Mercy Christmas (2017)

0:02 Is that eggnon? I love pig. They would tear me up to the guy like you didn't make it to a Christmas dinner table taddy. Oh miss so much. Boys, it's duck in time. It is so nice to have you three kids together again under this roof. Christmas is my favorite time of year. Oh, I love ribs. How do you like my family brisket? It's not supposed to be like this. It's supposed to be about warm the tradition. If it's special, it'd be really special. Don't be a white Christmas Look at me yes or noe? What merry Christmas? Bitch.

1:25 In a world where podcasts reign supreme, two friends dare to ask Do You Even? Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie aficionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert, Hey my friends, it's time for yet another holiday rendition of Do You Even? Movie? I'm, of course your host Enrique Kuto here with my good buddy and co host double D. I forget David Denoyer here, and we are we are extra jolly. Yes we are, because not only are we full of good cheer and joy to the world, but also just generalized holiday stress absolutely which would it make sense if that wasn't the case, Absolutely would not. I mean it's it's kind of one of those things where we love Christmas so much, but because of that, we we kind of throw ourselves into it every year to where it's like when we we get to our time where we get to watch movies together, it's just completely us uploading. Uh yeah, no, unloading is a good way to put it. In fact, you know what? Real quick? Yeah, hey,

2:59 editor, let's throw in something a little Christmasy underneath. Okay, I want to tell a story to start the show, a Christmas story. Years ago, there was a young man named David, unfortunately, and David was having a very difficult Christmas season, yes, for he hated his boss and also probably himself, yeah a little bit. But David had a friend, a friend named a name no one can pronounce when reading it. Perhaps it was Enrique, perhaps it was Heinrich, perhaps it was Honriq. Blue can say. But one day David came to however you say his name, and said, I know, bro, we're supposed to watch a movie together, but I'm just not feeling very christmasy. And his best buddy fell felt that in his core being because both of these dumbasses love Christmas so very much.

4:08 Whew. So what did he do but say, you come over right now and you sit down. We're watching Eaton Alive aka magyati Vv, to which David said, but that's not a Christmas movie, to which Enrique said, it's got a green jungle, it's got red blood. That's Christmas and Santa, and there is a Santa clause at the beginning, which he didn't remember at first. So they watched that film and they had a laugh. And they watched that film and felt squeek queasy when the real animal death occurred. Yes, but in the end, laughter was had and Christmas was saved, was saved in a way it really was by Joe Demato, correct by I don't know no, no, Magyatta viv is lendsay right, but no, yeah we we one time we're not feeling the Christmas season, and I made mainyati vv become a Christmas movie. Since now that being said, that transitions moderately well into Mercy Christmas, which if you haven't seen Mercy Christmas Kids, you need to watch it. It's readily available on a ton of streaming services for you to enjoy or to own yourself on DVD or Blu ray. Yes, and uh. It is a holiday film that features merriment, lights, lots of family dinners, also cannibalism, masochism, violence. Really, the only thing they didn't touch on that I'm kind of surprised they didn't is there's

5:39 no incests at all. You know, I'm honestly shocked they didn't just have the brother and sister fucking kiss kiss fuck us. But that being said, phenomenal movie. Yeah, I just we we have just finished watching it, which I think we may have skipped it last year. I can't remember. I think we did. We did. It's a little heavy sometimes to watch, but but this year we had to bring it back because we had to talk about it on this podcast because this is one of many films that Dave and I have enjoyed that is so underappreciated. I want to say so much so that Mercy Christmas is in a top echelon of Christmas horror movies. Yeah, and to be not even ten years old and in that space because it does things, I'm actually shocker, humble Bragg. I'm actually reading a book about Christmas horror movies are the title of which I can't remember. Have a Scary Little Christmas. I think, scary Little Christmas I think is You're right, But it is like an academic book about Christmas horror movies. So it's not just like, yeah, this will Goublets plants, although it is a little bit of that. It is a movie about all of the Christmas horror films and why they're Christmas. Ye. And one thing it mentions that this film has heavily is there are kind of two kinds of Christmas horror movie.

7:00 Christmas horror movies that take place at Christmas and use that as a setting, and films that take the Christmas season and use it to kind of weeedle into your nostalgia center and kind of get you to take your expectations of a Christmas movie, yeah, and run with it in a scary way. And this film absolutely is the latter and not the former. Yeah, it is a Christmas e movie about Christmas and about family, but it is a disgusting, nasty, mean spirited horror film. Harrowing is a good word for it. And we discovered this just from our constant hunt I mean or for a holiday horror and just holiday in general. But especially holiday horror. That is one thing that I think we really need to make our listeners clear on is that when Enrique says that we're Christmas fans, we will literally scour your streaming services insert here name for any title we can come up, whether it's new, whether it's old, or we just haven't seen it. I mean, that's how we came across such titles as like a Mother Crampis and Red Christmas, which if you ever won an anti abortion Christmas field, which it both doesn't Red Christmas, and and and and that's how we found this one. Yeah, exactly. In fact, this one i'd never heard a word about.

8:16 No, I think you found it or did I find it? We found it together on on on Prime, I believe. I think I think we were just going I think I just searched Christmas horror. Yeah, and it came up. Yeah, and we watched the trailer and it was just like, well that looks fun, and we took a shot on it. Yeah, I mean it just this is probably our third or fourth time watching weether. We were both quiet when it ended because we couldn't believe how awesome it was. Yes, and I'm not I would not say that lightly. No, it was awesome. This film has everything I love in a mean spirited horror movie. Yeah, and something you're going to learn about me as I as you listen to me enthus about holiday movies and horror movies in general.

9:00 Yeah, I don't mind a mean spirited film, not at all. I will watch a mean spirited horror movie. But if it has no payoff, yeah, then it becomes kind of hard to digest for Yeah, pardon the pun. It's it's one of those things where when you get into enough mean spirited horror films, or even just horror films in general, the ending where it's like, oh, well, good didn't prevail an evil still, it's like you can take those for a little bit. But after a while, yeah, that was edgy in like two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, Yeah, and then everything and it was no longer or scared open ended where it's just like the killer may have gotten away, they found a burning mask, Like yeah, well, you mean like in that piece of crap Halloween two Got as daysavorite But no, no, in all seriousness, it's like watching Last House on the Left without the last segment ye last ten minutes. Yeah, yeah, that movie would be hard to take. Yeah, Like I remember that, uh that David DeFalco movie. Uh ko, Chaos, Chaos, I thank you Chaos. I think it was Chaos. Yeah, that's something like that. Yeah whatever.

10:03 It was his ripoff of Last House on the Left, except it ended with the bad guys winning. Yeah, and I was just like, Wow, what a pointless experience. Yeah, And I'm I'm not here to say that it's a bad movie. I'm here to say that it was not for me. For me, if you're going to have characters do truly unforgivable things, as an audience, give us something back, yeah, let us get revenge. Yes. And this movie not only was it fearless in its mean spiritedness, it was fearless in creating characters that we really feel for her about it and efficiently. Yes, this film is like eighty three minutes and it absolutely delivers so much. Now I feel like I've built it up an awful lot.

10:50 So Dave, throw us the pertinent beats on Mercy Christmas. All right, Mercy Christmas twenty seventeen release DGE Shot in twenty sixteen. This film is directed by Ryan Nelson. He has only this one debut to his name, but he was directory erectorial debut. You can't have more than one day, you cannot. I always make that mistake. But I would like to point out in regards to his background, he was a grip on Bad Boys two in two thousand and three, Wedding Crashers in five, Real Steal in twenty eleven, the Avengers in twenty twelve. Then he did second unit key grip on Hunters, the Amazon Prime series, and he's also just recently wrapped a key grip on Justified, City Primeval. It would appear that he is a key grip for like his main gig, Yeah, and which is awesome.

11:31 Yeah, and Justified. I haven't watched City Premieval Love. Ye haven't either yet. My parents Justified fans, but we haven't watched that yet. So no, But I gotta say something right now, Ryan Nelson, I know you're watching his direct another film. Yes, I look, I am a B movie director as my day job. Just I I if that film underperformed, if it did not make money for you, it is not the film's fault and it is not your fault. No, you did a phenomenal job making a highly entertaining film that was well directed, well thought out. Come back, Yes, make another movie. For the love of God. Don't be discouraged. That's all I want to say. If you're feeling discouraged, if for some ungodly reason you're watching or listening to this, we want you back. Yeah. You're a damn fine filmmaker, absolutely, and you deserve all of the praise you're about to get. So anyway, sorry to digress.

12:31 So going back to him as well. He also wrote this with Beth Levy Nelson his his wife, so they wrote this film together. This is a shop buy cinematographer Kenneth Neil Moore, he was a camera operator on Ten Items or Less in two thousand and nine. Take Shelter in twenty eleven that like Michael Shannon, Oh my god, that movie is so painful and good. Yeah. He also did Mud in twenty twelve, Righteous Gemstones in twenty nineteen, The Hunt in twenty twenty, And I want to mention Righteous Gemstones. That's interesting because I know for a fact that Ryan Nelson studied film in North Carolina, just like the guys behind Righteous Gemstones, just like David Gordon Green and all those folks, they're all from North Carolina or went to school together in North Carolina. So that's a really interesting tidbit. And I bet you that. I mean, that makes sense that he's a camera op on all these movies because what we have here, and it warms my goddamn heart, is we have a film directed by a guy who usually is a key grip or a grip and shot by a guy who's off in a camera op.

13:31 You have people who are biding their time to step up and become that next step. And that happens all the time. I mean you'll see assistant cameras become cameras become dps and so on and so forth. Yeah, so I just want to say, like, y'all brought your goddamn a game. I'm sorry, I'm raving because I love movies, and I love B movies. I work in B movies. I'm a big believer that there are generally no bad movies, only bad audience, since you're often the wrong audience for the film, but the film is fine. Yeah, it's rare that I watch a movie where I'm like, maybe they cobbled together thirty grand, maybe they didn't. Maybe it was all favors. Yeah, and they just knocked my goddamn socks off. Yeah. So honestly, I would kiss you all on the mouth. I mean that, I really too, I would kiss you all in the mouth. So anyway, sorry, yeah, you're fine, digressing. Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? And then wrapping us up as the editor on this because the one thing that I solely love about this film is the editing, and it's the only thing you love that's not solely. That solely is the wrong word. Sorely, sorely, no, shut up.

14:52 But the editor is Matt Evans. He did Prick, which was Nelson's short film back in twenty twelve. He also an editor on The Cloverfield Paradox in twenty eighteen. Oh wow, that's a that's a big gig. The main editor on Overlord in twenty eighteen. Wow. Yeah, okay, Black and Blue in twenty nineteen, Samaritan, the Syvester Stallone movie. Yes, yes, I like that one man, pretty good. Main editor on The Pope's Exorcist. You haven't seen that, have you? I have not yet. I need to. You would love it. You would absolutely love the Pope's Exorcist. Yeah, you go see that, I do. And by go see that, I mean watching it at home because it's out of theaters. So that's true. So Wrapping Us Up is the synopsis of this film. So Mercy Christmas twenty seventeen. This is the back of the blu ray cover, says Michael Briskett crunches numbers in his isolated, windowless office while coworkers enjoy the Christmas party he wasn't invited to. When his boss ask help with an urgent year end report, Michael was flattered, but there's just one catch.

15:45 It needs to be done by Christmas. The stack of research arrives with his boss's beautiful assistant, Cindy. Michael is spitting and he invites her to his holiday gathering that weekend. Cindy ends up being the only guest to show up in the two bond over holiday drinks. Cindy convinces Michael to bring his work along and join her family for a traditional Christmas celebration. While they're a spiked glass of eggnog lands Michael and the family's basement with his hands and feet bound among three other prisoners. Michael needs to deliver the year end report or suffer the way those before him have suffered. I gotta admit it. I mean, that's not that's a very long way to get there. Yeah, but it hits all the main points. Yeah, very well. But I understand you. You feel you could improve on that. Synopsis. My synopsis.

16:27 Michael, a Christmas loving hard worker, accepts a dinner invitation only to find out he's on the menu for a traditional family of cannibals. A traditional family of cannibals? What does that mean? Did they they're traditional family for Christmas and they're also cannibals. I don't know the wording on it. I was trying to get the wording right now. This is what happens when you use Dave GPT. I wouldn't even pay for that. I probably am. That is a large language model. Dave GPT is a small language mob a nerd joke. If you laughed at this, I'm sorry you don't have a girlfriend. Uh all right, you ready to get into this? I especially I already got into the egg show show. So we put on our bibs and get ready for the dinner. I am ready, Eddie, So let's dive into this one. So Mercy Christmas is the story of Michael Briskett and Michael Briskett is played by Stephen Hubble. He was a grip on The Terminator Sarah Chrono Chronicle series and also with Avengers. They probably met gripping. Yeah, because he also did Prick in twenty twelve. I would say their friendship, Yeah, was gripping. Was gripping indeed? No, No, that's really cool. Yeah, because you really, seriously, you never know where you're gonna find talented folks like that. Yeah, And I gotta say if he well, you're about to talk more. Does he have any big acting credits.

17:45 No, that is his only one. Actually, that's his only acting credit period for real. Yes, because he Okay, the guy who plays Michael Briskett in this movie, he does not leave a fucking thing on the on the table. He is all in on that role. He is crying, he's pleading, he's begging, he's sincere, he's insecure. He's a damn fine actor. Yeah. I I am honestly shocked. Ye that even the Hubble. Yeah, he only has his main role is Michael Brisket for Mercy Christmas in twenty seventeen. He's got a couple short ones before that. Oh and there's also a short in twenty in twenty ten called Mercy Christis.

18:26 Yeah. I know you didn't know about that. I think I did. Yeah, Yeah, Mercy Christ was partly a short first and then they developed it. Probably used the short to raise money or something. But this dude, if he has not acted a lot, that is shocking because he's so good, good and sincerely the heart and soul of the movie. I mean, without without Michael Briskett in the performance that we get from Stephen Hubble, the movie would not have as much impact. Even if the family, the cast of the family is spot fucking all. Yeah, which they're dead good too, damn good. I meant to say not dead. Going into the family, we have David Rupett, who's played by who's playing Abe Robillard. He was on The Rockford Files in nineteen seventy seven. He appeared in The Incredible Shrinking Woman in eighty one, Three's Company in eighty four, Talking Walls in eighty seven Days of Our Lives in eighty eight. He had one hundred and thirty three episodes of Supermarket Sweep as the host in nineteen ninety. Wow that I didn't know. Yeah, And he was also on The True Carry Show in two thousand and one and made a brief appearance on True Blood in two thousand and eight. This dude is so wholesome. Yes, he is so like he is as close as you could get to an older sitcom dad.

19:30 Yeah, because his kids are all in their thirties. Yeah, so when you watch it, it's like, you know, he's an older gentleman. He's like the age of our dads, if we both had dads. Yeah, he's the grandpa. He's this God, damnit, that took me a second. Damn you it was so good. Oh my god, I have tears of my eyes for multiple reasons. Now, Oh that's okay, I'm the bastard in the risk. Yes, no, no, that was that was perfect anyway. No, but yeah, he's so wholesome, so wholesome, and he really disarms you when you first meet him. Yeah, exactly, And I mean that's so Briskett is. As the synopsis said, he's a hard worker. He's hard at work at this Christmas party. And then his boss, who is Andy Rollard, who's played by Cole Gleeson, piece of shit, basically absolute. I wouldn't call him a I'd call him a hunkish unker shit like this guy. The writers of this film, Yeah, we're working out some issues with an old boss. I think so and fair enough and rightfully so some bosses are that bad. Yeah, so, I mean, like the cruelty of this boss and the level of like disdain for anything human. Yeah, he has a chef kiss anyway, So Andy Robillard, he is the boss of Brisket, and he basically task him with assignment that's like a huge, huge fraud giant binder of information, number running and everything that has to be done by Christmas. And I think we join them at like what's got to be the twenty third I would imagine, because yeah, night before night before Christmas. Yeah, so twenty second, twenty third, and he is tasked with this job. So he's like, you

21:03 know, I'll have my assistant bring the paperwork down. The assistant turns out to be his sister, Cindy, but we don't find that out right away. She's played by Casey O'Keefe and she's awesome in this as well. Oh yeah, that's I don't know where they found everybody, yeah, or how they found everybody, but God damn talk about lightning striking every single role. Yeah. So Cindy actually goes to Brisket's Christmas party. It is literally just the two of them and they have the best time. Like it starts off a little awes sweet. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's it's so like it's a meat cue. Yeah, it is legit. Oh my god, it's a neat, neat, cute eat. Yes, yes it is. That's for me, that's for you, that's for me. I deserve that.

21:49 But no, what you what you get to witness is that they're too awkward, like at first, and then like they both just love Christmas so much. Yes, you know, Brisket his mom talks about how his mom goes on cruises and he really doesn't get to spend much time with her in the holiday and she's the only family. Yeah, so she comes to the Christmas party. They exchange gifts, which is super cute. She exchanges these this cookie Uh oh, I can't think what is it? Cookie dough? It's a baking powder basically, right, uh yeah yeah yeah, so here Christmas cooie recipe baking powder and he gives her gives her a power strip because he wanted something to be practical. We'll get back to that. This movie wastes no time and no motion. It is such a great experience. I remember one year I did that as the midnight movie at my Christmas party and actually have that in my notes, and it went over huge. It went over super well. So they're having their little Christmas party together, they're laughing, they're sharing memories, favorite Christmas movies, all this stuff. And at the end of the of the night, she decides to invite him to her family Christmas. And he's like, well, won't that be awkward And she's like, no, they would love to have you. Yes, And they avoided saying they'd love to have you for dinner. Yeah, yeah, they which I appreciate because that was so easy. Remember kids, Mercy Christmas. In my opinion, near damn near a five star film, doesn't go for that low hanging fruit. Meanwhile, blood Rage says that is five times so anyway, but yeah, so sore. Their whole scene is so cute, yeah, because she shows up and realizes she's the only one there. Yea.

23:17 And as soon as she realizes that, instead of being awkward, instead of being weird, she just goes, are you Eggno, I love it, and they just bond over the fact that they clearly both unironically love Christmas. The only problem is how dark that gets a little bit later. But it seems like it's an unironic love of Christmas. And I do wonder if, knowing that what we know, which we've already revealed enough to know that they're cannibals, I wonder if the if going to the party was a way to test if he would be missed by anyone, like a way to like confirm. I think that he could be a meal. Honestly think it is because she asked him about the family, She asked me everything, because I even look at you and it's like, is she Patsy, like just to get him to go be God? Yeah? Yeah. But I don't think her boss, who his boss turns out to be her brother. I don't think he was completely in on it. He seems somewhat surprised to see him.

24:15 Absolutely I could be wrong on that though. So they hit it off. She invites him to Christmas. They go to the Christmas and that's when we meet, Like I said, Abe Robillard, who was played by David Rupek, And then we meet granny who was played by Gwynn Van Dam and my god, she's great, perfect casting. Absolute ten one hundred and thirty four acting credits on her resume. Oh so she was like a journey woman. Yeah, I thought she was. I thought she was one of those people's been in a lot of stuff. Dark Shadows in nineteen sixty six, Kentucky Fried movie in seventy seven, Halloween in seventy eight, even though I think her scene was deleted that she's a nurse in the sanitarium. Oh wow, yeah, so if she was a nurse in the sanitaria. Cut, I was about to say that. Cut. Look at this freaking guy, cuts me off, doesn't even let me say my piece. TV cut, TV CUTT They're crazy. In Eighty Days of Our Lives eighty three Star Trek Generations film in ninety four, and also was in Burlesk in twenty ten. You'll have you know. She steals the movie the immediate that she's in there, because she's that classic holiday granny where it's like, oh, she's so sweet, Oh she said shit, yeah, and she says giblets instead of giblets.

25:18 Yes. So we meet the rest of the family, which is Bart which is the brother. And we meet Philip, who is a guy that's kind of just hanging out there to get at Cindy. He's Cindy's x y and she doesn't want to reconcile, but the family likes him, so they're like, why not, you know, shoot your shot their sport. Yeah. So we then we meet Andy, which we've already met because again he's the boss, and he shows up now the way oh sorry, oh no, god, the way they reveal that this is is mister Roblart's family is the best. First of all, brisket. What a name? Yeah, what a great He even says that, yeah, brisket, that's my favorite cut of meat. Love it. So before they reveal that his this is his boss's family, he gives this wonderful speech about like I've never really had an actual I might cry, I've never really had an actual Christmas dinner before, but thanks to you guys, I'm really excited to have a nice time with great people and good food. And see I'll get tears in my eyes because I'm a fucking I believe in Christmas, Yeah, I really do.

26:15 I believe that Christmas is a time when people are better than they normally are. They're kinder, they're sweeter, and if you disagree, maybe you need to be kinder and sweeter just being just go to you know what, to fuck it' say it. Because I'm old now, I'm almost forty, fucking I really do believe that Christmas is the perfect excuse to be a better person. Absolutely, and I love that. I love that whole scene where he says, you know, thank you all so much and everything like that, and then they eat their food, which is disgusting because because we all and we also kind of left out there is foreshadowy. Yeah. Oh yeah, we see them kidnapping the meat. Oh yeah, we did, we did, Yeah, we kind of. It's hard, Well, it's hard because this movie has so much going on so quick and it's so interesting. But we witness a woman get abducted. Yeah, We witness a guy who's a ticket scalper get upduckted, beaten up, and we beat an old man nursing stolen from a nursing home. Yea, and uh so those are the people that make it clear something is not quite right. Yeah, and also we get right into the horror with that too, because when the chick gets abducted by the bar. We watch the chick she's talking through at the bar get brutally. Yeah. Yeah, she gets stabbed to death. Because that's one thing that we want to be clear about with this movie. It is not pleasant when it comes to the violence. No, no, and and that's the way I like it. Yeah, I don't think it should be ha ha ha. People are getting stabbed to death. Nah. I think you gotta make it hurt to a t. This is a dark horror comedy there.

27:36 I would call it pitch black. Pitch black, yeah, pitch black absolutely so uh yeah. Robillard is like, hey, you know, are you enjoying my family brisket? And at this point, Abe the dad has handed him a glass egg long. He's like, here, you're an eggnog guy. Yeah. And he's drank it. Yeah, he started drinking it. Yeah. And he's drugged. Yeah, he's drugged. But that's one of the best persons when he says when he sees him, he says, you're like my family. I love the way they do it. Because he goes mister Robillard and allman at the table go yes, chef's kiss. So you're gonna hear so many, so many chef's kisses. I know, I know, I know, I know it's hard to chew on Yeah, I know. No, I don't even mean to. I don't even I'm not even meaning to. But but no, there are so many moments of this movie that are just straight up like yeah, just great moments, really well thought out, and that is one of them that when we were watching it, I was probably maybe higher on this movie the first watch than you even because I really appreciated everything it did. Yea. And when we were watching it, literally I think we were like ten minutes in and I turned you went yeah, I wasn't as excited to watch this movie because I forgot just how good it is. And that's saying something when there's a movie that you remember loving yeah, but you're like, wait, oh fuck, this really is good. This movie is so good. I remember I said it earlier and then went yah yah yah because I said this movie is so good, should be fattening, Yes you did. I wasn't trying. I know.

29:00 I am a poetic man, and I use a lot of food poem, the poet, poetic speech. I took off my glasses and now I can't see anything. I'm scared Okay, you go back. So then Brisket gets taken out of the basement. And this is one thing I want to make clear with this movie in regards to the separation of its settings. So it's basically a one location horror film for the most part, or one location. Yeah. Yeah, they're in this house. And the house is is not super big. It's it's upper middle class. It's not hugely decorated. It's very spacious. Uh. I know what you're thinking, It's like, why is it like what am I a realization? But my point is it's almost I mean, it looks like on the top floor half the time, it's like a Christmas comedy ye, And then the basement is fucking soft despair, despair, harrowing acts and just I mean everything it's saw I mean I really mean that, Like it's the collector in that base. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's it's dank, it's dark, it's blue, there's nothing life like in it. But then when you go upstairs, it's all warm colors and soft music and soft light. And that's why I use the phrase meet cute about them, because, like the movie, when they are not just showing the horrors of that basement. Yeah, the movie is almost like a Hallmark movie. Absolutely, it's it's pretty looking, it's it's very pleasing to look at. And then it stops. Yeah, it's decked out for Christmas upstairs, and there's some Christmas decorations downstairs, and we'll get to that right now. Yeah, there's that light up side and this says Merry Christmas.

30:33 So we get a peek early on from bart who comes up from the basement that there's some freaky stuff going on down there. So that is a mountain of a man with a big ponytail. He's definitely like the physical enforcer resume by the way, only wow, he's good in it. He is, he's good. Yeah, Do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie. So we meet in the basement Catherine who's the kidnapped bartender. She's played by Whitney Nielsen. We meet Clark who's the old man played by Steven T. Bartlett, and then we meet Eddie who is the ticket scalper played by DJ Hale, and all three of them are like, you know, what the fuck are we doing down here?

31:22 Like what's going on? Is Brisket's like still trying to make sense of what's happening well, and he's the most freshly drug yeah, freshly aloof freshly drugged. And that is when we get to meet those three. And then we see Abe and Bart come down and because they need to get some pieces for the recipe because then from the old man, Yeah, from the old man. Because what we find out is this is the first Christmas that they've gotten back together since the mom has passed previously earlier, you're earlier. And Casey is the one or Cindy is the one who is in charge of basically making the whole dinner. She's taking over the matriarchal position of the family. And that's the one, the honeypot, the one who got him in all this. Yeah, and that's another element that's very hallmark movie issues, like a family recovering from loss of a loved one. Yeah. There are a lot of moments in this movie where like two family members are in the kitchen and there's that moment where it's like, I'm so glad that we're all together.

32:17 I just wish your mother could be here to see this. And then they're cooking human body parts like it's it is pitch black and now is a good time to mention as they take meat off of that guy. Yeah, cannibalism gets to me in movies and TV shows. It makes me squirm. You literally, all you have to do is take a piece of normal meat, like a piece of chicken that's cooked, and go, this is human skin. And I will go, oh, okay, he will I've seen it. No, it's I can't help it. It's just my imagination. Just it makes me gross out to the point where I've tried being vegan. Yeah, And honestly, like in some cases, I liked it a lot because I didn't have to think about meat so much. I loved the Hannibal series, but I had to be hours out of meals to watch it.

33:07 They would film in the Hannibal TV series you watched all right, Oh yeah, they would film him cooking human meat like the Loves like it was. They would film it like it was the Food Network. Yeah, yeah, it would be beautiful and attractive. So and that's kind of what they do here as well. Absolutely is because what we find out is that with her taking over the Christmas that she has to make all these recipes and that's kind of where a lot of the dark humor comes in because you've got Abe and Bart that are coming down there and chopping off legs and taking kidneys yea, and discussing the you know where the meat cuts come from where? Yeah. And because of that, now we have basically a build up of, well, who's going to make it through these these four in the basement, And right off the bat they take the old man out of the equation. Yea.

33:53 He gets his giblets I think made for the for the first like feast, yeah, which is mostly your's an organ yeah kind of thing, not the cute giblets that mean your testicles, yeah, although that comes later. Yeah. And then to make matters worse, you have freakin Andy coming back down into the basement and grabbing Brisket to take him back upstairs because he still needs these works done by Christmas. He needs the work done because the meeting that he needs all that paperwork and research done for is on the twenty sixth. Yeah. And as we mentioned earlier, the power strip comes back into play because that is what Brisket gifted Cindy at their little Christmas party, and he decides that he's going to use that against Brisket. Andy does by wrapping Christmas lights around him, singing off some of the wires so that they shock, and now he can shock Brisket with the power strip and Christmas lights wrapped all around him. Which keep in mind, Brisket loves Christmas. He adores Christmas everything about it. So he's using the gift that he got for Cindy and also his love of Christmas with the Christmas lights and everything against him to make him work while knowing that he's most likely going to get killed and eat.

34:59 Most likely, no, he's going to because I mean, come on, they're not gonna be you know, sold out by that. They're not gonna have that take them down. No, And what Dave is saying, because I think you painted a picture of the literal but not the visual. So literally, Brisket is wrapped in Christmas lights, but some of the wires are stuck into his skin, so when he plugs him in, he lights up like a Christmas tree and then starts convulsing in pain. And that is the pain that he uses to force Brisket to work. It's so fucking twisted. It's very twisted, and not to make matters worse, but they also are very very on par to make sure that they have this shocking sound effect every time that I leave my words alone. No, but you're right, No, No, this movie, they don't skip on anything and the pain of the special of the sound effects. Yeah. Actually the sound effects of this movie are really strong, by the way. I absolutely when during one of the massacre scenes, they had the sound of blood dripping so so properly, I thought my dog was I thought you kinda was taking a leak in the back of my house, and I was like, hold on. I paused it, and I was like, oh, that's the movie. So, I mean, they didn't skip on anything. There's nothing about this very indie movie that would make you think you're watching a cheap movie other than the lack of movie starts. No, and I mean, and going back to the family and the whole harmark at Hallmark aspect of it is then you have Andy who's like, you know, his dad comes, He's like, hey, the game's on, you know, come on, come on watch the game. Yeah. So then he takes the extension cord with the power strip,

36:30 plugs it in, sits in the armchair in the family room with all of them, and they're watching the game and then Grandma Granny comes in and she's like, what are you all doing? It's time for church. And there are multiple scenes, including this one where they're all talking and having like family discussions about wholesome things, and literally he's just zapping him in the back and you just see what the actor Hubbs, step Stephen Hubble, he does not. He sells everything, Yeah, with so much empathy. Uh and and empathy like being able to sell pain with empathy is everything. Yeah. I was very very impressed by how much he made me feel his pain along with him before he even gives his incredible monologues later. So yeah, woof so and the whole thing in regards of them going to church, it also presents this whole family dynamic that we get to see, like you know that they're, oh, they're they're god fearing people and that they have all this love for each other. But yeah, in the meanwhile, they have four people kidnapped in their basement that they're taking food from him. Well, and you know, they they they established so much that they're religious that uh, it almost like they don't dive into their into their origins, which is good because it wouldn't make any sense to like have them sit and just go.

37:51 So let me tell you about when we came over on the mayflower and got infected by the wind to go or some crap, you know, don't we don't do that here. But there is reference to the fact that this is a tradition, it's a long standing in their family. It is you know, et cetera. Actually, you know, if there's ever a mercy Christmas too, you can steal that, Wendy go idea. That's a good one. Actually that would actually work. Uh. But they do a great job of kind of establishing like, hey, this is what the family does. That's all there is to it. It's on the dad's side. Yep. And they cook and eat people. It sounds like they do it only around holidays, like family gatherings is what it sounds like. But again they don't really lay that out. The granny has no problem talking about how to cook human bodies. When they're talking about because they missed their mom, it's about how she knew how to prepare human legs better and this and that. So, I mean, it is entirely their family's thing. Yeah, And there is a massive disconnect which is meant to scare you, and it does.

38:51 It scares me of how they're like, oh, you know, we have to go to church and we have to do this, we have to be kind and this and this and this, and then the people who are meat are just meat. And I mean well, I mean there are multiple times her Brisket is very effectively you think, yeah, getting sympathy from the killers, and then you realize that it doesn't to them, you're just meet though. Yeah, it's I think the biggest turning point, which we'll get to here in a second, is that you have the family dynamic happening and you know everything, and Brisket's still holding onto the fact that maybe maybe I can get out of this, maybe I can convince He's in denial about the girl being one of them. He thinks that that she is just being taken along for the ride, and the way they show that that's not the case is very effective. So we'll get there in a second. But first, so they go to church, which means they take Brisket back down to the basement.

39:44 That's when he gets to talk to Eddie and Catherine and all those guys. Yes, Eddie is rightfully so just ready to pound these motherfuckers. Eddie is basically in this Yeah, I'm a pretty chill guy. I don't like to fight, but if you wrong me, I will eat your children alive. So damn. What happens next is the family comes back from church, and by this point, you know, they've called for help, nobody's coming. They see that their back, so they're like, Okay, well, I guess we just gotta do what we gotta do. So the dad comes back downstairs talking to Bart about the game that they were watching because they had to step away. He mentioned this thing about sneaking out of church and go listening to the game in the car. Yeah. Yeah, And he says something along the lines of that, you know, did mom ever see you doing that? And he's like, you know, your mom probably did, but if she did, she never said anything. And literally Eddie decides to call the mom a bitch, which makes Abe on a dime turn and look in the most evil thing of what did you say, and just goes at him. And they pick him up and they start chopping his fucking legs off.

40:40 Yeah yeah they do, and it's freaking gruesome. Uh And and they cut off his legs which they'd already referenced. This isn't a vengeance thing, No they are. They want to prepare legs. Yes, that's what they want to happen that night. So they cut off his legs and it's as all as it would be. Yeah, in real life, it absolutely is, because not only is it just you know, multiple times the cleaver's going down, but the whole time they're doing it, Abe and Bart are still having a conversation about basketball and the fan. They're just talking about whatever is. It's just cooking, it's just getting ready to eat. So they get the legs ready, they take them upstairs and it's stocking time. And then that's when Philip. This whole time has been annoying most of the family, but specifically Cindy because the ex there. She doesn't want them there, clearly, why the hell are you here? Well, and he always has some annoying reference. He always has some annoying reference like Henry David Thurrow said, Mahatma Gandhi always said d And they're just like but the family they're very nice.

41:38 Like earlier, they's like the dad had said, there's always a place for you on our table. Although now that I think about it, could have been. Could have been. It totally could have been, because the next thing that we see is Cindy has fucking had it and he says one line too many. And by this point they're doing the stockings and there's a thread loose on the stockings, so she has a huge pay cut the little thread off. Philip says the wrong thing, and we watch Cindy unleash on him with these scissors and just fucking kill him. She stabs him, She stabs the fuck out. Yes, she does, bloods everywhere, and the whole time the family's watching, not freaking out again, going back to this whole thing about how fucked up they are. And at the very end, she's like, you know what would be good for dinner or for dessert?

42:21 Mince meat pies. That wasn't her idea, that was the death or the death the dad suggested it. Yeah, But then she was like, oh yeah, And then he's like, we could use Philip. Philip, yeah, and he's just laying their dead. So and Philip knew they were cannibals. He ate dinner with them, yes, So uh, that goes to show you that there's an element and actually that feeds into the religious aspect. Yeah, if they had been married, I don't think he could be on the menu. Probably not because then he'd be in the family. And they don't hurt people in their family. And what the only thing that scares me more than unrepentant monsters is monsters that have a moral code, but all the things they're doing fit it. They're not hypocrites, No, that's true.

43:04 That's what makes it scary. Yeah, they're not hypocrites necessarily, they fully understand why and how they're doing everything, and that makes me want to row. Yeah, no kidding. So once Philip is dead and they're deciding that he's next, so we go back to the basement and Andy goes and grabs brisket again. Because the one thing that just begins so hard to watch his brisket is tortured. I would say it's an hour of this eighty minute movie. He's constantly being tormented. Yeah, and not just physically but emotionally. I mean, this motherfucker's telling him like, no one will miss you, this is why you're gonna be on our table and all this stuff. Yeah, it's it's he's shattering him really as a person. It's hard to watch, but then that's what makes the finale so much more satisfying, which we'll get to. Yeah, and seriously, if you haven't seen this movie, you need to watch it because we are I mean, I know we've been spoiling a lot, but like spoiler alert, like we have so much to talk about that is so excellent. This movie delivers in every way. Yeah.

44:07 But first, so, yeah, you have to eat your meat before you can have your pudding. Back in the basement, they decide that Brisket is going to be the meal for Christmas Day, so they are down there with him, and at this point we have a fake out happen where Briskett tries to get away while Philip was being stabbed, and there's a knock at the door and they get to the door. It's a cop. It is a cop and her name is Denise, And for just a brief second, we think there's hope until we find out Nope, that's Bart's girlfriend. Bart's fiance find out very soon after, Yes, which means that she's allowed to know what the family is doing. And this is a big thing too. She was aware. Yeah, so now we're coming up on when she has to seal the deal by eating a piece of human meat. Flash And naturally, with you have such a delicate family, you want to protect it.

45:00 And that's what Andy is doing in regards to his anger immediately when he finds out that Philip or that Bart has brought an outsider into the family, a girlfriend, but he didn't even know exists. He didn't even know exist, and I love clear that he's like not involved with the family very much. Bart's like, you know, well, if you were here more, you'd probably know about it. So do you even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to do You Even? Movie? We meet Denise Bart's Bart's fiance, and she wholly embraces the family like they love him. No, she's pretty trepidacious. Trepidacious verst still that first bite until that first bite, yes, so, which is which is honestly heartbreaking. Yeah, they've prepared the legs. She's sitting at the table and by this point Bart and Andy have both had it out a little bit. So it's a little tension around the table. Yeah, which is hilarious too, by the way, the tension in this family totally normal family tension. Yeah, because literally when he says, like you let an outsider in here. He's like, well, if you were around the family more, maybe you'd know about her. It's like, that's just normal family bullshit. Yeah, I love this. So she is basically given the first bite. So they have this disgusting looking cooked leg on the table. So Eddie's leg has been cooked, it's served on the table. He goes in, cuts a chunk off, puts it on her plate, and basically says, this is the bite that's going to solidify you into the family. Yeah, and it's it's a big build up.

46:29 There's lots of suspense she does. She is like uneasy, but she's in it. Yeah. And then and then she takes that fucking bite. And the more as we're talking about, the more I'm realizing how much it bothers me, because it's that moment of total perversion. Yeah, that moment where she's not going back anymore. Uh huh. And there are a lot of theories, you know, not to go all the way back to the Wendy Go again and stuff, but there are a lot of cultures that believe that once you eat human flesh, you become different. Yeah, like that's a very very common thing in a lot of human societies. Is this belief that once you eat flesh, you just become another And in this film that is expressed because the moment she choose on that, her facial expression changes to joy.

47:15 And then all she has to say is how good it is? Yep, to the cook, who is how she I think? She says like, it's so rich rich. It's like, how did you make this so rich? And they go, by the way, it's butter, You stupid bitch, learn how to cook. Whenever people are like, wow, this is so good, it's like, hey, it's called butter, it's called garlic. Shut up anyway. So by this point, Denise has been welcome into the family, but Andy still has issue with it. And at one point he actually grabs a steak knife on the table, and we don't know what he's gonna do. He starts leaning toward her, and then the dad puts his hand on him and says, why don't you and I have a talk outside? And they're drinking Scotch, smoking cigars, and he his dad. They're smoking cigars to celebrate that. He because right before that we got a little ahead. But there's so much to talk about this movie because he had just the knife thing he leaned in. That was right after he had said, like, I proposed to her and she said yes because I guess like a week earlier he had taken her on a trip and proposed to her.

48:13 Yep. So now they're in the back and they're drinking Scotch and the brothers brought out cigars to celebrate, and he's like, I got him from the gas station. But it's tradition, you know, and so Andy takes like reluctantly and ends up breaking it because he's still not going for this. And then back down in the basement, now bart and Denise are down there with Brisket and he's just patting him with an electric knife, pointing out the points of cut on him. Yea, how he's gonna be served. And then he's like, you know, we should probably tendrize him a little bit, and so he takes the fucking electric knife and cuts into his shoulder and Briskett is just standing there crying in pain. Meanwhile, you know, Eddie is still alive at this point, which is kind of a surprise, but Catherine has tried to defend him and she ends up getting the wrath of Denise, which is where we see the turning point for Denise, not just with the bite, but she goes over and starts kicking the shit wi unbelievable because she bites Bart when she's cutting Brit when he's cutting Brisket, right right, right. So by this point, now Brisket has been cut, he's been tortured, and now him and Catherine are in the basement alone together because Eddie's kind of just passed out and that kind of I mean, it's a shock that he's alive. Oh yeah, because they not only do they chop his legs with the clever, they also amputate him with an iron because that'll come back into place. And they caught herize the wound with an iron, which is just vicious. This is a funny movie, yeah, pitch black comedy, but it's really dark, really dark. So I really love it.

49:31 But boy, howdy, Catherine at this point has completely, you know, just had it. She's already hated Christmas, because we kind of forgot to mention that when they introduce the character, she's all fucked Christmas at the bar and everything. Yeah, yeah, she's very negative on Christmas, and uh, Brisket tries to basically persuade her that Christmas is the greatest time. He goes into this because he goes into this weird, this weird mindset though where he's he's explaining like that this is all wrong because it it's Christmas, so you shouldn't be hurting us, you shouldn't be hurting anyone. You're not supposed to do this at Christmas. This is supposed to be the time. That's the thing. It's like he has a moment where his mind can't comprehend this, this level of cruelty, let alone, but on Christmas, and to celebrate Christmas by harming people is just it short, It short circuits him for a second. And of course her response is fuck Christmas. Christmas is dead.

50:25 The Christmas is dead, which is and the way she says it that actor Christmas is so dead. So good. Yeah, no, she is phenomenal. So he he is just distraught, destroyed now and she's like, hey, who's the rudest range, the rudest reindeer. She she sees that this hope and belief that Christmas is wonderful is all he has, so she tells a joke. So she says, yeah, who's the who's the reindeer with the worst man who's the reindeer with the worst manners? Rude, rude all and he chuckle and she chuckles. Yeah, And at that moment, if they die, a part of us will too. Yeah, exactly, because that's such I know, I know, I'm like losing my mind, but it's such excellent storytelling. Yeah, not even good storytelling, excellent storytelling.

51:16 Yeah. And it hit me right in the goddamn heart and to hit it even harder. So by this point, the family has basically done their initial Christmas Eve dinner. Everything's you know, getting torn down. Denise goes to leave and Bart tells her that she can stay the night, and she says she should stay the night, and she's like, I don't think you're well. At first, she makes an excuse about work, and then she says, I don't think your brother would like that. Yeah, And he's like, let me handhandle that. So the family goes to bed, except for Andy, who goes back down to the basement gets brisket and I shit you not when I say that, he is shocking this poor guy. While carolers are singing outside a Beautiful Soul. It's an incredible juxtaposition. Yeah, and this movie's full of those. Yeah. Yeah. And we're just hearing the electric we're seeing the lights flicker and just you know, it's just he's drinking eggnog with whiskey and just pounding on Brisket to get this work done.

52:07 And they start to hint that one thing the family likes as they're whiskey, because that eggnog is pretty thin on egg and very heavy on So Christmas morning comes, it's the this is this is it, guys, this is this is the finale we've all been waiting for. So Yeah. And and I want to point out that one little thing we glossed over because there is, like A said, there's so much in this movie that's great is Brisket. He tormented Brisket to the point of breaking to finish the work. And when Briskett was like, no, because the actress down there in the I don't need the name of the sorry, just the character Catherine is before he comes down there, She's like, don't do whatever he wants you to do.

52:50 Don't do it, which is how I would feel too. I'd be like, I know we're not gonna live. I wouldn't do it either. So when he comes down and Brisket's like, I won't do it, he's he does. He does the evil thing that evil people do in real life, which is when a person will resist hurts someone else. Yes, because if you have a real heart and soul, which these people do not, then you can't handle to see someone else suffer. So he starts kicking the hell out of her, and she's already been beaten to near death multiple times, and then he starts strangling her. Yes, and he tells Brisket like, she's gonna die right now if you don't do it, so he agrees to it. So he's been electrocuting Brisket non stop, tormenting him, tormenting her, And at one point before we get to the big finale, he was even sitting there as Brisket was working and just shocking him and drinking eggnog for the fuck of it. Brisket's not even rest he's resisting. He's not even resisting anymore. He's not even like, I cannot overstate this is not played for laughs. It's done so well that all you want in the world is for Brisket to be okay, is to get out of this and also what we want to mention the guy in the basement who lost his legs Eddie.

54:04 There's a point when Eddie's back to life and they've tied his hands up where I mean, he's just he's full of anger, he's full of raid because there's a part where they're down there as he's like coming to and they're like, if only your mother had been here to blah blah blah, and he just lifts his head up and goes, I bet she was a fucking bitch, and they just beat the hell out of him. But like, this movie left an impact on me. I apologize. I feel like I'm interrupting you with David, but I love this movie and I think that what they did with this movie is very special. Yeah, but also the worst part of me is so satisfied by what's coming. So go on, David, take the wheel. Do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? All right? So Christmas morning, Brisket wakes up and he sees that Eddie is chopping at his restraints with the broken Christmas ornaments that they've kicked down earlier in the movie. He gets free and then we see that Briskett has now Eddie tied to his back with Christmas lights, so they are back to back and they can carry him. Yeah, they are going to break out. They are going to the get free because our friend down there, she is in no shape to leave, so they have to go get help. Yeah, so they decide to put Eddie on his back and they start crawling and that's when we see the Denise has woken up. She's getting ready for work, and that's the Copple that we found out. She was a dispatcher by the way, but still let's still

55:35 a police officer, but it's different. So they come out of the basement. They're crawling around and they're hiding from both Cindy and Denise because they have a discussion about how you know, oh, another Hallmark like discussion about like, well, next year I'll be able to help officially, and she's like I really like that, yeah, and I Dave was laughing because Dave knows me, so he knows that I have this weird thing where when somebody is unbelievably cruel, I get unbelievably cruel about up their character. And since I know where the movie's going, when she's like next Christmas, you know, I look forward to that. I'm like, yeah about next Christmas. I'm like as bad as Eddie because Eddie's just sitting there like because he's in the captain on his back and he has the irons and he's just like over the door, over the fucking like he's just gonna he's like ready to bring because we get the fake out at one point because while Cindy, while Cindy and and Denise are talking, she's like, I can't find the messing cuff.

56:22 Can you check the cupboard that's where Brisket and Eddie are hiding at the cupboard, and Eddie is, yeah, he's like just fucking open the door, open the door. And then she finds the something to open the door. So then she pantry. Yeh, pantry. So then Denise gets ready to go to work. By this point, Eddie and Brisket have snuff pass and I think they are out. Yeah they are out. Yeah, they make it outside without him and he seeing. So Denise goes to your car. She gets a call on her phone. It's the bar and he's like, you know, hey, you know, I just wanted to say Mary Christmas, have a good day. And she's like, I'll be back later, hangs up the phone, and then Eddie just from the back seats, they just pop up Eddie, Eddie, no cute, no silly, no, beats her to death, beats her to death like and then some beats her to death, breaks her teeth with the iron, breaks her phone, keeps hitting her like she's dead by the first two, like three hits, and he's still going. And here's an example of why the storytelling in this movie is is top notch. He's hitting her and he's screaming and I mean he's screaming that that human like foam is coming out of his mouth. Yeah, he's drooling on himself because he's so primarily has to kill these people. Yeah, And as he's hitting her, he breaks the key out of the ignition, which makes the car undrivable. And then as he's beating on her, when when risk gets like, he says, she's not fighting, she's not fighting, and he keeps hitting her. Then he bashes her phone without thinking yeah, because he's so unbelievably angry. And that is how you, without being cheap, set up what's about to happen next. So they realize that since the car is undrivable, and also Brisket has a flashback to Catherine and

57:54 he's like, we have to go back for her, we have to save her. So they go up to the house and by this point everybody's waking up in the house, and the first one up is Granny, who's talking to Cindy. But then Bart's angry about something and Andy's trying to go get his work done with Brisket, so they run into each other smashes eggs against her. She's frustrated in Granny. He's like, I'll go get the door, opens the door, and Eddie, as you heard in the trailer in the beginning of the episode, goes Merry Christmas, bitch and serves that iron right into her face in the most satisfying hit of the movie. I mean, it was so good. So from that point on we are into Battle Royale because Granny hits the ground. Now Andy's down to the basement, sees that Brisket is Eddie. You're both gone. He's running up and outside Bart has found the cigars that Andy discarded and he's pissed. Now too, here's Andy scream and now Brisky because he realizes he's escaped, but doesn't realize that they've already off two family members with a third right on the way. And we need to point out too that Brisket, before going into the house, took down a hanging basket and yeah there was a basket. There was a basket of point Settas. That's what I'm talking about. Like Christmas is used to the fullist extent in this movie. It is not just a backdrop.

59:09 It is all about Christmas. So there is a hanging hook for a h for plants, and it's full of point settas Christmas flowers. He takes the point sett Is out drops them and the thing shatters and pulls the hook out of the ground because it is time to f some mother f is in the a's So the first one besides first one after Granny follows in with the abe. He comes out and he's like, well, what's going on, and poor Briskets like, I'm so sorry about it. He says, I'm sorry to the grandma and then he says I'm sorry and he clocks him the head. But this is where again why the movie's next level. Yeah this is and I'm sorry, I keep stealing all the good stuff from you. I love this movie. I do you really really do? As he's hitting him and saying I'm sorry, I'm sorry in the news, he's like, I'm not sorry, I'm not sorry, and I'm not stupid. I have friends and I'm not somebody would miss me. It's it's it's it's a turning points character for his character. Yes, entirely. Oh so Abe gets it.

1:00:10 He gets thrown into the Christmas tree. Christmas tree comes down, kind of been paling him on a couple of the ornaments too. By this point, now Cindy has found out what's going on, but Catherine has also escaped from the basement and Catherine lays into that bitch like it's going out of style. Yeah. So Bart's got a cleaver. He's going at Eddie and keep in mind, tied back to back still, so they're both fighting, Eddie on his back and punching, yeah, and then us fighting Andy getting punched and the big guys on the other side punching. Yeah. It's just it is mayhem. It's like total total mayhem, super awesome. But super Scary gets the cleaver away from Bart and he's like, unplugged me. So they unplug him. Now Eddie is completely free and Brisket is just wailing on Andy and he's telling him, you know, like like Enriquez said, I have friends and fuck you and all this stuff. He's just letting out all of the things that he's been told by Andy and by anyone else's ever been a fucking prick to him. Yeah, and it's beautiful, It absolutely is. And at one point it's really beautiful. Eddie gets uh, he gets free of Bart, but Bart unfortunately gets the upper hand on him with the Cleaver kills Eddie. So we lose Eddie. So before we i mean, it is left ambiguous, but probably kills Eddie. So by this point then Catherine has now beaten Cindy in the kitchen with a rolling pin. Yeah. They have a really excellent fight scene that's very I mean, like it's none of this has done Portland. And she ends up holding her face down in a file and a pile of flour for making usually for making cross cookies, it's the cookie powder a bat it probably is, yeah, but usually when you make that thing, you're making dough. Yeah, dough's making the dough for feats.

1:01:39 Yeah, So she pushes her face into the hole in the in the flower for the dough for the eggs to go in and breaks her head with a rolling pin, so she dies in this pile of flour. Poetic satisfying. So now by this point Bart has been stabbed by Catherine, so Bart's out of the picture. So it is literally just Brisket and Andy, and Briskett has wrapped the Christmas cords around the Christmas lights around his neck. He's choking him. Andy gets the upper hand at some point, but then Catherine turns on the switch and now Andy is being shocked exactly like he's been doing to Brisket. The entire foll he gets be fuck electrocuted out of him, and Brisket, in a moment of triumph, grabs the bowl of eggnog and says, mister Robillard, I quit and chucks it with the liquid, setting Andy on fire while the lights are going off because they like a lot more nog than they do. Egg in there and see if they set it all up. Yes, he did such a good job. And then another reason this is a big deal for Brisket. They established multiple times that Brisket really has nothing else to live for but work and is terrified of losing his job.

1:02:46 Yeah, there's a part where he's literally making an argument when he's half conscious in the basement about he's like before one ke, I get thirty six days a year vacation. It is if you've ever had a job you hate it. It is very, very powerful the way he's like defending subconsciously a job that is literally literally killing it. Yeah, Like he is going to die because of this. So I just wanted to mention that real quick, because that's another amazing moment. So when he says I quit, it's actually kind of bigger than killing it, and so yeah, so then he's on fire and as the greatest monster of the film, his head melt His head does melt in, yeah, like full blown melts. So he carried brisket, grabs Catherine, carries her out the door, and he's looking up at the sky and you know that they're they're out there, they're celebrating, And he looks up at the sky and he's like, I don't think it's gonna be a white Christmas. And Catherine goes, we're in southern California. She says it in a nice way. She's like, southern California and Brisket's like, I know, I was just hoping. And then she looks back at him and says Merry Christmas, which is which is oh gosh, tears, which is Brisket's character. Yeah that She's like, well, it's you know, it's southern California. He's like, I know, I just hope hoped, because that's him because even at the beginning of the film, when he has nobody who seems to care about him, nobody's going to come to his Christmas party, nothing, he's still all smiles, yeah, and Merry Christmas,

1:04:16 and I hope you have a great Christmas, and you know, and and and so that moment, to me, it's it's it's what it said to me. And you can tell me if you think this is right or not. What it said to me is that the good part of him didn't die when he changed. I agree, because a part of him did die and it needed to, yes, But the good part of him, the thing about him that makes him him still there. Well. And I think also too, with him getting through to Catherine, it's just it's a beautiful shared moment. Yeah, yeah, because she's like loving on Christmas. Yeah, and uh, just no, you know if you ever wanted to know, Hey, what kind of guy are you? Like? Really, I am tearing up over the end of Mercy Christmas, a twenty seventeen Christmas horror movie about cannibalism. Yes, because it was that damn good Yes. And the final shot we get is you know that she said Merry Christmas and they've shared their moment and then all of a sudden, whoa hold on, Okay, you missed one thing. Though it's really great. As they're sharing that moment, they do the shot from straight up us yes, yes, yes, and then it gets closer straight above yeah, and then it cuts back to bottom level. There are Christmas carolers standing there and shot, oh my god, and they're like, please call nine one one. You want to say what she says? She and she's like, I don't know what's happened.

1:05:39 I want to report out whatever report I don't know. I don't know why. There's people bleeding up, please send please send help. And then that is the end, my friends, of the twenty seventeen Mercy Christmas, a film that I cannot recommend enough you watch that is so good. I mean, the final thoughts with it is while it's a very dark holiday horror comedy. Mercy Christmas just offers quick run time, simple story, but characters that you just latch onto and then once they get their come up and it's just so satisfying. But also just the spirit of Christmas that still survives. Is a great character arc for Brisket. I mean, Briskett's one of the best characters I've seen in a movie ever. I'm not even not just an indie movie. So it's just a phenomenal character. He absolutely is, And I mean it's it's one of those movies that the bond that him and Catherine form really rack up the hero factor for him, and it's it's the best happy ending that you could get for a movie like this, which is what we said at the beginning, isn't common with these movies. Well, and what I picked up on when he was beating Andy, you know, before he killed him. Yeah, he even said like, I have friends, and I think he was referring to Eddie and her. I think that's what he was saying, because because they all bonded down in the basement talking about their lives and stuff and fuck yeah, yeah, no, I cannot this.

1:06:51 This to me is a rent it. You can find it streaming readily available right now. Yeah. But if it's one of those that you you know, haven't put offer, it's like you don't have access to whatever it is. If you rent this, you're going to have a good time with this. Yes, it's it's so much fun. Yeah, I mean while it's dark, like I said, it's just the payoff at that finale is so well earned. It's so satisfying after the hell you have to go through to get there. It absolutely is. So do you have any final thoughts? I mean, I feel like I've raved about this movie so heart to lee throughout the whole show that you probably already know my opinion. Yes, absolutely so are we gonna do our? I'm gonna do my recommendation. I've changed it since we started because I just horror comedy falling into this. I have a love and I know Enriquez too, of the nineteen ninety film Rabbit ninety ninety nine film Ravenous, which is Guy Pierce and Robert Carlyle where they are in a remote military outpost and it turns out that there may or may not be a win to go that's infiltrated the fort well of sorts. Yeah, they don't really say when toy Go do that. They say it Windigo will legends mentioned heavily. Okay, I mean I knew that that was what they were referencing. Yeah, so that's that's your recommendation. I'll pull.

1:07:57 I'll put the other one in there, just because it's a Chris movie. If you want a their bonkers and pretty I would say enjoyable Christmas movie Christmas Buddy Christmas Joebego's film that came out last year, twenty twenty two. Christmas. Even toy just wants to get drunken party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampage killing spree through her small town, she's forced into battle for survival. And that's the reason that I think that's a good recommendation to watch is because it is a Christmas movie. It's all about Christmas. It's got some very legitimate characters, but it's also bonkers, pretty damn satisfying. And also, just if you're not a fan of the word fuck, you may want to skip that one. Yeah, that's a fair point. And as far as I want to point out, so between stream it, rented or buy it. Yeah, I would say buy it if you're a horror movie fan. Okay, stream it if you're just kind of a horror movie fan, because you probably won't want to watch it again and again because it is really heavy. Yes, there are some movies that I love, but you got to earn it yet to earn it, And and you know I don't put on funny games every other week. You know, I put on funny games every so often when I at this point, really when I have to do a podcast. Yeah, So that is it for Mercy Christmas twenty seventeen, directed by Ryan Nelson and Ryan if you are listening watching this, please reach out to us. We would love to hear from you. Don't have him on my Facebook. It wouldn't surprise me, but I would. I would personally love to hear from you and hear the story of this movie because I just I really think that this is an underrated gym that more really need to find, especially this time of year. Yeah. I agree. Mercy Christmas absolutely positively a must watch

1:09:29 for your holiday horror viewing experience, or even if you just like watching something a bit challenging. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, my friends, as we wrap up yet another episode of Do You Even Movie, I just want to say thank you all so much for joining us. It's been really fun so far. And actually this episode turned me around us having a horrible night because Dave's here. No, but I was having a rough night and this turned it around because I really love this movie. Yeah. And also, you know, because people always wonder, like, what's with the notepad? I actually I actually wanted Dave to just know he was a good friend because he was a buddy. He was working with me on the show and just like and bearing with me because but anyway, I'm getting too sidetracked, but I want to say thank you so much for watching. Please go to dooevenmovie dot com if you want to contact us or just find out more about the show.

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