Dead Still

[00:00:06] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to Pugsley Crew Reviews. This is a podcast where we discuss. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Some films we have watched this week. [00:00:15] Speaker A: The film is Dead Still that I actually picked myself, which is a rarity because I don't usually pick them because usually the guests do, or me and Kerr, who's with me today. Pick one together. [00:00:28] Speaker B: How are you doing, Cody? [00:00:29] Speaker C: I'm doing good. How are you doing, man? [00:00:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doing well. Tired as always. [00:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:38] Speaker A: Been up to much? [00:00:40] Speaker C: Oh, no, not really. Just the usual playing games and stuff. [00:00:43] Speaker D: Been trying to finish off Disagreeer Seven, essentially. [00:00:47] Speaker C: So I can either start mario RPG that I got today or persona five royale. I'm not sure which one I'm going. [00:00:55] Speaker D: To start, but one of them two. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fair enough. I would probably play Super Mario RPG. Because why not? [00:01:06] Speaker D: Yeah, it's what's, like, new in the. [00:01:08] Speaker C: In thing at the moment, in it, so there'd probably be more people talking about it. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:13] Speaker A: I need to get back to Super Mario Wonder as well. [00:01:15] Speaker B: I played a bit of played more. [00:01:19] Speaker A: Of Sonic Superstars because I wanted to do a review for that, then Wonder and then go from there, and then. [00:01:28] Speaker C: I've not even played the game before Superstars yet. [00:01:32] Speaker D: What is it? [00:01:35] Speaker C: Oh, I can't think of it the 3D sonic that came out frontiers. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Frontiers, yeah. [00:01:40] Speaker C: I've ordered that and it's supposed to be arriving in the next few days. [00:01:44] Speaker E: Oh, nice. [00:01:46] Speaker C: Because it was 20 pound through some Black Friday ebay thing. [00:01:49] Speaker D: And I was like, wow, why not? [00:01:52] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. That's the sort of price I sort of thought I wanted to pay for it. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I can get behind Armand. Well, Dead Still is a film about this guy whose grandfather dies. You don't meet the grandfather. Grandfather dies and he inherits his estate. [00:02:22] Speaker A: And then they find a camera and. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Horrible things happen to the people they take photos of. [00:02:32] Speaker A: That is the basic plot. Not really. Much more plot going on after Mo is like, what? [00:02:41] Speaker C: No, that's pretty much it. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:46] Speaker E: So. [00:02:49] Speaker A: It starts off with the guy as a child in the car with his father, and then his father dies. [00:02:56] Speaker B: In a car accident, allegedly. But I don't think you actually see what happens to his father, do you? Even when it reveals, like, oh, I killed your father, it's like, did he? [00:03:09] Speaker D: Ow. [00:03:10] Speaker E: Why? [00:03:12] Speaker D: Yeah, you see the glass shatter and. [00:03:15] Speaker C: Then later you see other bits, but you never really get a proper idea. [00:03:21] Speaker D: Of how he did it. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Doesn't make sense to me, this film with some things. What are your thoughts on this, then? [00:03:32] Speaker D: Wasted potential. [00:03:34] Speaker C: That's the best thing I can say. I mean, I think the whole premise. [00:03:38] Speaker D: With the camera is a good premise. [00:03:41] Speaker C: And I actually did a little reading just to see if this whole Victorian death camera thing was real. [00:03:46] Speaker D: And it was. [00:03:48] Speaker C: Yeah, they did used to take photos. [00:03:50] Speaker D: Of dead people because a lot of people were dying early, and it was. [00:03:58] Speaker C: Only after they died the technology was available and people didn't want to forget them, so they were propping them up and photographing them. So it's a bit spooky. [00:04:10] Speaker D: And I think there's always been this fear with cameras. There's an old fashioned thing about it. [00:04:17] Speaker C: Capturing a part of somebody's soul, and people were originally scared to have their photos taken, and it is all kind of playing on that. So it plays on very natural fears that have existed for a long time. [00:04:29] Speaker D: And I sometimes think that's horror in. [00:04:33] Speaker C: That kind of way works really well. [00:04:35] Speaker D: Because if it's like pulling at a primal audio part of people, a fear. [00:04:41] Speaker C: That a lot of people have, it appeals to everybody. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:46] Speaker A: No, I can get behind that. One of the things I can remember that have done this is goosebumps. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Yeah. With a camera. [00:04:56] Speaker A: And shit happens when photos are taken. [00:05:00] Speaker B: It's not like something new, but it could be done. [00:05:05] Speaker A: The thing is with this film is. [00:05:08] Speaker B: In my opinion this is my opinion, not very well acted. I didn't mind the great great grandfather. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Wherever he was, the evil guy. I actually didn't mind him. I've seen him in other stuff as well, and I find him fine. [00:05:23] Speaker B: But the rest of the cast, I. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Thought, was pretty shit. [00:05:28] Speaker B: The best thing about it for me, right, yeah. Was the few deaths, because they actually. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Were pretty cool, but other than they were gruesome. [00:05:38] Speaker C: They were gruesome, weren't they? Like skin being pulled inside out and stuff. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that was pretty fun. And the posing being all twisted up and interesting. [00:05:52] Speaker C: I like the lead actor. It's Ben Browder, who people will probably recognize from being the guy that was in Farscape and in later seasons of Stargate. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Wouldn't have a clue. [00:06:05] Speaker C: He's he's won, like, awards in Sci-Fi TV show things and that. [00:06:10] Speaker D: He's quite well known, and I did think he was decent, but then there. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Was a lot of people who were proper, like drama school. [00:06:19] Speaker D: Oh, no. [00:06:24] Speaker C: One guy I did really like, though, and I had to look up his name. There's a professor in it, professor McLaren or something. [00:06:31] Speaker A: Yeah, professor McLaren. He's, like, really crazy. And then he speaks normally for a little bit. [00:06:36] Speaker B: That's really random. [00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it was great. [00:06:40] Speaker C: I loved him because he was amazing to me. He came across as nutty as fuck, but just the actor was really going for it. He chewed up the scenery. He had all these weird, crazy eyed gazes and over the top ramblings. [00:06:52] Speaker D: And I think that he was a. [00:06:54] Speaker C: Missed opportunity because he'd make a great villain in something. But yet, when you look at his filmography, he's only done about twelve films. [00:07:02] Speaker B: That's a shame. [00:07:03] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Actually, I enjoyed him. He was fucking crazy. It was great. Over the top, in a good way. [00:07:11] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:07:12] Speaker C: You didn't know where to go with him. You're like, is he trying to help him or is he a villain? [00:07:16] Speaker D: Or is he just batshit? What's his angle? [00:07:20] Speaker B: He seems batshit, but at the same. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Time and he kind of gets what's going on. So he's trying to sort that out. [00:07:28] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:07:28] Speaker C: And he does keep warning that woman, don't go near that camera. Don't go near that camera. So at least he seems to have good intentions at heart. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:07:38] Speaker A: Obviously, his main thing is he wants. [00:07:40] Speaker B: To write. [00:07:43] Speaker A: A true history on the. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Great grandfather, whose name I've forgotten. But at the same time, he just. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Seems nuts because they even mention it earlier on in the film. [00:07:56] Speaker B: They're like they say, oh, yeah, I. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Learned how to use these old type of cameras because of Professor McLaren. You know him? No, I don't remember the weird one, the crazy professor. [00:08:20] Speaker B: But yeah. [00:08:24] Speaker A: The story, obviously, is very, very basic. Like, it's like photos. They take photos. Things happen to the people. [00:08:31] Speaker B: They die horribly. [00:08:33] Speaker E: But. [00:08:36] Speaker B: A lot of the stuff around. [00:08:38] Speaker A: It kind of just didn't work very well. [00:08:42] Speaker E: Like, halfway. [00:08:43] Speaker A: I didn't know what the hell was going on. [00:08:45] Speaker B: It's like things were happening. Like the tablet the child who couldn't speak was using was activating on his. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Own, even though the stuff is supposed to be inside the camera. [00:08:56] Speaker B: So why was that happening? [00:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah, that didn't make a lot of sense. [00:09:01] Speaker A: Yeah. And then it's like other stuff that's happening that this guy seems to have control of, like the McLaren when he cuts his fucking fingers. [00:09:12] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. Why? [00:09:13] Speaker A: Why does he cut his fingers off? Because the guy's going, you'll never tell my story. But he didn't have a photo taken. How is he somehow controlling him? [00:09:21] Speaker B: Is not being near him this camera? [00:09:25] Speaker C: No, I found that weird. [00:09:27] Speaker D: Although that did get a good laugh out my misses. [00:09:31] Speaker C: Because as he cut about three fingers off, I said, Shit, if somebody doesn't stop him soon, he's dick will be in that thing next. I don't know why it came to my head, but that was snap judgment. [00:09:45] Speaker A: That's brilliant. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, terrible. I don't know if we ever write. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Your film or you were going to put an stick off in cigar cutter. [00:10:00] Speaker C: I'm sure it said somewhere near the. [00:10:02] Speaker D: Beginning when it was going through, who'd made it, and I'm sure I saw. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Sci-fi mentioned Spelt, the way that the Sci-fi Channel used to spell it. So I'm thinking it's a made for TV movie for the Sci-fi Channel. [00:10:17] Speaker A: It fucking seems like it. [00:10:19] Speaker B: With the like it was. [00:10:22] Speaker E: Fairly low. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Budget, I will say. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Some of the scenery and backdrops and that kind of stuff was pretty cool. Like the bit where they go into the camera. I kind of like the whole vibe there. I think that was all right. [00:10:42] Speaker D: Yeah, it just feels a weirdly padded. [00:10:46] Speaker C: Film because we've said there's some good deaths in it. [00:10:50] Speaker D: The stuff in the I'm trying to. [00:10:52] Speaker C: Remember what they call it. But the other world, exposure world or whatever is cool. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Negative world. [00:10:58] Speaker E: That's it. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Negative world. [00:11:01] Speaker D: There's good ideas there. There's good scenes there, but then there's padding. And it's just like it needs editing and pulling about in a way to make I mean, maybe if it had been like a short thing like a. [00:11:18] Speaker C: Tales from the Crypt or Twilight Zone. [00:11:20] Speaker D: Episode that got straight to the point. [00:11:23] Speaker C: It would have worked, but it just feels elongated. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's one of the. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Problems because a lot of it is. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Kind of stupid, I think, where they've tried to extend it into a full film, which I reckon they could have. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Done well, but I think there wasn't enough real story behind it. [00:11:48] Speaker A: They had the beats of Geyser, or down on his luck, wants to be a photographer. Geza camera starts using that. People start dying. Then they get told not to use the camera. He doesn't realize till he's almost killed by some weird person with an eye etched into a face. Then he runs over the camera. The camera comes back. Ex wife dies. His friend that's trying to get in. [00:12:16] Speaker B: His pants dies earlier on. [00:12:20] Speaker A: It seems to have the beats for stuff, but the interconnected bits between has. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Nothing interesting to say. [00:12:29] Speaker D: Yeah, that's what I think anyway. [00:12:34] Speaker A: You could do a good film here and I think it could be worse. [00:12:38] Speaker B: It could be much better. [00:12:42] Speaker D: Yeah, it's very middle of the line. [00:12:44] Speaker C: It's not the best film in the world. It's not the worst. I'd tell people to watch it if they're into horror and they want to. [00:12:51] Speaker D: See something a bit different, but it's. [00:12:54] Speaker C: Not something you're going to think about weeks after or anything. And it's not something you're going to return to either. It's a one time watch, in my opinion. [00:13:03] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:13:04] Speaker B: So the story of the guy and. [00:13:08] Speaker A: The great grandfather then it seems to be that he's using a chemical that's. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Used to develop film on the subjects. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Of his portraits to make them look dead. [00:13:21] Speaker B: But I'm thinking he kills them. [00:13:25] Speaker C: Yeah, that's sad. It seems like he's injecting them with it. But like when he kept saying to. [00:13:31] Speaker D: That young girl, why'd you have to move or what? [00:13:34] Speaker C: And he clearly injected her. So it's like he decides that that's not enough and that well, actually bump them off then. [00:13:41] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:13:42] Speaker A: It's like as if he's like jacking them with that stuff to make them. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Look kind of like. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Reduced. They breathe and all that, so they're. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Much less likely to breathe and move and stuff. [00:13:55] Speaker A: But maybe it's Nora. [00:13:57] Speaker B: It's got to the point where it's. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Like, you keep moving, waking up after. [00:14:00] Speaker B: A while, let's just fucking kill. But the girl didn't die. She was somehow in the camera alive. [00:14:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't get that because it was like it happened a long time ago, but she's like stayed the age she was in the camera. And then come out the other side to almost time travel through the camera. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah, seems that way. [00:14:21] Speaker D: Because I actually thought that when he pulled her out, when the young kid. [00:14:28] Speaker C: Took her out, she was going to die. But the happy ending would be at least she got buried in a family, knew what had happened. Yeah, I didn't think she was going to go out and live. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Seems that way. [00:14:41] Speaker D: Yeah, it does, don't it? [00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it's like it took. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Her as she was, so she's stuck like that until she's released. [00:14:53] Speaker B: And then she'll continue to grow as normal. [00:14:55] Speaker A: I guess because when you take a. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Photo image of you as you were like so anything I can think of. [00:15:02] Speaker A: I was wondering throughout most of the film, why does he keep kissing the corpses? [00:15:08] Speaker C: But it seems like most of the. [00:15:09] Speaker A: Time they weren't actually dead when he was doing it. But then he did kiss the really gross dead thing on the fucking table. So I was like, nah, he's just a weird, weird, creepy guy who likes kissing. [00:15:23] Speaker C: Wow. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah, there's some things that I should. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Have took more notes to be honest, because I could have specified a lot of the things. [00:15:34] Speaker B: But it's just a shame that most. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Of the stuff in between all the. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Interesting things was so boring. [00:15:43] Speaker D: Oh yeah. [00:15:45] Speaker C: It definitely went from highs to lows. [00:15:49] Speaker D: It was enjoyable. [00:15:50] Speaker C: 1 minute and you're thinking, oh, that's a gruesome death. I like to see a few more of that. And then it went to mundane stuff. [00:15:57] Speaker D: Like a soap opera. Yeah, it needed more deaths. [00:16:03] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:16:04] Speaker C: They needed get more tempo. Yeah, that's about right. [00:16:08] Speaker B: It was the tramp, the man and. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Child, the husband and wife, the wife ex wife, wherever. The not quite girlfriend. There's at least five. [00:16:25] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:16:25] Speaker C: It's not actually a bad horror camp, is it? [00:16:27] Speaker D: For? [00:16:28] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:16:32] Speaker A: I don't know. I can't really say much about this. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Film because it was just boring for the most part. There were some interesting bits. The ending was a bit shit in my opinion. [00:16:46] Speaker A: What I mean by that is like the end where it says 20 years. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Later and it's got the kid billy yeah. [00:16:52] Speaker C: As an adult. [00:16:53] Speaker A: As an adult using the camera. [00:16:55] Speaker B: It just to me seems like unless he's gone fucking unhinged, why is he possessed? Or possessed? [00:17:04] Speaker A: Why is he using this camera? [00:17:07] Speaker C: I mean, I literally jumped to possessed by the granddad. [00:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But it did seem like the grandfather. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Died and the father sacrificed his life for the kid to live. So who knows? [00:17:24] Speaker A: Any particular moments that you really enjoyed? [00:17:30] Speaker E: Um. [00:17:32] Speaker D: Well, like we've said, the deaths they were and I mean the one. [00:17:37] Speaker C: I liked because I thought we were going to get robbed of it is when the newly married couple were setting. [00:17:43] Speaker D: On fire and it cut away from it. [00:17:45] Speaker C: I was like, no, I wanted to see how far it went and then. [00:17:48] Speaker D: Later you see them one on top. [00:17:50] Speaker C: Of the other is full on burned skeletons. And I was like, yeah, I like that. I'm glad we've actually seen the end of it. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Pretty cool deaths, actually. They were pretty grizzly. Especially like the kid and the father, which just like they skin went all fucked and oh, yeah. Of painful. [00:18:15] Speaker C: It did surprise me that it did. [00:18:16] Speaker D: It to the kid because a lot. [00:18:19] Speaker C: Of horror films shy away from it, don't they? You can chop an adult's head off, but don't scratch a child sort of thing. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Guess he was going for like a. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Kind of shock thing, maybe. But it wasn't exactly shocking. It was just. [00:18:35] Speaker E: Fun. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Like I said, I should have took one notes. I literally, literally got two. [00:18:43] Speaker A: Why kiss a corpse? And how was Professor McLaren somehow affected by the great grandfather? [00:18:51] Speaker C: Yeah, my notes are about on the know. Oh, I've looked up Victorian cameras. Really existed like that. [00:18:58] Speaker D: And isn't McLaren nuts? [00:19:01] Speaker C: That sort of stuff. So I think I've covered all my. [00:19:03] Speaker D: Notes, but I suppose at least it. [00:19:09] Speaker C: Kept enough attention that I didn't want to pause it and make more. [00:19:13] Speaker D: Because sometimes you get into that editor. [00:19:16] Speaker C: Mood where every minute you're pausing a film and going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. [00:19:20] Speaker D: I'll think of this to do. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I can get behind that. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Obviously it'll slow the film down. The film didn't seem particularly long either, which was fortunate. [00:19:31] Speaker D: Yeah, 90 minutes. [00:19:33] Speaker B: But I still don't understand why the father died. [00:19:38] Speaker A: This is the problem. There's the father and son, another father and son, and then a great grandfather and a grandfather you don't know of, and the grandfather somehow lives longer than the father. [00:19:49] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:19:49] Speaker C: It's confusing, in it? [00:19:51] Speaker B: Your great grand great grandfather, the great. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Grandfather, the grandfather, the father and then. [00:19:58] Speaker B: The son, which is the child who doesn't speak. The great great grandfather died again, put into the camera somehow does explain it. [00:20:10] Speaker A: But I didn't understand what the fuck? [00:20:11] Speaker B: How he got in there doesn't make sense to me. Then the great grandfather lived longer than the grandfather yeah. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Who then died literally days before the father ended up going into the camera and sacrificing his life for his son to survive. Who then may be possessed or fucking crazy. [00:20:34] Speaker D: I did say when he sat down. [00:20:36] Speaker C: The dad to get photographed, to go into the camera world, I'd have gone and got a baseball bat or a. [00:20:42] Speaker D: Gun and held them. [00:20:44] Speaker C: But in the hope that I took. [00:20:45] Speaker D: That in with me. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Yeah, stick up your rectum, you'd be sorted. We'd be coming in with him. [00:20:57] Speaker B: At least that's what I think. [00:20:59] Speaker C: And I did expect to see the dead people in there, like the married couple and the wife and the friend that was trying to shag him. I thought they'd be in that world. [00:21:09] Speaker D: Because I thought, well, he's going to be awkward there when the Mrs and. [00:21:14] Speaker C: The person's trying to shag him is. [00:21:15] Speaker D: In the same sort of camera world. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that would have been interesting, but they would have been all weird and stuff like the other because the girl was normal. She was like a normal young child. She was still alive, but everyone else was dead. And they were all grotesque. [00:21:41] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:21:41] Speaker C: And it didn't really explain I mean, he was like, you're my greatest work, and you're the one that went but. [00:21:45] Speaker D: It didn't really explain why she went through all right. And the others were all twisted ghouls. [00:21:56] Speaker B: And I think that's one of the. [00:21:59] Speaker A: Issues with the film. It's like it's got some ideas there. Like, with the deaths and the camera thing, it's all pre cooled, the deaths. And it's pretty interesting with the whole camera thing. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Obviously, it's been done before, but still pretty interesting. [00:22:14] Speaker A: The issue is the interconnecting bits are either stupid or just boring. And when it doesn't read sorry. It does explain things, but it doesn't explain things in a way where you actually know what the fuck is going on. [00:22:30] Speaker B: No, I think that's the biggest issue with it. [00:22:36] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Also, I was thinking to myself, I. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Didn'T write the note down. When when they go into the negative. [00:22:46] Speaker B: World, the. [00:22:50] Speaker A: Young girl gets captured by. [00:22:52] Speaker B: One of the monstery things, and then he brings the girl back to the great grandfather. And then all of a sudden, the. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Guy turns around and that same thing is behind him and grabs him. [00:23:09] Speaker B: And it's like, how the fuck did. [00:23:11] Speaker A: He get to the great grandfather? I'm back in the time span of a guy breathing and turning around. Yeah. [00:23:19] Speaker C: That didn't make a lot of sense. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the thing. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Lots don't make sense. It's unfortunate. [00:23:27] Speaker A: I think better script writer or better. [00:23:30] Speaker B: Editing or something could have made it more interesting. [00:23:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm pretty sure the script writer and the director were the same person, so I think it probably is like same person. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:46] Speaker C: Minimum workers, low budget, rushed for Sci-Fi TV. Basically just made to fill a Wednesday night and now made its way onto streaming services. [00:23:59] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. [00:24:02] Speaker A: That's the thing. When I was looking online, like Obi Davis and I said it was 2013 or 2014, and then Amazon Prime was telling me it was 2021 or something. [00:24:12] Speaker B: I was like, but then there is. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Actually this TV show called Dead Still. [00:24:18] Speaker C: Which I'm yeah, I know if it's. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Based on this, but set in Victorian times. [00:24:24] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:24:28] Speaker D: I noticed some of the actors in that, and I think there were people. [00:24:32] Speaker C: From Horrible Histories or something. [00:24:35] Speaker B: All right, fair enough. [00:24:37] Speaker D: Dead still is a six part Irish. [00:24:39] Speaker C: Canadian television drama series. It follows a photographer in 1880s Ireland. [00:24:48] Speaker D: Who specializes in memorial Partra chore photography of the deceased, and he's drawn into. [00:24:56] Speaker C: A series of murders which appear to. [00:24:58] Speaker D: Be linked to his work. Well, that does sound potentially like the. [00:25:04] Speaker C: Same sort of idea, doesn't it? [00:25:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. I wonder if it's because it is set in the 1880s, where is the. [00:25:12] Speaker A: Original guy doing the photos are? [00:25:15] Speaker C: Yeah. If it's not connected in any way. And I was the guy that did that film that wrote it and directed it. I'd be watching that to see if I've got any legal recourse to ask for some form of royalties, I think. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Didn't they? [00:25:32] Speaker A: But I don't know if they linked. [00:25:33] Speaker B: The doll do wonder. [00:25:39] Speaker C: It does seem funny that they've got the exact same name and such a similar premise. [00:25:46] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm sure at the start of. [00:25:48] Speaker C: This film, didn't it say, based on a true story? [00:25:51] Speaker D: Yeah, I love that with horror. Because you have this weird shit like demon worlds and ghost things and then. [00:26:03] Speaker C: They say true at the start and you're like, oh, yeah, really? [00:26:06] Speaker D: I'm sure that happened last week. [00:26:10] Speaker C: I'm sure I've picked open the sun newspaper and it was there, page 47. [00:26:16] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:26:17] Speaker A: I do find out based on true story stuff, where it's like ghosts and monsters and stuff. [00:26:22] Speaker B: And it's like, I don't believe you. [00:26:28] Speaker C: Based on the true story of one man's. Rather peculiar acid trip. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Based on a real event. I could get like someone take photos of dead people because they used to do that. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Based on a true story. [00:26:42] Speaker A: The guy could have died in a car accident. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Rest of the shit is bullshit. [00:26:51] Speaker E: Ah. [00:26:53] Speaker A: Would you recommend this film to people? [00:26:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's not a bad film. It's interesting premise. It's worth one watch. Don't go out of your way, don't spend loads, but if you've got Amazon Prime, watch it. Or if you see it on a DVD in a charity shop for a Pam, watch it. That's my sort of feelings. [00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I would agree with that. [00:27:17] Speaker A: I might look the Dead still TV show and see if it's actually connected. [00:27:22] Speaker B: At all to this because it's got. [00:27:24] Speaker A: The same name and same premise. [00:27:28] Speaker D: I think that might even be on prime. [00:27:31] Speaker B: I have to have a look. [00:27:33] Speaker C: I'm sure I've seen it's on some streaming service. [00:27:36] Speaker D: Anyway, I'd give at least the first one a watch just to see how close it is. [00:27:44] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Be worth doing. [00:27:45] Speaker B: Be worth doing. [00:27:46] Speaker A: I think we're going to end here as we like. I haven't really got much else to say about it because let's be honest, it's not exactly the most interesting films. The deaths are pretty cool. [00:28:00] Speaker C: Yeah, pretty cool. [00:28:04] Speaker B: Corpse Kisses. [00:28:05] Speaker A: All right, so that's about it. [00:28:08] Speaker B: Corpse Kisser. [00:28:10] Speaker A: I'm sure he was the devil in Reaper. Reaper was good. [00:28:15] Speaker B: I liked Reaper. [00:28:18] Speaker C: No. [00:28:18] Speaker E: Yeah, it was Reaper. [00:28:20] Speaker C: I think we have said everything that you could possibly say about this film without doing a blow by blow account. [00:28:27] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:28:29] Speaker A: That will be us, then. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Anything to plug Duke? [00:28:35] Speaker C: No, just the usual. I'm on YouTube and TikTok and all that sort of stuff as Ker 9000. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I will see you all in. [00:28:47] Speaker A: A fortnight with another episode of Pugsley crew reviews. If you like video games, check out Peds's. [00:28:52] Speaker B: Game Shack. [00:28:53] Speaker A: The last game we talked about was Brock the Investigator. So catch you laters. Bye.