Forgotten Hallowe'en: The Oily Maniac

[00:00:00] The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain.

[00:00:29] Alright, once again, welcome back to The Outer Reels. This is episode 121. My name is Sam and always my wonderful friend, companion, podcast life partner, Jason is here. Wow, I had no idea we were betrothed now. Yeah, that's right. This is Halloween. Happy Halloween.

[00:00:54] This is, um, we're taking a break from the apocalypse or... The year of apocalypse? Yeah. As Pentecost would say in Pacific Rim, we're canceling the apocalypse. But we're taking a two week break here and we're going to insert a little Halloween event because it is the greatest month of the year. And I'm sure I speak for Jason when I say we hope we're, you guys are all watching your favorites and trying to cram in as many movies as possible this month.

[00:01:21] It's like, it's, it is the best time of the year to watch movies and everything else. And I know a lot of people that we share stuff with on Instagram also try and do the same. Yeah. So the, for the next two episodes... Every year I make a stack of movies to watch and every year I watch like maybe three. Yeah. So... Starts with, starts with Monster Squad, ends with Monster Squad, and then whatever else my wife and I can stumble upon in the middle. But yeah, mine's got things like Cabin in the Woods and, uh, Great baby.

[00:01:51] Duck and Bale versus Evil. I always try to make that a double feature when I can. Yeah. But, uh, I get the Universal Monsters collection as well. So like previous years I managed to get like Dracula and, and, um, Frankenstein done. So I'm really hoping to get like Blue Lagoon or Black Lagoon and, um, uh, maybe the Bride of Frankenstein this year. You gotta do 1958. Work my way through. Do the, uh, 1958 Hammer Mommy, one of the best of all.

[00:02:21] Yeah, I'll have to seek that out. Yeah. This is your, uh, this is time for your grandson to start proper Halloween movies this year. I don't know what to start him on, but some Scooby Doo maybe? Yeah. I have been thinking about his Halloween costume. And, uh, I did one year make my son a Tron costume. Right. And I'm wondering if Enzo's a bit too, like he won't even be two yet. So I'm going to wait a few more years, I think, before I, I, you know, crack out the Tron costume for Enzo. Pass that. But, uh.

[00:02:51] You should have him go as Flynn and you should go as the arcade cabinet. Ha ha ha ha ha. That's a bad idea. Maybe make myself a D-Rezer or something. But, uh, yeah, the, the Rezone worked out, my kids, my son's worked out quite well. It was like a decade ago now, but, uh. I saw the pictures and you had the, uh, the disc. There's a whole lot of, a lot of, yeah, a whole lot of EL wire. And then, uh, my wife had bought, uh, this Bluetooth Frisbee. So it has speaker built into it.

[00:03:21] So I, uh, I got the Daft Punk Tron soundtrack and put it on a phone and paired it to the, uh. So he's walking around playing this soundtrack the whole time. And then I put some EL wire inside of it. So it, it would, uh, you know, light up and then, uh, Velcro the thing to the back of this jacket. I bought him at like value village, which is like our goodwill second hand store. And then that I tore apart and then. Stitched in all the CL wire too. So it worked out well. No, no. If you took a look at it, they unfortunately was dark, right?

[00:03:51] Cause. Yeah. So on that note, like I said, I think I was just like, Hey, like, let's just do a creature feature each. And, uh, this is kind of where we've landed. This is a movie that I've been wanting to squeeze into the show for quite a while. And I've really wanted Jason to see it for a long time. And, uh, I liked the movie. So Jason, what? Oh, well, I should say tonight we're watching. You may want to talk about the movie. Yeah. Right. What a concept. The Oily Maniac from 1976.

[00:04:19] Jason, what did you think of this movie? What is it? How did you like it? I, I, it's not a good movie, Sam, but I, it's still certainly got a charm to it. Um, even if there's a lot of rape involved, um, and, uh, it certainly feels like a kid's movie except for the rape and the nudity and, uh, and stuff. But it's, um, yeah, I mean, I didn't hate it.

[00:04:47] It was fun in places, but it was, I was amazed at how much the cap had happened. Like I had stopped the movie at one point and I realized I'd only watched six minutes and the amount of story that had happened in that six minutes. Like we're talking sitcom levels of, of compression here. Like it's just crazy. That, that is one of the things that I've always praised this movie about is the first eight minutes of the movie, how much goes on and how much it fits in.

[00:05:16] And sure. Some of it plays a little too fast, but you can tell a story. It's totally unrealistic, but it's, um, it's crazy. I mean, I, I remember laughing going cause we get to where, you know, suddenly they cut to the uncle he's in jail and we'll, we'll get to why he's there, but he's in jail. And then it's like, you know, he's on death row and not only is on death row, he's going to get executed today. And I'm looking at it going, I'm six and a half minutes into this movie. Yeah.

[00:05:45] And that's with the opening credits. So. Yeah. It really moves. And I've used the term economy of character a lot, but it's, it's not that because it's, it's just economy of screen time. Like you just get, it just gets really efficient. It's, it's like, this is a creature feature. Let's get to the creature is how it is. And it's not always like that. And the flaw in the film, of course, is when we're not dealing with the creature and we're

[00:06:14] dealing with the subplots and those are pretty thin. But when the movie's just chugging along that you feel satisfied, you don't feel like it's being dragged out. And it, it has such a stellar ramp up at the start. It does feel a little insulting for when it starts to drag. Yeah. And I won't even say drag through the middle. Like it's really the third act where it drags, like we get more creature, but everything is on the table by then.

[00:06:42] So you're just kind of like, well, where are we going and what are we doing? And then you're only hanging onto. And having more creature by that point doesn't really help the film either. Yeah. Exactly. And, and, and always should. It bared better when it was a less is more kind of thing. Cause you know, they could have learned a lesson from Jaws, uh, which was coming out at the same time, I guess. So they couldn't, but. Well, they, they learned enough of a lesson to rip the music off completely from Jaws. Kinda. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:11] So, but Jaws was 76 as well, wasn't it? So. 75. Um, was it 75? Oh, okay. So yeah, this is 76 then. There you go. Ample opportunity to rip it off. So we'll get it in then straight away. What, what is, what is this movie? How do you pitch it? What is your, what is your sales pitch to the Showa brothers on why you want to make the oily maniac? Lawyer assistant who had polio as a child inherits a tattoo.

[00:07:41] And when exposed to oil turns into a creature. That's really it. Um, you know, he's crippled otherwise and everyone refers to him as a cripple and the moment he loves can't love him because he's a cripple apparently. But, um, and then he turns into a creature of vengeance. Well, I'd, I'd hope if there's millions of dollars on the line, you'd have a little more enthusiasm, but I think you're right on with your pitch. No, I mean that, that's about it.

[00:08:08] What, what's wild is, is that that six and a half minute mark when his uncle's about to go, go die, his uncle like says, your dad was like a sorcerer or something. And, uh, a warlock brand. Yeah. Branded me take, you know, quickly copy it, copy it out. So he gets this big piece of paper out of nowhere and like traces the giant tattoo on his uncle's back. It's like, it's like the size of the tracing paper, the Indiana Jones uses in the last crusade as the rubbing against the shield, you know? Completely.

[00:08:38] Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, where did you get that from? Like, um, I guess it's gonna have briefcase with them, but yeah, the tattoo on the, on the uncle's back's got like three or four different colors to it and stuff. And he just like sketches this all out with a pen. Yeah. And it's not a great, it's just a weird palm tree with some coconut. It's, it's silly. I, and, and as it turns out, you don't need the tattoo to have the special power. You just need to do what it says. Exactly. Just instructions.

[00:09:07] So like, why does his dad uncle have this giant tattoo on his back? Which he, for the most part, probably can't even see. So how can he recite the instructions? Cause. Exactly. Like if he looks at it in a mirror, it's gonna be backwards. It's like Enola from water world. When they realized that her tattoos upside down and dry lands the other way. I completely forgotten about that, but I don't watch water world seven times a year like you do. So. Well, some of us have to Jason, some of us have got to keep it, keeping the dream

[00:09:37] alive. Yeah. So as far as my idea, my pitch for this, I just sort of had like, the thing is, is it's, it's a classic tale of a superhero slash villain, or let's say like someone who would never be presumed. Able of doing something because of a disability in all these movies and everything with Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent or whatever, they're like, oh, this is the person they would never do that. And this is the extreme version. And it's like, Hey, you got a guy with polio.

[00:10:05] He's not going to turn into this seven foot creature and be able to take people down because he's a cripple. So it's like, it doesn't work. Like. Yeah. And the cops even, even literally say that at one point, like keep an eye on everyone in this office, except the cripple. Right. It's like, it's, it's an ordinary guy in, in ordinary world tale is what this basically is, is the very simple version of it.

[00:10:33] And I want to point out our, our ordinary, unordinary guy or whatever, our ordinary guy with polio. There are times when he looks exactly like Bruce Lee. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I looked him up and I know he kind of played Bruce Lee in a movie at one point and stuff, but, um, but I was cause I've like, when I saw his name was Danny Lee, I was like, is he like his brother or something? Like he looks every now and then there's an angle. I'm like, wow, you look exactly like Bruce Lee. And other times he doesn't at all, but no, not related. Apparently.

[00:11:03] No. So the official IMDB plot is a frustrated young man afflicted with polio works as a paralegal for a corrupt lawyer. He gets passed onto him the technique for a strange power by a dying man, which turns him into an oil based superhero slash villain. And what's funny about this description is it says superhero slash villain. And that's always been my description of this because this movie is, he's a guy who turns

[00:11:33] into something and is trying for better for the better good, but it consumes him so much. You're like, well, is he, does he become a villain? He doesn't really in this, but I think the idea is that he's skirting the line by the end and he could become something much worse if he doesn't reign it in. Yeah. The hero can't live long enough to become. Yeah, exactly.

[00:11:59] So I want to talk a little bit about Shore Scope, which is a title card that we're all familiar with that comes up a lot on all these Shaw Brothers, cause this is a Shaw Brothers show. And so in the late fifties, what was happening was run shore introduced shore scope and what was, it was officially rolled out in 1961 as their brand. This was going to be on the header of all their films. And this is why their films looked like they did.

[00:12:27] And when they opened movie town, which was the shore brother studio and, or as they called it in 1961, it was a huge campus. If you've ever seen pictures of it, it's like 40 acres and it's this big, incredible place. It ran right up to like the early two thousands and it's a really gorgeous site. And it's, um, there's some really good YouTube tours and like drone footage and stuff that tour the buildings now, like they're still standing.

[00:12:54] And of course, a lot of it's falling into disrepair, but some of the grounds and stuff are still maintained. Cause I think it's a bit of a tourist attraction because the very original shore brothers buildings there with the SB logo and stuff on it. And it kind of looked really cool, but the studio was really amazing. So they had up to 1200 employees at peak. And I believe that was by the late seventies and they had housing like dormitories for people to live there and everything. It was a full, like when I say campus, it was a full, full campus.

[00:13:23] And so hundreds of people could sleep there overnight, which is why they were knocking out so many films because they did it all there. They had a processing lab. And so, you know, we talk about dailies and stuff all the time and rushes and everything, and they were able to just do it. So this led to them being able to crank out like at their peak, they were doing 20 movies a year, which is just phenomenal amount of even for 1200 people back then. And that is just flat out work of producing this much content. That's wild.

[00:13:52] I mean, that can be done nowadays with a much smaller crew. Thanks to everything being digital. And I worked for a company that did it or my record when I was there, it was 29 in one year, but it was still, uh, yeah, that that's a 20 in a year is crazy when it's film and how expensive that is. Yeah. Uh, and how much more work it is. Right. Exactly. And it was, but that was it. They had shift work and then people were just doing it and it was nonstop and everybody was good at their job.

[00:14:19] And the idea that this being all under one roof efficiency is, you know, out efficiency at that point, it just becomes so good because there's nothing that's got to get ran across town. There's no delays. It just all happens right there. So, which is a, it's pretty incredible, but I recommend, um, checking out the studio, the photos of the old studio. It's a, it's a really cool campus. As I said, it was, it's, um, it's really beautiful. Look at.

[00:14:46] So at this campus, this is when they developed shore scope, which like I said, so 1961 was the first initial announcement of it and it's two, three, five to one. That's all it is. As we know it all. Right. And this is a ripoff of Toho scope because of course, Toho scope was a ripoff of cinema scope and it was, it all just goes back to cinema scope really. But anywhere outside the U S you weren't able to get your hands on that equipment because Fox owned cinema scope.

[00:15:15] And if they weren't producing the movie, they weren't going to let you use their equipment. It was as simple as that. And that was their angle. So all the cinema scope movies, people would go to see just the cinema scope because nothing else looked like that. So the big change happened in 19. Point out. Cinema scope is just like extra wide. So like if you're watching it on your, on your HDTV or even your phone, you're 4K TV, there would be big black bars across the top and the bottom still, because this was like super wide. Yeah.

[00:15:45] And it was still 70 millimeter as well, or was it not? It was always 35. And, but there was, uh, there was Vista vision. When I was working at a rainmaker. Oh God, it's rapidly becoming 30 years ago. Um, we had a Vista vision film come through and it was mission to Mars by the way. Oh really? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They shot that on Vista vision. Um, that was probably the biggest budget thing I'd seen come through yet into Vancouver

[00:16:13] because they had built like a gimbal set and everything as well. And it was, it was wild. Yeah. Vista vision was interesting. That's what really got made star Wars look like star Wars. Cause George bought up a bunch of all Vista vision equipment, which was the equivalent of beta max by that point. And, uh, in the seventies and they would shoot all the models on Vista vision and then they would scan it, re scan it and it would shrink down and it would look more detailed and the weebles and the greebles and everything.

[00:16:43] And so that was a big part of why all those models look so good, but all the machinists and stuff there had to make. The parts and the, the scanners and everything to take the film and then translate it and everything else. It's pretty fascinating. So back on cinema scope, if you wanted cinema scope, you had to be a Fox production and you had to work under Fox and then it would be branded cinema scope. You could use the equipment. So 1965 comes around. And then of course that's the big breakthrough with Pana vision and they switched to leasing,

[00:17:12] which as we all know, nobody could ever own a Pana vision camera. That's that they made their money. You rent the camera to the crew and then it comes back, but they were just manufacturing lenses at that time and selling lenses, but they switched and it's kind of the corner of the market. It's almost like the very first subscription model of anything really. You know, they, and it's funny cause that's basically how the entire industry works now. Yep. Everyone just rents cameras, whether it be a red or an RE or whatever.

[00:17:41] It's a, no one owns them because they're constantly changing them and upgrading them. So it's in your best interest to actually just rent it for the duration of the shoot. Exactly. Yeah. So what happens is when Pana vision drops their leasing ability, that basically kills Toho scope completely in Japan because they shut down. Cause everybody's like, well, I can just lease from Pana vision. Like, why do we need to do this? Or why do we need to spend all this R and D on just making our stuff?

[00:18:08] Because that was the beginning of piano visions dominating the market. And they would lease entire packages like camera bodies, lenses, whatever you want anywhere in the world, they just ship it to you and then come back. Although we did talk about this during hard to be a God long way back where it was still really hard in Eastern Europe to get any of this equipment. And that was still a big problem. And so they still had a lot of corners of the markets they couldn't get into, but that

[00:18:37] was an issue for a while in some other places in the world. But so the difference with shore scope is that they use Kawa lenses, which is the Japanese lens, which originally were being used in Toho scope. And those lenses historically had, they'd hold up really well at wide focal lengths. So you could have a crazy zoom lens, but then also pull it right back and you wouldn't get that hard vignetting and that softness that comes all around.

[00:19:07] Cause the zoom lens, typically a telephoto you want to be zoomed in. Using a wide doesn't work. And that's why all these shore movies. I was going to say, we should talk about the lens in this movie at some point too, because there's some weird stuff going on the edges. No, exactly. So that, and that's pushing it. Yeah. And then we see that all the time. And, um, for you guys listening, basically what happens is you get a vignetting effect in a lot of lenses where you get a soft around the edge where you cannot capture the light

[00:19:35] and project the light properly at any more. It's all diffused right around it. And you're, you're not supposed to use a lens in that range. It's designed to be put on the camera and then zoomed in. And, but the thing was with using all of these Koa lenses, uh, it really led well to that. And then that's why all these shore brother films have these wide shots and then these crazy crash rooms or vice versa. And it's always in the fight scenes. It's there's something really close and then they snap right back and it's wide. There's all this stuff going on.

[00:20:04] We saw it in legend. The golden seven vampire is a real one. Like it's the same kind of, and it, it, it became a style very much, but is a style that could only be pulled off by this combination of lenses. So it's kind of interesting to think about the history of that and how it all evolved. Of course, all of those are going away now and it was just Panavision, but there was for about five years in the sixties, a big battle on who was going to be top dog. And then it was Panavision that just came through and said, anybody can rent our stuff.

[00:20:32] And they were like, why are we even making stuff when we can just do this? So anytime you see the shore scope logo, now, you know, the history behind it. And that's what we're here for. There you go. I do want to say what, whatever lens are using on this one, I noticed, um, especially there was a scene when the police show up in the office, uh, at the law office, like on the, especially on while on the extreme left and right sides of the screen, everything's really flat.

[00:20:58] Like it makes almost everything look two dimensional versus a normal look through the rest of it. It was just like, it just comes up a couple of times with the motion. And I was just like, oh wow, that's wild. Yeah. It almost has that, uh, for lack of a better explanation, that feeling like when the twilight zone went to video in like 65, like one of the later episodes, it has that stage video look that it loses a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, I guess so.

[00:21:27] It's just, it's amazing how like these characters just look like they're paper thin all of a sudden. It was just, it's just wild. So the movie is directed by Ho Ming-Hwa pretty bad at pronouncing this stuff. So he's born in 1923 in Shanghai. He died in 2009. His first ever credit being a screenplay as a writer for, uh, Feng Chen in 1953. His last credit was in 1988.

[00:21:57] He's probably best known for the long chase, which I haven't seen. I've always seen discussed when talking about short brothers films, it's probably the highest rated one, at least it's a samurai assassin movie. But as far as Costco's our actor, Danny Lee, who plays our lead character, Shen Yun over 200 Kung Fu action movie credits. He's also in Infra man from 1975, which is the Chinese version of a tokusatsu movie.

[00:22:26] And he's in John Woo's killer, which is from the late nineties. Yep. And he's in the, he's in the mighty peaking man too. Who's the same director as the oily maniac. And that's like King Kong Hong Kong. It sounds fun to say, but it's one of those movies where it's, it's a creature feature. It's, it's a long cell when the creature's not on screen, kind of like this, but it's, it's awesome when he's on screen.

[00:22:54] I'm going to make you watch it at some point because it's great, but it's, it's still trying to look at, I'm looking it up. Uh, I'm looking forward anyway. What year is that again? Mighty Pink 77. It's of course, show brothers at once again. Yeah. I'm just trying to think. I might've seen this. It's a classic late night TV show.

[00:23:19] So all that aside, we are finally dropped into the movie and we get a prologue and it's an interesting prologue because it's from two different perspectives because it starts out and it talks about the, the Nanyang tall tale. And it says, this story is a rewrite of the Nanyang tall tale. It bears the moral that justice does prevail in the film. And it says in the narration and it is extensively shot in Malaysia.

[00:23:49] And our story begins in a coconut oil garden. I thought it was weird that they'd point out as salt as Malaysia, but I guess if it's a Hong Kong film, they want to point out why it doesn't look like it's Hong Kong. I was wondering that, or if they were trying to make sure they're chasing tax credits and being guaranteeing that people realize like I have no idea, but it is weird. And it changes perspectives in the narration. We've never had that before.

[00:24:13] And of course, a coconut oil garden in Malaysia is not, or the complete opposite of a coffee bean plantation in Colombia. Cause if it was that, this would be contamination, but yes. But I mean, it's coconut oil, but then coconut oil has absolutely nothing to do with our, our oily man. It all later. It's all petroleum based. I've always wondered about that. It's kind of funny. Yeah.

[00:24:42] So the movie is based on the Malaysian cryptid and I say cryptid because that's referring to a flesh and blood thing where folklore, they'll say folklore, but folklore is like. Agreed upon accepted fictitious and God damn it, Jason. I want to believe. So I know you do. I have my Sasquatch believe button behind me. I need to re, I really need to renew my Sasquatch hunting pass this year to always get a new one for my truck.

[00:25:11] And so the original idea of what this oily maniac is or where he came from, this is the orang maniac, which is a literal translation to oily man. And this is the legend of simply a supernatural slippery man creature who abducts women and simply can evade capture because he's covered in oil. Thank you, Wikipedia. So this is not.

[00:25:39] There's a dude like that in the Watchmen miniseries. If you've ever seen it. Oh, I haven't. Um, it's been a while since I watched it. I remember the character's names, but our, our lead is, you know, she's, she's dressed up as a vigilante and she's chasing this guy. And he basically is like running away from her and he's all covered in latex and he pulls out this thing and starts covering himself in lube. And then basically like swan dies down a, like a sewer, sewer grate.

[00:26:08] And, uh, like, it's just one of those sort of bigger open ones. Like you'd see it in and just dives into it. And she's just like, what the fuck? And, uh, but if, if you haven't watched Watchmen, that the miniseries you should, it is fantastic. I heard it's really good. Maybe it was from you, but I heard. Really, really good. Yeah. It was probably me. I've been singing his praises for years. Uh, it was easily the best show of the year it came out. Really? Um, it, it, it is up there with Chernobyl is one of the best miniseries ever made. My opinion.

[00:26:37] Like it is excellent. I'll keep it in mind someday. Sort of like a, an imagined sequel to the comic book. It's got, it's not really tied to the movie so much. So bypasses the Snyder, uh. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not, it's Snyder that did the movie film and he probably, I mean that I remember walking to the theater going, that's probably about as good as you could get for that story. Yeah.

[00:27:00] Cause it's not, it's, it's notoriously not trans translatable, but, um, a miniseries is, is, I just, I loved it. I thought it was great. And then you've got a killer soundtrack by, uh, Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor. Oh, cool. Oh man. The, uh, speaking of, I'm glad you mentioned that Jason. Um, I do, I, I'm not crazy about the music, but his movie scores are incredible. Uh, the social network.

[00:27:30] I still haven't seen the movie, but a great score. I listened to that a lot, which is weird, but. Yeah. Their, their version in the, um, uh, was it the mountain King or whatever it is? It's really good. The one I just grabbed off my shelf though, is, is this, this is one of my, this is my favorite Reznor Atticus score ever, which was the PBS series of the Vietnam War. Oh, the Vietnam War one. Yeah. It is an incredible score. I got this record years ago and it's like three discs and it's so damn good.

[00:28:00] It is, uh, it's, it's the same thing. It's just, but I didn't realize that they did the score for that. I forgot about that. Yeah. For Watchmen. Yeah. That's like, I think I've dropped in a group chat before, but they do this song is called none with a motherfucking gun. And it's taken from like, I remember you saying that now. Yeah. It's taken from like this, um, VHS tape that this girl wants to get. Like it was in Watchmen, the U S when the Vietnam war, right? So there's, there's some soldiers still in Vietnam in the mid seventies and it's

[00:28:30] this blaxploitation film and it's just like called none with a mother bleeping gun. And, uh, yeah, they, they had this track called that and it ran over the closing credits. And I was just like, it was the first time I just kept playing it because I wanted to listen to that song. Oh yeah. And I'm kicking myself cause they, they, on what Reznor's website, they came out with all of them on vinyl. Like there was three volume set and I never remember that time. Oh really? Shipping was, was atrocious for Canada and I was like, yeah, I'll get it at some point. Of course it's gone now.

[00:29:00] You can't get it. Yeah. Hopefully someone will reissue it at some point. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I haven't listened to that, but I, that Vietnam one, I love it. It's so good. It's so haunting and, uh, it's really good. Like I listened to a lot of at most stuff when I'm working and stuff. And it's a, it's a great soundtrack to listen to it. It was, it's like, it was good enough for me to seek out and be like, I have to get this on vinyl. This is great. Yeah.

[00:29:25] So again, this is based off just simply a translation and oily man, like your guy and watchman and everything else. We'd love to digress here. The out of reels. So, however, did you know that this is not the first installment of a movie related to the orang minyak, meaning the oily man. So, uh, I did not. Now, Jason, if you were super into movies about oily men, you may have seen.

[00:29:55] Well, we know I am. So we, you may have seen the other three. Uh, I have not, but I do know they exist. So there's three movies and they're all from what I could tell in 1958, maybe 1959, but I have not seen these. I've just known they've existed from days gone by where I was looking into this movie.

[00:30:18] So all three movies are called the oily man curse of the oily man and attack of the oily man creatively enough. So I'm like, we're in Halloween. I'm like, this is only a Frankenstein or creature from the black lagoon title away from being familiar name. Like this is like the most basic reoccurring sequel names. Son of the oily man, you know, it's coming. Right. Well, that said the movie starts after this narration and now you know the history and more

[00:30:48] they need to know about shore scope and everything else. The title appears and it's great. It's a practical title and it appears to be carved out or cast out of wax characters and then it melts away. And it appears to be filmed at high speed and it looks awesome. They just don't spend enough time on it. It's not a true melt away. It feels like they filmed it, they melted it, and then they actually just cut steps in.

[00:31:17] Like it's not a fluid. They pulled, they pulled frames out of it. Yeah. And it's kind of too bad because it looked awesome. I would have much preferred it to just be retimed and be really fluid the way it melts away. But I always appreciate a practical title and it's too bad that this one didn't, uh, could have. Land of doom comes to mind. Yeah. Land of doom. Of course the thing being one of the greatest, which is just garbage bags in front of a light full of a, with a fish tank full of smoke and a blow torch.

[00:31:45] And it's when that light burns through, it looks so good. I tried to recreate that in my teenage years, uh, with this. Of course you did. Yeah. And it didn't look near as good, but it kind of worked. Like you could see, you'd see how it works. There's some very happy music in the intro and immediately the movie looks and feels like a show of brothers. It's wide, it's colorful, it's bright. It's not scrappy. It's, it's a good looking movie, but we're interested. It has a calamity of snakes feel to it off the beginning as well. Yes.

[00:32:16] Like, and, and I think that's more just a product of, of the time period than anything else. But yeah. And, uh, this movie looks better than calamity of snakes though. I think. Yeah. And, uh, the ending of this movie is identical. I almost brought this up. I believe I brought this up when we talked about calamity of snakes, how the ending of that is very similar to oily maniac, but it's been a while. Uh, but I've always thought the endings were similar.

[00:32:42] Um, so we meet our main guy, Shen young, who's Danny Lee and he's losing his house and everything bad's happening. He's a cripple. He's hobbling around. He's got polio. And the story is that there's this mob and they're trying to take the family coconut plantation slash coconut factory, coconut oil factory. And Danny's uncle, who his girlfriend, it's her father who works at the coconut plant.

[00:33:12] Right. And he tries to fight off them. It's not Danny's girlfriend. It's Danny's girl friend. Yes. Who, who I actually thought was his cousin because I thought, I thought that was the uncle's daughter. Right. But, um, but it turns out, I don't, so I was just like, is he in love with his cousin? Like, yeah, but no, they mentioned they've been friends since they were young, but exactly. And he's simping on her and she is having none of it.

[00:33:40] And well, cause he's, he's a filthy cripple. Exactly. So, yeah, but he, for a while, he still thinks he's got a shot. We don't find that out. Yeah. And what happens is her uncle gets into a fight with the mob about them trying to take over the coconut plant, coconut oil plant. And, uh, this is when we're talking about the pacing of this first, I mean, we've been talking a long time here about this movie and now we're only covering for six minutes, but we promise you as always, we will wrap it up. Yeah.

[00:34:08] We should point at this point, we are four minutes in at best. Yes. But there's a lot going on and you get it and it works. A lot has happened. Just as we said, it's, it's efficient. That's all it is. And the uncle comes in and he starts fighting the mob. He kills one of the guys with a machete and then he gets on the run. Well, what's funny because he pulls the machete out and these machetes, by the way, are maybe balsa wood, probably cardboard. Yeah.

[00:34:36] And, um, the way, way they're fighting with them, but he says, I'll kill any of you that threatens my daughter. Cause basically what happens is the mob like threatens his daughter and, um, they're kind of roughing her up and eyeing her up. Like, like, uh, they're, they have, uh, naughty thoughts about her. And, um, one of the guys runs off and says, Hey, they're, they're, they're doing something to your daughter. And he pulls like a machete just out of like off a shelf. Basically.

[00:35:05] It's just like right in front of them. And it's just how convenient, but I guess they are at a coconut plantation. So I'll forgive it. And, uh, comes in and he's, he's, he threatens, he says, I'll kill anyone who harms her. And then they get into a fight and then he kills a guy. And then he's like shocked by it. Like, he's just really upset. Yeah. And, uh, and then they're like, the cops are here. You got to run. And so he runs and then we, you know, smash cut to. Ooh, he's been imprisoned and always on death row and always getting executed this afternoon. Yeah.

[00:35:34] And it all comes around really quick. And. Yeah. I wasn't kidding. Cause like by six and a half minutes, he is, uh, heading to the execution. Yep. He's in the jail zone and he gets his last request. And, uh, he says that the Yang family mob are going to come back for more. And he says to uncle, he, and then the uncle says to Shen Yun. He says, look, you, you need to protect the family. But of course Shen Yun's got polio.

[00:36:03] So he can't. And then that's when the uncle's like, Hey. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then that's that shore scope again. It's like, you can do wide and you can do telephoto in the same lens and they use it every single time. And then this is the moment where he's like, Hey kid, you want to see some shit? You know? And he's like, I got a tattoo. And thus. He takes his shirt off and this is not the movie you think it's about to turn into. Thankfully.

[00:36:33] Right. Yeah. So, um, yeah. What happens is there's like, start, start making notes, like start drawing it or whatever. And you just. Yeah. It's set up that Shen Yun's in the cell and they're coming to get uncle and they're going to execute him any second. And now Shen Yun's chance is to copy this tattoo. And we get this great bubbling oil sound effect while the kid's looking at the tattoo and he's like tracing it on some paper.

[00:36:59] And then the uncle tells this tale and he says, you know, 20 years ago, your father was a shaman exorcist. He gave me a spell before he died. He's like, write this down. Yeah. Like out of nowhere. I know. It's great. Suddenly we got some supernatural stuff, which I guess we do because it's preacher feature, but still. Exactly. I was not expecting, I was not expecting that origin. Yeah. It's kind of fun.

[00:37:24] And then he just says, and again, like all these movies blow out these things like this and he, he just lays it down so quick. He's like, your dad was a shaman exorcist. He gave me the spell, write it down, only use it to help people. If you use it bad, if you use it for bad purposes, you'll die in a very, very bad way. He says like, it's so quick. The rules are set. Yeah. Six minutes, 45 into this movie. We're, we're done. We know exactly what's happening.

[00:37:54] Of course we never, never, but they've set these rules and then of course we never see them. They never get brought into play. And then, and that's also my problem with the ending for this is how and why he dies and. Yeah. There should be, we'll get there, but there should be more of this superhero slash villain internal fighting because. I mean, I, I, I guess you could say that he gets what he deserves and that's the prophecy

[00:38:20] coming true because of, because he does die in an unpleasant way, but it's not through mystical or means or anything. It's like something does, someone does this to him. It's yeah. It's happenstance. It's, it's, it's not, um, repercussions of him being a dick. Yeah. Yeah. Even though I guess you could refer that's what it is, but it's not obvious. And so much about this movie is blatant and obvious. Yes. That suddenly to be obscure is just like, what are you guys doing? Exactly.

[00:38:50] Tonally it's different because they set it up so quick. So we're accepting of that and, and we're all accepting like 10 minutes of the movie. You're like, this is the kind of movie it is. And then we'd lose that later. And that. Kind of cheapens it in a way where if they stuck with it, it could be a lot tighter. Oh, I think so too. So it continues on. And then Shen Yun, our main man with polio, he works at a law office and he's going to lose his job and his boss is Mr.

[00:39:20] Hu and back at the home because he's going to lose it. And so back at that home, Ping, who's the daughter of the uncle who just got executed in prison, she's worried and sad. She's like, Hey, like Shan, she's like, you know, I'm really sad. My uncle's going and shens like, Hey, like, Hey, I'm here. Don't worry about it. And she's like, my uncle was so strong. He was so tough. And then she's like, but you've gone polio. He's like, I'll protect you.

[00:39:47] And then they both look at his braces again, crash zoom on the crutches. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, and then she goes to leave and he's like, stay, stay the night. And she's like, no. And then he's like, I'll sleep on the floor. No, but, but Yang's men may come for you. I'll, I'll, I'll fight them off. It's okay. Yeah. And she's like, I'm not afraid. She leaves and then crash zoom on shing. And he has a breakdown about being a cripple.

[00:40:16] And he's just like, they do mention early on that. He's never gotten over the fact that he, he was afflicted by this when he was younger. So this is like, this is right. It's constantly like, this is the final straw as if this has been constant, you know, problem. He just trashes his place because of it. And he's calling himself a useless loser. He's raging out. And while he's throwing stuff everywhere. He comes across. Dude, I go to bed like this every night, man up. Yeah. You're fine. Dude. This is like, we all hate ourselves.

[00:40:46] It's fine. I saw La Bamba when he's tearing all these cartoons down off the wall. And that dude was going to die. Yeah, exactly. So I should tell you, I get my, one of my fondest memories is when I was younger. And remember when that movie came out? Um, you might not because you were too young, but. And also four, four years later in Australia. So yeah. Well, I am a solid decade older than you, but La Bamba was like, uh, what was it? Like 80.

[00:41:16] I couldn't. Six or something. 87. I think mid eighties anyway. When it came out. 87. Good call. Yeah. One of my really good friends, Carlos, he's a video game concept artist. And through the last few years, it's been rough for everybody out there. Yeah. And it's, it's nobody's able to get work game studios or thinning out, shutting down left, front and center. He's a fantastic artist. Uh, he's a wonderful dude, but he's just like, you know, he's like, I'm going to be a cop man instead.

[00:41:45] And, uh, he was talking about it. And then when his, uh, studio got shut down and they, they cleared everybody out, we, we posted in our disco and I posted the clip of La Bamba ripping all his drawings down. And I'm like Carlos on his last day at work. It's like tearing them off the wall, like crying. It's a bit of funny, but yeah. For all you guys who were working in the industries, it is, uh, it is bad out there and we hear you. Yeah. It's amazing.

[00:42:15] I'm amazed. Well, and yeah, Sam's amazing. He has a job. I'm, I'm finally getting back to work again this year after like three really rough years on road. So it's one of the reasons why we did this is suddenly I had the time. We had the time. Time. And, uh, now we make the time even if we are busy. So yeah, no, that's right. Anyways, we're getting way off track here. I'm going to get another beer. Just like pounding three beers at once. I've caught up to you.

[00:42:45] Holding. Well, no, you're still like two behind you, but I've had three during this recording. Shit. Holding three beers. You look like the, uh, um, enforcer guards and fortress that have the three cannon, the three barrel cannons on their hand. What a movie. It's got McLeod from Highlander. Clarence Boddicker from Robocop. Herbert West from reanimator and Bennett from commando. And then gets sued by, by, uh, John Carpenter.

[00:43:14] No, that was lockout. It was like, oh, sorry. Okay. Yeah. I remember fortress and lockout being kind of the same movie. So not really, but they're both not awesome. Some love lockout. Lockout is so good. I need to watch it again. It's it's great. Black server waiting for me. I just love how he, um, uh, he's smoking a cigarette and the guy's like, nobody even smokes anymore. Snow. Like they've given him crap. Cause he's like totally meant to be like a snake plus skin character.

[00:43:43] Anyways, the mob catches up to ping. And of course they decide they're going to rape her in oily maniac film fashion. And one of them goes to stand outside to keep watch. So what I want to say too, is the guy who goes outside to watch is like, you go first. I'll keep watch. Yeah. And it's like, what rapist says that? No, this is just, oh, the guy, I'll tell you exactly who says it is the guy in lady Terminator. He says the same thing when the dude's in the car. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[00:44:12] So, so what is with these Malaysians, Malaysian rapists wanting sloppy seconds? I don't get it. Yeah. It's weird. Anyway, it's a whole thing. It's a genre. We could probably do a whole season on it. Uh, I will pass. Thank you. And suddenly the podcast is over. Yeah. So human animals two through seven coming to you. I'm here for it. I am not.

[00:44:38] So we're back at the house and our main man, he is following the instructions. He's gone La Bamba. He's tore the place apart. And then in his rage, he stumbles across the drawing. He made of the tattoo. And he just reads it and you hear some bubbling sounds and he just digs a hole. And it's like, but he doesn't just dig a hole. Well, it says first, first dig a hole in the middle of your house. Yeah. It's a concrete slab too. And I was like, well, this is it. Cause I thought like, is he on like something solid?

[00:45:07] And I thought maybe it's just like some kind of dirt. No, he gets a pickaxe and he John wicks that stuff. Well, I, I mean, we could say John wick, but I was like being thinking like, well, this is more like Frank Hart when he decides to dig up his car from the last chase. And because that was pre John wick. Yes. That is so much better scene than John wick. John wick's got nothing on Lee majors. I'll tell you that. So he digs a hole and while he's digging it, it's filling up with oil presumably cause it's

[00:45:37] bubbling and he's chanting. And then magically he rises as the oily maniac. There's a crash zoom in his eyes are these plastic yellow glowing things. There's oil everywhere. It's awesome. This is why we watch. He's got a, he's got a red beating heart. That's halfway outside of his chest that never factors in by the way. I thought that must be how they kill him. Yeah. Cause they, they, they crash zoom in on it and like, well, aha, there's the weakness really

[00:46:05] doesn't play into it very much, but that should be the weakness because why wouldn't it be? Yeah. And so it's the glowing thing you're going to shoot in any gears of war game. Hmm. It does. It looks like the emulsion, like weakness spot on every one of the grubs from. Yeah, you're totally right. The oily maniac shows up to save the girl and it wouldn't be the movie without bad guys getting attacked by the oily maniac.

[00:46:33] So I like the roto effect of it. And then, so the way this guy moves around is he's an oil puddle and the puddle moves around and then he materializes out of the puddle. But the puddle at one point, this puddle can haul ass too. It chases a car at one point. Catch. It does a lot of stuff and it's interesting. And so I want to talk about the optical effect here because when the oil puddle moves across the ground, the oil isn't moving.

[00:47:01] And it's, it's like a still plate of oil that's been shot and then they've got their main plate and they put it on top of it and then roto it out a piece of the main plate, which moves. And then you reveal the static shot of the oil underneath. And I'm doing a bunch of motions with my hands here. So you guys can't see or understand what I'm talking about, but I can't know when it may still makes no sense. Yeah.

[00:47:25] It's like, it's a shot of bubbling oil that's static and then they roto out the other plate. So the ball, the, the blob moves, but the, the, yeah, the element behind doesn't move with the blob. Well, in the first time I saw this, I thought, is that supposed to be a reflection of stars in the sky or something? And it's not, it's just kind of the kind of reflection on the oil, but it's, yeah, it doesn't quite work, but it's, it's, it's not a terrible effect.

[00:47:54] It doesn't work, but you appreciate for what they've done. Exactly. Yeah. It's got a real bed knobs and broomsticks kind of feel to it. So, well, you know, this is, this is a long shot, but if any of you ever played the awesome escape, uh, secret of monkey island. And you remember Stan man, who's the boat salesman and he's wearing a plaid jacket. And when Stan moves around the plaid stays in place. Yeah.

[00:48:23] And that is the only way I could describe the effect for the oily maniac. If one person listening has ever knows that reference, but it's worth, it's worth mentioning. So I never really played that game. I played a ton of the first maniac mansion though. Oh yeah. That was good. No, those, all those point and click adventures were great. I am a massive space quest nerd. I'll, uh, I'll knock anybody's space, Larry as well. Let's shoot Larry was great as well.

[00:48:52] King's quest is great. Police quest was fun, but, uh, in a world of trivia, I'll, uh, I'll happily go up against the best on space quest trivia. It's one of the best game series of all time. Anyways, uh, Sierra. Yeah. So he appears out of the puddle. He starts clobbering the mods mobsters, the Yang, the Yang gang guys, the Yang mobsters. And after he does this, he runs back to the house and he collapses.

[00:49:17] And there's a great re-time here where he's running along the street and he jumps up onto a rooftop and it's clearly in reverse where he's dropping off the rooftop and they've just cut it in and he just like teleports up to the roof. Pretty funny. They do it again later when he's like escaping a situation and he's running for whatever reason, he jumps on top of a car and then runs across the tops of the cars. And I thought it was like, cause he was going to hop off onto something. Right.

[00:49:42] But no, he just kind of jumps down off the track and then he gets up on something else and then gets up on a fence. But it's so obviously been reversed. Yeah. There's a lot of that. And, but that was, I mean, that's Shaw Brothers bread and butter for visual effects. Like so much stuff of this was like all the Kung Fu stuff. That was, there's so much re-times and everything in it. Yeah. So he makes it back to his house. He's all tired.

[00:50:07] It's like from the flash TV movie where he's all burned out and he eats a big bowl of cereal, but he doesn't do that. He just passes out on his tatami mat and then slowly turns back into Shen. And this is the reoccurring thing of the movie. And basically he goes out, he does a mission, he kills some bad guys and he comes back in. And there's a whole subplot here with the law firm that he works at, but I'm going to skip all of that.

[00:50:36] All you need to know is the lawyer is super sketchy. He's not a good guy. He, um, you know, like he, he gets a plot with like this dancer to accuse a guy of rape and, uh, and win. And then she gets a hundred thousand dollars and he takes 80% of it. Right. That's the kind of lawyer he is. Then he also, there's like other things with a, with a woman who's doing breast augmentation and stuff who doesn't have a license. It's a weird is it's, it's dumb.

[00:51:04] It's just, and then there's only your, it's the only thing that's like worth mentioning is that in his office, this woman comes in and she's like trying to get him to represent her. She's got this makeup on. She looks like Sergeant Kabuki man, by the way, but she's serious about it. She does dress like him too. Yeah. And the lawyer is like, well, let's see your breasts. And then she's like, they're like, Ms. Mo can't continue her work with a wrecked tit. And they pull down her like, and then she's got this like mutant swollen tit. And then they're like, she wants $150,000.

[00:51:34] And the law is like, you know what? You got no case. You signed the consent form for the operation. And then they go on and on. And then he's like, you know what? She's not licensed, but, but she is. And it turns out she's not. Yeah. And then basically he convinces the victim and he's like, look, the best thing you can do is probably just settle out for like 10 grand and I'll take five. And then immediately he brings a surgeon in and he's like, we're talking 150 here. And she pays him right there. And then he pockets it. So yeah, he's a dirt bag.

[00:52:04] And he says to his secretary who of course he's sleeping with, who's not his wife, that he's got to pay the other woman out 5,000 still. But yeah. Yeah. It just sets it up for him to be a dirt bag. And this is where Shen works. Right. So this moment is really old while to me. There's, um, we, we cut to a hospital and we're finding out the surgeon who did the bad tit job.

[00:52:28] She is doing work with this doctor who has a scam or she's doing work with this pimp. The pimp. And they have a scam and she's stitching up prostitutes to say they're virgins. And I always thought this is wacky because she's like, well, she doesn't look like a version. They're like too late. And then they just put her legs up in the, like the spreader. And then what are those, those four things are called. And, uh, there's just sewing chicks up. Like this is their whole racket.

[00:52:56] Like it's a weird tertiary plot in the movie, but it was always shocking to me. Like I was like, whoa. Oh yeah. So that's her gag. Out of nowhere. And then our, our maniac comes in and he somehow ends up on the ceiling before he falls in. I don't know how he gets up there. He's like that. He's Mr. Magoo's like black transport bubble. Like he can just move it around the room. And it's, uh, it's pretty funny.

[00:53:23] Cause basically the oily maniac does materialize and he comes up, he thrashes the room, the ceiling and just rages out. And then. This is also like the sketchiest operating room of all time, by the way, because the waiting room is right outside the door. Yeah. Um, and the pimps like, I gotta talk to her. The doctor is like, and she's all like, you know, washed up and gloved up and everything's like, what do you want? He's like, you know, the last guy, uh, she barely bled at all.

[00:53:51] So it's supposed to be a version and she barely bled at all. You gotta do better. Yeah. It's just like, what? But, um, but again, this is like sitcom level kind of stuff. It's just so bare bones in the story department and stuff. And then our oily guy appears on the ceiling and drops down and goes, ah, and trash is everything. And clobbers everybody. And it's just like, just from the go smashing random bottles on the shelf in the operating room. Cause of course there's random bottles on the shelf of an operating room.

[00:54:19] And, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's quite insane. It's the whole setup. And then he goes back as his oil puddle, he retreats. And then what happens is that the. After this is after killing the doctor, by the way, but the pimp gets away. And then the pimp follows the oil stains. Right. Yeah. And then this is less believable. And a lot of people have a hard time with this in the director's cut of water world,

[00:54:44] where they find the smokers, where they figure out where the smokers are after their atolls being destroyed. But there's a deleted scene that's in the director's cut where they follow the discoloration in the ocean of the oil. And it's fantastic. And it works. And everybody who has a problem with water world never talks about sinks and they never saw the director's cut because it's a perfect film. And then that's how this. That's the read. That's, that's the problem. Everyone has water world. That that's the only problem. That's one of the biggest problems.

[00:55:13] And I say, screw you guys. Watch the director's cut and you'll be surprised, but that's how they track down. They know where the oily maniac is. They now know who the oily maniac is. And then it's Shen Yun and this opens all the other stuff. So then they say like, yeah, we need some money. He just like tracks them down. Like, well, we'll watch them. And the next day calls him at work. Yeah. It's like, well, how do you know who he is and where he works? You just know where he lives. Right.

[00:55:41] But I guess, you know, so he's like, yeah. And he's like, and the guy, Shen's like, what do you mean? What are you talking about? And he's like, well, I'm going to make your secret and I'm going to tell the cops unless you give me a, however much he's, what does he want? $5,000. Yeah. He said, give me $5,000. Uh, meet me at the docks at midnight. It's like, fine. And he says, and if you bring the, don't bring the cops, don't tell the cops or I'll kill you. And it's like, but you were just threatened to tell the cops on him. Yeah. Like, but he's the oily maniac.

[00:56:11] He's not going to call the cops. And then sure enough, no time. These guys aren't. Yeah. And they're for whatever reason, they're not, they're like, oh, we can handle the oily maniac. And he was, who's in, by the way is in the papers multiple times by now. Cause he's killed all sorts of people. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, sure enough. They're just like, meet me at the docks and he's got all his guys. And it's like, what if he calls the cops? He's like, well, the cops come in by boat. I got a truck over there. The cops come in by, by land. We're going to hop in that boat right there. It's perfect.

[00:56:40] It's like, yeah. Oh yeah. It's a foolproof escape plan. And you've got all your bases covered. I have to give you credit for that. And boy, does the oily maniac meet them at the dock because he just materializes. And then through all matter of jumping in reverse and retimes, he takes them all and I splatters all these guys. And my favorite is they're walking across a skywalk, a catwalk to a crane. And there's a shot where the oily maniac jumps up and it's just a rubber suit that's

[00:57:09] been thrown off the sky, the catwalk and it's flapping in the wind and it's reversed. So he's like being beamed up as if he's jumping up. There's a lot of that. Yeah. So that's why this movie is great. It's just fun. So they, all of this happens, he splatters everybody there. And then the next thing is, is that the, the Yang mob have the girl at the coconut plant. And this is the big problem at the coconut oil plantation, uh, factory.

[00:57:38] And of course the mobs letter there. And it's weird about this movie is like nothing in this warehouse has a purpose. Like you said, there's, there's no reason for this to be in a warehouse. It's just like, we need to film in a warehouse cause it's a location. So let's revolve everything around it. Cause like I said, nothing's got anything to do with coconut oil or anything else. And it was like, maybe it was the only warehouse that could get.

[00:58:03] It's like, this isn't kind of like, well, I think the better version of the reason for a movie to be in a warehouse is blackjack. The John movie movie with Dolph Lundgren. Remember that where Dolph Lundgren. I remember it. I don't know if I ever saw it though. Yeah. So Dolph Lundgren has a problem with the color white. And then, so they torture him all the time and like they pour milk on him. And then of course he has a flip out.

[00:58:29] But of course the ultimate part is that the final fight showdown happens in a milk factory and he's like up to his waist in milk and he's having a meltdown. It's it's great. It's so good. So there's milk spraying everywhere and he's screaming. There's a purpose for him to be in the warehouse and that's a problem. So our mansion young shows up to the warehouse and there's a bunch of workers outside with, they have a barrel of oil that they're heating. I think I assume they're trying to like pave or tar something or whatever.

[00:58:59] Yeah. We should point out, cause I don't think we mentioned it to him to turn into the oily man. He has to be exposed to oil or what? So at one point he covers himself in diesel gasoline. Another time he, um, you know, it's just, he's gotta be exposed to oil. So for whatever reason there's oil underneath his house, by the way. Yeah. Um, yeah. So there's this, there's this barrel of oil and he starts spray it like just. Glooping it onto himself and everyone's like, what? Look, look at this crazy guy. What's he doing? And they're trying to stop him.

[00:59:27] And then he bites him off and he just jumps into the barrel. Yeah. And then we get that, that whole familiar sort of green bubbling that we get. And then out comes the oily mania. It's, it's, it's funny. Cause like, like I said, his triggers are diesel or other oil, but it's like, I never, ever understood how he works. Like every time he summons the creature in a different way inconsistently. Yeah. Exactly. Like there's some petroleum related product.

[00:59:53] And so like, then I'm thinking, well, it's anything with alkanes or paraffins in it, which is just, you know, bonded forms of oil or like whatever ends up in gasoline. And I was like, this is, I don't know the trigger. Trust Sam to get into the chemistry to make sure it works. But, uh, I mean, we should say too, the, I like how you did say he hulks out too, because he does, instead of getting the green eyes, he gets the red eyes and when he's going to change and it's just like, but that doesn't make you change. You're just, anyway.

[01:00:22] And then the oily maniac himself has yellow eyes too. So it's like. Yes. But with that pulsing green or sort of the pulsing red heart. Heart. Yeah. So now he turns into, he turns into the oily maniac and now he's got his puddle and he's chasing Mr. Who, who's the law firm, the, the, um, the boss of the law firm and he's chasing him down in his car. And this is where you're like, wow, the puddle can travel the speed of a car.

[01:00:51] And then what's great is that they just start having sex and he just pops up in the back seat. He goes to something. He just pulls over on the side of the road. There's two other cars that are like couples making out. It's on a hairpin turn. It's like some kind of inspiration point, but yeah, it's like on this, it's literally like a hairpin turn. It's just. It's such a weird spot. Not where you park a car. There's no shower or nothing. No, no. It should be. I mean, if, well, I guess Malaysia, if it's going to say if it's Hong Kong, there's tons

[01:01:18] of mountains around, you could probably drive up, but no, this is a, yeah, it's quite funny. Yeah. And, uh, and then they just start going at it. And yeah. Go ahead. Oil coming down the windows. Yeah. Basically like, like the blob in a phone booth. It just starts raining oil over the glass and he pops up in the back seat and he, uh, he kills the both of them.

[01:01:46] But what's funny is he takes the woman and then he spreads her legs across the car before like he poses her body in this really weird way. It's so, it's so strange because there's nothing else related to it, but I do have a little nugget about why that happened later once we get there. But I always thought that was a weird moment. He just like splits her legs apart and then just leaves her. And I was like, that's a weird thing to do after you kill somebody, but nothing else happens.

[01:02:13] So now he's killed them off and he decides he goes back to paying and he's like, Hey, like, cause he's human again. And he's like, I need your help to destroy. Like you need to help me destroy myself. And then he's like, well, you know, I first have to avenge two people from the Yang Mog for what they did to ping. Cause so then this whole thing, they kill ping and well, they don't kill ping. So they rape ping while this is all happening. Yes.

[01:02:43] And he gets back to the coconut oil factory and she is killing herself with a hay hook. She just ends up. Yeah. She literally just hooks this thing into her, into her neck, I guess. Yeah. And just like, it's a wild way to kill yourself. So he's yet there like minutes, especially when there's like all sorts of places she can climb to and just jump. Yeah. Everything. And then whatever. I think what's meant to happen here is that cause he hovels in on his crutches and he's there and he's like, I'm too late.

[01:03:13] And I think what's supposed to be like, well, Hey, like if you were an able person and you just ran there, you would have saved her, but because you're a cripple, you couldn't. So that makes him feel terrible. And then. Yeah. He stayed the oily man. He could have saved her too. Exactly. But he wasn't angry. So he needed that fuel. And then, cause that's, that's the combination needs to be angry. And then he needs some form of combustible. So then the Yang gang. Would methane work to change them? Do you think?

[01:03:41] No, because it's not a solid. Yeah. Cause I, I guess cause like could osmosis work on something that's not an actual. You could just like, you just, you just eat like a lot of beans and be gassy and then. From the inside out. Yeah. Exactly. That's true. Self, self triggering. Well, this is like the question of like the Mogwai. It's like, what if he has a sesame seed stuck in his teeth or if he crosses a time zone, right? Like when he's eating, like.

[01:04:12] I think only if he swallows it afterwards, maybe. But. Yeah. Cause if it stays stuck in his teeth and he goes to sleep. He hasn't ingested it. But what if he's eating. He's still there when he wakes up. Like what if he's eating like a cheddar biscuit and he goes across the time zone. Well. Yeah. It's worth the test. Yeah. So. He's finally done. Like his, his love. She's been raped by the Yang guys. She's killed herself with a hay hook.

[01:04:41] So basically this is his last time to turn into the oil maniac because everything's done. His, his girls being raped and killed. He got there too late. He's a retard because he can't walk fast enough. This is his ultimate moment to rage out and be like, wow, Sam, I'm going to, this is the way the movie portrays him. This is why he looks at himself. He's crippled, not retarded. He's crippled, not retarded. But he's saying that to himself. Like, you know, this is. Yeah. He's. Yeah. Man.

[01:05:11] This is how I go to sleep at night. Dude, get over yourself. Right. There are breathing techniques you can use to still make yourself fall asleep. You'll be fine. To stop yourself from turning into the oily maniac. There's there, you know, those Navy Seals have come up with some amazing ways to breathe to make yourself fall asleep quickly. And I finally learned some of them and man, I wish I knew him in my twenties. There you go. That's all I have to say. But yeah. Inhale for three. Count. Hold it for four. Exhale for five.

[01:05:42] Rinse and repeat by within a couple of minutes. You are out. There you go. Take it from a guy who has, who's had insomnia off and on for 40 plus years. And a grand kid. I think that's the. I have a grand kid now. Yeah. Cause I'm old. So the final setup for the movie is that he doesn't like who he is and he doesn't like who he's become with his powers from the oily maniac. And he explains, you're going to have to kill me. I'm going to turn and you're going to have to kill me.

[01:06:12] And this is, this is the end. And. I should point out too, that this is to the woman who loves him. Yes. Who works with him at the law firm, who he treats horribly by the way. Oh yeah. Like, like she invites him to dinner at one point. And she just said, are you doing it tonight? He's like, no. So then come to my place for eight. He's like, okay. And then he shows up at 10 and she's made dinner. She's paid a curry and it's cold. She's like, but I'll go heat it up. He's like, no, don't. I already ate.

[01:06:42] Cause he went to, he went to this other house, this girl's place that yeah. That he loves. And she made him curry and it's the best curry ever. He's just like, I'm like, wow, man. It's like, it's like a terrible. It's like a simping triangle is what it is. That's the only way I can describe it. Yeah.

[01:07:30] Crazy. You need to help me destroy this thing. And he's like, well, at first I have to avenge the two people from the Yang mob for what they did for ping. But after that, you gotta get rid of me. And this time he jumps into an oil that at the coconut plant. And then that's where I'm like, well, is this, is this like coconut oil or is this like real petrochemical oil?

[01:07:55] Like I, I couldn't figure out what, but so he jumps in and then he reappears. And I don't know if he's meant to appear bigger and stronger. Like he like got like super serum version or I don't really know if that's the intent here. I think I want to say yes, cause I think this is supposed to be coconut oil at this point. Yeah. But, uh, and maybe that's the super oil. I don't know, but. Yeah.

[01:08:21] So he, he rages out on all the cronies now and the whole mob are there and he just starts teleporting. This is his new thing. Like he'll melt down and then they'll swing at him and he'll teleport somewhere. Like, this is a great gag. This is why you watch this movie. Cause you want to see this thing with powers. And he gets an arm cut off and it falls, dissolves into oil and then regrows. It's great. He gets his head cut off. He like almost immediately afterwards and then does the same thing. Pieces back together.

[01:08:51] Yeah. It's not a terrible effect. I mean, given, given its year. Um, but it's just like, yeah, this stuff happens and like, oh wow. Like, and yet he gets shot a bunch of times and it's fine. And then he gets like, but then I thought he actually got shot or stabbed in the heart at one point. And he went down cause he gets shot a whole bunch of times and goes down. Yeah. But he just dissolves into oil and then comes back. Exactly. So yeah. So it's just like, okay, that's not really how it works.

[01:09:17] And he's, he's kind of limping away and then like they're, yeah, like they're stabbing him and everything else. And then finally he gets set on fire is what happens. And she sets him on fire. Well, yeah, I was gonna say she sets him on fire. Because it's done. He's cleared the money. And you should point out it's, it's really hard to light oil on fire. As you probably know. You need a lot of heat, like at atmospheric at 14.7, you're going to need a lot of heat. Like that's all it is.

[01:09:44] Either that or it, it needs to be a spark and it's gotta be just right. Cause it's, it's hard to do. Yeah. It's, it's not going to fly easily and she just touches him and he lights up. And what I like about this movie, he gets set on fire. He falls down and that's it. Calamity of snake style credits roll. I was going to say credits roll, but no credits roll. It just says the end. Yeah. Even better.

[01:10:13] Cause it's like, I'm call me a stickler or whatever. My, my wife, she's very accepting of it. And I know, but anytime we go see a movie, we sit through every credit and, or we watch movie, we sit through the credits. She's all about it. I appreciate her very much, but not everybody's ended that. And this movie is helpful for those because it just says the end and you don't even have to think about it. So it's always. Another movie that does that. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Oh, really? All the credits are at the top and there's gags written throughout them.

[01:10:44] Yeah. Which is great. And at the very end of that movie, um, uh, King Arthur and his knights are being arrested by the cops and then it just, it's over. It's over. I do like that. If you never, as I say, if you haven't seen the movie, dude, you gotta watch it. Oh yeah. It was a long, like I haven't watched it in my adult years, but it was, yeah. My dad introduced it to me by saying it was the funniest movie ever made. I introduced it to my daughter.

[01:11:09] She was just like, yeah, that, that, and, uh, for love of that. And the blues brothers are my greatest triumphs as a father. So. Good success. And then. Yeah. Yeah. The, uh, no, the, the credits that I loved were, um, in a lot of the naked gun credits, they would always have like, there's a brownie recipe in the first naked gun one. And then there's a, it's either a naked gun two or three. You guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember when you're sitting there watching it,

[01:11:39] there's even a part that's like people who didn't have lines in the movie, but we liked them anyway. And then they would give like credits to extras and stuff like just a bunch of funny stuff was always written in the credits. Like went the above and beyond always a classic. I am. I had to do, I did a Netflix movie 2018, probably. Hell dangerous lies. If you ever want to go check it out, we shot it under the title of windfall, but it was my first job, uh, working on a movie with Netflix and, uh, they send us their tech specs,

[01:12:07] like for delivery specs and I'm reading through it. And then like, there's a lemon bar recipe at the end. Yeah. Like, and it's there to see if you, you caught it. Like if you got down to the end, I was just like, well, that's clever. Yeah. There was a movie I worked on a long time ago and they had a production babies credit and, uh, yeah. And they're like, oh yeah. Cause like people who get pregnant or have kids during the production, they're like, yeah, production babies or whatever.

[01:12:37] And, uh, I put my dog's name in there and submitted that. So it was a good sneak in. They, they didn't, they didn't question it. So anyway, so yeah, quick and tight ending again. Like I like out of a creature feature, just like calamity of snakes, you burn the monster, you roll credits. There is no time wasted. And in this movie, unfortunately, a lot of the times wasted in the middle, but even if

[01:13:03] you do that, if you have a movie's only 84 minutes long, um, but it probably should have been more like 74. If you have a hard out like that, I think what makes good filmmaking is even if you drag the crowd along through some slow parts in the middle, if you can get a hard out, people forget about that middle pretty quickly and feel satisfied and be like, okay, we're out of here. And it's, it's a good reset on the audience.

[01:13:32] And I think in, in this case, it helps the movie. It helps. It makes it rewatchable and enjoyable, but I, I think I would always do a movie like that. Yeah. I want to say Cam of the woods does a good job of that. Um, cause not only do they do an awesome jump skirt just on the title card, but, uh, yeah. And then at the end, the way they end it is just like the end of the world. Boom. It's over. The hand comes up. I mean, I could talk about a million, but one that there's so many great ones that we've

[01:14:01] all seen, but one that I love that doesn't get enough love, I think is deep rising with treat Williams. And the end of that movie is so good. It involves a map painting as scream from a creature. And then all you hear is treat Williams racking a shotgun, just saying now what? And the credits roll. Like it's so good. It's, it's a, the whole movie is great.

[01:14:27] It's a, and you can also tell that that movie was the lead up to Steven Somers mummy. Cause he did deep rising and then all the ILM, the effects are like almost this test bed for what became the mummy. Cause the stuff looks the same. It's a great new, I think it's way better than the mummy. It's my favorite second favorite Steven Somers movie of all time. It's so good. It'd be my first favorite. You know, it summers is his original first movie from 1989.

[01:14:54] Catch me if you can not the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. Good car chase. It's great. That's Spielberg. But, um, yeah, you know, I did a treat Williams movie, right? Hallmark Christmas movie with him. Oh, you did. I didn't know that. That's the movie I delivered the day it aired. Oh really? That's the one. Yeah. On the day of air, you deliver it. The day it aired. And then a treat Williams. Yeah, that is, that is still the re I, I hold the, as, as of a couple of years ago,

[01:15:23] anyway, cause it's been a few years since I've been Hallmark, but I still hold the record for the shortest post and delivery on any movie. That was a Christmas movie that aired before Christmas and we were still shooting it in December. So yeah. That's tight. Yeah. Yeah. I think the biggest fail of this movie is that he's been flammable this whole time and everything, everybody's tried against him. A simple big glider could have been the end of it.

[01:15:51] And, and it's not like people don't know he's made of oil. Like I understand if there's a villain or a hero and they don't know that the man's impervious to fire, then you just don't know. He's called the oily maniac the entire time. Yeah. It's pretty obvious. I think that's, that's one of the goofier moments. Again, I love the movie and for the sake of conversation, like a lot of these, all these movies, when I say this is dumb or this is silly, it's just for the sake of conversation. Cause I truly love it. And I think it's, I think it's awesome.

[01:16:21] So this is our third Shaw brothers film. If you remember. Yep. Yep. We had in Seminoid cause that was a Shaw brothers co-pro and then, and then seven golden, seven golden vampires. Right. Of course this movie, like I said, the, the way that they differentiate people. I always talk about colored spacesuits for moon zero two. While that wasn't the first movie to ever do this beyond anything. I just mean that that's always a good example when people have small lines or small interactions.

[01:16:49] That's a great way to track who's who and what people are doing. Like certain or the robots with their, uh, prissy suits that they ended up named the ski suits, the Swiss ski suits that they ended up naming the spaceship off her and all that sort of stuff. What's funny about this movie is they kind of do that. And if you look at it, subtle, they do make every character look different, but every character just has a slightly different colored floral print shirt and it's enough and it works.

[01:17:19] And it's very, very subtle because if they were all wearing the same shirt or, or, or, uh, not defining patterns, I'd be like, oh, these are the goons. These are the lawyer or whatever, but they do a good enough job, but it's, it's subtle, but it's good filmmaking. Well, especially like Shen and, uh, the girl he likes that as betrothed to, they look very similar. They got similar haircuts. They have similar. Like, so yeah, it would be, so it's good that they've done that. Yeah.

[01:17:48] And I noticed that because Shen's usually wearing white of some kind and, uh, and that guy is sort of wearing usually a dark floral shirt and stuff like that. It's a setup by, by association. My problem with this movie is that like, what does he really do with, with his powers with it? Like, other than like, he can creep up like under a door, you know, or come through a faucet. Like he does. If it comes through the bathtub, which is great.

[01:18:12] But when he's actually around someone, he like I said it before, but he also fights like a drunk contractor. Like he is, his, his powers. He uses to get himself into a location, but then he doesn't use his powers to his advantage in the actual fighting or anything else other than I made of oil and I'm invincible, but I, you just, and I know budget and everything else. Yeah, exactly.

[01:18:41] And yeah, it feels like if you're going to do this, have some clever moments, have some cool stuff, add some things, make him rob a bank, make the discovery of when a hero gets a superpower is so fun. And you always want to be on that journey with them. And I love the 77 Spider-Man. And when he's building his web slingers, I enjoy that so much. It's so fun.

[01:19:10] I remember when it was airing. And, but, but you're in with him, you're in with him the whole way. And, and, uh, The Tobey Maguire for Spider-Man does a good job of this too. It's great. Yeah. But it's just, it is. But that one, that one is that earlier one is just so wholesome. And as a kid, you almost think you could do it. You're like, I think I, this can be that.

[01:19:35] And it gives you this sort of idea of like, man, that's, that's not far off. I could probably pull that off. I think that's the thing that most of the Spider-Man movies kind of gloss over and the newer ones are better for it, but they're still not great. It's the idea that Peter Parker's super freaking smart. Right. He is. And, and, uh, like borderline approaching Mr. Fantastic kind of level intelligence.

[01:20:04] And, um, but on top of all that, he's like incredibly strong. Yeah. Like the whole idea is, is you find out later, um, when you're playing or when you're, when you're watching or reading some of the comics, like, um, he's significantly pulling his punches because otherwise his punches go straight through people's heads and stuff. Mm. Like he is insanely strong.

[01:20:29] Um, so it's just like, it's, it's incredible how powerful Spider-Man is and the way they treat him and how he's still such kind of a loser. Right. Um, so yeah, it's interesting. Anyway. Yeah. The more, you know. No, but, but that's kind of the thing with him is this guy's. Yeah. He is, uh, perceived as a loser. Yeah. And what I would like to really see instead of that subplot with the lawyer and everything else, just him on his page. Yeah. He's a path of discovery of this awesome power. Yeah.

[01:20:59] Make him do fun things. Make him do goofy things. Don't turn him into just straight violent vengeance. Yeah. I think that works total for Punisher. That's exactly what I want to see when I think Punisher. Mm. But this is, this should be more a journey and you bring the audience along of like, this is fun. We go to Paris. I mean, Iron Man's a great one as well. It's like, hey, like he's working on the suit. He's developing it. It's getting better.

[01:21:26] And he knows that like, those are all the fun things that you could have in a movie. And part of that with the Iron Man movie is there's a whole redemption arc in there too. Is he's this, you know, war profiteer who, um, and discovers just how awful it is and becomes a hero. Yeah. Except, and I love all three and guys don't need to hear me talk about how much I love the Shane Black Iron Man. And particularly all, although not many people love it.

[01:21:53] I'll just say that we're talking about end credits, the end credit title sequence for Iron Man three is better than all the Iron Man movies tied together. It has the best feel. And I just remember seeing that in the theater and being so excited. It's, it's classic. I'm a big Iron Man three fan, not so much of Iron Man two.

[01:22:13] So my problem with Iron Man two is, uh, I, I also very much enjoy Iron Man two, but my problem with Iron Man two is that the whole thing at the beginning in the cave, when he's breaking out and he's building and his body in the cave is like, don't let me die. I've got to call on Iron Man in the first one. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. So the first one. Yeah. So no, no, but yeah, I'm leading up. Sorry. I'm leading up to. Yeah.

[01:22:41] So my, my problem with Iron Man two is in Iron Man one at the very beginning, as we all know, when he builds the Mach one suit in the cave and the guys with him, he's like, don't let me die for nothing. Make sure this, get it together, work it out. Don't let me die for it. And then he goes through the whole progression in Iron Man one and everything's great. And he gets the top and the beginning Iron Man two, he's an alcoholic again. And it's all just, everything's dumb.

[01:23:11] Like I was like, so you did let him die for nothing. And I get that it's supposed to be a redemption thing. He's, he's all, he's fallen off and now he's got to come back. But I don't think that's the right way. The demon in the bottle storyline, um, which is what they kind of alluded to. Yeah. It's just not as it, there could be better ways to do that between one and two. I thought, I think that's the, I think that's the bigger problem, but three is fantastic. Two is a bit of a misfire. Two's got some fun stuff to it, but it's, it's mostly a misfire.

[01:23:41] Yeah. It's like the first Thor movie. It's not great. Good. The ending with the kid who he gets the workshop and the old Mustang and the, all the equipment in there, the mini Jarvis. That is so good. It just feels so good. I love all that. Anyways. Well, what I like about, um, the kid in Iron Man three is they bring him back for the end of end game as well. Oh, they did. I never saw it. Memorial. Yeah. Oh really? And cause there's a whole bunch of people are like, who's that?

[01:24:10] And it's like, it's the kid from Iron Man three. It's dark. Like, yeah. I didn't know that. That's kind of cool. He's several years older. So it's hard to recognize him, but, uh, yeah, it's just like, yeah. Great vibe. It was a nice touch that they brought him back. But it's also the Christmas, it's the Christmas miracle. It's this kid who's a tinkerer and then he runs into Tony Stark and helps him and then gets the ultimate gift. It's, it's wonderful. My only frustration with it is Iron Man three could have been a good way of bringing

[01:24:37] in Iron Heart, who is, uh, Williams instead of sort of shoehorning her into, uh, the second, um, Black Panther movie. Um, I think, and I haven't watched the series, so I don't know if they make it better or not, but that would have been a better role for that character in Iron Man three because it kind of fits. But, uh, anyway, that's just me. That is you. Cause you didn't, you know, comics, so I can't comment on that. Uh, okay. We're trying to wrap this up here.

[01:25:07] Uh, physical media, the blu-ray individually is long out of print. You, my copy is on the shore brothers shore shock collection. Is that like an arrow thing or. Yeah. So the, on, uh, shore shock one, there's four of them. And then, uh, it's first billing on shore shock one. It's like all the fringe horror creature, goofy stuff. I have, I have the one and two box set and three and four. I have on pre-order, which, uh, I actually looked them up today. Cause I was like, what happened with those?

[01:25:36] Those ship, uh, very soon. So I'm excited about that. Right. But, um, I got mine through orbit DVD, which is always been really good on pre-orders and everything else. Uh, I couldn't find a single VHS tape for this movie available, but if I could, I'm sure it would be horrendously overpriced. Uh, speaking of overpriced.

[01:25:57] If you go to, uh, visco fun, um, .com, they have an oily maniac statue for $299, which nobody needs. Apparently somebody do cause they're sold out, which is incredible. I can't believe. A lot of those statues and stuff like, uh, cause there's a ton of comic book ones too, or ridiculously. I get, I get it for comics and I get it, but I can't believe, and it's a crappy look at

[01:26:27] statue in awesome and it's on, but maybe that's why it's awesome too. I saw it and I was like, that's amazing. But then the price is just no way ever, you know? Um, it's completely sold out. So people love this. Uh, I'll say though, the, what's really cool though, is the shore scope box sets that they've been doing. They're like 16 discs, 16 discs per box. They're up to their fourth edition now. And I was going to get in on those, but volume one, I miss volume one.

[01:26:56] And now volume one's like $400 or something dumb like that. And they weren't even $90 when they were originally dropping. So people know that they're worthy of people looking for them, but, um, that would be the great collection to have. Cause they have the all four boxes, especially like volume one has their big hitters and then they've sort of like tapered off. But box four, the one that's just come out has oily maniac. And that is a different disc to what I have from my understanding. It has a commentary.

[01:27:26] It has a bunch of other stuff, but box four is probably the standalone more fringe show brothers collection as well. So I think that's the better one to own. If you're not some weird completist for looks really good. It has some good stuff in it. So little trivia, uh, the original cut of this movie contained a more explicit sequence of the oil creatures assault upon the female lead.

[01:27:52] As it says, regional censorship boards mandated the removal of approximately 90 seconds of footage for theatrical release, Malaysia and Singapore. Now, what I've never been able to figure out is if that was just during release. And now the versions that we have are the longer ones or not, because I can never find an original, uh, example of what the TRT was of the theatrical release versus the ones that exist on the media. So I'm not sure.

[01:28:22] I, I don't remember anything really egregious in this, in this movie over the times that I've watched it. So maybe that 90 seconds is still missing and unfortunately, we just lost to the vinegar syndrome gods. I don't know. International distribution prints carried the title of this movie, which was the oily maniac as we see it on IMDb and everything else, uh, against the director's preference

[01:28:47] for the oil monster, which was his original goal to call it the studio marketing department selected the maniac designation. And they tried to align that with the contemporary exploitation cinema trends. So that's where that came from, but he was trying to do oil monster because he's going off the original translation of the folklore, which I refer to as cryptid because cryptids flesh and blood and it's real. Yeah.

[01:29:12] Um, I also talked a lot about it, but the suit in this movie, uh, was a nightmare on set in practicality. So he has like real oil, right? That's coming out of him cause it's viscous and everything else. And the viscosity of oil is, you know, like doesn't lend well to flowing when it's at room temperature. That's its whole purpose is when it heats up, it thins out and then it wants to flow. So they had a whole system inside that suit that had a heating pump and it would cycle it

[01:29:41] and keep it warm. So when it would spray out or come out, it would actually run cooking inside. Could you imagine? Yeah. So it was a whole rig and a setup because pretend for the simplest ways, like take a jar of honey off the counter and turn it upside down. It's not going to run out. You know, that's what like gear oil, like 90 weight gear oil is like. And then in this, they had to keep it all heated so they could spray it and do all the stuff in the gags.

[01:30:09] Cause every time you see him, there's oil puking out of him somewhere. It's pretty good. We never, we've ever mentioned to, he spits oil at one point. Yeah. Across the room too. It's a high thing. But what's funny is like, I would just think, oh yeah, it's probably just dyed water or whatever, but they really went for it and it's oil and it works because when it gets some people, it looks like oil. So there's a component there. That's it. So, um, that's all I got for that. But once again, I just want to say happy Halloween.

[01:30:37] Uh, I hope you're all watching as much as you can. I just want to say like, well, this is easy to fall back on all the classics and the things we want to watch and all of our staples. Like I always try and branch out and that's why we do the show originally a bit further and try and see something new. And I couldn't recommend it more. And then, cause we all do our Halloween lead ups and we've got to watch all these movies. We've got to get them in the thing, but this is totally the time to look for new stuff, check some things out.

[01:31:06] And then you, you know, who knows? You might find something, you might stumble upon something that's actually really great. And so that's why we're doing this. I don't regret watching it. Uh, did you want to do ratings or not bother? Yes, please. IMDB is a 5.7 for 1200 views. I like that. That's probably about right. Yeah. It's pushing six. And then over on letterbox, we're at a 3.0 to five, which is a six out of 10. So yeah, that's pretty good.

[01:31:33] It's when he's on screen, it's exciting and it's fun. The poster is great. It's called the oily maniac. It's fun. It's I'm so glad this movie exists. I've always enjoyed it. It, uh, under the microscope, it does have its problems, but who cares? It's enjoyable. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Next week is my pick and, uh, we're doing cellar dweller based off the title alone. I just, I have no nothing about this movie. I just liked the fact that it rhymes.

[01:32:03] And it's about comic books. There's a, there's a comic book artist in it. Perfect. Good enough for me. Not La Bamba. So I'm in. Like, thank you guys. We do hope you're having a great Halloween. If there's anything we can say on Halloween, just, just try and watch something new. It's really hard. Yeah. New to you is what matters. It doesn't have to be new. It's just something you haven't seen before. Exactly. That's what I should say. Yeah. Actually, to be right, to be fair, don't watch anything new.

[01:32:30] Just watch something that's old, but new to you. Two years ago, I watched the vampire for the first time, which is like B A M P Y R E. Oh yeah. 1920 something. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's a silent film, but it was like, hadn't watched it yet. And it's sort of the start of the entire genre. So. Yeah.

[01:32:53] I think the simple, simple version is, is that no matter how many movies we own and how many movies we've seen, we all have that same problem where we sit down and like, oh, I got nothing to watch. And it's like, that's the moment where you're like, I'm just going to watch something new. Cause it's like, sure. I could watch big trouble. Little China. Sure. I could watch Cobra or tango cash or whatever, but like, sure. I can watch lash for the sixth time this year. Yeah. It was like, sure. I can watch the last action hero for the hundredth time. Those are great movies and I enjoy every single time.

[01:33:23] But if I apply 20% of that effort, when I sit down and like, want to roll back to a classic, because I know that, Hey, I've got 90 minutes. I'm going to be comforted. I'm going to have a good time. Branching out is really what it's about because you stumble upon some gems and not so gems, but it's always fun in the, uh, in the journey. So that's what we're trying to do here. And that's why we started the show and we're having a great time doing it.

[01:33:52] And it's like, really, it's like, as long as it's not casino, I'm here for it. All right. Bye. Therefore, whatever appears on television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality and reality is less than television.