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Allan it's time we talk about Robert
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Edgar's Nas
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veratu he is of course the director
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behind the wildly creative films The
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Witch uh the
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lighthouse and the uh Northman I love
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Robert Edgar's work it's very
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purposeful it's uh creates a tone he's
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not an
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elitist two of his most popular movies
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have fart
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jokes he he makes movies to
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entertain and this is of course his the
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the movie he's really built up his
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entire career to make he made the witch
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with the intent that maybe someday he'd
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get to make Nas
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veratu you know the classic silent film
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his take on this vampire
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story so um it's now in theaters this I
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think it should be noted that the movie
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is in
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color but the color it's not in black
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and white it's very muted very muted the
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color is used very purpose purposefully
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so immediately creates a
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tone the and before we get I mean the
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story uh we've heard before Allan if you
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would just go over the basics of it but
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uh okay so uh so the story is is the
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story of uh sorry uh so a guy named
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hutter played by Nicholas Holt who is a
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real estate agent in in the area uh he
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lives with his wife uh Ellen played by
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Lily Rose Depp um they're they're kind
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of having problems in their marriage she
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uh she's got some past trauma uh and
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that is kind of building a barrier
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between the two but but deep down they
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they love each other uh hutter has to go
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off to uh to a across the country uh
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because he's going to sell the castle of
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count orlock played by Bill sarsgard
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Skarsgard um and he goes there and
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horrific things happen to him uh he kind
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of uh gets caught in the uh in in the
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true nature of count orlock uh and
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weirdly enough count orlock has this
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connection between him and his wife uh
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hutter's wife Ellen and uh so so he kind
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of uh I think he kind of kills huter but
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he's not really dead and then he goes
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off to to to meet up once again with uh
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with Helen Ellen and um that's kind of
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the story here uh he he the journey to
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get to Ellen is fraught with death uh
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there there's also another couple played
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by uh another couple I'm trying to get
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the names here uh okay none of that
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matters forget forget forget the idea
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that I asked you to summarize it very
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simple it's a he's selling a guy a
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castle Nicholas holds character is
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selling count orlock a castle he has a
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connection to his wife his wife is
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hearing NOS ratu in his dreams no ratu
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beckons to her in his dreams this is a
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re an incredibly unique take on NAS
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veratu that basically uh borrows from
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the original visually
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speaking It's haunting and shocking it's
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like it's like he made a classic horror
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movie
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today in the sense that it's um there's
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no modernity in this at all there's no
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diversity at all it's it's you know
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England of a time right and K orlock
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comes on a boat filled with rats that
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carry with them the
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plague and
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and reaches a climax where they must end
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Nas veratu and of course we're not gonna
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uh no spoilers in
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that dude I I loved every minute of this
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film I loved being in the world it felt
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like watching horror mov movies classic
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horror movies I mean the universal
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monster movies in black and white I love
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those movies a as a kid I loved seeing
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this it just brought me back to that um
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you know shock and awe of those kinds of
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movies that seemed quaint now but the
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only way he's modernized it is he's made
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it more scary he's made he's made just
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Nas fatu's voice the sound the dreams
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The Haunting dream
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uh just on every level just a really
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good and it's not super gory there's a
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couple of shock things yeah there's some
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horrific scenes in this one a few but
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not like what we've come to associate
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like not no nothing on a terrifier level
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at all no but I loved every minute of it
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nine out of 10 for me um I'm just
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avoiding telling you anything specific
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will ruin the experience like I I think
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one of the best Nicholas Holt is so good
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in this film he is
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phenomenal in this and uh um and also
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Bill Skarsgard as count orlock
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unrecognizable you don't even know who
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he is like he's under the makeup it's
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it's a full body
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performance and even the weirdness like
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a William defo plays this professor MH
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and and they're like trying to come up
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with some kind of plan to to end the
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horror yeah I love that they have no
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idea what they're what they're doing
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they don't know what they're up against
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and then Lily Rose Depp as Ellen Hunter
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just basically what Edgars has done has
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made a mo taken and made a modern horror
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movie or a classic horror movie made it
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modern in the sense that it's you know
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uh uh just using all the technology what
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I my understanding is they Ed thousands
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of rats in the rat scenes were used I
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mean uh and even just the the dream like
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when Nicholas holds character Thomas
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hutter is in the castle with count
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orlock and it feels like a Dream It's
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haunting things are like how did I get
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here did that happen was that real or
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imagined where he's questioning
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questioning himself so I I just could
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not have loved this more I've seen it
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twice I plan to see it again and um you
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know even if you're a non horror fan I
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think can you can appreciate this this
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film because of its classic nature so
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what are your thoughts Alan because
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you're not a big horror fan yeah which
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you could tell by the way I describe the
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story versus the way you describe the
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story yeah well I kep it simple yeah I I
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like this movie for the art of this
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movie uh I love the way it looked I love
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the pacing of the story uh you know it
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reminded me a lot of like a graphic
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novel where every frame is very there's
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it says a lot but there's very little in
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the frame right you know the uh the way
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he uses tension the way he uses fear and
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horror I loved it's just it's fantastic
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storytelling um and uh I also love the
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fact that uh I think almost almost the
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entire film is practical um you know it
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just not any Reliance at all on CG I'm
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sure there are CG moments uh they're
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quick but uh it just feels real it feels
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uh
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tangible and uh and I really did enjoy
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it I'm not a fan of horror I'm not sure
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that I you know I'm not excited about
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this movie as you are but I do
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appreciate it for what it is I had a I
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had a fun time just watching it kind of
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taking in this world and and these
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horrific moments uh stay with me even
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till
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today so yeah you know if you're not a
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fan of horror films this is very much a
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horror film uh and if you want to give
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it a shot definitely try definitely you
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could this is a good uh entryway into
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that next step into really grotesque
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horror yeah
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it's yeah and also this is pure Cinema
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must be seen on the big screen I mean
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don't wait for streaming or video on
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demand don't don't wait well when you
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said what makes it modern is the sound
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design yes if anything I mean the sound
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in this is
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incredible so good and I plan to see it
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again
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still
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