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Who Invited Them - The Fall of the Summer of Shudder

[00:00:22] Scott: Does this hold up? And just what the hell is a good movie anyway? I'm Frank Roll. I'm Scott Moran. And we're the Last Video Store Clerks.

[00:01:04] Frank: or like just kind of trippy.

[00:01:12] Scott: overnight because somebody was posting like only fans links on their thing,

[00:01:19] Scott: reading the comments under one of those when it would pop up was delightful to me because like nobody was accepting that. It might be that they got hacked.

[00:02:03] Scott: Never clicked on an OnlyFans site. They're like 35 a month and then I'll let you buy things from me. See I'm not understanding how people are killing it because there's some, you know, like, free shit's everywhere. Um, I think that it's the direct interaction. Yeah. I'm sure there's a documentary or something that covers like why that is.

[00:02:31] Frank: Oh, a documentary

[00:02:32] Frank: it.

[00:02:43] Scott: It's like total recall. I quattro. I thought your shirt looked different tonight.

[00:03:16] Scott: You watch anything cool this week. Oh, it's dark matter.

[00:03:22] Scott: book The show is less but the same Infuriating to me. It's got the guy from Avatar, right? No, it's Joel Edgerton, the guy from, uh, uh, Bright with Will Smith. No, that's a bad example. Uh, he's in It Comes at Night. That guy. That's it.

[00:04:06] Scott: He did what happened? I don't know. He was in a lot and I feel like it started around Salvation, right? Like maybe that was one of the first ones clash of the Titans. Yeah, there you go And there was, there was more. Yeah. There was little things before that. And then I think he went down like a weird B Tom Hardy

[00:04:26] Scott: like, you know, when Tom Hardy was in like a lot of like kind of weird, uh, indie movies for a little while there.

[00:05:02] Scott: Well, no, and not to get too far off, but have we taboo with Tom Hardy? Did you see that? No. Oh, wait. Yeah, I did show that had one season. Yeah. And I was like, damn, it's kind of cool. Then it's just a, I've something happened though. I think Olympia and I looked it up and yeah, I think that was something I took down too fast.

[00:05:48] Frank: kidnaps you and you wake up in another life where you and your

[00:05:56] Scott: Right? Right. Right. Spoilers. That's the opening of the show. Uh, anyway, and then you're like, what is happening to me? Now you became a quantum physics professor for a reason, right? Like you definitely read a science, but you don't just like, don't read science fiction books and then become a quantum physics professor.

[00:06:35] Frank: another dimension

[00:06:45] Scott: Right. Is that like, does it, is it? No, no, it doesn't. It's really like, uh, uh, this guy made a thing and he's selfish and like, it's a live stealing thing. Stealing lives from yourself sort of thing. Okay. And then he ends up and he like wants to get back to his. Regular life the two paths diverged and then one guy crossed and sent the other guy to the other side These aren't big spoilers.

[00:07:34] Scott: It's it's essentially a sliders thing. There's only one season though? So far? Yeah, there's not seven seasons like there are sliders. There's seven seasons of sliders? No, but close. Like pretty close. Like not X Files length, but it was around a while. I've never seen the commercials. Yeah, I think Millennium took its place eventually.

[00:08:21] Scott: They'd be like, oh yeah, you get the Friday slot. Friday, primetime. Like, that's not a thing. Uh, any movies? No, not really. Nothing to write home about. Watched Easy A with Kelly. Or, I watched the second half of Easy A. And I was like, this is real cringy. I only saw it once like it's it's good, but it's also it's so like narrated cringy Like I was like, I saw this in the theater and I was like that was good But I was like, this is really difficult for me to watch so cringy.

[00:08:59] Frank: oh

[00:09:18] Scott: If you feel yourself being judgy at the beginning, just roll with it.

[00:09:24] Scott: Yeah, but at the beginning, and see, I never played the game. Did you play the game? Yes, a little bit. I did. I never played the game, but I always saw it, you know, like I read the little description and there was a movie.

[00:09:47] Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:59] Scott: And then boom, he starts doing the Piers interview. Like, it was right after I'd watched it. Is that the one where he cried about losing his house? Cried about his house being foreclosed on in Baltimore or something. And it's like, he's like, but it's as great of an actor as he is. It kind of seems fake.

[00:10:38] Scott: Not just, but then yeah, other people talking about other things that they heard or saw happen, like, you know, they witnessed.

[00:10:45] Scott: That's fucked up. I couldn't believe, I was watching it, and I'm like, I'm gonna play a phone game while I watch this. But no, the fucked up shit that he may have done. Allegedly.

[00:11:16] Scott: I'm so proud. That's good. We watched a startling amount of, like, just random shit. Time isn't the same. That's true. Wait, what do you know about quantum physics?

[00:11:32] Scott: switched lives, that's probably what happened. Oh, I invented this thing in my, I started to invent this thing when I was like in my

[00:11:45] Scott: Was it like the thing? I wonder what happened. If only I had a quantum physicist around. Wait, was it a Wait, I'm a quantum physicist! Was it an arc? It's like a, like a, a Schrödinger box. You know, is the cat alive or dead? It's superposition. But it's not a, like the, the spool? It's like the spoon in the Matrix.

[00:12:38] Scott: Wait, where's the question mark? Look, did I put a question mark on my notes? I did. Is that false? There wasn't in the title of the movie. No question mark. I'm deleting it. That way there's no proof of me ever being incorrect. It is wrong. Let's all say it right now. It's wrong to not have a question mark.

[00:13:15] Scott: Reflects, I feel like that's what maybe people didn't like if I had to assume why it wasn't higher You would be right and I read some IMDb reviews. Okay, but a lot of people were like, I mean saw it coming Yeah, the twist was just it's the twist to this movie It's presented to you fairly early on and it's not it's not shrouded in mystery You never really wonder if it's wrong afterwards.

[00:14:08] Scott: Like, do you think Frank's a hunter? I think Frank might be a hunter. I think Frank might be familiar with weapons. I think I'm just, I got a feeling, but I did like it. I did like it. No, I did like it. It's just, no, the one thing that stuck out the most besides my thumb,

[00:14:29] Scott: sorry, but I enjoyed the tone of this movie quite a bit.

[00:14:57] Scott: Um, almost a dinner party. Oh yeah. Almost. Adam and Margo move into their dream home in the Hills. Well, it's Adam's dream home anyway. This guy's a fucking douchebag. In pretty much everything. He's just meant to be unlikable. And he does a really good job at it. And I like him for it. It makes you have that spite towards him.

[00:15:37] Speaker 5: I don't know if I have any blonde Do I have any blonde around me?

[00:15:42] Scott: Blonde males are hard to trust. I don't talk to any blonde males. I don't! Whoa! It's because they die young. Holy shit. Wow. Got a couple redheads, though. Little Ron Howard's running around. Yeah, the gingers. On the night of their housewarming, the party is full of familiar faces except two. A younger couple that linger past when all the guests have gone.

[00:16:19] Scott: Yeah. As soon as like that is on the table, you're like, all right. And then they try and misdirect you, but in a weird order. In a weird order. And it's so much like fact stating. Yeah. Because the, the murder that happens in the house is like. It's a double hom like, double homicide where they killed each other, and then they later they talk about how the body's been fucked with?

[00:17:02] Scott: Yeah. That's what I'm saying. As soon as they said defiled, I was like, Oh man, they were, they were playing with their genitals. Yeah. No gloves. The kids. Yeah, it's fucked up, dude. Yeah, we'll come back to that, right? Oh, we'll be back. Yeah, yeah. No, the deeper part of that was like, Ha, ha, um, But as the evening gets drunker, the intentions of the uninvited guests seem to become to pit Adam and Margo against each other, and Adam and Margo become suspicious that the guests are impostors.

[00:18:04] Frank: know,

[00:18:07] Scott: I mean, yeah. And I feel like they were at least 30, like not a late twenties situation. Like they were at least 30. Yeah. Looking up the actors, I think he's younger and she's like around 30. She was younger than I expected. I did like that show that she was in. Who Invited Them was written and directed by Duncan Birmingham and was released exclusively on Shudder on September 1st, 2022.

[00:19:00] Scott: Teenie was also the last name I looked up for some reason. For some reason I had everybody else's down in my notes somewhere else and I was like what the fuck is her name? Yeah, I don't know that they said it that many times. I don't think they said it like too many at all and I feel like when they did it was at the very beginning when you were still trying to uh And you didn't catch it because who the fuck is named Teenie?

[00:19:39] Scott: Yeah, it could go either way in the eyes of A 5. 5 on IMDb is like saying nothing at all. It's like throwing your vote away. It is. Remember we used to talk, like we wanted that five. Yeah. You're voting for the green party when you give it a 5. 5, but there, but you're saying there's a chance. It's saying that you are a saltine cracker of a person.

[00:20:18] Scott: It was sort of a farce on what it was also. Yeah. You know, it was silly on purpose. Dude. When we watched the trailer, I thought it was going to be a paranormal thing. Like they had been killed in the house. Yeah. I actually thought that a couple of times. Yeah. I was like, did anyone else really see them? But somebody did.

[00:20:59] Scott: And the kid is not really a part of the movie. No, he's just there to have bad dreams, but it just fucking, it gave me those grudge vibes. Yeah, for sure. But it was like two wake up scene that is actually in, and other than that, he's just spoken of, I mean, I think that I got a sweet house in the Hills, even if I felt like a phony about it, like I'd still be like, I got a big fucking house, man.

[00:21:46] Scott: Fundamentalist Christian Schwarzenegger? What, Maria Schreiber? Maria Schreiber. Schreiber. Schreiber. Not Schreiber. There you go. See the sphincter sphincter, sphincter says what?

[00:22:06] Scott: No, this movie though, you'll see what's fucking coming, but it didn't, it didn't scare me away. A lot of the turns to were like, he was like, I have to go to gun club tomorrow. And you were like, okay, so this guy has a gun that they're going to use later. And it made you wonder like. Did they do that initially, or did, where later they were like, How do we get a gun here?

[00:22:47] Scott: She left the dog. She left the dog. She couldn't bring herself to finish the dog. And you think, oh, maybe she put it in the back to take it there. But I don't think she would continue driving around looking for the house to get the fucking doll. For the kid, by the way. Kid keeps waking up at her house.

[00:23:26] Scott: I don't know how that, how that affects things. She's a silent killer. She's stealthy. She's stealthy. Yeah, she kept it under 20. It's in the hills. You ever driven in those up in the like Hollywood? Yeah. No, I did. The one time like we went to LA. Uh, when we went to go see the sign, I drove on those in a minivan sucked.

[00:24:08] Scott: They had them locked in from like, I don't know, five minutes in. Got them high and they gave them cocaine. Yeah, that was funny. And they were like soccer mom level like. Oh, remember when we did cocaine? That's what i'm saying and they I like the way they did that because Margo seemed like you know We didn't know about her past at the point, but you're like, oh, she's like mom, you know in the hills She seemed more mom like to be the the like The musician that like gave up her, her dream to be a mom, you know?

[00:24:58] Scott: Oh yeah. They did. Because after the, the party was like stuffy and it wasn't what they liked. You know, everybody wanted to leave. They were all far away from where they lived. You know, Adam just showing off being Adam. Yeah. Well, people will do that too, where they're like, Oh, uh, I, I'm successful and now I live.

[00:25:39] Scott: Yeah, okay, and then like all of the other people at his work that he invited to show off friends with my douchey air quote Yeah, they never came so they needed friends You They needed new friends that were like nearby and wanted to hang out, you know? Well, yeah, and they were still living that younger like, you know, no nothing tying them down life You know, they were a little envious Adam and Margo and Adam just ate that shit up He even let he even let Tom touch his vinyl That's true, he did.

[00:26:24] Scott: That was the thing that, like, they both wanted. Like, she wanted to, like, do cocaine and hang out with a girl friend, you know? And he's like, oh, how can I have a threesome? And he was like, I can have sex with another woman. Yeah, like, this dude gave me the okay to get with his wife and my wife. Except it ends up being his fucking sister.

[00:27:05] Scott: Oh yeah, like, very rarely in my life have I come across that. Yeah. They're siblings that get along, and hang out, and you're like, oh, they're friends. But like, Not ones that are like, like we're gonna go and do cocaine together and get dressed up and go crash a party at the house where we, they convinced their parents to murder each other.

[00:27:47] Scott: In fact, like the whole movie, I was like, that guy, if he was this character, like would be really scary to me. You know, could you imagine if, uh, he got to the point in his career where he was like, starting to play like kind of a scary guy? Well, yeah. But at the same time, this guy was a little on the, I guess, sleek side.

[00:28:24] Scott: Like he didn't strike me as adult. Like he struck me as like, Mid twenties, maybe. See, I feel like that's like you saying, like, the kid from Spy Kids, who was in, um, The Green Inferno, would make an okay person in that role. Eh, uh, man, I can't picture him in my head right now. No offense, just, it doesn't fit to me.

[00:28:46] Frank: No, no, I wouldn't say that. You wouldn't say that? Uh, I, I feel like Anton Yukton would have been, like, He would have been a fuckin hell of an

[00:28:58] Frank: like,

[00:29:03] Scott: You have? I see it pops up here and there and I'm like, man, I should check it out again. Green Room. It's a fuckin barn burner. That shit fuckin horrifies me.

[00:29:21] Frank: Cause you've known the You feel like you've known the

[00:29:37] Scott: The, the manipulation is, level is high. So it goes down and then the, the hamster, don't forget nibbles. That seemed so unnecessary. I know, but all this little stuff goes down to where it's like, okay, the party's over. And then it's like, get out. And so being confronted, it's like, Oh, they're going to have to react.

[00:30:09] Scott: And it's like, well, okay, have a good day. Yeah, but it wasn't quite as, it wasn't so violent. Well, no, of course not. Of course not. Funny games was upsetting. It's one of the more upsetting movies of my life. I don't know why I own it. Never going to watch it again. Like the, uh, there's never a time where I'm like that, you know, that's what the foreign one or the American one, either one.

[00:30:50] Frank: but this one,

[00:31:04] Scott: Well, and like you're saying, borderline dinner party movie. I'd probably throw it in there. Yeah, for sure. It had that sort of a party, but then it's like a hangout. It's the nightcap of the dinner party. They had finger foods. Yeah. Cause the dinner party, it was never the dinner. No, let me get in there. They had finger foods.

[00:31:41] Scott: You know, we can talk about it all day. I like that them telling them to leave and the tense. Part of that was not offset, but like amplified by the fact that that's the point where teeny is like fucking lost, like it cuts to her and she's just fucking panicking, like full blown panicking, worried about where she is.

[00:32:21] Scott: Now. That's the only time and yeah, now that you say that, all you have to do is get back to GPS though. But here's the thing. In a car on a road, as long as you're not on like on a dirt road, mountains, yeah. That gets sketchy for sure. In New Mexico, we ended up at the top of, we were supposed to go to tent rocks.

[00:33:24] Scott: Yeah, that's when I had it. Yeah. Yeah, she was like, it's them That's that's what it is by the time they did the like reveal to the characters. Oh, they're the twins. Yeah Yeah, no shit Sherlock. It's kind of a bummer to me when the reveal happens Like

[00:33:48] Scott: I did think it was a weird, like, when they, they didn't turn on each other completely and she was listening. Like, that maybe they did feel like, they were like, they're not a bad couple so we won't kill them. There was some weird, like, it felt kind of random and then at the same time they felt like serial killers and I couldn't quite put my finger on which it was supposed to be.

[00:34:26] Scott: Yeah, you're gonna earn it. Yeah, like a little bit Mm hmm Because what we find out is these kids that had defiled their parents dead bodies Without reporting anything to authorities or anyone else for an extended period of time just playing in blood and watching TV all day and plotting Yeah, by the way, too good looking for this sort of activity.

[00:34:58] Frank: there's something off about that guy's face. I mean, come on.

[00:35:24] Scott: Oh, yes, yes, yes. No, I thought you were talking about that guy who was like, Went viral. He was like one of those first guys, like Henry Lee Lucas or something like that. Maybe that was the one. Yeah, I'm talking about Kai, the one who was like, yeah, supposedly saved somebody's life by the hatchet. Anyway, sorry, not Kai.

[00:36:02] Scott: She let that fucking dog just lay there and suffer. She deserved to get stabbed and have to lay in the road. We'll see. That's what I think about you, Teenie. So after she gets stabbed, right, like she hunches over, head hits the horn. They're like, what the fuck? Uh, But then she gets up, and when she gets the gun out of the back, there's no dog in the way back.

[00:36:36] Scott: If the dog dies there, you have still done what you needed to do. No one's going to put you in jail for running over a dog. Mm hmm. But you can't leave the fucking dog in the ditch because you can't shoot it. You need to pick that dog up and you need to take it to a vet. Well, didn't you like that? How she bumps into Sasha, right?

[00:37:19] Scott: And it's. You know, the two day off, it's like, yeah, these aren't, they knew. And then you're all gagged and shit. And of course, why is the rich guy like always like banging, like male prostitutes on the side? Like, why is that the go to? I guess we got the money. That's like, that's what the thing is everywhere.

[00:37:59] Scott: I actually felt kind of bad about it. I was like, Oh, he's got like the, he's a gay guy. Male escorts are getting a bad rap in Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz they're always like just the it's like the the dirty laundry on the rich old white guy the the male escort poor guys They're just out there working like everybody else.

[00:38:38] Scott: And I'm like, Oh yeah, it was like, Oh, he's sneaking off with the male escort. And it's like, that's what it always is. I, that doesn't bother me. It doesn't change how I feel about the movie. It's just, I don't know. I guess I wanted to talk about it. I get it. I get it. No, you know what I mean? Right? It's always like, well, he's sleeping with men.

[00:39:15] Scott: And then he was like, I'll get you a new one. And he like says it again, whatever, but it didn't stick in my head. And when the record didn't skip, I knew what was happening, but I was like that. Was the least obvious writing, I think, in

[00:39:28] Scott: whole movie, because I didn't expect that to be, he's stuck back in the house and yeah, it didn't skip, it didn't skip.

[00:39:54] Scott: You know, not like they would need to show, but like the guy was probably, you know, They were throwing the drinks in the plants or a sink when they weren't looking. Yeah, maybe. It's like bartenders would fill up a shot with water or just toss it without, you know, People thinking they're drinking with them and no, it's fucking shooting water back there.

[00:40:10] Scott: juice.

[00:40:43] Scott: I mean, that happened a lot. Yeah. You know, almost happened in clue. It did happen in clue, right? Did it, did he hit something or he got a flat tire or something like that? And then he met up with, no, what's her name? Or Scarlett or something. Scarlett had like a blown engine or flat tire. Something like that.

[00:41:04] Frank: to happen.

[00:41:18] Scott: He's the blonde guy. He's fine. He's good and, and Did you watch Party Down? I don't believe so. Part of you down was, uh, Adam Scott, Lizzie Kaplan, Brian Hanson, uh No, that's your second Adam Scott movie reference tonight. This is a TV series. It was an FX series. You're not an FX series. Sorry, it's a stars show.

[00:42:01] Frank: Yeah.

[00:42:09] Scott: All the same guy. Ah, all

[00:42:15] Scott: Oh, he was in Chips. Oh, yeah, it was the locker room guy, wasn't he? Was he? I feel like he was that cop in the locker room Anyway, we're gonna do suitable flesh suitable flesh and we can do i'm i'm also down to do the One you showed me moloch Was that the last one that you showed me?

[00:42:55] Scott: Oh. Oh my god, that looked like Benedict, uh, Cumbersnatch. But, I'm not like making fun of his last name. You can just throw so many things in there. I feel like I do something different every time. Cumberbund? Yeah. Have you ever wore a cumberbund? Yes. Only once in my life. When I was a young boy. I was a lad.

[00:43:35] Scott: I don't remember. I just remember some people like talking about things like that and being like, what is I feel like the tux that I got had one. Cumberbund. Yeah. Such a stupid thing. It's a hide your FUPA. But when I didn't have any fucking gut to hide was the thing that's back when I was like, still skinny as fuck.

[00:44:15] Scott: Yeah. But I don't essentially understand a vest. Dude, if you want to get an article of clothing, like it's shorts for your torso. So to me, it was like, oh, you know, it's a wedding and it's not super casual. It's a step up from like a more business casual. Cause like instead of just button up with tie, I didn't want to do blazer.

[00:44:54] Scott: Right? Yeah. Really fast. Cause that does happen here as well. No shit. And that's no 30 to 40 degree. Weather changes in a day, but yeah, so anyway the vest looking back. I wanted to make it simpler I have no no ass and my pants look awful in every fucking picture where you see my pants my slacks They were like 90s linen pants.

[00:45:33] Frank: Um, I, uh, we're, we're done. We're done. Yeah.