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I can tell you, though, Brian, we are perfectly in that era of live casting becoming a really popular thing because one of our other favorite movies came out in 2002.

Fear.com.com.

Oh, boy, howdy.

Have you experienced the fear.com.com before?

But it is a testament to just...

Bad decision after bad decision snowballing, which makes it so interesting as a case study.

Fear.com.com. Did not expect that to come up this many times on the episode.

But here we are.

So you'd be like, what's going on?

They also, at the time I've heard people argue that they didn't have a lot of like, this is the time in the 1950s where they started releasing all those, like, like really campy, you know, when they first started putting movies out and like, like when cinema became, is starting to become more popular, you know, after the Nazis used it for the propaganda and stuff, you know, like fun times.

And then, so like, they're like, we can get this to a mass market and, and they would do those like sci-fi, you know what I mean? The 50 foot women, woman, you know what I mean? Yeah.

yeah say again right and something you said before about um maybe years uh we talked about years ago um the thing with the witches and like some of the stories that maybe came up and sometimes you kind of want like the hellfire club and it's like the thing of like did you create some of this stuff as like a game like but like it's like a thing to like notoriety or whatever and sometimes I wonder with some of these things I'm like I don't know just it seems so in depth like to be in the 50s I can be going right I'm gonna do I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna tell everybody that I got abducted by weird creepy sexy alien humanoid thing that cover me in jail had sex with me I guess it's a very like strange thing to come

Whereas like back in the fifties, like what's your.

Yeah.

Other than those movies that they were kind of putting out.

Right.

In 2018, Extremity, Blood Fest, Hell Fest, and then culminating in Haunt in 2019, and a whole bunch of sequels to Hell House LLC, of course.

Um, you know, generally the, there, there's the, there's the cluster of movies that get made because they know that a really big one's being made and they're trying to get released beforehand, like Fear.com was with The Ring or, uh, Deep Star Six and Leviathan trying to beat The Abyss to the punch.

I don't know if there's anything specific that would have triggered these movies, but you know, looking, looking for cultural context, I'm always doing that, and the first thing that popped to my mind was maybe they were possibly inspired by, um, the, the mass shootings at the Aurora Theater or the Pulse Nightclub.

That was actually in 2016, I think, but these, these kind of safe spaces that wind up getting infiltrated by basically domestic terrorists.

Oh.

[laughs] It's fear.com, isn't it?

Fear.com.

Uh-

Yes

He's co-credited cinematographer.

He's worked on stuff like Fear.com, Starship Troopers 2, Hero of the Federation.

I think that came out in 2004.

The Dark, Bratz, and Final Destination Bloodlines.

I mean, you need to watch it, but the director was William Malone, who did nothing else.

Except something called Fear.com from 2002.

Mm-hmm.

You've seen that.

Um-

Or even Fear.com.

Fear do- Oh, Fear.com.

[laughs]

Here's the thing.

I think this movie is better than Devour or Fear.com.

I think this movie is better.

Oh, I would, I would probably agree with you on that, actually.