The Estus Pirkle Trilogy - The Cinema Snob

[@ItsHyomoto]

I do rewatch these snob episodes, they have a certain re-watchability that makes me appreciate a compilation.

[@HylianFox3]

I find that his Christploitation reviews are the most entertaining

[@Mark_of_Tread]

Finally enough Estus to make us all come

[@HydraSpectre1138]

Ambatukam! Ambasing! Omaygot! Ambatunat! Ambatufakinat!

[@HylianFox3]

With a name like "Estus Pirkle" you're pretty much required to be a lunatic.

[@polartechie]

Nominative Pre-determinism!

[@Nocturne_Duskclaw]

Or a character in Earthbound. Or both.

[@MrJamaigar]

Or a Southern plantation owner straight out of "Django Unchained"

[@lucamckenn5932]

I think of dark souls. He would be a perfect faith build player.

[@nicklager1666]

Congrats to you and Laura on the new family member.

[@anthonydaniel9534]

"Oh yeah, and it'll also make you COME!! SEVERAL TIMES!!" -comedy gold from Snob

[@DocZFlux]

Honestly, it’s crazy that “Please Don’t Touch Me!” was a lot more tasteful and insightful than anything born again Ormond made

[@HylianFox3]

I can't help but notice that it's a common theme where if an author or filmmaker finds religion, they tend to go completely over the edge. Even if their non-Christian stuff was fairly tame. Before: "Here's a story about how puppies and kittens learned to get along!" After: "REPENT! YOU WILL BURN IN HELL IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT JESUS!!! GAYS ARE THE SPAWN OF SATAN! ABORTION IS A TOOL OF THE DEVIL!!! THE COMMIES WILL INVADE AND KILL US ALL!!!!!!"

[@endorenna7106]

@DocZFlux It really is. From the name and poster I thought Please Don’t Touch Me would be some gross piece about a woman being assaulted by her husband… then it turns out to be about trying to help fix some trauma on a film with some unnecessary shots of a lady in her underclothes! A surprise, but a welcome one.

[@philbaker7781]

I thought I was crazy and imagined these. I'm glad he uploaded the trilogy.

[@devonchafe2764]

These are some of my FAVORITE snob episodes

[@SirAsdf]

9:21 Estus would be the kind of guy to read a story about a girl being gang raped and immediately victim blame her by saying shit like "WELL IF SHE WASN'T DRESSED LIKE A HUSSY, SHE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR IT!"

[@proud2bpagan]

i thought that,too. no consideration of not bringing their son up to being a mouth breathing knuckle dragger..noo,it's all on the girl.

[@Nocturnalux]

I have to say, this has got to be some of the creepiest music known to humanity and that audience…it’s the stuff of nightmares. Love the camel’s reaction to the earthquake, it’s looking at the humans freaking out, going, “wtf”.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

When someone invariably brings up the “Original Trilogy” in a discussion of influential 20th century genre cinema; I always confidently assume they are referencing the “Pirkle Trilogy” ✝️

[@caseyhafer2550]

Coppola, Lucas, Pirkle. The trilogy of trilogies

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

@@caseyhafer2550you forgot Zemeckis and Spielberg (in reference to Back to the Future and Indiana Jones respectively).

[@Evflasky]

These estrus pirkle movie reviews are some of my favorites! Weirdly my introduction to the Cinema Snob, and boy howdy what a way to start.

[@weareallbronies9031]

The compilation we all need.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

Something tells me Mike Pence looks up to Pirkle like he's a god king

[@ashleybrooke2087]

I'd add that Pence might view these movies as comedies but that would suggest Pence has a sense of humor.

[@dirbrody]

My dad saw this as a teenager back in around 1971 here in Shreveport, LA. They played it at my parents church on a Sunday night. My dad said women would scream & cry during the scary scary/violent scenes. Ha Ha…

[@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist]

Understandable, these movies are gorier than most slasher films. 🤣

[@ashurmom2969]

I am sooo glad you posted this, been trying to get my husband to watch ol’ Estus for a week and voila! Thank you! 😊🎉

[@PKScoop]

The best Trilogy Commentary ever!

[@danielvandersall6756]

7:08 After watching the fearsome Russian Bear perform so brilliantly in the Ukraine, it sounds even more farfetched.

[@Rob1976x]

I had so much fun with these episodes back in the day.

[@jeffweber8556]

Magazines, music and TV are bad? His brain must have exploded when he discovered Dungeons and Dragons, computer games and the internet.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Will you come? Will you come? Will y- ... I've been asked to leave the library.

[@DeLarmeLandes]

Saw "The Burning Hell" at my fundamentalist Bible church in rural PA, sometime around 1975, and today I love horror movies. Thanks, Estus Pirkle!

[@ichimaru96]

I've been rewatching each of the originals on repeat for the last 2 weeks so this upload is very conveniently times for me 😂

[@mst3k3000]

I'm glad that these Estus Pirkle movies can be seen on Blu-ray along with Please Don't Touch Me, The Grim Reaper, and 39 Stripes now with the From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond Family boxset. But the REAL question we need right now is: Will You Come? Will You Come?? Will You Come???

[@thenightrider2121]

The second I saw that set was available to preorder, there was no hesitation to get that one. I even got that giant ass book The Exotic Ones with it. Best decision.

[@SgtScorpious]

Hi def transfers of these exploitation flicks? Color me intrigued

[@TrueBuddhaCat]

Really?? I may have to find those myself

[@mikesilvester3433]

Yeah these episodes inspired my to buy the Blu ray box set as well!

[@Duncaster]

Cinema Snob and religious scare films. Name a more iconic duo.

[@ChunkSchuldinga]

Cinema Snob and XXX parody

[@jngr1]

Cinema Snob and Nukie

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

Cinema Snob and disturbing Christmas movies

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Cinema Snob and exploitation movies with musical acts randomly showing up (like Mr. No Legs and Another Son of Sam).

[@scripturalcontexts]

Cinema Snob and the God's Not Dead Saga

[@mcbfilms22]

38:26 my mom’s best friend was married to Jack Hyles’ son, David Hyles. I grew up hearing horror stories about that family and all their sexual misconduct within the church. So it was quite fascinating to see him pop up in this video.

[@theheavymetalbrony2257]

To think that such a horrid person would give us all such joy (with the help of The Cinema Snob of course).

[@thomriley1036]

As a fun social experiment, I often end perfectly normal sentences with the phrase "what will horses do?" . And if you can't appreciate that, then what will horses do?

[@SirWilliamKidney]

I am taking up this challenge and incorporating it into my own life, then what will horses do?

[@thomriley1036]

@@SirWilliamKidney Use it wisely, friend. And remember, if you don't carry on this fine tradition, what will horses do?

[@ashleybrooke2087]

But if horses will do, then what will, dammit, that's harder than it looks!

[@MrJamaigar]

Horses this and that... what about goats? They're a pagan symbol associated with witchcraft and satanism. I can't believe Pirkle and Ormond left that part out of the "Burning Hell". 😅

[@thomriley1036]

@@MrJamaigar If goats tire you, what will horses do?

[@wicked_wally]

Ironically I knew who Estus Pirkle was since high school without knowing it because parts of his sermon from Believer's Heaven are sampled on "Pass Me By" from ICP's Great Milenko album.

[@knightnday10]

Great trilogy! Thanks Snob!

[@renegadesofanarchy289]

These are some classic snob episodes, also gotta credit the God Awful Movie guys for introducing me to this madness

[@Nocturnalux]

Yes! I don’t think they’ve done the last one, The Believer’s Heaven?

[@renegadesofanarchy289]

@@Nocturnalux Don’t think they have, thing is, Snob did a Little Piece of Heaven years before the GAM cast did, so who knows, they might cover Believer’s Heaven at some point

[@Nocturnalux]

@@renegadesofanarchy289 The GAM guys really went hard on the audience in these movies and until you actually see it, you can’t tell how right they were. These people look…I don’t even know how to put it. Straight from a horror movie. The music is perplexingly awful.

[@renegadesofanarchy289]

@@Nocturnalux The audience looks like a pack of actual zombies, apparently the zombie apocalypse happened in the seventies who knew?

[@Nocturnalux]

@@renegadesofanarchy289 Inbred zombies, at that! It's like Children of the Corn.

[@danthefan28]

I honestly find Ron Ormond/Estus Pirkle collaborations to be fascinating when you keep in mind that the films are clearly being made by a small town community theatre and by the local church, they even say so in the credits, so the making of these films had to have been major events for the town, like, off camera they would be barbecuing, could you imagine living in a place like that? Where every once in a while the local minister and this exploitation filmmaker are like "We're gonna shoot a movie", and the movie is somewhere between a sermon and a fever dream, with gore and viseral depictions of hell. Like, I want so much to see a film about the making of these films, or something inspired by them, like Waiting for Guffman meets Hell House.

[@IW3527]

That would be some fascinating nightmare fuel 😅

[@sarnol8973]

to be fair a lot of this was filmed in the holy land. that takes some effort and budget

[@lordsepht]

God I miss the chair haha and nice compilation!!

[@docthemetalfreak]

the only director I could think of who could remake this trilogy would be Rob Zombie

[@TrueBuddhaCat]

Ah yes, the true trilogy we were all looking forward to The Cinema Snob and Estus Pirkle; the perfect trilogy since the original Star Wars trilogy Also congrats to you and Laura on the baby; hopefully the twins will be good to him

[@coolnerdlll6053]

What about Lord of the Rings?

[@thomasmurphy6652]

Brad never fails to crack me up lol

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

I was hoping to fing these all together. I wanted to show a friend how crazy they are! The Snob always COMEs through for me, with his Perfect timing. Cheers from Canada :)

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

47:30 I'm guessing many have caught it in the past but I still tip my hat, to the Alfred E. Newman joke, with the, "What me? Worry!" slipped in for extra punch. Well done! Cheers

[@morganyoung3557]

Ah yes, Estus Pirkle, the celebrity crush of Margaret White.

[@CreamedCornACob]

I’m really digging the new intro tbh 💯

[@derekstein6193]

"The Believer's Heaven" implies that there is another heaven, just one not for believers. Didn't think of that, did you Estus?

[@TheUluxian]

Not sure which is more sickening, that in Estus Pirkles' world, being Indonesian or Brazilian (among other things) means you're going to hell Or that we still have people holding onto those same disgusting beliefs 50 years later...

[@jonnybarnard8578]

You've heard of the Mormons right? They believe dark skin is the mark of Cain, they just started letting black people join the church in the late 80s early 90s.

[@myowncelestial5017]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[@InhumanFan98]

Theres always the stupid who will hang onto beliefs even after they are proven false or fallible, its people who question it themselves and take those questions to their own answers who learn, they learn nothing if they always remain ignorant and just clutch their bible to everything

[@darkcoeficient]

If it makes you feel better, there are Brazilians and Indonesians that think the same way about you.

[@vitorafmonteiro]

Not to be pedantic but that's not what he said. He was guilt tripping US-Americans who think God blesses "Muricah" by saying if they don't repent, God will take his blessings from them to a country like Indonesia or Brazil (which of course means he thought those countries weren't as blessed as the US THEN and it's still a stupid way of approaching things, but that is what he DID say). Given that Brad is editing it just to show how motormouth Etus speaks, the point is just not as clear as if you see the full thing. Estus might have thought most Indonesians are going to hell, but that's just because most are Muslim and the whole "You got to accept Jesus as your Lord and saviour to be saved" thing, so it's not really the country being damned..

[@scypsylock9402]

You could see that the family tree did not have many branches with those background extras... Damn, they all look like they came from the same gene pool!

[@sjmhadsock4586]

I love when you do these videos on religious scare tactics

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

Same here. As a Christian myself, I hate these stupid, religious movies and love it when he tears them apart!😆

[@sjmhadsock4586]

@@kittycatmeowmeow963 yep

[@OakCityGamers]

Going to rewatch all of this in the background while I dress up as Caligula and hang out with my strokémon and Bibleman inside the closet while I’m hiding from the world outdoors 😅

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Is your closet a war room, by any chance ? 😁

[@InhumanFan98]

​@@FrenchPaul1988i must be the only one who likes my coffee luke warm. its the joys of hot coffee and the joys of cold coffee in one cup! 😂

[@OakCityGamers]

@FrenchPaul1988. Yes. Yes it is. The posters are Madea posters. @thorFan1988 I’ve never had hot coffee. I put ice or milk in it. Luke warm is fine also.

[@OakCityGamers]

Is it weird you are ten years removed per your names. Hope you’re both 18 and super pissed about the “make an ass of u n me” assumptions!

[@MoonlitLycan]

Estus Pirkle: *Describes the horror of America if it fell under communism* Also Estus Pirkle at the exact same time: *Describes America as it exists under capitalism* Gotta love men like him who spent all their time talking out their asses about things they refused to learn yet spin their ignorance into big scary words and scenarios to sound like they actually know what the hell they're rambling on about.

[@cherylfagan3219]

Such a fun compilation

[@MrJamaigar]

Now, this is a trilogy that should be shown in theatres.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Yes Estus, I will come again and again and again!😂

Isn't this a coincidence. I rewatched these just yesterday.

[@defender2222]

But did you come? Did you come? Did you come?

[@GWil-ey4if]

My dad was taken to see the burning hell with a church group when he was around 7 years old, and he said it scared the shit out of him. My great aunt was a part of the group and told my dad "it's so hard to get into heaven you might as well not even try" which he said didn't help his fear. This was in Mississippi in the late 70's.

[@polartechie]

Ironically, this upload is *my* Salvation.

[@ZakkOsborne]

"Doctor Strangelove agrees" nearly made me spit my drink all over my desk.🤣

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

My main problem with the idea of Hell (and Heaven) is that anything repeated over such a long time frame would just become routine. Torture works because it is novel, pleasure feels good because we don’t always experience it. The very notion of perpetual torment or bliss is just ridiculous, unless there is a department in both places coming up wirh new tortures/pleasures. Tl;dr heaven and hell are dumb.

[@SithBunny1]

Ultimate face off- Estus Pirkle vs. Chuck Tingle

[@spencerbean8802]

If Footmen Tire You: the most violent Burning Hell: the most forceful Believers Heaven: the most culty

[@bluecoin3771]

I will never stop arguing against the insanity of today's ideologically charged groups, but it is important to remember that there were plenty of crazies back then too.

[@humanconvertile]

As much as I appreciate the convenience of this compilation, it is a shame that it has fallen victim to KZbin censorship and a few scenes have been edited out from the original videos. Better download and archive them while you can, folks!

[@eddiemidnite]

'The eggcream of the almighty' still cracks me up.

[@KellogsR-ny7ug]

Was that a Squirm reference?

[@eddiemidnite]

Yup. 😄

[@MrCjosue24]

I enjoy these 1 hour reviews from Brad!

[@torloni13]

Lighting a cigarette with the ornament candle and smoking in the restaurant is worse than having b#tt sex on that table.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Al three of my favorite reviews in one hour long vid

[@robotrix]

I've had this as a playlist with The Grim Reaper. Gotta see what it does to the ad count.

[@cuttingbored4195]

In, 1939, Vaughan Williams took the parable of Dives and Lazarus as inspiration for an achingly beautiful composition about the doomed hope for world peace. In 1971, Estus Pirkle… didn’t do that….

[@animehero343]

Such a glorious intro

[@strangebot8492]

Estus Pirkle is an especially fun name to say.

[@bonfiresnake2403]

Just in time for the holidays

[@karelsmith-sx4qn]

Nothing like some good ol' religious fear-monging to kick off spooky season.

[@bobcobb3654]

So will David AR White be doing the christening for Snob, Jr?

[@robotrix]

Why not Dr James Dobson? He can give you advice on how to keep him straight.

[@bobcobb3654]

@@robotrixisn’t he retired or dead or something?

[@yzma_]

The idea of Ted Bundy selling Amway is less creepy than " Will you come" 😆

[@sonicinajarvauntedspeciali7245]

That one dude who plays the atheist dad in The Burning Hell and the main communist enforcer is the funniest part of these films to me because of how over the top his facial expressions are. Plus they CONSTANTLY cut to him to show his reaction to the situation or what someone is saying he doesn't like or doesn't understand. My crack theory is that it's canonically just the same atheist character from The Burning Hell that went on to work for the communist takeover to pillage homes for another beer. "Think I'll have another beer" Man is an absolute menace to their town😭

[@emilypeduto981]

well this is certainly an odd choice of trilogy to celebrate the birth of your child, but i hope it's buying you some precious time with your family!

[@theletterm1787]

Now these are on Blu Ray

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

19:15 The salt torture might sound bad but I heard that enough of it, will keep you safe from the, 'HORROR AT PARTY BEACH!' 'Sodium, Sodium, Sodium!' 'For pete's sake, S.O.D.I.U.M' How available locally, which saves you the trip to N.Y. city ;) Cheers from Montreal

[@charlesplante]

So much talk about premarital sex and miniskirts and rape and erotic zones. How do I not "come" Mr.pirkle?

[@chanceotter8121]

These 3 films are among the greatest American folk art of the 20th Century: An original melting pot of Fundamentalist Baptist theology, exploitation filmmaking, religious sincerity, grindhouse aesthetics, and end-times revivalist brimstone. They are an authentic artifact of a segment of American culture in the early’70s that the mainstream culture could not understand. Somewhere beyond Hee Haw, Walking Tall, Elvis on Tour, Texas Chainsaw, the election of Jimmy Carter, and a Slow Train Coming is the Pirkle/Ormond trilogy.

[@andrewlongo689]

As a Christian it’s pretty depressing that the only Christian movies are either conspiratorial scare films or resentment based persecution complex narratives. Well, at least there’s always Daredevil I guess?

[@robotrix]

Those old Billy Graham films that starred people like Bill Williams, Johnny Crawford and Kim Darby weren't so bad. Even Graham's sermons at the end weren't hateful (unless you were one of the hypocrites he was talking about). And yet he raised that guy who's assisting the Anti-Christ trying to get back into the WH.

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

I'm also Christian and I can't agree with you more. I would say the only ones I like are "The Prince of Egypt", "Joseph: King of Dreams", "Luther", "Saved", "Dogma", and "The Exorcist".

[@HylianFox3]

@@kittycatmeowmeow963 What's noteworthy is that most (if not all) of those weren't made by "Christian" studios.

[@renegadesofanarchy289]

@@HylianFox3Those are actual movies, “Christian” movies made by “Christian” studios have a nasty habit of just being straight up political/religious propaganda

[@InhumanFan98]

​@@kittycatmeowmeow963im not a christian but i love prince of egypt, its animation is just amazing :)

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

33:50 Not to worry. All those people who fell in the Sandfilled Pit eventuallt get Flown out of the pit by this guy with a Jetpack!! The people will always remember the man called, BoBo Jett (pack ;)

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

58:25 Shit! Now I feel really dumb! I thought Ormand's son Tim, was a "new" Green Screened Spoony character!! These films are driving me crazy! I'm going to have to watch a Fulci movie, just to clear my head!!! WTF.

[@LinksBetweenDrinks]

Never had I needed something so much, and not known until I received it.

[@thejoexman]

Okay, maybe someone from the Bible belt or someone who grew up with someone from an older generation can answer this question: why are people expected to read the Bible CONSTANTLY? Like, yeah, I've read through the Bible, but why am I supposed to keep reading it again and again and again? What 'new wisdom' am I supposed to glean from it when I also go to church every week as well and, apparently, am supposed to be involved in church-related activities all week long? I know this is something of an extreme version these days but I also know people who say that stuff like this isn't even as crazy as it got. I'm just...what's the thinking? Why read it over and over and over? It's not exactly a page-turner.

[@burninsherman1037]

Because everything else is "worldly", so it's literally the only fucking book you can read without risking sin. It's a bit more than that, but that's generally the underlying implication.

[@IW3527]

​@@burninsherman1037yup that and according to my childhood pastor if you have questions about anything and I mean anything sky daddy will put the answers in your head as you read mistranlated vague verses completely devoid of historical context from the "word of god". I had a lot of questions as a kid, thankfully the bible answered them and I've been comfortable with my status as an agnostic atheist ever since lmao

[@proud2bpagan]

[@caseyhafer2550]

When I first saw The Burning Hell I thought he called himself Mister Sparkle. 😂

[@AmariieMaerthos]

Does anyone know what song he uses for his opening?

[@harrydresden64]

Since Halloween is coming up, please review "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" (2010) or "There's Nothing Out There" (1991). The first one is a great horror film deconstruction, but completely understand if you don't want to review parodies

[@featherlightfox1292]

I know these videos way too well. The tiny edits here and there are all ones my brain immediately picked up on 😅

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

Speaking of tripping, that make-up at 48:00 looks right out of Roger Corman's THE TRIP.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

You can take the director out of exploitation but you can't take the exploitation out of the director. Also, so I had to read up on Jack Hyles & things got dark.

[@ombranox]

A couple years ago, I ordered a custom flask off a website. It was bright orange and it had "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?" emblazoned on it; in other words, a literal Estus Flask. Some fucker stole it off my doorstep.

[@julianleverton7045]

I'll stick with Estus Flasks thank you very much.

[@IW3527]

Bruh I need an estus flask or 10 after an hour of Pirkle! Even with Snob tearing it to shreds and making me laugh so hard beer shkt out my nose these films give me church flashbacks 😅

[@Kratescz]

I am afraid this will make me come

[@burninsherman1037]

This shit reminds me so much of the batshit insane bullshit I had drilled into my head as a kid in church. Really cathartic to see this dumb shit being picked apart and mocked.

[@Braindeadevilash]

1:09:07 I know I was laughing too hard at the absurdity of this scene and not these people. I'm not a believer but, I'f there is a hell I'm sure going.

[@liamdude5722]

3:42 Side effects in medicine commercials be like.

[@EternalYorkieMom]

Wow props to anyone who can finish square dancing in a car

[@LadyEvilest]

Let's take a look at some of the subversive cartoons available in '71. The Funky Phantom (Gasp! The occult!) Archie's TV Funnies (Teenage love triangle! The horror!) The Jackson 5ive (Eek! Ethnic People!) The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm show (Teenagers obviously having sex and promoting evolution!) Scooby-Doo (The occult AND a blasphemous talking dog!) The Harlem Globetrotters (Oh no! More ethnic people!) Lidsville (Not technically a cartoon, but obviously made on drugs!) Sabrina the Teenage Witch (BURN HER!) Josie and the Pussycats (That evil rock and roll!) Johnny Quest (Haji is obviously a Satan worshipper!) Lancelot Link (Not technically a cartoon but has pro evolution undercurrents.)

[@Boogenhagen100]

Pontius pilot. I love it.

[@collinmurr3207]

I was shocked to find out that Estus was a spry 41 years old in Footmen.

[@greggwgiddensable]

He is in my family tree... PIRKLE I mean

[@jamesp6832]

Will you come?

[@OtakuD50]

Will you come?

[@georgeray1906]

Will you come?

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

I'm not sure why some of the scenes of these reviews got cut off or edited?

To comply with the new KZbin guidelines that have since changed over time.

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

Oh seriously? I rather just watch the ones that weren’t edited then.