Steve: [00:00:00] Warning, 30 Screams or Less may contain spoilers about movies that have recently been released. If you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it, come back and enjoy the show. Or, if you don’t want to waste your time watching the movie and rather have two random horror dudes, watch it for you. We got you covered as well.
Steve: Welcome everyone to 30 Screams Less a horror podcast where we review horror movies in 30 minutes or less and try to avoid talking about children dying in horror movies in the process. So today’s movie we’re actually gonna review [00:01:00] is Megan. Now this is gonna be interesting because. Between Corey and I, we either love it. Or we hate it. And this is gonna make for a real interesting podcast this time, but a little background on the movie from the most prolific mind in horror, James Wan the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and Conjuring franchises and Bloom House producer of, Halloween films, Black Phone, invisible Man, things like that.
They’re the ones that are introducing this Megan Film. Into the whole mix. Directed by Gerard John Stone, starring Alison Williams as Gemma Violet McGraw as Katie. Ronnie Chieng as David, or as I like to say, that technical CEO of comic relief. He’s absurd. Amy Donald as Megan and Jenna Davis as Megan’s voice.
So like they do two different things like. I guess a little girl plays Megan and someone else plays the voice, which is, I don’t know, interesting. You would think it would just be the both, one person doing it all, but maybe they [00:02:00] can’t do it because the facial cosmetic thing.
I don’t know. So Megan, it’s about a robotics engineer at a toy company who builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own. Essentially, it’s AI becomes too smart for its own good and. Hilarity, enues or horror, whatever. So with that in mind, 30 Screams or Less starts. Now here’s where the fun begins.
Corey, what did you think of it?
Corey: I think that the director needs to be arrested for this piece of shit and charged with a crime.
Steve: All right. We gotta know though, what crime.
Corey: Just assaulting my eyes and ears for almost two fucking hours.
Steve: Yeah, that’s right. It was, what was it? Like an hour and 50 minutes? Something like
Corey: know. It was like time didn’t move when? When I was watching this thing.
Steve: Oh, so yeah. You really didn’t like it then?
Corey: No man. This was the equivalent of The Anchor, basically.
Steve: Oh no. Oh God. We gotta be careful. Actually no. Like I said, when we review those movies, we do it tastefully.
Corey: [00:03:00] Yeah. As long as it’s tasteful, it’s okay. We’re allowed to shit on everything, and plus, we don’t owe anyone anything for this movie. I, nobody at Blumhouse is gonna listen to this thing.
Steve: Watch it fucking blow up on Twitter. Like Blumhouse is oh, you know what? They reviewed this movie and then they listen to it later and go, those fucking assholes. Not quite, because I, on the other hand actually didn’t hate it.
Corey: Good. Come at us.
Steve: Yeah,
Corey: it. Steve, what’d you like about
Steve: I honestly, I thought it was like a fun movie. I wouldn’t say was really horror.
The only real nightmare fuel in that for me was Megan running around on all fours, like a frigging animal. I was like, I don’t like the look of that, that creeps me out. Other than that, it was like, it was really like, I don’t know, it was like, why you go to the movies, you go to the movies to have fun and enjoy yourself.
I went in with low expectations.
Corey: Yeah, me too. This movie put me to sleep and you forgot to hit Start on the timer again.
Steve: Oh, you fucking right. Let’s try this again.
Corey: come on. I don’t wanna be here more than I have to be.
Steve: You don’t wanna talk about this more than we need to. We’re at 29 59 seconds now.[00:04:00]
Corey: we’ve been delaying this for days. I don’t wanna do it anymore.
Steve: You don’t want to do, you’re done with this fucking podcast. Just over it.
Corey: Just for Megan.
Steve: Just with Megan. Got it. Yeah. No. We’re still gonna keep going. So Megan there’s a few things.
Megan was PG 13. Fun for the whole family. Notorious bad rating though for horror movies. A lot of horror movies when they do the whole PG 13 deal, it’s ooh.
Corey: Yeah, I read that there’s like a director’s cut out there of this that’s gonna come out at some point, but I don’t know how you can make it good. That’s like they tried to,
Steve: NC 17.
Corey: It’s like what they tried to do with the fucking Justice League. They tried to make that shit better with three extra hours and it was still dog shit.
Steve: Yeah it wasn’t all that great. I watched it and I remember just being like, really fucking long. I don’t even know how I found the time to watch Justice League for three and a half hours. Actually, no. Wasn’t it like four hours?
Corey: Yeah. Welcome to 30 seconds ago when I just said that
Steve: Yeah, no. Okay. Yeah. I know you said that it was just.
Corey: short-term memory loss.
Steve: Yeah, that’s me being old. That’s why I had to get a nice bed that has an adjustable mattress
Corey: Oh [00:05:00] yeah, you talked about that. Your future hospital bed.
Steve: Yeah, my future hospital bed, I’m investing.
Corey: Hey you can do it now. Go ahead. Feel free.
Steve: I might as well.
Corey: I hope it’s the best bed ever.
Steve: I really hope it’s my last bed, but I doubt it.
Corey: Don’t worry.
Steve: You’re gonna make it happen because I liked Megan.
Corey: You might pass away in that bed.
Steve: It’s very possible.
Corey: I hope you live a long and prosperous life,
Steve: Aww. Thank you. I hope so too.
Corey: And I hope there’s lots of porridge in your future when you’re laying your bed.
Steve: That’s gonna be my last wish. I need a bowl of porridge and I don’t think the audience knows like this porridge joke Because I cut the whole thing out because it was making the podcast episode like excessively long. We talked about porridge for a good 10 minutes.
Corey: I still don’t even know why Cuz you edited it all out. When you published it.
Steve: I did. I had to edit. I was like this, we went way, like we jumped the shark on this one with porridge.
Corey: Weren’t we talking about the fucking, the Bernstein Bears or some shit, or Little Red [00:06:00] Riding Hood? I don’t remember.
Steve: Oliver Twist.
Corey: Oh yeah. Okay.
Steve: I brought Oliver Twist in the mix and we were talking about I don’t know please sir may I have some more, type that type deal.
Corey: Yep. Okay. I remember now.
Steve: Yep. And the funny thing is, I was just on a cruise to The Bahamas. It was 70,000 tons of metal. There’s a heavy metal cruise for those of you don’t know. I was going around by the buffet and lo and behold, I saw a porridge station had to send the picture immediately to Corey here.
Corey: Yes. I got a kick outta getting that text cuz it took me a second after looking at it. And then I like zoomed in and looked at the sign on the buffet and I was like, that’s amazing.
Steve: Yeah. I figured you’d like that it,
Corey: good.
Steve: I didn’t have service really. It took me a fucking week to be able to get that to you. I was like, I’m sitting on it. I think it was like, In the message and I’m like, oh, I gotta keep hitting retry and gotta get this frigging thing sent because he is gonna fucking love this.
Corey: Yeah, it was good. It was good shit.
Steve: But yeah, that was a good time.
Corey: Why was the marketing for this movie so heavy? Like they pushed it so much?
Steve: They [00:07:00] really did go ballistic with the marketing for this movie. What I think they do these movie executives, right? They probably have these focus groups, which makes sense. They have a focus group. They get a few people in there. They have them watch the movie, they see what they think, and then they judge base off that.
I think they probably just said, all right, this performs really well with a small audience. We have to go freaking hard with this, and they just fucking went, like social media marketing crazy. Like they had the dancing Megans and stuff on I don’t know, what was it? The Sears Tower or the Empire State Building?
Corey: They also do something in like New York City as well? Like they had an animatronic doll running around the city or some shit?
Steve: Oh God, I didn’t even hear about that. Is
Corey: I might have made that up. I might have made that up.
Steve: That’d be freaking weird. But a lot of people, they were doing this whole, Megan dance it’s all over TikTok, and everywhere I went, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, whatever, I, you see the ad and it’s just Megan dancing and I’m thinking to myself, I watched this movie, like that [00:08:00] was a quick thing and they made it almost like a pivotal point in this friggin movie like she was like this dancing robot but it wasn’t, but I, that’s TikTok these days. People are all like really big on the dancing, still big on that. Even though TikTok has changed to something a little different. People are still really big on dancing on social media.
Corey: Yeah, that’s basically 98% of TikTok.
Steve: Yep. But TikTok has gotten a little bit better regarding that. And it’s not so much dancing. I’ll watch Too Turnt Tony. He’s absurd.
Corey: What the hell is he?
Steve: You haven’t seen Too Turnt Tony?
Corey: No
Steve: I don’t even how I’m saying that properly, like without issue. It is a quite a tongue twister, and I’m usually like the one that always gets tongue-tied.
I just said so many t words in a row like that, and I fucking nailed it.
Corey: But you can’t pronounce the director’s name right?
Steve: No, of course not, I can throw out all sorts of T letters, but I can’t say. Gerard Johnstone?
Corey: It’s Gerard, like Gerard Butler.
Steve: [00:09:00] Oh lead singer of My Chemical Romance.
Corey: No,
Steve: Oh, that’s Gerard way,
Corey: Wow.
Steve: Way off.
Corey: Yeah, the guy from 300 does not sing for My Chemical Romance.
Steve: Can you imagine? Be like, what is the worst that I could say?
Corey: This is Sparta.
Steve: That’s right. Gerard Butler. He hasn’t really been doing much lately. Has he? He did that like one movie recently where it’s I don’t know, an airplane went down or something.
Corey: yeah, I was gonna say, I think he got reduced to like straight to DVD films. What’s a dvd? Actually,
Steve: DVD ‘s. Is that like dynamic audio disc?
Corey: Yeah, probably.
Steve: Even though that’s d a d
Corey: Yeah. That’s your name?
Steve: That’s my nickname Dad.
Corey: Yeah.
Steve: I don’t even know why I’m not a dad. I think it’s just cuz I’m old. Is that what that’s what we established, right?
Corey: I don’t know, man. It’s been like, I feel like 15 years of us calling you that.
Steve: Yeah. I think it all started at this venue I played and people just kept going, dad, And I they just kept looking at [00:10:00] me. I’m like, what the fuck? I’m like, okay, I guess I’m adopting a bunch of show goers.
Corey: Yeah you adopted a bunch of misfits.
Steve: I did lovely and they’re my children now.
Corey: Oh my God.
Steve: Now I’m sounding like a cult leader.
Corey: How many times have we got off track already?
Steve: Plenty because we’re now we’re gonna, we’re gonna reel it back in cuz we always tend to just go a little off the fucking rails here. Let’s see. Yeah, so I feel like social media cheapened this movie a little bit because I didn’t think it was bad. I had fun watching it. Also the people watching it with me in the theaters, they sure as hell loved it because as soon as Megan started singing and stuff, they’re all dying laughing, and I’m just watching it.
I’m like, this feels very Disney like, it was fun. I enjoyed it. I got a good chuckle out of it. Like I said, I had fun. You go to the movies to have fun.
Corey: I don’t know, man. It just felt like a two hour black mirror episode.
Steve: Ooh, good call. I love
Corey: I, me too. And that’s all I could think of when I was watching this. There was one episode, wasn’t it like, like a Siri type thing?
Steve: [00:11:00] Yeah. I,
Corey: Got a mind of its own, which they also did in this movie that looks like where the sequel’s gonna go,
Steve: Yeah I think the sequel’s gonna be obviously 2.0. So Megan 2.0
Corey: I don’t want to see a sequel, but obviously it’s gonna happen cuz a lot of people like this movie.
Steve: Oh yeah. Speaking of which, this is the kind of crazy thing. A staggering 94% on Rotten Tomatoes Fucking Avengers Endgame got the same score. That fucking tells you everything you need to know.
Corey: Is it still rated that.
Steve: Yeah, I just checked it yesterday.
Corey: Oh God,
Steve: I was like, oh wow.
Corey: My movie taste must be terrible.
Steve: I guess so, but, so yeah, 94% on Rotten Tomato. Pretty crazy.
Oh,
Corey: Looking at it right now. That’s ridiculous.
Steve: I know. It’s wild. I had no idea. Like I said, I enjoyed it. You hated it. But to see 94% I was definitely taken back. I was at least assuming, all right, maybe high sixties, something like that. Not 94.
Corey: Yeah, I expected it to the ratings wise anyway to get [00:12:00] shit on, cuz that’s usually what happens with, you know what people think is a good movie. The critics hate.
Steve: Oh yeah. And vice versa from what I’ve noticed. But then you have your gems that are like, the critics like it a certain amount of percentage and the the fans like it, a certain amount of percentage, and it’s maybe off by one. And I’m like, that makes sense. I think what was like one, like Back To The Future or something was like neck and neck for critics and fans.
I’m like, okay. Yeah,
Corey: I don’t know, man. It’s . I don’t think it deserves that high of a rating, but whatever. That’s
Steve: yeah. No, that’s fine. That’s fine. You know what we didn’t talk about though is how this movie is set up to begin with So at the beginning of the movie the family’s in the car like actually the setup is a commercial for some sort of pet device, pet toy thing. And almost reminds me of a furby kind of weird.
And then what happens is, they’re driving in the car, the mother, father and Katie, who is like the main little girl in this movie. And she’s the one that ends up defending Megan. So they’re driving, they get in an [00:13:00] accident. Katie survives, parents die. Katie goes to next of Kin, which is the sister or I would assume, godmother.
Because that’s where she went. That’s like the whole. So that’s how it gets set up. And it’s funny, like I mentioned about kids dying at the beginning and there is a scene where a kid dies. Again, we can’t get away from this frigging topic.
Corey: No it’s in everything I guess. Whatever. , this one’s good though. The kid dies in like an awesome way. I loved it.
Steve: Yeah, I did love that because that’s the little son of a bitch deserved it. He’s being an asshole. He was a fucking late 12 or 13 year old at a little kid’s camp thing, and he is picking on the little girls.
Corey: So what was your favorite death in the movie?
Steve: My favorite death in the movie was definitely the uh, pressure washer to the face.
Corey: How do you, like, how does that even ha I don’t understand how that happens.
Steve: I don’t know. That’s definitely not my favorite death. The favorite death is the kid getting hit by a car because fuck that kid. He deserved it.
Corey: Yeah, Megan really just got tired of his shit and fucking pushed him down a hill in front of oncoming traffic.[00:14:00]
Steve: Yeah, She’s like, you should run. When she did stuff like that where it’s like very monotone robot, like with the fucking deadpan face, that’s where it’s like, Ooh, that just doesn’t sit well, that’s a little creepy. I love that part. I thought that part was really cool and that kid deserved it.
He is a piece of shit.
Corey: My favorite was the paper cutter,
Steve: Oh yeah, that was good too.
Corey: they didn’t really even show it. They just show her take the blade off a paper cutter in the office and like walking down a hallway and then, she killed that Chinese guy. But,
Steve: Oh yeah. You don’t see it though. You see Like the heap of flesh, like afterwards, like when the elevator opens, kind of reminding me of. Taken where, the guy was dead in the elevator and it opens up and everyone at the party sees that dead body and like, oh no, same thing. That’s what it reminds me of it is almost like an identical shot wise and everything.
Corey: Yeah. I didn’t even, didn’t even make that connection. You’re right.
Steve: Yeah. There’s a few connections I’ve noticed in here. There’s that one and what was it? Let me see. Was there few connections? No, I guess not. I guess I’m wrong. I will edit that out [00:15:00] and at
Corey: No, leave it.
Steve: leave it. I just, Easter egg. Oh yeah. No. You just wanna have it in there.
Corey: no. There’s . There’s plenty of Easter eggs. Before we started recording,
Steve: Oh yeah, we gotta put the Easter eggs in. So everyone needs to make sure to listen to the edited episode because that’s where I put like the lunacy and that just doesn’t fit well with the rest of the uh, Episode
Corey: Yeah, we did it last episode for the first time and it was actually pretty funny cuz I forgot about that part until it just showed up at the end.
Steve: You probably was just like, oh, just listening. Let it play through, and then you’re like, what the fuck?
Corey: I gotta listen to our podcast cause I gotta pad our stats.
Steve: Of course,
Corey: Do you listen to it,
Steve: Sometimes. Maybe it’s cuz I listen to it so much when I’m editing. I’m like, I don’t need to hear it on any platform. But it is all over the place. It’s on Apple Podcast, Spotify.
Corey: Hey, Hey, we’re not at the end yet. Leave that out for the end.
Steve: I know I’m throwing the cheap plugs out
Corey: We have the plugs for the end, dude.
Steve: All right. We’ll save the plugs. Speaking of plugs, like I said, the pressure wash of death, [00:16:00] that was interesting the paper cutter or death. That was good. Liked it. But I think this movie really could have benefited for being like rated R because Child’s Play was rated R and I feel that has the right amount of violence, right Amount of blood, gore, whatever.
Corey: Chucky like swore and I don’t know, Chucky’s, like probably my second favorite slasher.
Steve: Oh, that’s an interesting take. Because don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying anything about bad about Chucky cuz I fucking love Chucky. It’s just interesting to hear that’s your number two.
Corey: Yeah I always love Chucky cuz I grew up watching those films with my mom and that’s like probably why I’m so fucked up in the head.
Steve: Probably I was introduced to horror movies by my grandmother. We used to watch yeah, we used to watch Friday the 13th when I was a child. And it just stuck, that’s what we would do. I would go over her house, I’d be on the floor watching I don’t know, maybe Jason takes Manhattan or something, and.
That was the Saturday night when I was getting babysat,
Corey: So my grandmother was like, I’ll never forget it, when I was a kid, she was a member of, do you remember those old like v h s clubs? Like you could get tapes in the mail [00:17:00] every month or so.
Steve: Columbia. You’re damn right. I do.
Corey: So all I remember is watching movies like Lethal Weapon and Stripes kickboxer, like those types of movies with my grandmother
Steve: Oh, that’s
Corey: fucking 10 years old.
Steve: Dude, Lethal Weapon all four of ’em. Fantastic. I don’t hate a single one of those movies.
Corey: No, they’re all great. And oh, Beverly Hills Cop is another one that we watched all the time.
Steve: Great. One great movie. Love it, but there needs to be something like that again. Bring back your Columbias, where you get a freaking movie or CD in the mail every month and you just fucking keep it, or you decide to keep it or send it back.
Corey: You know what, Steve? What if I told you there’s something like that already?
Steve: What is it? Netflix?
Corey: Yeah.
Steve: Well, you just keep it and you don’t pay them.
Corey: They get forgotten in my basement.
Steve: Yeah, I had one of those that I’d forgotten too. It was the Deer Hunter and was just hanging out and I’m like, all right, it’s time for me to cancel the the DVD Blu-ray portion of this shit’s expensive, by the way Netflix is the most [00:18:00] expensive of all the services.
Corey: Netflix can eat my old whole asshole too. Did you hear that? About that password sharing thing? They’re gonna start cracking down on,
Steve: I saw that. That’s so dumb.
Corey: Yeah.
It sucks cuz we pay for the fucking thing where you can have up to five screens. So like Joanna and I share with our family and my friend Joe and a couple other people, but like we pay extra for those screens already and yeah, now it’s not gonna matter cuz all of those people don’t live in my house.
Steve: That’s fucking dumb.
Corey: Yeah.
Yeah
Steve: Dumb. So yeah, they need to share your IP address, which essentially means they need to share your internet in order to watch Netflix on your account.
Corey: Yep.
Steve: That’s insane. That’s just crazy. I think these companies are getting a I know we’re getting a little off topic here, but we’re still talking about movies technically.
So I think that a lot of these companies are still starting to get a little crazy when it comes to money. I get it. Your business, you gotta make money. AMC now AMC is wanting to charge people extra for prime seating in [00:19:00] movie theaters. Did you hear about that?
Corey: I read was it Chunkies made a comment about that on Facebook. They were talking about it like they shared their opinions. I didn’t read the whole article by the movie theater itself, but yeah, that’s why don’t go to the movie theater anymore anyways, so
Steve: See, I love going to the movie theaters, that’s why. But when I heard that, I’m like, that’s so dumb. How are they gonna regulate that? You think there’s gonna be some freaking kid going around and be like, Hey, let me check your ticket. I gotta make sure you’re. Not center. Center.
Corey: Yeah,
Steve: do that.
These kids are like 15 years old. They’re just there to watch some movies and make some money during the summer.
Corey: They’re just gonna fight each other in the parking lot for movie ticket give me your movie ticket, give me your seat.
Steve: Yeah. They’re just gonna fucking hunt people down. No, they’re not gonna, they’re not gonna do any of that shit.
Corey: Gimme your lunch money, bitch. No. Gimme your movie seat.
Steve: Yeah, I’m gonna get the cheaper seats. I’m gonna fucking get the seats that are one in the very front and I’m gonna move my ass up because I haven’t been to a movie where it was like jam packed in a very long time.
Corey: I think the [00:20:00] last time that happened to me was like probably one of the Star Wars movies.
Steve: That makes
Corey: there was Regal Theater near us that before they had assigned seating, it was like first come, first serve, and we just ended up getting there way too late and got stuck in the front row.
Steve: Oh, I’ve done that before.
Corey: Yeah. So we, after like 10 minutes, we got up and left and went to the service desk and we’re like, yeah, this sucks. Give us our money back.
Steve: They’ll do that. They gave you your money back, I’m assuming? Yep. They’re just like take your money back. Come back again.
Corey: Wish I could get my money back for Megan.
Steve: but you probably didn’t even pay for it.
That’s
Corey: don’t need to know that. Edit
Steve: Edit.
Corey: Oh, what were we talking about anyways?
Steve: We’re still talking about movies technically, and this is a har like a movie podcast,
Corey: Yeah,
Steve: So it’s okay.
Corey: You saw this in theaters.
Steve: Yeah, I saw it in theaters. We were just like, you know what? Let’s go in theaters, go to theaters, we’ll watch it. Fuck it. Because we saw the trailer when we were seeing The Menu, which[00:21:00] again, that movie was fantastic.
Went into that movie blindly and loved it. And they had a trailer for Megan at the beginning. So we were just like, fuck it, let’s go. Let’s check it out. And we had fun. We enjoyed it.
Corey: So they attached a trailer for this. To a movie that was actually really good.
Okay,
Steve: Yeah. But everyone, if you haven’t seen The Menu, just do yourselves a favor and just take the like hour and a half time just to watch this brilliant movie. I’m sorry, I can’t talk I can’t talk like good enough about that movie.
Corey: One of my friends in at work, he watched that movie because I told him we reviewed it. And he doesn’t even, he doesn’t even like those type of movies and he is that wasn’t what I thought it was gonna be. And then he was, went and listened to the episode and he was like, yeah, you guys are right.
Steve: Yeah, it’s just tense. It’s just there’s a lot of building, and you just, it makes you feel uneasy. But the whole movie, that movie’s great. But we’re going back to Megan now because like I said, you and I could have another separate podcast episode on The Menu.
Who knows? Maybe we will down the line.
Corey: [00:22:00] Do we have to talk about this anymore?
Steve: Yeah, we do, because there’s a few things I want to bring up, All right let’s see. We were talking about the pressure washer. Oh. What I wanted to bring up was the fight between Megan and the creator of Megan Gemma. She created this robot while she was in college.
I can’t remember the robot’s name, but there was that robot versus Megan. What’s not to like about two robots fighting, Terminator Two. Like you got fucking Arnold Schwarzenegger and then you got Patrick, what the fuck’s his name?
Corey: Oh, his name’s Bruce the robot.
Steve: Oh wow. Thank you for that. Because that was gonna allude me for God knows how long.
Corey: How the fuck did Katie know how to use those little glove thingies to control it?
Steve: That’s a good point. I think she mentioned like Gemma said, Oh, you use like these gloves and it goes to your like biometrics or whatever, and, but somehow Katie knew how to use that fucking thing.
Corey: Yeah, they were like, they reminded me of the power glove,
Steve: Oh yeah. Power glove.
Corey: but somehow this little asshole kid knew how to use it
Steve: [00:23:00] Yeah. Some real steel shit.
Corey: Fight each other.
Steve: Yeah, like real steel.
Corey: Rock ’em sock robots.
Steve: Rock ’em sock. Robots don’t ever knock.
Corey: That was actually the first thing I thought of when that scene started. I was like, no way. I hope one of their head pops off and then it didn’t happen.
Steve: Ah, yeah, but Megan just kept coming back and keep coming and keep it reminded me a lot of child’s play at the end when Chucky he was just getting freaking annihilated. He got thrown into the fire, right? Made his way out. He’s on fire. They’re shooting him like crazy. He’s still moving, he’s getting lives blown off.
He’s crawling to them. and then they finally put a like final bullet in his heart and then he dies. So it kind of reminded me of that because when Megan was getting the the shit kicked out of her, she kept coming back and I think at one point she was actually ripped in half and she was still just crawling.
And that kind of reminded me of Child’s Play.
Corey: That’s actually like the whole movie, reminding me of what they tried to do with that Child’s Play remake.
Steve: Yeah. And that Child’s Play room remake. We won’t talk about it. If people want us to review [00:24:00] it, we will, but I watched it and I was like, I hate it.
Corey: I can already tell you it’s gonna be a lot like this episode on my end.
Steve: Yeah. Yeah. Actually you did You like it?
Corey: No. The best part, no. No. I hated it. It was dog shit, but the best part about it was Mark Hamel voicing Chucky.
Steve: I will agree with that 100%. That’s where it would get a good grade from me because of Mark Hamel. Cause that guy is obviously genius, legend, but amazing voice actor, like he does the Joker and he does Chucky in the newer one. So he he’s very versatile.
Corey: And his voice is very recognizable, similar fuck no, I can’t remember his name. The guy voice is Darth Vader.
Steve: James Earl Jones.
Corey: Yes. Don’t edit that out. Edit out. I don’t wanna get crucified for not knowing his name.
Steve: Oh, so I get crucified for not liking Harry Potter.
Corey: Fine. Leave it in.
Steve: No, it’s okay. No, it’s fine. Cuz not everyone knows that. They’d be like I don’t know. You know this
Corey: would, yeah, they do. That was in an episode.
Steve: Oh, the Darth Vader deal. Oh no, I’m [00:25:00] talking Darth Vader now. Everyone knows my take on Harry Potter now,
Corey: Did you know that James Earl Jones basically signed his voice away.
Steve: Really
Corey: Like he’s not gonna voice Darth Vader anymore, ever again.
Steve: That’s rough.
Corey: Yeah. So I’m curious, like in future Star Wars stuff, are they gonna superimpose his voice or are they gonna recast him kind of thing?
Steve: I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just see him in Field of Dreams too.
Corey: Stop I hope that comes out at the same time as Passion of the Christ too.
Steve: Oh, electric boogaloo. Back to the fight between Bruce and Megan also reminded me of Robocop two, so you have Robocop and Robocop two and those, that’s one of my favorite fight scenes of all time because like I said, what’s not to like is two fucking robots going at it, rock ’em sock and robots, you got fucking Terminator too. Robots, fighting robots is fantastic. No matter what, there’s a whole show dedicated to it.
Corey: What show?
Steve: Oh, it’s the the little fucking robots in a battle arena deal.
Corey: Oh, BattleBots
Steve: Battle bots. That’s it. I should know that. I remember one time I was like [00:26:00] smoking a ton of jabappo and watching that for.
Corey: Jabappo.
Steve: Yeah, the electric lettuce, the jazz, cigarettes,
Corey: Oh, okay. All right.
Steve: All that good stuff. Yeah. So let’s see. Yeah, you go in the movies have fun. I thought this was fun. I think the PG 13 rating kind of hindered the movie a bit, and I think rated R would’ve made it a little better. It like a little more violence than it would’ve been pretty great.
But, TikTok, gotta make it family friendly, gotta bring the kids.
Corey: How did they get away with the PG 13 rating? With a kid dying?
Steve: They didn’t show it, they just showed like the kid going, who? And then bang. Like you don’t see a anyone get run over. You just see a freaking truck stop.
Corey: Yeah, but it’s certainly implied and like we find out about it later that the kid definitely got pancaked in the highway.
Steve: Oh yeah, he got unalived for sure. But yeah, I don’t know. I think it’s the fact that you’re not seeing any limbs, any blood, nothing like that. You’re just seeing like the illusion of that someone got run over. So that’s what you’re basically seeing. And I think that’s why like you didn’t really see any [00:27:00] blood. But let’s see what did I put here? Two stars. Only because Katie Perry’s firework was saying, and a kid got hit by a car.
Corey: That’s mine.
Steve: That’s yours. What? I didn’t even realize you put that in. Oh, when the hell did you put that in?
Corey: Edit that out so I could save that. That’s my rating.
Steve: Okay. . That’s right. Dis, that’s right. DIS scores. All right. We’ll edit
Corey: run out of time?
Steve: Yeah, we ran out of time, but it’s fine. PG 13 rating, I feel like really hindered the movie. Corey, what do you give this movie rating? Zero to five.
Corey: Two. So it gets two stars for me. And that’s only because the doll saying Firework by Katie Perry, that’s a banger. So that’s one star. And then the second star, was the kid getting hit by a car?
Steve: Okay so two stars. Okay. No. Third star for the pressure. Pressure washer murder.
Corey: No, that was corny.
Steve: Okay. Yeah.
Corey: I wanna see if there is a director’s cut of this, if there’s like flash peeling off or something. But this chick just got blasted with a pressure washer and [00:28:00] died
Steve: Yeah. Yeah. So actually that would’ve been really cool. See, that’s where I think a rated R version of this would’ve excelled is because you could see the crazy stuff like that. You could see maybe like the person getting hit in the face with the pressure washer and fleshes flying off type steel type
Corey: Yeah. Like They worked it down on a PG 13 rating just so they could get it in movie theaters and make money off of it.
Steve: 150%. Absolutely. They wanted to make as much money as they could, and that’s why a lot of movies get that PG 13 rating.
Corey: Yeah, whatever. I’m never gonna watch it again.
Steve: That’s fine. I give it a I give it a 3.8 outta five because I thought it was fun.
Corey: Steve. This says five Outta five. What happened?
Steve: I said score five out of five. Okay. More like a 3.8 out of five
Corey: Ugh,
Steve: because I wanted to troll you for a minute. That’s why I put it in the notes. It’s score five out of five. You would’ve been like, what the fuck, Steve?
Corey: I’m a little curious how you came upon a 3.8.
Steve: Like I said, I thought it was fun. A lot of it was real, like unsettling because it was just, she felt real creepy with her face, and just walking around [00:29:00] and seeing her just dead ass robot, and then, like the fucking running on all fours, it, there was some parts that I found genuinely creepy. and like she started getting real fucking angry at the end. Like real I don’t know dictator. Like, She was like, you’re not gonna fucking touch her type deal.
Corey: Yeah, she did. Super protective.
Steve: Super, super protective, which I mean, it is a good thing if you think about it, but I had fun watching it. Saw it in theaters didn’t hate it.
Didn’t love it. It was one of those like, all right, I had good company. The movie was decent. Hearing everyone laughing in the the theater when she was singing, that was entertaining too. So I honestly, I had a pretty decent experience when I watched it the first time. So maybe that’s probably like swaying my score a little bit, swaying my score a little.
Corey: Swaying your squirrel
Steve: Yeah, swaying my squirrel a little bit. I got all tongue-tied there. Now I’m getting all tongue-tied again. There we go. Now we’re back on track. We’re back on track and I’m not being tongue-tied.
Corey: All [00:30:00] right, sounds
Steve: Okay? Okay. Yeah, we’re out of time anyways everyone be sure to like, follow, subscribe on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
We got all sorts of stuff going on there, like posting there all the time. Here’s the funny thing, let me bring this up to y’all. Should we start a Patreon, and then we can have maybe separate episodes that go up there. You can all hear like the outtakes, the lunacy that I’m always talking about prior and after the show.
Let us know what you think hit us up on social media, whether it’s Twitter or Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Just be like, yeah, this would be a cool idea. If not, fuck off.
Corey: Just do some completely unedited episodes so you can hear all the dumb shit that happens versus what gets published on the networks.
Steve: Oh my God. Yeah. This is, tends to be heavily edited, which is why it takes me a fucking hot minute.
Corey: What are we at an hour now?
Steve: Yeah, we probably are, we’re probably in an hour and they have no idea.
Corey: Yeah, we were talking nonsense before we even hit record,
Steve: Oh yeah. So I think starting a Patreon [00:31:00] for them to hear that, I think, that could be fun. That could be, that’s like director’s cut shit.
Corey: Yes, I like that idea.
Steve: Yeah. Also we’re part of the Shining Wizards Network. Visit shiningwizardsnetwork.com. They got plenty of programs on there wrestling related and otherwise.
So definitely check out the network. You may find a podcast that you like other than ours. Also visit 30screamsorless.com for all of previous episodes and transcripts to go along with those episodes. So if you don’t like listening to things, you can read it. And you could read how like crazy I am.
Corey: It’s very nice to read in the context of all the shit that we say
Steve: Sometimes it’s nice, sometimes you know, when you’re listening to a song, you’re following the lyrics of like that. Except more pretentious, I think.
Corey: Okay. Yeah.
Steve: Yeah. I want to hear, the lyrics. I wanna see the lyrics for this whole podcast episode.
Corey: I can’t understand what the fuck they’re saying. I wanna read the words.
Steve: It’s okay, you got it. It’s on the website 30screamsorless.com. If there’s anything you want us to review send an email to [00:32:00] 30screamsorless@gmail.com or hit us up on social media, you know, slide into our dms, all that good stuff.
Or just add us on social media too. You don’t have to slide it into dms. You don’t have to be creepy either way. I don’t know. I’ll talk to y’all. Corey will.
Corey: Yeah. Yeah. We like talking to people.
Steve: Yeah. So with that in mind, that concludes our episode today. I’m Steve
Corey: And I’m Corey
Steve: And thanks for listening to 30 Screams or Less.
Corey: You know what he, he called our podcast. He’s like, it’s a horror podcast. And Tony’s like, and it, he’s like, it’s not horrible.
It’s actually a good, it’s a fun listen.
Steve: Oh, I like that.
Corey: It’s not horrible.
Steve: it’s not Haraal Haraal.