In this special episode of The Modern CPA Success Show, four speakers with Halloween-themed personas—Jamie Nightmare, Hannah Hexed Hood, Adam Haunted Hale, and Joey Killing Kenny—engage in a lively draft-style discussion about their favorite Halloween movies. Jamie, the enthusiastic host, sets the stage and outlines the draft rules. Hannah humorously admits her limited horror movie experience, while Adam and Joey share their deep knowledge and personal anecdotes. The conversation is filled with playful banter and passionate debates as they each select and defend their top horror film picks, creating an engaging and entertaining Halloween-themed episode.
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Jaime 00:00:14 Hello everybody. Happy Halloween! This is probably my favorite podcast of the year. I'm very excited to rank Halloween movies with my three close friends here. And, as you can see, some of us participate in dressing up a little bit and some of us did not. But we're really excited to go through a snake draft of Halloween movies and talk about which movies are our favorite. I'm sure we'll have some heated discussions along the way. We already been pre showing for five minutes, and Adam has already insulted two of my top five picks already, so we'll see how the rest of this, this draft goes. But so, before we get started, I just want to do a quick introduction of everybody. We're going to do that introduction in draft order.
Jaime 00:00:53 so, we'll talk about people's, what their history is with scary movies and kind of their thoughts on scary movies. And then people will also say what they're dressing up for this year for Halloween. So, our first pick is going to be Hannah Hexed hood. We'll be picking first today. So, Hannah wants to tell us a little bit about your history with us scary movies.
Hannah 00:01:14 Yeah. So, I told Jamie earlier this week that I'm the least qualified person to be participating in this draft because I don't watch scary movies. I have, in fact, seen some, but I don't watch them. which feeds into part of my costume here. I'm a walking red flag. Like, these are my, like, what some people might identify as my own red flags. The first of which being doesn't watch scary movies on here. I also have, hasn't seen Star Wars or The Office and takes 3 to 5 business days to respond to text on here. amongst being a swiftie and liking pineapple on pizza.
Hannah 00:01:51 So, walking red flag over here is what I went with. I think I should get extra points just because I participated so there's that. But yeah, I should probably not be participating in this, but I can't wait to take away scary movies from y'all that I've never even seen before just to make you mad. So, this is gonna be great.
Jaime 00:02:10 Very exciting. Okay, so the second pic is going to be Adam Haunted. Hale. So, Adam wants to tell us about your experience with scary movies. And then also, since you didn't dress up today, tell us what your Halloween costume is going to be.
Adam 00:02:21 I dressed up as Jamie today, so I don't know what you guys are talking about. I can't help that you don't like my costume. so, Yeah, I like the crazy hair with the mask. Oh, no. The crazy hair with the mask was a good look. yeah. I mean, so for me, it's all about 80s movies. So, in the 80s, you can kind of break them down into three categories.
Adam 00:02:45 So, you had like the, the big picks, like, you know, like back to the future. You can see my Delawareans in the back. You know, those were obviously classics and stuff. But then you had 80s action films. So, the corner the better. You know, we're talking about like Delta Force six and all these kinds of stuff. And then there were scary movies. And so, it was every weekend it was going to quelch or the local store. It was never blockbuster because they were too expensive. Grab you 2 or 3, you know, two for 89 cent videos and watch you some classic horror movie. So, I've got tons and tons, but they generally are slashers. And that's what I kind of consider horror movies.
Jaime 00:03:28 Awesome. No. What's your what are you going for this year? For Halloween?
Adam 00:03:32 I always go as Michael Myers. He's like my favorite killer. So, and he's just cooler because, like, with Freddy, you got to have a little bit of personality with Michael.
Adam 00:03:42 You can just stand about 200ft away from a bunch of kids behind, like a fence or by a by a thing. And I'm already kind of a bigger guy anyway. And I have the whole mechanic suit and the mask, and I can just kind of sit off into the distance and watch all the kids, like slowly move to the other side of the street. And so, it's always fun.
Jaime 00:04:01 Nice. All right, so the third pick of the draft is going to be Joey killing Kenny. So, we'll, What? Tell us a little about your scary movie history. And then also, it sounds like you don't get a ton of kids, but maybe I'll force you to dress up this year.
Joey 00:04:15 Yeah. So, we are not a big Halloween, should we say I am a Halloween? Not. Not great at Halloween. Not great at scary movies. little known fact about me. I was scared of the dark until I was about nine years old. Not really proud of that. I also will point out that I like how Hannah tried to sneak in that pineapple on the pizza bit there, like right at the very end, as if we weren't going to clue into that.
Joey 00:04:39 But yeah, that that should have been number one on your red flags list. I love,
Hannah 00:04:44 It's a great flag for me personally, but other people might think of it as a red flag.
Adam 00:04:49 I do. Yeah, Jamie, that makes sense.
Jaime 00:04:51 At tracks it does track Right.
Joey 00:04:55 So, you know, I don't watch a ton of scary movies there. There is a theme to my draft board. Like, I'm really, I put a lot of thought into this as someone who, like, knows a lot of people who are Halloween enthusiasts. So, I'm like Halloween adjacent. So, I spent a lot of time thinking, I'm very prepared for this. I think I'm going to come out a winner if you pick up the theme that I'm putting down. I do tend to agree with Adam. Like the slasher stuff is good. It scares me a little bit because it could happen, but for me, it's like hauntings in those types of things. I have a whole bit on this later.
Joey 00:05:32 I'm just going to going to kind of set the table for this. But when I make a pick I'll explain why this is my pick. So anyways, I'm happy to be here and we'll take, you know, nominations from the, from the crowd for what I should, be for Halloween. I will crowdsource that option.
Jaime 00:05:50 Sweet. Well, to figure something out for you. Awesome. So then picking last is me. So, I gave myself the nickname of nightmare. So, Jamie. Nightmare now. I'm so very excited. Horror movies are really my thing. I enjoyed participating in the Christmas draft and winning that draft, but I, this one as well was really. Well wait, this is the one I'm really looking forward to. this, I've been watching horror movies since I was probably way too young and watching stuff that I probably shouldn't have been watching. And then at the same time, with kids, just waiting for them to be old enough to watch anything. And my daughter got into him first, and she has taken me to some movies where I'm like, wow, that was a lot.
Jaime 00:06:25 And my son kind of participates because he doesn't want to be at home doing chores while we're watching scary movies. So, he participates. But my daughter is definitely the slasher scary movie watcher with me, and she finds all these movies. So, I'm very excited. I did a lot of research as well. I tiered my movies out and I'm ready to kind of, like, go through this. But, before we start, the one thing that I thought was interesting about this draft versus the Christmas draft is when you when I did my research, I'm sure Adam didn't do any research when I was kind of looking through horror movie lists. I looked at like 4 or 5 of them, and they were all completely different, like there were movies that were like 1 or 2 on some that were like 90 on others. So, it was just, I think this is going to be an interesting draft, because I think there are a wide variety of opinions on horror movies. So, I think this will be a fun, a fun draft in that sense.
Jaime 00:07:10 When you did the Christmas movie research. It was, you know, a lot of movies were top ten were very similar. So, I think this one will be interesting from that sense. And then the other part that I want to make sure the audience knows, for those that listen to our Christmas list, we are not grouping movies. I thought there's too many movies within the series. So, like the way we did it for Christmas is if you picked up Home Alone, you got all the home alones or like here, if you picked one Halloween, you got all the Halloweens. I think there. There's too much of a drop off in some of the movies that didn't make sense to have. If you pick one Halloween, you get all 60 of them. So, we're going to have to pick individual movies instead of the whole series. So that's a couple of ground rules here to make sure that the audience knows how we're how we're handling this.
Adam 00:07:50 Jamie I'm just going to throw it out there. There's a difference between like, natural talented players and people that have to practice a lot, you know, and your big basketball guy.
Adam 00:08:00 You're right. No preparation, no practice. I mean, it sounds like you all have been, like, doing some investigation and trying to figure this stuff off, all off the top of my head here. So, let's play.
Jaime 00:08:14 Well. Let's go. All right, so, Hannah, start us off okay.
Hannah 00:08:18 So, I actually am going to start with one that I have seen and I think probably like kept me from watching more scary movies. But my first one is. So, wait back up. Are we starting like are we ranking these like am I starting with my number one pick like right now or are you doing 10 to 1.
Jaime 00:08:33 We're going five right. So, we're ranking. We're picking five each. So, if you pick something now no one else can pick it. So, you want to make sure you pick something that you're afraid someone else might pick. So, you really want to get your best movie first okay.
Hannah 00:08:49 All right. Well, I'll stick with it. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll stick with this one.
Hannah 00:08:52 Okay. The ring. That's my pick. Terrify me. I didn't sleep for days. Not if anyone.
Jaime 00:09:01 Starts on the ring. Who's seen the ring? I know, I've seen it. Adam, have you seen the ring?
Adam 00:09:05 Pretty lame, especially then. but, yeah, I mean, it was okay. I've seen the other four variations of the ring as well. what was the one that just.
Hannah 00:09:15 Recently won, like.
Adam 00:09:17 Smile? And smile is basically the ring. yeah. And there's another one that just came out.
Jaime 00:09:26 talk to me. Kind of like that.
Adam 00:09:27 Follows me or something like that, too. Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
Jaime 00:09:31 You know, I enjoyed the ring, so I, I it's. Yeah, it was on my list. It was I have a, my list ranked by like if it's there I'll take it. And that was that was definitely one of those, but I did I did remember that movie from high school and it was it was a thing for sure.
Jaime 00:09:43 Like we all went together as a big group, and it really did enjoy it at the time. But again, it's kind of fallen out of my top ones, but good, good. Solid pick.
Adam 00:09:50 To start off in your top five, I'm going to say you got Blair Witch Project. Jamie who made all right.
Jaime 00:09:56 I don't have that in my top five. Nope. Okay. I'm sorry you're up.
Joey 00:09:59 That's the worst movie on the board.
Jaime 00:10:01 Okay, I'm just.
Joey 00:10:02 Going to say it.
Adam 00:10:03 For me. You got to go with the people. So, I mean, the number one, like, scary Dude is definitely Freddy Krueger. He's in your sleep. He's in your dreams. Like, if. Now, granted, number two wasn't very good. One was the ultimate classic. The first five minutes terrified you. I was a small child. Dream warriors. Fantastic. Whenever they re-envisioned him. later and they came back is like real. Like you just can't beat Freddy and Nightmare on Elm Street.
Adam 00:10:35 So are you.
Jaime 00:10:36 Taking the original? Are you taking the original off the board?
Adam 00:10:39 Yeah, I'll take the original off the board. Even though Dream Warriors and the, you know, whenever he came back was up there too, But I'll. I'll go with number one.
Jaime 00:10:50 Okay. I that's one of the original scary movies I watched, of my life. And I remember, like, I was begging my parents for so many years to watch it, and they went out of town for some reason. And then my sister was like, alright, we're watching it. And I didn't sleep for a week. So, like, that was one of the original.
Adam 00:11:04 Because you couldn't sleep. That's the whole point. That's the problem with that movie.
Jaime 00:11:08 And that's why I love scary movies is like, I, I feel like fear is the one emotion that you can't fake, and you can't hide. And like, once you are afraid, like it just it overtakes you. And like, as an older person, I don't get afraid that often.
Jaime 00:11:19 But I remember being scared to death of Nightmare on Elm Street, the original. So, my blood.
Adam 00:11:24 Tests are the only thing that scares me these days.
Hannah 00:11:28 You're an old man now. That's what happens.
Jaime 00:11:30 Yeah. All right, Joey, you're up.
Joey 00:11:33 All right, so this one's a bit of a this is a bit of a personal one for me, so I will explain this pic and how this pic still influences me to this day. So, I am taking Amityville Horror Off the Table, the original one from 1979. One of my biggest fears to date at 37 years old, is I am terrified of existing in a haunted house. So, whenever we are going on vacation, whenever we're doing anything, we will. And I do this even with the stuff that we do here in town, like for the company. I will figure out where we will, where we're saying. And the very next thing that I will do is I will type that hotel in and I will put haunted behind it, and I will double check to make sure that there's no TripAdvisor things or anything where anybody is talking about haunted hotels, haunted houses, all of these things.
Joey 00:12:30 It is my biggest real-life fear because I saw Amityville Horror when I was a kid. I have in.
Hannah 00:12:35 Fact lived in a haunted house. Me too.
Joey 00:12:37 And so is my wife. She lived in one and she was like, oh yeah, there was totally ghost. And I was like, yep, nope. I'm out.
Jaime 00:12:43 And Adam doesn't believe in ghosts. I'm gonna say it for him No.
Hannah 00:12:46 I experienced the things that I have. It would change.
Adam 00:12:50 I think those are in your head. Those are I don't know. It goes to me like, don't get me wrong. Like I like a good, good, you know, exorcist and stuff like that, but like the devil stuff. But it's all kind of lame. I don't know, I actually liked Ryan Reynolds version better than I like the original person. Yeah. and the person it's a little bored on.
Jaime 00:13:10 There's the funny thing. I was in Oregon with a bunch of boys this summer for a basketball camp, and they wanted to watch scary movies every night, and I was throwing everything at them, and they're like, that was okay.
Jaime 00:13:16 That was good. Then they watched that Ryan Reynolds Amityville Horror, and then I was like, that was the scariest of all of them. And I'm like, really? Okay, that was kind of interesting to me. But yeah, that one still holds up a little bit.
Adam 00:13:26 Yeah. I mean, I know everybody likes the original. Sometimes people are just obsessed with originals. And to me I thought and again, it was a little bit before my time. So sometimes whenever you go back and you watch those like quality of movies, you're just like, look.
Joey 00:13:40 There is something to be said. And Jamie, you alluded to this pre-show where the depth of movie here like it's the original thing that you could do on film, right. Even in the silent film days, like you could have somebody standing up there with a knife and it was like, oh, that's going to translate. But the quality of movies has significantly, you know, increased in our lifetime from the ability from special effects and other things to, like, actually create something super scary.
Joey 00:14:08 That's why, you know, again, the Nightmare on Elm Street like, that was terrifying because all it needed was a dude just being big and physical and intimidating. But you know, we have better.
Adam 00:14:19 But the I said the sharp knifes, the burnt face. And then he showed up in your dreams, you see.
Joey 00:14:25 Yeah, all of the above. But you don't need special effects to do that. You can do that. We could do that in the 70s and have a similar experience to 2020. For other things, like a haunted house story, you're going to execute better in a 20, you know, in a modern day film. So, it's definitely an added wrinkle.
Jaime 00:14:41 So I still have all of my top five left. So, like again this this draft is going just how I wanted to. So, but I'm going to start with one of those classics. I'm going to go with The Exorcist. So. Okay. I think it's a tough horror movie not to do. You guys cut that.
Jaime 00:14:56 Miss it because I cut out? No, we got it here. Okay, okay, so I'm going with The Exorcist. So, this is, this is the one movie I won't let my kids watch yet. because there's certain sexual scenes that I don't think they should be seeing at their, even at their age. So, the. But The Exorcist is one that is just like it is spooky from start to finish. And it is a classic. And I think it kind of started the whole real, horror trend. So that's what I'm going with my first pick, and I'll let you guys pick it apart for a second before I make my second pick.
Adam 00:15:22 You screwed up, dude. If you were going that route. Poltergeist has Exorcist.
Jaime 00:15:27 Poltergeist is on my list for sure. Okay.
Adam 00:15:30 That was I mean, Poltergeist was like, legit scary. You want to talk about haunted houses, haunted ground? The TV thing, like Poltergeist was way better than I.
Jaime 00:15:40 Watched on a plane, a couple weeks ago.
Jaime 00:15:41 So I'm a big poltergeist guy, but that is not my number two. Any other comments on Exorcist?
Hannah 00:15:46 Y'all just keep using adjectives that I would never put with scary movies. That was great. That was awesome. That was good. That's my hamburger. I just like I would never, ever.
Joey 00:15:58 I don't think it's again one that maybe doesn't. If you're taking the original maybe doesn't hold up as well on a rewatch, but it is one of those ones where you'll remember the first time you saw it and it will stick with you.
Jaime 00:16:11 Definitely. I think it holds up pretty well in my opinion, cause I'm a nerd about this stuff. Okay, so the second one, again, I think I'm thinking two movies that there's a lot of people have put in their number one. The second one is The Shining, in a Stephen King book, obviously in a movie that just is obviously about a person that goes crazy, but there's also a lot of stuff that goes into it in a very well-made movie.
Jaime 00:16:32 and, one that my daughter watched and looked at over it and was like, what the hell was that? that that's how you describe the Shining woke up.
Adam 00:16:41 At the end and was like, oh, that's what it was.
Jaime 00:16:43 No, she was very attuned to it.
Adam 00:16:47 Have you watched the second one also? Yeah. yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, Jack Nicholson's awesome. and, you know, you can't beat the red rum, but. Right. The other two hours were like, oh.
Jaime 00:17:05 I definitely did it.
Joey 00:17:06 How does how does your proximity to the fictional universe where that takes place, does that play into that at all, knowing that like, because doesn't it take place in the Colorado mountains?
Jaime 00:17:17 Yeah it does. It doesn't film there. No, it was filmed there, I think. I think it takes place there. I think it was actually filmed. Actually, it was filmed there, but it didn't take place there.
Joey 00:17:25 okay, I couldn't remember where it is.
Joey 00:17:26 It's one of the one where, like, you know, I, you know, you're driving the road from Denver and you're on 70 going west, and you occasionally see this place, you're like, that looks like The Shining. And it is a little creepy.
Jaime 00:17:40 Since it's based on the. It's based on a hotel in Colorado, but, yeah, a lot of it was filmed there, but that hotel like that does not exist here. Right, right. Yeah. All right, Joe, you're up.
Joey 00:17:50 Okay. I am again going to take one. Hopefully this might be coming off of Adam's list. I don't know, he might. He might be with me after this. We'll see. I'm taking the Texas Chainsaw Massacre off the board.
Adam 00:18:04 Sucker. Yeah.
Joey 00:18:05 Oh, get out of here, man. Come on.
Adam 00:18:08 Not even close. I'll tell you why I was gonna. I was going to throw you. I was going to throw you. Why? That one is not the one.
Adam 00:18:15 Ever. I will give you the beginning scene. Whenever they, they first get taken. Whatever. Leather face is kind of a joke. You totally messed up, though. The like kind movie that is way more gruesome. Way more terrifying. Rob Zombie's House of a Thousand Corpses. It's basically the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If it was cool, like, if it was like, super graphic. I mean, almost disturbing graphic, but funny at the same time. The characters are like all of those times ten. So, if you haven't seen and then I would also say the third one sucked, but Devil's Rejects is right behind it, and that one's pretty good too. You can't beat Captain Spaulding. If you haven't seen House of a Thousand Corpse, he's this, like, big old clown dude. But it's basically the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If it was like a great movie, I would almost even say the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was better than the original, which will offend some people.
Adam 00:19:22 But the remake was really good.
Joey 00:19:25 The remake, the remake wasn't bad. That's the one that I saw first in the early 2000 with Jessica Biel and all of them, and then I went back and saw the original. I was like, okay, I get the I get the thing. again, I will. I will sit there though and defend the idea. Say which one about the execution? The idea behind Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of those things where it's like, existentially, what is more terrifying than someone chasing you around with a chainsaw and you're like, I can literally do nothing.
Adam 00:19:54 Go watch House of a Thousand Corpses. Tell me that that movie does not scare you more. It's the exact same kind of thing, only it's pretty brutal. So is that your.
Jaime 00:20:04 Next pick, Adam, or do you have something else in mind for number.
Adam 00:20:06 Two? I thought about House of a Thousand Corpses, but I'm going to really, like, throw people off here and I'm going to go with Halloween.
Adam 00:20:16 And so you say, of course you're going to go with Halloween. He's your favorite guy. Michael Myers is. And comedian. Exactly. and, but I am not going with the original Michael Myers. I am going with the remake, the Rob zombie version. The first one. The very first. Rob zombie one. Rob. His second one was okay, but his first one was. Masterpiece because similar to Freddy, how you can't beat his originality. Of course you have to take into consideration music. And no scary movie has better music. Not even jaws. Because if you're going to throw jaws on my list, I'm going to throw up in my mouth. But if you put jaws in the list for a Halloween movie, that's a good summer flick. Great movie. I love jaws, not horror movies on my list. but as far as music goes and horror movies, Halloween is number one. And whenever Rob zombie redid it, if you have a home theater system, he likes to check that thing.
Adam 00:21:30 The bass is just in your soul whenever you're watching that movie. He kind of explained to him as a little kid why he turns bad instead of the whole thing getting skipped over in the original. Just saying.
Jaime 00:21:42 Yeah, I think a lot of people are going to disagree with that pick, but you might as well have picked the third Halloween movie where Michael Myers isn't even in it. What is the witching night or whatever that one's called? Yeah, well, you might as well take that one if you're going to pick a Rob Zombie's version.
Joey 00:21:55 But is there a more appropriate stage name, though, than Rob zombie? Like, I feel like that just fits him very, very well across all facets of his personality.
Hannah 00:22:07 Oh.
Adam 00:22:09 I don't think that's a scary movie.
Jaime 00:22:11 Oh, Adam's doing his research now. Yeah, while he's doing that. Hannah, what's. Let's go to your next pick here.
Hannah 00:22:16 Okay, I'll go to mine. I have not seen this all the way through, but I've seen enough of it to know I do not want to see it all the way through.
Hannah 00:22:23 And that is the Blair Witch Project. I will never be watching that.
Adam 00:22:28 Somebody picked.
Hannah 00:22:29 That is not. I can't do it. Nope.
Jaime 00:22:34 So, Adam, were you old enough to believe that? It was like I thought it was real when it came out? Or were you just like, not even paying that much attention to movies at that time.
Adam 00:22:42 I was in college whenever that came out. I remember I went to a little old theater downtown and watched it, and it made me so dizzy that I was like, get me out of here. This. And then then it got to the end of the movie, and I was like, why did I stay this whole time?
Jaime 00:23:04 There's a there's a big difference. If you watch that movie and think it's real, then if you don't think it's real, like if you thought like again in your heart, you knew it wasn't real and in your heart, you knew they weren't going to show a snuff film. But like when it first came out, there were a lot of people that were like, I can't believe they're releasing this and the whole buzz about that.
Jaime 00:23:19 So if you watched it at that time, it's a much better movie than if you're watching it, like today. Or you're like, okay, yeah, this is this is crap like that. That movie had a huge drop off from the first two weeks versus like, the rest of the time. Sorry, Joey, I got you.
Hannah 00:23:32 I remember thinking it was real, but it was enough that I was like, I ain't doing this. Like I ain't even giving myself the space to debate it. I'm out. I'm done.
Adam 00:23:43 That's scary. Snuff film though is eight-millimeter with Nicolas Cage. That's crazy to watch that one. That one's pretty bad.
Jaime 00:23:51 That's nuts.
Hannah 00:23:52 Take a guess. I have not watched it.
Jaime 00:23:55 All right. How do you get a second pick here as well?
Hannah 00:23:57 Oh, that's right, that's right. okay, so I'm going to go with The Sixth Sense again, one that I've seen some of. But not all not.
Adam 00:24:08 I mean, I love all I love a lot of his movies, but I don't know that.
Hannah 00:24:12 There's that word again. Love. There's no love.
Adam 00:24:17 But it wasn't, like scary. It was like, cool. You finally got to the end, and you're just like, like most of his movies, you kind of get bored throughout, and then you're just like, that's why I watched the movie The Opposite of Blair Witch. You're like, that was really cool.
Hannah 00:24:29 So, just covering all my bases here. All of them?
Adam 00:24:32 Yeah. So, you got it. Anti-climatic. And then? Then you got the one that actually, like, delivers at the end. Good call.
Jaime 00:24:38 There you go. Sorry I missed it. My internet cut out. What'd you pick for that one? Of course.
Hannah 00:24:42 It did. The sixth sense.
Jaime 00:24:44 Oh, that was definitely a that's probably my sixth. So, it's right in my top five. But that movie, I loved it. And that was one where I, I figured it out during the movie. Like, I figured out the secret, halfway through the movie, and I was like, oh, wait, he's not alive.
Jaime 00:24:57 And she was.
Adam 00:24:59 For people that hadn't seen the movie.
Jaime 00:25:01 Like 25 years later, I think we're okay. but yeah, that's I'll tell you, the best way to watch that movie is to watch it with someone that hasn't seen it. So again, going back to my kids like watching that with Olivia first, because Alex wasn't ready yet. He was too scared. And then watching it again with Alex, like you just watch their face versus watching the movie, and then they look over at you and they're like, what? How? I didn't know that. And it's just such a fun movie to watch with someone that hasn't seen it. So, I'm with you. This is definitely a good one.
Hannah 00:25:26 I don't think my kids could do like take my eight-year-old and I watched Hocus Pocus two last weekend, and he was like, under the covers. He was like, I can't watch this anymore. No. And I'm like, dude, it's really not that bad. So, like, I still think we could I don't think we could do that.
Jaime 00:25:43 Yeah. Olivia might have been eight when she watched $0.06.
Hannah 00:25:45 Oh my gosh, that's.
Jaime 00:25:46 Kind of parent I am. All right, Adam, you're up.
Adam 00:25:52 I'm trying to thank you. You said Stephen King, Stephen king I mean, maximum overdrive was better. Same with, has anybody seen Silver Bullet? That was like, as far.
Hannah 00:26:01 As, like.
Adam 00:26:02 Werewolf. I'm trying to just grab somebody from different things because you also have, like, Pumpkin head. Let's see. Vampires. Fright night. That one was awesome. I'm going to go with Silver Bullet since she threw out Stephen King. That one was really cool. If you haven't seen Silver Bullet and you don't know who the quarries are. Then shame on you. Turn this podcast off. but it also has the Wait. I have to.
Joey 00:26:27 I have to leave now.
Hannah 00:26:29 One day I'll see myself out.
Adam 00:26:31 You don't know who Corey Feldman and Corey Hammer. They were.
Joey 00:26:34 Like.
Adam 00:26:35 Yeah. So, Silver Bullet is like, it's about a werewolf.
Adam 00:26:42 And, and it has one of the greatest actors of all time in it. Gary Busey, crazy Gary Busey. He's like the crazy uncle in this, in Corey Haim in the movie. He's in a wheelchair and the whole thing. And his wheelchair can go like 50 miles an hour. So as a kid, you're just like, this is the coolest thing in the world. So anyway, there were a couple of scary scenes in it, just like in Fright Night. That's more funny. But there were a couple scary scenes in that. So, for that reason, I'm going to pass on Pumpkin Head in maximum overdrive and I'm going to go with Silver Bullet. Oh, but the other scary psycho one,
Jaime 00:27:20 I want to say, because one might pick it. Yeah.
Adam 00:27:22 No, nobody's gonna know. the guy from Twisted Sister, Strange Land. I'm going to. I'll pass.
Hannah 00:27:28 That one. That's pretty weird. One. That's pretty weird. One. I'll pass.
Jaime 00:27:31 Yeah. One of the movies similar to Silver Bullet that's on my list, but it's a little bit later on my list.
Jaime 00:27:35 I probably won't get to it is Lost Boys, which is which is very similar, but instead of werewolves, it's vampires. So that was I know.
Adam 00:27:40 So, I was trying to think werewolves, vampires and like, yeah, Lost Boys is also a classic.
Jaime 00:27:48 All right, Joey, your turn.
Joey 00:27:50 Well, speaking of werewolves and vampires, I'm just gonna go ahead and take Twilight off the board. Oh, that's a joke.
Jaime 00:27:57 Okay. I was getting ready to type in. I'm like, wait a second.
Hannah 00:28:00 Yeah, I was getting ready.
Adam 00:28:02 I was looking for the poop. One of us was leaving after that.
Joey 00:28:07 I was gonna come back and show you five on boardings next week. Good luck, son.
Hannah 00:28:12 Exactly.
Joey 00:28:13 All right, so I'm going to take one that feels like an iconic movie to me. Maybe not the scariest, maybe doesn't hold up well, but, again all of this will come full circle with my fifth pick. So, I'm taking scream off the board.
Hannah 00:28:26 Damn it! That's.
Adam 00:28:27 I was gonna yell.
Hannah 00:28:28 Scream.
Joey 00:28:30 Scream off the board. a name, name a more iconic. Like, if Jamie, if you said Joey, you have to show up at work next week in costume. Okay, great. You go. You go to Spirit Halloween. Make all your money. Best business model ever. Make all your money in a month in an abandoned Sears. Right. grab a scream mask. You're good to go. Little robe. You're set up so iconic from that perspective. most believable, I don't know, but it's a good flick for some. I watched it, so which one?
Jaime 00:29:02 Of course you pick the first one, I assume.
Joey 00:29:04 Oh, yeah, I would take the first one. Yeah, I'm always going. I'm always going for the first one in the series.
Hannah 00:29:09 Okay.
Jaime 00:29:10 Yeah, that definitely is.
Joey 00:29:10 Because I have a memorable.
Jaime 00:29:11 Film for my for my teenage high school years. Going to see that in the theater and that being again, another like a pop culture thing for sure.
Adam 00:29:19 It stands up 25, 30 years later, whatever it was. Yeah.
Jaime 00:29:24 Well, I'm shocked because I still have all my top five left. So, this is this is easy for me. It's nice to choose, like how I'm going to how I'm going to go through this. But the next one I have; I'm going to go I'm going to go modern for these two. That one's a little older than the first one. So, the first one I'm gonna go with is get out. so, obviously a newer movie, a little more of, like a, a themed movie, but I definitely brought horror back again, where horror was kind of disappeared for a little while there. And I think Get Out definitely brought a new age to it. So, I'm going to go get out. as my third pick.
Joey 00:29:55 Very underrated movie on the horror front. Everyone knows it's a great movie, but it from a genre perspective, didn't get enough cred in my opinion, so I'd love to pick one of my favorites.
Joey 00:30:09 Adam looks questioning. No.
Jaime 00:30:11 No comment. I know Adam's like, get out, I hate that.
Hannah 00:30:15 Yeah, you all right?
Adam 00:30:16 But I don't know that I would. Yeah, it's not my definition of a scary movie.
Jaime 00:30:22 So, this next one will be your definition of a scary movie. And again, this is one I saw in the theater. The other thing I want to say about scary movies is like seeing something in the theater. The drop off from seeing into the theater. Even if you have the best home theater in the world, like there's a huge drop off versus seeing it at home. So, seeing a horror movie in the theater just elevates it for me, especially this one. Is it the new it? So, in the theater with my brother-in-law and both and he's we're both like, you know, two former football players, big guys. And we're walking out of there like, wow, that was crazy. Like we were both scared throughout that entire movie. So again, watching it at home with my daughter later on, it still was scary, but not as scary as seeing it in the theater.
Jaime 00:30:59 So, the new it is my fourth pic.
Hannah 00:31:02 Part one I saw part one.
Jaime 00:31:04 Yeah. Part two I, I struggle with a little bit, but part one was amazing.
Hannah 00:31:08 Oh, great.
Joey 00:31:09 I saw a car. This was last weekend when we were in Tucson. There was a dude who put a hydraulic version of the clown in the bed of his truck. So, like he would sit there and he would come up to a stoplight and you wouldn't see it there, and then all of a sudden it just pop out of the bed of his truck and I slowly go back down. That's cool. I was like, that is that is dedication to the craft.
Jaime 00:31:33 All right, Joey, you're up.
Joey 00:31:35 All right, so I'm only going to say this next one once, and you'll find out why here in a second. It's Candy man.
Hannah 00:31:41 that was.
Adam 00:31:41 I was going to say Candyman. Damn it.
Jaime 00:31:44 So the original, I assume the original.
Joey 00:31:45 Yeah. Yeah. saw that at my buddy Brent's house.
Joey 00:31:48 Shout out to Brent Chapman. We watched that when we were in middle school, and I was just like. Yeah, I'm. I've seen it once. Don't need to see it again. I'm good. But I remember being thoroughly freaked out and not wanting to look in mirrors for a while.
Adam 00:32:03 So, I got a buddy that's like 65 to 50. And to this day, whenever we go on, like, guys trip, anytime, he's like near the bathroom, I always walk by and start seeing Candyman and he freaks out. He's like, you can't play with that. Don't even talk to him. He's dead.
Joey 00:32:18 He can't mess with it.
Jaime 00:32:20 It's the ultimate, sleepover movie for boys. Yeah.
Hannah 00:32:24 That's where we watched it.
Jaime 00:32:25 Yeah, definitely a sleepover. And then, like, everybody trying to get the courage up to go into the bathroom and stand in front of the mirror by themselves in the dark, and then you mess with them the whole time they're in there. So, yeah, it was definitely part of my childhood.
Jaime 00:32:39 All right, Adam, you're up man.
Adam 00:32:41 you guys took two of mine. That I was thinking because I was, again, going more characters and stuff. So Candyman was definitely iconic. I'm not going to go with Jason. Trying to think of characters.
Hannah 00:32:57 Characters, characters are Jason. Guy. Okay. So similar.
Adam 00:33:01 Okay, so it's been overplayed, kind of like screen, but you have to appreciate like how scream was like just really smart. I would say the same thing for, jigsaw. saw so the very first saw, like they are all actually okay. But, but like, just like the original saw was pretty smart. So, I'm going to go with just trying to keep with my characters. You don't want.
Joey 00:33:30 You don't want to saw 13 on the list.
Hannah 00:33:33 Like I said, I can watch.
Adam 00:33:34 All of them. I've seen all of them. They're all okay. But like the smartness of the first one was, similar to, scream, you know, with the, Yeah, yeah, you just got to give it to them.
Adam 00:33:48 So, so.
Jaime 00:33:49 I struggle a little bit with the torture porn stuff like Saw and Terrifier and stuff like that. Like, I, I end up have my eyes closed for, like, half the movie because I just don't want to see it. Like, even some of the newer ones, like, Talk to Me in Long Legs where like, they've had the people like bashing their heads against stuff and you can hear it. I'm like, oh, that's disgusting. Like, I almost struggle with it a little bit. So, I tend to avoid this true, like torture stuff.
Adam 00:34:11 Terrifier is a different breed for sure.
Hannah 00:34:14 Yeah, that's a marvel.
Jaime 00:34:17 So with that said, Hannah is going to pick Terrifier. All right, you're up.
Hannah 00:34:21 No, some of these y'all are saying, like I have watched some of them, like I said, like I keep coming back to some of them thinking maybe I'm an adult now, I can do this. And I in fact, cannot do this with some of these movies.
Hannah 00:34:34 So I've tried so this one I saw in the theaters, and it was right whenever, 3D was coming like out and the thing. So you wore glasses and stuff. I'm the kind of person that I'll think through every irrational worst case scenario all things can, like literally so irrational. So, this is the final destination for.
Hannah 00:34:58 The fourth.
Hannah 00:34:58 One.
Hannah 00:34:59 So this one.
Hannah 00:35:00 I'm pretty sure it was the fourth one. It may not have been the fourth one, but I'm pretty sure it was it was not first like it was. It was not. So yeah. Saw it in 3D. So that like made things like flying off of trucks and stuff like come at your face and just it was awful. It was an awful experience. There is nothing good about it.
Jaime 00:35:23 Adam, do you remember that we had an employee that worked with us and she came from Anders, and she had the, I'll just call it her death binder or what? She called it. Like, she basically, like, kept track of, like, people she talked to recently, and, like, I had all these notes and.
Hannah 00:35:35 Then, like, I wanna look.
Hannah 00:35:36 Through it at one of the retreats. It's like, if I go missing.
Jaime 00:35:40 If I go missing binder. Yeah. So that was interesting when you said, like, you think of all the worst-case scenarios, I was going to ask you, do you have a do you have a am I missing binder?
Hannah 00:35:47 When I saw that, I was like, maybe I should like, this is a great idea.
Adam 00:35:51 Not bad and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. That was yeah, it was crazy. Now the first one was really good. It had a good Nine Inch Nails song in there. Jamie, I know you're.
Hannah 00:36:00 Yeah. Greg.
Adam 00:36:01 Alternative guy.
Hannah 00:36:02 I'm pretty sure I've seen that one too, but I just, I picked this one because I saw it in 3D and that made it even worse.
Jaime 00:36:09 All right. And you also get your last pick.
Hannah 00:36:11 I forget that's how this works. So sorry. okay, so my last that my last pick is going to be, Oh man, there's still multiple on my list here.
Hannah 00:36:25 I think I'm going to go with you, I know what you did last summer.
Hannah 00:36:31 It's a good choice.
Hannah 00:36:34 Again. Another one I've seen pieces of. Not all the way through.
Jaime 00:36:39 So you didn't get scream, so you picked that one? Is that is that the thought behind it? Like the second-tier scream movie?
Hannah 00:36:47 Yes.
Adam 00:36:48 What was the other one? There was another one that was like. They did like four of those types of movies all at the same time.
Jaime 00:36:54 I definitely remember those two. I'm not.
Hannah 00:36:56 Sure I remember one.
Adam 00:36:57 About like, Urban Legends. That was another one that was like the same genre. The same. There was there, you know, anytime they come out with something like that, they end up with like 3 or 4 versions of it.
Hannah 00:37:08 I think an honorable mention show that like, again, I would try to watch growing up because my mom would not let me watch it. So, like, she'd be at work, and I'd come home, and I'd turn it on, and then I wouldn't be able to sleep.
Hannah 00:37:20 And I realized why, like, she probably didn't want me watching. It was. Are you afraid of the dark?
Hannah 00:37:24 Like, so.
Hannah 00:37:25 I would try to watch that multiple times. And I was like, this is terrifying. I can't do it. So, I would try, mostly because I probably because I wasn't allowed to watch it, but.
Hannah 00:37:36 I was listening.
Jaime 00:37:36 To another podcast about $0.06, and they said that it was inspired by an episode of Are You Afraid of the dark? So, I went back and found that episode on YouTube and watched it. And like, that really was just a good show and a good idea for like, preteens. So, I'm with you. All right. Adam. Last pick.
Adam 00:37:55 Yeah. It's trying to think through, people. yeah. Tales from the crypt from, like a TV show standpoint, though, like, whenever you're talking about that kind of stuff.
Hannah 00:38:06 yeah.
Adam 00:38:07 The, I think I'm going to have to go still stay with my childhood here.
Adam 00:38:14 Although number three was pretty solid. I'm going to go with the very first child's play that was pretty dark. It was way, you know, thinking about Chucky. It was pretty dark, and you wouldn't think that you'd be scared of a little doll, but that doll was pretty freaky and inspired a lot of other movies. So, whenever you think about impact like that.
Hannah 00:38:33 Scream head.
Joey 00:38:33 Turning without it.
Hannah 00:38:35 Yeah.
Adam 00:38:35 It was all. Yeah. So, I mean so I would say yeah, I would say the first child's play.
Hannah 00:38:42 So I loved.
Jaime 00:38:43 Love, love the whole Child's Play series again. Adam and I are like a year apart in age and our childhoods were very similar. If we lived if I lived in Indiana or he lived in Colorado, we probably be hanging out at each other's houses a lot watching this crap, because it sounds like we had very similar childhoods.
Hannah 00:38:56 As long.
Adam 00:38:57 As you're good with like, Van Damme and Chuck Norris, because whenever it wasn't Scary movie day, it was action movies, you know, like always seems to go, best.
Joey 00:39:06 Chuck Norris movie. Go. I have my answer.
Adam 00:39:10 Oh, what, like kick back or what was that one where he did the. Where he was like the guy that was helping the little kid from secret.
Hannah 00:39:19 Sidekick.
Adam 00:39:20 That's probably your favorite movie of all time.
Hannah 00:39:21 100% I've seen.
Joey 00:39:23 I've seen it 50, 11 times. There's no as the young, asthmatic kid who was in the martial arts. Yeah, I was right there.
Adam 00:39:31 It's Delta Force, dude. But yeah. No, that's, but yeah, I was gonna.
Hannah 00:39:36 Say Delta Force as.
Adam 00:39:37 Well. Yeah, I knew you were. You were gonna say that's like. Yeah, but that's your best action movie.
Joey 00:39:46 Chuck Norris movie. Not the best action movie.
Hannah 00:39:48 All right.
Jaime 00:39:48 Joey, you're up last pick.
Joey 00:39:50 All right, so some honorable mentions before we go through, we'll call this my personal outside looking in. just shout out real quickly. Silence of the lambs. Adam, I know you're Pooh poohing it, but like Buffalo.
Hannah 00:40:03 It's a good movie.
Joey 00:40:04 It should be. Yeah. You know, the most terrifying person. And also, you know what a great performance from, really? Everybody on the thing there? But thinking,
Adam 00:40:15 He's kind of old, not a shape. And he was in a cage the whole time, so no, he didn't really spend the.
Hannah 00:40:19 Whole time.
Adam 00:40:21 The guy asking to move the couch at the beginning. Hey, can you help me move you? Do you mind helping me on the couch?
Hannah 00:40:27 The Buffalo bill?
Joey 00:40:28 Yeah, I will occasionally have the Buffalo Bill song will occasionally come on my my Spotify list. And I'm like, oh, here we go.
Adam 00:40:36 You can hold on Buffalo Bill. damn it, I lost it. What's the name of the, candy cane? The truck driving one. You guys said, seriously, candy cane? with the guy from, the racing movies had died. Paul Walker. Are you serious?
Jaime 00:40:59 Oh, we were talking about.
Hannah 00:40:59 That.
Hannah 00:41:00 Final destination, as.
Hannah 00:41:02 I thought. Was it?
Hannah 00:41:03 No no no no no no no.
Hannah 00:41:06 But he wouldn't he Google machine. Yeah.
Joey 00:41:09 Now talking about in the into the blue?
Hannah 00:41:12 No, into the joy of joy. Right? No joy.
Adam 00:41:17 If you haven't seen Joy ride. And you like Buffalo Bill's voice, he's this creepy truck driver that, like, follows him everywhere. It's a great movie. It's a classic watch joy ride if you haven't seen it. Anyway, sorry.
Hannah 00:41:31 I keep going. No, no.
Joey 00:41:32 We're good. Other ones here. sleepy hollow, the Johnny Depp version. Always a great fall watch. really enjoying Agatha all along right now on Disney Plus. That's been a really fun thing. If you're into the MCU. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Always a great one, just for, you know, the theater nerds out there. practical magic. Shout out to my wife. That's her favorite movie of all time. And also, the goosebumps books. Love those. But here's the theme that I've been building for.
Joey 00:41:58 So I've got four movies on my list Amityville Horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, scream, and Candyman. Right? Every single one of those movies created a trope that was covered in my last pic, and I'm taking the whole franchise. I know you said we can't do it. I'm doing it anyways because no one else is taking two through five. I'm taking Scary Movie.
Jaime 00:42:17 Off the board. I knew that's where you were going at 2,100%.
Joey 00:42:21 yes. It's great to be scared, but we should also give it to these kids because none of it's serious.
Adam 00:42:26 Rob threw some pics over in the chat and he said The Howling. That was a terrible movie. Rob but seven, I will give you that. That was a seven.
Hannah 00:42:35 It was crazy. Seven, seven.
Jaime 00:42:38 Seven was fun. I guess fun might be the wrong word, but it was.
Adam 00:42:42 Yeah, it definitely wasn't fun, but it was. That was a pretty freaky.
Hannah 00:42:45 All of the words. You all these were the wrong words.
Hannah 00:42:47 I don't know what you're talking about.
Jaime 00:42:49 All right, so my last I still have my fifth pick in the last. It's like I could get my all top five here, but I'm going to go away. so my my fifth one was silence of the lambs. Like, I just, I love that movie. It's it's a classic. I went to the live rewatchable podcast a couple weeks ago and watch them talk about it, and that obviously got me going on it again. It's just it's it's definitely a top five if you want to consider it a horror horror movie, but I think I'm going to a thriller. kick.
Hannah 00:43:13 It out of this.
Jaime 00:43:14 It is thriller too. Yeah. I mean, again, that's why I'm thinking about not picking it. I think I am going to go with Poltergeist because that is one that like it defines my childhood more than silence of the lambs. So I'm going to take Poltergeist over, silence of the lambs. The other ones that I didn't get a pick were, hereditary, which again, they just did another rewatch podcast on that, and I watched it for the first time.
Jaime 00:43:33 And like pitting your stomach the whole time you're watching it because you're anticipating something that never happens. And so, it's a it's an interesting one. and then we talked about smile. We talked about talk to me. We talked about long legs. There's just some more, more recent ones, but I had a pretty long list here that I didn't get to. But, yeah, there was a lot. And the one that I thought I would have at the end because I thought you guys would be a little better drafters that no one would ever think of is misery. And misery is the first movie where I close my eyes like I'm like. And to this day, I've never seen that scene where they where they do the ankle length.
Hannah 00:44:03 Yeah, I saw that in theater.
Adam 00:44:05 That one was, that was it wasn't scary. But like, yeah, I mean, you could obviously put most of Stephen King's collection up, you know what I mean? Like he was he's legit. But, yeah, misery was a great movie.
Jaime 00:44:18 Yeah, the movie haunts me to this day, but Poltergeist was I watched on the plane trip to New York City and was was watching it. And I'm just like, oh my God, that is such a great a great movie. It's just it's so well done. The acting is good. The little kid, and then the whole back story makes it even better with like, you know, two of the actors dying in the next like two years and, the, the using real skeletons and like all the backstory in that movie, just make it that much better.
Hannah 00:44:40 So yeah. Yeah.
Adam 00:44:41 Are you going to think about iconic movies? Yes I agree.
Jaime 00:44:46 Cool. All right. So we did it. We made it through everybody's top five or or five picks. And I think we were a pretty good list here. There's, there's some that treated different than others or some I had them I do not draft lists that were drafted and some that were talked about. but no, I think this was a really fun thing to do.
Jaime 00:45:02 And again, we, we know we might be the only ones that ever listened to this podcast, but we like having some fun sometimes and recording something like this, but appreciate everybody joining. Any any final thoughts from, from anybody before we, close the doors?
Adam 00:45:15 yeah. I think there was a couple honorable mentions with, scream and, and, with Poltergeist. So I'll give you guys kudos there. But pretty sure I won because, I mean, you need people and characters that just live in infamy. I mean, I think you should, like, play the play the, Halloween music as we leave, just, you know, just saying.
Hannah 00:45:38 There we go.
Jaime 00:45:40 We do that, do that in the edit.
Hannah 00:45:41 Rob can keep that in.
Jaime 00:45:43 And any final.
Hannah 00:45:45 Well, I just want to know. Yeah, I there's music in my ears.
Hannah 00:45:50 Yeah. Not that one.
Joey 00:45:54 When are we doing the wrong.
Hannah 00:45:55 I want to know how how do we determine who wins this.
Jaime 00:45:59 That's what makes it fun.
Jaime 00:46:00 Is like, I, I think I want it, of course. And I think all my friends and family, Most people that listening think I wanted, but like everybody's allowed to have their own opinion. And there's if people want to comment either in the YouTube, of this or elsewhere and say who they think one, that would be awesome. And maybe we'll even, like, get in front of our coworkers and let them decide. Even though since Adam's boss, they'll probably pick him even though his list of some a little.
Hannah 00:46:20 Well, so just go.
Joey 00:46:21 Here's your blind list. Don't put your blind list.
Adam 00:46:25 Yeah, yeah, here's here's my request. You got to put your age beside it. Because if you're like 22 years old, you're not going to know what the heck I'm talking about on some of this stuff.
Joey 00:46:35 So strategy man, play to your audience.
Jaime 00:46:40 Some of us play to win. That's just the difference. All right. Well thanks. Thanks everybody for watching this. And again we had fun doing it.
Jaime 00:46:48 So hopefully everybody enjoys watching it.
Hannah 00:46:50 Thanks, Jamie. Thanks.
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