WAKE UP DEAD MAN (spoilers!) | with Mark Kermode & Jack Howard
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Mark Kermode and Jack Howard discuss all three of Rian Johnson's Knives Out movies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks for downloading or indeed watching on YouTube this Kermode on film podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | We are back at the Sun Pub in the glittery heart of London's West End. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you very much for the sun for letting us use the upstairs. |
| 0:12.4 | Today, Jack, because Christmas is coming around and Christmas means knives out. |
| 0:16.1 | What are we talking about? |
| 0:16.9 | We are going to be talking about knives out. |
| 0:18.8 | And you will find me a quiet, passive, respectful |
| 0:24.2 | observer of the truth. Are you going to do that a lot? I might do it quite a bit. Yeah. |
| 0:30.1 | Okay. Yeah. We're going to just fast forward. We're going to be talking about all three Knives Out films |
| 0:36.0 | with spoilers. |
| 0:39.3 | So if you haven't seen Wake Up Dead Man specifically, don't watch this |
| 0:42.3 | or do, I'm not your dad. |
| 0:46.4 | Since it's Christmas, Mark, |
| 0:47.7 | I thought that we could, |
| 0:49.9 | for the listeners, I've got a hat |
| 0:51.3 | and I've got some, |
| 0:53.1 | like an elf headband situation. |
| 0:54.8 | Which one do you want? |
| 0:55.4 | Oh, he's gone for the elf headband. Well, it's only because it's less intrusive. Do you want me to put this on? Ideally, yeah. Now I'm thinking I made a bad decision with the thing because you probably, you actually, you just look like you're wearing a hat. What? It suits me. I'm wearing a... |
| 1:09.9 | What am I wearing? |
| 1:11.0 | It's like an elf's hat on a headband. |
| 1:12.6 | An elf's hat on a headband. |
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