
01:07:14
anything.
01:07:15
Someone can tell us.
01:07:16
Pete: Someone will tell us.
01:07:17
Someone from Melbourne tell us what happened to the underground
01:07:19
disco.
01:07:20
There you go.
01:07:20
I've asked for a few things in this podcast.
01:07:23
Matt: Please do.
01:07:24
And yeah, let us bar up.
01:07:26
Sorry, gavin Wood should really trademark that quote.
01:07:32
Pete: He really should.
01:07:33
Matt: Yeah, but yeah, other than that, like I enjoyed really
01:07:37
watching it and yeah it's, it's a treasure.
01:07:42
Pete: Yeah, I'll be honest, it's not a good movie, right, if you
01:07:45
, if I might have said it's great, I'm loving it.
01:07:47
It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but
01:07:52
it's kind of I don't know.
01:07:54
It's made with love, I think, and it's kind of like I don't
01:07:59
know.
01:07:59
It's one of those movies is just kind of like.
01:08:02
You like it because it's because it's corny.
01:08:06
It's before the time where they were like nudge, nudge, wink,
01:08:10
wink sharknado sort of thing.
01:08:13
You know what I mean.
01:08:14
Matt: Yeah.
01:08:14
Pete: It's like it's before the time of, like the oh, we know
01:08:18
this is going to be shit and we're going to play up to that
01:08:21
when this is just innocent shit.
01:08:23
Right yeah, and I think that's why, like, I would think that
01:08:28
this is more fun to watch than Sharknado, for that fact, oh,
01:08:32
imagine that there's a houseboat series, a trilogy or a
01:08:37
franchise and happens on different houseboats and
01:08:42
different lakes.
01:08:43
Matt: So you could maybe do like the houseboat, do a sequel of
01:08:49
houseboat horror and the houseboat the original houseboat
01:08:53
or one of them from the originals blows up or sinks or
01:08:56
whatever, and they use elements and the house, the murdered
01:09:01
houseboats, the fragments of it used to be incorporated into new
01:09:07
houseboats.
01:09:08
Yeah, I think I may have thought about that too much you
01:09:12
may have.
01:09:12
But yeah, it's been off into a franchise.
01:09:16
Pete: Yeah, absolutely, why not?
01:09:18
Matt: Houseboat franchise.
01:09:19
Pete: You could remake this movie with an iPhone and it
01:09:23
would look better than the movie the original movie.
01:09:28
Matt: Oh yes, Now, with today's technology, it's just yeah, you
01:09:31
could do that or you could film it, and but you have to use all
01:09:35
your apps and programs and like to lower the quality to match
01:09:38
the original.
01:09:40
Pete: You'd have to add all those filters, like you know,
01:09:42
yeah like a 1980s video filter or something and usually sent in
01:09:47
garage band.
01:09:48
Perfect, all right.
01:09:53
So that's houseboat horror.
01:09:55
What do you want to plug?
01:09:57
Let me know what you're doing.
01:09:58
I know you've got a cool website.
01:10:00
I only just discovered it recently.
01:10:02
Matt: Oh, I'm sorry.
01:10:02
You told me that that's fair.
01:10:05
Pete: Let us know what you're up to Let me know where you're up
01:10:07
to and where people can find you .
01:10:09
Matt: Sure, okay, as I mentioned previously, and I'm one who
01:10:14
doesn't like plugging too much of their own stuff, I like other
01:10:16
people plugging their own things.
01:10:17
That's all right, but all right , I was struck.
01:10:20
Pete: Like I said, you're not getting paid, so you might as
01:10:23
well plug something.
01:10:23
Matt: This is a big thrill, honestly.
01:10:25
So, yeah, champagne Comedy podcast and, yeah, that's
01:10:29
everything.
01:10:29
That's our working dog D-Gen late show.
01:10:33
At the time of this recording, we're reviewing frontline and
01:10:37
also having interviews and stuff like that.
01:10:38
So that's on all podcast platforms.
01:10:42
So that little thing.
01:10:43
And yeah, my website is my geek culturecomau, where it's just a
01:10:49
bit of majority of it's Australian nostalgia niche bits
01:10:54
and pieces.
01:10:55
There's something there for everyone and that's run by
01:10:58
myself and I've actually got a couple of interviews on there,
01:11:03
some podcasts just of, yeah, random bits and pieces.
01:11:06
So that might be something where you find in there and go
01:11:10
hey, I remember that TV show, like yeah, so just anything like
01:11:15
that.
01:11:15
Pete: You anywhere on the socials.
01:11:17
Matt: Oh plenty, twitter or whatever social media thing is
01:11:23
existing, whatever is still surviving.
01:11:25
You can contact me like I'm at mattfulltoncomau.
01:11:30
My website is mattfulltoncomau.
01:11:33
Yeah, so you can see all my back work of everything and
01:11:39
shameful photos of me rubbing shoulders with other big-notted
01:11:43
people like Brian Mates.
01:11:47
Pete: I know it'll terribly date the podcast eventually, but are
01:11:50
you on threads yet?
01:11:51
Matt: I actually my geek culture is, but not my personal one.
01:11:57
But I am on Instagram and like that.
01:11:59
We're the same username, mattfulltoncomau, so if you're
01:12:04
trying to find me with anything, it'll be basically my website
01:12:08
domain without the dots.
01:12:10
Pete: All right, Matt.
01:12:10
Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.
01:12:12
It's been really great having you on.
01:12:13
Matt: Peter, it is an absolute thrill, as I said a long time
01:12:19
listener, first time caller and what I and listeners, what
01:12:24
happened, how we met, is just yeah seriously my head just
01:12:31
exploded at the pub that we're at.
01:12:32
It was just like, oh my god.
01:12:34
Seriously, it's an absolute thrill to do this, and I'm glad
01:12:38
that there's more than one person out there who enjoys this
01:12:41
stuff as much as I do.
01:12:43
So I worship the ground you walk on mate, Please don't.
01:12:49
Pete: I'm not worth worshiping.
01:12:50
I'm a false god.
01:12:51
There's nothing wrong with that .
01:12:55
Matt: Hey, the podcast is magnificent, so keep on the
01:12:57
great work, mate.
01:12:58
Pete: Oh, thank you.
01:12:58
I'm glad someone listens to it.
01:12:59
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01:13:08
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01:13:11
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01:13:54
Gavin Wood: Jimmy Costello, which is always the name.
01:13:57
If I ever went bust in radio and creditors were trying to
01:14:00
find me, I'd go over to Perth and get a job on radio there and
01:14:07
my name would be Jimmy Costello .
01:14:08
That was my alter ego.
01:14:11
Matt: Oh, wow.
01:14:12
So you got to play with that and be in your own little
01:14:15
imaginating world really playing that character.
01:14:18
Gavin Wood: Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
01:14:19
I mean that movie.
01:14:21
I mean people are still talking about it.
01:14:24
It's like countdown.
01:14:24
It was done with the best intentions and it was done with
01:14:29
heart.
01:14:29
That movie was done for $10 .
01:14:32
Wow, yeah, we got $10 out of the underground disco and it
01:14:38
paid for some of the crew.
01:14:42
I did it for nothing.
01:14:43
A lot of people did it for nothing.
01:14:46
They ran out of money for catering, so one day we got
01:14:50
lettuce sandwiches for lunch.
01:14:54
That's when we realized that things aren't going too well
01:14:56
here.
01:14:56
The director, kendall Flanagan, had a heart attack halfway
01:15:03
through and couldn't continue on , so so Ollie Martin had to
01:15:07
carry on and be the director.
01:15:09
It was a mess.
01:15:11
The film crew and the television crew it was kind of
01:15:15
half-half and the film crew hated the television crew
01:15:18
because the television crew were all falling down drunk and the
01:15:22
film crew were very professional .
01:15:24
There was just a lot of booze and I think we worked for booze
01:15:31
for two weeks up at the Elden.
01:15:32
We'd never made a movie before and I think just the idea of
01:15:39
making a movie was very romantic and we did it.
01:15:42
Goddammit, it all appeared that bad, but we did it.
01:15:45
Matt: The line that you're really known for in that movie
01:15:48
was saying the view's magnificent, you'll bar up.
01:15:51
Now was that an improv line or was that in the script?
01:15:55
Gavin Wood: No, it wasn't in the script.
01:15:56
They just said get up there and be excited about the view.
01:16:00
And I went oh god, okay.
01:16:01
I said hey, fellas girls, guys, come up here.
01:16:04
It's magnificent, the view's magnificent, you'll bar up.
01:16:08
And then they went perfect.
01:16:14
Matt: That is amazing.
01:16:16
Gavin Wood: And isn't it funny, just a simple little thing like
01:16:19
that stands out and remains part of the culture.
01:16:24
I think it's magnificent that this $10 movie is still
01:16:29
getting people talking about it.
01:16:31
It's quite amazing.
01:16:32
It was just controlled chaos and, as I said before, a lot of
01:16:38
VB.
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