MY CALL: This is exactly what you want out of a B-movie: the plot and acting isn’t too bad (actually, it’s fine), the gore is abundant and solid quality, and the creature effects transcend the low budget. Oh, and it’s got LOADS of action and effects scenes providing excellent pacing. MORE MOVIES LIKE Parasite: For more low budget Alien (1979) rip-offs, you should seek Contamination (1980; aka Alien Contamination), Alien 2: On Earth (1980), Scared to Death (1980), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Forbidden World (1982; aka Mutant), Inseminoid (1982; aka Horror Planet), Creature (1985), Creepazoids (1987), Blue Monkey (1987), Nightflyers (1987), Deep Space (1988), The Terror Within (1989), The Rift (1990), Dark Universe (1993) and Zombies: The Beginning (2007).
IMDB synopsis: “Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini; Wavelength, The Alchemist) has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles (Demi Moore; Bunraku, Ghost, The Seventh Sign), must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus (Luca Bercovici; Frightmare, The Granny, Scanner Cop), his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant (James Davidson).”
Director Charles Band (Meridian, Doctor Mordrid, Hideous!, Head of the Family) gets this low budget Alien-riff off to a solid start with excellent pacing—a most unusual perk for low budget horror of its era… or most any horror of any era. I’m so accustomed to opening a film with a solid scare or death or gore scene, followed by 40-60 minutes of dragging exposition before the monsters are on screen and the deaths finally stack up.
In the present case, we open with a nightmarish scene of someone tied down probably for some sort of experiment; after a laboratory accident a scientist is parasitized by a leech-like-tadpole-thing that uses its acidic fish slime to dissolve through his skin; slow-motion fist fights and laser guns garner a kind grindhouse throwback; and exploitation shots (although this is no exploitation film, really) featuring nudity and sexual assault and even a topless fight with a feral woman. That’s a high level of action and effects to kick things off, and all this happens in the first act. Bravo, Charles Band. You have my attention!
These old B-movies make me giggle so much. Welcome to “the future”—1992! The world is populated by 80s punk-gangs of miscreants, silver is the main currency, and we have laser guns! Doctor Paul Dean is wandering the modern wasteland, staying in seedy B&Bs doing hotel room research to find a cure for his ever-growing stomach parasite. But once the local gang takes an interest in him, they steal his coffee Thermus which contains a much larger acid-slimy facehugger-chestburster-tadpole thing that, of course, kills someone in a goofy creature effects scene.
Hot on Dean’s infected trail is the laser-pointer-toting Merchant, who drives around in a mega-luxury car and lases the crap out of everyone. That pen-laser thing is deadly! Meanwhile Dean is racing to find a cure to save himself and keep the monster from reproducing millions of spores that would surely mean the end of mankind. All the while the parasite has grown to the size of a small dog and looks like a tadpole and a deep sea hagfish produced a toothy-mawed nightmare spawn similar to a juvenile larva in The Deadly Spawn (1983). Effects-wise, it’s a slimy rubber hand puppet, and I love it! Just about the right size for Dean to try to capture it with a blanket as if it were a stray feral cat.
The gore is actually just as fun as the creature effects. We see monstrously emaciated victims after the parasite feeds and it bursts out of their face (much like in Alien 2: on Earth), there’s stomach-bursting gobbledygook, and the closing shot of a flesh-melted char-broiled burn victim is just excellent.
As far as B-movies go, I just love this. And Demi Moore plays a major role in it. Enough said.
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The MFF Podcast #131: Solo, a Star Wars story, a man-eating Wookie and a giant space squid.
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SUMMARY: This week we discuss the Star Wars prequel Solo (2018) and wonder how giant space monsters feed themselves. If you are a fan of the Star Wars world and like podcasts that get incredibly nerdy about it, you will love this episode. You will hear about spoilers, Lando and his droid, cameos, Easter eggs and all the behind-the-scenes drama that happened before the movie hit the screens.
For more Star Wars and podcast discussions, check out…
Episode 110: The Last Jedi and Green Milk
Episode 86: Rogue One, Two Capes and Three Death Stars
Random Data and the Star Wars Universe
Solo: A Star Wars Story makes the ‘Han shot first’ debate even messier
The Five Step Guide to making a great standalone Obi-Wan Kenobi film
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MY CALL: An aimless story in a B-movie populated by insignificant events, the occasional exploding head, and some gory tentacle attacks. MORE MOVIES LIKE Alien 2: On Earth: For more low budget Alien (1979) rip-offs, you should seek Contamination (1980; aka Alien Contamination), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Forbidden World (1982; aka Mutant), Inseminoid (1982), Creepazoids (1987), Blue Monkey (1987), Deep Space (1988), The Terror Within (1989) and The Rift (1990). If you need reinforcement to avoid spelunking as a hobby, try The Strangeness (1985), Mutilations (1986), Indigenous (2014) and The Descent (2005).
Honestly, I’d struggle to offer an informative plot synopsis other than “some spelunkers are attacked by ridiculous cave monsters with confusing biology.” This film’s story was completely incoherent and random like so much other Italian horror. IMDB offers a bit more: “A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people’s bodies and make them explode. A group of cave explorers are attacked by the monsters inside an underground cave, but the survivors are in for a surprise when they finally manage to escape the trap…” Given the title Alien 2, it seems to imply that this all soooort of occurs after the events of Alien (1979)—which is the “part 1” predecessor of this film.
This film suffers from boring pacing for the first hour, but finds its more entertaining footing once the gore and creature is introduced. When we first meet our monster it’s in the form of a blue “something-or-other” and it apparently gorily removed a child’s face—we don’t see how this happens. It struck me as a pulsating blue rock that eats faces at this point.
Written and directed by Ciro Ippolito (as Sam Cromwell), this B-movie’s best attribute is its cavern sets. Despite idiotic dialogue and exposition, our characters wander a truly awesome subterranean scape which our alien monster made its lair. And what, again, is this monster? Well, as the film progresses we slowly learn more about this alien aberration, although we understand with no greater clarity its nature.
After infecting a member of our spelunking team with its “facehugger-like” stage, it then rips its way out of her face (like a chest burster). And although none of this really makes any sense, it’s a gory delight and it revels in what it accomplishes with its humble budget. My favorite part had to be the gore-slathered upside-down decapitation gag. Prime b-movie gore!
Spelunkers die, show their boobs, and run around stalagmites in a panic. During this journey we encounter yet another stage of our monster shaped like a big stalagmite with gory tentacle-like pseudopods that lash about and mutilate faces. Additionally, these monsters can mimic their victims to create infected pod-person-clone decoys much as we find in The Thing (1982) or Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). So now I really have no idea how their biology works, but we also can now imagine the threat these beings pose to humanity should they escape this cave system and find their way to a city.
This odd rock monster actually reminds me of the weird flower monster in Blood Beach (1980).
This film works best when tentacles are lashing and no one is trying to move the story along. Whenever the plot does find development, it’s messy at best. So, watch this for what it is: a shameless Alien rip-off boasting fun gore.
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MY CALL: Along with Happy Death Day (2017), this film is setting the new standard for the horror-comedy. Wonderfully written, acted and shot, filled with great characters, and on top of that it’s both hilarious and gory, yet never scary. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Babysitter: Few films compare, but Piranha 3D (2010), Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), Final Destination 5 (2011), Cooties (2015), Deathgasm (2015), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) and especially Happy Death Day (2017) come to mind. For yet more horror comedy in general try Critters (1986), Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (1991), Leprechaun (1993), Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009), Chillerama (2011), Piranha 3DD (2012), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), Bad Milo (2013), Warm Bodies (2013), Burying the Ex (2014), Smothered (2014), Housebound (2014), Zombeavers (2014), The Voices (2014), He Never Died (2015), Ava’s Possessions (2015), The Final Girls (2015), What We Do in the Shadows (2015), Krampus (2015; not exactly comedy, but occasionally hilarious), Love in the Time of Monsters (2015) and The Greasy Strangler (2016).
I’ve just gotta’ say WOW. In the first 10-20 minutes of this film I had completely forgotten I was watching a horror movie as I was introduced to an array of wonderfully lovable characters. From our over-worrisome preteen Cole, to his endearingly mean bullies, his nice neighbor (Emily Alyn Lind; Lights Out, The Haunting in Connecticut 2), his awesome yet credibly funny and refreshingly “real” parents, and ultimately his off-the-charts perhaps coolest ever (to even her angsty, heavily crushing evening charge) babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving; Mayhem, Ash vs Evil Dead)—we can instantly gather how much the writer, director and cast cared about what would transpire on film. This is so funny, yet not quite over-the-top while still being over-the-top, that I could watch them on a sitcom or in a PG-13 comedy all day.
Director McG (Terminator Salvation) is an expert at likeable characters (Charlie’s Angels), feisty sexiness without being overly raunchy (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle), and being occasionally over-the-top. And, you know what, it really shows here. He has clearly mastered his craft and did so crossing genres! No simple feat! It’s like McG is speaking to us of what he loves most about fatherhood, marriage and (mostly) adolescence through these characters. Cole’s boob stare was totally understandably human for a boy with a hot, geekcentric, cinephilic babysitter. We’ve all lived that moment of weakness and the scene didn’t feel cheap at all. Plus, she was so awesomely full of pop culture references! How could he not have a crush on her?
Bee is my dream girl. She includes a xenomorph egg, two Star Trek captains (from two different series) and the Independence Day gang in her intergalactic dream team, she breathes movie references dating back 35 years ago (e.g., E. T., Aliens, Predator), she’s geekathetic, and she’s gorgeous. From the time Bee rescues Cole from his bully to getting instructions from Cole’s Mom (Leslie Bibb; Flight 7500, Trick ‘r Treat, Midnight Meat Train, Hell Baby) and Dad (Ken Marino; Bad Milo) for her overnight babysitting gig, she is a charming joy to watch—and so is everyone else. I know, I won’t shut up about these characters. But they MADE THE MOVIE! And they made it awesome and fun and refreshing and rewatchable.
Best GIF ever. You’re welcome.
Bee and Cole proceed to enjoy the best babysitting day EVER complete with dance-offs, science fiction banter, swimming, homemade pizza and backyard movie projectors. After Cole goes to sleep, Bee’s friends John, Max, Sonya (Hana Mae Lee; Pitch Perfect 1-3), Allison (Bella Thorne; MTV’s Scream, Amityville: The Awakening) and Samuel (Doug Haley; Heroes) stop by for a game of Truth or Dare that takes an interesting turn into human sacrifice, witchcraft and what appears to be a flesh-bound Necronomicon.
Raimi-esque blood-spews ensue to maintain the grin-worthy nature of this horror comedy. Things turn into an occasionally gory mess, Cole rightfully questions Max’s shredded-abbed shirtlessness, cat-and-mouse victim hunting proceeds, and Cole finds clever (or accidental) ways to defeat his young adult foes as we are Ready Player One’d with yet more pop culture references to The Warriors (1979), Star Trek: TNG (1987-1994) and Friday the 13th (1980).
PODCAST SIDEBAR: If you want to know more about The Babysitter, check out our in-depth podcast discussion: Episode 129: The Babysitter. Mark did TONS of research on the film (along with a solid review) and the behind-the-scenes. You’ll walk away with an appreciation for how inconsiderate it was for Forrest Gump (1994) to eat Jenny’s chocolates, intergalactic space team assemblages, and whether Bee (Samara Weaving) is actually “evil” and how old she might truly be. You may also enjoy Episode 116: Happy Death Day.
That’s it, folks. I have nothing but love for this film and hope you watch and feel the same! Enjoy.
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MY CALL: Raunchy but not sleazy, this horror-comedy B-movie brings some satisfying gore and incredibly non-mainstream themes and humor to the table. MORE MOVIES LIKE Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh: I’d go with Frankenhooker (1990), Brain Damage (1988) and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988). Alternate Title: Picking Up the Pieces.
“Two cops and a detective’s daughter go after a chainsaw killer.” –IMDB
This cheap, B-movie, horror comedy boasts a tone that falls somewhere between a dark rated-R The Naked Gun (1988) and a more tasteful Troma film (if there is such a thing). This off-color atmosphere doesn’t really do it for me, or perhaps it was just the lousy dialogue and acting. However, its campiness was appreciated and by the end of the movie I found myself enjoying it. Maybe I just had to get into the right mindset. This is, after all, really ridiculous.
Getting past the weird tone, this cheesy movie dishes out a lot of premium B-movie cheap gore. As our detectives investigate a series of murders, the crime scenes are joyously messy with macabre chunkery. Culling the guts and brain matter aside, they discover obscure notes (inside the victims) written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The gore effects include an elaborate skull-sliced head, a silly autopsy, and an outstanding face-peeling scene. But the suction death was my favorite even though we see very little of it happening as the killer sucks the entire digestive tract through a woman’s mouth.
In order to conduct these murders, our killer travels about with a generator into which one must plug in the various killing implements which include industrial sucking machines, chainsaws and jackhammers—pretty much the kind of stuff you’d see on sale at Home Depot.
That moment when the Egyptian priestess in the sexy underwear and high heels strangles a hostage with a whip, taunts you with a chainsaw, and threatens to smush her in the trash compactor… that’s when you know you’ve hit quality B-movie territory.
My greatest issue with this film is how misleading the title is—not that this is an unusual case in B-movie history. The “blood-sucking” is limited to the suction death (which, yes, I did enjoy). I was hoping for a kooky kind of mummified Dusk til Dawn (1996) theme rather than a blood-bathing Egyptian ritual. But throw in some sexy Egyptian lady ninjas, a loony addiction clinic for smokers and a scantily clad chainsaw priestess (Veronica Hart), and I guess ass can be forgiven.
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This may seem like an absurd topic to write about but I felt the world needed this list. Just imagine that all of the characters below are immortal and are part of the Highlander world which means they gain power by chopping off each other’s heads. Thus, our hero Duncan MacLeod has to engage them in battle before they can become too powerful and potentially rule the world.
If you aren’t familiar with the Highlander world here is a very simple breakdown:
- The Highlander (Christopher Lambert) is somewhat immortal (long story… they need to die violently to become immortal, and can die if they don’t chop off other immortals heads once they become immortal)
- He stays immortal and gains more power (The Quickening) when he battles and decapitates another immortal (The Gathering). The last remaining immortal receives “The Prize.” However, if a jerky immortal wins the world goes into an eternal dark age
King Ghidorah – Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Normally I’m very good at figuring out the logistics of cinematic battles and weird movie moments (read my data post here). However, I have no clue how poor Duncan would be able to chop off Ghidorah’s three heads because it would involve climbing, chopping and a whole lot of sawing. Duncan’s best bet would be if he wasn’t noticed because he is so tiny and his sword strikes wouldn’t even register enough for Ghidorah to notice. An added downside of this fight is Duncan would have to climb up and down every day and there is the potential Ghidorah could fly away at any moment which means Duncan would have to follow it and hope it was there when he got to the location.
Conclusion: It might be best to leave Ghidorah alone.
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The Juggernaut – X-Men: The Last Stand
It would be almost impossible to kill an unstoppable mutant who has a metal hat over his head/neck. Even if Duncan were to land a solid strike his sword would bounce off the metal and potentially break. Also, the juggernaut is a fast sonuvabitch who at the sign of danger would simply run through a brick wall and escape. I can’t think of anything more terrifying than the Juggernaut running towards me with a sword, and I’m guessing any immortal battling him would feel the same way.
Conclusion: Maybe attack the Juggernaut when he’s sleeping.
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The Headless Horseman – Sleepy Hollow
I added The Headless Horseman because the idea of the Highlander battling someone who doesn’t have a head is really funny. Imagine the absurdity of the situation as poor Duncan swings in vain as he and the horseman parry for hours. It’s safe to say that Duncan would tire out eventually and would have to retreat in shame when he realizes it’s impossible to decapitate a person who doesn’t have a head.
Conclusion: This might be the end of Duncan.
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Jeebs – Men in Black
How annoying would it be to think you’ve won a battle and quickly realize you have to chop someone’s head off again (and again)? It would be exhausting to battle Jeebs because the thrill of victory would soon lead to depression when you realize all your hacking is for naught. The best bet is to go by Jeebs place once-a-day and chop off his head. It would be annoying for both of you, but at least you’re trying to attain more power and not taking up too much of his time in the process.
Conclusion: I feel bad for Jeebs.
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The Thing – The Thing (1982)
What would you swing at? Would it spit gross stuff at you? Would it look all nasty and squishy? Seriously, you would never know where its head is and getting close to the thing would mean certain death (via grossness). If you chopped off the head would it just grow legs and walk away? There are so many questions here it makes battling the four characters above seem easy (and less gross)
Conclusion: Call Kurt Russell and Keith David and let them battle it.
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What movie characters did I leave out? Let me know in the comments.
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MY CALL: Basically, this is a low budget Australian Leatherface film starring a giant actor who does justice to the monster he’s playing. MORE MOVIES LIKE Charlie’s Farm: This movie most closely seems to follow the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974-2017), Wrong Turn (2003-2014), Hills Have Eyes (1977-2007) and Rob Zombie franchises (e.g., Halloween I-II, House of 1000 Corpses). For more Australian horror, try Razorback (1984), Wolf Creek (2005), The Howling III: Marsupials (1987), Dark Age (1987), Rogue (2007), Black Water (2007), Boar (2018; also featuring Nathan Jones, by the way) and Wyrmwood (2014).
When you hear the tagline, you can’t help but to think these people (i.e., the cast of victims) had it coming… Two couples (including Tara Reid; Urban Legend, A Return to Salem’s Lot, Sharknado 1-6) venture Australia’s outback to intentionally visit “Charlie’s Farm,” a place with a horribly violent history. Now why would you go and do that?
Naturally, our vacationing explorers ignore the stereotypical harbinger and proceed to their ill-fated destination despite the fact that the two girls in the group find his creepy warnings more than a tad compelling.
Yup. This shot does look familiar. It basically mashes up the victims’ approach to the cabin in The Evil Dead I-II/remake (1981, 1987, 2013) with the house in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Written and directed by Chris Sun (Boar), this Aussie Texas Chainsaw-ish movie is as troped as it is gory. It opens hard and brutal, then slowly drags for an hour of insufferably weak dialogue and exposition before releasing the Australian Kraken for the final (and thankfully exciting) third act. It’s not unlike Hatchet II (2010) and Victor Crowley (2017), in terms of pacing.
Flashbacks illustrate Charlie (Nathan Jones; Boar, Mad Max: Fury Road) as a child, his messed-up father John (Bill Mosely, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1000 Corpses, House), and the environment that reared his monstrous psychopathy. Such a childhood would easily yield a Leatherface or Victor Crowley, without a doubt.
As Charlie Nathan Jones is immense, working in the film’s favor. And, although the intensity of his presence has a short shelf life on screen, the head crushing, penis-slicing and force-feeding, lower jaw-ripping, and some nudity keep things rather lively.
At some point a concerned parent (of these twenty or thirty-somethings) heads out to look for them. It’s a nice role for Kane Hodder (Smothered, Death House Hatchet 1-4, Friday the 13th parts VII-X), and the Hodder-Jones fight more than a little satisfying even if the action lacked “splendid” choreography.
The movie strangely ends right on a kill. I guess they couldn’t be troubled to try and wrap it up. Or perhaps that was just another simple chapter in Charlie’s tourist-slaughtering Summer. But overall this was dumb gory fun, it was cool seeing Nathan Jones using his immense size to play a monster, and I enjoyed it for what it was. After all, I wasn’t exactly expecting much.
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The MFF podcast is back and we’re talking about Deadpool 2 and its abundance of sh*t-spackled-muppet-farts. If you are looking for a movie that features wholesale murder, bodies ripped apart and a very lucky hero named Domino, you are in luck! Deadpool 2 is an absolute blast that does a great job building off the original and expanding its world to include the derivative X-Force and time travel. In this podcast, we will be going really deep into spoiler territory and we’ve done our research to make sure any of your lingering questions are answered. Get ready to hear about the production, cameos, spoilers and little tidbits that will make you understand how much work Ryan Reynolds put into Deadpool 2.
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While watching Predators I felt bad for the special forces guy named Drake (thank you prequel comic) who spent many days building an intricate trap and having it fail spectacularly. I kept wondering how the guy was able to pull together boatloads of materials (wood, vines, rocks) without being heard or seen while preparing a trap that covered about 50 yards. there must’ve been a lot of cutting, scraping, grunting, swearing and hacking, and it seems virtually impossible that it wouldn’t be noticed. This trap went well beyond what Arnold Schwarzenegger did in Predator and it was all a waste of time.
The trap in Predator was nothing compared to the trap in Predators.
Why was building the trap a waste of time? My theory is the Predators were watching and chuckling the entire time he was building it. The hunters knew what he was doing and let him set up the trap so they could kill him when he finished it. They must’ve been impressed with his ingenuity and figured it would be funny to see the latest bunch of people dealing with it on the alien hunting preserve.
I watched the clip way too many times (50-second scene) and was able to make a rough count of everything needed for the trap and how much time it would take to set up. I’m not an expert on jungle survival (I did watch Jungle though) and I couldn’t begin to explain how to make a trap that shoots spikes into the ground, but I can make an educated guess that suggests how long the Predators waited.
Here are my assumptions:
- He did all the work by himself. This assumption is backed up by the Predators: Welcome to the Jungle prequel comic that was released by Dark Horse. Drake’s entire team was killed by the hunters and he became blinded by revenge which leads to his dumb plan.
- He worked every day from sunup to sundown. I’m thinking he worked for a solid 12 hours with a few needed breaks.
- In the comic, Drake stole a smart disc from the Predators and this tool helped him greatly with the chopping of wood (I’m guessing). So, even though we don’t see it in the movie I’m going to let him have it.
- The Predators knew exactly what he was doing.
- There could be more to his trap but I’m only counting what we saw onscreen.
Here is what he used for the trap:
*I figured out these numbers via a lot of pausing and educated guesswork
- 1300 feet of vines/rope/cords (at least)
- Two large pieces of deadfall – Each piece weighs at least 750 pounds – Adrien Brody suggests they might’ve weighed 1500 pounds each, but I’m sticking with 750.
- 100 sharpened branch pieces for the really cool but unnecessary spike trap
- 30 sharpened pieces of thick squat wood for the spike catapult trap
- 12 4 ft. sharpened poles place inside the 10-foot hole he made
- 20 feet of thick branches for the large wooden spike trap
- A bunch of palm fronds and branches to cover up trip wires and holes.
How long did it take to set up the trap?
- One day to scout for a location and create a blueprint for the trap
- One day to find all the necessary branches, sticks, trees, rope, vines, palm fronds and deadfall
- Two days to cut the 100 pieces of wood for the overhead trap. The tops of each piece of wood have been cut flat and they’ve all been sharpened to penetrate tree roots.
- One day to cut the 32 pieces of wood for the underground and catapult traps. If you look at the pieces of wood on the catapult trap you see will that they’ve been cut into spears. This would take a lot of work considering how big the pieces of wood are.
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- One day to dig out the 10-foot hole. The hole may have been there already but it seems too symmetrical to be natural. He must’ve done some work to make it like that.
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- One day to build the catapult spike trap
- Three days to hang all the vines and place the wooden stakes into them. The amount of vine work is crazy because Drake set up a system that propels the pieces of wood down quickly. Thus, each piece of wood had to be specifically rigged to be shot into the ground.
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- One day to hang the deadfall for the swinging trap. I’d imagine he’d do this last to prevent it killing him while he was hanging vines.
Total Time = 11 Days to build the massive trap
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I’m not an expert on building 50-yard traps but after watching a bunch of Youtube clips and researching limited cutting options (another article here) I think 11 days is a solid option. I say this because the trap had so many time-consuming activities that it couldn’t be rushed or treated lightly. The biggest question I have about the trap is how he rigged the overhead vines without a ladder or step stool. Without a ladder, the amount of time it had to take to rig each spike in the overhead trap must’ve been very monotonous and he probably didn’t want to make too much noise which would’ve prevented serious hacking and breaking of logs.
Conclusion: It must’ve been entertaining for the Predators because they let Drake build everything, then one of them shot him in the back. It proves that the iconic hunters have a sense of humor and don’t mind letting others do work for them.
Poor Drake….
If you liked this random post make sure to check out my other stuff! Also, a big thanks to Brian Raftery at Wired for interviewing me about this dumb data.
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The MFF Podcast #129: The Babysitter
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SUMMARY: This week we discuss The Babysitter (2017), McG’s crisply dazzling Netflix Original horror-comedy that delivers all the lovably fun characters and pop culture of Charlie’s Angels (2000) with all the laughably blood-in-the-face spewing gore of Sam Raimi. We explore such notions as truly testing Liam Neeson’s special set of skills (Taken 1-3), how inconsiderate it was for Forrest Gump (1994) to eat Jenny’s chocolates, whether Bee (Samara Weaving) is actually “evil” and how old she might be, and what ever happened to our all Kurt Russell episodes (Episode 1: Kurt Russell’s Best Sleeveless Moments and Episode 50: Kurtchella).
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Episode 126: The Shape of Water, del Toro’s gill-man love story
Episode 123: The Ritual, Swedish hiking and the Norse Jötunn
Episode 117: Event Horizon, Hellraiser in space, and wrestling Graboids
Episode 116: Happy Death Day
Episode 115: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Episode 114: Office Horror, Mayhem & The Belko Experiment
Episode 113: Elise, her Demons and the Insidious Franchise
Episode 108: The Best Horror Films of 2017
Episode 78: Carpenter vs Zombie Halloween Rematch (1981 vs 2009)
Episode 76: The Blair Witch Pod (1999-2016)
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