TSOL013 – Anything For Jackson

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Steve: Welcome everyone to 30 Screams of Less, a horror movie podcast where we review horror movies in 30 minutes or less. So you don’t have to, we’re back from a week vacation. That is partially my fault. Sorry, not sorry. I [00:01:00] went to PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts, a video game convention.

A lot of cool stuff though. I got interviewed by Like a horror video game company on it’s horror video games I was talking about. Dead by Daylight, shit like that. But yeah, we’re back. Now we’re gonna fucking into this. Today’s movie we’re gonna be talking about is called Anything for Jackson.

It’s directed by Justin Dick, written by Keith Cooper, starring Sheila McCarthy as Audrey, Julian Richings as Henry Cons.

Mantel man, uh, geez. Constantina, Manos as Shannon, Josh, crew, us as Ian, and basically fuck everyone else. The movie is about a brave Satanist couple kidnapping a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spell book to put their dead grandson’s spirit into the unborn child, but end up summoning more than they bargain for. So, a lot of craziness about to talk [00:02:00] about all that good stuff. So with that in mind, 30 screams or less starts now. Corey, what’d you think about anything for Jackson?

Corey: Dude, I’m so glad that we’re doing this podcast. I think I said it before because I’ve had all these movies on my list to watch for so long, and I just haven’t done it because I’m fat and lazy. Now I have actual, like, homework to do during the week, so this movie was, I loved it, dude. This was as like terrifying.

It wasn’t scary, but it was terrifying to say the least. And everything I had read about it said that’s exactly what it was. Like. It just makes you feel uneasy.

Steve: Mm-hmm.

Corey: And, uh, yeah, that’s what I got outta this movie. And fun fact, the guy who directed it, this is his first movie, he is known for only making Hallmark Christmas movies, so this is quite a step for him.

Steve: That’s so fucking weird. You go from making these feel good Hallmark movies and all of a sudden nightmare fuel. Trying out different things, stretching your director chops, if you will, because it [00:03:00] is a massive departure from what Justin Dick is, uh, used to doing.

Corey: Yeah, like he goes from making Hallmark Christmas movies to. Making a movie about what? You guessed it. A dead kid.

Steve: Again. Oh my God. Welcome to 30 screams. The last word we just talk about Dad kid movies.

Corey: That’s the whole plot. I mean, there’s this couple, this, uh, not even couple grandparents trying to resurrect, uh, their dead grandson.

Steve: That’s exactly it. That’s the best way to describe this movie. Obviously we’re gonna go way into this, but. This movie starts off zero to 60. And the way it starts off, I find it hilarious because it sounds a lot like, or it looks a lot like they’re waiting for their kid to show up from, I don’t know, fucking college or whatever.

And she’s like, oh, she’s here, and of course, as soon as they open the door, we see. Shannon getting dragged in, kidnapped by the [00:04:00] grandfather and obviously the grandmother helping, and they bring her upstairs, they lock her in the room handcuffed her to bed, all that stuff.

And it starts off just like that. There’s no slow burn, nothing. We just go right into it.

Corey: I was a bit confused on that part, like, uh, And Audrey were having breakfast or whatever, and then she says she’s here and then they go outside. Like, how did Shannon get there?

Steve: Those were some of the things I was questioning too. How are these people just getting away with these weird things and no one’s noticing at all? How do you get a pregnant woman? Like this guy? He’s an older guy. It’s not like he can just easily manhandle someone around. Especially with Shannon, I wouldn’t say she’s a bigger girl or anything, but, he’s gotta be 30 pounds less than her, maybe more.

And he’s just manhandling this girl into the house. That didn’t add up to me.

Corey: Yeah, that, that didn’t add up. How he was able to do that and just how she got there, because it’s not like she was [00:05:00] drugged, she was awake just being dragged into the house.

Steve: Yeah, they didn’t want to drug her at all. Obviously they wanted the fetus and everything to be, tiptop shape because they want to bring their, grandson Jackson back, via like the baby, as the host, if you will. So to have Shannon be dragged into the house like that by two elderly people

Corey: it’s movie Magic Doesn’t matter.

Steve: Yeah. It’s movie magic, it’s their,

Corey: A, it’s like a Disney movie.

Steve: Yeah, exactly. When you take the little wand and you say, this is the Disney Channel, you know, that kind of deal.

Corey: Yeah. Screaming girl. Getting dragged into the house under the, that guy was like 70 years old too.

Steve: Yeah. But still, he,

Corey: He a fucking bodybuilder. Like they didn’t even tell us about that.

Steve: Straight steroids. He’s a doctor. He must have access to that stuff. He probably was roid raging getting her into the house.

Corey: Yeah. Him and Sylvester Stallone hang out on the weekends.

Steve: Oh, exactly. Yeah. They’re just, you know,

Corey: Shoot H G H into each other’s ass cheeks.

Steve: Exactly. Well, they’re both like, what, the [00:06:00] same age? Probably. Sylvester’s still alone’s getting up there and Yeah he’s gotta be doing something because he’s still massive at his age.

Corey: Dude, he’s like openly said he uses H G H. He

Steve: Power bars.

Corey: Yeah.

Steve: Crazy. Uh, yeah.

Corey: So dude, when they dragged Shannon up into the bedroom there and handcuffed her to the bed, and then Audrey and Henry were reading Shannon, that letter that they weren’t going to hurt her or unborn child like that made me so fucking uncomfortable because they did it so calmly.

Steve: Ah.

Corey: Calm, and especially Audrey, dude, her like facial expressions, what she’s doing and the way she’s acting, just don’t add up.

Steve: No, no, the whole thing is bonkers because yeah, it’s almost like she’s reading a letter and a freaking intervention, just being like, just wanna let you know that we’re not gonna hurt you or the baby.

I was like, what the fuck is going on right now? When, I was watching it with my girlfriend and we’re just listening to it, and I’m like, this is bonkers. You know, because Shannon’s going ballistic, obviously, and at that point [00:07:00] she’s already a cuff down, which by the way, I find a little weird.

The way they set up the cuffs, they had the leather straps and then the cuff. Cuff to the leather strap, like why do that? That just is an opportunity for her to get out of it. No problem.

Corey: which she does later in the movie.

Steve: Exactly. That’s what I’m saying. It just doesn’t

Corey: I’m taking these off now, and she just leaves.

Steve: Yeah. Well, she does the whole, like biting into the, uh, leather strap deal and she’s like, induces, she’s like ready to get out of there, but.

If you’re just gonna have her cuff to the bed, why not just cuff her straight to the bed? You’re cut out the middle man. No reason for it.

Corey: Yeah. I, I, that was pretty funny. I didn’t notice that until you brought it up.

Steve: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too, as I’m watching it, I’m like, you know, if I was in this situation and I was having to strap someone down to a bed and try to raise my dead grandson into their fetus, I would think I’d be a little bit more cautious about them getting out of the bed.

Corey: Nope. More movie magic.

Steve: Yeah, [00:08:00] exactly. Movie magic. And by the way, not planning on doing that. I am not a grandfather or a father for that matter, so we got plenty of time for anything crazy like that to happen.

Corey: Perfect. So how about them using the fucking necronomicon? I mean, that’s not what it was, but that’s what it looked like.

Steve: Dude, it was borderline, the necronomicon it didn’t have the face and everything to it but when they were reading it and everything, you were

Corey: Yeah. Bringing, bringing fucking crows back to life.

Steve: Oh yeah, that was an interesting scene. Oh, wait, it wasn’t a crow at first, was it? Or is it just like a regular ass bird?

Corey: No, it was a crow. It was like a dead crow in the middle of a park. And then

Steve: Oh, okay. Yeah.

Corey: Was like, watch this. And then she just brings this fucking dead crow back to life and the thing flies away and Henry’s like, wow. That’s amazing.

Steve: Yeah, it works. Yeah. She like, she pricked her finger a little bit and she’s throwing blood onto the thing, like the power of Christ compels you type deal. And [00:09:00] then she started reading all sorts of shit from the We’ll call it the necronomicon and the bird came to life.

Corey: Yeah, that’s, then they did that, um, they went to their little cult meeting for the first time too, right after that.

Steve: You know what I thought it was initially, I thought it was an AA meeting because they met with. I’m thinking, they met some fucking Satanic kid at an AA meeting and they borrowed a book from him or whatever, and they’re going back to the meeting. Nope. They walk into a freaking library and low and behold, there’s a room and there’s like snacks set up.

I don’t know, fucking donuts or

Corey: I was gonna say it’s set up exactly like an AA meeting.

Steve: Exactly. Maybe they do that to have it

Corey: Fresh coffee and some fresh donuts.

Steve: Exactly. I didn’t

Corey: Before we read this dead book here this fucking necronomicon thing

Steve: Yes, please have some hot chocolate, fresh refreshments, snacks before we summon some sort of evil demonn.

Corey: Before we praise, what were they Hail Satan over and o It was like hail Satan for like 15 minutes. I [00:10:00] was laughing at that part. It was so bad.

Steve: It was funny because it’s not something you expect from an elderly couple. You expect them to go in and like I said, it’s felt like the AA meeting, but they go in, they throw the freaking garbs on I don’t know. I’m just spitballing.

Corey: Undertakers Druids.

Steve: Yeah. Undertakers. Druids, exactly. By the way, hey, we’re part of the Shining Wizards Network, so we might drop some wrestling references in here every once in a while because fuck it, we like wrestling.

Corey: Yeah, Wrestlemania’s this weekend.

Steve: Exactly. Actually no, by the time people hear this podcast, it’s already happened.

And I’m just gonna say was great.

Corey: it was awesome. I, I was glued to my fucking TV for two days straight.

Steve: Just didn’t even shower, just sat there the whole time, just pissed in a bucket, watched.

Corey: Went from recording this podcast on a Thursday night, and I didn’t do anything until Monday because basically there’s wrestling every night between now and Sunday.

Steve: Exactly. Yeah. They got a lot of indie stuff going on during that whole weekend. And [00:11:00] obviously WrestleMania, they got the whole fucking Hall of Fame and N X T events, all sorts of stuff. It’s like Christmas for us wrestling fans.

Corey: I know I’m super pumped cuz I C W’s doing a big thing in New Jersey called The Faces of Death.

Steve: This sounds gnarly.

Corey: And it’s just like a bunch of companies. I think it’s three companies. It’s ICW, H2O, and, I think Ruthless Pro Wrestling, just doing a bunch of like three days worth of death matches.

Steve: Well, those wrestlers do need to stay hydrated.

Corey: Did you hear about the guy, did you hear about Piss Jug, Mike?

Steve: Piss jug, Mike.

Corey: Yeah, you could usually see him arrest in peace. Piss jug bike. Yeah. He passed away last week. He was big in the independent scene and you could see him in the front row of like a lot of shows at every independent show. Pretty much. We met him when we went to New Jersey, he was there. He’s the guy that walks around with a jug, a clear jug for, it’s actually just iced tea, but everybody calls him piss jug Mike, cuz everybody calls it piss.

Steve: If he is pissing brown, dude, he’s got some problems, he needs to go to the doctor.

Corey: [00:12:00] Well, uh, he is no longer with us, so

Steve: Uh, well

Corey: Pouring out from Piss Jug, Mike.

Steve: Yeah. Uh, I’ll use my Ghostbusters Tumblr. Pour little water on the ground. We’re good to go.

Corey: Yep. Rest in peace.

Steve: Rest in power. Piss Jug, Mike. So, back to it because we love getting off topic here. So they’re having their little aa satanic meeting, reading from some, passages, whatever, hanging out, vibing, practicing satanism, all that stuff.

And at the end of it, talking to Ian, who’s got the gnarliest comb over, and neck beard.

Corey: Fucking hate this guy so much.

Steve: You know what? He makes us metalheads look like we’re fucking basement dwellers.

Corey: Dude, he looks like he’s straight outta Alice Wonderland.

Steve: Yeah he’s got a really fucking weird face. But have you seen him like outside of this movie? He actually looks like a halfway decent person. But what, I don’t know what the fuck they did with him in this. Like

Corey: He looked like a leprechaun.

Steve: Yeah, he was fucking weird looking. He was a weird looking dude and he gets pretty [00:13:00] gnarly towards the end of this movie. He’s a fucking weird dude. He was the one that took satanism way too seriously. Like he probably wanted to be some sort of high priest or something.

Corey: Dude, there’s one scene where he like takes his sneakers off and then cuts, crosses into the bottom of his feet and he’s walking and there’s just bloody crosses on the ground where he’s walking.

Steve: I thought that was fucking sick.

Corey: Yeah, it was cool, but like why?

Steve: I didn’t, I don’t know. Maybe he is trying to lure or something to, specifically to the circle where, they’re trying to summon the demonn or whatever, or trying to get Jackson into the womb and it was crazy. That scene was nuts, and that’s when he was like, really going crazy. But there’s a lot of stuff we’re not talking about. I’m getting up to that point. So in the movie, Obviously Shannon goes missing and they’re starting to interview or question the doctor regarding his patient because it seemed like she was supposed to go to the doctors the very day that she went [00:14:00] missing.

But he gave an alibi for her that, oh, yeah, she was walking down the road and said, I won’t be able to make it into the doctor’s appointment today, type deal. And so this cop keeps coming around and one time the doctor, he’s burying a body because what happened was, he’s got this neighbor guy coming over to do his snow plowing because, the doctor’s an old guy can’t fucking do shit. I’m sure. Other than manhandle the girl into a house and summon demons. That’s about what they can fucking do, but they can’t shovel at all for some reason. So this guy decides to unlive himself into a snowblower, which is fucking so gnarly.

Corey: I don’t think a snowblower could actually do that, but it looked awesome. He fucking mulched himself.

Steve: He’s like, hey Audrey, how’s it going? Hope, things are good with Jackson. And he just sticks his face into the snowblower.

Corey: Yeah

Steve: Blood just flying everywhere. It’s like, Hey, how’s it going?

Corey: He, he actually flips a snowblower upside [00:15:00] down and dives head first into it.

Steve: That reminded me of, Tucker and Dale versus evil.

Corey: I mean, that was a good movie.

Steve: Great movie. I’m surprised we haven’t reviewed that one yet.

Corey: Wasn’t there a show? Not that show. There was a silly show. It got canceled. Now I can’t remember what it’s called. It’s got, I think Robert Patrick’s in it actually,

Steve: Oh, dude. Yeah. I don’t

Corey: That movie we were gonna review and then you wouldn’t let me.

Steve: If people wanna watch it, go for it, they can watch it. But I’m just like, this is not something fun to talk about.

Corey: I was so ready. I’m looking it up right now cuz now I’m curious. It was a show, it was a comedy.

Steve: Oh, it was

Corey: You know what I’m talking about? What show?

Steve: I’m bad about watching shows You

Corey: Was very similar to Tucker and Dale.

Steve: Oh, was it? Oh God, I could fuck with that then.

Corey: I don’t know. I’m gonna have to find the name of it cuz I can’t remember.

Steve: Yeah. So yeah, he unlived himself. There’s a whole bunch of that in this movie. So essentially, that happens. He’s burying the body. Police officer calls him saying, Hey, we should talk. Maybe you come down to the police station. He’s [00:16:00] like, oh, I’ll be there tomorrow.

And she’s actually like, uh, well, time is up to Essence. I need you in the police station as soon as possible. And he’s like, well, I can’t do that. It’s not possible. I’m, you know, I’m working with patients of blah, blah, blah. Some sort of doctor type excuse, whatever.

And she says to him, actually, I’m in the area. I’ll just stop by. So he’s running back, to get to the house in time for the detective. Soon as he gets in the house, detectives got her gun drawn, cuz she sees that Shannon is, tied up to the bed.

Audrey’s on the ground, with her hands behind her back. And Corey, you know what? I’ll let you take the lead on this one. What exactly happens after the doctor comes in?

Corey: Is this the part where the what her face shoots herself in the chin?

Steve: Yes.

Corey: Yeah, that I did not see that coming.

Steve: I’m not, I don’t wanna laugh, but at the same time it was just so fucking absurd because she’s

Corey: Pulls a gun out and fucking, and it’s completely like, not random, but it just happens. All of a sudden she just puts a gun to her [00:17:00] chin and pulls the trigger and just brain matters, spraying everywhere. And that’s not the only time that you see her do it, because they fucked with the dead people.

So she keeps showing up throughout the rest of the movie, so they’ll just randomly see this girl shooting herself in the chin over and over and over again.

Steve: It’s like an infinite loop. She just comes into the room, shoots herself, dies obviously, and somehow just gets dragged out of the room and, I think she’s just dragging her own body out and then she comes back and does it again. And they even said, This has been happening all night,

Corey: That’s so bad. I can’t imagine. It’s just having to relive that over and over again.

Steve: You know, and at some point they’re just like, oh, this is like more of a nuisance than it’s fucking scarring. It’s like fucking pesky kids, like late at night doing fireworks every single night. You get pissed off and then at some point you’re like, they’re just doing it again. Whatever.

Corey: Mm-hmm.

Steve: It’s kinda like that.

Corey: So we never talked about weird [00:18:00] contortionist guy.

Steve: Oh yeah. We didn’t talk about this guy. Troy James is his name. I’ve seen him in movies doing this crazy contortionist stuff. I guess that’s a shtick. He’s always been known for being a contortionist in movies, but he was straight fucking nightmare fuel.

Corey: You’re trying to tell me that that was a real person and not like C G I or anything.

Steve: That was a real fucking person.

Corey: How does a body twist the way he was doing it?

Steve: I don’t fucking know, man. I’ve seen some contortionist in person though, and they do some crazy stuff and I’m thinking to myself how your spine should be breaking in half right now. What’s happening? This guy in the way he was introduced was so insane because Shannon’s, trying to get out of the

Corey: Oh yeah.

Steve: You remember this right?

Corey: Oh yeah. When he comes out from under the bed.

Steve: Yeah, because she leans over and she sees a head, so I’m thinking, fuck, did they kill someone else? And it’s like a decapitated head by her bedside, okay, fair enough it’s a logical [00:19:00] thing to think of, but Nope. Of course. He’s got all this plastic wrap over his face and she sees the head and he just lets out that breathe like, like the, like that. And

Corey: All the noises. Yeah.

Steve: Yeah. And he starts doing his contortionist shit and I’m like, oh, don’t like it because it’s, yeah. That was, practical effects. We’ll call that practical effects cause that’s an actual person doing those things.

Corey: Wow, I’m gonna like re-watch that scene because now that I know it’s a person I can get even more disgusted watching it.

Steve: Oh yeah. Like it creeped me out because, they added the bone cracking in there. Obviously in post, because if you’re a contortionist at some point you’re used to that your bones aren’t freaking cracking or your cartilage isn’t cracking like crazy. It’s how your body is, that’s who you are.

So they added all that shit in post, and then she, all you hear is, I’m like, oh God, I hate every single sound that’s happening right now.

Corey: Yep, definitely gross.

Steve: Yeah. And so [00:20:00] naturally he’s doing his contortionist thing. He hops on the bed and he straight bites into this girl’s stomach trying to get to the child. It was, it was fucking nuts. It was nuts.

Corey: Yep, yep. That biting thing got me. I was waiting for them to show, like when he bit into her, like pulling away flash or something. It never happened, but I thought it was coming.

Steve: I thought it was coming too. I was fully expecting bloodshed, just biting into it and just like eating into her stomach or something. But it didn’t happen. I think he basically maybe just broke skin a little bit because he had the freaking plastic wrap on his face anyway, so we probably could get through all of it to get to the stomach, but crazy, crazy, crazy.

Corey: So what about the flossing ghost that was flossing her fucking teeth out? Like that’s. Happened to me before in Dreams

Steve: I hate it anything. Teeth. Teeth and eyes.

Corey: When they showed her walking down like a set of stairs and you could hear the things hitting the ground, but you didn’t know what they [00:21:00] were at that time.

Steve: Yep.

Corey: And then, and then the camera just zooms in on this fucking ghost. Literally flossing her own teeth out of her head.

Steve: Yep. I will say this, or fucking gums are probably clean as fucking anything.

Corey: Yeah. She did it again later in the movie too.

Steve: Yep. No gingivitis for that one.

Corey: No, no, no teeth, no nothing left.

Steve: Yeah. Like if she went to the dentist, the dentist would be like, no, you, you’re great. Keep the, keep up the flossing, you’re good to go.

Corey: Yeah, you never have to come back.

Steve: Yep. Just, just keep doing what you’re doing. We’ll see you in a decade.

Corey: That,

Steve: They are so adamant on flossing. Like I said, I have a thing when it comes to teeth and eyes, so I’m seeing the ghost in the background as, Henry’s waking up, so he thinks it’s Audrey just flossing her teeth, whatever.

And Audrey calls to check in and see if he needs something. And that’s when we find out, okay, that’s not Audrey. That’s something else. I don’t know who this ghost was, but when I saw the freaking, the flossing, I was obviously [00:22:00] immediately grossed out. And then as I saw the teeth dropping, I’m like, uh,

Corey: Yeah.

Steve: Was ready to throw up. Well, I was gagging, oh

Corey: I was ready to lose it at that

Steve: Yep. I was like, there were times where I’m pausing. I’m like, I think I need a second. I’m going to go do a couple things and come back to this

Corey: Not a lot, not a lot of things like make me feel ill, but that one did.

Steve: Yeah, that was a fucking crazy ghost. I don’t know.

Corey: Makeup was amazing.

Steve: The makeup was fantastic. No, CGI on that, it looked great. The makeup was great, and the budget on this, I don’t think was crazy or anything, but what they did with this budget they worked wonders clearly because I thought everything looked great.

Corey: Yeah, the budget for this had to have been, I mean, it took place the most part, one place.

Steve: Yeah. Yeah.

Corey: Were several people in the cast, but half of them were covered in makeup. The whole movie.

Steve: Covered in makeup or doing their contortionist shit.

Corey: I hate this guy Ian so much. I’m looking at the guy who played him on I M D B right now.

Steve: [00:23:00] Oh dude, he suck. Ian fucking sucks. He did the whole thing where he made himself seem like he’s, his super professional, knows exactly what to do when it comes to satanism and blah, blah, blah. And he’s saying to Henry, I can undo everything and we can get Jackson into the womb and he needs $10,000 or whatever. And then you see a few scenes later, oh, by the way, dropping dead mice around the house. I thought that was interesting. I don’t know what the hell the deal was with that.

Corey: Yeah, never really, uh, talked about it or explained it.

Steve: Yeah, it was just like, oh yeah, just place one right there and right there. And I’m thinking to myself, where you getting all these dead mice?

Corey: I don’t know, man. They’re ghost mice.

Steve: Ghost mice. That’s right. I don’t know if they used that to maybe just keep the demons at bay for like five seconds, or maybe they’re feeding them. I don’t know. Could have gone either way. That wasn’t explained. Thought it was weird. Also, the idea of holding a dead mouse in your hand. That kind of grosses me out because a bit of a germaphobe.

Corey: Holding a dead mouse in your hand grosses you out. Is that what you said?

Steve: I don’t [00:24:00] like. That’s gross. You don’t know what the fuck that thing died from. It’s like, oh, you know what? I’ll just pick up a dead mouse. Could have a fucking, all sorts of bacteria and viruses on it. I don’t know.

Corey: No, you’re not

Steve: Can’t get any. Yeah, I’m not wrong. That’s like,

Corey: Watched I, I watched a TikTok video the other day of someone getting bit by a squirrel and it was hilarious.

Steve: Oh god. But yeah, you don’t know what the fuck the squirrel has. They probably, I don’t know. Do squirrels get rabies?

Corey: I’m sure any wild animal, I think can really.

Steve: Yeah, something like that. I’m sure that any freaking animal can probably get rabies. I don’t wanna fuck with them, obviously, if it does, but either way, Ian sucks.

I don’t like his look. I don’t like his attitude. He’s living with his mother in the basement making us metal heads look like we’re a bunch of fucking idiots. So he’s reading through his fucking necronomicon, if you will, whatever you want to call it, Satanist book, and his mother’s just trying to feed him dinner.

And she’s like, honey, you coming upstairs for dinner? And he is like, I’m not fucking hungry, and he’s trying to sound like he’s British of some shit. And I’m just like, dude, what [00:25:00] do you, where the fuck do you live? You’re not in England.

Corey: Dude, Ian sucks.

Steve: Oh, yeah, he sucks. He’s like the world’s character in this whole movie. But he makes sense. You have to have someone so shitty to die in such a hilarious fashion.

Corey: What happened?

Steve: Oh, okay. So let me give you a little refresher on what happened here. So, Ian told Henry to put down, a line of salt to keep.

Corey: he, mm-hmm.

Steve: Okay. Yeah. So, you know, okay. To keep like the demons at bay. And then he poured like some sort of liquid, I’m assuming blood on top of the salt. To strengthen it, to really reduce or hold them back a little bit more.

Because what was happening is the ghosts constantly unliving themselves, couldn’t get past that salt. So they just kept doing it at the salt line and then, just kept getting dragged back. That’s where we’re going into that infinite loop with that freaking ghost. So here’s where Ian fucked up.

So [00:26:00] Ian was walking in. And he broke the line by dragging his fucking feet or something, being an idiot. And he didn’t realize that he broke the seal. So he’s doing his whole satanist thing. He’s got his bloody feet with the crosses going on, he’s making the footprints. He’s going all sorts of fucking off the wall, crazy doing his thing.

And the hilarious fashion is this random ghost comes running in, grabs him and drags him out of the room. So you don’t know what happened with him until like a few minutes later. So Shannon manages to get out because Ian stabbed Audrey, cuz he’s like one dead mother is all we need type deal.

Because he needed either Shannon to die or Audrey to die. He just needed a mother to sacrifice, to bring Jackson into the world. Okay, so here’s the hilarious fashion. Shannon’s in bed. She manages to get out after Audrey is stabbed and Henry is killed, she gets out, she goes down the stairs and the [00:27:00] ghost that dragged him out of the bedroom is on the stairs and whacking off. And I’m thinking to myself, okay, maybe Ian got killed by this ghost and the ghost is just whacking off on him. I am like, what the fuck is he doing? He’s, because he’s standing in the corner, he’s fucking whacking off. And then as Shannon is running away, the ghost runs after her and she gets out of there. But that’s the first thing I noticed when she was coming down that stairs is the ghost is up against the wall.

You don’t see Ian though, but you just assume that Ian’s underneath what the ghost is doing.

Corey: So you, Ian. And teabag by this ghost.

Steve: Yeah, I’d probably just beat off on just freaking,

Corey: Good old, good old facial from a ghost.

Steve: All right. Yeah. Good old Mammal Sauce.

Corey: Take care.

Steve: That’s a throwback right there. Little Crotch Duster action. But yeah, he’s probably giving him his mammal sauce, his fucking, I don’t know, baby batter, whatever you want to call it. [00:28:00] Mammal sauce. I like mammal sauce. The word mammal sauce. We’ll go with that. So, dropping mammal sauce on Ian.

He’s probably not even dead. He’s probably just getting fucking aggravated by this masturbating ghost. That’s how Ian, I’m assuming died, was just drowning in semen.

Corey: Imagine drowning at semen. Like, what the fuck?

Steve: Fucking be awful. There’s bukkake and then there’s drowning in semen. I think I created a new death metal band name. There you go, Don.

Corey: Drowning in semen. Mm. I’m sure that’s some more Gore grind band maybe.

Steve: I, I am almost sure of it. I’m sure I’m not the only one who fucking thought of that idea. I don’t even want to think of that idea.

Corey: Nah,

Steve: am I, why making some, breaking it up.

Corey: I don’t know. I don’t know. That’s fuck weird shit happens on this when we get together.

Steve: Yeah, I know what happens is my brain just starts go, go, go, go, go. And all of a sudden, here we are talking to my fucking dead kids and people drowning in semen.

Corey: I feel like you gotta put a clip of mammal sauce in the [00:29:00] episode once you edit this so people understand where that came from.

Steve: Yeah. Oh yeah. So

Corey: Listen up motherfuckers.

Steve: I got something I need to say.

Corey: If you don’t use mammal sauce, you might as well be gay.

Steve: Yeah, this is not coming from us. This is coming from the band. Crotch duster. We’re just letting you know. But I might put something at the end of the episode giving to people a little idea of what the hell crotch duster is.

Corey: When I have a party, I spike the drinks.

Steve: Oh my God. Crotch duster. They’re a band everyone.

You’ll hear it at the end of the episode, after our whole fucking spiel. So anyways, after masturbating ghost, she tries to run out and she runs into the police officer who once again unalives herself in her presence and then naturally after that, she gets out of the house, runs to a car, and she runs into the guy who jumped into the snowblower. His face is all mashed up naturally, but these [00:30:00] ghosts are just constantly coming back to life from what I gather. They’re just like on an auto repeat.

Corey: Why does Shannon see the ghosts?

Steve: You know? That’s a good

Corey: Not the one that fucked with them.

Steve: No, she didn’t fuck with them. But something at the beginning happened where she was able to see Jackson right off the bat. And I don’t know if she was basically just the chosen one. I think that’s how they, went about it, was thinking that she was the chosen one and she was able to see Jackson, so they know that she’s gonna be the one to have Jackson inside her womb.

So I think with that, they confirmed like, okay, this is the exact person we need for the host. But other than that, there was really no reason as to why she should even see these ghosts. It just happened.

Corey: Hmm, I need a sequel.

Steve: Yeah, I think we need a continuation to try to figure out what the hell happened.

Corey: Listen, Justin Dick, make a sequel.

Steve: Yeah. We need answers. There’s answers we need because like a prequel or

Corey: Survived so.

Steve: Yeah. Shannon survived and she got the hell out of there. [00:31:00] But, one thing we didn’t bring up as to why Jackson needed to even be brought back to life anyway. And what happened was their daughter got in a car accident and Jackson was in the car with her.

So Jackson died. The daughter survived, but became a quadriplegic. And, it was very difficult obviously for the parents to take care of her. And one day, their daughter just unlived herself and they said, we couldn’t bring back our daughter because we’re not able to, which I’m assuming Right. Which I’m assuming is because she unlived herself, whereas,

Corey: Yeeted herself down a staircase.

Steve: Was it a staircase or the elevator they used?

Corey: Oh yeah, she was in that chair thing and she just dipped. She decided she had enough.

Steve: Yep. Just yeet, just dropped herself down the fucking elevator. So that happened. They can’t bring her back, I’m assuming, because when you kill yourself, you go straight to hell type deal. I think at least that’s what the Bible says. But yeah, they said they couldn’t bring her back, but Jackson naturally died because of the accident, [00:32:00] so it’s not like he unalived himself or anything like that. He was just an innocent child, so I think they were able to try to bring the child back because of that reason.

But Corey, Google Timer’s been off for sometime now. I think we can get into what we thought. What, do you give Anything For Jackson, for a review?

Corey: This gets four outta five dead kids from me. I did like the slow burn. It was definitely a slow burn. I felt like a lot of it, nothing happened until like the middle of the movie, really. Obviously I had that big scene in the beginning, but, the slow burn was nice. Made the whole film more terrifying, I thought.

It didn’t rely on jump. Scares was really only one that I can remember, and the imagery and the sound design again in this one was fucking incredible. And yeah, I really did enjoy this movie. It wasn’t perfect, but it’s definitely a hidden gem that I think a lot of horror fans should check out.

Feel like, like The Exorcist and stuff like that. You’ll love this.

Steve: Exactly. If you like The Exorcist and you’re big into movies that have to do with religion. Like your Stigmata’s your [00:33:00] Exorcist, things like that.

This movie will be right up your alley because I was entertained the whole entire time. Is it perfect by any means, no? But I’m gonna give it a 4.25 out of five because I was entertained, I was definitely sucked into this movie. But there are some things that just, weren’t answered for us.

We were a little confused by, how they’re able to muscle a girl into a house when they’re freaking elderly and things like that. So there were things that just weren’t answered for us, but overall, I thought it was a fucking great movie, and I’m glad you recommended it to me.

Corey: Yeah, it’s like I said, it’s been on my watch list on Letterbox for quite some time now, and I’m glad we finally, did an episode on it because I love this. I really can’t wait to watch it again. Maybe pick out things that I missed the first time.

Steve: Mm-hmm.

Corey: I think this is one of those movies that needs more than one viewing.

Steve: I agree, because there are some things that I missed that maybe we didn’t even talk about. Maybe we can, post it on social media, like a little bit of a further review, additional review. I don’t [00:34:00] know, maybe we had different episode, kinda like how we were talking about doing an ex extended episode of The Menu way back, but we’ll see.

Corey: Talked about with the new Outwaters, memory cards that came out.

Steve: Oh yeah, we did talk about that. So that might be something we’re gonna have to talk about. Maybe next episode we’ll review the additional Outwater cards that were released on Screambox. So definitely recommend checking this movie out. I thought it was great. I got sucked in. I’m gonna watch it again because yes, I need, clarification on some things.

But it had humor to it. It had humor and horror and gore and it was smart. I thought it was unique. I felt like I was watching something a little different.

Corey: Uh, yeah, for me, it took a while to realize that all these things that kept happening were, they were ghosts. Like I didn’t, I don’t know, I didn’t realize that there were ghosts right away. Not until at least maybe the thing crawled out from under the bed.

Steve: Yeah, that fucking thing. It was a ghost per se, but it still [00:35:00] had. Effect onto the real world, cuz obviously he was able to bite the girl. So he had that kind of teetering between the, the spiritual world and the real world. So they were like, oh, half ghost, entities maybe?

Corey: A ghost.

Steve: I don’t know.

Well,

Corey: I think you’re either a ghost or you’re not.

Steve: Yeah, I mean, sounds about right.

Corey: This ain’t no half and half shit.

Steve: Yeah. No, no. Half and half. Shit. Yeah. Maybe with ghosts you’re either dead or alive.

Corey: Sometimes dead is better.

Steve: Hoo. Nice reference. All right. I think we can wrap it up here. Definitely recommend checking out anything for Jackson if you want to check it out. It’s a Shudder exclusive. If you don’t have Shudder, it’s fucking pennies on the dollar a month. It’s fucking real cheap. It’s literally like four bucks a month. So $4, it’s like the cup of coffee. Mine is a little bougie. We’ve discussed this over and over, but it’s our cheap Get the service.

Highly recommend it. Highly recommend this movie. Be sure to like, follow, subscribe on social media. [00:36:00] We’re on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Especially YouTube. We post stuff all the time, including past episodes. Be sure to leave us a five star review and whatnot on all podcast platforms so we can get some more exposure.

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Definitely check it out. And if there’s anything you want us to review, send us an email to 30screamsorless@gmail.com or hit us up on social media, you know, slide in our [00:37:00] dms or something. Corey may uh, say, fuck off. We’re not watching that movie, but who knows?

Corey: I will not do that.

Steve: No, he won’t do that.

He’s good about it. Nah, never. We’re good about taking that, uh, advice. We have this whole list set up and this time. Anything for Jackson? Crossing that off the list of God knows how many we have. Everyone, I’m Steve

Corey: I’m Corey.

Steve: and thanks again for listening to 30 Screams or Less.

Corey: Huh. Cool. All right, dude. I’m gonna get, I’m gonna go, go, uh, go fuck myself now.

Steve: Okay. oh my God. All right. There’s the blooper. All right, well go fuck yourself. I’ll talk to you later

Corey: I see you dude.

Steve: all. [00:38:00] Bye.

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