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Half in the Bag: Derivative Holiday Horrors

Half in the Bag: Derivative Holiday Horrors

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Loved Thanksgiving, guys. It's a Wonderful Knife was so bad I'm shocked it wasn't a Fear Street sequel. Happy New Year, lads.

Eric Sandage

Well done sir

TheSingingBush

... Captain Ron?

plop

Hey boss, if your going back stay on the path. You know there’s geurillas in these woods

TheSingingBush

TIL Kenji Lopez-Alt is a RLM fan eagerly awaiting a Mike and Jay review of Wonka. He posted on his Community tab here: https://youtube.com/@JKenjiLopezAlt?si=rNF4dTiObXbK1E9b You guys should have him on! It would be wholesome to see Kenji and Rich cooking or grocery shopping together

plop

Happy New Year to Rich Evans and also the other, more minor players in the RedLetterMedia empire!

Patrick Brennan

I watched There’s Something In the Barn with a group of Norwegians on New Year’s Day morning. Apparently a lot of the ‘lore’ is pretty accurate and it is the best movie we have seen this year.

Goldy Loxx

Porky Mc Dollar Store Whoopie Cushion

JTruts

British Columbia, District of Columbia, Colombia and Columbia University need a steel cage match to decide who gets the name.

Jeremy _

I can't believe I'm dying on the hill of "It's a Wonderful Knife", but I found it entertaining enough in spite of its problems. One of which is that modern comedy screenwriters seem mostly motivated by the need to prove that they would be brilliant party guests. Since the hypnotized townspeople at the end had a green glow in their eyes, I figured it had something to do with the aurora borealis that time-traveled the lead character in the first place. Maybe I'm reading intelligence into a scene where there was none, but it got the point across that the killer didn't need to operate in the shadows anymore. I also figured that Winnie and Bernie's attraction grew out of the fact that they were the only ones sympathetic to each other's plights. I thought it was fine. A comedy with no jokes? Come on, there was a great appearance of the comedic rule of threes when three characters made disgust noises at a sappy couple in love, only for it to turn out the third character made the noise because she was being stabbed. A horror movie where everything is safe? The lead character's relatives all turn out to be dead, about-to-be-dead, or about-to-make-other-people-dead. And no one believed her except the most outcast person in town. Honestly, if your inspiration is one of the most feel-good movies of all time, you shouldn't go Italian Cannibal.

Kurt

The AI knew to leave room for a sequel! Or maybe AI understands the spirit of forgiveness, especially for crappy gifts and stabbing.

Kurt

Porky Fartbag 4 life.

AllGoodNamesRGone

That’s 1st movie they talked about sounds like Hot Fuzz cuz the mayor sounds like the chief of police in Hot Fuzz. Wanting to kill whoever objects or gets in the way of their growth.

Amanda Foster

I can’t let this go: Joel McHale’s character in It’s A Wonderful Knife was an outright bad guy that gets zero comeuppance. In the original timeline, he’s the mayor’s stooge with zero spine, helping bully Cigarette Smoking Man into selling. Then, a year later, he’s favoring his son over his daughter, ignoring her future and getting her workout clothes for Christmas while he partners with his son and buys him a new truck. Then, in the alternate timeline, he’s off COMMITTING MURDERS, which his daughter stops by KILLING HIM. But then, in the end, the timeline reverts, and he’s seen giving Winnie a camera for Christmas and… all is well? Winnie still has a terrible, spineless, potential serial killer for a dad. 🤯

neuracnu

Thank you for including the poster for my movie A Corpse For Christmas in your video… even if the context was to just group it with a bunch of “cheap, crappy Christmas horror movies”. Haha. Though I personally think its worlds beyond Christmas Craft Fair Massacre that’s it’s shown next to, I’m still honored that you even know it exists. -Brewce Longo,

Bleedinghandcandle

White meat. Dark meat. All will be carved.

Silentphil9

Okay, so I'm reading a book where Claude Sautet (some French slasher movie guy) is interviewed on all of his movies. And one of his main actors, Daniel Auteuil, says that Sautet always wanted filmmaking to be an adventure, an experience that changes everybody involved in the process. So exactly what an AI does.

Marvin Falz

It's shot so well was what blew my mind

Jeff Kleist

That’d be a good one for next Christmas BOTW. What an odd little film.

Shane

I saw the face of Clint Howard in the background. From probably his best film.

Shane

The next time Mac pays you a visit, you need to do dial code Santa Claus, it definitely inspired home alone. it's got great cinematography and is a pretty decent movie

Jeff Kleist

Also, that Black Friday Sale scene in the beginning is fucking brilliant...

Manuel Johnen

I was worried you two were going to shit on Thanksgiving. I was pleasantly surprised by how much of an entertaining slasher it was and impressed by how much it made creative use of the holiday in the horror elements

Michael Parker

you misspelled "hobo"

dirtside

"Geshlapetap" sounds legitimately Norwegian

LunaTick

I can't give Eli Roth any credit for his "enthusiasm for film" anymore ever since Green Inferno started bombing and his near-release interviews about it of pivoted from "Yes this is my loving tribute to these these Italian movies" to "this is MY treatise on the woke agenda ruining our children" grifter shit.

Michael Nuccio

When I saw the trailer, I was absolutely shocked that it hadn’t been done before (was unaware of the fake trailer in Grindhouse). I gushed to my wife about what a brilliant idea it was and since she hates horror movies, she looked at me like I was some sort of psycho Pilgrim.

Banta

Honestly this makes me wonder how many new novels coming out are AI driven. Like movies every book plot is expected to be exactly the same. Same thing with the girl whose debut novel was pulled because she was caught posting fake reviews on a rival’s goodreads page. I’m pretty sure that is SOP and she just happened to do it poorly.

THE_GnomeChomskee

1.) The horror possibilities of Its A Wonderful Life are potentially good. Like, George Bailey running through his town and he never existed genuinely freaked me out as a kid. 2.) We need a horror film that's set on the *set* of a 'Hallmark' style movie. "the Cozy Killer" or something. Victims are strangled with flannel, boiled alive in hot chocolate, impaled on Christmas trees, etc.

Jeremy _

Also, good job Mike promoting Vancouver to an entire province. Fuck British Columbia, that’s like two other countries! They have no place in Canada, who cares what King Charles thinks #notmymonarch

Banta

Quick, someone tell me this exists already: Citizen Caned… about a killer who goes around beating people to death with his walking stick named, I don’t know, Tulip Petal?

Banta

Where is the best of the best Star Terk Champion, Rich Evans? Rich Evan's ST intelligence is like you put Garak, The Doctor, and Spock into one amazing person.

Mathew Brown

@1:42

LunaTick

Also great timing once again to drop this when I need something to do while waiting for work to be done on my car.

Michael Parker

Hey, it's 2nd place Mike!

Andy

Jay needs to learn to play guitar if he keeps that rockstar hairdo

DonMac

I’m watching the like count on YouTube go up in real time. People like the video before they’ve even watched the whole thing! It’s like they just assume it’s going to be a great video!

Michael Parker

"Thanksgiving" was great. Loved every single second of it. <3

Manuel Johnen

Hey this is that guy that got 2nd place in TNG Trivia!

mezzanine


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