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to see Ex fifty have you ever felt depressed about work. Only to have your daddy like why you so down. So you told them, you hey your job and he said: well, you better talk yourself out of it, and then you thought I love the talk. I could supply gas and then you want a speaker from my heart and started upon casting got good at it. Then monetizing quit your boring job and told your dad thanks for the advice and he was like. Well, that's not what I meant and I dont understand what a pot cast is, but you seem happy. So that's great kiddo never do that. What you could at speaker, Doc that's S. P r e k, E R asked your dad. You actually dealt welcomed stuff to blow your mind. The production of Iheart Radio pay welcome too weird how cinema this is Rob, lamb and I'm sure Mccormick, and today we are looking at a movie that were well, I think,

the idea of it is that somebody said what, if we made a film adaptation of Orpheus in your idiocy examined in sort of early nineties, highway horror, style of a movie. You might expect to see to come on it like one, a m on tee. T after the credits role from a previous showing of Psycho three. Yes, Yes we're talking about the ninety ninety one film highway to Hell, which one hundred percent positive, that I watched on television back in the early nineties at some point early, the mid nineties, I guess by two, I was trying to do, is to try to figure out why I wonder where I saw it and for a little bit there was like eighty percent positive that I must have seen it on you. I say up all night back in the day this this ran from on the USA network from but nineteen eighty nine. Ninety ninety eight Autonoe with, if that would have you would you would have been in a position to to watch this year. Oh well,

I dont remember ever seeing this movie on tv, but it has exactly that fragrance that USA, up all night fragrance, yeah USA Up all night, was basically like it's late at night on cable show some letters and be films us what show some called films and distance. I set up a little bit. You had a host their Gilbert Godfrey, the stand up. Comedian who will come back to this disaster served his hosts stirred at first was the host. I think when we do it on saturdays and then they added a second night. Yes, it was so successfully are doing on Friday night as well. It was the sum up the new of Caroline Slit, but is replaced by Rhonda, sheer and roundish year was the long time Friday night host, who is this in this sense the cares. blonde comedic performer and so they would house these with these Tina Cheesy debts of

of early nineties, comedy and energy. These strange films- and I was thinking back on it and I'm a very quick to two reference mystery since the year two thousand is a was away that I mean early I got into many, these weird and arguably bad Phil, some be films and what not and then big influence was was, was monster, vision on tee in tee, but I often forget to give you a stay up all night, any credit, I think you are up all night may be were I first saw Friday, the thirteenth part, a Jason takes Manhattan, the one that takes place mostly on a boat yeah, I was actually just looking some lists of films that were feature on USA up all night over the years and also a spreadsheet that I think fans put together and there were a lot of Friday, thirteen son. There are a lot of really like well known, be films like thinking I got it

Parliament wants to just a tribute that trashes films, two USA up all night, and maybe this is cause there's something about it. Maybe something about the host segments too. Did he felt a lot scandalous to be watching it as a child like I should not only up if you feel that way with something again better, but in many cases the arc of these lists and like all these are our great John or films, and they would have been edited for television? Obviously, how awesome children learn about, should exactly so, but one of them that I found out. Looking at the list is like: oh, I guess there isn't any instead, I have guy can find right now the highway to Hell ever aired on USA up all night, so maybe it never did, but, I stand by what you said this is that this this should have erred in USA up all night because it has all. that same energy rob is it fair to

Give you have sort of a secret secondary career ambition to one day be a basic cable horror movie House like Al Louis Elvira, Joe Bob Brig. Somebody in that vein, maybe in another life that would have been noted, an interesting feta, beheaded you don't look back on it. I never thought about those being actual jobs. The people had somehow you know Because I didn't think long and hard about like? Why is why? Why Rhonda sheer or grandpa monster. Why are they do you know? they doing a yes and some level socially. When I was very young, I thought well, they are there studio it's their job to place their help? like when, like off camera, their setting there watching it, does it air something you know, there's something about the The horror movie host roll on tv that it does function which is suggesting the spirit in which you should receive the movie. We are showing you, though he had it, Selina Grandpa monster is there to help. Put you in a mind frame. Do not

react to a trashy movie on tv and be like what is this junk, but to react to it with with with join us in a spirit of kind of ironic adventure. yeah yeah and likewise I think Rhonda, the and Gilbert Godfrey were there there to make. You feel like, like you're a little bit up to no good, no good. The smell, like you, haven't a wild night out by staying in washing of Friday, the thirteenth movie Joe the boss and were making the box. You know they are all about showing you did it was. It was all right to laugh at these films and pleasure in their their Guph Venus and And- and I guess Joe Bob was there to settle two in education in a similar via that man, you know- maybe maybe a little less about term about me to making fine, but it was more of you know about embracing the the weirdness of it no way do come about this in a total. Have we actually introduced to the film? Yet I don't recall: well, we

The time is the ninety ninety one film highway to Hell, which does not feature, these he d C song, which it she was clearly named. I think, some trailers for the film feature that the song, but otherwise you will not hear that song in the movie. I read a trip: a claim on the internet? I can't verified this is true, but though the claim is that they originally wanted it to be the theme song in the movie but then found they could not afford it. So, instead we a kind of off label prescription use of alternative rock, yet and I look forward to discussing the music industry because it cites it's all over the place. Now this is this is an error is own a movie. This is kind of a nice part. Two, following our episode on hands of steel, almost All of this is filmed in Arizona. I think they might have found us too tiny bit in Utah as well, but this when it was movie, takes us back to page Arizona but also the Phoenix Arizona.

And yet you don't have to watch much of this filmed arise. Oh yeah, this, this known, has a lot of Arizona. It's got a lotta tumbleweed diner is just like hands of steel, except there was nary a arm wrestling competition anywhere in in highway to Hell, and I was bit disappointed by that. So This point I would like to ask this question for you, for anyone else's has seen this film. What what exactly is this movie is? it is a hard thriller is broad, beetle juice style, horror comedy. Is it a dark fantasy adventure mad max or death race, is it is it in tv era, Dantes Inferno, I feel like I- can't answer the question. It feels like it's all of these things, indifferent. different, indifferent degrees at different points throughout the film yeah I mean I guess the most succinct way to put it would be to say it's a horror comedy by its

but yea has elements of everything else you mentioned. There is quite a bit of of mad max. Can a road battle as the content in their yeah almost I give you if you get the founding Arizona package there, they tell you it's like all right well, but here's your highway link that you can use how many cars you blow up in our guy I'm gonna, be a car chase, move him there like where it is now because you're film in Arizona baby speaking of of numbers, cars? How do you think they they create? did the scene where you were on the highway in hell with hundreds of E W beetles. That's all I ask and somehow they endorse those cars, I mean I'm not. There is a little bit a screen, trickery involved, but also produced a lot of of actual bugs. I guess I, That scene is one of many in this film that it does,

drive home. That did. This is a film with a unique vision. There are things that this film wanted, that I don't think anybody else was asking for I don't think. Maybe they there. There is even the things that there doing at times in the summer, really even all work across the board bite. You can't follow, for having a unique vision of thanks. It's it's! It's still only elsewhere, a lot of fun. Yet you never know what exactly is gonna come next. You just know that is going to be in this sort of weird TV era, a kind of vibe body here at heart, accommodate. I can agree with that, it is. It is an orphan story at heart is it is about going to the underworld to retrieve you're lost love, which is his eyes, a long standing, mythic, trope and and one that we continue to define throughout our media than before. We go any further. There's one thing that I wanted to flag at the beginning. I felt was kind of interesting about this movie. It

What I would call may be an Omni mythological view of hell in that its the hell setting in this movie is not just the christian hell, but it is a hell that essentially incorporates elements from every type of vision of hell or any negatively inflicted after life from all of all of myth. energy or or even just die, you no other pop culture from the twentieth century. So it's got, you know, sort of cartoon devil kind of stuff. It's got deals with the devil Evelyn Daniel Webster kind of things. It's got some classic Christian Dantes Inferno stuff, but it's also God, as we said this Orpheus in your basis, so that there's a lot of greek mythological visions of Hades in it yeah all of this. Of course it's very much in the american desert. and in an early enough to this is we're dealing with the air

writer was american, but the director who discuss here is dutch, so you or to like how much of this is like an siders view or understanding of America and the american Desert through the lens of cinema, So you have all these different energy is going on in oh well, it's even got kind of a dusty Tumbleweed Grand Pappy on the side of the road to offer wisdom and give the hero s tools he needs in order to complete his quest. Oh yes, yes in his wonderful, get the Obi WAN Kenobi in overalls I well, let's go ahead and listen to just a little bit of the trailer here, but not a whole lot dismissed a little bit of it because as the dumb trailer, in my opinion and in They don't watch it because this is also one of those trailers where maybe this has to do with, like that of the fact that this movie set in the shell for a little bit further, finally released it. They they took the of less just put. Every special effect shot in the film in the trailer include

like major character, deaths and so forth, join us on a dazzling cinematic adventure down the highway toy. L, a winding stretches from eternity highway to journey suffering. Now we ll have some fun. Now trailer, give away the identity of Satan, because Now we give everything everything here as criminal hate it. When you know I am. I am very much of

the teaser school of trailers, I really like it when the trailer gives you one thing from the movie Intra, instead of trying to cram in little glimpses of tons of things. Yeah, and this will definitely make that mistake is his little glimpses of everything in the film once you ve seen this trailer. The film has, nothing new to give. You really accept, that may be extended improv lines from DEN Stellar, which I know the steward down on the been Stiller part. I thought it was that there were so. some of his improving was ok he's been Stiller plays a cook at a diner in Hell called PLUTO Cafe, which is gonna money and so he's gone stuff on the sidewalk outside and and says why use mesquite when you ve got concrete. I liked it. I fine is fine, but I M it felt like there was a lot of it.

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generic friend type of a plot, but I was looking at the reviews systems like nobody like this when it came out. None of the adults anyway, because we are talking, to our producers, south. He said it when he was I'll than he watched the stone. He very much enjoyed it and therefore, if he s like kind of a one spot in his heart, for it, so I don't know I'd love to hear from anyone out there who has. its opinions on this based on, especially watching it as a child. Well, you know what, if you love, more power to you. I gotta say it looks intensely annoying but then again syrupy brigades, I mean the eminently likeable Phoebe cates allowed people probably know her from gremlins. You know and Rick I mean rick- is terrific wicked brick is an amusing everything. I've seen him in some terrible films, but he always that wonderful of manic energy of his a performance, now as for out De Jong, it seems like, like basically like you say he had some some dutch films before he came to the: U S: the erected. These two

films both with amino very much, can a Superman rural comedy type deals and then he seems to have looked for the rest- career he's just largely been about more independent and in many cases you no more far more european films. A lot of look like they're a lot more serious, so Bulgaria and had a taste of that. You know that the main stream american film making it may be decided he'd rather do other things. but he seems to that of a long and and seemingly successful career past highway to hell. Not a writer for this film is actually a major name. This is Brian Helgeland Boy, one thousand nine hundred and sixty one Academy award winning screenwriter for l DOT, a confidential. Oh that's, a great script, I am here, whereas those wonderful felt now free allay confidential, here he seemed to work in horror quite a bit, so he wrote the fourth ST movie. I was out one of the governments. When a better ones.

He also did nine seven six evil. As well as the episodes of Friday, the thirteenth series, Seven six evil that movie about a phone number that when you call it kills you, I think, as I dont know that ever saw that one, but that also feels suitably like ladies early nineties, the idea that there are evil phone numbers that you dare call and they're, probably advertise during USA up all night at the time. Oh, it was directed Robert England who plays for her in the nightmare on ELM Street movies and yeah Kay, so be people who, dial nine seven six evil in this movie, the other they get some kind of occur, sir. They they they turn into murderers. I think I've seen this one, but I do find it resting that there is a movie of this type for every technology. So you ve got the ring, which is about him. You know videotape, that when you watch it kills, you and there's fear Car about a website, you go there and it kills. You here's a phone

Amber you call it and kills you you got. The mangle are thus about. I think a washing machine you use as it kills you, industrial, washing machines, will kill you you know what they never got to. They never got to a reclining chair that kills you, oh, I think they did. I think I did eventually, but not not not during the review of the twentieth century, but I think I did run across some sort of a killer. So killer, lazy boy, type of a movie. What you mean like twenty members censuring years, yes into the twenty first century, fell but, as far as I know how glad he had nothing to do with that. After the success of a valet confidential ended assassins, he went under a sore there's a string of big scripts, including conspiracy theory. The postman pay back a night, stale Mystic River man on fire. he he yeah so early on both route. He wrote and directed at episode of tales from the crept

and he went on to drag dislike case of murder along with pay back and nights tail. Forty two in many many more so. What I M saying is the script for highway to Hell is just above reproach. I get this and that a lot of what's on screen has been significantly sort of ad Lib door built upon beyond. What's on the page, I can't say that for sure, but I we seeing that alleged with, like all, have been Steelers parts which are said to have been had lived in feels like a movie that incorporates a good deal of improvisation but yeah conceptually there's a lot of good gags in it. Yeah I will start about our core character core cast here. So, first of all, we have our main here earlier. We ever our Orpheus and in is the character Charlie played by, dad low born nineteen sixty eight at four,

when I saw him. I was like wait a minute. I didn't a raw below was in this and then I really something it wasn't white there rob below in the lake in a wrestling videogame character creator, but somebody has moved the sliders around just a little bit and then I realized, oh okay. This is Rob lows extremely similar, looking an sounding younger brother. Yes, yes and and I have to say low lows perfectly fine in this playing our brave but naive boyfriend who has to travel to Hell get his girl back at you. low did a lot of tv work, including Spencer. Life, goes on Mailros, place e r, money for a pretty little liars and I think, more far, more recently super girl. I would say both into actors in this. This the movie doesn't require a lot of them in terms of dramatic nuance, but but for what it does require. You know at the both good there, and so is the girl that he must retreat from Hell. Yes,

the character Rachel played by Christie so, and bore nineteen sixty nine even often whether this is the original buffy, the vampire slayer from the ninety ninety two movie, they came out before the series never seen the movie here. It's I forgot most of it, but I mean it exists and I think a pall rubens isn't it I'm ok, but they yes, once it was also endued where's, my car Ferris boilers Day off flowers in the attic tv viewers might also over from the serious psych right now. the Joseph Campbell theory of the myths cycle your young hero has to have a mentor figure, is sort of like wise, older figure who appears to give supernatural aid near the beginning of the story and encourage the hero to sort of like breach the boundaries and go into the underworld or the other world and This movie that character is played by is, is the dusty Grand Pappy we talked about earlier played by Richard Farnsworth,

yeah far as Birthplace SAM, and this brings this second Future Academy award winner into this picture. So far fourth was a long time start man turned act. He did a lot of western work, but eventually popped up and films new that in roles thumbs like the two Jake's misery, and probably most notable of all his final film role, the straight story by David Lynch. In which he plays an old man who makes this long journey by lawnmower to men his relationship with an your brother and one of the other things about this. Is that again, this was Farnsworth last roll He was actually terminally ill during the filming. and I went on to earn an academy award nomination for best actor. So what I said earlier about in being a winner, he did not win the academy award for this. Robot was nominated, and I think then, that still pretty- But at any rate, Richard Farnsworth worthier he's great in this plan, the old man who has the secret

she's the OECD. Please also that kind of horror movie trope of failure feller going to warn you about what you should not get up to, but then he's so here, to guide our hero once he does get into trouble. Oh yeah, I mean in a way you could look at that were, This is as much a different version of that, but there's thinking about you know crazy, Ralph, in Friday, the thirteenth to warns of the kids not to go to camp blood, cause he's gotta death curse crazy Ralph comes off as if he were here menacing in his own way. Did this old fellow, I guess he's a little bit ominous when he first starts like wiping the windows of the service station in its playing these dramatic music stings. I don't know why it's doing that, but I did find it funny. So, whatever you were doing filmmakers, it did work. I enjoyed that scene, there's also funny part right after that, where there is dramatic music stings, win chow,

logos into the service station and he goes to the coffee stand and there is like the sugar, caddies and staff in his garden done done up where he he ultimately plays a very kind, wise and benign figure in this movie, hoo hoo. firms the hero with the supernatural tools he will need in order to defeat the great evil all right out of the next to actor of note in this Patrick Bergin born one thousand nine hundred and fifty one. places character that we encounter in Hell, is introduced by the name of bees all and turns out to be this kind of satanic mechanic. I guess what is in homage to the rocky our picture, I assume if the trailer spoils everything for you, it's ok. If we go ahead and spoil everything for you that the big twistin reveals and so forth, yeah, let's go ahead and say this is the point of no return. If you want to go into this border, free abandoned all hope. surprise. He who enter here yeah. So as you might

Yes from the name bees all who appears at first as a helpful friendly figure in Hell turns out to be be elles Bob. himself, though Beelzebub but I want to be clear, is not always represented as identical to Satan. Sometimes he's just one of the demons of hell burden in some, Christian traditions, Beelzebub and Satan are the same and here that they take that tat, though I thought it was very funny when we first meet him. I guess I dont know how surprising it is supposed to be when you ultimately find out that he has be Elles above because his name is beetle they're doing a very ed wood, Dino Doktor Aquila thing had been released. The characters act, surprise, I have to point out that when we first encounter Petrie Bergen, he says a very nice mustache, which are met. Taking it on. I myself for this today, maybe a thing for this month's weird how cinnamon, since we are participating in November

films, with strong, encouraging moustaches in the picture, watching steer satanic mustache later and he's clean, shaven and then later on, Bad he's, like a full demon, moved with horns and stuff. His axe and also changes a little bit depending on what mode is in. Sometimes he sounds almost australian. Did you get that yeah? Well, I saw a disturbed the tobacco Patrick Bergen enough me with an Irish who is especially hard in the ninety nine is appearing in such films, as sleeping with the enemy Patriot Games, Robin Hood love crimes. He also played captain, Sir Richard answers burden in mountains of the moon and nineteen ninety which I haven't seen, a very long time, and I remember is being great. I don't it holds. That was one that also started up English is John speak. I also feature Richard Grand Fiona Sean Peter Van in here

who played Bergen, also played Doktor Frankenstein, in that one. Ninety two tv adapted that I am that I finally look back I saw he was also in law nor man to beyond cyberspace yap. If nothing happens, jobs war. If you get has different titles. Only in Bergen also play Dracula in two thousand to tv series. Sallies he's gonna. Look the Dracula. The Frankenstein is basically a horror icon, but anyway Catalonia Renault before you move on. I'm hung up on this, which was it law nor man to beyond cyberspace jobs war. I think it has different subtitles, depending on where you are encountering it ok, so you're gonna get both yeah. I feel like we ve discusses before zoos on Microsoft, MIKE that now we will just have to However, a lawnmower man too at some point and put all this rest. Ok, good cast some people like it

solely a basin. Stephen king stories are ok about as much as this movie is based on Orpheus in to see here back to his accent. Yes, a battery Bergen is irish and I early on his character is more irish, but by the David, I'm not sure what acts in he's using I'm not sure how much of the demon special effects make up here. Changing the way he talks. You know, but anyway, Pittsburgh in his is a fun screen presence throughout. Spear second movie within a month. That's an irish big bad. You got Dando Hurley. He and Halloween three

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another major villain in this tape. Peace is a character. Will Skype in more detail in a bit, but hell cop. A sergeant bedlam, places are: are our big gun, physical threat of a character of a villain by sea. J Gram who didn't do a lot else besides this, but he did play Jason Voorhees in Friday, the thirteenth part, six Jason lives is that one of the good ones as discussed last time. I don't know if there are any good ones, but that will certainly enjoyable. That's the first one that just still yeah Jason, is undead he's back from the grave. Something appreciate instead of having to go the Halloween route and always explain now, he didn't die when you thought he did last time. Instead, they said He died he's just now. This is a supernatural series it wasn't before now. It is so what I think, that's ultimately admirable to say what we had to shake it up a little bit. We're not to go to space, but will do this precisely

port six is a lot of fun. It's the first one where he's undead. This is the undead Jason, and I guess I hell cop is a lot like Jason. He is, he doesn't speak, he's just v, three impassive and violently efficient there. There is very low emotion in his performance, yeah and ultimately, I think, there's one of the reasons this care to really stands out and is one of the real highlights of the film. I bet characters other humans involved. We have the scale of this character Royce whose like a biker in Hell, who also has a sword and he's play by stork born nineteen sixty two Can you explain this character to me? I don't think I missed anything, but I didn't. I felt like this character was post and mean something that I never understood. I'd like to know if they were key scenes that had to be card, but he was

We, the least interesting thing in the film for me whenever he was on the screen. I was wondering, where spoke of character should be asking where to better explained, what I'm saying I feel like this is a character that would almost make since if he was supposed to be tapping into like a type or another character known from outside the movie. The way that Gilbert Godfrey shows up as Hitler now so like that hard is supposed to be funny because the audience is supposed to already bring knowledge of who Hitler is and why he would be in Hell, but this character. It feels like that, except we just to have no idea who this guy yeah exactly it would have made a lot more sense and would require less wondering if they were like. Oh yeah will heed matches up with this historical mythic figure and therefore in ITALY we don't have. To think too long and hard about what he supposed to be in this film.

about as far as item story goes, he appeared in mystic. Pizza death becomes her and did a lot of tv work Also in the tv adaptation, the many series of phantom of the opera This is one of actually seen I've got kind of remember enjoying. This is a kid it's sarge dance has and omitted also featured in Richardson in Bert, Lancaster. Oh, how did I meant no about this Charles answers the phantom. I would love to see that iron. It was, I think it was my first introduction to phantom of the opera actually end and so I don't know what how that ways that it might have been terrible, but it was like the first real phantom story. I watched oh in quick note in the film, though here in highway to Hell Royce a gang of bikers with him in Hell and apparently played entire by the old rock. and from the late eighties, dost Psycho Rangers. I dont know this ban. Yeah. I think they only put out will a couple of things, so they weren't they weren't. You

but they are credited in the the credit for the film has dost psycho rangers. I do remember that you are right. Her next We have noted this PAMELA giddily plays clear are this: is the old man SAM's lost love? This makes sense when we discuss the plow bet that Sheila is one thousand nine hundred and sixty five through two thousand and eighteen she played the. Idle character in the post, apocalyptic dick. fi I can. Someone is also a kind of a cypher comedy deal cheery two thousand, though They give only familiar with the with the poster. Our cherry two thousand is not the main character and cherry two thousand female bounty Hunter character whose helping to trees. Cherry two thousand Melanie Griffith YA, know any good please, you have noted Griffith is leave Melanie Griffith is not Jerry. Two thousand giddily was also in twin peaks. Fire walk with me. She played Teresa banks, now, as we mentioned earlier, we do

have some been Stiller in this film, but it goes beyond that. We who have the whole Stiller family highway to Hell, actually sometimes in multiple roles right because best killer, I think place both the cook at PLUTO calf, who the Hell Diner and he plays it, would the HUN later in a scene where you you're you're, watching like evil historical figures sitting around a table? Oh yes, because Ok, soda the scene where it's the historical figures. Yeah it's been still As I told on them- Stiller, sister Amy Stiller, playing Cleopatra and Gilbert Godfrey paying out of Hitler. they're playing cards or something and and I should add that I think Gilbert Godfrey is the only one- even half way trying to do an accent very much Gilbert Godfrey, doing a german accent. Anything

Choices to portray Hitler in Hell as insufferably whiny yeah yeah. It's excellent, casting excellent casting yeah. It's not just just Amy Stiller and been Stiller but it's also Jerry Stiller, who plays a desk cop and then Jerry Steelers, wife and a mirror plays Medea. Who is it interests at PLUTO, the Hell Diner and, of course, this fine, because they they were. Stand up, comedy act back in the day. They were a husband and wife stand up team, yes sheet she's funny in the diner, seeing a jury Stiller, he didn't fully steam. What was going on between him and the health card, but eventually the hell complex shoots him with her with a dimensional Paul no gun but he's like messing with hell copies like asking, for it he's being like really annoying towards him, and I don't I don't know, the relationship between the two is supposed to be. So that's what I do in Hell. I prank healthcare

but he's the only one who is not afraid of Hell CUP, which which seems fitting that's it what yes he's the only one in the movie who doesn't fear him other than Satan himself again, yeah, and Satan himself respects him. Like you know, this is a good henchmen that Jerry still is just not buying it at all. So, such areas that I have no, I still to this day. I have no idea why this is the case why the entire Stiller family is in this strange fill. It is one of its charms open. I guess this comes back. To that thing, I read I already said this, but I read on at least the I am to be trivia page. If this is correct, it claims that been still ad Lib doll of his dialogue in the film and Eleanor, if that's true, if it could be all of it, but certain certain I do feel rather improvisational, oh yeah, I mean he's it's basically a background cameo. There was already allowed to swell and taken like nothing. He saying is important to the plot, so I buy. There are one hundred percent. I bet he did and priorities lines about frying eggs on the sidewalk and help

now. Another actor of note in this Peter Hall, who live nineteen fit? five to ninety. Ninety one appears later on in the film playing the character of your own, the italian others that the character from mythology, but also a character pops up in Dantes burning for now. This is the this is the boatman who bring you across the river into the underworld. Yeah he's portrayed here, having his eyelids soon shut here, and in this I need forgiven Peter Hall, because you have all seen Kevin Peter Hall Movies, but generally covered in lot more make up. He played. Predator in both predator one in two, he all who played the alien in without warning the very first. Movie. We watch for House Cinema. That's right here, he played Meudon bare and nineteen. Seventy nine prophecy, those this first film and he Harry and Harry and the Henderson's, as well as big John in big topic.

so yeah. That is interesting. Somebody who's been in a lot of well known movies and is in a way himself well known for like great physical performances, but people wooden recognise his face. Cause he's always behind a bunch of make up so he here, sadly died and nineteen. Anyone due to age related pneumonia, he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, apparently was his final film role now. Here's another interesting really! This is a cameo as well, but also that this very telling of the via this film led afford, shows up playing a hitch. her. She was the lead guitars for the all female rock band, the runaways in the late nineteenth seventies, but going so low as a glance metal act in the late nineteenth eighties she's. A duet with the Ozzy Osborne eighteen. Eighty, nine single closed, my eyes forever, so she's a dinner of hell in this movie you as a free here early encounter with the Chad Low when issues yeah. That leads right into the strain

attack by a one of hills. Ice cream salesman who's, gonna, cream, scoop. Unease like I'll can allay chair yeah and our care drastic blast him with the Holy Shaka I will mention the Cinema Tiger on this one cause it's. This is gonna interesting, Robin Vision, born eighteen thirty, nine the sky was a cinematograph run. Such films is hell Razor. How are you to fly to the never ending story. Well: three: he he also worked in the Cameron? Electoral department on raiders of the lost are never say never again, and the world is not enough. And he was second unit director on the event horizon. So I especially that the Hell Razor how razor two things in rest and given that we have a character in here with some strong sin- abide energy yeah That's right and speaking of that character, I would say one

the things I found most impressive about this movie is the design of hell. Cop hell cop looks really interesting. One of the main about him is that he's got writing carved all over his face, and apparently that was a touch coming from the the person behind special makeup effects in this movie, Steve Johnson right. Yes, Eve Johnson born nineteen sixty three, especially sex, makeup, design and creation credit on this. He It has a very long history and I too call special effects and make up special effects, for instance, made slimy for ghostbusters. He worked on such this is the howling with with Rob Boden. He worked on it. Can worlds in London with Rick Baker and Korea the special affair. Makeup affect studio at boss, films that work on poltergeist to frighten I'd in big trouble, little China, his company its effects, worked on the abyss. Species

four seasons of the ninety nine he's out or limit series of excited too to see that he's working loads of films with with interesting practical special effects, make up What a blade to, for example. So so he the film you knowing that Dr Johnson, is heavily involved. You know that there is nothing else that the monsters in the make up in the Gore. It's all gonna look really good and assured us yeah. I know the last one's gonna be special to you because Rob I know you're a blade to man yeah. all right, let's talk briefly about the music here- have said them. The music is mostly credited to hidden faces with but with a trio of individuals? yet. This is a musical group. I looked them up and they have for film composition. Credits on I M D, be several. I d: they had ever seen any of these movies, but when a dimension several, as they were funny one from

Eighteen, ninety, a movie called nuns on the run. This is a farce I'm comedy stirring Eric Idle and Robbie coal train. So, Sir, Robin and haggard, I guess right right. That's haggard! That's Agraea ICE, I saw this as a child by the way real, so I dont know everything about it. I've I've never seen it their gangsters who have to run and hide from the police and firm hit men who are simultaneously after them, and The scheme they come up with is they're gonna, pretend to be nuns and hide in the convent. Is this also the plot of Sister ACT, except here it's Erica Poland, Robbie Cold train, I'm not sure I feel like. There was another film that had a very somewhere plot. The came out around the same time, but possibly you're right. I don't think I've seen ahead of the game are actually sources tracked and is familiar with the musical numbers from just look at

be up, it sure is so in sister act will be. Goldberg plays a lounge singer, who is forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection programmes? Oh yes, she is hiding out in a convent, pretend to be a none too, in order to hide from hit men who want a killer. I had to look it up. because, yes, I think it's also basically the plot of the nineteen eighty nine film. We are no angels this is an eel Jordan, film and in this one, what I think it Sean PEN and Robert Deniro who pretend to be priests ass time, it's not nuns. The priest hiding from mom from somebody wait, priests or Irma, sprays. Priests in this case definitely priest, but this seems to very much thing, wise, guys or gauss, hiding within the church. Pretending to be monks are pre, sir nuns or something right right ok, so nuns on the run after hidden faces than he got highway to hell and then add the, there are two movies that they composed for are called.

Under the Hullo Moon and the players Club players Club is ninety. Ninety eight movie written and directed by ice cube and then under the Hullo Moon. I was looking at the I db synopsis. This is a movie in which Stephen Baldwin plays a man named buzzard who lives in Arizona, and he thinks he's gonna get rich but be by invent. Being a type of new son screen called cameo, which looks like camouflage when you put it on again that night you that they apply going in totally different directions and can be serious. It could be comedy well, I think I think, eventually turns into a kidnapping movie. So I think Chris PEN plays an evil guy in that movie who kidnapped, said Stephen Baldwin's, wife, Oda and he's gotta go rescue her now. When I was looking looking at information about this film highway to help. How do I, of course, looked at Michael Welding, psychotic, video guide, and in it he

specifically mentions that that this movie makes use of tangerine dream music from the film miracle Mile, which has a nineteen eighty, eight apocalyptic thriller, starring, Anthony Edwards and first was. I was, I didn't doubt, Michael Weldon, because Michael Weldon, aside from me, expert on all these these films, he also generally at a really has really great had further the music seen so yeah If he mentions a particular release or Dick there being involved in a film. I mean he's in there. The correct. So I did Doubt him, but I was looking around and like I am DV, does not list tangerine dream on the credits that they have their they don't have anything but tangerine dream in the trivia section. I knows nothing on the wiki, but if you, if you watch full credit for the film they do say, specialty tangerine dream for additional music, so some the time I think when we're when we're watching highway to hell and the music is particularly good. We're action,

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There was a strange choice. I thought to begin the wives action portion of the movie thou, there's that there's a credit sequence showing this like animated postcard, says greetings from highway to Hell, but then, after that it begins. live action portion of the movie with video game footage. Watching the cop play an arcade cabinet game called highway to Hell, and I they did not create an original video game. For this movies, I was trying to figure out what actual game. This is nothing on the way He tells me I thought I could match something: unity, match the screen to something it looks kind of like out, run or final lap, but the the hut? Isn't it right. So I dont know what came this is. But, It ties into something, as mentioned in the text epilogues or after the last seen, fades out, and you get that you know that text crawl. Screen telling you what all the characters it says that the Chad lows

Charlie goes on to become rich in famous by developing a bunch of very successful video games that are all hell themed. I guess it's imagining that he may do or something no, otherwise video games are not a theme in this movie. It's only the opening shot and then that epilogue yeah blogger was totally and asked for, like you, don't you don't reach the end of this moving? You take a look at what happened to them no Nobody wants to know it's like the last episode of the wonder years. You want to know what everybody became when they grew up, who got married to like chat and Rachel escaped. How, like that, that's all you need to know like that's enough. Nothing else, they're gonna do is get a top that you. So why do we need this epilogue? I totally agree. I think we need to know the Chad became a video game. Lord, you know he probably had to test

before Congress, at some point when they were having a hearing on violence and video games and hell imagery and then now Rachel, I wasn't as if she opened a bunch of successful hell. Themed pizzerias, yes, has tried. She too. I want that info oh, and it says that their dog been went on to store in dog food commercials yeah. We have them It was important for us to know this is one of the many narrative would not be complete without the dog food commercial. Yeah they're also like an Satan still I that's right, you're getting actually started really doing. Anything differently is just is still doing the same but ok openings. Unless it we ve covered beginning to end there. That's right another few things, I should mention in between so so opening scene You got a chat. Loan Kersey Swanton there again. What are their names yet Charlie and Rachel. They are there eating basket burgers at some diner in the scrub land, either tickets, both to be outside of LAS Vegas in

and Charlie is nervous, because the situation is, I think there teenagers who ran off together to get married in LAS Vegas, so they're trying to elope and they think that their parents found out that they ran off to get married and they're, trying to end that they're gonna send the cops after them to bring them home yes, they're, they're, very concerned that this carpet was planned. The video game is coming for them is gonna find is in fact following them when they I've away from this diner right. So they both from the diner with with their dog Ben, is very cute dog, to have the dire had it at the beginning. I had to be like ok, Google and go into. Does the dog died out com, and I know the dog does not die. Star. I don't know cause I'm not around your dog of the time, but I felt like this dog looks like your dog not immensely, but yes order. Plus the me Characters. Name is Charlie, Charlie's name your dogs. I guess that altering editor

the dogs hanging out in their dinged afford pinto and I loved the pinto by the way, so they their driving around them pinto with a jigsaw triangular light up roof sign for a pizza. Ria called nuns, Yos Pizzeria. So I guess we're to understand that the Chad low as a pizza delivery boy and when he takes his, back to the car. He puts the Berger in his mouth and then, let's the dog eat it out of his mouth, which ok, pretty great because he established this. Let me this is really well put together because we're very just a few minutes into the film and you are no pretty much. What these characters are, what they're doing whether dying makes our like their Superman love. He loves is to buy he's riding around in this pizza delivery. Car clearly doesn't have like two nicholls to rub together so ass. You can and andor they're, just there very concerned that this cop is going to be

after them and ridden really if they ran away, they think the Carter after them, during their totally the wrong vehicle to try and sneak away and hide themselves in the great american desert right. You would think, they were going for subtlety. He would take the pizza, Ria logo off the top of the car. One thing say about the diner. I love and restaurants used have big signs for Vienna sausages on the walls. The stuff getting does yeah. I would submit that ever selling point for restaurants. Don't know that was a restaurant here in Atlanta. I went to one time that had when those big vended vintage drilling, sausages, posters, ia some people will die them in the store. I guess I Vienna sauce it every time. The same thing like this sort of like reconstituted, can't do did hand always yeah yeah its quality. I guess

but so yeah anyway. They hit the highway and when they're out on the freeway that they noticed, the motorcycle cop, who is playing the arcade game in the diner, is still behind them and in Chad, Lois Paranoid Charlie, thinks there being followed. Rachel doesn't about Chaz AIDS. We gets off on a dark exit called Black Canyon road to see if the couple do the same and the cop does not get off after themselves. There they're just after in the dark unease like I actually we're. Ok, but then Charlie, great idea he's like I know. Let's take this dark, unfamiliar back road to Vegas, instead of the freeway absolutely at through the desert in two automobile, like you, do and wondering: are there back roads to Vegas, I'm not really familiar with LAS Vegas, so I looked on Google maps and maybe soared over mean they're bunch, indifferent, freeway, and highways going in there's one sort of back issue, looking road that think goes through the lake?

recreational areas, so I don't know if that's what they had in mind or or maybe I maybe the person who wrote this was an old familiar with Vegas. Either old Milly. Ultimately, it's the harm movie trope of let's, let's go on the back road. Let's, let's get off the main path, and surely nothing bad will happen to us so off. They go into the darkness and then it pulling up at a service station while the last chance service station and theirs old man hanging out there in a rocking chair and grab. I dont know if, if, if I'm reaching here, but if you notice that the old man's rocking chair has a rear view, mirror on it. Just like a truck wood is an Orpheus Senor idiocy thing about like the theme of looking back behind you, because we also, we find out that this old man here his sweetheart, was lost in the underworld and he never retrieved her. I didn't We put it together, like that when I watch the film, but I think you might be right also, anyway, they,

The tank filled up again- and this is the scene I was describing earlier- that's actually very funny because the old man's cleaning, the windows in an army, s manner and costs. Station as these chilling music stings. I'm not quite sure why they decide to do that, but I thought it was funny. and before they leave the old man warns. Them is like an hour you heading four Vegas and Charlie says: why do you ask says: well, it's an old road needs. A lot of repair you'd, be a lot safer on the interstate of course, you know being kids, they ignore him until the car won't start, and so then, when the king it had started, Rachel has to go open the hood and fix it, and here we find now she knows stuff about cars. She took auto shop in high school, so she can repair nettle come up again later, but old man seems concerned, he offers to let them stay in his extra cabin and they

ignore him. So when they're leaving, he says you keep an eye out for two Joshua trees. If you get sleepy, don't pull over till you pass the second one, Do I like that, as is another a convincing ring to it here I am plus it. Where does this portion of film too? As I found this We were shocked to see shot at night, it's night in the desert, you know out in the middle of nowhere, so like, I was really getting a strong ominous feeling from all of us in granting. Yet some of it is a familiar trip The old man warning you about the dangers to come in the road ahead and, of course, the kids are gonna. Listen to him but has been presented right and so out on the road, Charles his mind logging about how much he loves her. In any thing, you own sweet, Sapien, and then he realizes she's, asleep and hasn't been listening to him, and then he try. to talk to his dog and then also realises the dog is asleep, which was funny, and then we see

ominously, a Joshua tree and then, of course, as you might imagine, after passes, the Josh Retreat Charlie, starts to get very sleepy while he's driving answer do not offer any time, happens in a movie. I always feel like. I guess that's. The kind of seeing that it gets and as he is falling asleep, he suddenly swerves while driving and is immediately confronted by a highway patrol car on this. This dangerous section of the road and was so that we see the officer get out of the car and immediately something is wrong. Is signals on the pavement when he steps out like a hot Meyer and pressing in meat, and you see him holster his gun and it looks like and out of Robocop, and then you see his handcuffs, which are not really costs there actually hands there. these rotten zombie hands that are chained together

Oh my god, and I mean all of this- is he is just b perfectly executed to it like this. Is to that the point of the film. Where everything is just working perfectly so like the sizzling- looks great the robot Robocop revolver it it it really like we're job. When you see it, because you not expecting that and then the handcuffs made of actual hands there there, articulated in a way that really feels lifelike, lichen and ghastly. So, even if the eye, the sounds goofy entity, as you know, handcuffs that are hands like they look ghastly and bizarre- and you know that you're this is not a good is to be- and this is not the copy- want pulling you over right. So he appeared she's the menacingly? He shines is flashlight of their eyes and then we get the face, reveal on hell cop and he looks ghastly there is writing covering his face all along his jaw line and on his cheek bones and on his cheeks and his forehead and his lips. It's a look

it looks mad and satanic, and I'm I couldn't quite reed what the writing said: unmoved you'd colony words in there I couldn't. I mean I see something about eyes and I can make a few other little words here and there, according to I'm D B, Chin has the letters ass, J plus L Q, which is both a stand, her Steve Johnson, the makeup artists who already mentioned and his wife at the time, Lena Quigley, who of course is a scream queen icon herself, looking close up, I'm having trouble finding those letters, but supposedly there there oh, but be that's the way he has sunglasses, like a lot of scary, cops in movies. Do that this is actually a of this is something has been written about anywhere, but I think this is a recurring trope that you know that scary abuse of authority figure

who's in films. You know dictators or abusive, cops or whatever often have these sunglasses that hide their eyes, that sort of make them less human or don't allow you to see where they are looking at, which adds a kind of pen optic on a fact or don't. Allow you to read their emotions and and so this cop is it plays into that, especially by having him not just wearing totally opaque sunglasses, but the sunglasses are actually riveted days temples. So they're not like you know, just resting on his ears, ya help This is wonderful and I feel like the sort of energies converging here, it's kind of a hell, razor sinner by quality to the character, Reminds me a little bit of the zombies from shockwaves. The nazis. Zombies but then the sunglasses here, but rather sunglasses, absolutely correct. I feel they like this a strong, oh my here to them and with no eyes from cool hand, Luke, remember the the chain gang boss, that has

a gleaming sunglasses and if you remember in cool hand, Luke the man when no eyes is never actually like defeated, but there is a scene where he gets a sunglasses knocked off. You know that's kind of them, been a slight victory for the characters who suffered under them, and indeed, in this film, we find out much later in the film that the the Hell Cops, a weakness. It happens to be the sunglasses and if destroy his sunglasses, you destroy him. Yeah, that was really nice touch. So as again in the end, that is how Rachel in fact defeats him by shooting him right in the sunglasses with their with the magic gun that Charlie will be given. but all this with the helicopters even approaching the car. All these elements are present there, but also you're doing this. This thing that always works well and harm of you're taking a real world frightening usually life, threatening experience and You know what is being pulled over on the highway and then you're

wasting that into the slasher horror direction with a cop. That is beyond. You know the dangers of a human cop. They are essentially like hell. Michael Myers, character, of starting up to your vehicle. So just exceptionally well down. I feel, like I feel like hell cop, could have been his own film. You know, yes, though, I think Hell CUP bite, less fine in a movie that trade push him in a more serious horror direction. Term, like I feel, like hell cop lives, very, very calm. Probably in this sort of comedy vision of hell, that's otherwise populated with all these zany kara It is true tat. They might be harder to pull off it, but ultimately, I think it's one of those where the make alone in the performance of the performance and credit, It also elevated to above the comedy to certain and so we are not sure it would. It would necessarily work outside of the comedy

environment, but who it is feel legitimately creepy in this fill the agreed o a couple more details about him. I forgot him and he is his name tag, reads sergeant bedlam and he and he's got a badge that is just a programme. of course, but so anyway, we get. This confrontation were hell cop, kidnaps, Rachel. He takes her his car, and then he does like evil, expells on the car that essential that like eliminate the back door, he like puts her into the car and then the car has no door for her to get out of hum, and then he and then he drives off through a portal into another dimension and that, a car that ASEAN, it's kind of like a spaceship too, like it's a generally soup up feeling vehicles, so that adds this extra. Like siphoned magic, feel too it will. You just left to ask like what is Hell car like it's, it's it's it's crazy

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phone Hellboy. You can drive there, but you can't phone hell yes and such right line that third Farnsworth brings it to life, and so it turns out that the cops M o is generally that he kidnaps beautiful women off the highway and so dad, dead. They, the old man, tells a story about how his sweetheart Clara was in fact kidnapped by the hell cop ages ago, and then he he starts to reveal magical the special items, the supernatural aid that he's going to give to Charlie before he goes on his journey pulls out. This special gun is kind of a wholly boom. Stick it as a handheld shot gun with silk clam shells embossed on the stock major doom vibes here with the holy demon, Slang, Shaka yeah? thought the same thing, and this is funny because it made me think what if the premise

because the story is that in fact, clear of the old man's sweetheart. She made him this gun, or at least she. I guess I don't know if she made it from scratch, but she at least put all the special decorations on it and makes me wonder what if the premise of doom had been that doom guys sweetheart made him his shot gun and anyway, the so the old man gives Charlie the Holy Shotgun and he gives him a special, wholly car. What's the deal with or will the old man doesn't explained. He just says that there's something special in there that all that I'll help you somethin in the car, something special is their pay off. Because I don't remember pay off for the yes. Yes, there is right in the conclusion where they're trying to escape healthy and in their racing the helicopter and then whole discovers the Nightrobe booster and that's the special ok gotcha. I don't know- this old man's into drag racing or something she might have been back in the day. He was in the original the fast and the furious the one from the sixties,

you know this is a thing: they could do a prick water highway to Hell, Praecordia, hell and you have like the young SAM, the original story of of the encounter with her cup so eventually Charlie does get into hell. I think he's told that to get there, he asked to drive back and forth between the two Joshua trees and believe that's the thing, and so he is like I believe and eventually works, and he goes straight into hell and I thought was interesting: is they dont make hell? A really supernatural looking place? Is just the Mojave Desert, yeah it's just like, an alternate version of the american desert in which all the typical Amerika desert candlelight guy in a route, sixty six kind of stuff is just the satanic element to it, or you know, sometimes, moreover, a greek underworld element to depending on where their drawing from

yeah yeah exactly so. It's just the more mundane Mojave desert, but filled with undead people in demons like that they decide not to spite up with flames in the sky or anything, and I you know, I guess I get behind that choice hey, I mean they had. They clearly had the desert. The work with which is in I could have setting in not itself and in the main they ultimately make a lot of really fine and interesting choices in China, beetles using up the desert, so ranges from diners that are occupied by zombies too. Loved this, because this, I don't understand what this means, but you had hole like roadside garbage clean up crews but they were all Andy Warhol status and to tell everything's backwards. I guess so. Instead of taking trash up from the side of the road there emptying trash under the side of the road, ah yeah, I guess

in so doing over my head. I don't know if it was a joke about about pop ardor of it but if it feels appropriate for again, this is the kind of thing you couldn't get away with in a serious hell movie, that's serious hell movie than any man. I guess you got to have you know something like like legend, you know where it feels like like you're in some sort of a torture for now appeared, but, but here you and Luther via this film, you like. Ok, this makes sense. Of course, they're gangs of of Andy Warhol garbage tying up the street. Ok will what stops along the way. Do we want to highlight from from this journey, because, though, it sort of aid as exacting, weird adventure here who the just it has a bunch, a little vignettes I we should mention PLUTO Cafe right. This is the one where we ve been working as the cook cooking Food, sidewalk outside and the diner full of undead cops governing cobwebs and add. There was one thing here

that I like, because so we see hell cop taking Rachel to this minor know and he handcuffs her to the to the to the cow. well he's getting coffee and a donor. I guess he's occupied, do of the Athenians shooting Jerry Stiller with the gun that sends obtain other another dimension and meanwhile, Rachel escapes by scalding the hand, handcuffs with hot coffee you also, you included our notes, a screenshot from it I not notice this, but there's something wonderful going out of the donut. Oh it's so this is a diner in held its full of undead cops and there is a glass display case full of doughnuts. But its change shut fervent, perfect now here get a bunch of different run inside that we get run ins with these desert biker, as we mentioned earlier. I don't know if there's a whole lot interesting to say about that. now they were. They were like as a kind of the least interesting part of the film for me yeah,

then we get some mad max style road battles between Charlie and his old man, mobile and hell cop, in his battle, buggy and, of course, Charlie does not win this road battle and he eventually gets his car racked and and when his car is wrecked. Oh there is one part I did like where he walks up to a telephone in the desert that its apex it up and, in others, operator whose like motorist, stayed in the again, my car's wrecked. I need help and then the operators, just like, sounds like you're walking, gig yeah. There lie fun touches like that. There's a lot of media in Hell a lot of commercials. Yes, indeed, a tv and radio commercials. A lot of times aimed specifically at the character is listening to them. You know moved to taught them one of my everything's in the whole movie was the sticks, beer, commercial, that it so the cops car has a tv in it and sue

Rachel was riding in the back of the car, while the heel, L, cops, taking or somewhere and and- and she looks tv and it's, this announcer like holding a beer mug when I come home from a long day in Hell? There's nothing I'd rather reach for than a fine brood bottle of sticks. Beer made from the filthy water, is from our own river sticks. Sticks. Beer is a thing more toxic than any other regular beer, the worst beer, the filthiest beer, the deadliest beer it stick spear. Yeah, it's pretty great there. There is also one later where what rate we taunted with a vision of herself having work in a pizza restaurant I'll stop caring for like a bunch of children a whole bunch of infants, ass, pretty fun as well. after his cars wrecks Charlie's, aided by bees, all the guy who seems very nice and helpful at first this Patrick Bergen. We eventually find out that he is the devil himself

there is one more scene. I wanted dimension, though, in held before we go on to anything else, which is the good intention, paving company seen oh yeah. I thought this was very good. I guess getting quite literal with the with the same in the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, so there is There's like an asphalt, paving trot called good enough genes, paving company and then it's all these people explaining why the bad thing they did had a good reason behind it, and then they just get chucked into the mix. Sir, then their their body. Parts are used to pave the road to Hell is, but his car was pretty great and- and I think I'm thinking about it, this feels like a guy from a mad magazine and, ultimately, yes, whole movie feels like standard, mad magazine dead. You know even right down to the fact that the hell, copies scary and then a lot of the monsters that we see. Look really cool, because I remember reading Actually, my parents,

of films and magazine and a lot of times Illustrations were really good. You know there's like that. These were artist that were creating. They saw. I remember like a Robocop Robocop to parent. in mad magazine, and I remember as a kid, maybe so the catching the to the jokes, but also be unlike oh yeah. Those robots. Look, really cool the strong man magazine energy in the still theirs thing this movie does, which I think every lized. It's an obligatory type of joke that every hell. Comedy has to do and the joke. Structure works like this. You criticise a merely annoying public figure or celebrity by situating them in Hell amongst evil dictators and murderers. So there's like one part. Theirs Seen here where there's like a table, and it has, of names. It said, like seated says reserved for, and I came out of, the name.

rest of the names of the table are like dictators and killers and staff, and then one of em just says Jerry, Louis I think literally every like Simpsons Hell thing has had a joke of that structure. It's it's always there. venture. In the film we go to Hell City there's this fund to be had. There is well there's some increasingly get out of the desert in into more interesting set pieces. When we get into city so there's some some weird with like a mannequin people that explode in a plaster when their blast with the holy shot gun. There is a fake Rachel who then transforms into like a hideous minnetaki, woman and. and of course, as we caught the minutes, our woman looks very real and very ripening those is ultimately more of a comic threat. Ultimately there one part where the devil tries to tempt Rachel. into staying in hell with him. Instead of leaving in the way traced,

him tourists thing like you could have everything, but the the example of her Having everything is being able to play the violin remember the year before Like was that in her dream? I don't I don't remember anything about the it's also like that There is another point in the film to where he he he makes an offer this time too Charlie any like something do a sports like you could own predict sports team, but he chooses the wrong sports team. So it's really not that graded tempting people. So I got my gaze, he's like you could be the you could be the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys or something and he's like. I might have done it if you'd said the Niners Yak is becoming Niners cat So it's really weird this where those films we're ok, so Patrick Bergen, of course, very charismatic and and They put a lot of energy into creating this Satan character for him, and I kind of

the feeling that, towards the end of the movie, the movie falls in love with Patrick Bergen Satan, and so the final What's the film seem to be more about Satan than anything else like there's a ends of Satan. First of all, we'll, go and say it like it all comes down to a drag race like you guys want to escape hell. Well, you gotta do drag race withheld cop have you when you get to leave hell and so Satan's, watching this from from a hillside smoking a cigar that, like one of his minions lights, with their own burning finger and, unlike in closing the apple movie this playing this song. It is me The next time performed by Deborah Crandall Parson, which is kind of catchy but it's like such a weird via like is this about Satan airy dislike like now. The film has situate the devil as its central character. I thought was about these kids trying to escape. Now. That's very good point at the ethics of Batman. Movies are

names like this, where the actor playing the villain is so much more fun that it really can. It becomes about the villain, yeah yeah, I I want to mention that. There's a pay off to the earlier thing. Where were Rachel said: do an auto shop because- and I think this is supposed to make sense. She hot wires hell cops car for them to escape in it like two? They teach you too hot, your cars and auto shop, maybe using extricated project internet. But then, of course, the day they make it out of hell, and then Alcott comes out with them and basically they have one last showed showdown withheld cup, which I think is sitting because Kaliko is the real physical, the rat he's. Not the tempter undying mastermind that the satanic character is get that one last battle a cop and she blast the glasses off of him and he's defeated. He like explore It's like a stick of dynamite. His lighter streets out of his eyes

I'd shoots out of his eyes, and then it's like dynamite and gasoline amazing. That's highway to Hell folks yeah So it's it's! It's fun flick. I like it. It holds up. It's not matrimony the offensive or anything. You know it's a little talking. this like it's gonna, feel like he's, got a little bit of nudity in it and maybe a little bit of language, but I think that isn't like easily removed for cable airing, because, and I pray inevitably scientists on cable back in the day. oh yeah, that's that's the point. You are making that it's strange for the concept being, Hell it's actually a relatively mild are yeah yeah, but it. Also it's not like it's not like you would otherwise be a kids movie. I don't know it just this strange strange filled with this. This I've already, all of its all its own. That's like a little bit me

jus, Sir, a little better Dantes and found her a little better mad max, and you know, death race thrown in. There is well it sucks It's a wild movie, to be going on a number of different directions and at times it really works. Well, I wish I'd, seen it on USA up all night when I think I have. It is part of my brain for my whole life, well, if you want to see it now, luckily it seems to be pre widely available, digitally, I think watch it on Amazon. Prime just Milly concluded, you know without a subscription to another channel and I, he's been made available on dvd and perhaps Blu Ray in the past as well, but you, I really for I waited how you'll be able to find it it's out there and I think it it holds up pretty well, it's like you say it

we're watching from free stuff like hell. Carbon, though, are the weirder performance by Patrick Bergen. There is a lot of fun, ok, one last question we find out in the epilogue that that do do on to make healthy video games. Rachel goes on to do healthier, pizzerias and the goes on to storing dog food commercials, but they're, not healthy dog food commercials? What's up that seems an asymmetry yeah. Yeah, because of who is healthy, the near the release, you can say well, experience of how inspired all of them, or perhaps the devil really did give them all some sort of up a blessed further to take with them. You know they're there. He still actually controlling them off dogs little hell Razor only the best for him Those are the credits. I guess this is pretty standard, but you had one

dog after playing the dog. But then you also had a stunt dog actor. Sir Lyster, oh at in the dog, was named rags. You were that yeah, but I forgot the name of the dog was the stone tat. The dog did a very good job of peeing on command in the sea where he faces a server assuming that gas, all goodness, there's a star motion, Serbia's unnecessary, didn't we let's get out of the absurd without mentioning that, Film also features a practical effects, I'd start motion three headed dog, and it's it's a lot of fun yeah and it has Confrontation with the cute little dog been and then they just sort of like regard each other and then been peas on Iraq and began with others and pure four comedy and its. Then it works all right. We're we're gonna, go and close it out here, but if you want to check out other purposes of weird how cinema airs every Friday in the stuff to blow your mind, podcast feed were primarily I you know: science and culture type podcast, but on Fridays we

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