Ooh, it's a spooky season. And me and Will are coming to you with the films that you should watch this Halloween. That's right. Recommendations. There are so many horror movies out there. And we're going to try to recommend good ones, like The Shining. Yep. And listen, what's scarier than Stephen Soderberg's Contagin. Ooh. Time to watch this holiday season.

I tell you, the ultimate horror movie is Congress. Am I right? Are they going to be able to pass that bill? Will the progressives be able to hold the line? You're listening to Michael and us. That's right. So what do you got for me, Will? We're going to each recommend, I know, four or five movies each, stuff that we like. And I'm going to start with a really easy one, one that I watched yesterday.

Oh, yeah.

It's fresh. You're still spine tingling from the experience. And this is not a very scary movie, but it's one that I've always kind of liked. And watching it yesterday, I liked it better than I ever have. It is not considered one of its director's greatest films, but I think maybe

we should really reconsider that, because it's awfully good. It's called A Return to Salem's Lot from

1987. Oh, what a winner. It is a Larry Cohen film, of course. Devoted listeners to this podcast

will have seen his solid gold classics like Q, The Winged Serpent, The Stuff. But this is, yeah, a less well-regarded one.

You know, into the 80s, after movies like this were really getting theatrically released.

And this one is, I think it got some theatrical release, but it's direct-to-video, sort of.

I feel that Larry Cohen's, like, 80s output, which is like late 80s output, not very well-regarded,

but companies like Vinegar Syndrome, like Perfect perfect strangers, that's a great movie.

And I'm glad that it's back out and people are watching it. It's nice seeing this stuff on Blu-ray. You can see, well, I was going to say you could see how good it looks, but his movies don't look that good. But, oh, I love the looks of their films. Oh, yeah. I mean, special effects looks great.

What a great movie.

It's like, yeah, he doesn't know how to edit.

Sometimes he does...

He knows how to edit.

Well, Yeah. I mean, special effects looks great. Oh, what a great movie. It's like, yeah, he doesn't know how to edit.

Sometimes he knows how to edit.

I will argue against that because he is working in a situation where whatever is in the movie is what he got by the skin of his teeth.

You know what, you're right.

That scene in God Told Me Too when Andy Kaufman is in the parade. the parade as the cop and he starts firing, which apparently he got by actually just going to the parade with Andy Kaufman and shooting it. Incredibly edited. This one, though, he had Warner Brothers money. Come on. Yeah, he did. This movie should be a little better edit. But it's so weird, isn't it? Yeah. I think that it's looked down upon because people have a real affinity for the TV version of Salem's Lot, which was directed by Toby Hooper.

Right. And which was kind of a cultural phenomenon at the time this is the down market sequel that has nothing to do with the original really but what it does have is michael moriarty have we done an episode of michael morriarty have it would just be the larry colin episode yeah we would have to challenge himself because I was like, I think we talked about the Larry Cohen episode.

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