Today Mega Ran, Teek Hall and Neoecks welcome hip-hop producer OSYM, (twitter: @osym, IG: @OSYMbeats) who talks about growing up in SoCal, attending college with G-Eazy and several other notable rap acts, anime, and the latest hip-hop news. The guys join later and fantasy book the WWE Crown Jewel event with an endless checkbook. Who would we want to see for one night only? The guys also chat SmackDown’s 1000th episode, How High 2 with no Meth or Red, and much more! Thank you for listening as always! Drop a comment and share!

Special Shout Out to our partners at the Geekscape Network!

Put Over:

Ran – WWE2K19 (Create The Mat Mania Crew in-game!)
Teek – Big Mouth and Bojack Horseman
OSYM – Aggretsuko on Netflix
Neoecks – Detroit: Becoming Human (PS4)

Andrew is in Orlando but Gia is back as we discuss the best Halloween Costumes we’ve ever had and what future costumes we’d like to try!? Do you have a dope Disney Costume? Tell us about it and send pictures to DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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90% of my Fantastic Fest experience was seeing movies for interviews, but there was one film I was going to see regardless of if I had an interview or not. That was the documentary I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story.

I love pop music, I always have. I’ve always had a secret soft spot in my heart for boy-bands. I Used to Be Normal follows four women of four distinctly different experiences with Boy Bands. There’s the 16 year old One Direction fan, the writer who attended the Backstreet Boys Cruise, the elderly woman obsessed with The Beatles and a mid-30s woman with an obsession with Take That.

In the same way that Won’t You Be My Neighbor did earlier this year, I Used to Be Normal just overwhelms you with good vibes. You will be laughing with (never at) these subjects, you’ll be crying about their stories of the dark times when pop music saved their lives and you will not contain yourself when they play some of your favorite songs. Everyone sitting around me sang along with each song that played throughout the film.

In a world were a documentary about Mr. Rogers didn’t come out, this would be my favorite documentary of the year. It’s the feel-good experience you didn’t know you needed.

Keep your eyes peeled for when I Used To Be Normal plays a festival near you.

Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club is a movie unlike any other. If you ask director Guilhad Emilio Schenker, he’ll call it an adult fairy tale à la Edward Scissorhands, and that’s probably the most accurate comparison one could make.

The film is a fantastical love story with a horror twist. There is a secret book club of women – every Thursday they meet and are required to bring a male guest with them to the book club. At the end of each session, the men are rated, slaughtered, and cooked into hot dogs while the woman who brought the best man is awarded the woman of the week award.

Receive 100 awards and you will be named a Lordess of the beautiful the mansion the club is held in – bring too many duds, and you could end up working as a servant to the mansion until your dying day. Sophie is just one quality man away from becoming a Lordess, but instead she’s beginning to fall in love with her suitor and does not wish to see harm come to him.

Emilio’s slick visual direction really makes for a bright and vibrant film. It exists in its own version of reality and has some truly heart-warming moments as well as a few well placed laughs.

I had the opportunity to talk to director Emilio Schenker about the inspiration for the movie as well as what it’s like making such a strange film in Israel. Enjoy the interview below!

When Jason Trost released The FP back in 2011, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the influence it would have on some people. Some fans made life-long commitments with The FP tattoos (Like Geekscape’s own Frank Sanders), some made life-long commitments with marriage (more on that later), and many allowed the film’s dialogue to become part of their every day vernacular. I know I’ve often ask someone “What are you being for Halloween this year? A Bitch!?” and for that I’ll always be appreciative of Jason “J-Tro” Trost.

Not pictured: Frank’s awesome The FP tattoo

I was thrilled when I looked at the films playing this year’s Fantastic Fest and saw FP2: Beats of Rage would be screened.  It played midnight Saturday for a rowdy crowd of fans and a newlywed couple (seriously listen to the interview at the bottom of this page for more information on this). The Alamo has a strict no-talking rule – with one exception, because if you’re watching the FP2: Beats of Rage and you’re not chanting J-TRO and yelling about at the screen… you’re not doing it right.

So is it good? It is. Is it better than the original? For me not quite, but it’s still damn good. It’s also worth noting that this was my only watch of FP2: Beats of Rage so far, while my love of the original grew with more viewings. I have a strong feeling that FP2 will also be a grower.

The film takes place a few years after the original FP ends, J-Tro is alone again, isolated from his friends, mostly spending his time in a garage fixing old technologies like a Bop-It (not to be confused with Skip-It) and stealing alcohol to get drunk in a drainage pipe. When his former trainer BLT is 187ed by AK-47 of the Wastelands, JTRO must go on a journey to his birthplace to compete in the ancient Beat-Beat tournament Beats of Rage.

While the original film took its comedic beats by very seriously paying homage to films like Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II despite the outrageous subject matter; Trost does more of the same here, but this time parodying the outrageous sequels like Temple of Doom, Beyond Thunderdome and just a slight dabble of Krull. It allows the film to not just be a carbon copy of the original and is a giant breathe of fresh air for the budding franchise.

During the Q&A following the screening, Trost promised that Part 3 will be on the horizon. Until then I eagerly await the next installment. Learn more about the movie and the newlyweds that attended the screening by checking out the interview below, and be on the lookout for more Fantastic Fest coverage!

Fantastic Fest 2018 had a lot of movies vying for your attention, but LadyWorld was the only thing at Fantastic Fest that I could call an experience.

Amanda Kramer’s directorial debut is a brave and challenging attack on the audience’s psyche. She knows that she’s created a divisive movie and she’s damn proud of it – and she should be.

LadyWorld tells the story of 8 teenage girls who survive an off-screen earthquake. The title sequence is a black screen with actresses names appearing in small font in the corners while we hear the Earthquake happening. It’s impressive something so minimal can be so effective in setting a tone and building dread before a single shot of the film has been shown.

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The eight girls, now trapped underground in a house start their survival game which quickly devolves into Lord of the Flies. No character is specifically good or bad but some are more bratty or cruel than others. Some characters start off likable but time and lack of food make them crazier and meaner, while others attempt to hold the moral high ground.

It’s simply incredible that Amanda Kramer managed to get such powerful and real performances out of the young cast. Each actress is absolutely fearless in their performance and all have the potential to be up and coming superstars in the future. That being said, the true star of LadyWorld has to be its sound design.

Throughout the movie, off in the distance you just hear constant rumbling that grows a feeling of doom and gloom as the film builds. On top of that the soundtrack is entirely acapella, and is scattered with sighs, yells, and vocal harmonies layered onto each other and other noises. While I doubt it was a direct influence, the soundtrack reminded me of the bizarre soundtrack Pino Donaggio did for the 1979 slasher film Tourist Trap.

Amanda Kramer has leaped to the top of my directors to follow list. I can not wait to see what she brings to us with her sophomore film.

At Fantastic Fest I had the opportunity to talk to Kramer about life, people and of course the movie LadyWorld. Give it a listen right here, and be on the lookout for more Fantastic Fest 2018 coverage.

Camp owner Sam (Fran Kranz) wakes up in the middle of the woods to discover someone has butchered his counselors. He runs to a cabin and immediately calls his best friend Chuck (Alyson Hannigan), a comic shop employee and horror buff. Originally intending to get advice on how to survive the night, soon Sam is seeking Chuck’s help to jog his memory and make that sure he’s not the person who committed these violent acts.

I didn’t know what to expect when I sat in a theater at 12:50pm on Friday. All that I knew about You Might Be The Killer was what the three sentences on Fantastic Fest’s website told me, and it sounded like it could be right up my alley.

What I got was my favorite horror film in years.

When you’re a horror fan, you tend to have specific sub-genres you consider yourself an expert in. For me, it’s slasher movies – I don’t think there’s a slasher film in existence that I haven’t watched. I blame this on Scream being my first real horror movie, it lit a fire in me that I didn’t even know was waiting to be sparked. I rented every slasher film I could get my hands on, I bought every slasher movie documentary released, and I read countless textbooks on the genre. It’s obvious that You Might Be The Killer director Brett Simmons did the same.

There is a beautiful visual style scattered throughout this movie that highlights the two sides of the film. Our two leads are shot in starkly different places; whenever you see Sam or the camp it’s always in a grainy style. It looks exactly like the 1980’s VHS tapes you and your friends used to watch at sleepovers. With the exception of some flashbacks, Sam’s scenes are all masked in darkness and dim lighting. Chuck, however, being separated from the craziness of the camp massacre in a brightly lit comic book shop full of lively and chatty characters. The picture is of a modern HD quality that you’re used to seeing.

This is because we are Chuck. We’re in the modern day listening in on Sam’s experience and how it brings back the 80’s nostalgia we all harbor.

You Might Be the Killer is a film that would fit in with modern meta-horror films like Final Girls and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon but also would not be out of place being marathoned along side classics like Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning, Sleepaway Camp or the still painfully under-appreciated There’s Nothing Out There.

Sorry Hereditary, A Quiet Place and Suspiria… this is my favorite horror film of 2018.

At Fantastic Fest I was lucky enough to get to sit with director Brett Simmons and Producers Thomas P Vitale and Griff Furst. We sat outside an ice cream parlor talking about our favorite horror films and how this film was inspired by a twitter conversation between two famous comic writers during an unreasonably windy Saturday in Austin. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more Fantastic Fest coverage!

One of the most talked about films coming out of Fantastic Fest this year is CAM, and for good reason — it’s… well, fantastic.

CAM tells the story of Alice (Madeline Brewer), a talented camgirl climbing the ranks of online popularity under her alias Lola. After breaking into the top 50 performers on her site of choice, something strange happens – she can no longer log into her account, but a doppelganger is constantly live on her channel. The set looks identical, she looks identical, but this imposter (Lola2) is willing to go to extreme levels that Alice would never approach.

This well-paced mystery has a script lovingly written by Isa Mazzei (a former camgirl herself), which blends elements of drama, horror, and comedy to create one of the most compelling leads in horror history. It manages to handle the subject matter in a sincere way that never sexualizes any of the female leads. More importantly, the script also never vilifies these characters. In the hands of a less passionate writer this film could have easily become a morality tale, however Mazzei and director/cowriter Daniel Goldhaber stuck to their guns and the film is far better off for it.

It’s impossible not to talk about the incredible performance from Madeline Brewer. She may be familiar to fans of Orange is the New Black, Hemlock Grove and The Handmaid’s Tale, but her ability to juggle the multiple layers of Alice/Lola/Lola2 has made her destined to be the horror community’s new favorite leading lady. Brewer’s ability to disturb us as the scarily emotion-free Lola2 while winning our hearts as the lovable Alice is a feat few others could do. It’s through this performance that Alice becomes the most likable survivor girl since Heather Langenkamp’s Nancy Thompson.

CAM is a film the horror community didn’t know it needed. Look for it when it goes live on Netflix this November!

At Fantastic Fest, I had an opportunity to chat with CAM director Daniel Goldhaber, writer Isa Mazzei and actress Madeline Brewer. Listen below!

It’s a news/mailbag episode. We’re changing up news a little bit to instead focus with emails and weird conversations not worthy of a full episode. This month we read an email from Chrissy as well as fill out a BuzzFeed quiz on Disney Would You Rathers. Andrew’s in Orlando (Without us! Gasp!) so we’re joined by Brooke’s best friend Gia this week.

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A few months ago we watched Sleeping Beauty because Brooke mistook Malficient from being in Snow White. So we figured, might as well also revisit Snow White! So how does it hold up? Listen and find out thoughts. Do you love Snow White? Who’s your favorite dwarf? Let us know at DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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Brooke and Andrew are ready to get drunk and party but they need to make sure they have a collection of their favorite Disney friends in order to do so! Be warned … Producer Matt is an idiot who bought cheap batteries so there’s a few issues here but hopefully you still have fun! Who would be in your Entourage? Let us know at DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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We’re back with another Email and News episode. We read your emails, discuss the news and share our opinions on the Jack Whitehall casting controversy. Do you have an opinion on the controversy or just want to send us an email to read on the air? Contact us at DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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So Producer Matt took the Wholesome topic of “What Disney Characters Would You Like to Date” and texted us “Start thinking of Which Disney Characters you’d like to f***”. We responded the only way we knew how, by trolling him with the most offensive answers we could come up with. This episode is a little risquer than usual and may not be for everyone. How did we do Trolling Producer Matt? Let us know by emailing DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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Christopher Robin came out this month and we all saw it. Was the movie a disappointment or a masterpiece? Listen and hear our thoughts (fairly spoiler free). How did you like Disney’s newest film? Let us know by emailing DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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Disney is great at pulling at our heartstrings, be it a dead parent or a moment of overwhelming joy. This week Brooke and Andrew sit down and discuss the moments that make them cry no matter how many times they see them.  Tell us what moments always break your heart by emailing DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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Last month Brooke couldn’t remember if Maleficent was in Sleeping Beauty or Snow White. So we decided to rewatch Sleeping Beauty, stopping every 30 minutes to discuss our thoughts. It was… interesting. This is one of the most beloved Disney cartoons, but did we love it? Let us know your own feelings on Sleeping Beauty by emailing DisNeatoPodcast@gmail.com

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