Episode 221: Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

While prom season may be in the rearview, we’re not done celebrating because this week on the show we’re talking none other than the absolutely maniacal Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. Make no mistake: while this one may sound like another typical cheesy ‘80s slasher, it is anything but. Amazing special effects, unhinged performances, and truly jaw-dropping lines of dialogue make it stand out above its peers. So shove those Duraflame logs under your lighter fluid dress and grab your Diet Pepsi as we discuss Mary Lou and all her antics. Plus, Nathan’s incredible Wal-Mart story, the definitive worst band, and of course Prom Bon Jovi’s classic hit “It’s Prom Night” all await you. We promise you won’t want to miss this one.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II stars Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Justin Louis, Lisa Schrage, and Richard Monette. Directed by Bruce Pittman.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:28

The first fire extinguisher was patented in 1723. I'm Nathan Simmons, and this podcast is about to be inserted into the anals of audio history.

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And I'm just a ghost of Hollywood. And boys, this is a very special episode. You want to know why? Why is that?

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It's from the night.

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And this is the Silver Lightings playlist, a podcast that tries to find the Silver Lighting in Enduring a Bad Prom.

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Dustin, Dustin, I beg of you, get a fucking hobby. But the the butt, not that. We're done, right? Like that's how that we get we can't do an episode now. Yeah, okay. Recipe's oatmeal. Recipes, oatmeal, and uh Vicky's mom. And Jess and her baby. Uh hint for next week, or yeah. Oh my god. Wow, I got a rebound from that.

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Yeah, you want to hear it again? Nope.

SPEAKER_04 2:05

Maybe we should end the episode with it. Absolutely.

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Sure, sure. There's a video uh component to it as well, but we'll save that for the end.

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Okay, great.

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Uh yeah, this is uh the silver linings playlist, as I said, a podcast that uh tries to find the silver lining in some of cinema's bleakest endings. And today we're talking about Nathan's pick, which is Hello Mary Lou Colon Prom Night 2.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

Yeah. Yeah, continuing the trend of uh slasher sequels that have nothing to do with the original film. This movie was a weird sh another one of those uh shutter discoveries during COVID. I signed up for Shudder and was like, I'm gonna watch everything in like the camp classics section that they had at the time.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

All the twos, Slumber Party Masker 2.

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Absolutely, Troll Two, House Two, the Second Story, which is honestly like the greatest subtitle of all time.

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Oh, of course. Of course.

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Wait, is that real? That's a real movie. Yeah, isn't that incredible? Oh my god.

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Holy shit.

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Yeah, what was it? We thought it was Halloween 2, more. More. I wish that was the title. And this movie. The thing is. First things first.

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Can I tell you, I my favorite discography of all time is Vitamin C. Yeah. Because her first album, I think it's called Vitamin C, and her second album is just called More. That rules.

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It's awesome. That rules. And like the B-sides album is called Pulp. So that yeah, this movie blew my mind when I watched it. I truly felt like I was watching a fevered dream because I watched Prom Night, which is a very slow burn, kind of boring slasher that really only wakes up for like a really goofy dance sequence towards the end of the movie. But then this movie was shot under a different title. It was called The Haunting of Hamilton High. Yeah. And then when the producer of the original Prom Knight was like, I will release this, they were like, Well, Prom Knight was a hit six years ago. Why don't we just slap the Prom Knight name on it?

SPEAKER_03 4:13

Yeah.

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But wait, it was called The Haunting of Hamilton High? Yeah. So if you abbreviate that, that's just they shouldn't have changed it.

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Oh man. Oh my god.

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I gotta get one ticket to home.

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This is gonna be a good episode. Yep. Yep. But I I love this movie. It is made it is so it's very appropriate. Uh peek behind the curtain. We're recording this episode on my one-year wedding anniversary. Yeah. And I think this is the movie that my wife and I have watched together the most. His wife. His prom date. Wait, that's the other sound you had to upload? Was the airborne?

SPEAKER_05 5:16

Oh no, no, no.

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I'm saving. There's a specific moment in the film I'm saving it for. Okay, beautiful. I almost gave it to you now because it would work. Okay. I I gotta hold off. Yeah, you got an edge for me, brother. Yeah, yeah. So I'm assuming this is a first-time watch for you guys, right? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You guys don't own the t-shirt? Like I have.

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It's a sick t-shirt.

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You guys don't have the soundtrack on vinyl. You have all your memorabilia within arm's reach. I do. I have all of my all of my Mary Lou merch because this movie also has kind of been relegated to streaming in DVD for a very long time. It's finally getting a 4K release this year, which you better believe I'm going to pre-order the second I can. It's such a weird oddity of the 80s. And I'm obsessed with these movies that feel like we took a semi-recognizable name and just made an anthology series out of it. And there's so many just weird choices throughout this entire movie. It's kind of a knockoff of Carrie, it's kind of a knockoff of a nightmare on Elm Street. They reference it in the Avengers movies. Oh, right, because that song plays during uh Age of Ultron, right? No, the working title for Infinity War was Mary Lou. The working title for Endgame was Mary Lou 2.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Wow.

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That is great. So I don't know if that's actually a reference. It's gotta be. I mean, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 6:46

I mean, how many uh Mary Lou's are there across cinema history that are as cool as this Mary Lou?

SPEAKER_04 6:51

I mean, Captain America kisses his grandniece, and there's still some connective tissue there. Same directors. How many prom nights are there?

SPEAKER_03 7:00

There's three, right?

SPEAKER_04 7:01

Four? There are five. Five! Fuck me. There are four plus a remake from 2008.

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Oh, right. Yeah.

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I forgot about the remake.

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Yeah, me too.

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The third one is a sequel to this that's written and directed by the screenwriter of this one, and it goes way more into just comedy territory. It's fun, but nowhere near as memorable as this one. I've never seen Prom Night 4, which sounds like it's right up Mally's alley because it is a it's about a murderous priest who exhibits stigmata when he kills people. Oh my god. Prom Knight. Deliver us from evil. Let's fucking go. And the actor Brock Simpson, who plays Josh in this movie, the the creep uh who rigs the computer voting, is in all four of these movies playing different characters.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

I want to know how he cuts back from his uh final seat of this movie. That's I maybe I gotta watch Prom Night Three.

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He plays a an unrelated police officer in part three.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

Oh, it's not the same character, just the same actor. Oh, that sucks. Okay.

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Wait, did you know another movie was originally supposed to be prom night five, but then when prom night four didn't do well, they were like, nah, just release it as its own thing. I did read about that. I know nothing about that. It's called The Club. Hell yeah, the club.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Starring 50 Cent.

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Membership news can be fatal. What?

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Oh man, this was my first time watching any of the prom nights. Yeah. And I gotta tell you, I had a fucking ball with this movie. Yeah. I text you, Nathan. I was like, there's a couple of times throughout the movie because it plays fairly straightforward early on as like a this is like an 80s slasher movie, whatever. It does. And then there's a couple of lines that I literally, my jaw dropped and I went, aha! Yeah. Like I got fwned. Yeah. Like when when Vicky tells Kelly, shut your fucking mouth, bitch. I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 9:00

Yeah. The movie goes to an immediate 11 at that fucking point. Uh-huh. It's so funny because it I mean, this is also another movie that like plays with horror tropes in really fun ways because you you think that you're almost getting like the slasher movie in reverse where like the repressed girl is being taken over by this liberated ghost. Yeah. But the ghost takes it to bizarre wild extremes, and you never know exactly what this ghost's powers or rules are. Their powers are yes.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Sometimes she just controls a hobby horse. Mary Lou, more like a Mary Sue, am I right?

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Well, there is that one scene where she runs straight at a TIE fighter.

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I love that scene. So good.

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I just love that they wrote this like Dr. Seuss ass title down. We're like, fuck yeah, that's the one. Lock that in. Yeah. Oh, it's so good.

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Uh so yeah, if you haven't seen Hello Mary Lou, cold Prob Night 2. It's a movie, that asked the age old question. Give it to me. What if there was a second Prop Night?

SPEAKER_04 10:02

Wow, phone that went in. Okay. I really thought you had something cooking there. Uh, you did not. And you microwave the fuck out of that.

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And you also say hi to Mary Lou. Hello, Mary Lou. Two! Two! So also, if you didn't know this, you can watch this movie for free on YouTube because some real Patriot out there has done us the favor of giving us an HD remaster and uploaded it to YouTube for free, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

Wait, was it the one with the random interjections of like the old guy in a chair?

SPEAKER_03 10:36

What?

unknown 10:37

What?

SPEAKER_04 10:37

No, I don't I don't know this cut. What? Oh you got the old man cut? I don't know. It's some YouTube channel that like shows old horror movies.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

So like there was like a little Oh, like um like Joe Bob's drive-in or whatever?

SPEAKER_04 10:51

No. I'll have to find the fucking link. Okay. Oh, that's so funny. Because that's an old guy hosting it. Yeah, it was like this guy hosting it, and he gives like a little like intro, and then there's like a cartoon that played before. It was like I was at an old movie theater. That's awesome. I love that. That's fun. It was kind of sick.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

When I search on YouTube, Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2, it's literally the first results is this HD remaster.

SPEAKER_04 11:17

It was so funny. My uh, so Ashley and I've watched this a bunch of times together. It's one of our comfort movies.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

You avoided saying my wife. I saw it. My betrothed and I watched this movie together.

SPEAKER_04 11:28

My one-year betrothed uh and I watched this movie together. His betrothed. His betrothed. And about five minutes in, she goes, fuck, this looks so good. Because we've been watching like this shitty pan and scan DVD copy that I got from a thrift store.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Well, it's also funny because like there is full bush of titties in this movie. They're like, I'm on YouTube, fuck it.

SPEAKER_04 11:50

Yeah, yeah. Hang on, let me find the version I watched. Okay. I just watched the first one that showed up. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 11:57

So before we get into the info dub, I do have one burning question. Oh. Uh, which I say that as a pun, but what the fuck was Mary Lou's fucking problem? What the fuck?

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She was a hellraiser before she even went to hell.

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I like that she's like, you know what? Fuck it up. All about sexuality. But then I also had to ask, what the fuck is your fucking problem?

SPEAKER_04 12:20

She's so aggro. She's like, because she goes from like poised prom queen to Elizabeth Berkeley and showgirls at the drop of a hat. Yep. And there is uh beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Wow, this link even says full nudity in the title.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

Oh, yeah. Full movie, full nudity.

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Tonight we have a movie about every teenager's. Who the hell is this guy?

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We've got a little Shriner's hat. Original creature features.

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He's got a little vest hat.

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It's the host, guys. He's got Iron Man's glove back there. He's got an eye patch. He does. This guy rules. Yeah. So this is the version I watched. That's cool. I think I'm gonna bookmark this page, Mally. If you just discovered something that makes me very happy. But wait, go back towards the beginning. There's like a preview cartoon.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Oh boy. Oh, I see it. Hold on. I see it.

SPEAKER_04 13:12

Yeah, it's just like a few minutes in.

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Sinbad.

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What the fuck? Oh, they play an old Sinbad cartoon? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

They're playing Hannah Barbera cartoons before Mary Lou.

SPEAKER_04 13:20

I love this.

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It's fucking wild. Yeah, this is awesome.

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This rule is Sinbad Jr. and his magic belt. What are we doing? We need to shut our show down. We're not competing with this. Yeah, can we put cartoons at the top of our episodes? I think that was wild. He's done a bunch of movies too. Like Catwomen on the Moon 1953. Hell yeah. Uh Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

So he's doing like a Jim Bob thing where he's presenting a movie. Yeah. Interesting.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Two weeks ago, he did spontaneous combustion. Oh, hell yeah. There's this uh podcast that I came across where it's just a guy that he'll have guests on and they watch like shitty horror movies and they just talk through it. Oh, you mean my episodes?

SPEAKER_03 14:02

I was gonna say, I think that's like a thousand podcasts that do that.

SPEAKER_04 14:06

No, JT, that is what we are doing right now. Yeah, but it's like a video thing. Okay, anyways, that guy reminds me of him. Yeah, I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, the thing about this movie is that it does play it kind of straight at the beginning, and it gets more camp and more elevated as it goes on. And then, like you said, every once in a while it'll drop a fucking crazy nugget. Like the moment I decided I love this movie is when Vicky is talking to the priest and she says, There's no God, buddy. That was great. This movie at the hour mark decides to reveal heaven doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

I gassed. I'm not joking. I like truly took my breath away at Monica's death. I was like blown away by this movie.

SPEAKER_04 14:54

Locker juice? Yeah, that shit is crazy. Although she does make a reference to being mad that when she died, she didn't get wings. Yeah. Which I also would be upset if Heaven didn't have hot wings.

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For real.

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Or no Paul McCartney. She's like, I outlived Paul McCartney. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

God. Uh all right. Well, let's get into the info dub.

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Dump that info, baby.

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So the year is 1987. The director is Bruce Pittman, who hasn't really directed anything I'm familiar with, other than he did some episodes of that Friday the 13th of the series.

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Which is fucking awful, by the way.

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But this film stars We got another one coming. Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Justin Luis, Lisa Shrage, and Richard Minnette. The budget was$1.8 million and it managed to grow as$2.6 million worldwide. Yeah. And this is a travesty. This movie currently sits at a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.

SPEAKER_04 15:58

156%? That's what I'm saying. I think a lot of that is because of the reaction of the day, too, because this is sort of like, in a lot of ways, a sort of a proto run out of scream type parody, too. Like, do you notice like all the characters have horror movie director names?

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I sure fucking did.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

I feel like this was like one of the first movies to do that, like before it was uh a trope. Kelly Hennenlauter, that just tells you like everyone was crazy about Basket Case. Kelly Hennenlauter, by the way, played by Terry Hawks, who voiced Sailor Moon! No! Which is wild. That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_03 16:37

So cool. So uh even though Roger Ebert didn't bother fucking reviewing this thing, we will right after we watch the trailer.

SPEAKER_04 16:45

Oh, there's a trailer? Mm-hmm. Roger Ebert probably would have loved this. No, he wouldn't. He would have hated this movie.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

He would have. Wait, Hugh Jackman's in this?

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Is he? I wish. God, I missed the 80s when all teenagers were 45. Oh my god.

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This guy. This guy.

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He picked a guy who's balding like Michael Ironside to play his younger self. Yep.

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Never mind Mr. Decay Bone head. Just give me the crowd.

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This year, someone special is coming back to Hamilton Hard. Mary Lou Malone.

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I do have a question. Yeah. What the fuck is her dress made of? I know, because it explodes into flames immediately.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Uh lighter fluid. It's the first lighter fluid.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Yeah, they stuffed their bras with asbestos back then. Oh, right, true.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Well, you did see she had a couple Duraflame logs tucked underneath her dress.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

Same, buddy. She will enter your body and see you. Sometimes. The rules aren't very clear. She has something to do with the drama department. I will say, she repeats the see you later alligator so many times throughout the movie. Uh-huh. The fact that like the final line before they get rid of her isn't after Wild Crocodile. Oh my god. I wrote the same note! Pisses me off so fucking much.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

I wrote the same note.

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Let's remake this. Okay, JT's playing Mary Lou. Hell yeah, brother. That's fun.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Her eyes are so striking.

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She has such an incredible look. Like I kept saying to Ashley, it's like if Audrey Horn was a demon. Yeah. Oh, so they just put the ending of the movie in the fucking trailer. Wow. Alright. Hello. It was a different time. Here's all five minutes of Michael Ironside we could afford.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

Yeah, man. That was my first note. I saw starring Michael Ironside in the opening credits. I was like, alright, I'm seated. You damn right. I'm seated.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

Oh man. Lord Darkseid himself.

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Uh so it's 1957, and this high school girl, Mary Lou, is in a confessional booth confessing to the priest that she's been fooling around with a lot of boys a lot of times. Many boys, many times. And that she loved every bit of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

She just does this before the prom. Like she fucks with the priest just to get a laugh. What did you guys do before your prom? Fix my hair for the 18th time. Before she goes, though, we get this shot of this prop room under the school and this trunk that for some reason is a gateway to the other side. I guess so, yeah. The trunk is so puzzling to me because it seems like there's magic in it before she is killed.

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I don't care. No, I don't care. Oh, I don't care either. I'm so in on this movie from like the as soon as I see her write in lipstick on the inside of this confessional booth for a good time, call Mary Lou about herself. I'm like, all right, I'm I'm into this.

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A tattoo that I have seriously considered getting. Oh my god.

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I was like, okay, girl.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Apparently that was the that was the screenwriter's phone number. That's funny. He got zero phone calls. Yeah, he told Pinkoria nobody called him.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Well, the problem is he didn't put an area code. I didn't know who the fuck I was supposed to call.

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Right. Ghostbusters.

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But meanwhile, it is prom night for Hamilton High, and the students are cutting a fucking rug. They sure are. Mary Lou is in attendance with her boy toy Billy. Blah. And she's interested in fooling around with this other guy, Cooper.

SPEAKER_04 20:31

Oh, you mean Bud? Buddy Cooper. Bud Cooper strikes again. We kept forgetting the priest's name was Buddy. And so whenever everybody is calling him Buddy later in the movie, Ashley was like, everybody's really familiar with the priest. Like, listen, Buddy. But Billy seems to understand Mary Lou because he got her a ring with her own initials on it.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Pretty cool. Pretty cool. And so yeah, Billy confronts the two as they're falling around backstage, but Mary Lou drops his full, like the fucking drip he is, uh, splashing a drink in his face and telling them to get the fuck out of him.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

If someone disrespected me like this, I'd kill myself. Like I wouldn't kill them. I'd kill she grabs his crotch and says it's a big free country, and he screams, God bless America.

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Which you gotta love because they are 100% filming this in Canada. Yep.

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And then Buddy holds his hand in Billy's face and says, You want to shake? It's as close as you're gonna get.

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This dude's a fucking loser.

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And there is only one thing to do at this point, which is throw a flaming bag of shit on this woman. The happy Gilmar's.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

He does. Yeah, the prom queen is announced, and what you know it, it's Mary Lou. Yeah. And Billy climbs the catwalk above the stage as she accepts her flowers and crown.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

Because you know how they only announce a queen.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. At no point throughout this movie do they ever mention a prom king. Not once.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

This is the woke mine virus. When it cuts to like the 80s, they just completely like fail to mention that Billy probably served time for fucking manslaughter at some point.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

So I don't know because at the end of the movie, he shoots her in the chest like seven times and is able to drive his car away.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

Yeah. The 80s were different, man. The real magic here is the force field around Billy.

SPEAKER_03 22:21

But yeah, as the crowd applauds Mary Lou, Billy tosses a stink bob down on top of her, which looks like half a stick of dynamite.

SPEAKER_04 22:28

It sure does. Yes. And it goes up like one, too.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

The wick from the bomb the fireworks sets her dress ablaze and she burns baby birds. Immediately. Glaring into Billy's eyes while it happens, and no one attempts to put this fire out. They all just stand around.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Billy's the only one yelling, get help. Yep. Yep. Like, brother, you did this. Buddy jumps up with his jacket and is like, ah, fuck it. No, it's too hot. Too hot, too hot. Yep. And then Buddy's just like, all right, I'm gonna cry on these steps for a second. But we're also assuming that the smoke bomb went off, too. So not only do you smell a burning.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

She's stinky.

SPEAKER_04 23:05

Do you think her dress just did that? So now it smells from the stink bomb and a burning body. Oh, that's why they weren't helping her. She was too stinky. She was too stinky, yeah. More like Mary P. U, am I right? So God damn it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

One note I have though about this movie is it feels like this is a missed opportunity because like Billy is the only one that she should really have a grudge against. Yeah. Because this isn't like Carrie, where it's like John Travolta and PJ Souls and like all these people conspiring against her. It's one loser.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

Well, it's not really clear on a first viewing, but she's killing all of the other people who are up for prom queen, also, because that's what she cares about. And then she decides to go after Billy and Buddy and all these people that kind of let her down.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

Buddy's presence in this movie is so strange because he's not really involved in the action, and then suddenly he has like the merynamicon and knows everything about how like possession works. I love the part where she straight up asks the Catholic priest if he believes in ghosts. I'm like, that's their whole thing. Yeah, yeah. I got a holy one.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

In the present day, Vicky Carpenter is having breakfast with her parents. Yeah. And her mother disapproves of getting her a new prawn dress, even though she wants one. And man, this one side ponytail tells you exactly what year we're in. I know.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Well, she yeah, we see Vicky like looking at her body in the mirror and trying to figure out like she's basically like sizing herself up. Like you can tell this is someone who like wants to be more adult and is clearly like in a house with this mother who is like a Stephen King mom with how much she talks about the Bible, but also is fully just buttoned up like to the chin. Yep. And her her dad, who is queer-coded until he's very much not.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

Dude, we'll talk about his dad later on. God damn it. And yeah, Vicky is played by Wendy Lyons, who's fucking great in this movie, man.

SPEAKER_04 25:08

She's so good in this movie. She's great. The way she goes between playing Vicky and Mary Lou, she had there's a change in the tone of her voice. She has these moments where her face goes kind of vacant when Mary Lou starts to push through. There's a moment, well, we we can talk about it later, but there's a moment when she sees Michael Ironside for the first time and she just looks after him and says, Billy. Yeah. And it is like haunting. It's it's a performance that seems to transcend what this movie is aiming to be.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

To be to be uh so Viki gets picked up by her boyfriend Craig on his motorcycle.

SPEAKER_04 25:45

Craig's who's a fucking nerd, but also has a bike. Hey, he's breaking through stereotypes, Nathan.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

Yeah, they head to a diner for breakfast where he gives her a cross necklace.

SPEAKER_04 25:54

Did you recognize this guy? Yes, he's in Saw 7? Four. He's the seven, too, I think. He's the scummy lawyer who gets his mouth sewn shut. No, because he gets shot, right? By the cops at the end of Saw 4.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

Oh, I thought he was like the FBI agent in one of the last saws. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:11

I think so. He's in one of those name. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

I gotta ask though, who the fuck has time in the morning before school to not only have breakfast with your parents, but then drive to a diner and have breakfast there and then still are you waking up at four in the morning every day? What is this?

SPEAKER_04 26:27

This is a trope that Ashley and I are obsessed with because they do it in uh My Buddy Valentine also. Like these kids, they're like, all right, enough of the lame breakfast with my parents. Time to get coffee, and then I've got three hours to go get the laundry, and then I'm gonna go to school.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

Jesus Christ. Uh so in class, Vicky and her friend Monica discuss the prom and boys.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

He also plays fucking Declan in Breaking Bad. Oh, right. What the hell?

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:57

He's also in fucking Shogun.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Yes. Wow. I'm a big fan of Monica going, why doesn't any guy ever ask me out? And then right after that, a guy does, and she says, get lost, asshole.

SPEAKER_04 27:08

Monica, who is her 45-year-old friend, dies.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah, this one's ready to draw social security pretty soon.

SPEAKER_04 27:14

Yeah, this woman's working nights at the Kmart. Like she is, she's tired. She's raising five kids and going to high school. I am obsessed with this speech from Josh where he's talking about the potato radio, and he has one of the most insane lines I've ever heard. I know what it is. I developed a guacamole radio, but that was no good. It only picked up stations in Mexico. Wild line. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

I didn't know this kid's name, so for the rest of the movie, I kept calling him Potato Radio Boy.

SPEAKER_04 27:41

That's a great Koopa Gooding Jr. movie. Potato Radio. Potato radio. Potato Radio Boy is the worst fucking superhero.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

And of course, his teacher's name is Mr. Craven, which is unfortunate because later on he's a pervert. And I'm like, why'd you have to name this guy after Craven? Why?

SPEAKER_04 27:59

Yeah, he's craven some illegal activity as much.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

So it turns out Craig's dad is Michael Ironside, aka Billy from the opening scene, who's now the principal of this high school. And how can you tell he's also balding? Yeah. And uh Billy's upset that wants to take a gap year. Yeah, Billy's upset that Craig wants to take a gap year, much like uh Vicky does too. Her parents are pretty upset about that. And uh yeah, Vicky's friend Jess, who she's talking to in this next scene about prom has not only the biggest hair I've seen in a movie, but her outfit. She looks like a genie. Like this is crazy. She looked comfy, is what she does. Yeah. She sure does.

SPEAKER_04 28:41

Yeah, no, my first note is so we meet Vicky's friend Susie Sue. I mean Jess.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

She looks like when Daffy Duck gets blown up by a bomb and like the hair blows back.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

Yeah, Mary Lou uh throws her out a window and she's like, You're despicable. But Jess is another example of a performance that does not belong in this movie. Like there is that is absolutely the audition scene for the film.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Yes. That scene sticks out so hard from this movie. Why is that scene in this movie?

SPEAKER_04 29:11

It's crazy. Uh we also meet Mean Girl Kelly Hennenlauter, who's talking about her dress so that Vicky can hear. And all of this activity is causing this box in the school's prop base. Like the drama club owns the entire basement of the school. This is the school Nathan wished he had gone to. I fucking wish.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

I was gonna say in my high school, we definitely had a theater department. I do not remember, because I did perform in one play in high school. I do not remember us having a prop room this like she goes in there, Vicky does, looking for a new prom dress. Yeah. And when she walks in there, there are like rows and it's like a TJ Maxx. Like there are so many clothes in here.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

We couldn't have drama class when it rained because they wouldn't fix the ceiling in our theater room. Like, that's not even a joke. God. It looks like the fucking scene in The Matrix when they're like, we need guns, and then rows of guns start appearing. Yeah. I need a prom dress.

SPEAKER_03 30:08

It's like Barbara Streisand's basement, just a whole mall down here. I know Romeo and Juliet.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

No, this is an insane prop room, and she grabs like this prop Spartan sword to open this trunk that contains Mary Lou's uh original cape and crown because I guess the school decided to literally try to forget about this and bury it in the basement.

SPEAKER_03 30:33

And yeah, just as she opens this trunk, a framed photo of the class of 1957 in Billy's office splinters right over Mary Lou's face.

SPEAKER_05 30:43

I like it.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

I like it too. It's goofy, but I like it. It's good. So yeah, they're having like this this scene in like, I don't even know what class this is. Shop class. Shop class, but for the props for the theater club, I guess. Yeah. And yeah, Jess is having a hard time. She goes in the bathroom and starts crying and tells Vicky and a warner that this guy she likes stood her up, but that she's pregnant and doesn't know what to do. And I'm like, uh, what movie am I watching?

SPEAKER_04 31:10

And she she says, I'm pregnant, and Vicky just kind of sits with it. She doesn't say anything. It is a superbly acted scene that was definitely an audition side. It does not belong in this movie, and it is so insane that they do this and then immediately give Jess the cruelest death in the film the next scene.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

This pregnant woman is the first victim of this zombie, and it's god damn it.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

It's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:37

So I'm guessing this is after school. Jess is in this shop class again.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

We hear the ADR janitor tell her, Yeah, you can just lock. You know how students can just lock up whenever they're ready to go home. Very trustworthy janitor.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

She's trying on Mary Lou's cape and whatnot in this classroom, and she decides she's gonna pry the jewels out of the crown. Yeah. The prom queen crown for some reason.

SPEAKER_04 32:00

I guess she was gonna bedazzle the kit. And also, she's wearing this cape like she doesn't already own like seven caftans that look like it. Like we see what this woman wears.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

She looks like a magician, man.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

She's dressed like David Bowie in the labyrinth. Hey, her fit is on fucking match. It's great. It's great. Don't get me wrong. This is my vision board.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

The trunk in the prop room doesn't like that she's prying these jewels out. And so the cape she's got around her neck like pulls itself back and starts to choke her. And we get such a good fake out here.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Well, yeah, because it's like a poltergeist can't decide what's the meanest thing I can do. Because it it starts to use a paper cutter on her, then it starts to hang her, then it starts to drag her. It's so excessive.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Just trying stuff out. It's so funny because yeah, you think it's the paper cutter is gonna cut her head off, and then it's like, oh no, she's gonna be hung with her cape from this light fixture. And I'm like, okay, cool, she's dead. And then we can just cut to a shot of a window that for a long time just sits there, and then she gets yeeted out the fucking window.

SPEAKER_04 33:02

And we hold on her dead face for a while. Like it's it is so evil.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

I also like the jewels just popping itself back into the crown.

SPEAKER_04 33:13

So Ashley and I've watched this a few times. Whenever it cut to the outside of the window, we just started giggling because we just knew what was coming. Yeah. Just it it makes me laugh every time and feel bad that it's so funny to me.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Well, it's it's like a very final destination kind of death. Like I was thinking about like Todd from the first movie where he's getting hung in the bathroom. Yeah. And then also this shot of Jess dead as we zoom out of the eye just made me think of Psycho. It's a very similar shot.

SPEAKER_04 33:39

Yeah. Meanwhile, Buddy is praying to his portrait of Mary Lou.

SPEAKER_03 33:43

This rules. And somehow Jess's death is ruled a suicide. Yeah. And at the funeral, Vicky finds Mary Lou's headstone and like kind of just zones out for a little bit. They throw this funeral together real quick, too. They sure do.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

And Buddy is like, I've been meaning to talk about violence in television for a while, so I'll just shoehorn it into this girl's eulogy. There's an interesting moment though where when Vicky like walks away from the funeral, Kelly is also at the funeral and looks genuinely distraught. And it's like a weird, there's like a weird moment of like humanity for this character that we never see again.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Well, I was just about to say, back at school, Kelly, who is this rich snobby bitch, it's so funny because she seems to be in an entirely different movie where she seems to be the only one concerned about making whoever's gonna become prom queen a competition.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

She's campaigning.

SPEAKER_03 34:38

None of the other girls seem to be aware of it. No. And she tells Monica and Vicky they should, quote, take the hint from Jess, and I gotta play this clip. Oh my god, it's the best. God, I lost my mind at this line read.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

The competition seems to be dwindling. You two should take the hint from Jess. You shut your fucking mouth, bitch. So good!

SPEAKER_04 35:05

We're gonna need that on the soundboard. So good. You must be a fucking Republican.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

I guffawed. Like, there's no other word I could use to describe my reaction.

SPEAKER_04 35:17

And like right before that happens, Monica asks Vicky, hey, what's the matter? And I was like, You just went to your other best friend's funeral, bitch. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 35:29

God. And so Vicky starts having weird visions in school, like bugs all over the already disgusting school food, faces in the soup, evil punks in the cafeteria, blood in the water fountains, cats and dogs living together.

SPEAKER_04 35:47

There's also this weird moment where like this greaser guy says, I love you, Mary Lou, and like assaults her on the lockers. It's a very weird moment that like kind of maybe hints at why Mary Lou has such a chip on her shoulder about guys.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

Should have been the driller killer from Slumber Party Mask, too. A little bit of a crossover there.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

I've had Mary Lou.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

They also have something to common. They both went up in flames. Hey.

SPEAKER_04 36:14

Big jar of milk at the dinner table.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

God, the whole picture. I knew I didn't like this dad for multiple reasons. But Vicky tells her parents she's also not going to college and wants to take a year off, and her mother's not having any of that shit. And so at a co-ed volleyball game, Kelly immediately knocks Vicky into another one of her visions. Yes. Where the other kids in the gym are replaced by like these zombie-like people just chanting Merry Lou. And she gets like tied up in a black cobweb.

SPEAKER_04 36:44

Spider web volleyball net. I don't know what this was. And when she wakes up, someone is holding her throat to check her hold. Like it's like fucking strangling her.

SPEAKER_03 36:54

Well, there goes my bit part, you called it. Man, the outfits, though, in this volleyball scene. Yes. I can't decide which is the best one.

SPEAKER_04 37:04

There's so much headgear.

SPEAKER_03 37:06

Lot of headgear.

SPEAKER_04 37:07

Everybody's got like a ribbon tied around their head.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Monica looks like she's about to become a Power Ranger.

SPEAKER_04 37:13

She does. Josh has also asked Monica to the prom, and he's like, well, you could come hang out with me while I work on the computer vote. And like, this is kind of a cute scene if you ignore the way he behaves later.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Dude, first of all, I didn't know you needed a computer to count what is this, like 40 votes on who's gonna become prom queen? Not prom king either, just prom queen.

SPEAKER_04 37:35

Stop the steal is a big uh plot point in prom night one.

unknown 37:39

Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 37:40

God. So yeah, Vicky, when she comes out of her trance, she's shouting that she's not Mary Lou, and Billy overhears it. So he heads to the prop robe to ensure that that trunk is still sealed, and it appears to be so.

SPEAKER_04 37:52

So Which, like, does he know that there's like a cursed trunk? Like he opens the trunk and is and just has this look on his face like, I knew it. Like, what happened? What do you know?

SPEAKER_03 38:03

I gotta tell you, if I burned a woman to death while she was alive at someday. And I don't mean that I was at this school prom. I would not want to become the principal of this school. Right.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

Well, that's why we need the so nobody gets burned at prom. Oh god. Jesus Christ. Mary Lou was an inside job. We can cut that.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

So Vicky goes to the same confessional booth and tells the priest Father Cooper, the guy Mary Lou was fooling around with in the opening scene, that she's having sinful thoughts about her boyfriend and that she's been seeing hallucinations about Mary Lou and her friend Jess, and Billy decides to burn the class photo from his office. Right.

SPEAKER_04 38:48

I can't believe this dude became a fucking priest.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

I know.

SPEAKER_04 38:51

And he looks so tired before she even starts talking about Mary Lou. He's like, oh God, another fucking confession.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And so God, that creepy fucking horse. I'm about to talk about it. Vicky's visions start to get worse, such as a rocking horse in her bedroom that comes to life. This girl has a full-on, like what you would see on a carousel, like that size of a pony in her room as a rocking horse.

SPEAKER_04 39:16

It's crazy. And it's like eh, it's got a veiny head. And when it starts looking at it, it's got a veiny what? You know what I mean. And then when she looks at it, she says, go away to the horse. And I'm like, what do you mean, go away?

SPEAKER_03 39:30

It's a rocky horse. It can only go forwards and backwards.

SPEAKER_04 39:33

Also, you put it there. My brother in Christ, you bought the horse. I bought the horse. Keep the form or whatever that phrase is. Yeah, classic. Why buy the horse where you can get the tongue for free?

SPEAKER_03 39:44

Dude, I love this horse going on.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

This is a pretty great, like, low budget effect, too, of her getting like vacuum sealed in the bed. It's like a very uh very nightmare in Elm Street 1 effect. That's how tucked in I'm trying to be. Right? That shit look cozy. Me with my weighted blanket and my cup of tea. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:05

I thought it was a great scene. It felt like like zombie hands underneath the blankets were grabbing at her too. This is pretty horrific, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_04 40:12

It is. And then the the hand coming out of the mirror is a good effect. Dude, this effect in the mirror and later in the chalkboard, like they're good. They're really good. They're really good. And those were reshoots. The um the studio wasn't crazy about how the movie was like running, and so they gave the screenwriter a hundred thousand dollars and said, add some effects, basically. Like, and so he had to come up with like these weird gags in the reshoots. That mirror was one, the chalkboard's another.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

When she throws her radio at the horse to get it to stop, and it explodes. It explodes like an aqua teed when fucking Master Shake throws anything to the ground.

SPEAKER_04 40:52

And then she says, I dropped the radio. And I'm like, tell somebody something's wrong.

SPEAKER_03 40:56

Mm-hmm. So Vicky pays another visit to Mary Lou's grave that night and runs into Father Cooper. Yeah. And he tries to repel her presence with what seems to be a seance, but his Bible bursts into flames.

SPEAKER_04 41:11

Oh, yeah. I wrote more like the Body of Christ compels you, am I right? Exorcisms are so funny to me. Yeah. Like, oh, the body of Christ compels you. It's like, what why are demons afraid of Jesus' washboard abs? Uh you could bounce a demon off of those things. But every time I go to the gym, I'm just like trying to get that Jesus on the cross.

SPEAKER_03 41:35

So the next day, Father Cooper pays Billy a visit to tell him, look, Mary Lou has come back for revenge. Yeah. And that she will take over Billy's body, but not him, because he's a priest. He's in the clear. And Billy's like, get the fuck out of my house.

SPEAKER_04 41:48

Yeah, you should forget about it, man. And I'm like, you're the killer. Like, you can't tell other people, hey, don't worry about it. Inside Ironside's all teak wood study. God, this room rolls. It's good. God, you just gotta drink bourbon in a room like this. Smells like leather. Mm-hmm. Smells like leather cigars and going to see a man about a horse.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

A rocking horse.

SPEAKER_04 42:09

And he's got this book that's like, she's gonna come back and take over your body. She's gonna kill your son. And I'm like, where are you reading? Like, again, I was like, is this the Mary Namakon? Like, where are you getting all this information?

SPEAKER_03 42:20

I swore this was just his Bible. And he's like, it's right here. It's in Leviticus chapter four. Sure. And Mary Lou saith unto thee. I've read the Bible. It doesn't come up. And so Kelly asks this potato radio boy to fix the vote for Prom Queen, which we'll come back later at the end of the movie. This shit's fucking wild, this plot thread.

SPEAKER_04 42:42

Her boyfriend's kind of a dick. He picks her up and he's joking about her, like, oh, what, no straight jacket? And I'm like, are you kidding me? And then she's really good in this scene where she says, I don't know what's real and what isn't anymore. Like, you can tell this girl looks like she hasn't slept in days.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

I was just about to say it's a great touch how they make her look more and more disheveled as the movie goes along. Like, yeah, when she's in this diner, I was like, girl, she looks like Charlie Sheen and fucking Ferris Bueller. Like, how long have you been up? And so Monica brings Vicky the 1957 school year book where she finds Mary Lou's photo, but then Vicky gets detention for slapping the absolute fuck out of Kelly in class. Awesome. This is a bitch slap to end all bitch slaps, dude. God damn.

SPEAKER_04 43:26

And this is just after she's presumably been told, I will make you prom queen. But Josh has told her I will make you prom queen if you blow me. God damn it. We will talk about that scene. Because he types something on a computer and she's like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

Yeah. So in detention by herself, Vicky sees someone has written help me from the other side of the chalkboard, like it's backwards. The good effect. And when she goes to investigate it, zombified hands reach through and grab her, pulling her through like it's like uh the mirror at the end of Prince of Darkness, kind of.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

And it turns into like alphabet soup. The the letters are swirling around with her. And again, a good example of a lo-fi effect because they clearly just like pulled her into a pool, like on its, you know, and then they shot it at an angle. Yeah. But yeah, it's it's really effective, I think. It's really good. I really like the touch at the end when uh the chalkboard goes back to normal, but the letters are are all crooked. Yeah, they go back to chalk but all crooked as they landed. It's very funny. And then she emerges possessed and fully naked.

SPEAKER_03 44:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 44:30

Yeah, she's she's ready to go back out on the town. Speaking of that, I have a story to share with you guys. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

About waking up naked and wet.

SPEAKER_04 44:37

Okay, let's just pause this. Do you want to hit the Nathan Stories sound effect? Oh, sure, of course, yes. Wow, we had a sound effect for that. Wow. My balls were out at Walmart yesterday. Oh God. I I went to the store yesterday and uh I park in front of Walmart. I hope so. And I'm about to get out of the car and I feel something cold. Uh-oh. And I look down, my pants have split, and one of my testicles is just resting on my carabiner for my keys.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

Carabine bagger.

SPEAKER_04 45:16

Anyway, I had to go back home, change my clothes, and think about my life. And I I just wanted to share that.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

Wow, you you did a Jill Rips?

SPEAKER_04 45:24

Yeah, I did. Oh my god. I mean, you're at the right place at Walmart. I mean, you would have fit right in. Yep. So Josh is the only one who thinks, okay, maybe she's possessed. Like he immediately twigs that this girl has been possessed. He's sort of the randy of this movie all of a sudden. Yeah. And he says, you know, there could be a lot of advantages for a girl whose head spins around. What? There's a lot to unpack there because I I feel like I feel like it's getting snapped off if that happens, right?

SPEAKER_03 45:51

Yeah, what does that mean?

SPEAKER_04 45:52

Oh no, yeah, yeah. Dick gone. Dick gone.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

Dick gone.

SPEAKER_04 45:57

Uh so anyway. I mean, unless you're into like the back of heads. Yeah. I guess. I don't know. I don't know. Is that a kink? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

I'm not not against it, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Um slapping it across the temple.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

So Vicky returns to the confessional booth that Mary Lou was at at the beginning of the movie and confesses to hurting her friends, giving in to her sexual desires, and asks for forgiveness from Father Cooper, and then she asks for a fuck.

SPEAKER_04 46:23

She says, Will you pray for me? Will you fuck me? And her voice gets deeper when she's Mary Lou. It's a really good switch.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:31

And Buddy is just like, get me the fuck out of here. Is Mary Lou's phone number still written in there? I was wondering. I hope so.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

That'd be so fun if like 30 years later.

SPEAKER_04 46:41

But they don't meant they don't show it until like she's busting through the confessional booth. Right. So like a little piece of the wood just has the Oh, that'd be good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:50

Uh yeah, she uh she bursts through the confessional booth and uh kills Father Cooper right there.

SPEAKER_04 46:56

Shoves a crucifix down his throat. In his airway, yeah, like the song said. Just like the song said, just like John Bon Jovi wrote.

SPEAKER_03 47:04

So the next day, Vicky, quote unquote, returns to school like everything's normal, though she's much more conservatively dressed in essentially 50s attire, and she's way meaner to everybody. Yeah. Josh calls it out immediately.

SPEAKER_04 47:18

Yeah. Josh is like, there's something wrong with her. Monica's like, yeah, she just is dressed weird. And I'm like, she's just wearing her Audrey Horn finest. She's dressed for Twin Peaks. And then they're decorating for the prom, which Ashley and I think the think that the theme of the prom is just subjects. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:36

I was gonna say science, but then there's like tic-tac-toe on the wall.

SPEAKER_04 47:39

Yeah. Extracurriculars. I don't know. I mean, if I go to prom and there's tic-tac-toe on the wall, you know where to find me. I'm playing. It's good night. I'm gonna be running that table all fucking night, son.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

And yeah, in class, Mr. Craven fills up Vicky and then she burns his dick.

SPEAKER_04 47:56

Like he would have just done this to Vicky. Like that's so insane to me.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

Yeah. She likes sets a little like Bunsen burner on fire with her mind and burns this dude right in the dickhead.

SPEAKER_04 48:06

And Monica somehow figures out she did that. Like, I don't know how you jump to Vicky did this.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Yeah. And we never see this guy again. He might have died right there. His dick might have just killed him. Well, yeah, most of your blood's there.

SPEAKER_04 48:19

Toasty little sausage. But it it's crazy to think about the this very next scene when we find out the fate of her friend and what she gets, but yet the pedophile teacher. He gets off with gets off. Well, I don't want to say he gets off. Probably not anymore. I hope not.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

So Vicky attacks Monica in the shower as they're both fully nude.

SPEAKER_04 48:41

God, imagine getting an erection when your dick is all scar tissue. That's what that red hot chili pepper song is about. Scar tissue on my fucking down. Wait, is a red hot chili pepper a penis? It has to be, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:56

That's what is what you call it after the Bunsa burner gets to it, of course.

SPEAKER_04 48:59

They're the worst band, right? Like I think we can think they're the worst band. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:04

Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 49:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 49:05

So yeah, she attacks her in the shower. At first it's it's weird because she first attacks her with kisses.

SPEAKER_04 49:10

Yeah. And then she gets to It starts in a weird spot, right? Because they're like arguing and then she starts smooching her on the face, and Monica has like a full-on gay panic moment.

SPEAKER_03 49:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 49:22

It feels like. Yeah. To the point where she's running around screaming like someone let me out of here. Yeah. Because there's no way she thinks her friend is a murderer, right?

SPEAKER_03 49:32

Well, it's weird because like if this scene would have played out to like its full extent, like I wonder if Mary Lou does swing both ways and was like actually trying to like have this. Because it doesn't seem like it doesn't seem like she's trying to kill her yet until Monica runs away.

SPEAKER_04 49:47

But it also does feel like she's trying to freak her out. Like she's trying to she's a habitual line stepper. She's gotta like push her luck. And this absolutely inspired that scene in the faculty, right?

SPEAKER_03 49:58

Oh, yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

I was just thinking that, yeah. Yeah, God, the faculty fucking rules. Yeah. There's also a split diopter here, which I was very excited about.

SPEAKER_03 50:07

This death is fucking crazy. So Monica hides in a locker. Monica. Yeah, Ja rules not having a good time during this scene.

SPEAKER_01 50:17

No, Monica!

SPEAKER_03 50:20

And so she's hiding in a locker, and Vicky is just walking up and down. Come to my music festival. These these uh rows of lockers just singing 20 fruity in a minor key.

SPEAKER_04 50:32

Never knew I needed that.

SPEAKER_03 50:33

Fully naked, like tip to tail. And uh wait, I'm I'm sorry, what was that? You heard me. And so she stops in front of the locker that Monica's in, and somehow bop with her mind, she is able to use the adjoining lockers and crush her locker until blood and guts start oozing out of it. This death was nuts.

SPEAKER_04 50:57

It's really fast, too. Like she turns this girl into potted meat like so fast.

SPEAKER_03 51:02

This is the fucking Titan submersible of this movie. This is like she pops like a balloon and it takes like half a second to happen. It's fucking crazy. Yeah. And she I thought what was happening when she was breaking the fourth wall, because she looks right down the barrel of the camera. Yeah. And I'm like, well, this is a weird choice. And it immediately cuts to this girl getting flattened like a fucking pancake. And I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 51:25

It's so good. Because you don't even like it's such a good low budget effect, too, right? Like you don't have to see all the gore, you just see like these goops and globs. God, it's oh I'm curious on how they made that effect. Oh they actually crushed a girl. They fucking killed her, JT.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

That actress never started another movie. She's dead.

SPEAKER_04 51:46

On her 70th birthday.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

And also, not to make like too much of a note of it, but like this is like prime era for like nudity in horror movies. And for there to be up to this point, no nudity, and then like it's immediately like, here's full frontal.

SPEAKER_04 52:01

It's full frontal, but then it's also done in service of like making you uncomfortable. Like, I don't I mean, there it is definitely titillation, but it is also played as sinister that she's naked. Like, and you don't normally see that, especially in this era of horror movies, where like the woman is the aggressor as well. Like, there's a it's a it's very transgressive. It's also one of those things where, from what I understand, the director kind of sprung in on them, like, hey, what if you did this scene nude? Of course, and she was like, sure, I'll go for it. And then the other actress was like, I will wear a towel. Like, fuck you. Yeah, I don't know, make of that what you will. Sure. One small issue of this movie is that Mary Lou's ghost is not at all flabbergasted by 80s technology. You know what? That's true. Yeah, just no reaction.

SPEAKER_03 52:47

That's true. She's been watching from the wing, she's seen the updates happening from the trunk.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

This scene is fucking wild. Oh, yeah, where she basically uppercuts his dick and then calls him a slur when he doesn't like it.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

So yeah, Vicky and Craig start fooling around on a bed in the theater department, and she is like, Yeah, why won't you fuck me? And calls him uh an F slur. And it's she's so good as unhinged Vicky. Like this actress is incredible in this movie. I'm not making like a joke of it. No, it's really good.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

When she screams, don't you want to fuck me, and like cackles, it's so wild. But it's really good. And then Billy has a nightmare about his son in the Titanic car with Mary Lou while Doodoo runs down his head. Such a drastic shift.

SPEAKER_03 53:35

It's such a uh wild, yeah, wild moment in this movie. And uh yeah, when he wakes up from his nightmare, Vicky is in his office and she admits to being Mary Lou reincarnated.

SPEAKER_04 53:46

These are my favorite lines in the movie because it's the only time where Mary Lou reckons with like the tragedy of what happened to her. She says, I remember prom night, I was ready for the world, I could have been anything. And she like makes out with Ironside for a second, and then she says, Craig is so cool. What did he want to be? Oh, that is a great fucking villain line. Yeah, it is so good, and then he's so stunned that he just watches her leave.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

It's a really good scene. Uh, but then I have to ask, what fucked up little freak wrote this scene of Vicky fingering this rocking horse's mouth? I know. I was like so taken aback by this.

SPEAKER_04 54:22

And then why does it have a mouth? Her dad comes in and is like, this is normal, you look nice.

SPEAKER_03 54:29

Yeah, her her dad walking in and like she starts kissing him, and he is a hundred percent into it.

SPEAKER_04 54:35

Yeah, he starts kissing back.

SPEAKER_01 54:37

It's worth it! Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 54:45

Oh man. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 54:50

Oh, callous whispers kissing your dad. Why is the dad so into it? She's serving cutting this fucking dress and then mix out with her dad. It's an incredible dress. And then yeah, she's like leaned on it like she's in a white snake video. She's leaning on this horse when he comes in and he's like, Oh, cool, this is normal. You do this.

SPEAKER_03 55:14

And then like the mom comes in and instead of like berating the dad, like she's like, What have you done? She should beat the shit out of her husband, but instead she's like, She just calls her like a harlot or something. Yeah, she calls her a harlot and says, What have you done? I'm like, you need to go have a conversation with your husband lady. Yeah, calls her a Jezebel. Not a Jezebel, a Jezebel.

SPEAKER_04 55:37

And again, I don't know if it's the performance or Can that be my drag name? Yes, absolutely. Jezebel. To me, it feels like for the first chunk of this movie, her the dad is like very queer-coded. Like he feels like a buttoned up, closeted man who was like sort of forced into normalcy, which kind of would play with the themes of this movie. But then this like blows that shit right out of the water. I have no idea what to make of this character. Yeah, no, he's not closeted, he just wants to fuck his daughter. That's all that is.

SPEAKER_03 56:07

You never want to fuck your daughter. I just gotta say that. You never want to do that.

SPEAKER_04 56:11

Hey, if you guys take nothing else away from this podcast.

SPEAKER_03 56:15

If you if you fuck your daughter, you might be a Republican.

SPEAKER_04 56:20

You might be a fucking Republican. We should get that on a t-shirt.

SPEAKER_01 56:27

Oh man!

SPEAKER_04 56:30

By the way, uh, if you go to Aldi, there's a pineapple and dragon fruit hard seltzer that is delightful. Hell yeah. Fucking love Aldi. Yeah. So she zooms the camera at her mom until she dies.

SPEAKER_03 56:43

Yep. And then she just steps over this woman's corpse and just walks off to prom.

SPEAKER_04 56:48

But wait, the dad lives, right?

SPEAKER_03 56:50

Yeah, that's the last we see of the dad is him wiping his mouth after making out with his daughter.

SPEAKER_04 56:55

Well, she was just transferring some of the goop from that horse's mouth.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

And so Craig tries to leave for prom, but Billy knocks his ass out with a fucking shoe.

SPEAKER_04 57:08

Hits him in the back of the head with a fucking. He goes, Where's my shoe? And he goes, right here. Hey, well, at least he didn't kiss him. All right. You know.

SPEAKER_03 57:17

That would have been a power move. He heard about Vicky's dad.

SPEAKER_04 57:20

That's the bar we're aiming for. At least he didn't kiss him. If you take anything from this episode, hit your kid with a shoe instead of kissing him. Hit your kids. The more you know.

SPEAKER_03 57:32

Hit your kids. That's what we're telling you. Hit your kids, don't hit on them. There you go. Perfect. Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 57:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 57:38

So Billy decides to exhibit Mary Lou's body to prove that she's dead once and for all, but only finds Father Cooper's corpse inside the coffin with a crucifix shoved down his fucking throat. Yeah. Pretty great.

SPEAKER_04 57:51

And it's a nice little acting moment from Ironside where he holds Cooper's body and starts crying. Well it's it's like, oh, he gets to act in the last 20 minutes of this movie.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

Well, he holds his body, but then he's like, you fucking idiot. Like you stupid shithead. And then I love because Craig wakes up from his uh getting knocked out by this shoe and he runs to call Vicky. And I love the cunty little answering machine message that he that Mary Lou made.

SPEAKER_04 58:15

She's so extra that she's replaced the answering machine message for Vicky's house. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 58:21

It says, I got places to go, people to kill.

SPEAKER_04 58:24

Meanwhile, we see that Josh brought a corsage from Monica, but he thinks he's been stood up. So now I guess it's time to be a creep.

SPEAKER_03 58:31

And then Josh takes uh Vicky's photo with the uh camera that makes your soul disappear.

SPEAKER_04 58:37

She turns into a supernova, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:40

God, and then this is the scene I think we've all been waiting to talk about. So Josh is in the room with quote unquote the computer. You know, the one we all use.

SPEAKER_04 58:49

The room where it happens. That's what the Hamilton song's about.

SPEAKER_03 58:53

The computer we all use to tabulate the prom queen vote. Not the prom king vote, just the prom queen one. Just the queen. And he's like, uh, you know, I could change the votes to be in your favor, Kelly. You knew my price. Yeah. And the man, this was fucking crazy. This girl. She blows him. She says, put your hands on the Hold on. Hold on. We're going way too fast in this. Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 59:18

Sorry, you want me to edge a little bit more? Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 59:23

She takes out what I'm assuming is like a brain spray. Oh. Well, there's that too. Do you not know how this works? I thought it was her lipstick. No, so my understanding is she gets down there and she just kind of like kisses it a little bit. No. So she takes out.

SPEAKER_04 59:40

No, she blows on it. It's literally in the name. Yeah. Like it's a Nintendo cartridge.

SPEAKER_03 59:46

No, you know what she does? She gets down and she holds it like it's a mic and she goes, Bow Bow.

SPEAKER_04 59:52

I wanna be the prom queen.

SPEAKER_03 59:56

She puts down like this breath spray, and then with like enough glitter in her hair to make a strip club blush, she gets down on her knees, and we see a shot of her literally unzipping this boy's pants.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:08

And then her head goes down under the frame of the case. It's a wild scene.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:14

She says, put your hands on the keyboard and start entering. And I wrote, he does. Also, dude, his O face is why he's just like, oh. It's up there with the chocolates guy from the room. Like that's an insane blowjob face. He ramps up. But also, like, it's so weird that Josh becomes a sexual predator in the last 15 minutes of the movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:39

It was the 80s, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:41

Yeah. But dude, the cherry on top of this whole endeavor, though, is when this guy that's been trying to fool around with Kelly this entire movie, this tall blonde guy. Uh-huh. He's been trying to get rid of the whole movie, and he goes to kiss her after she's blown this kid, and he goes, Your breast smells great. I'm like, Jesus Christ. Yeah. So weird. And not for nothing. This prom is fucking hopping.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:03

This problem rules. There's some great new wave playing. Josh is in the back developing photos and running the computer. And Vicky slash Mary Lou seems to sense the computer. Like her spidey sense starts tingling and she just hacks the planet.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:20

She goes into like an outlet on the wall and she knows Josh is changing the vote to Kelly instead. And she somehow is able to like shoot laser beams out of the fucking computer and zaps this little fucker in the head. He melts. Yeah, it's gonna say until his skull burns. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:39

It's so crazy. It's so it's so unlike any other death. That's the thing, is like this movie's like a buffet of weird deaths. Like none of them work the same way.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:48

That's why I like it. I'm like, you don't like that death? Just wait. Another one's coming around the corner.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:52

Yep. I just want to have like the Home Alone 2 where Marv gets shocked and moves like this. Wow, what a hole. God. If you're Kelly, if you're Kelly, you're about to commit murder, right? Because she's like chugging a Diet Coke to like get the taste out of her mouth. A Diet Pepsi.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:15

Diet Pepsi, my friend.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:16

Which she's drinking a Diet Pepsi in like every fucking scene, right? They announce that Vicky is the prom queen, and we get a cameo from the screenwriter saying, How'd you blow it, Kelly?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:29

It's so good.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:30

Which is maybe my favorite line of the entire movie. It's insane. And Josh was wearing a light up tie. Like I'd kill myself and everyone. I'd go full carry. That's my carry moment.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:42

This woman in the crowd when Vicky's ascending the stage. Insane here. Holy shit, her hair is crazy. Yeah, she ascends the stage to accept her flowers and crown. And Billy, who just can't, you know, he's got to keep repeating history. He ascends the catwalk, but this time, instead of It worked once before. Instead of a smoke bomb, he's got a gun.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:03

Yeah. What if he had a stink bomb again? He's like, I've saved this for 30 years just for this occasion.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:08

Craig is rushing to the gym at the same time to stop all this, and Billy shoots this woman in the fucking heart like seven times. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:18

The angles make no sense. People are looking up to the right, he's on the left. Like, it's so, it's so crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:25

He's behind her and shoots her in the chest. I don't know how that works.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:28

He shoots her in the chest and everyone's like, look, it's the principal. It's Mr. Norton. This motherfucker curved the bullet. Yeah, he needs to try out for that wanted program. This effect is fucking rad.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:41

Oh, Mary Lou popping out of Vicky's body.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:44

Punching out of Vicky's bullet hole. Yeah. And then every time they cut back to her, this zombified Mary Lou gets a little more human. I like that. It's so good. Also, I love that he just walks up to her and just lays on her. You're gonna push the blood out, dog.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:58

What are you doing? That's where the bullets are. Can you get off? Yeah, she starts convulsing and uh yeah, the zombified hand bursts out of her chest. Yeah. But man, yeah, so zombified Mary Lou pops out and it turns into the final act of Carrie here. And I gotta say, poor Kelly, man. Not only does she suck off this kid after being sexually assaulted by this other guy, she then not only loses prong queen, but then she gets stabbed in the chest with like a fluorescent tube.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:26

That sucks.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:27

It's the weakest death of the movie, too.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:29

Yeah. So yeah, Craig gets thrown to the ground while you know Mary Lou is like blocking all the exits and everything and killing some of the people inside. And as this scene keeps going, she gets a little bit more human, gets a little bit of her fleshback and everything until eventually it's just Mary Lou walking around here. She basically speedruns the mummy. Yes, yes. Yeah. Thank you for your eyes and your tongue. She's like tried to kill Craig by like slamming his head repeatedly into the floor, which I thought was pretty great.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:56

And she is she is constantly lit like a Lauren Bacall character.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:01

Oh my god, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:03

She's got the Morticia Adams like light shaft on her eyes. Like the camera loves Lisa Shrag.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:10

Loves her. Loves her.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:12

And she's got that spooky uh filter on her voice, which is like, you're really starting to piss me off. Like it's a it's a fun, it's a fun performance. Oh, I love that line. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:21

So backstage, Craig is attacked by Mary Lou, who uses telekinesis to like wrap ropes around him and cause him to see visions, and it's just all around a bad time for him.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:31

This jump scare right here where he sees her silhouette in the door and then she pops up into frame right in front of him is really well done.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:38

It's good. It's good. I like him seeing Josh's corpse in a sarcophagus, like a mummy sarcophagus.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:44

And his head spins around like in the Exorcist.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:47

And he made a reference to The Exorcist earlier. Yeah. Uh so the old trunk in the prop room opens up and begins to suck Craig into it.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:55

What's the mythology here? Does it need a sacrifice?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:58

I don't care. I don't care.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:01

And it and it happens right after Mary Lou appears to him as Vicky. And I wish he had been like, I saw a girl come out of you. What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:10

Exactly what's not going to happen to Jess. So Billy appears.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:16

I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:21

Alright. But Billy appears with the prob queen crown and places it on her head, and the two kiss and in an evil dead-like vision, we rush all the way back from the school to Mary Lou's headstone, which explodes.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:40

And I'm guessing this is like a dream sequence where you just see young Mary Lou back in the 1957 prom dancing with Billy, like a young version of him.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:49

Yeah, and she's wearing her crown and her cape, and it's like the it's the dance that they never actually had. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:55

It's like the ending of Titanic.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:57

It's exactly like the I'm not saying James Cameron ripped this off, but he might have.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:01

But yeah, in reality, she's actually trapped inside the old trunk, I think. I don't know. Which slams shut. But Vicky emerges from this trunk, too, covered in goop. She's so goopy. Her and Craig embrace. Tight. And then uh, yeah, do you want to tell the audience what happens at the end of Hello Mary Loop, prom night two?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:21

Sure. Uh Craig and Vicky run outside. Uh there's police cars everywhere, kids are milling about, and uh Billy comes up to them and is like, hey guys, tonight was crazy, right? Do you want to ride home? And neither of them have a problem with getting in the car with this man that just shot Vicky seven times.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:38

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:39

So they get in the car, and the uh the Hello Mary Lou song starts playing over the radio. Ironside turns around with a shit-eating grin. He comes alive in the last 30 seconds of this performance and he goes, Hey kids, they're playing our song. Let's cruise. And he drives off, and we see that the license plate on the car says Mary Lou 2.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:02

It sure does.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:04

He's wearing Mary Lou's ring, and uh, I guess he's possessed now, and they just scream. It's it's basically the nightmare on Elm Street ending.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:12

Plus Michael Ironside.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:14

Yep. I also like that he tunes it to an AM radio station and starts playing music. I'm like, that's not how that works.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:23

Well, AM is is coming back. You know, I have a tattoo here that will illustrate my point.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:31

Oh, man, so yeah, that is prom night two. God damn it. Do we have uh any other notes, fellas, before we get to our wrap-ups here?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:41

No, I I just am so glad we all had a good time with this one.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:45

I had a great time at prom night too. That's all I gotta say. All right, well, let's get over to Prop Cop. So, for new listeners to the show, Prop Cop is where the four of us are going to look at all the different props in Hello Mary Lou, Cole, and prom night too, and we are each going to hypothetically cop one for ourselves. And since this is Nathan's pick, he gets to go first. So, what prop do you want most, Nathan?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:07

So, in the volleyball scene, we get a brief shot of the coach, and he is wearing a baseball cap that says stunted on it. And I want that so badly.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:17

God, that that coach is doing nothing in that scene. It's so funny. Piece of shit. That dude looks like the unibomber.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:25

Oh, is it stunt co? Is that what it says? Stunt co. Yeah. Still like it. Still like it. It's like the airwolf font. God, this dude is fucking awesome looking. Yeah, it's a great look. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:38

Mallie, what prop do you want?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:39

Uh, Jess's entire wardrobe. 100% so good.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:43

JT, what prop do you want?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:44

I want the uh computer mini fridge. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good, good. That'll look good next to all your Gundams.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:50

Yeah. Uh I think I just want the Mary Lou ring. It's good. I just want to have that on a shelf. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Fuck that, bro. You gotta pop that on the pinky and then just like bitch slap motherfuckers with it.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:00

You know what? That's a better idea. That's a better idea.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:02

Kiss the ring, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:05

So there's lots of extra parts in this movie. And this bit part Q was submitted by longtime fan Jordan of the show. So here we go. She's got some battle scars, dude. It's that guy from Scott Pilgrim talking about Mary Lou. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. So who should we play in the movie as a small, preferably no-name character? Mallie, let's start with you. Who do you want to be in this movie?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:30

I had another one, but now I I want to be the Stuntco guy now. Yeah, sure. He looks fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:37

I want to be in the scene with Josh talking about the potato radio. Uh-huh. It cuts to a hero shot of a character for one shot that you never see again in the movie, and it's this punk with like eyeliner on. I know you're talking about. And a mohawk? Yes, yeah. I don't know why this kid gets his a hero shot. He's never shown again throughout the movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:58

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:59

Neither are you gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:00

During the Mary Lou creature emergence at the prom, there's a shot where all the kids are trying to run to the doors, and there is a punk guy with a studded jacket who's facing the opposite direction of everyone running away, and he's got a cookie in his mouth.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:15

That's cool. Is it the same guy?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:17

I don't think so. I don't think so. All right. If it is, then I wanna also I would throw out the principal in the opening scene who tells Billy, Music's too loud, rock and roll will never last. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:28

That was my first one, but I got a backup one. Who are you gonna be, JT?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:31

At the final dance sequence. There's this guy in the the white blazer who is fucking throwing down. Oh, I almost considered that guy. With his rolled up sleeves. Yeah. Oh, dude, he's gone full Miami Vice with his body. I was gonna say it, bud. Yes, living his best Don Johnson life. That dude is feeling it. Yeah, no, he is fucking getting it. He's telling everybody who will listen how good moonlighting is. Like he's living his best life right now. I also want to throw out at Jess's funeral, there's a punk guy in a beret who looks like he's part of the Joker's gang from the nine. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:05

Oh yeah. All right. Well, yeah, by uh Nathan's recap of the ending of this movie, Mary Lou lives on in Billy's body, presumably. So, what is a silver lining to Hello Mary Lou colon prom night too? Any takers on going first?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:22

I'll go. Okay. Vicky doesn't have to explain anything to her dad.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:28

I want to see the move, like a post-credit scene that's just the dad like finding the dead monsters being like, huh. Like, what do I do now?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:36

Yes, I can take a gap here.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:39

Mally, what is your silver lining?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:41

Uh, Vicky's dad is free to live the life he wants to live.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:44

Just kissing daughter.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:46

Yeah, that man is gonna be in jail in a year. Well, I mean, glass half fool, he won't be kissing his own daughter anymore. You know what?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:52

That now it's legal, I guess. Woof. Well. Well, they could be of age daughters. I didn't say they had to be underage. Um, that fucking song. God damn it. I'd like to think that Monka's death was pretty quick and painless. Yeah. It's just the best I could come up with here, boys. That's pretty good. All right, JT, what's your silver lining? Damn, because the only one I have is meta, but we've already talked about it that the practical effects were way better than I expected to going into this movie. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:22

I also had Craig got to take his gap year in hell. All right. Vacation and somewhere warm. Speaking of silver linings, can I tell you guys how prom night three opens, which I watched for the first time last night? Please, please. Uh we open in hell with a bunch of ladies wearing prom dresses all chained up and dancing. Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:45

Okay, I guess I'm putting on prom night three right after this. You convinced me.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:49

And then Mary Lou cuts through her chains with a nail file, and the next scene is her arriving on Earth. Okay. Hell yeah. So weird. Guys, what are we doing for the rest of the day? Like, we can just all watch this right now. Yeah. Let's prom it up, Buttercups.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:04

Next episode, Prom Night 3. All right, well, let's say this. Let's say people watched Hello Mary Lou called it Prom Night 2, and they were kind of bummed out or even maybe even a little scared by that ending. Which movie people should watch after they watch Prom Night 2 as a pick-me-up. I'm gonna go ahead and go first and say I'm gonna pick another movie that involves a lot of shenanigans also happening in a high school. I'm gonna go with 21 Jump Street. Nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:32

I watched that last night. I rewatched that recently. It's so good.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:35

So good. Uh Nathan, what are you gonna watch?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:37

I can't remember. I know you've got your spreadsheet. I can't remember if I have used this as a double feature before, but uh after this I was thinking about another movie with school dances and reunions, and I went with Romy and Michelle's high school reunion. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:52

Uh no, I don't think so. No, you haven't picked it before. Sweet. How about that? Uh Mallie, what are you gonna watch?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:58

So this movie hasn't actually come out yet, but I'm gonna go ahead and go with Hello Jesus Christ, Passion 2. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:08

Oh man, I hope it's called that.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:10

Okay. That's the sound that Jesus makes when he pushes the rock out of the way of the cave. Uh JT, what are you gonna watch?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:21

I am gonna go with uh Hard Eyes. Oh. Which is a recent slasher that's come out. It's like a horror comedy. It's surprisingly good. I thought it was gonna be trash. You liked it? I liked it. I need to check that out. I've heard mixed things about it. Uh hey, don't take it seriously, and you'll have a great time. Okay. I picked Hello Mary Lou Prime Night 2. I don't take things seriously.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:42

I am taking this movie dead serious from now on, now that I've seen it.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:46

I'm recording this on my wedding anniversary.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:48

That's so depressing.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:50

Well, as a date night, you can watch hard eyes. It's like a Valentine's Day themed horror movie. It's really good. I'll check it out.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:56

Okay. For horror movies, we always like to pick one. What is the best kill of the movie? For me, it's Monica's death.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:02

Yeah, hands down.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:03

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:04

I think so too. Yeah. I mean, Jess is so extreme and mean-spirited that it makes me laugh every time, but Monica's is so inventive and also like cost-effective from a B movie standpoint. I think it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:18

Josh's is a close second to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:21

What what was the the bully's name again? The girl who just got the light through the chest? Kelly. You would think her death would be like over the top. Yeah, the most extreme, yeah. She should have gotten away. She deserved better. I I mean she was awful, but like after what happened to her in that red in that dark room, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:38

I feel like the death that would be the most poetic for her would be something that like leaves her scarred or something because she's all about vanity and everything, you know. But like just getting stabbed in the stomach with a fluorescent light tube. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:50

What if she had gotten stabbed through the mouth with the light tube?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:53

There you go. She does talk too much.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:55

I wonder if that was the original idea. But it it is also like it's the jankiest effect of all the deaths, too. Like it looks like they've just sort of glued it to her dress. Like it's not, it's so unimaginative. Or what if she did the electrocution thing while being blown?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:13

Oh my god, it gets both of them.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:15

That actually might be the way to go.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:17

We're remaking this.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:18

That's a great call. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:21

Hello, Mary Lou, and the silver linings too.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:24

I think I know the answer to this already, but do we all recommend Prop Night 2?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:30

Fuck yeah. I love this movie. 100%.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:36

Yeah, this this rule, this was such a refreshing pick, Nathan.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:40

You see what I mean? Where I was trying to like, I wasn't sure how everybody would feel about this, but I was trying to tell you it's better than Slumber Party Massacre 2, but also has very similar energy.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I I think this was a great pick. The the kills are great, the directions top-notch. And honestly, I was kind of unsettled by a lot of it. Like the stuff with the bed, that was real, real creepy. The ghosting of a pregnant woman scene. I was like, this is a lot for a movie from this time.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:09

Yeah. The daughter kissing. I do think that like in a just world, if this had just been released as like Mary Lou or you know, you know, hello Mary Lou, no prom night connections. I think in a just world, we might have like five Mary Lou movies. Like this this feels like an unsung classic. It feels like a franchise that should have been its own thing. Like I love Mary Lou as a character. I I just I love the vibes of this movie. It's 80s as hell. Does anyone remember the Disney Channel original film Suzy Q? No.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:42

I can't say that I do.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:44

I do starring the pink Power Ranger, Kimberly. Oh, well, I should have watched it. It's basically like a wholesome version of this movie. I do remember that one. Yeah. Damn, what a deep cut, Valley. Thank you. I haven't even thought about that movie in years. I think it's about that movie regularly, JT.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:00

I like that this movie, though, does have a villain that is just a woman who is just, even though she's mean spirited, she is like sexually liberated. I kind of find that refreshing. That like in a lot of these movies, a girl that's like that is punished and killed by the villain, but no, she is the villain, which I think is she's even punishing girls that aren't promiscuous. Like Vicky is presumably a virgin, I think. And I don't know. I thought I thought that was refreshing.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:25

Well, no, it it's like uh it is a movie that's about sexual liberation. It's also about what men fear in women. Like there's so many different themes that can be explored in this movie. I get new things out of it every time I watch it. And then also, if you're not looking for any of that, it's just a really fun, goofy, supernatural slasher. Like it is it's kind of the perfect movie. I know that's an insane thing to say about this movie, but it makes me so of all the movies I've picked for this podcast, this is one of the ones that makes me the happiest to revisit. Like, I love this movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:00

Sure. And I would say if you haven't seen the movie and you just listened to us talk about it, you should still go watch it. It's a fun time. You gotta watch it, dude. Dude, you got to. It's literally on YouTube, dude. YouTube. So that is Hello Mary Lou. Dude. Prom night two. Count Dooku. All right, shut the fuck up. If you haven't already, subscribe, rate, and leave feedback wherever you're listening to us. We would greatly appreciate it. And you don't want Mary Lou coming after you, which you will if you don't leave us a rating. Yeah. You can follow us on social media as well at Blue Sky, Instagram, TikTok, and Lemonade, or check out our subreddit at reddit.com slash R slash Sever Linnings playlist. We're also on uh Discord. If you want to come join the free Discord and hang out with us and other listeners of the show, have a good time over there. It's free to join. And you can also check out our Patreon at patreon.com slash severed linings playlist, where we do have a free tier. I don't really mention it that often, but we do have a free tier. And if you want to get bonus episodes, episode release early, it's just a dollar a month after that. This week on the uh on the podcast, we just released our episode on Robocop the series, which spoiler alert, it sucks shit. Sucks ass. It's fucking terrible. It eats piss and kisses shit. And uh you could also check out our website with links to all that stuff and more at TSLPpodcast.com. Where if you have a bit part suggestion, the little cue that we played before that segment, you can submit it either through the contact us form on our website or you can email us at the soil lines playlist at gmail.com. And finally, if you want to get some merchandise with our logo and our stupid jokes branded across it, you can find that on our Redbubble store, which you can get a link to on our website. Redbubble. Redbubble. Uh all right. Fellas, clue for the next episode, which is my pick. I got it for you.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:51

Oh boy. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:54

This is a big one. This is gonna be a big episode, I think. But uh my clue is this is the skin of a podcaster, Bell.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:02

Oh my god. What could it be?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:05

What could it be? Uh so I guess until then, rest at peace, Mill and Jess. And Jess. We'll say it for Jess at least.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:15

And as the classic Wayland Jennings song says, Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be fathers that make out with their daughters. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:24

Classic song.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:25

Classic song. We all know that.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:27

Speaking of the song, do you guys want to hear it one last time before we got it?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:30

Yeah, bust them out. I was about to say, isn't there a music video?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:34

You edited a video for it? Yeah, it's gonna go up on social media when this episode releases.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:38

Fuck yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:40

It's a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:15

I've been sitting on this for days, and it's killing me that I couldn't share it with you guys before. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:21

Oh man, it's so good. So you're gonna do this for every episode from now on, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:27

I started thinking about it. I was like, alright, for the next episode, then what song could I possibly do? It's never gonna bleep it! Never gonna bleep it. I think that it might actually work for us. I man, there's some titles coming up There's some titles coming up that's gonna be real hard to do it with.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:49

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:50

But yeah, until next time, as always. See you later, alligator.