Brightburn

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Brightburn.

[laughs]

Mm-mm.

I'll tell you.

The movie that I'm recommending here is called Brightburn from 2019, directed by David Yaravesky.

And it's a very simple movie to describe.

What if Superman was evil? What if an alien baby from another world landed in the Midwest and was discovered and adopted by a nice young couple, but instead of absorbing all the love and the classic American values, his extraterrestrial soul turned him into an unstoppable killing machine? Simple, but very smart premise for a horror movie.

He fights for truth and justice in the American way as Superman.

That's, you know, I think the thing that's kind of fun to think about, though, is that that was a character that was invented in the 1930s and 40s, which does make you wonder what kind of a Superman would the America of the 21st century produce? Yeah.

And ultimately what you have in Brightburn is a horror film about nature versus nurture.

With nurture definitely winning out.

Hold that one.

It, it, that one was Brightburn.

Oh, Brightburn.

Oh, good grief.

I never saw, I never saw that movie.

Right alongside Children of the Corn

and Brightburn.

As we talked about before recording, we will cover Children of the Corn.

Brightburn, for sure, is the February episode.

I don't know why it has to be February, but I was like, it's happening early.

The Omen.

We're going to sit down.

All right.

And then, uh, Peter Gvozdas.

G-V-O-Z-D-A-S. Um, [laughs] so, so Peter, what I just said, has edited Primate, um, Parasomnia, The Home, Locked, The Boogeyman, The Free Fall, Night Books, The Conjuring, The Devil Made Me Do It, Hammer Down, Brightburn.

So he's a horror editor at heart.

Pretty much, yeah.

There you go.

They...

Brightburn.

Um, oh, Peter's-

...

Yarovesky, uh, was the filmmaker of Brightburn, that James Gunn-

Mm-hmm

... horror young Superman, uh, movie that's, like, kind of cult classicy.

Like-

Don't get that Brightburn kid.

[ts] Dude, that...

Dude, that's our, that's the February episode.

He was like... [laughs] Then he told me like, "I couldn't sleep last night." And I was like, "Yeah, that's what you get."

Yeah.

Um, so I put on Brightburn for him and he was hooked.

He was like, "Yo, what is happening here? Is this Superman?" I was like, "No, not even."