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 or Less a Horror movie podcast, where we review horror movies in 30 minutes or less so you don’t have to. Today’s movie we’re reviewing is Benny Loves You. It came out in 2019, written [00:01:00] and directed by Carl Holt, starring Carl Holt, Claire Cartwright, George Colley. It’s about Jack. A man desperate to improve his life throws away his beloved childhood plush Benny, it’s a move that has disastrous consequences when Benny Springs to life with deadly intentions. That’s what we grab from IMDB I’m sure, right?
Corey?
Corey: Yeah, that’s right. Snatched it.
Steve: Okay. Yeah, I figured we tend to just copy pasta, that.
Corey: Yeah. Fuck Writing her own stuff.
Steve: I’m not gonna write a whole plot, and explain everything. We’re just gonna talk about it anyways.
Corey: If we can plagiarize it, hell yeah.
Steve: We’ll just rewrite the whole thing and then no one would know the wiser unless they saw it and they’d be like these fucking schmucks lied to us.
Corey: If we rewrote it, it might suck less.
Steve: Yeah, I think so. I don’t know. I didn’t hate it. But we’re gonna get into that right now. Let’s do this. 30 screams are less starts now. Corey, what did you think of Benny Loves You ?
Corey: Dude, I need to start a list of directors that need to be arrested and charged with crimes for making piece of shit movies.
Steve: [00:02:00] Oh
Corey: Do you have any suggestions on what I should call it?
Steve: Oh, Corey’s hit list maybe.
Corey: I’m gonna have to come up with something better than that.
Steve: Yeah, we can come up with something. Snazzier. We got some ideas.
Corey: Not getting any royalties for that one.
Steve: No, no, it is good. You know what, how about this Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Come up with a list for Corey for movies that he thinks directors should be shot and killed for. So post them. Let us know what you think. All that good stuff, but, all right, let’s continue. Okay. So this is a movie where you think the director should be shot and killed.
Corey: I did not say that.
Steve: You didn’t say that. No, you can’t say that because that’s technically, a threat.
Corey: Well, apparently you might feel that way. All I said was he needed to be arrested in charge of the crime.
Steve: Oh, why did I say shot then?
Corey: I know it’s on your brain now, dude.
Steve: I have violent tendencies. I guess
Corey: It’s weird too, cuz you like this fucking atrocity.
Steve: I did. I thought it was fun. You know, fun for the whole family, all that good stuff.
Corey: I’m about to, I’m about to tell people to stop making recommendations for movies because then I [00:03:00] end up with this. Whoever it was that recommended this, please show yourself.
Steve: oh, I,
Corey: us a tweet.
Steve: oh, I know, I know. Like she’ll show herself no problem.
Corey: Who is her?
Steve: Oh, that’d be my girlfriend. Uh,
Corey: was her.
Steve: Yeah, it was her. She, she wanted this cuz she loved it. I thought it was fun. You know, it’s, it’s cute. It Benny’s cute.
Corey: I haven’t even met her yet and she’s probably gonna hate me after she hears this
Steve: no, no, no. See, but,
Corey: it.
Steve: Edit no. Okay. No. So I am like, I’m with her on this. I enjoyed it. Was it a Schindler’s List or anything? No, probably not. I mean, we wouldn’t give it a five outta five or anything like that Doesn’t mean that’s reserved for your Outwaters, Menu, Deadstream, things like that.
Which Deadstream we just reviewed. But this is basically, this is another like dark comedy, you know, like, uh, like Deadstream was a dark comedy because it had to do with like horror and comedy. Like combining the two worlds and Benny’s the same deal where it’s a lot of [00:04:00] comedy, a lot of, uh, violence it is just violent as anything. But essentially, what happens is the main character he’s kind of an older guy, maybe in his thirties, still living with his parents. Works kind of a dead end job at a toy company and his job is to come up with new ideas and he’s just not a happy dude overall. He is kind of like a big kid, you know? He hasn’t grown up.
Corey: The first thing I noticed about that is it’s basically the same thing as elf, except the dad works in a, like a children’s book place.
Steve: Yeah.
Corey: They come up with new children’s book ideas. I don’t know, it’s very similar.
Steve: Oh yeah. That kind of deal. It almost reminded me of the movie back in the day Big, where Tom Hanks got a job at a toy company, and their job is to just come up with toy ideas or whatever, but obviously not as feel good as that. This is more, um, violence driven. I don’t think big is violence driven by any means. That’s just a classic.
but
Corey: I thought I was gonna love this movie just because it started with that stupid fucking kid screaming.[00:05:00]
Steve: Oh God. Here
Corey: they made, they made us, they made us hate her right away.
Steve: Oh my
God.
Corey: first thought is, I hope she gets it. I hope she gets hacked up.
Steve: Uh, and she got it. All right.
Yeah.
Here we are. Dead kid. 10 out of 11 dead kids. No, wait. No. Are we 11? 11 for this?
Corey: This is 11. What do you mean a dead kids? No, there was no dead kid in The Menu.
Steve: Oh, yes.
Corey: Dead kid in Outwaters.
Steve: Okay. Yep. So nine outta 10, that’s a pretty good ratio of dead kids to movies.
Corey: Dude. When that mom literally slapped the spit out of her kid’s mouth for screaming so much when she was trying to go to sleep.
Steve: Yeah.
Corey: That was like some UFC shit. I loved it.
Steve: Oh, yes. That kid you got annihilated. Like you saw like the spit, like slow motions, like the boom. Just like, like a bass bomb added.
Corey: That’s the best part of the movie.
Steve: Oh yeah. That little shit just kept screaming and all that. And we were just like, Ugh, shut up. Those bratty kids. Sometimes they need a little bit [00:06:00] of a harsh punishment, but I can’t say a kid needs to get hit, but something needed to happen to that kid and I am not gonna be the one to say shit.
Corey: The listeners need to realize that this kid was like basically Veruca Salt of this movie. She was that snobby little bitch who wanted everything.
Steve: Oh,
Corey: Asshole to her mother. Yeah. She deserved what she got. She got her eyes poked out, I think.
Steve: Oh yeah. By one of the toys that, uh, came to life.
Corey: Yep.
Steve: You know what? The toys were probably like, fuck this kid because she’s being mean. I bet you anything, if she wasn’t mean, those toys would wanna play with her all day. But they probably had enough of it too. They were probably just like, this kid is ungrateful to her parents.
Corey: The dolls were fucking fighting back at that point.
Steve: Yeah. They weren’t having it. So basically it’s set up to show that dolls can come to life pretty much whenever don’t really have a rhyme or reason as to why any of them came to life. They just did like.
Corey: Never explained it.
Steve: Never explained it. Like Toy Story deal. It’s not like, some sort of entities like, I’m gonna put these toys and bring them the [00:07:00] life type deal.
They just came to life. That’s it. That’s how it happened. The only thing I could think of with Benny and the owner, Jack. I think he wished, kind of Ted’s style, like, to be his best friend forever, that type thing. And maybe that could have happened, maybe just doing that wish type deal caused a TED type incident.
But so Jack’s miserable. Jack decides to put the childish things away because, God forbid a girl goes over his house and sees the things that he has on his wall she’d wanna stick around. But that’s actually what happened at one point when, a girl came by and she’s like, screaming, freaking out.
I’m like, I have that stuff on my walls. I’m like, am I that bad?
Cor Yes, I’m a big child, so I’m a child with a 401k plan.
Corey: Dude. Yeah. I spent two hours yesterday putting either a fucking Gremlin’s toy. I don’t want to hear it.
Steve: Oh, you showed me that thing and that thing is sick. For those of you don’t know. If you haven’t [00:08:00] seen Gremlins 2 A, you’re fucking up two. You need to see the spider thing in it. And three, Corey, you gotta post a photo of this thing because this thing is a monstrosity of a funk. It’s not Funko. It’s what’s the name of the other
Corey: It’s
Steve: Uh
Corey: necca.
Steve: NECCA. Thank you. It’s NECCA. So NECCA makes really sick looking figures. I own a few Jason and Michael Myers type figures. You have a whole slew of them.
Corey: I own every single Jason one that’s ever been made,
Steve: Wow. Oh my God.
Corey: a bunch of random ones, but
Steve: Yeah, I don’t have all the Jasons, I have just a couple, but I ran out of a lot of room like when I was trying to collect them. I actually have, two Robocop ones. I love Robocop. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and I’m gonna make a little reference to that later on in this podcast here.
But, but I think they missed like a prime opportunity to market Benny in this thing because Benny’s adorable, Benny would sell like crazy to, horror people horror [00:09:00] collectors, things like that. If there was more, exposure to this movie.
Corey: I agree, but I also feel at the same time that they might have run into some like copyright stuff. Because, it was very similar to remember Tickle Me Elmo.
Steve: Yeah. Oh, I remember, dude, I grew up during that whole craze. People went nuts for that stuff. And I was just like, I don’t get it. I want video games.
Corey: Yeah. The only thing I remember about those is splitting my brother’s head open with one of them.
Steve: You, how’d you split your brother’s head open with a Tickle Me Elmo.
Corey: I threw it at his face.
Steve: Is it that heavy?
Corey: Oh yeah. The battery pack opened up in the back and that’s what caught ’em in the top of the head.
Steve: Oh God.
Wow. Yeah. See I was more of a Teddy Ruxpin guy.
Corey: I had one of those, I also had remember the dinosaurs?
Steve: Yeah, absolutely.
Corey: Yeah. I had one of those too.
Steve: Oh God, that’s awesome. Yeah, I, uh, I had a few of those things. God they go for so much money now on eBay. Let me tell you.
Corey: Yep.
Steve: If you had that shit in pristine condition or like inbox, forget it. Collectors would be like, oh, how much you [00:10:00] want for that 40,000, 50,000? I don’t know if it’s that high, but there’s some collectors who fucking want that memorabilia.
Corey: So you could, if you still had those hanging around.
Steve: Yeah, that it would be nuts if I still had that hanging around.
Corey: So how about like, let’s talk about Jack’s parents both getting killed at the same time.
Steve: I thought that was so absurd the way that his parents went. Because you would think when there’s a death in a movie of the parents, it maybe as a car crash or something like that. Something believable in this case was the most absurd death of two parents I’ve ever seen.
The father slipped on something, he fell on his back and something dropped on his head and the mother then tripped and landed face first into the hors d’oeuvres, which had Freaking toothpicks in them.
So all the toothpicks went in her face and Jack is just watching in horror because, it is supposed to be his special day, his birthday, and his parents are trying to do something nice for him but they end up dead in the most hilarious [00:11:00] fashion.
Corey: So they were setting up, as you said, for his birthday, which he’s, thirties, forties at this point. And his parents still insist on throwing him a birthday party every year.
Steve: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think it was like his birthday breakfast deal and they were trying to get all that stuff set up, but yeah, they died in, uh, a ridiculous way. I remember laughing my ass off and like watching the death. I’m like, what? That’s so absurd. That is so intense.
Corey: Like imagine just falling face first on like a hundred toothpicks.
Steve: Oh God.
Corey: I bet that sucked.
Steve: God you usually watch wrestling that’s kind of like that, where someone will be like, body slammed on a bed of nails.
Corey: Yeah, we’re going to a show like that next weekend. You’re going too.
Steve: That’s right. I am I don’t know if there’s gonna be a bed of nails type deal, but there’s chains and glass in and all sorts of chaos.
so,
Corey: there’s a bed of nails now. I’m gonna message the, owner right now and tell him that we want bed of nails.
Steve: Uh, no, we want an acid bath.
Corey: They did that back in the old days on the old IWA mid-South stuff. They did [00:12:00] like pits full of scorpions and piranas crabs.
Steve: My god, I couldn’t even imagine seeing that live. That would be so absurd. I mean, getting thrown into a pool of piranas, they’re not gonna frigging eat you like to bones in seconds, but you’re definitely gonna get bit a few times and try to get the fuck out of there
Corey: Especially where you’re, you’re already bloody when you get thrown in.
Steve: Oh God, yeah. They’re already a bloody mess as it is. So, yeah, the piranas would be all over that, I’m sure.
Corey: Yep. For sure.
Steve: But yeah, people, if you don’t know, what is ICW? Yeah, I C W N H B, which is like no holds barred crazy stuff, so check it out. It’s insane. I’ve seen it live twice at this point.
Corey: Yeah, I think we’ve gone twice.
Steve: Yeah, it’s twice, I think twice, but it’s intense. It’s crazy. There’s glass everywhere. Thumbtacks, barb wire, chain ropes, all sorts of crazy stuff. It’s insane. I don’t know how they do. But anyways, I think we’re getting a little off topic. Again, we tend to do this.
Corey: Did we get off topic?
Steve: Kinda, we were [00:13:00] talking about, tooth picks to the face, which then turned into better nails, which then turned into us talking about wrestling, which is fine because we’re part of the Shining Wizards Network. We’re kind of bridging that gap. We’re talking about horror, and then maybe we’ll throw a little wrestling reference in there or two.
Corey: Yeah, I like it.
Steve: I like it
too.
Corey: it up every once in a while.
Steve: Yeah, you can throw something in there like that.
Corey: So was I the only one that absolutely hated this fucking guy, Richard man? All I could think of was how badly I wanted someone to murder his bugs Bunny buck, teeth looking ass.
Steve: Oh, this fucking guy sucked. He was like your typical brown noser that you have at a company, he’s the one that takes credit for other people’s ideas. He’s that kind of schmuck. He really sucks. So to see him as one of the lead characters that towards the end finally dies, like it took him way too long to die in that movie. He should have been gone like way, way earlier.
Corey: I could not remember him dying for some reason.
Steve: Oh, you couldn’t remember him dying?
Corey: Wasn’t he one of like the la just him and Jack and that [00:14:00] girl were alive?
Steve: Yeah so the three of them were still alive and they were fighting all the toys and stuff like that. But basically what happened was Benny yeah, he got put away, in the basement, locked him up, all this stuff, and somehow Benny made his way out. Killed Jack’s boss because the boss was being an asshole. Oh my God. We didn’t even get to this part. The dead dog.
Corey: That was terrible.
Steve: Oh my God. Obviously it was bad. You could see that the dog was fake as anything, but the dog was so dead that it was getting thrown at the wall.
Benny was dragging the thing around like a toy. And
Corey: Didn’t he give it a bath too?
Steve: Something like that. He tried like hell to make the dog look as good as possible. Because he decided to be the good employee and watch his boss’s dog, like while they went out. He tried to get a new one. He tried to make it look as alive as possible, but then eventually it turned to a, you know, the dog getting thrown out the window and basically exploding on the family’s car. And [00:15:00] yeah, it just, it was insane. That was insane.
Corey: that boss I was getting very Office Space vibes.
Steve: Oh yeah. He had that definite office space vibe with the, uh, Peter, what’s happening? Uh, I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday. Yeah.
Corey: Can’t even tell the difference.
Steve: Nope. Can’t tell the difference. He’s like the same guy. God, I hate bosses like that. Can’t stand them. Who the hell wants to work for someone like that? You know, someone that literally just, they completely don’t value it, the slightest bit as an employee unless you’re brown, nosy and eating their ass.
Corey: Whoa.
Steve: What?
Corey: Huh.
Steve: Huh? What?
Corey: Nah. I just heard about something about a ass eating.
Steve: Yeah. Well, this kissing ass, this brown nosing, and then there’s like some points where it’s like they want you to really kiss their ass.
Corey: Yep.
Steve: Yeah. I can’t, I
Corey: definitely that type of boss.
Steve: He is definitely that type of boss. That guy sucked. He was so ridiculous, but Benny kidnapped him at some point and Jack got to say a few words to him, which was, you know, great. But then Benny killed him
Corey: [00:16:00] I, I was , I was watching that scene and I, I thought of another movie and I’m like, this dude is gonna enroll him in the Jelly of the Month Club. You get what I’m go, what my reference is here.
Steve: Dude, I’m picking up what you’re putting
Corey: Okay.
Steve: I’m smelling what you’re cooking.
Corey: It was like the same idea. The boss gets kidnapped and brought to the guy he’s wronged.
Steve: Oh shit. It was, yeah, there was a lot of references, I think, to movies in this.
Corey: The whole thing was very Sean of the Deadish.
Steve: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Had a lot of silly vibes like that. I feel like anyone who likes Shawn of the Dead, if they smoke a little weed and watch this, I think they’ll have a good time. But we’re trying to watch it as critics, we’re a little judgmental, about it. We’re trying to do our jobs.
Corey: So, is it just me or, um, that self-help tape that Jack was listening to? Does he sound like Duke Nukem?
Steve: Hail to the king Baby.
Corey: I’ll take that as a You agree?
Steve: Oh, I definitely agree. Shake it baby.
Corey: I’m here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I’m [00:17:00] all at a bubble gum.
Steve: Wait, there were some more quotes. We were looking up a ton of, Duke Newcomb quotes it. For those of you don’t know who Duke Nukem is, you’re fucking up. So Duke Nukem was a video game character, like late eighties, early nineties. They made Duke Nukem 3D and that’s when Duke Newcomb started really talking.
So like he would say things, let’s see, like Born to Be Wild like that. Or I’ll rip your head off and shit down your neck.
Corey: Your ass is grass and I’ve got the weed whacker.
Steve: Yeah. You’re an inspiration for birth control.
Corey: I’m an equal opportunity ass kicker.
Steve: Groovy. He’s
Corey: You see me? Now you’re dead.
Steve: Your face, your ass. What’s the difference?
Corey: Oh man. So many good ones.
Steve: Oh man, I played the shit out of Duke Nukem back in the day.
Corey: Oh yeah. Duke Nukem. Was it Forever?
Steve: No Duke Nukem 3D like [00:18:00] way back in the day. Duke Nukem Forever took a fucking decade to
Corey: Oh, that was a shitty one that came out. Yeah.
Steve: Yeah, so I played Duke Nukem 3D and I played Duke Nukem A Time To Kill, which is like a two-player game that was sick.
It was like a one versus one type game. It was fun. It was fun, but and then Duke Nukem Forever took a fucking century to come out. There was all sorts of fucking delays and things like that. But yes, the self-help tape that Jack has definitely sounds like Duke Nukem. And I don’t know if he was trying to just do that, like make a reference to Duke Nukem, or maybe he’s not even old enough to know what the hell Duke Nukem is as a director.
But there, like I said, there’s a lot of references now to them thinking about it in this, like, there’s the reference to National Lampoons, Christmas vacation. It sounds like Duke Nukem reference. There’s a guy in there that looks like Chester Bennington from Lincoln Park. RIP.
Corey: Really?
Steve: Yeah, I mean, well look at the, it was like a lawyer or a
Corey: Oh, the guy that was trying to repossess the house.
Steve: Yes. And he was like, I can give you, like a, an [00:19:00] interest rate of 400% or something stupid. Jack’s like, I thought you had the best rates in town. Yeah just, not this town. Ha ha. You know, one of those deals.
Corey: And Benny was like, fuck you. And then murdered his ass.
Steve: Yeah. Sounds about right. Benny, I think decapitated that one.
Corey: So speaking of Benny killing people, when Benny went nuts and started stabbing all the stuffed animals, like when he first came alive, why was there spaghetti everywhere?
Steve: What? Why was there spaghetti everywhere?
Corey: There’s fucking he. Then they showed the empty can of spaghetti.
Steve: What the hell? I don’t even remember
Corey: Like he put the knife, he put a knife and like a bear or a teddy bear or something. And there was literally spaghetti in the stab wound.
Steve: Oh, that’s odd. You know what? I must not have even realized that happened because that doesn’t make sense. Is that supposed to be like intestines?
Corey: I mean, a budget on this movie must have been real low if that’s what they were doing.
Steve: I mean, I feel like the majority of this budget went into Benny itself because, Benny only had a couple lines also who voiced Benny? I feel like that might have been Carl who did it, [00:20:00] but there’s nothing on the IMDB on who did?
Corey: I have no idea. He only said like one line anyway, was like, Benny loves you.
Steve: Yep. That’s it. That’s all he needed. It was Benny loves you.
Corey: Yep. Very tickle me elmo ish.
Steve: Yeah. Yep. That’s basically it. Benny loves you and ta-da, but.
Corey: That’s right. Ta-da too.
Steve: You know what I’d love to though is the way Benny walked around and especially when he had the knife in his hand, like the knife was basically just hovering in his hand. He couldn’t even grab it obviously, cuz he’s like a plush toy, doesn’t have a opposable thumbs or anything.
So the knife was just basically sitting there and he’s bouncing around, as you would maybe bounce around a plush toy to make it look like it’s walking. Like, ha ha, just bouncing back and forth.
Corey: Dude, I was, the first time you see him walking, I fucking lost it. I was laughing so hard because it looks terrible.
Steve: And I think that’s the idea is not meant to look great, you know, he’s a plush toy that’s just bouncing around. You would think like, you know, a happy plush toy like that would bounce around,
Corey: [00:21:00] There there was one part where he was moving around and I you, I could see like the green screen behind him from whoever the puppeteer was.
Steve: Could
Corey: See it. You can see it very briefly. Like the blur behind the puppet.
Steve: Oh my God. Wow. All right.
Corey: They forgot to use a magic eraser on that scene.
Steve: Edit
Corey: Yeah.
Steve: too
Corey: Got it. Got it. This came out in 2019. Man, maybe they just didn’t have the technology. I, I don’t know, but there’s no excuse for that shit.
Steve: Dude, I have that technology and I’m not a director. I didn’t make any movies. Wow. I can’t believe that. That’s like this other movie I saw recently that had Anthony Michael Hall in it. He was like some sort of cop where I don’t know. He was just kind of down on his luck. It was like some sort of weird horror movie, but they used a video and it was like this stock footage from Shutterstock.
They didn’t even remove the Shutterstock logo. They didn’t even pay for it. It’s just in the movie. And you see this like, you know, a [00:22:00] car driving by with the office building and it just says Shutterstock on it.
Corey: What the hell is this?
Steve: I fucking can’t even remember the name of the movie. I’ll have to ask my girlfriend and see if she knows. But yeah, I took a photo of it. I posted it on our Twitter because it was absolutely absurd. I’m gonna have to dive a little bit into Anthony, Michael Hall’s catalog or whatever.
Corey: I didn’t realize he’s been in so much.
Steve: He’s been in so many movies,
but
Corey: said that you said that, and I thought you meant Michael C. Hall. And I was like, fuck, I missed a Dexter movie.
Steve: Dude, I get those two mixed up all the time, and it’s just like Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Sea Hall. It’s just like they got kind of the same rhyming for their names.
Corey: He’s also the, uh, he’s also the asshole that started to stage a fucking riot to kill Michael Myers.
Steve: Evil Dies tonight. Evil dies tonight. Yeah.
Corey: Let’s all face? Michael Myers with baseball bats and pitchforks,
Steve: Oh, I thought that scene was cool though. And then, yeah, then they fucked up. Then they realized, [00:23:00] oh yeah, we can’t really kill this guy. But apparently some like weakling in Halloween Ends is able to push him around like a bully. Like, fuck you dad.
Corey: Push him into a meat grinder
Steve: Yeah. Just like,
Corey: Or No, it wasn’t a meat grinder. It was like a crusher at a junkyard.
Steve: yeah. So, you know what that’s a whole different ballgame. I didn’t like that movie. I think that, I think in the meat grinder, yes, they should have thrown Michael Myers in, but. His last breaths, he’s still alive. He grabs Lori Shrub, pulls her in with him. That would’ve been the way to end that whole fucking thing.
Corey: Absolutely. Yep. I like that.
Steve: Missed opportunity. Missed opportunity.
Corey: Jamie Lee Curtis said that was the last time she was ever gonna play Lori Strode. So why not just fucking kill her while you’re at it?
Steve: Yeah. Why don’t I just be like, fuck you, Michael. Like, cuz he’s, maybe he’s trying to just get out and she’s just like, forget it. I’m gonna sacrifice my life to make sure that this person dies. She should have did that. Fuck it. She was ready to go. She was ready to die.
Corey: Yeah.
Steve: Why not go out
Corey: they were in.
I [00:24:00] thought she was gonna die her in the, when they were in the kitchen fighting.
Steve: yeah, why not go out in epic fashion? I don’t know. Maybe I should direct the movie someday. Who knows?
Corey: You should reboot Halloween again.
Steve: Yeah. Let me reboot it. That would be interesting.
Corey: Yeah, let’s do it together.
Steve: Fuck it. Yeah, let’s make a, an independent Halloween and we’ll just reboot the whole series. And then who knows? Maybe they’ll, it’ll get picked up and they’re just like, you know what? I like the way you both write and direct this movie. We’re gonna make 10 of them. And I’d be like, fuck, I’ll take that money.
Corey: Oh yeah, we can be like Avatar and just like get that big budget. Make Halloween movies.
Steve: Yeah. And I’ll shoot it in like a Canon Rebel or something.
Corey: I don’t know what that means. Is that good?
Steve: Oh, oh fuck Google Time. Google timers up. We didn’t even get through like most of it because we keep getting sidetracked talking about other horror movies.
Corey: Oh no. We’ve been talking about how much we love this movie.
Steve: Oh yeah, yeah. But yeah, so Benny yeah, let’s get back into it. We can, we got a few minutes. We’ll fucking make it happen. Whatever. Few things I did love the fight between Benny and the little robot that the company was trying [00:25:00] to promote. But the marketing for it was like AIDS and it was supposed to be like Android in something, whatever.
But yeah they, they dropped the ball on that one.
Corey: They actually called it aids. They were like promoting it as aids, and one of the guys was like, nobody wants aids. Who wants aids?
Steve: Yeah. Aids, aids guy. You know, it’s like that kind of bullshit. It was like,
Corey: This is at a professional corporate meeting. Aids.
Steve: It’s like, oh my God. Wow. So yeah, that was an over sudden Jack’s end for his pitch for robot and naturally the fucking, the other guy with the buck teeth, whatever. What was his name again?
Corey: Richard.
Steve: Richard. That’s right. Not Richard Rashard. He took credit for it and rebranded the thing and he’s like, oh, it’s mine.
That type deal. He’s one of those people, takes someone else’s idea and makes it his, but the fight between Benny and the robot, I thought was awesome. Kind of reminded me a little bit of Robocop versus Robocop too. It’s awesome. It’s fun, [00:26:00] it’s great. Robocop versus Robocop, two bunch of robots fighting, falling off buildings, destroying cars and everything. Awesome. Great. What’s not to love about two frigging non-human things fighting. It’s fantastic.
Corey: Glad you enjoyed it so much.
Steve: I loved it. I loved that part. I thought that was great. There was also one other thing I wanted to bring up because I feel like there’s a little bit of a plot hole here. There was this one girl that was in the house that managed to get away from Benny, and she went into the attic, but nothing nothing came out of it. Like she just got stuck there and stayed there indefinitely.
Corey: She’s still
there.
Steve: Yeah. She’s still there. Like at the end of the movie’s still there.
Corey: No. I didn’t notice that at all.
Steve: You didn’t notice that? Yeah, because there is one scene where all hell is breaking loose and you see her like still up in the attic type deal.
Like they show a quick clip of her, but it never gets addressed towards the end either. You’d think that maybe they would do something like, she comes down, she’s thinking she’s safe and all of a sudden gets sliced up by the robot by accident. That would’ve been a nice way to [00:27:00] tie up that loose end.
Corey: I mean, we never find out why the dolls came to life anyway, so I guess the movie just reeks of blo holes.
Steve: Yeah, there’s a bunch of plot holes in it, but, you know, I will say this I thought Benny was adorable. He did everything in like out of the goodness of his heart, even though he’s just slaughtering everyone, it was commendable. If I had a plush toy that saw me having a bad time.
I would want a doll like Benny just racing. Hell fuck it.
Corey: So speaking of that, I thought it was hilarious how Jack would have to follow Benny around the house, wherever he went and li with like a mop and a bucket to clean up all the blood from all of his murders.
Steve: Oh my God.
Corey: He was just following around, cleaning up all of every people he kills.
Steve: just, he just kept burying people and just like washing up things. And one like, what was it, A girl he was dating came over and saw that he had like red all over his gloves, but was none the wiser had no idea that, Benny is freaking slaughtering a bunch of people and he’s just [00:28:00] cleaning up the mess and, oh God, that was hysterical.
Just the amount of chaos that Ken, that Benny was causing,
Corey: Yeah, Benny was going nuts, but did he end up just, gotten stabbed in the head?
Steve: At the end.
Corey: Wasn’t that how they got rid of him?
Steve: Yeah. But they basically, like a bunch of cops were shooting him with, rubber pellets because like in the uk they don’t tend to use guns. They tend to use non-lethal force, I believe. And so they took out the pellet guns and started shooting at Benny.
And Benny started dying, like platoon style, just like, oh no. And you see, Jack in the background, like, oh no, Benny, because that’s his plush toy. That’s his, like his best friend, seeing his best friend die. But Benny was on a rampage. He had to be stopped.
And so, Jack took care of him,
Corey: I didn’t know that about the non-lethal thing in the uk.
Steve: Yeah. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but I was always under the impression they took all sorts of like non-lethal force before anything. But I don’t [00:29:00] know, maybe I’m wrong. Let’s see. UK non lethal. This is me, uh, Googling right now. Law and Lethal. That’s not how you spell lethal.
Corey: I just thought it was another like, I don’t know, cheap thing they did in the movie
Steve: Oh, yeah. No, I mean, that would be hysterical. Oh yeah. The use of less lethal weapons. So like that’s what I think they do. Is it just, yeah. gov.uk?
Corey: Airsoft guns.
Steve: Yeah.
Corey: Wow.
Steve: Yeah. Quite interesting.
Corey: We just use real guns here.
Steve: Fuck it.
Corey: Yep.
Steve: What do we say? Yolo?
Corey: Yeah. Yolo . What do them kids say? Yolo.
Steve: Yeah. Yolo carpe diem, them, I don’t know.
Corey: Carpe DM Motherfucker
Steve: Uh, yeah. Fuck yeah. Shake it baby.
Corey: and I was a Duke Nukem coat for you guys.
Steve: Yeah that’s, uh, that’s Merca. Yolo. Shoot him, kill him. Hail to the King Baby.
Corey: I always, I love how many like references to other [00:30:00] things there were in that game. Like fucking Luke Skywalker.
Steve: Oh yeah. I love some of those references. Wasn’t there a doom reference as well in there?
Corey: I’m sure. Now I just wanna replay ’em.
Steve: I would love to replay that game. Shit. Maybe when I start streaming again on Twitch, I’ll fucking play, uh, duke Nukem 3D.
Corey: I should see if I can load that on my, uh, Raspberry Pie.
Steve: Oh, that’d be sick. Do you think Duke Newcomb 3D will be able to be played on Windows 11?
Corey: I mean with an emulator. What? What is with you? When Windows was 11,
Steve: I don’t know. I just updated it today and I was like a little worried that it was gonna happen. I’m a Mac guy and I’m actually using PC right now, by the way, but I’m a Mac guy updating the OS for Mac, not so hard Windows. They’re like, oh, you wanna update to the newest OS, so that’s gonna cost you, but this time they were like, nah, you, you’re good.
You bought a license, you can update to 11. So I’m like, all right, fuck it. And I’m fine. Everything’s good. I like it. It’s fast.
Corey: I think Windows 10 was the same way. It was a free upgrade.
Steve: Oh, was [00:31:00] it? Fuck me, man.
Corey: Yeah.
Steve: Well, oh, I have a license anyways, so maybe they’ll keep doing that as long as I have a purchase license. Bye. All right. Corey. What do you give Benny Loves You for a rating.
Corey: All right, so I’d love to formally announce that I’m gonna introduce a new rating system here, at least for me. Um, I’m no longer gonna be ranking things with stars. I’m gonna be ranking them with dead kids. And this gets one dead kid. Um, I love cheesy horror, but this missed the mark entirely for me. I think it tried way too hard to be Shawn of the Dead and all the other, you know, references to other movies.
I don’t know, man. It was just not for me.
Steve: Yeah. It wasn’t for you, huh? Didn’t do it. That’s so interesting. I figured like you would at least get a little bit of a kick out. It didn’t realize it’d get like one dead kid out of what? Five or 10? Five. Okay. So one out of five. Technically, I mean, my score, I think my score would be a little weird for dead kids.
I think I’m gonna still stick with the star system. I personally 3.9 out of five. Um, [00:32:00] like not a four rating. There were fun parts. Benny was cute, fun for the family. If you got an hour and a half to kill, in my opinion, fuck it. Watch it. It’s fun. But I wouldn’t say it was anything perfect. There were plot holes.
Some of the effects needed a lot of work in it. As you stated, like the green screen, clearly not taken out all the way at some points. So it did need some work. Acting wasn’t great. It was a bit cheesy at some points. And I think the only redeeming factor was the hilarity behind Benny itself.
Corey: It was just like a horror version of Toy Story
Steve: Yeah, I mean that’s basically the best way to sum it up is a horror movie of Toy Story.
Corey: And it wasn’t good.
Steve: Hmm. I thought it was okay. I thought it was fun.
Corey: Three, what did you say? You gave it.
Steve: A 3.9.
Corey: Okay. All right.
Steve: Yeah. Like I said, not exactly a four it needed work. In my opinion, this seems like it was probably a first time director who was a little ambitious. Some of the stuff was great.
Like they had a lot going for it. I thought it had a lot of potential. [00:33:00] But in your opinion, it missed a mark a lot for you. I think it probably missed a mark for a lot of people because, we randomly found it like on Tubi or something.
Corey: Is Tuby?
Steve: Tubi is like a, it’s a streaming service. It’s completely free. You should check it out. It’s crazy. There’s so many movies on it, it’s ad based, so it’s free. But you watch a couple ads every once in a while and you’re fine.
Corey: Don’t deal with ads. I’m out.
Steve: You’re out. You quit. You quit be, you quit. Benny, you quit ads, you’re done. You toast.
Corey: Mm-hmm.
Steve: Yep. So everyone, if you wanna check out, Benny loves you. It’s kind of all over the place at the moment. You can watch it on Paramount plus, Hulu, Sling tv, Showtime, things like that. So it’s like all over the place. If you wanna rent it, you can get as low as $2.99, I think, on Vudu, or you could watch it with some of the other subscription services that are available.
I mean, hour and a half to kill, feel free to check it out. Why not? Corey didn’t like it. I liked it. I think it’s either you like it or you don’t like it. That type deal. But with that in mind, [00:34:00] that’s 30 screams the Less today. Definitely feel free to check out Benny Loves you. Like I said, if you have an hour and a half to kill, check it out.
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Corey: Do we have any ratings?
Steve: Um, I’m assuming a negative 50
Corey: Oh, it’s gonna get worse after this one
Steve: Let’s fucking go.
Corey: Sorry Steve.
Steve: Uh, that’s all right. No, actually, I haven’t really seen any ratings yes yet. So I’d like to see some ratings. I’d like to hear what everyone’s thoughts are on this podcast. If you like it, great. If you don’t, fuck off.
Corey: Fuck off. Edit.
Steve: Edit. No, it’s, it’s fine. No, I wouldn’t say
Corey: Listeners the fuck off.
Steve: I wouldn’t do that. I wouldn’t do that. Everyone has opinions and ours are obviously 30 minutes long.
Corey: Yeah, just like your opinion of this movie is wrong.
Steve: Hey, maybe your opinion’s wrong.
Corey: No, it’s right.
Steve: Uh, okay, fine whatever whatever. So everyone, thank you so much for listening to 30 Screams or Less. I’m Steve
Corey: And I’m Corey.
Steve: and we’ll see you all again.
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Steve: thank you so much for listening to 30 Screams or Less. I’m Steve
Corey: And I’m Corey.
Steve: and we’ll see you all again.
Corey: Fuck off.
Steve: Bye. Oh god. Fuck off. I’m leaving that in.
Corey: Good.