I'm I'm Renee Hunter Vasquez, joined as always by my co-host, my husband, and my brother.

Hi, I'm John Paul Vasquez. Hi, I'm Travis Hunter. This week, we're recording live from the Monach and Minds discussing the 2014 found

footage horror film, The Taking of Deborah Logan.

This film was directed by Adam Robital and written by Robital and Gavin Heffernan.

The taking of Deborah Logan provides a new take on found footage horror, mixing a legitimate reason for filming and strong performances with the very real subject of Alzheimer's disease.

This film was recommended to us by friends of the show, Brittany Ramatar, Molly Gerhardt, Sandra Escalera, and Suez.

We thank them so much for their support and for their suggestions.

So, what did you guys think of the taking of Deborah Logan the first time you saw it?

I'll be honest, I don't remember when we very first watched it.

I know I've seen it a few times,

and I do like the movie.

I do want to start off by saying I do enjoy this movie.

But for the show, it kind of hurt. I

kind of hurt the movie watching it, you know, taking it apart. Yeah. You do kind of see some

some problems or, you know, and it did, it did hurt the movie for me. But I do enjoy it.

I can definitely agree. It's difficult may and I were talking earlier about it's kind of a miracle that any film holds up to the scrutiny

of like doing a podcast on it right to where you're like picking apart every little thing and you're

like no it's still a 10 yeah like that's amazing that's a lot That's genuinely amazing. But I really enjoyed this film the first time that I saw it. And I think I've seen it maybe one time after that before we decided to cover it for the show. And I really enjoyed it then. But along with JP, I think that being so critical and watching it with a critical eye, Yeah. Kind of, uh, there is some stuff that sticks out as a little,

you know. I mean, yeah. Uh-huh. But I mean, not completely excuse everything, but this is a 90 minute movie. Uh-huh. It packs a punch, I think. And I don't think that when they made it, they were like, now, even if you pause every 30 seconds to take notes, it's still going to hold up. You know what I mean? It's not, look. I look at this movie is like the perfect like Friday night horror movie. Right. Yeah. You know, you throw it on. You have a fun time watching it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And even so, it does have, I mean,

an interesting allegory attached to it. Yes, it does. And it's kind of deeper than the film needs to be.

And so, I mean, there's some stuff here. And I will admit, I'm not the biggest fan of found footage

films, mostly because I was spoiled by the Blair Witch Project.

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