Half in the Bag: Late Night with the Devil

Mike and Jay discuss the new found-footage-ish demonic movie Late Night with the Devil! But more importantly, they break a very important and rare VCR repair tool or something.

[@sasche23]

I feel like at this point, rlm has probably destroyed a statistically significant number of the world's vcrs.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

Dude... They repair 'em...

[@Lucario4thewin]

That's what lightning fast vcr repair is for.

[@ianv.a.4040]

Naaaaah that's too much work. Just glue the broken one back together and then destroy it over and over again until profit!

[@Prodmullefc]

The Kaiba principle. If they destroy all the other cards then their own are more valuable.

[@ClockworkMan13]

They're boosting the value just like their nukie tape

[@dantalione]

i cant fucking believe theres a half in the bag on a movie that i worked on. ive been watching you guys for like ten years and now youre reviewing a thing i helped with!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cpee656]

Well done. Most remarkable movie I’ve seen this year so far. Cheers!

[@Ronfost89]

And the movie didn't suck so kudos!

[@corbinarmstrong7419]

@dantalione I just saw it on apple this past Thursday, and it was good! Had a nice time with it 😁

[@Scrufflelump]

Dude I helped with it too! How about them craft services!?

[@corbinarmstrong7419]

I did see there were covid protocols for this movie (something you don't see credited now these days). Was it difficult or exhausting to stay safe and not get covid?

[@johnhawthorne2901]

I'm glad the actor playing the host is doing great. He went from being the Jokers silent henchman to McDonald's commercials then bounced back and and has made a sweet career

[@videoestres]

He has a NAME

[@momox001]

​@videoestres it's a crazy hard name to remember

[@adamkondracki3201]

It was Wendy's buddy!! How dare you say he got paid by a shill company like McDonalds 😢😢 Frostys are so tasty btw 😋

[@AlexS-xh6ud]

It’s easy to remember. It’s David Dalmatian.

[@kwileby09]

​@@AlexS-xh6udEasy to remember, harder to spell. Dalmachian.

[@KR11111]

The amount of production company logos at the beginning made a good amount of people in our theater laugh

[@kevinluna3257]

It made me laugh as well it reminded me of that bit in family guy where peter keeps waiting for the movie and it’s all company logos

[@tammyhowe8461]

I laughed out loud at home!

[@martymiller4537]

​@@kevinluna3257I thought the exact same thing

[@louistully8724]

This movie had more productoin logos than Tim and Eric's 'Bonjour, Diamond Jim'

[@tweeeeeex]

it doesn't help that the last two companies were literally "Future Pictures: Since 2068 and "Spooky Pictures." who names their production company that??? it feels like a parody, i assumed it was a joke on the movie's part by the time i saw those

[@Valkyrie9000]

Every two years, someone in need gets a really short wig from Jay, and I think that's beautiful

[@gsesquire3441]

You can only donate if you grow a certain length that would make it workable. You cant make a short wig out of not even shoulder length hair.

[@jewman4]

Poetic

[@Doctor_Eightball]

*a really short _merkin_

[@dan0368]

😂

[@griegomas]

​@@gsesquire3441 it was a joke, friend

[@travtotheworld]

I love that Mike managed to make Jay say "self sealing stem bolt."

[@KSignalEingang]

...by the seashore

[@TrueNubinator]

I can’t believe Mike revealed the secret use of Self Sealing Stem Bolts

[@obnoxiouspriest]

What episode was the self-sealing stem bolt from again?

[@blacktinibis7250]

@@obnoxiouspriest DS9 season 1 episode 15 "Progress". Jake and Nog form the "No-Jay Consortium" in an attempt to turn 5 thousand wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce into latinum.

[@needmoarinternets]

against his will

[@ZombieWagon]

Check out "The Devil of Christmas" episode of the British show "Inside No.9" (series 3, episode 1). The conceit is that its the raw footage of the recording of a 1970s BBC Christmas scare story (with some moments of 'audio commentary'), but they went full-on with the authenticity by using the actual cameras and lighting rigs that would've been used in the 1970s, and then employing the retired camera operators etc who knew how to run all that gear, in order to actually shoot the episode (which was also shot in the same manner that such a Christmas ghost story of the period would've been shot - in two days on a BBC soundstage with multiple cameras). Even the costumes were from the 1970s. A lot of what Jay wishes LNWTD looked like is exactly how that episode looks, and it works brilliantly.

[@WeWantBears]

A minute in and we're hitting the *top-shelf DS9 references with "self-sealing stem BOLTS"* - perfect

[@kibnob]

DS9 re:view incoming???

[@christianballer1569]

Had the gun in my mouth when this was uploaded

[@justsomefellow3604]

omg twinsies!

[@talorguitarowner5]

Jesus guys lol

[@concernedrn2844]

seek help

[@Bryzental]

@@concernedrn2844 you seem... concerned.

[@jonleggett2439]

LOL! 😂

[@alexherman77]

I see Jay has completed his Jesus arc and has returned to looking like someone from this century

[@MrsMacLover]

Jay is timeless

[@Rock-tc3qg]

Jay has finally completed his liking Men arc

[@jamesday1295]

Very cool.

[@philleotardo8542]

he looks like a revolutionary war general

[@peelsreklaw]

Slicked and parted is definitely last century. Current century is the broccoli cut.

[@MilanousMedia]

As a British person, can we stand together to the memory of Michael Parkinson! The equivilant of Letterman!

[@Jesuslordofthedance]

It was really nice to see Donny Dalmatian finally getting a lead role. I really like him.

[@StrangeNewTube]

Donny Dalmatian is W I L D

[@MangoChoTV]

I love how real Mike's hair looks.

[@ND-nr6mx]

I'm more impressed by how they made it look like Jay got a haircut. How'd they fit all that hair under the wig?

[@GreatistheWorld]

Close enough!

[@no_one_from_nowhere]

I think it is real?!

[@Grasses0n]

Jay gave him the hair he cut off.

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

Magic spray on cans

[@monkfishy6348]

Jays edit to make it look like 70's video footage is actually really effective, I can tell what he means when he says it feels more authentic.

[@KR-hg8be]

I was thinking the same thing once they started showing the footage. It looks weird since it's lit and staged like a 1970s show but it's clean and crisp like a modern film.

[@WingItMan217]

As someone who really liked this movie, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get the points they made

[@katanalevygames]

I really love the look of VHS but I think that would have also been wrong for '77. They would probably be shooting on film then so it should have just been softer and grainier looking but I completely agree with his point that they should have leaned much harder into the aesthetic.

[@alisterfolson]

I thought I was the only one who caught that, lol

[@erickmallmann1487]

@@katanalevygames you can't shoot live on film

[@jukeboxfandango]

8:00 - The Owl was likely to signify the gigantic Owl statue at Bohemian Grove, which the character was repeatedly eluded to having visited in the movie. They hold a mock ritual sacrifice in front of that statue every year, and child sacrifice was also mentioned in the movie as a component of the cultists rituals. Owls represent wisdom to most occult groups.

[@tonypine3434]

Alluded

[@EdPrivat-nz9et]

It's also a masonic symbol.

[@exercisebook4154]

It's Moloch. Also the elites don't just engage in mock sacrifices. They also literally sacrifice children.

[@exercisebook4154]

Esoteric Hollywood by Jay Dyer is a good background into the occult in Hollywood.

[@EdPrivat-nz9et]

@@exercisebook4154 Yeah I love Jay Dyer, he also did some great coverage of the CIA, NASA, Werner Von Braun, project paperclip, etc...

[@adder2488]

Mike did in fact start the REAL long narrative arc in this episode: Jay dying from burnt cork inhalation.

[@ryanscott4038]

Wow! The AI image software they used to generate Mike and Jay for this episode is honestly impressive, although I could tell Mike was fake by his unnatural lurching..

[@adcon00]

Yeah, no way Mike looks that old in real life.

[@KeyTryer]

​@@adcon00if anything, they de-aged him.

[@6AxisSage]

I mean, it got some of the details wrong like mikes head is far too small.

[@jesusaguirre2150]

They managed to hide their weird hands for most shots. I think that helped

[@darkpatches]

@@jesusaguirre2150 But if you look close, you can still tell they're weird with only five fingers on each hand.

[@OneColdMonkey]

The skeptic character was totally based on magician turned debunker James Randi. He had a bounty for any sort of psychic or paranormal activity he couldn't debunk as well. And I'm pretty sure the psychic guy was based off Uri Geller.

[@BadBeardDude]

Absolutely, you're spot on. And the Owl and the Grove is Bohemian Grove where world leaders and celebrities meet up and burn a giant owl.

[@kennethc2466]

THANK YOU! I screamed that (in my head) the entire movie. Check in the pocket, great magician and stage performer, it was CLEALY Randi. The man who took down Gellar, and many other charlatan goons...via the demonstrable scientific method. A hero to truth, and an enemy to bull s......

[@Ruestar1]

RIP Randy. You did good

[@bjchit]

So which character was Johnny Carson?

[@SianMartin.Dr.Oocyte]

I was really surprised that neither of them brought it up.

[@cowetascore8476]

Glad they caught the 7 different production companies at the beginning. I actually rewound it after going, "What the hell?"

[@leotuber]

I’m only one minute in and I swear Mike and Jay’s prowess as a comedic duo are up there with the greats like Laurel and Hardy. I got to interview them in college within the first few episodes of Half in the Bag and boy am I glad I did. RLM remains my favorite channels on KZbin. Keep it up, guys! Incredible work.

[@dyne313]

I love how they zoom in on Jay when Mike says "VHS Weirdos".

[@trenthoward6800]

He's not wrong, jay is the biggest freak of the bunch.

[@waynemorris6907]

So happy that Ghostwatch got a mention! I was 10 years old when it aired on the BBC, and I can tell you that lots of people were convinced of its authenticity.

[@JoeJoe-lq6bd]

I am curious though. Wouldn't people have noticed Craig Charles in it as a clue that it was fake? Red Dwarf had started 3 years earlier.

[@markpearcemusic258]

I was 6 when it aired and have only seen it as an adult, but I know a couple of people slightly older than me who were traumatised by it 😅 It's out on Bluray and holds up pretty well 👍

[@thedoobieshrew0244]

Was around the same age, creepy for the time. Having Parkinson host was a nice touch for credibility. What was the ghost/demon called? Was it mr pipes or something like that.

[@garrkell]

​@JoeJoe-lq6bd Craig was playing himself in Ghost Watch as was Parkinson. They didn't pretend to be someone else, the big names were themselves.

[@zypalitra8080]

@@JoeJoe-lq6bd All of the people were contemporary personalities so it's not THAT out of the realms of feasibility for his inclusion. Sarah Greene, Michael Parkinson etc. If it was real, including him in the production would have made sense to act as a potential comic relief. Craig works well with kids (Robot Wars being a fantastic example)

[@ChargeBackForward]

I never knew how badly I needed to see Jay’s face whilst hearing Mike say, “…VCR weirdos” until this video. Great editing choice, Jay 👍🏻

[@Thanatos2k]

You know it's a Jay edited episode when the description fits one line without having to hit more.

[@zakk3910]

To Mike's point about staying closer to reality being scarier, the only part that I found mildly creepy was early on when there was that person in the audience dressed up as a skeleton and it seemed that there was something off with him, based on the way they shot him.

[@mrmr9420]

Yeah I was waiting for him to come back the whole time lol

[@SpookyDarling]

That Skeleton man was my favorite minor character. Always present. So stoic. What an icon!

[@justincoates4582]

It made me think of the Yellow Sign. "I wear no mask." "No mask? No mask!" That type of thing.

[@UltimoDragonQuest]

Arguably the most authentic talk show part because he's an obvious crowd member to shoot where in a narrative film it's a weird tease that doesn't pay off.

[@igodreamer7096]

Yes, that was uncanny. I was like, what the hell is wrong with that guy

[@alexp601]

David Dastmalchian has been in The Dark Knight, The Ant-Man films, Dune 1 and 2, Oppenheimer, and Bladerunner 2049, among others. But looks like he's always going to be known as Polka Dot Man.

[@brandondavis3431]

Not in Dune 2, his character dies in the first film.

[@alexp601]

@@brandondavis3431 You know, I didn’t think he was, but Google said he was in it so I included it. But yeah, still a hugely impressive list though.

[@gsesquire3441]

​@@alexp601How could you forget Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie??? His magnum opus!!!

[@Jeffmetal42]

Lol, that movie was terrible. 🤣​@@gsesquire3441

[@ericcaulfield4477]

The Boogeyman, Last Voyage of the Demeter also.

[@Springy26]

You know who did this premise well? Joe Bob with his Friday the 13th marathon. The show slowly degrades as JBB is stalked by Jason and loses his crew and eventually his mind. All of it shot like a standard episode of the drive-in.

[@skummyskelly7306]

It's like best of the worst is good to watch before bed to fall asleep. While Half in the Bag is perfect for folding laundry.

[@antonyriley1854]

The self sealing stem bolt bit was just the bit of Mike Star Trek comedy I needed to warm the cold cockles of my heart

[@JaymeSplendid]

God I was hoping someone else caught this.

[@alejandrocano1087]

My god that was such a deep cut

[@cinderful]

*smiles with tiny ferengi fangs*

[@antonyriley1854]

@@alejandrocano1087 someone better add that they’re used for VCR repair to memory alpha 😂

[@eagle-eye125]

@@antonyriley1854 "You have to learn WHY things work on a VCR"...

[@kingsleycy3450]

Polka dot man doomed to be known as the Polka dot man because his last name is too hard

[@pogglywoggly3292]

Polka Dot? "OK. If you insist."

[@andyoli75]

DUST-mal-chən according to Wiki. His father is Iranian, hence the origin of his name. I used my com-puu-ter to get that information.

[@johnrivers3813]

For me he reminds me of my ex so to me he's known as creepy looking guy

[@willard39]

It does sound like a demon name though.

[@Pauzix]

Before Polka Dot Man I knew him as the guy from LOST

[@BruceWayne-wx3ds]

Great video but when is the Dune 2 discussion coming

[@blaketothefuture1444]

I watched Late Night with the Devil last year at the Sydney Film Festival and got to meet the 2 guys who directed the movie. Late Night with the Devil was shot in Melbourne, Australia on a budget of $11 million.

[@KetsubanSolo]

Slightly cheaper than Godzilla Minus One?!

[@GoatgutsRecords]

Why is my favorite trivia channel making movie reviews?

[@pogglywoggly3292]

Because it's funnier when they fail trivia hard, knowing they made entire episodes about topics they have zero memory of.

[@Nehelenia3000]

They’re trying to get engagement

[@MiniMackeroni]

Krebs Gorlon had to diversify.

[@pogglywoggly3292]

@@MiniMackeroni Girls get it DONE

[@kristarolleri6442]

Booooo. Hissssss.

[@JauntyScarecrow]

The skeptic was based on James Randi and his confrontations with Uri Geller, whom the psychic was based on. Randi was pretty theatrical in real life. The movie character was much more of a prick than Randi, but the affectation wasn't that far off.

[@J3TF1RE]

James Randi fucking rocked. I love his commitment to sticking it to conmen like Geller.

[@CorbCorbin]

Geller was just one person, who he exposed. Randi was much more important exposing how faith healers, and evangelicals in general, do their cons.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Eh I've heard Randi wasn't the most pleasant person in-person actually. Bit of a diva as I understand it. But that's all loose talk.

[@roebuckmckinney]

@@MidlifeCrisisJoehe was a closeted gay man born during the civil war. Of course he was a sassy little minx.

[@dhrigby]

Just like the skeptic on LNWTD - Randi offered prize money to anyone he couldn't debunk.

[@goofus1000]

My favorite part of the video is that Mike and Jay apparently understood a Svengoolie reference.

[@alexandreleitao5393]

I love and have been following the work you guys have been doing, since 2012. Congratulations for always bringing interesting takes and analyses! I always feel that your videos (Half in the Bag, Re:View, BOTW, etc) are like a fantastic film school. So thank you so much! My intention with this message is just to say that I think a Re:View dedicated to "Ghostwatch" would be awesome (especially now that you indicated you know the film)! Knowing of Mike's interest for the supernatural and Jay's knowledge on the horror genre, I am sure it would be a fantastic episode! At least I would deeply appreciate it. Thank you for the great work once again, guys!

[@EricHeffernan]

The movie not committing to the aesthetic was my biggest issue. I love the concept of Late Night with the Devil, but they don’t fully commit to it being an actual recording of a late night show.

[@Jose-se9pu]

I think most people agree the movie is EXCELLENT until the end, when they drop the very premise of the movie, and becomes generic AF

[@EricHeffernan]

@@Jose-se9pu Yeah, the ending bothered me the most. It would’ve been awesome if they just fully committed and it didn’t turn into The Conjuring.

[@jamspaper]

I found the commercial break parts confusing, not just because of the clear upgrade in quality, it seemed like no one noticed the cameras at all so wondered if they were part of it. At the beginning it says it's made from the episode and discovered behind the scene footage but I might have heard it wrong but took me out every time.

[@anonymoushumanhi]

They did fully commit. It was, SPOILER ALERT: hypnosis.

[@Drowningpic]

I actually agree with you. It felt like it had a great concept that didn’t fully go there. I was disappointed by it overall. But all the elements are there.

[@whatsup4825]

A Ghostwatch Re:View episode this Halloween, please RLM. 🙏

[@KneelB4Bacon]

According to Memory Alpha, Self-Sealing Stem Bolts are a basic component of Reverse Ratcheting Routing Planers. If you salvage from some of those, you'll be all set.

[@a.akacic]

These episodes truly are the best.. miss them the most.

[@mrzed385]

I didn't know about Civil War's posters fiasco. Damn, that's embarrassing, even in Hollywood standards.

[@DeviantDork]

Not really

[@olafrandel3065]

I think what's embarrassing is how people reacted.

[@stephankwapis]

It got even worse when all of the AI’s sex crimes came to light

[@darkcranny3851]

ALLEGED sex crimes. AI hasn't been taken to court yet. ​@@stephankwapis

[@GreatistheWorld]

Mostly embarrassing because it’s A24 and their highest budget movie yet

[@MichaelLongshanks]

Jay's graceful evolution into Ewan McGregor Obi-Wan Kenobi continues and is going very well

[@costanzathemage]

You made my day with the Svengoolie reference mention.

[@DaiAtlus79]

1:01 even in a horror Half in the bag, he manages to put in a neckbeard level trek reference. love it.

[@kildogery]

Never thought I'd hear Michael Parkinson's dulcet tones on RLM video.

[@Taurusus]

Oh it was Parky! Cheers mate, that would have bugged me all night.

[@SUK2293]

Ee by gum Meg Ryan

[@gagrin1565]

National treasure and television icon Parkinson being described as "some old british guy" is a subtle blend of culture shock and existential dread.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

@@SUK2293 That was his one failure, IMO. People took his side at the time, like 'Oh Meg, what a sour diva', but if you look at it again, he was asking her very triggering questions, asking why Americas sweetheart would be in such a movie with nudity like In the Cut, and was basically trying to shame her career choices. And the camera kept zooming in on her lips which she clearly had done. It was mean spirited, from beginning to end. So awkward, but i blame him, not her.

[@ct3076]

​@@paulinegallagher7821 I'm sure years later Parkinson admitted he shouldn't have lost his temper and that he came across pompous with Meg Ryan

[@williamglass2223]

Speaking of artistically liberal movie posters, RedLetterMedia would probably love the Godzilla vs Megalon poster which prominently features the titular monsters somehow on top of the World Trade Center towers.

[@gughunterx437]

Also the King Kong 1976 remake poster showed him standing astride the towers, one foot on each roof. Fun movie.

[@Lerithan]

Need to get the "THANKS, ELON!" added to all the major GIF suppliers

[@Xvladin]

What is a "major GIF supplier"? I don't understand. Isn't it just a file you download? Why would someone need to supply a gif?

[@Lerithan]

@@Xvladin i just mean for the built-in gif options in things like imessage, signal, discord, etc. I have no idea where those come from, so the best assumption clearly is a black market gif supplier.

[@asgads]

One of my favorite movies in recent time. I also appreciate the lost art of keeping movies under 2 hours

[@aaronsustaita277]

For real like why does the little mermaid live action need to be over 2 hours.

[@asgads]

@@aaronsustaita277 no idea, that could have actually be a decent movie if edited well

[@stug7615]

Jay getting his game hair on....look out Mike he's interviewing at other repair shops

[@Zayl1016]

One noteworthy thing about Ghostwatch and that disclaimer - it evidently began at 9:25PM. Most movies would typically start at the 30 minute or hour mark. So this little detail allowed it to quickly say it was fiction in the least conspicuous way possible as most people would assume it started at 9:30.

[@patrickstrahle5653]

uh further and more realistic

[@DanHammonds]

I was one of those who missed the disclaimer and it terrified me. Luckily I stuck it out to the end otherwise I might have gone on thinking it was real.

[@clareyoung2765]

@@DanHammondsAlso someone who watched it originally, and missed the beginning. Scared the shit out of me! I don’t think I even made it to the end when it gets over the top.

[@ShonanMiura]

Finally got around to watching Ghostwatch just a few weeks ago and was really impressed.

[@davidmurphy7332]

I reckon the Sceptic in LNWTD is based on James Randi, who, as a former illusionist was quite theatrical as he went about his brilliant work of exposing kooks and confidence tricksters. So I think that character holds up

[@dudemcmann6936]

I immediately thought of James Randi the minute that guy started talking.

[@Pwnhenge1997]

A minute in and we're already whipping out semi-obscure Star Trek references.

[@Carpetf]

the sceptic was definitely modelled on James Randi (fun fact: he's played by the actor who played the guy who gets possessed by Agent Smith in the Matrix Reloaded)

[@djswags3073]

James Randi was also on Carson IRL to debunk grifters

[@Dr.JeremyDunks]

He had the WIDEST 70s shirt collar

[@Jose-se9pu]

Yeah, he looked familiar to me during most of the movie, and when they made a close-up, I was like "...Bane?"

[@offeraccepted1772]

he was the worst part of the move

[@dhrigby]

Even down to the money offered.

[@lenonel3286]

Finally I've watched a movie before the half in the bag

[@ArmandoUlloa]

Same. I watched it yesterday.

[@chrisrandall9628]

So glad you mentioned Ghostwatch, I still remember when it was aired live in the UK

[@fizzyshellfish5439]

I had these issues with the movie too. But by the very end it was revealed that the entire thing... even the concept that this was a shocking episode of television... was all part of the host being in hell, having made the deal with the devil way before the episode was "filmed." So I forgave all that stuff. Everything you watched from the very first second of the movie-was a fever dream of a man trapped in Hell.

[@Lou-Mae]

Glad you brought up Ghostwatch - I *love* that, it was so well done.

[@BackdoorBarnyard]

Mike was so mad when he found out it wasn't real.

[@MattrickBT]

Love the DS9 reference, Mike. I want to see a Half in the Bag where Mike sneaks in as many obscure Star Trek references as possible to see how many he can get in before Jay catches on.

[@pogglywoggly3292]

So what you really want... is to see the behind the scenes of a TNG parody similar to their STD parodies. Starring Mike, Rich and Jay. So every time they give him his line he can ask, "What does that even mean?" And constantly reiterate, "Oh my, that sounds filthy." I second the motion.

[@MattrickBT]

@@pogglywoggly3292 Well that, but Jay doesn't even know it's a Star Trek reference at all. The ST references would have to be so on topic and inspecific to Trek that Jay wouldn't even bat an eye at it. Dropping episode titles might be the easiest way to do it.

[@fistfulofexplosions]

I was ten years old, and abandoned by my baby sitter. I tuned into Ghost Watch and, yes, of course I missed the disclaimer. It was amazing.

[@binarysunsetmedia1451]

Absolutely! Mike's spot on. Seeing the poster for "Escape from New York" was truly epic.

[@KIMUZABI]

Yeah, but then they completely sound like hypocrites when they say that the use of Ai in this movie is ok. It is no different.

[@Dimeinurear]

that FUCKING HIPPIE finally got a DAMN HAIRCUT

[@clivesimpson-xb7zb]

Praise him. Lol

[@simonaskalicanova1356]

The movie reminded me of an Argentinean film: History of the Occult. I strongly recommend watching it, it delivers imo a better late night atmosphere and a sense of dread. It also features fake commercials and the programme constantly reminds you of the time (only 30mins till midnight type of stuff). I DO like Late Night with the Devil but the subtlety of History of the Occult suits my tastes better.

[@yeahiknow9361]

Ty for the rec, renting it to watch tonight.

[@vinnyscaramuzzino8088]

During the screening that I went to, after the about the 90th production/distribution company logo appeared, another popped up and in the dead silent theater the gentleman in front of me screamed, "WHAT THE FUCK!!!". Huge ovation.

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Proper happy you guys talked about Ghostwatch. I remember ot as a kid and it was genuinely scary to my childs brain.

[@LukePlissken]

A great found footage thing to check out is “X-Cops” the X Files episode where the cast of Cops runs into them and follows them for the whole episode. It’s really one of my favorite uses of that genre.

[@batkat0]

That's such a fun episode

[@sabihrashid252]

There are some horror movies where you just want to spend hours hanging out with the characters and the world, before everything goes to hell. This is definitely one of those movies. As crazy as the later half is, I feel like I could've watched 10 hours of the first act, just random episodes of the talk show with colorful guests.

[@seaoftranquility7228]

I haven’t seen it but that’s a very attractive recommendation, character is everything but a lot of horror and sci-fi movies ignore it.

[@danieltobin4498]

@@seaoftranquility7228 Exactly, Hollywood big wigs think they can skimp on character stuff for horror movies but forget that some of the best horror movies have good characters.

[@johan13135]

Eric André show first season is shoot on a shitty vcr. Cause he wanted It to feel like you found some weird shit from the 80s

[@archimedes_0]

I thought the skeptic was that theatrical and the scene with him and the WILD reality-bending hypnosis happened because the possessed girl really WAS a fake and he would be the actual devil calling it out and wreaking havoc on the show. I figured the jacket change into the maroon was foreshadowing and the fact that he was so nonchalant about it all, including the worm bit where he made thousands of people see a living nightmare. That would’ve been a much cooler and unexpected route.

[@UselessDuckCompany]

I'll give you 35 wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce for that bolt in as-is condition

[@krisluedke9557]

Pretty sure you can just buy those from legate Khloé.

[@UselessDuckCompany]

@@krisluedke9557 ok that's a much better deal

[@fabiobonetta5454]

Finally.. I can stop rewatching old episodes

[@pogglywoggly3292]

Not for long...

[@MottenManOne]

I don't know what happened to me but the last two weeks were just half in the bag episodes while I was working

[@candice44]

Thank you for forcing Jay to say the words “self-sealing Stembolt” 🖖

[@danielbarrero2815]

great review! love y’all

[@hobbyhorse5848]

Hollywood thought that evil robots would look like people, but they actually look like terrible movie posters.

[@orterves]

I expect they look like terrible movie posters and very good movie posters, we just don't notice the good ones as AI

[@pogglywoggly3292]

To be fair... someone in Hollywood also thought Robowoman was a good idea.

[@iampotsataja]

Ther​e's a sucker born every minute, or whatever the old saying was @@pogglywoggly3292

[@KetsubanSolo]

​@orterves usually if you can't tell if an AI did it, it's because a human went back over it and fixed things up... which is how AI should be used: to give you some ideas, and then you make it actually work.

[@general_ghosty]

"VHS weirdos" *camera holds on Jay*

[@Frencinap]

That frame made me legit laugh out loud

[@horizon92lee]

Loved the ending, really ramps up

[@P3t3rminator]

I'm a bit sad, that the boys don't know who The Amazing James Randi was. The sceptic character was an homage to him and I loved every second of that. Loved the movie and this episode was great as always.

[@Tarvu]

Craig Charles! Let's have a three hour video where Mike dissects Red Dwarf.

[@shugaroony]

Never mind Craig Charles. Sarah Greene, hubba hubba!

[@trogdoar149]

The movie should have leaned harder into looking like a late-night program. There were too many shots that could not have been from the studio cameras.

[@menocu87]

Stem Bolt reference, bless you DS9.

[@Jimmy_D_82]

I never thought I’d see a ‘Half in the Bag’ that started with a Michael Parkinson audio clip 👻 And see Mike and Jay talk about ‘Ghostwatch’

[@scumbaag]

i have exactly 31 minutes before i have to go fix the sidewalk my neighbor keeps fucking up, what a coincidence.

[@probotprobert]

I loved the ending scene- I thought the electric demon with the split head was horrific!

[@thomassmart4088]

everything after the static should have been cut

[@EwoktheMoid]

I agree and think they should have played it up even more--added artifacting and simulated tape damage in that portion of the frame anytime the demon was visible. Really push the implication that we're getting a glimpse of something that's too sublime and terrible to be captured accurately on tape.

[@thomassmart4088]

@@EwoktheMoid great ideas - yep and that would be one relatively easy fan-edit

[@TechTehScience]

Agreed. I don't know what RLM mean by 'of this connoisseurs genre' because I've seen waaaaay too many 'creepy zombie-ish girl OooOOOOooo!!!' """subtle""" monsters that just look cheap. The fact is that that wouldn't be scary, anyway. The electric eldritch demon at least looked unique and rad (which clicks with me because some of the best horror movies are cool but not actually that scary). I want more studios to have the balls and confidence in their monster designs to not go down the cheap, knock-off exorcist route. I loved the film from start to finish and my only gripe with it was the off-air scenes not being shot as if it was by a sneaky crew member.

[@tammyhowe8461]

I agree, I felt so sorry for the girl!

[@IAmPovidone]

Delighted to hear Jay has seen Ghostwatch

[@PirateJacques79]

I watched 'Ghostwatch' on the "telly" as a wee boy when it first aired. I don't remember the disclaimer at the start, but it did have credits at the end. Not sure how it plays on DVD, but in the original broadcast it was segmented into sections that played in-between other programs during some big Halloween magazine programming block. This probably added to it's authenticity.

[@iSOBigD]

I really enjoyed this one. I'm surprised they didn't realize it was based on what James Randy used to do. He used to be a magician, he has a fund, he went on talk shows to disprove hack fraud supernatural powers... That stuff was big back then, bending spoons and what not.

[@hillbillypowpow]

Those Zoomers Mike and Jay don't know what the 70s are

[@steventrotter4958]

That video of Randi and the bowlcut karate master who claims he could move paper and pencils by doing a Kamehameha wave of sorts is an all time classic

[@cowetascore8476]

That's the first person I thought of.

[@adamsinclair1959]

By the way, if anyone wants some other British shows that do this idea better, I’d recommend Inside No.9’s Deadline and in another format, The Devil at Christmas. I actually thought of the latter when Jay was talking about how this movie doesn’t feel like it’s from the time period it’s meant to take place in, The Devil at Christmas did such a good job of feeling like the kind of production the BBC would make in the ‘70s that it enhanced the horror so much.

[@willydirt9355]

yes! both of those episodes of inside no 9 are miles ahead of this movie, funnier and scarier

[@410MaXiMuS]

He’s not the Polkadot Man forever. He is the crazy guy from The Dark Knight forever.

[@Random_Tangent]

Thank goodness the headdrum issue was resolved without transporting Mr Plinkett's house to the bottom of the ocean, to confront his evil twin, who's Jay's real father and is married to Mike's long lost good twin, then shenanigans ensue.

[@Sandy-gg7to]

I'm so happy y'all waited for the home viewers! Watched 2 days ago. Love seeing David Dastmalchian get his flowers 🖤

[@Sandy-gg7to]

He's going to be in the new Stephen King adapation by Mike Flanagan!

[@Drewbie176]

I loved this movie, it was so much fun. I also enjoyed how everything was a pretty direct reference to something from the 70s. Jack Dorsey's secret society was Bohemian Grove, which gained a lot of notoriety in the 70s after that recording of Nixon talking about it became public. They also use a lot of owl imagery, which is reflected in the movie. The skeptic was an exaggerated James Randi, the psychic was clearly based on Uri Geller. There were several cults at the time similar to the one from the beginning. I'm not sure if the girl and the book were based on anything specific, but that kind of parapsychology was huge in the 70s. Night Owls was a convincing 70s talk show, aside from the anachronistic technical aspects they talked about. This movie was a labour of love by people who really enjoy that era of pop culture.

[@user-ig4dl4iv1j]

The girl and the book are a more "satanic" version of Seth Material.

[@killyosaur2018]

Was the psychic supposed to be Uri Gellar or Peter Popoff? I feel like its the latter (has his SO getting information from the audience ahead of time, the talking to the dead bits, Uri was better known as a telekinetic as far as I recall). That being said, glad I wasn't the only one to realize the skeptic was supposed to be Randi :D

[@russelldavis1875]

The skeptic character is a direct reference to The Amazing Randi, a stage magician who was also a skeptic and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson.

[@michiganjack1337]

The movie just reminded me of a old FMV style video game. With the odd zooms and hokey acting.

[@protagkun]

I think we need a fan edit now that looks like an actual 70's tapes

[@ectofriend]

And real art for the indents.

[@jindrichpospisil8589]

Let's do it with AI!

[@GeorgiaBoi70]

Jay changes hairstyles more often than underwear. This one is the best so far.

[@mushroomhead86117]

I wore Jay's underwear! It was ussssseeeeed!!!

[@Tom-qp6oh]

His Amish look was the best!

[@jonahs4819]

@@Tom-qp6oh2012 bucktooth fatso Jay with the stringy hair was by far his most powerful iteration

[@78Rudys]

Stoklasa’s hostility is truly inspiring!!!

[@lloydritchey]

"Self-sealing stem bolt" 😂 DS9 reference

[@driftless7134]

We really need a series of Mike and Rich discussing DS9.

[@pogglywoggly3292]

And Voyager. And ToS. And Enterprise... all the animated series... and... and.. They know many people post "we don't even watch star trek we just like hearing them talk bla bla bla" all over the internet. So just keep talking about Star Trek for us nerds, you baboons! - Not Rich Evans

[@kingmackattack42]

I firstly remember the actor David as the paranoid schizophrenic from The Dark Knight. Harvey Dent kidnapped him and flipped his coin, etc. He did a great job playing someone with that particular mental illness

[@stephankwapis]

He has great range, he was in that recent Dracula movie ‘last voyage of the Demeter’ and I didn’t even recognize him for half the movie because he was playing the character so well

[@funguy398]

I like him, he always plays schizos, he is perfect in recent Boogieman

[@d3nza482]

@@stephankwapis This is the work of... gypsies.

[@3percentforlife]

The skeptic character was actually based on James Randi, a brilliant magician who later abandoned the cape and wand for more serious pursuits of debunking the paranormal, supernatural, religious, and exploitative. Haige is a magician-turned-skeptic just like Randi, and they both had a flair for showmanship even while they showed how charlatans were lying to steal from vulnerable people. Of course in this movie we are watching a fictional reality in which these people are genuine and the supernatural actually creeps into reality, so Haige must be a condescending jerk who gets his just desserts in the end. The real Randi died as an icon of rational thought, common sense, and healthy skepticism of extraordinary claims. I loved the Haige character in this film as a huge fan of James Randi. I thought he did a wonderful job of being completely confident in his skepticism, and then he needed to rationalize everything until the bitter end when he thought maybe the check in his pocket might be enough to save him.

[@Memoquin]

Ghostwatch is amazing. The way pipes appears throughout the ‘broadcast’ and no one sees him is incredibly effective.