Waxy Candy (Hour 2)

Good morning everyone, once again it's time for the morning show on WFHR.

Welcome back for our number two Seth and Laura here with you and for James J. Mayloff

taking a little time off so we get to run the show. Getting the move for Halloween

here everyone hope you are as well. We got a lot of fun Halloween stuff we're

going to talk about in the second hour. We're going to get to some entertainment news here

in just a minute but we also have some other fun things like what should you or

what you if you're planning on dressing up for Halloween at work. There's a guide for that.

Be appropriate everyone. We're of course going to talk about to the most hated

Halloween candy. You did this to yourself. I know. And then we're also going to talk about

weird horror movies or weird horror movies and we might get to one or two other ones that

we have here as well. So we'll get to that but let's get some into some entertainment news.

This one's cool. This one is so very cool. The son from a poltergeist, the movie is doing

something really cool. So if you happen to live in or near Seamy Valley in California,

am I saying that right? Seamy Valley? I don't know. You're in for a special

treat this Halloween. The actor who played the son and poltergeist will be stopping

by the real house to hand out candy to trick or treaters. How cool. That is so neat.

Is this a first time? I don't know about that. Well, his name is Oliver Robbins.

Okay. And he played Robbie Freeling. Freeling. You know, the kid who gets tacked by his own

clown doll. You know that one. In one of the most terrifying scenes in music history.

Shout out to the doll. I mean, seriously, I think I mentioned this the other

earlier this week. Man, I can't the dolls. Robert the doll. And dolls freak me out.

Well, because we were I like I like a spooky doll. But do you have spooky dolls?

I do. I have a spooky doll that has what. So I had back in the day when I was Catholic.

I had my oldest daughter baptized in a gown that I had made out of my wedding dress.

Oh, okay. Cool. Cool. I, you know, yeah. And I as sure as one does.

But I have since put that dress on to a doll. And I absolutely found a doll with the most

faded face I could find. Definitely the kind where it's eyes roll back when you lay it down.

Of course. Yeah. No eyelids just eyes. Nice nice creepy doll.

It terrifies my children. And I love it. I need to bring it out. I haven't quite taken

it out of the basement yet this year. Oh, but I also good. So when we talk about haunted toys,

though, it makes me wonder like the steps it takes to get to a haunted toy.

It's a level of infatuation that you're pouring into an inanimate object.

And so I worry, I worry about Dudley the dodo that Quinn has drug around with her for her entire life.

Maybe it's just bitterness. It's a bitter haunted dodo. I think that's going to be really revolutionary.

Pretty rough. Well, and I mean, it's so anyway, which by the way, well, I'll do a quick thing

after we wrap up this one here. But so the new owner of the house will also be decorating with it.

It looks like a lot of skeletons. Yeah, the nod to the final scene in the movie.

Very cool. Hopefully hers aren't real, which supposedly the urban legend is that they used real.

I think they did. I don't think they did. But like, of course, that's the urban legend.

Right. Of course it is. But hey, don't want to stop at Halloween. That's okay.

You can actually book a stay at the house on Airbnb.

That's so cool, which is very, very cool.

Obviously, the real house itself is not haunted. I mean, they haven't said anything about that.

Well, in a movie, you know, kind of haunting notwithstanding.

So what's scarier? Like haunted, like regular haunted dolls or haunted ventriloquist dummies.

Ventriloquist dummies. They're on that line for me. They push it just a little bit too far.

Because their mouths move. I am uncomfortable with and that seat. Yeah.

I don't creepy. I don't like puppets. But I like dolls.

Listen, that's what it is. I don't need to make a puppet.

Don't try and make sense of me. You will only get confused.

Haunted puppets. Everyone haunted puppets.

Yes. And ventriloquist figures. Yes, indeed.

All right. We got, there's two versions of a Christmas Carol in the works right now.

Everyone.

It's a classic for one with Johnny Depp and one with Willem Dafoe.

Make your choices now. Everyone.

Yeah, it's Willem Dafoe. I'm sorry. It's Willem Dafoe.

So Johnny Depp has landed his biggest gig since his legal battle with Amber Heard.

He'll star in a new version of the Charles Dickens classic a Christmas Carol.

Who's making this one? This one is called Ebenezer, a Christmas Carol,

is being directed by Ty West. Okay.

Who did the horror trilogy X Pearl and Max Seen with three X's in it?

I have never heard of that movie. How about The Willem Dafoe? Tell me about it.

It's expected out next November. Okay.

The second version of Christmas Carol has been announced.

Robert Eggers is making one. Okay.

And he is the elevated horror guy. That's what they're calling him.

The elevated horror guy who made the witch, the lighthouse and Nosferatu.

Okay. All right.

The recent, most recent version of that one.

Ebenezer Scrooge will be played by Willem Dafoe.

Which I'm about.

I love Willem Dafoe.

There are two very different actors.

Very much.

Johnny Depp and Willem Dafoe.

And when it comes to a character like Ebenezer Scrooge,

I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen, there is no contest on this one.

It's got to be Willem Dafoe.

It's, I'm sorry.

I don't know what the plan is with a Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge storyline.

I don't know either.

Oh, man.

Well, and there's something that Johnny Depp brings to a character that is almost off-putting.

That I don't know that I would associate with the character of Ebenezer Scrooge

in the same way that he delivers it, right?

Willem Dafoe has to intentionally be off-putting.

He's very good at it, too.

And he's so good at it.

I love, I'm sorry.

I fell in love with Willem Dafoe in like Boondock Saints.

And I've just been enamored with him ever since.

Man, he has had a fantastic career.

I mean, just thinking back in the 80s and all that.

Just him standing in the street.

Workestrating the scene as it happened.

The last temptation of Christ is where he first got his name.

He played Jesus and that.

And that was a big controversial thing and all that sort of thing.

But ever since then, he has had so many different varied roles.

So many different things.

Small independent films.

I mean, he's done television.

He's done everything.

And he's just a fantastic actor.

He's from Wisconsin.

He is from Wisconsin.

He is from Wisconsin.

Shout out apples.

We got to do that, too.

So I'm with you.

I'm with Willem Dafoe.

I'm going to go see that one, sorry.

I would say Willem Dafoe.

And that's not even mentioning all of the controversy surrounding Johnny Depp.

We're just choosing Willem Dafoe anyway.

Yeah, strictly acting stuff.

That's all we're talking about here.

Although, I mean, so do you have a favorite Christmas Carol right now that you've seen?

Michael Cain with the Muppets.

A lot of people are on that one.

It's a great movie.

I love that movie, too.

I'm sorry.

It is.

It is fantastic.

But it's not my favorite.

Okay.

My favorite Scrooge is the main for TV one from the 80s with George C. Scott.

Okay.

George C. Scott.

I was expecting you to tell me it was a duck tails version.

No.

A perfect Scrooge is George C. Scott.

Sure.

And so I would say, and that's probably one of the scarier ones, too.

It's got some really freaky moments in it as well.

Which is my favorite.

It's like a 18, a 1984 or something like that.

Okay.

It was on TV in George C. Scott and he is absolutely awesome.

Let's take a look at what's coming up on your big and small screens this weekend, everyone.

Starting tonight, it's the World Series game one between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It's true.

And I even knew that.

You even knew that one and we're all rooting Blue Jays.

Are we?

I don't know.

You may not be.

I'm honestly.

I have no fighter in this.

Hey, you know, I hope a team that wears white and blue wins.

They both wear white and blue.

I know.

That's why I said it.

I know that much.

You know that much.

See, LA, the Dodgers you're only playing for Southern California.

Toronto's playing for the entire country of Canada.

Sure.

Because they've only got one team now.

Is the Toronto Blue Jays and that's it.

So I'm going with Canada on this one and I hope they can pull it out.

I support that.

Also tonight in ABC, we've got Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which I normally wouldn't mention.

But they've got some really cool people on it.

Sure, tell me who's on it.

Alex Borstine.

Ooh, as a player.

Suzy on the marvelous Miss Maisel.

Yeah.

Also the voice of Lois on Family Guy.

Wasn't she on Mad TV back in the day?

She was.

Back in the day.

She was on Mad TV.

You were correct.

Bridesmaid's director, Paul Feig.

Ooh.

I love Paul Feig because he's a cool director.

He's directed some great movies, very funny guy.

But I mostly love him because he was in season one of Sabrina the Teenage, which is her

science teacher, Mr. Poole.

It's true.

He was.

And he was fantastic in that.

Yeah.

I love Paul Feig.

Anyway, you and I are the only two in this entire building.

Not even a member.

Exactly.

Probably in this, maybe in this city.

I don't know.

I wouldn't rule that out.

And then actually another character from the marvelous Miss Maisel, Michael Zigan, who plays

Joel on the show.

Oh, very cool.

So that's really cool.

Yeah.

I like that very much.

So we've got, coming up, let's see, we've got Friday on Peacock, a stand-up special

by Leslie Jones.

Ooh.

We're just kind of cool.

Leslie Jones.

SNL and all along.

This one looks very cool.

And I think this is kind of like a love letter on Apple TV starting this weekend.

Stiller and Mara.

Nothing is lost.

This is Ben Stiller's documentary tribute to his parents, Jerry Stiller and Ann Mara.

Yes.

Very cool.

No, I know a lot of people don't know much about the comedy act that they had, Stiller

and Mara, which is they played a married couple, which they obviously were, which hated

each other.

Right.

And that was where all the comedy generated from that.

It was very funny.

If you get a chance, go look it up on YouTube.

I'm sure you can find something.

And of course, people know Jerry Stiller from all the TV shows he was on, the Seinfeld, King

of Queens, all these kind of stuff.

Fantastic actor.

I mean, he had a specific way of doing it.

It was just excellent.

It was just excellent.

Excellent actor.

Very much so.

Well, and Ben got it from somewhere.

If you are still one of the few people that still has Netflix, I'm joking, of course,

but I'm your people.

It's the only one I still have anymore.

I got rid of everything else.

There's a show.

This is interesting because of the actor in it and because of the idea of the film.

House of Dynamite starring Idris Elba, who's fantastic actor.

He's the president trying to figure out who's responsible and how to react when a single

unattributable, unattributed, nuclear missile is launched at the US.

Whoa.

Kind of freaky, but also kind of cool.

Right.

Also starting to stream today on HBO Max Weapons.

Okay.

Okay.

Very big hit horror movie that just released that made a ton of money.

And then let's see what else we got coming up here.

Of course, Sunday night football coming up and people around here know that because it's

the Steelers playing the Packers.

All right.

So and of course got more World Series games coming up over the weekend as well.

And that's about what we got for that from the small screen.

Let's take a look at what's happening on the big screen this weekend, everyone.

New in theaters, we have a teen drama called Regretting You.

Okay.

And this is, let's see, they married a couple of sisters, married their high school

sweethearts.

But when her husband and sister die in a car accident, she and her brother-in-law are

left feeling betrayed.

At the obvious reason they died together.

Oh dear.

Drama.

Wow.

Drama stars Allison Williams, McKenna Grace and Dave Franco.

Dave Franco.

Dave Franco.

Haven't heard of Dave from Dave Franco in a while.

All right.

Dave Franco.

Yeah.

So that should be an interesting one.

But I think the big one that a lot of people are looking forward to is called Springsteen

Deliver Me From No Where.

Yeah.

You guys have been hearing about this.

Jeremy Allen White stars as Bruce Springsteen in the movie about Bruce's struggles with

the success he got after the river in the late 70s, like 78, excuse me.

And the heavy professional pushback he got in making his much darker 1982 album Nebraska,

which in, I'm a huge Springsteen guy, but I think Nebraska is probably his best album.

It's fantastic.

The Ghost of Tom Joed.

Yeah.

I mean, there's so many great songs on that.

When it's the one he did right before, of course, uh, um, uh, born in the USA and all

that kind of stuff.

So, um, but, uh, there's also Jeremy Strong plays from the show succession.

He plays Bruce's good friend and manager, John Landau, who was actually a reporter for Rolling

Stone before he hooked up with that comedian, Mark Marin is seen producer Chris Plotkin,

or Chuck Plotkin, which is cool.

That's cool.

Mark Marin.

Mark Marin acting in there.

Cool.

Very cool.

So that one's going to be good.

I've seen some really good stills from this.

Um, I mean, Jeremy Allen White looks like Jeremy Allen White, but also he's, he's exuding

what we love Bruce Springsteen for.

I seriously.

Yeah.

It's, it's very, like, you can see it's evident even just in the stills.

So it's going to be good.

If you like Bruce Springsteen, it's worth a lot.

Exactly.

And this is the cool thing about it.

His performance, he does the singing, Jeremy Allen White does Springsteen in the movie.

Yes.

And apparently, it's reviews on that.

It's so, well, according to this, it's so convincing that it apparently even had Bruce

Springsteen fool that moments.

Oh, good.

Which, that's a pretty good.

That's not a high bar.

I don't know how much the actual boss was involved in the making of this.

Oh, he was, I've actually seen that he was pretty involved.

He was.

Okay.

So I don't know if he's just saying that to, you know, to convince people, hey, no, no,

it's so good.

It could be a little bug.

It could be a little bug.

It could be a little bug.

I don't know.

So well, you'll have to, you'll have to go and see the movie everyone and then come back

and report.

Even if the singing is not great, the acting is going to be, it's going to be, you know,

that is going to be, yeah.

Yeah.

So.

All right.

Especially if you're already.

Entertainment news for this Friday, everyone.

Hope you have a great, we can check that out.

Of course, we have a lot of cool events coming up.

So you may not have any time to watch TV.

So much good.

We can.

We do.

We'll talk about that a little bit later.

But coming up next, we have the most hated Halloween candy.

I'm going to subject myself to ridicule when we come back.

I don't love it.

Mornings at WFHR.

The dead will come to life with all one night, my friend, you'll see, oh, hi, hello.

Welcome back, everyone.

Two mornings on WFHR, Seth and Laura with you on this Friday, October 24th, one week

away from Halloween.

It's true.

And it is coming up here and the dead Elvi playing us in one of my favorite Halloween

based bands ever.

Sure.

Very few bands actually based on Halloween because there's not a human market for that.

There's not.

That's why I'm like, yeah, sure.

They're good on for one, one time a year.

Listen, if it's enough to pay the bills, then my guys keep it on.

Keep on keeping on.

Yeah.

They do every year to subject me to ridicule and people saying, what?

You like that?

Yep.

Let's do it.

So let's go ahead and do it.

It's waxing.

We are just a week away from Halloween.

Like I said, so everyone will be picking up some Halloween candy at their grocery store.

And in this economy, in this economy, people are either looking for value or the stuff

they love so they can devour some of it, too, makes sense because you're probably going

to be left with some.

It's a two per.

Right?

You're going to have some.

Or you might be something you're going to like to eat unless you're trying to get away

from candy, then make a sure it's something you don't like.

And then just give it away.

That's an option.

Just start going to give it a church or you know, go to work, put it on a candy tush.

Please, eat my candy.

I don't want it.

You just drop it off somewhere.

No, I don't need it.

You take it.

So I disagree heartily with this next one.

Okay.

What is the worst Halloween candy?

In 2025, if anyone is still buying candy corn for trick-or-treaters, they have to be trolling.

I disagree.

Even if it's on sale.

Come on.

Come on.

Okay.

What shape candy corn do you like the best?

It doesn't matter.

It's all good.

I like it.

You really don't even care.

I don't know.

You will eat those giant pumpkins.

I love the Mallow Pumpkins.

Those are what they're called, by the way.

Mallow Pumpkins.

Sure.

I like the regular candy corn.

I like the chocolate.

Harvest corn or whatever they call it, it's got a different name.

Okay.

Autumn mix.

They all taste the same.

They all taste the same.

It tastes like sweet wax to me.

Listen, I will eat candy corn, but I'm a person that can have a handful of candy corn

a year.

Okay.

So you're not completely sweared off?

No.

No, no, no.

I do like it in very small doses, right?

I don't typically like marshmallows, and so I usually have just one smore a year or two

smords a year.

Well, that's funny, because I don't like marshmallows either, but I do like the candy

corn.

I don't know.

It's the waxiness for me.

I guess that's for some people.

A lot of people that's got to be.

It's the waxiness.

It's a texture thing.

But, you know, whatever.

Apparently everyone hates it.

Everyone hates candy corn, except for me.

Except for Seth.

Me and a bunch of, like, candy rolls.

Yeah, exactly.

So there's a report out that the two candies that are struggling the most throughout

the past year and not surprisingly, candy corn is number two.

Oh.

Number two this year.

What's number one?

Lickrish.

Oh, sure.

Yes.

Okay.

Which I also like.

I like Lickrish.

I listen.

I understand that I am a monster.

Okay.

I love Black Lickrish.

We do.

I like it a lot.

And I like, like, I am the monster that eats the expensive Black Lickrish.

Oh, yeah.

I like a fancy Black Lickrish.

I like a salted Black Lickrish.

It's, ugh, it's just so good.

So first of all, there must be more people than just me and you that like the classic

Anastasia.

Got it.

Lickrish flavor, right?

Because they're still making them.

You can buy an Easter time.

You can buy bags of all Black jelly beans.

You can.

And that is the flavor.

And my mother does every year.

And I would, I mean, I'm on board.

I am totally on board with that.

And please, please out there, the red twisty thing, that's not Lickrish.

It's not Lickrish.

It's fine.

It's tasty.

It's strawberry flavor.

Yeah.

It's not what we're talking about.

No.

It's shaped like Lickrish.

It sure is.

But that's not what we're talking about.

No.

So consumer interest in candy corn is down 9.1 percent year over year and Lickrish is

down 13.6 percent.

Oh, how could they, they were up that high?

I guess they said that candy corn would have fallen even further but interest is probably

already very low.

Right.

And it's not, but I mean, it seems that the interest in Lickrish seemed directly tied

to how many great-grandparents still have the teeth for it.

Now that's just me.

Come on.

Oh, right.

Get out of here.

Okay.

Beyond those two.

And my mom doesn't have the teeth for it.

She eats it anyway.

She powers through.

She sure does.

She absolutely powers through it.

She's a trooper.

Marshmallow candy, whatever that is, like in quotes, marshmallow candy is down.

I don't know.

It doesn't say chocolate covered marshmallow.

It's dropped 9 percent in interest and caramel apples are down almost 7 percent.

I didn't even know that was people were still doing caramel apples for, I mean, for

two caramel apples.

Two caramel apples.

But not specifically for Halloween.

It's not a specific Halloween.

No.

It's an autumn.

I agree.

Activity, event, food, item.

So let's make fun of the ones that are gaining popularity.

Okay.

Sure.

Let's do it.

Let's do that.

Let's let them have it.

Harbo gummies.

Rose and interest of 48 percent.

See?

So the Harbo gummies are just a little too chewy.

Gummies?

Yeah.

They're too hard.

Like, they're really, is firm the word I'm looking for?

I don't know.

I don't like them because they're just too hard.

So I'm, I love a fruit snack, but I'm, I like a specific texture of fruit snack,

right?

Right.

You got your.

The scooby-doo ones.

Oh.

Those are the...

Interesting.

Peek fruit snack for me, right?

And so when it comes to gummy bears, I'm similar.

I would rather gummy-wise.

I would rather have like a Swedish fish or...

That's a little, that's like I've been on the hard side.

It's like really firm.

But it's once you bite into it.

Right.

It's the Haribo gummies.

You can't really bite them.

I can't, listen, if I can't decapitate my gummy bear, I don't want to eat it.

Hey, man, gummy worms are still way better.

Gum worms are still the best gummy.

If you ask me.

I'm a sour gummy worm.

So, oh, those are even, those are good.

Yeah.

Those are really good.

Like, there's just something so satisfying about gummy worms.

The, the worm is the worm of it all.

It is.

That's why they're the best.

Absolutely.

Okay.

This is weirdly randomly old-school baby Ruth candy bars are up 42%.

Honestly, I'm gonna shout that out.

I'm gonna shout that out.

Good for them.

I'm happy about it, because I like baby Ruth.

There's nothing wrong with it.

Okay, here's the thing though.

It's wild, side of nowhere though.

So, like, all right, okay, okay.

When I was a kid for a long time, and to an extent, I still feel this way as an adult,

how different is a baby Ruth from a Snickers if we're being real real with each other?

It's almonds other than that.

It's not almonds, it's peanuts.

Is it peanuts?

I thought it was almonds.

Oh, I'm thinking of almond joy.

That's what I'm thinking of.

Yeah, that's coconut.

That's a whole different beast.

Which I love both mounds and almond joy, by the way.

Anyway.

Same, but that's beside the point.

Beside the point.

So, like, a baby Ruth is what?

It's like a caramel nougat wrapped in peanuts dipped in chocolate, right?

Basically, yes.

Make it's the structure of it.

It's a little different.

Snickers is nougat topped with caramel and peanuts.

And peanuts, and then chocolate.

And then chocolate.

And then chocolate.

And then chocolate.

And then chocolate.

Like.

Yeah, I'm pretty similar.

Yeah.

The texture is different, though, because there's so many more peanuts in a baby Ruth.

Absolutely.

Yes.

They go crazy with the peanuts.

I'll let go.

Eat your baby Ruth.

Hey, I'm with you.

Any of those old-school stuff?

Eat your peanuts.

Go up there.

I'm also a Charleston shoe person.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

I'm weird.

I'm a big fan of Charleston shoes.

Those are good.

And they're marshmallow-ish, but they're not really...

But they're more than that.

It's like the big, 50 rolls kind of thing, yeah.

I do like it.

It's your old.

I mean, those are the classics, right?

It's an nostalgic thing.

The kisses have jumped 37% in interest compared to let...

Never think of Hershey Kisses for Halloween.

No, because I'm still thinking of the Christmas commercial with them.

The Christmas with the bells.

With the bells.

Which they've used for like 50 years.

Bam, bam, bam.

Yeah.

They updated it, though.

I saw that.

They updated a little bit.

I don't know if I have.

But no.

I have never...

I'm trying to think if I've ever gotten or seen my kids yet.

Like a Halloween.

Halloween.

Kiss.

Do they...

I don't like that phrase for it, Halloween Kiss.

I don't like that phrasing at all.

Unless it's with those vampire wax lips.

Not for my kids.

Okay.

Then you can kiss them.

You know, the big wax lips.

There you go.

There's a big...

I ate so many wax lips as a kid.

I just did.

You all need out of my sweat.

I probably did.

That's why I don't eat new wax.

I can't eat anymore.

My body is maxed out on wax.

Here's some less common ones that have gone up.

What is this?

Matcha or matcha?

Matcha.

Matcha cookies are up 139%.

They're skyrocketing.

Matcha's delectable.

I've never even...

I don't know.

Maybe I've seen it.

I don't remember hearing about matcha.

It's kind of like pulverized green tea powder.

Right?

Oh.

Right.

And so that's...

You're getting like an herbie flavor with it.

And when it's done right and it's made in a smooth and sweet way, it's really good.

Okay.

Alright.

Other crunchy treats.

Which is...

This is cool.

Crunchy treats.

Bring them.

Come here.

I believe in you.

Candy bark.

Oh.

And cereal clusters have...

Brittle is making a comeback.

Brittle is fantastic.

That should be peppermint, peanut.

This is a kind of brittle.

Brittle household.

This show is very brittle.

And bark.

I like bark too.

Today's show is anyway.

Yeah.

Today's show brought to you by Brittle.

Peanut brittle.

I like that.

Peanut brittle.

The...

And general caramel sweets other than caramel apples are up 10%.

So just...

Just caramel squares.

Or maybe...

I'm like a caramel square.

I don't know if they do.

Oh, I love worthers.

My grandma was so the stereotypical grandma.

She always had worthers in her purse.

Yeah.

My grandma did too.

Oh.

She totally did too.

Oh goodness.

Oh, well, I get whatever candy you hand out everyone.

Get your candy.

Don't let anyone tell you what's up.

I say...

Don't go with the surveys or anything like that.

Get something a little interesting though.

Yeah, what you like.

Try something new.

Does anyone give up pixie sticks?

I'm sure they still make pixie sticks.

They do.

I know it's just pure sugar.

Flavored sugar.

That's all it is.

Yeah, look like it's candy.

But it's fun.

And it's only a small tube, right?

It's not a big deal.

Hang out something interesting.

That's what I say.

Why not?

Make it more fun.

Give away something unique.

Put a potato in there.

That might be...

Just talk to a toothbrush.

Unless you give it with candy.

Okay.

We've already discussed that.

We have.

So we're gonna go ahead and take our news and sports and weather break here.

Let's see if I can find it on the thing.

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I found it there.

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It's true.

Getting into the Halloween spirit here.

Just a week away, everyone.

And in a little bit, we're gonna talk some events happening this weekend.

And maybe talk a little bit about what's happening next weekend.

I do wanna mention that we will be having a couple of PSAs that are gonna be playing

with a list of events happening on Halloween as long as along with trick-or-treat times

and area communities.

Yes.

What time they're planning on getting you so you can get your stuff ready and all that stuff.

All that information is gonna be on air.

Just stay tuned for it.

We will have it for you.

And right now, we're gonna be talking about some of the weirder Halloween movies

out there.

Horror movies that maybe you wanna check out.

I like a weirder horror movie.

The weirder the better.

Honestly, I looked at...

We looked at some lists during the break.

We did. Well, I'm through the break.

And none of the movies that I had top of mind were in there.

No.

It's because of the like Z budget movies that are like barely any kind of thing.

It's intentional.

We'll get to those two in just a little bit.

But here's some fun ones that we want to bring to your attention.

You might have missed some of these.

How about Rubber?

I definitely missed this one.

A tire goes on a murderous rampage.

That's what it says here.

That is literally the plot of Rubber.

It is absurdly...

That's the stuff.

It says he writes itself from that point because it's a tire, right?

But the director created one of the most bizarre, nonsensical,

and amazing horror films in the 2010s.

Yeah, this was released in 2010, by the way.

It was not like a weird one from the 70s.

Fantastic.

Does it make sense?

Of course not.

Does it need to?

No.

But it's a killer tire.

I mean, come on.

I'd watch it.

The film is completely...

I'd watch weirder things.

And on the joke you have.

That makes Rubber such a devilishly good time with satirical undertones

and the madness just elevating with each passing second.

The audiences will be shocked as they find themselves completely

engrossed in the story of a killer tire and a town trying to hunt it down.

Just great.

This is one of those...

There's a whole genre of movies like that horror movies about completely weird things,

deathbed, the bed that kills.

Yes.

Or that was from the 70s.

Or probably most famously, the attack of the killer tomatoes.

That's a good one.

Very much a spoof, but at the same time...

Great.

If you can balance the horror and the camp...

And the camp.

And the camp.

I mean, a lot of these are very campy too.

Well, in this list is full of camp.

It is.

That's what this is about.

We're talking about campy, goofy horror movies that are just kind of horror by default.

Yes.

And here is a complete cult classic here, everyone.

Clint Howard.

Yes.

The brother of Ron Howard.

Mm-hmm.

Shines is one of the most interesting wacky and out of this world horror killers of all time

with the hit cult classic ice cream man from 1995 with some otherworldly acting choices

to be kind about it.

So kind.

Set decoration in the entire plot about a man who wants to murder children and serve them

in ice cream to other children to kill them and consistently repeat the cycle.

The film shines as clearly as it's grenadine in its weirdness,

meaning it's got a lot of really bright red blood kind of thing.

Yeah.

It was at the beginning of Howard's obsession with being in phenomenal cult horror films.

Sure.

I don't know if that was a plan or not, but he's very good.

No, he did the job.

You know what Clint Howard looks like.

I can't describe him, but you've seen him before.

Yes, you're right.

He's kind of, I want to be kind about this.

He's an interesting looking guy.

Right, but you've got to lean into that.

You do.

And he's been in some real cult movies.

I mean, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good stuff.

This is a list.

Again, there's going to be a handful of like those cult movies in this list.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Let's see.

I went with the next one here.

Oh, this one's interesting because of the two films that came before it.

So Halloween 3.

Okay.

Season of the Witch.

Now, this is weird because, of course, the first two films of Halloween were very popular,

made tons and tons of money.

So when they announced the third one coming out, it's a Halloween 3 season of the Witch,

but they got instead was vastly different, much stranger, as it ventured into science fiction,

a science fiction horror story, emitting every character from the original films, and

even playing the original Halloween in the film itself, which is very meta.

And so it stood back in 1982, right?

Yeah.

Season of the Witch is truly bizarre, almost a fever dream like experience that sinks

into robotic teeth in and never let's go.

It's very interesting.

This film specifically has gotten a cult following that is very different from the regular cult

following up the original Halloween movies, the second one, and then...

Because it is such a separate thing.

It is.

It's very different.

And then with the fourth film, they went back to the original story.

So it's like it never happened.

It's very weird.

But if it didn't have the Halloween name on it, it would just be a weird...

Or a movie, right?

It would just be season of the Witch.

Exactly.

All right.

Okay.

Okay.

We're going to...

Yeah.

Well, not to that movie.

Okay.

Do you have one?

I do.

All right, let's do it.

This one's called Basket Case.

Okay, sure.

And it's a much...

It's kind of an exploitation film came out in 1982.

Frank Hennon-Lotter was the director.

He directed a couple of these kind of weird movies.

Yeah, what was the other one we talked about that he directed?

Oh, Frank and Hooker, I believe.

Yeah, that was the one.

That was the one.

Yeah, that says so much about me.

All right.

The best horror movies say something about society, right?

Yeah.

That's what they do.

So Basket Case is really interesting.

It shows the haunting and devastating effects

of trying to take care of a loved one.

Only in this case, the loved one is a benign tumor

that has come to life and wants to destroy anything

and everything and it's...

Yeah, normal stuff.

Normal stuff.

Well, there's two sequels to it, too, by the way.

I don't know if anyone knew that.

The original is, generally, it's a work of, like you say,

outlandish art that feels more relevant today than ever.

Speaking of outlandish art within this context,

E-Racer Head.

I mean, that is one of the...

So, for those who don't know...

That's another one.

David Lynch.

David Lynch is first film.

Mm-hmm.

And it's horror.

It's surreal.

It's wild.

It's...

I mean, it is one of the most strange things that you will ever see.

And I think I got something coming up on that really quick here.

Let's see.

Wait, before...

Yeah, there it is.

Did I jump through E-Racer?

No, that's okay.

That's fine.

But it's...

He came to instill nightmares in the minds

in hearts of horror fans for generations.

It's a melancholic, black and white film.

Sure.

A horrifying feeling of dread and unease.

Some of the most surreal, disturbing images ever conjured on screen.

Probably most famous is the quote-unquote chicken.

That's in it, which is very strange.

It's like chickens, but no.

It's got some really good lines in it, actually, too.

Yeah.

As well.

But yeah, that one, if you're like trippy,

if you want to see a trippy film like that,

E-Racer Head.

100%, 100%.

All right.

And then a couple of the top ones here.

Where's the next stop?

We're going to Phantasm, which is a cult classic from 1979.

It's shockingly nightmarish venture into an almost slumber-like trance.

You see a theme here?

Yeah.

The weirdest films are the ones that are like dream.

Like you're like in a dream.

Dream stage.

Waking dreams.

Something like that.

Within the realm of dream, you can do such weird stuff.

That's part of it.

I know Phantasm is a huge fan base.

Yes.

It's one where people like...

It's another.

This is a cult classic list.

And it's got...

It's just a very strange feel to it.

I mean, it's got some pretty violent stuff into some gore,

so keep...

Byer beware.

Sure.

Just keep that in mind and that.

So the last two here, we're going to touch on here,

is a one that's based on HP Lovecraft,

and from John Carpenter, of course,

the director of the original Halloween film.

Sure.

It's called In the Mouth of Madness.

This is from 1995.

Okay.

And it's our Sam Neal.

Okay.

Hought off a Jurassic Park.

Sure.

Why he chose to do this one next?

I have a new idea.

That's a choice.

Anyway, it is a...

Like I said, it's based on a Lovecraft story

called In the Mouth of Madness.

It told the story of a Stephen King-esque author

who wrote and foretold the coming apocalypse.

Right.

With psychedelic twists and turns around every corner

in the Mouth of Madness relishes in its weirdness,

all the way to its mind-blowing finale

with some of the most terrifying creatures

ever put to screen.

Sure.

To screen.

If you're a Lovecraft fan,

you kind of know where that's going to be going.

Yes.

And finally, we're going to wrap up

in that one film,

but a series of films.

Yeah, we are.

Directed by Sam Raimi,

and started...

And we're going to get lost in the conversation.

Great.

Bruce Campbell,

we're talking about the Evil Dead series.

And our Reav Darkness.

And our Reav Darkness,

which is part of that whole series.

Yeah.

God, I love those.

And I love Bruce Campbell.

And I loved the series that came out.

I think it came out like during the lockdown back in the day.

Yeah, I was thinking of the 2020-2021

or something like that.

It was like,

because I remember watching it,

you know, in that time frame.

It was great.

For those who don't know,

the appeal of Bruce Campbell,

you've probably seen a few things.

They didn't have a look at his face.

Look at his face.

He has a very large chin.

I'm about that business.

And he is very much,

if he's leaned into that,

very much throughout his career.

Yes, he is.

Very handsome guy.

I mean, he's a very...

Incredibly handsome guy.

Good looking dude.

But he got to start with Sam Raimi.

They filmed a little film called The Evil Dead.

Yes, they did.

I've actually done...

I've listed a podcast about the making of it.

It was a horrible making the film.

Feel bad for the actors.

It was unbelievable.

It was all bad.

But it put Sam Raimi on the map.

And basically, they remade the film

and called it The Sequel.

It's Evil Dead 2.

It's basically the same film,

only with a bigger budget.

But it's also good.

And it's probably the best series of horror and humor

that you're going to see.

The humor is...

It's so funny.

It's off the camp.

Yeah, it's very much...

I mean, the humor is very campy.

It's very much...

It's the humor in the violence.

That's a weird thing about it.

Yes, well, and it's the quips, right?

So the character that Bruce Campbell plays

is just such a smart Alec.

And so he can't shut up.

It's like when you're reading Spider-Man comics

and Spider-Man can't shut up while he's fighting

with someone, it's like that,

except this is a grown person who chopped his hand off

and attached a sock to it.

And so I want you to just get that in your head.

Right.

But now add zombies.

And zombies and skeletons and army of darkness.

The necronomicon.

Yeah, I mean, and they throw just the whole everything,

every horror thing you could possibly think of in there.

Since we're Bruce Campbelling.

Sure.

Baba Hota.

Come on.

One of the most bizarre premises of a...

It's such a weird movie.

It's...

It's an Elvis impersonator.

Elvis impersonator in a nursing home.

In a nursing home.

And then it's invaded by the mummy.

It is a mummy character.

It's very bizarre.

Oh, okay.

But it's a pretty cool.

All right.

Do you have any honorable mentions that weren't on the list?

I do.

I have Peter Jackson's Brain Dead.

Sure.

Which in the...

I think what's dead alive is what was called

of the United States.

But Brain Dead is the actual name.

It's in the Guinness Book World Record,

possibly the goriest film of all time.

All right.

But it's also one of the funniest horror films.