Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylor Jesse Thorne. Judge Hodgman, this is our very first episode conducted entirely in

trainbursts. You know, we get total, total sidebar. We get so many submissions of questions that we can't bring to a full,

full courtroom. So we decided to break those out into special episodes. And that's what we're doing today.

We have an entire episode dedicated specifically to snap judgments and of course pedantry. Yeah, when we talk about clearing the docket in previous episodes,

the fact is the docket is thick. We're not clear in that docket every time. We're barely, we're barely dusting it off. Now we're going to clear, we're going to clear some dockets now. Oh, yeah, for real. Let's start with this one.

You hear something from Jessica. Jessica's wrong next. I just want to bang it out. Bang it out. All right, go ahead. Every October, I watched 31 scary movies in 31 days. Oh, wow. I, I barely watched one movie in the last of any genre in the last 31 days.

The young people today, young people. I know, right? Every of all this time to sit around and watch scary movies and just buy tickets for their favorite, favorite live recordings of bullseye in the cemetery. Yeah, you got it. Right. We'll talk more about that later. But let's get back to Jessica who is wrong, by the way.

Every October, it stresses out my boyfriend Brad. He's never made the pledge to watch with me, but feels roped into participating because we live together. He asks you for two things. One, an order allowing episodes of scary TV shows to count towards the total of 31 movies. And two to disallow binge watching an order a limit to the number of movies watched in one day.

Yes, I would like Brad to relax and let me enjoy my annual tradition. Judge Hodgman, please help us. I have a quick question for you, Judge Hodgman. Before we get to please. Does it count as a tradition if it's not shared with anyone else? If it's at best, at best, sort of mild violation of the social contract in which you're imposing it on someone else. Yeah, it's personally, it's personally a tradition in my household.

To watch the terrifying Takashi Mikai film audition. Every day of October at three o'clock in the afternoon. It's just my tradition. And it also enures my children to horror.

Yeah, I think there may be a reason why Brad is stressed out beyond just your pace of watching movies. You're you're terrifying this poor guy with your scary movies.

Although I don't know what kind I mean the thing of the thing of it is I was going to say I don't know what kind of horror movies you watch whether you're watching a classic universal monster movies or the whole Japan horror movie boom of the early 2000s.

Which was so scary, which I wrote about for the New York Times magazine in 2007. The reality is if you're going to watch 31 movies in horror movies in a month, you're not you can't you're not picking and choosing that much. I think it would be hard to come up with 31 distinct movies to watch in a single month that are worth watching. Never mind ones just from the horror genre. And I would encourage you. Jessica not because Brad is a scaredy cat, but because it'll be exciting to you.

To watch some scary TV because there has been a lot of it. Specifically the regular TV movie don't be afraid of the dark, which scared me so much when I was a child and was recently remade by Guillermo Dertoro or you know produced by him. I don't remember directed it about little people who live in the walls.

I also want to drag you into the into the fireplace. Did you ever see that one Jesse? No, sir. That was a movie that was so scary to me. I saw it on creature double feature on Channel 56 and Brooklyn, Massachusetts. I think it was the second feature of the double feature in the afternoon. They would show scary movies in the afternoon in the broad daylight. I watched these two little little monkey like creatures as this woman was taking a shower emerge out of a little cabinet with a straight razor and turn off the lights on her.

And I ran out of my living room into broad daylight to scream at the top of my lungs. And it was a TV movie. It was made for TV in the 1970s when you could do intense stuff on television. I guess because it was after 9 p.m. All the children were asleep. They're not like today staying up till 5 o'clock in the morning doing Minecraft. And it was so because it was a TV movie. It was so obscure.

That for years and years and years, I could not remember the title of it and begun to believe that it was just a bad dream.

And then one and then one evening, maybe just a year or two ago, I buckled down. Well, it was before the remake came out. So must have been three or four years ago.

I buckled down with YouTube and I just entered in every possible search term I could for like small menacing straight razor, shower scene, blah, blah, blah, blah. And finally I found it. And I felt like I felt like I was in a horror movie where, you know, I was trying to convince that everyone in the world like, no, this is a real thing. This is a real

ghost in my closet. And it was it's a real movie called don't look no, don't be afraid of the dark now. Don't look now is also a terrifying film, which you should see as well. So add that to your list. And because I like obscure things because they're often overlooked.

And because I like horror movies, but don't like them as well or as smartly as my friend Nick McCarthy, who was the one who introduced me to evil dead one, two and medieval dead three.

I asked Nicholas McCarthy, who is my old friend from high school, who introduced me to all these movies when I was but a youth and has now gone on to fulfill his life dream of directing horror movies. So these are the ones I asked him for some suggestions. But before he gives any suggestions, I will suggest that you watch this October his movie, the pack.

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