Think You Don’t Like Horror Movies? We Promise, You Do. You Just Need To Watch The Right One!

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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, October 9th. And yes, it's that time of year. Everybody who's not even a horror movie fan seems to be getting into a horror movie mood. And we have got you covered. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, an episode robed where there are many people out there who will say they are not horror movie fans. I disagree. I think a lot of people disagree. just aren't watching the right horror movie.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because it's all about the sub-genre. Horror movie could mean a lot of different things. A lot. Depending on the type of movie you watch. In fact, anyone who tells me, oh, I don't like horror movies. Then you start to like dig a little deeper and realize, oh, wait, I actually do like a horror comedy. Oh, well, as long as there isn't too much gore I'm in, I just don't want to be kept up late at night by thinking the devil is going to haunt me or some ghost or some supernatural. Or some people are like, I don't like the idea of a masked man outside of my house. Look– I get it. We love them all. Well, I love them all. TJ actually has a subgenre he hates and almost refuses to participate in. But I do think that there is a horror movie for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And there is actually a real reason why horror movies are good for us. Yes.

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Speaker 1: And Robes, I would argue that everybody listening, even folks who say they don't like horror movies... Once we start naming a few, they'll go, oh, I like that one. Oh, I didn't really consider that one a horror. Everybody likes these movies. Rose, they are, is there another, as you were talking, is there another genre of movie? that has this many subgenres. Maybe action, maybe action, but rom-com follows the exact same formula.

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Speaker 2: It's formulaic.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: And horror movies do have a formula. Yes, they do. But the fun thing is these subgenres play with them and almost exploit them in some instances. Look, my parents, both of them, absolutely staunchly My whole life said they hate horror movies. My mom says I'm alone a lot. My dad traveled a lot. I don't want to watch these things. I don't know what's gotten into you two because my brother and I both, for whatever reason, from the moment we could watch a movie, I remember my first second grade experience outside of my mother's home because she wouldn't allow them, watching Poltergeist, finding a neighbor who had HBO to be able to watch it. And I was hooked. My brother and I then spent the rest of our childhood sneaking around trying to find a way to watch horror movies. And she's like, what, why, how did I raise two kids? But even my parents, we actually sat down with them, we just visited them recently, and got them to watch two horror movies in the last two visits. One was The Blackening and the other one was Heart Eyes. These were specific sub-genres of horror that we knew they might like and we were correct. They loved them.

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Speaker 1: We didn't watch the Bigfoot one. Didn't we do that with them too?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we watched the Bigfoot one with them too.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: So we actually have watched.

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Speaker 1: That was Willow Creek, right? Yes, Willow Creek. That's a great movie.

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Speaker 2: And I think that might be a part of our series.

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Speaker 1: We need to put it on there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. But we got them to watch. So that was a creature horror. And look, do you like Jaws? That's a horror movie. You know, to start actually asking yourself, wait a minute, there might be a type of horror movie that I do actually enjoy. They're not all Freddy Krueger. They're not all Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And so that was the point of this. Like, we do believe. I think we would stand on this. There is a horror movie for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So, yes, we wanted to put this together. Because it's funny, we absolutely are passionate about it and bordering on experts, given how much we love horror movies and given how many we watch. So before you write off horror movies, please, please listen to us and ask, do you even know what type of horror movie you like, don't like, And do you know why? Robes, the genre explains itself, but it seems odd to want to read a book or watch a show or watch a movie or do something that would invoke intense feelings of fear and dread. But that's exactly what this is, and it seems almost antithetical to want to do that, to sign up for it voluntarily, and then even to enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because I have always believed that watching a horror movie lets you escape your own personal horrors. And that's always been my... Look, when I was a kid, it wasn't that. I was fascinated, I think, just with the idea of it. If you're a thrill seeker, if you're somebody who loves an adrenaline rush, you're typically going to be somebody who loves a horror movie, just period. Any kind, all kinds. That would be the camp I fall into. How would you describe yourself?

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Speaker 1: You see, that's the... You just described something, Robes. The difference is in some people who like and don't like. And they say thrill seekers. You're not necessarily a thrill seeker, but you're an adventurer. Oh, I think I'm.

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Speaker 2: A thrill seeker. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay. Let's go with that. Well, some people that think they are, they're more adventurous than others. Someone who might jump out of a plane, somebody who might not. Someone who... does want to go shark diving, somebody who does, you know, some people just like to try stuff. People are, according to the experts, experiencing stress differently. And that's why a quote unquote thrill seeker, someone might enjoy a horror movie because what is exhilarating to them and how they handle stress in the body It's not exactly telling me to run from it. You're processing it. It's the same thing as a thrill seeker. It's the same. You apply that to movies and that is why.

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Speaker 2: I've always said it's the safest way to experience fear. In a weird way, it makes me feel safer and more secure because I know that I can watch this thing, feel the thrill of it, but know I'm perfectly safe sitting on my couch.

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Speaker 1: See, it's that. And then where is... Everybody has the fine... their spot. So it's your level of fear and your level of entertainment. At some point, some people's fear becomes so great that it can't any longer be entertainment. And some people just have a, where is your fear level and your entertainment level? Some people, ours, I would argue, is a little farther. and the fear factor that we could still enjoy it. For other people, you back it off, and I'm too scared to be entertained.

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Speaker 2: Right. And I know that it, like you kind of mentioned this, it's counterintuitive, but I have always had the experience when things are going tough, that is when I want a horror movie more than anything. I want to escape my own issue, and I want to find myself immersed in maybe another thrilling experience. Case in point... I came home from the hospital after having had a double mastectomy. My brother surprised me. Again, I mentioned he loves horror movies. And when I saw him, I got so excited because I knew I had a kindred spirit in the house. And I said, can we sit down together and watch The Conjuring? And he was like, hell yes. That might sound so crazy to someone else that that's the first thing I wanted to do but I wanted to escape my issues. And maybe part of me was like, well, at least I'm not being possessed by a demon. So it could be worse. But for whatever the reason was, I'm attracted to that, especially in moments of distress.

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Speaker 1: And I was talking to you about this, Robes, in our research on horror movies, that there are some who make an argument that horror movies are Good for people with anxiety. Now, how does that make any sense? Because a lot of times people take medication for anxiety that's not necessarily coming from work stress or family stress, just anxious about something. They don't know where it's coming from and what to do with it. A horror movie gives them a direction for it.

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Speaker 2: You can channel it.

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Speaker 1: Yes. I thought that was fascinating.

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Speaker 2: Outside of you and into the movie screen.

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Speaker 1: Yes. So I thought that was fascinating. So yes, horror movies can be good for you. I will throw that in there. All right, let's get into these genres, sub-genres, and then some sub-sub-genres, you could argue. Now, Robes, there are, no matter what horror movie it is, pretty much all of them have certain key elements. I think I do want to do this as a separate episode. Okay. Because this is, there are just some things, every single movie, horror movie, has to have it to be a horror movie. And if you look at this list, Robes, they all have this. I'm kind of... I might want to pocket, I might want to save this for later.

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Speaker 2: What the key elements that every horror movie must have to actually be labeled a horror movie.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, even all these genres and subgenres, we can mention, maybe we can discuss it in a later episode, but they all have to have a villain, a monster, an evil force or whatever. And that monster, though, Robes, has to have a backstory and a purpose to what they're doing and why they're doing it. Are they trapped? Have they been cursed? Do they have to blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Speaker 2: Are they avenging a death?

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Speaker 1: Yes, all those things. Then you have to have clear rules. Every star of the movie, you have to follow these rules or you're going to be messed up.

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Speaker 2: Don't separate.

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Speaker 1: Robes, don't read from the book.

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Speaker 2: Don't have sex.

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Speaker 1: That stuff, yes. And you also have to have a pretty good-sized cast. Why, Robes?

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Speaker 2: People must die.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you gotta lose some people. Also, the whole time you have to have an element of fear of the unknown. You have to be on edge the whole time thinking that could be a surprise. This other one, Robes, is a big one. They call it the distortion of the familiar. You take something that is innocuous, that is even comfortable to people, and you turn it into something villainous. Like A house? A doll? A clown? Yes! Distortion of the familiar. You also have to have a creepy setting. They speak on this, an example that was used, even sometimes... A door opening and you can be.

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Speaker 2: I'll never look at my mirrored medicine cabinet the same ever again in my entire life. Every time I close the medicine cabinet door that has a mirror on it, I feel like someone's going to be standing behind me.

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Speaker 1: See, that's a good movie.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: It also has to have good theme music. It has to have a good murder weapon, right? Chainsaw. What did Jason use? Would people have knives? They have, oh, Freddy Krueger.

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Speaker 2: Oh, his claws.

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Speaker 1: The claws. You got to have a good weapon. You also have to have an ultimate good evil showdown in the end. Most of them have great ones. You also have to have ropes. A chance for a sequel.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: That the killer could come back. How many times did... How many.

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Speaker 2: Times did Jason die? They're never dead the first time.

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Speaker 1: How many times? Jason?

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Speaker 2: How about Michael Myers?

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Speaker 1: Okay, now that one's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: He's like, he can't be killed. It becomes.

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Speaker 1: comical okay and then the last one is our favorite and i didn't see this on anybody else list baby.

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Speaker 2: No cell signal you will notice ever since i guess it would have to be in modern time so what i guess beginning in 2007 or so every single horror movie made within the first 10 minutes establishes oh i don't have a signal Wait, what are we, where's the, yes, they acknowledge they have someone not able to get a cell signal on their phone because every single modern day horror movie would not be believable. I mean, some of them aren't regardless, but if they could just call 911.

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Speaker 1: Robes, every movie is over in the first 10 minutes if you can just make a phone call. Every horror movie is done. It's over. If you can just make a phone call. Now, back in the day, like Psycho and all those movies, they had the advantage. There are no phones.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: But now you have to say it in every movie. And every time we do, we look over.

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Speaker 2: At each other. We laugh. We should actually play a drinking game with it because it's so funny. Like how long? We can bet. Is it going to take five minutes, six minutes, ten minutes? There's always that moment. And we look at each other and we laugh.

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Speaker 1: We should just say cheers. No signal. No signal? Oh, my. Okay. So your genre is. These are the main ones, I guess, Robes. And I got the movie examples here. And I think these are, a lot of people have seen these movies, Robes. So psychological horror. You can say, I am not a horror movie fan. I don't like horror movies, no matter what type it is. So psychological horror. And then you hear the Oscar winning film. Silence of the Lambs.

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Speaker 2: Right. That is one of the best films ever made. Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, please, come on.

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Speaker 1: So isn't that, so a lot of people I hear say, they don't like horror movies, don't necessarily think about Silence of the Lambs.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: It is a very scary movie.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Supernatural, paranormal horror. I would say this, I think this is my, if I had to pick my favorite, it would be this. And that's The Conjuring. That's Poltergeist. I mean, oh, Poltergeist was my first horror movie. And Friday the 13th was my second horror movie. And that also, that could be Slasher, Monster, and Supernatural all in one. I love the ones, there's a lot of these movies that we love that actually incorporate many of the genres. It's a multi-genre movie.

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Speaker 1: Horror movie and slasher is probably the genre that people think about first uh when you say horror movie slash you think about somebody a girl scantily clad running through the wood she trips over the.

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Speaker 2: One oh yeah someone always has to fall if someone's running they will fall yeah and.

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Speaker 1: Then the monster is just.

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Speaker 2: Walking and somehow they catch up.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen jason run no right.

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Speaker 2: Michael Myers walks so slowly with his big knife, and he always catches up.

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Speaker 1: They don't jog, nothing. Of course, monster, creature, feature. Rose, you mentioned Jaws earlier. That falls into those categories.

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Speaker 2: And one that we've watched, the original with Goldie Hawn's husband.

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Speaker 1: Michael Douglas. Excuse me, Kurt Russell.

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Speaker 2: Kurt Russell, which he is so good in The Thing. If y'all haven't seen the original The Thing with Kurt Russell... I don't think of horror movies when I think of Kurt Russell. I think of Overboard. But he is so good in this. And then they did a remake, which is also equally good. It is good. I love it. It's set in Antarctica. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of sci-fi, too. It could probably fall into that. That is. You should watch that Kurt Russell one if y'all get a chance.

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Speaker 2: The thing is so good. The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. That's a monster creature feature. But yeah, anytime there's a monster involved from a crocodile to a shark to a bigfoot to a bear... You know what?

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Speaker 1: You could put my Lake Placid in there, too.

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Speaker 2: Lake Placid is great. Oh, my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Then you have the genre of gore. That's kind of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Some really gross stuff in a bunch of those movies. But also Saw. That's some gore in all ten of those. I think they made ten, didn't they?

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I have to be in the right mood for this because gore, like anytime you have torture... like extended torture. I'm not a huge, this is probably my least favorite is the gore. Yeah, because especially when it's done well, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you have to be in the right, that takes a special mood to watch gore. That's not for everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's not. Zombie is an excellent, excellent genre. The World War Z. Didn't they announce Brad Pitt's doing another one?

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Speaker 2: That's exciting. I loved World War Z.

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Speaker 1: 28 Days Later, Train to Busan. If you haven't seen Train to Busan, do that tonight.

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Speaker 2: Train to Busan is one of the, and a lot of the Korean horror movies, which could be another genre. all fall into the zombie category. They have Alive is another good one. But oh, the whole 28 Days Later series is phenomenal. And oh, A Quiet Place. I mean, I guess that's more aliens, but still, it's like the whole apocalyptic. I love that.

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Speaker 1: Sci-fi, horror, alien was the only one I listed here. Body horror.

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Speaker 2: The Fourth Kind is another one I love.

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Speaker 1: What year was that? It was 80s or?

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Speaker 2: No, that was in the 90s, I think. Or maybe even the aughts. It's more recent than you think.

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Speaker 1: Another genre here, main genre, body horror. This is the one you were mentioning, Robe. This is the one I just can't do. You hate body horror.

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Speaker 2: I hate body horror. The Substance, Cabin Fever.

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Speaker 1: I was so mad at The Substance.

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Speaker 2: You were angry that you watched that movie.

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Speaker 1: I was so mad.

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Speaker 2: I loved it.

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Speaker 1: I think I watched it with a group of girls.

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Speaker 2: It was you, me, and Sabine.

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay. It was a group of girls, yes.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Like always. Horror comedy. Horror comedy. became our favorite genre i think in the past couple years it's.

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Speaker 2: Right so supernatural is my favorite horror comedy is a solid number two for me yes the blackening ready or not i mean we have a whole list of them uh gremlins even would be considered that's funny like yeah you don't think you like horror movies did you like gremlins that that was funny and cute and yes it was still in the horror category.

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Speaker 1: Then found footage. There are a lot of those out there, but I guess this was the one that set the bar, did it not?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Blair Witch Project. We have found so many fun. And some of the found footage movies also are or would be put into the horror comedy because a lot of them are fun and funny and yet scary at the same time and done oh so well. Well, I'm surprised, I guess Thriller isn't in there either, but there are so many. This is the point we're making. There are so many different types of horror movies. It's beyond comprehension, actually.

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Speaker 1: And there's something in there for everybody. You just got to dip a toe in the genre, but stay here. Those were the main genres. There are now some... sub genres you want to get into we'll give you that really fun list and then we'll tell you the really fun thing we are going to be doing every weekend up to halloween yes it is a horror movie takeover.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. It is Friday, and we know you are looking for something to get you into the Halloween spirit. And so, yes, please turn to us, your horror movie aficionados, who are going to spend the next four weekends detailing our favorite horror movies within specific subgenres. We've given you horror movie reviews and recommendations before. But we thought it would be fun to lean into the whole sub-genre category of horror movies because there are just so many different types of horror movies. We have fun breaking it down for people who aren't perhaps as passionate about this type of movie as we are. And so, yes, we.

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Speaker 1: Actually– People think we're sick, right?

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Speaker 2: People think that– Yes, my own mother has been concerned about my level of passion for horror movies. um i i always feel that this is so true though for most of my life it's been fun When you meet that person who has the same passion, some people have so surprised me. Like you and I, this is one of the first things we connected on. I remember my former co-anchor from NBC, Lester Holt. He loved horror movies. It's so fun. My brother... Who else in your life that surprised you? Like, I love learning about people. When I know you like horror movies, you've now just earned a certain place in my heart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of colleagues. But in my family, I got nobody. It's rare. Wasn't Tish.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: Who else?

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Speaker 2: Sarah Haynes is another one of my friends. On one hand, I can name people who felt that same level. You, Lester, Sarah. We even roped Michael Strahan in a couple of times, and he was screaming like a little girl. I think we took him to one of the Conjurings, and it was hilarious to see his reaction. But both of my daughters love horror movies. I think they kind of had to. Sabine is now all in.

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Speaker 1: Voluntarily, right? We tried to force it on her for a little while and then all of a sudden she gets on board.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember your first horror movie?

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Speaker 1: No, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, to the point where, I think we've talked about this, on Christmas Day last year, we took everyone to Nosferatu and it was so, Happy Christmas, y'all. Let's go see Dracula. I mean, we, but it's just a thing and we have a blast. So Halloween is probably one of the best holidays in this house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of our favorites of the year. This is, I just, I don't know, sometimes you do get, you kind of get put on an island. Like, what is wrong with you? Like, something has to be wrong. It's sick and it's twisted. How could you enjoy? Watching that being done to someone. And I don't know. It is storytelling.

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Speaker 2: It is... It's escapism, too. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's fear. It's frighten. And I guess some of us just process that differently. And you always say it. I get grossed out sometimes. I don't get... scared necessarily, but there is, you call it what that, um, the safety, what's the line you always use?

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Speaker 2: It's, uh, Oh, it's, it's, it's basically you're experiencing fear safely, which I think is like, there is a thrill to that. Now I, you see me sometimes if it gets gory, I'm not a big, I don't love a lot of gore or like this, the audio, the sound can actually do me in sometimes, but I will cover my eyes, but leave a little opening and somehow that makes me feel safer. But I just, It's fun. I love snuggling up next to you, and I love a jump scare, which I.

00:22:35
Speaker 1: I love a jump scare.

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Speaker 2: And you.

00:22:37
Speaker 1: I love it.

00:22:37
Speaker 2: You make so much fun of me, though.

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Speaker 1: Well, you jump at weird times in movies now.

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Speaker 2: I jump when you're supposed to.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no. That's the thing. You don't. You don't jump at the biggest moment because you can tell they're coming because you're an expert at horror movies. But sometimes a phone will ring in a movie that you weren't expecting. Yeah, it's those.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm on edge.

00:22:57
Speaker 1: And then you get embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: And I start laughing. I have made... involuntary gasps, and it's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: You apologized to me and Sabine the other day. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 2: That was so embarrassing, but I was so into it and invested. I got freaked out, but I love it.

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Speaker 1: Just love being scared. We're all just a little different. That's fine, and that's fun, but robes, yes. We talked about the sub-genres. There are sub-sub-genres. Some of these make perfect sense right as you start. Survivor. survival horror.

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Speaker 2: I am legend would be a part of that too.

00:23:32
Speaker 1: I think like, like that's like a post-apocalyptic.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

00:23:34
Speaker 1: That's a genre as well.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Like, Oh, even like the day after tomorrow, would that be considered a horror? I just, I love those types of movies where the end of days and what will happen. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows what a haunted house horror, tons of those. Some of my favorites, but also vampire horror. That's a specific, you love that one. I'm like, I love vampires.

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Speaker 2: I'm meh on vampire horror.

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Speaker 1: Um, torture's difficult.

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Speaker 2: Hate it.

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Speaker 1: Torture, this sub-genre is a, it's a, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Saw movies are really hard for me.

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Speaker 1: Hostile.

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Speaker 2: Hostile is really hard for me. Those are some rough ones and I do question the filmmakers. I'm like, what is in your brain that you could come up with that? I will get a little judgy on that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we got werewolf horror, plenty of those out there over the years. Folk horror is a specific one and this kind of had to do with what? What's the best way to describe this having to do with the The earth and rituals.

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Speaker 2: Like if you like the ruins, like when you've got like vines taking over or like midsummer, like all like where it's like ritualistic or something to do with mother earth, like coming back to get you like in some weird haunting way. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Another one, backwoods. We kind of love, this has to do with, You know, kids are driving down the highway, the car breaks down, and all of a sudden they come up against.

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Speaker 2: Jeepers Creepers, I feel like has a lot of backwoods elements to it. That's a villain.

00:24:55
Speaker 1: Is that a creature?

00:24:56
Speaker 2: That's a creature.

00:24:57
Speaker 1: That's a creature.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: But they're driving.

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Speaker 1: This is Wrong Turn, where you run into some dudes who haven't quite developed over the years, who've been living out in the woods, kind of a.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some creepy backwoods North Carolina stuff.

00:25:11
Speaker 1: Home Invasion, that makes sense.

00:25:13
Speaker 2: The Strangers would be the best example of that, probably.

00:25:17
Speaker 1: Oh, you know what?

00:25:17
Speaker 2: I love Hush. That is such a good home invasion movie.

00:25:21
Speaker 1: You know what, you all? We can take a side note here. Hush. I think it's on Netflix. Yes. Folks, do Hush. It is a horror movie. Not psychological. It's a home invasion.

00:25:33
Speaker 2: It's a stranger in the woods movie.

00:25:35
Speaker 1: You all watch Hush. How do you describe it? She's a woman who is deaf. She's deaf.

00:25:42
Speaker 2: And this guy is just pursuing her.

00:25:45
Speaker 1: It's so good.

00:25:46
Speaker 2: It also is a cappin' in the woods. It's got a lot of genres in there.

00:25:49
Speaker 1: That one is fantastic. And then Madness Roads. I guess The Shining would be a good example of this. Where somebody just descends into madness kind of a movie. Oh, wow.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that.

00:26:01
Speaker 1: Mythological.

00:26:02
Speaker 2: I mean.

00:26:03
Speaker 1: I don't know, what was the recent movie about the unicorn?

00:26:06
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.

00:26:07
Speaker 1: Like mythological, you can make sense of that. And then possession. A lot of people who don't like, who might like horror movies, can't stand the possession ones. They really are.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: Fearful of them. Exorcists. Well, look, I do think people of a certain faith, especially us Catholics, look, the Catholic Church, they have demonologists. I mean, they actually have people who will perform a sacred tradition. So... Yeah, an exorcism. So I love a possession film.

00:26:36
Speaker 1: I do too.

00:26:37
Speaker 2: Oh my God, The Exorcism of Emily Rose with Laura Linney. It's not even like high on action, but the drama and the intensity and the believability based on a real story about a priest who was convicted of murder after a botched exorcism left a young girl dead in Pennsylvania. Yeah. Those are the types of movies. And especially when they're like true, like they actually are rooted in real stories. Those will scare the heck out of me. Like it doesn't, I don't need necessarily even a jump scare. Tell me that I've always said there's no lock for the devil. And if you, if you have any kind of faith or belief in an afterlife, that's a supernatural belief. And so, yes. That, I will, an axe murderer scares me far less than some demonic, scary thing that there's no locks or walls for.

00:27:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's less of a chance in my mind that I'm going to be chased by a masked man through the woods than possibly possessed.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Yes, but you know what I always laughed at? This is me being full. I've literally taken solace because I believe it might have been in the exorcism of Emily Rose, but yes, it was in that movie where they said, your likelihood of being possessed goes up the more faithful you are because the devil wants to take your soul. If you are a devout, if you're devout, I'm like, okay, well, cool. I'm not going to get possessed.

00:27:56
Speaker 1: It's not going to waste time with us.

00:27:58
Speaker 2: It actually made me feel better. Like she's almost on our side. No, but they're not as worried about getting me to the dark side. Somehow that makes me feel better, but maybe that makes you think worse of me.

00:28:09
Speaker 1: Okay. See, I was just trying to say, don't think us twisted because we like horror movies, and then you just went into that whole spiel.

00:28:16
Speaker 2: Where I just made myself sound like a terrible human being.

00:28:18
Speaker 1: Twisted as hell. All right, this is what we're going to do over the next few weekends. For Halloween, leading up to Halloween, we are going to dedicate each Saturday and Sunday robes to specific genres.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: Yes. And so here are the genres we've chosen. And look, we may sprinkle some more in because we just obviously this is our favorite, favorite thing to talk about. But we'll begin tomorrow, Saturday. We're going to do a comedy horror day on Saturday, our favorite comedy horrors. And then we'll continue the series through the weekends with supernatural horror, monster slash creature horror. We're going to do a zombie horror day. We're going to do a slasher horror day, a cabin horror day, and a thriller horror day. Now we might have some, I think on Halloween day, we're talking about doing a full day of just our like surefire horror. best of movies if you want to have a halloween party if you just want to fully get into the spirit before you go to your halloween party we'll give you a day's worth of like like foolproof everyone's gonna love these movies.

00:29:29
Speaker 1: Well stay tuned for the schedule but this is always our favorite this is our super bowl month almost But, folks, enjoy. Enjoy. Look forward to hanging and hearing from you all throughout the rest of this month on our horror movies. We appreciate you as always. I'm TJ. That's Robes. Talk soon.