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Top-5 Summertime Horror Films | CateGORY

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The mercury is rising, if you're joining us from the northern hemisphere. We're putting the "gory" in cateGORY once again as the guys put together their top-5 horror films that remind them of summer time. Plus a number of honorable mentions. 

Horror films that feel like summer. At the beach, waterpark, summer camp, desert, excessive heat, on the water. Stay cool!

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All Guts, So Gory is a weekly horror movie podcast hosted by Mike, Charlie, and Justin. Each week, one host picks a horror film of their choice—anything from cult classics and slashers to supernatural chillers and modern gore-fests—for the trio to dissect. With a mix of sharp insights, dark humor, and plenty of passion for the genre, All Guts, So Gory delivers lively discussions that celebrate the bloody, the bizarre, and everything in between. If you love horror movies, this is the podcast to sink your teeth into. 

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The mad and McCum.

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I'm just gonna back you. Playtime's over.

SPEAKER_00

Welcome to the All Guts podcast. It is a hot one, gentlemen. It is summertime. And the living's easy. Radley's on the microphone with Ross M G. All the people in the dance will agree that we're well qualified to represent the STL. The LBC. I don't know. Yeah, the LBC. LBC. G, me and Louie. And we keep going? Sure. Santoria. It's doing time. Good to you. It's sublime. You're right. But not Santaria. That's what I call it. Doing time. I call them Sandaria. So we're doing a uh category episode for you guys. We're gonna do top five lists. Each of us put together a top five summertime horror movies list. And this is where summer has to be a central theme in the movie. Movies that remind you of summer. Maybe there's a beach involved. Maybe it's about a water park or swimming or summer camp or you're in a desert or excessive heat. This can't just be like, well, you know, like, you know, it's hot out or it's daytime. Maybe it's hot, hard to tell. Could be spring. We don't know. He's wearing a sweater, but maybe it's a cold beach. Yeah, right. You gotta be like, this reminds me of summer because or it's summertime, so I am throwing this movie on. So we each put together our top five summertime horror movies. Do you guys have anything you want to put out there or talk about before we start going down our lists? Charlie, you want to start with anything about summer horror or it you would I I was like, oh, this is gonna be easy.

SPEAKER_01

There's a lot of summer horror movies. Turns out when you get down to it, when we start making these lists, it's like, oh, there's not really that many out there.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I mean, we have we'll have some honorable mention. We're gonna mention more than just five movies, but but I mean, I was thinking, oh, I'd pull a dozen easily. Justin, I know you like to live on the fringes when we do these. Yeah, are you like, well, I'm gonna pick this one because it might be summer, and remember if you guys argue over whether it is or not, you gotta feel like mine involves the hemispheres of the world and the you know, if you're above the equator, below the equator. I already thought about this. Right, so like summer where? Right.

SPEAKER_01

Summer somewhere in all the time almost.

SPEAKER_00

Or does it have to be the summer in the country we're referring to? You cannot pick the thing, okay? It could have been the summer. If you don't know that it's summer time, you know, there you don't know. It could have been July 4th. It looks really fucking cold there. All right. Yep, it doesn't count. It's reminded automatically summer. And it and if it was if it was summer, wouldn't they they have like 24 hour daylight? And they don't because it's dark at Point. There you go. So it's not summer. All I know is that you need to wear sunscreen in the snow just as much as on the beach because the refraction. No. Nope. Snow.

SPEAKER_01

Snow automatically disqualifies it. Snow automatically disqualifies it. Automatic.

SPEAKER_00

So sand is just like snow that's you know, never mind. Yeah. Agreed. So you're gonna have to replace the thing. Ah, shit. You rule you, rule bender, you you habitual line stepper. Habitual line stepper. All right. Top five summer horror movies. We're gonna start at number five, go up to number one. I'm sure we're gonna share a few movies on our list. Charlie, I'll kick it off to you. What is your number five favorite summer comments?

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna wild card it, and I'm gonna pull one out of my ass that I saw just a couple years ago. Justin might know this movie. We were supposed to watch it together. I think this was during COVID. Probably watched it with that. And I was like, I totally watched it with that.

SPEAKER_00

Charlie's known for like being like, Yeah, let's watch that one the next time we hang out. And then he's like, I watched it, man. Okay. So 2015.

SPEAKER_01

The Sand.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, no, no, no. I suggested because I saw a crazy clip of it. Yeah. And I was like, this looks crazy. And then we did say we should watch together in the What is this?

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so this group of Jamie Kennedy in this one? Early 20s. No, I I don't think I think he was too old for this movie. But you know, like college graduation, high school graduation, they do it, they have a party on the beach, they pass out, they wake up, and if you step in the sand, you get got. Oh, yeah. There's something under the sand that's eating people, and there's like a guy hanging out in a 50-gallon drum. There's people on one's on a lifeguard tower, one's on a like picnic bench type of thing. It's a picnic. Something lives in the sand. Something's in the sand. Okay. Not the best. The beach will meet you alive, it says. But a total beach summer movie.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, that's it hits it right on the nose. Yeah. Right on the night. Out of the gate. Yeah, I mean, winter. Drop the mic and walk away. Any thoughts on the sand? You watched it too, Justin? I did not see it. You still haven't seen it. Still haven't seen it. After all that.

SPEAKER_01

So let me defend myself. Justin has this thing where, yeah, we'll watch it. And it's like, hey, you ready to watch it? No, I can't. Nah. What about now? So just like my wife Mary, who I love very much, don't go Nikki on me. No, it's a similar thing. You know, it's like, yeah, don't watch it without me. And then weeks go by and then I'm like, sneak watch it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, basically, like there's a clip where somebody falls on the sand and it just like rips his like half of them off or something, right?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. There's it's like a tiny worm thing, tentacle filament and any of your body that touches sand, kind of like the blob. Anything of your body touches Jeremy Kennedy, isn't it? He is Beach Patrol Alex. Okay. Any part of your body that touches sand, it just like gets you and you can't get out of it.

SPEAKER_00

What should be the designated length of time from when you decide, hey, we should watch this together, to when you can actually be like, look, it's not happening. I'm watching it. So so my thing is I like I like the excitement of like flipping through together and finding something too. I do too. I like stumbling, I like spending about a half hour, 35 minutes. That's too long. Psycho Gorman. After about after like five minutes or like three different streamers, we're kind of like, just just fucking pick something. Right. Yeah. But there's something like going through Blockbuster. Yeah. I would always start at the back end. Like people would get in the queue at Blockbuster to go like for the new release wall, kind of through A, but I would start at the end because you know, now yeah. I think Mary Marie and I both will it's hard for us to be on the same schedule to like watch a show, especially shows, but to like watch something together that we're planning on. So I think sometimes we're at the point now where we might start something. If it's not a show we've already watched before, like we just finished the boys and we knew we were gonna finish that together. Took a while to finish this last season, but we just plowed through it this past weekend or a couple weekends ago. But it was but if there's like something that interests both of us, like we might watch the first part of the first episode, yeah, and then be like, hey, like we should watch this, or I'd be like, eh, she's not gonna like this, and I'll just keep going. Yeah, I'll do that too with Sarah. I'll be like, hey, do you have any interest in this? I'm gonna watch an episode. And then I watch them be like, You wouldn't like it. That's my way of saying I'm gonna watch I'm gonna watch the rest of the stuff. It's scary, it's too scary. Speaking of, I started watching Widow's Bay. Has anybody started that one yet on Apple? No, I don't have Apple. It's kind of fun. It's it's like a horror, like it's an island that has a you know a treacherous history or whatever, like a scary history, and Matthew, Matthew Reese is in it. Oh, I like Matthew. For Mike, who is that? That's the guy in the Americans, which I haven't seen the Americans. Okay, okay. Oh, dude. Harry Mason. Dude, stop watching Widows and watch Americans and watch the Americans man. Underrated. So underrated. I can't root for the KGB. I can't root for these.

SPEAKER_01

That's the whole thing. You do and you don't at the same time. Right.

SPEAKER_00

All right. It's so underrated. It did not get enough love during its run, and it's so good. I've rewatched it twice now. I watched another thing with him in it called The Beast Within or Beast in Me or something. That was really good too. Anyway, it's not the Matthew Reese podcast. No, let's move on to Justin's number five. What's your number? Summertime. Summer, summer, summer. You know what? I'm going to do a movie that I liked. This is number five, so it doesn't have to be my favorite, like sand, right? Yep. I'm going to do one called It shouldn't be. There should be four more you like more than it. The Ruins. Okay. It's a group of young adults that go to like Mexico or somewhere and they find this temple and they're trapped at the top, and there's this like thing that's eating them away, basically. It's it's really good. I like the ruins. How do you know it's summertime? Because they're on spring. That's why I didn't put it on my list.

SPEAKER_01

It's and my list that I found. It could be anytime.

SPEAKER_00

But it looks like they're on a break. They're like on a college break.

SPEAKER_01

It could be spring break. That's what I think it was. Christmas break. Christmas break. In Mexico, you never know.

SPEAKER_00

Mako, Feliz Navidad. No. It's summer, okay? They look like they're enjoying their summer. Okay. Okay. Have you seen that? No, I haven't not seen it.

SPEAKER_01

It's not, it's not bad. It's good. Good stuff. Somehow back when I was reading, I read that book first, and the book is killer. Really, really good. The movie's decent. Yeah. Let me see who's in this for for uh for everybody listening. For me. Who's who's in it?

SPEAKER_00

Who's in this? What did it say? Ruins? Ruins. Ruined, as my wife would say, ruined it. And you ruined it. Roined? Roined. Yes. Ruined. So it came out in I thought it said that. 2008. 208. That's how normal people say it. Not 2008. Robot Justin.

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Replaced by AI.

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Siri Justin. Oh, uh Ice Iceman from X the X-Men. Jenna Malone from Saved and Jonathan Tucker. He's he's a good little character actor. Yeah, it's it's I it's summer. Don't you worry about it. It's summer. Okay. All right. The ruins. My number five is a summer camp movie. Uh and this one is 1981's The Burning. This is Burning Man. This is Jason Alexander in his first feature film. He's the wisecracking funny guy of the bunch. There's always hair. Oh, yeah. There's always a wise cracking funny guy in all these summer. Mandatory. Yeah, there's always one, and he's it in this.

SPEAKER_01

It showed up on all the lists, and I never saw it. I have no idea what I've done. Now I I get to go get on Toby. I'm sure it's on Tubi. You guys should watch that together.

SPEAKER_00

I it's it's it's out, it's gotta be out there somewhere. I haven't seen it either. We can watch it, Charlie. Oh, it was gonna be long watching it. It's gonna be a mic pick one of these days unless somebody beats me to it. If you guys watch it and really like it and beat me to it. Yeah. This is took place in 1980, or this was filmed in 1981. Also, Holly Hunter has a small role in this. Oh Tom Savini, when he turned down doing the effects for Friday the 13th, part two, because he did not want to be part of the sequel for that. He did this movie instead. So Tom Savini effects, special effects, and makeup in this. This film is about campers. They play a joke on the janitor or grounds crewman, whatever you call them. Classic campaign. They accidentally burn him alive. Oh, he survives. It was an accident. Comes back to the camp five years later to camp like Blackfoot or whatever it was called. Camp Doom. Camp Blackfoot. I think it was Camp Blackfoot, and then when he comes back, it's like Camp Stone Creek or something like that. But so he comes back to get his revenge on campers that actually did nothing to him whatsoever. Like Jason. Right. Exactly. So he comes back to get his revenge. His weapon of choice is hedge clippers. Oh, not there is a scene in this. I'm not spoiling anything, but there's a scene on a raft. I mean, I am spoiling it. This came out forever ago. There's a scene on a raft that is absolutely brutal. And it's so much fun in the best ways. So brutal in the best ways if you like slasher horrors. So the burning. That is my number five summertime. It's also what you experience when you slept with the wrong person. Yeah, only for like a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_01

It's not on Tubi, it's not on Amazon, it's not on Fandango.

SPEAKER_00

You have to like go to a weird movie store.

SPEAKER_01

So what do we do now? I mean, we all pick different movies. Oh, well, we're on a number four. Number four. Oh, we just keep yeah, we don't compile to one single list.

SPEAKER_00

No, no. This is now you're number four. This is not your first podcast, Charlie.

SPEAKER_01

I thought we were changing it up and coming up with a combined where we're gonna have to build some kind of consensus. We maybe we'll do that.

SPEAKER_00

The burning is currently on AMC Plus. We will ask the audience to compile it for us.

SPEAKER_01

Number four. I'm gonna go with Midsummer. Oh wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Artsy Farty Charlie.

SPEAKER_01

It is Fartsy Charlie. But I love that people jumping off the cliff and the hammer that comes out. That was the best part of the movie. And then somebody forcing the dude on some kind of shroomer acid, just making him have sex with somebody. And then they all burn up at the end.

SPEAKER_00

Spoilers. Yeah, this is gonna be a spoiler-filled probably episode. These movies have come out a lot.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, so we're not.

SPEAKER_00

If you're into horror, you probably have seen Midsomar. So obsession's not on the list. We're not gonna do a new movie. Not a summer. Not that I know of. Could be. We don't know. Unknowable. Maybe not even. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Midsomar, I am also a big fan of. The creepiest part of the movie, Charlie mentioned the hammer, the jumping, but I think the beginning where she sees her freaking family after the car suicide. I was like, damn. Sister took a took the whole family. Let's set it up. Like that was like the Charlie scene, the head getting chopped off almost. We're just like that's fucked up. Maybe it's because it's the same director. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Telling you shortlist, shortlist. Did you know that? He knew that one. We mentioned it all. I'm pretty sure we talked about hereditary podcast, but I already forgot. But Florence Pugh, this speak made her a household name, I would say. Would you say anything else made her a household name? I know she was in stuff. What was the the wrestling movie was really big. Yeah, my fan fighting fans. Fighting with my family. That movie was really big.

SPEAKER_01

What's that movie where it was like a computer simulation? Wasn't she in that one? Was that her? Which one? And with Olivia Wilde and The Mandela effect. No, what's what's his name? Lazarus effect? The one direction guy that she had an affair with. Oh, Harry Styles.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that was after. So I think that was after. She was in that one, too. Yeah, she was in that one. Yeah. Darling, don't worry, Darling, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. She was in that. But it was, yeah, super good. Yeah. Super good movie. And creepy. And yeah. You guys want to do celebrity gossip corner like I do wrestling corner? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Remember when Florence P was dating Zach Brath and there was everybody was upset about the age difference?

SPEAKER_01

Remember when Olivia Wilde shared her salad dressing right with uh Harry Styles?

SPEAKER_00

Remember when Harry Styles allegedly spit on Chris Pine? Alright, enough. I'm gonna throw up. I know how you guys feel. Sarah's favorite. That's gonna be Sarah's favorite part of any show that we've done. You should have calmed me down. So yeah, mid midsomar is like, I mean, it's not my cup of tea, but the the scene where they jump off the cliff, it's like there's not any cuts. Like they walk and they get to the edge of the cliff and they jump and they land. I'm like, they didn't cut the film. Like, how the fuck they do that is fucking amazing. They killed somebody. Yeah, it's a snuff film. Yeah, it's a snuff film, basically. You didn't know. But usually it's like they get to the edge and they cut to someone's face, they cut back, and there goes the dummy falling. But no, it was like it looked as real as you could fucking make it. It was I was impressed by that scene. Rest of it, not my cup of tea, but yeah, that scene fucking wild. If I'm if I'm gonna be honest, I I did make a giant list, but I didn't put numbers by them. But I would say Midsummer would be in my top five for sure. So that's the first one that was taken. So you didn't make a top five. You're just five.

SPEAKER_01

That could be your number four. That can be my number four. That could be my four. It's your first time doing a podcast. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So if that's your four, that's my four, Justin's four. That means it's my turn for my number four. Sure. Okay. My number four, I'm going back to campgrounds again. This time to Crystal Lake. Uh-oh. It's not gonna be the one you think, though. This is gonna be Friday the 13th, part four.

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Why?

SPEAKER_00

The final chapter. Are we doing sequels? Why not? We can do sequels.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we can, but I mean, like all the Jaws movies happen during the summer.

SPEAKER_00

Well, but it wait, but would you put any of them in your top five besides maybe one? Maybe two. No, no, no. I put two over uh Friday the 13th, part four. Jason goes out. I'm gonna put that up there. That one probably isn't even that one's not. But part four is my favorite of the franchise, which is why I put four on my list over, say, one or two or three. There's great kills in this one, it's got a really fantastic ending to it. In Jason movie fashion, there's plenty of skin. It's a summer getaway for the group of teens. Skinny dipping is prevalent at Crystal Lake, it's a movie staple for uh this franchise. This crew of young kids, young adults, they rented a house on Crystal Lake next door to the Jarvis family. Corey Feldman is Tommy Jarvis, who lives in this house with his sister and his mother. This takes place following the events of part three, where Jason is presumed dead and taken to the corners. In this one, he comes back to life and escapes, meaning that this takes place, part four takes place the next day. On then it takes place the next day on Saturday the 14th. But just ignore that. Don't worry about that. Don't ask questions about 80s. Yes, this is the Crispin Glover one. Weird fucking dude, man. Yeah, so he goes back to Crystal Lake to kill some more Tom Savini, mentioned him already. This was the first Friday film that he came back to after the original to do this one. Wait, he was in Friday. The reason I don't have this one higher is that there are a lot of there's a lot of nighttime scenes in this one, so it doesn't feel as summery as some of the other films, but it is definitely summer, definitely skinny dipping. It's definitely at Crystal Lake, Summer Camp, etc. So that's why I picked part four for number four. It's a good reason. It's a good reason. I liked it. So we've all did our number fours. Charlie, your number three.

SPEAKER_01

My number three is going to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ooh, stole Mike's number two. Stole my number Texas. So yeah, definitely summer. Yeah, it's hot.

SPEAKER_00

And I mean what else you got? It's only the greatest horror movie ever fucking made. You can smell that movie. You know, there's part of some movies where you're just like, I can smell what's going on. Windows down, O AC. This I mean, this movie's famously I mean, famous for its horrible set conditions, set conditions because of the Texas heat and the filming stuff inside this house where with no air conditioning and the long hours on set, and they had to put up blackening curtains to make it seem like they were shooting at night when it's really day, which made shit even hotter. And I mean, just the bugs and the the food and the like everybody has masks and prosthetics, prosthetics that has to be. And they would like they'd find roadkill, they'd find like a dead raccoon or a dead armadillo, and they're like, go throw that in the house, make it part of the set in this fucking creepy house. Like, and so they're just roadkill rotten in this you know, house that's like probably 108 degrees inside, and just and then they're sitting near it for 12 hours filming the dinner scene and shit, and it's like, uh, I mean, it's famous for that shit. So I had that as my number one for all of the lore behind it, but also you know, when you think of like summertime and excessive heat, you know, I think of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it just looks hot and sweaty. Everyone in the movie is just hot and sweaty, but it's got swamp ass. Oh my god. I mean, it's mostly it's mostly daytime. They call those Sweeties, Sweeties. Like it's it's mostly daytime, so it just feels hot when you're watching it. Like it's it's a hot movie. Yeah, they're pretty hot. Yeah, no clouds. Also, big fan of the Texas Shitting Saul remake in 2003. Yeah, she's pretty hot too. Yeah, Jessica Beale, white tank top, low cut jeans, straw hat. Iconic. Looks like summertime to me. And it had a better beginning, too. I I think the part where the girl like that's the one where she like personally shot themselves in the back of the van. Yeah, I'm about to go look at that again. Yeah. That beginning. I think I only saw it once. Back of her head in the van, yeah. I think. Is that the one that Sissy? Yeah, maybe. It might be the one where your your wife had to like walk out of the theater. Oh, I don't know. She used to be the one that would go watch stuff with me. I feel like I stepped all over yours. You got anything else? That's fine. Oh yeah, that was a Charlie pick. That was my number three all over it. But that's his number one. That's fine.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, you covered it all. Justin, what's your number three? Well, I'm just gonna let Mike talk about it for me.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry. It's fine. It's fine. We'll let Charlie talk about it for me. So I've been doing some Googling to make sure these take place in the summer. So I don't really have a reason. But you know what? I'm not even gonna do it. Cabin in the woods take place in the summer. That's spring. No, it says they're in it takes place in the summer.

SPEAKER_01

No, they were like a weekend getaway. They're all in school.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they're in there because she takes her school books to study. It's not summer. Maybe it's the summer school. It's maybe even fall because they're like in football fine shape.

SPEAKER_01

You don't think that would have been on my top five list if that was a summer movie?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know if you were sleeping on it or saying for number one. Could does she have the books because they're about to go back to school? Maybe. Maybe it's the end of summer because they're moving in. Chris Hemsworth's buddy that comes with him is like, oh, we just he just transferred here from so-and-so. Would that be in summertime? It says when I Googled it, it's all right. I'll we'll give it to you.

SPEAKER_01

Whatever.

SPEAKER_00

But I can go with us if you guys can. No, we'll go with go with whatever you want. Go with whatever you want. I say no. Okay. All right, Charlie. Well, you know what? I'm gonna do it so Charlie can talk about it. He can reclaim his time like a congressional hearing. I reclaim my time. You should have chairperson. Chairperson, I reclaimed my time. Yeah, so Cabin in the Woods is we've we've done a early. That was one of our early movies that we did because I think we all loved it. Just a good time, you know, just good looking people, not making fun of, but paying tribute to a lot of movies that have come before them, uh, with similar settings, like a group of this many people. There's a Goody Two shoes that's always the final girl or whatever. So there's a rhyme and a reason for that where there's puppet masters behind the scenes, you know, dictating everything we do, blah, blah, blah. A sacrifice to the old ones, I guess, right? But it's just a hell of a lot of fun. I picture it as you know, people going away for a summer, summer trip. A la evil dead, which is more theorized to be in the fall, but yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But yeah, it's that's I'm going to cabin in the woods. Anybody wants want to talk about it? No. Want to fight about it? No. I I love it. I wish I wish we could get that episode back and do redo it because we can. If I it was my my knee was fucked up, and so I was heavily medicated when we did that episode. And there's parts where I like wanted to jump in and I was just like too quiet. I listening back when we listened to that. Afterwards, I'm like, God, I suck on this one so bad. And I like this movie, but you would never know it if you listened to me on that podcast. Behind the scenes, we like we recap, we we huddle up and we talk about you really bad on that episode. I know, right? You need to need to get this your shit together. In the little green. Show your fucking life out, mate. What's the what's the room on like real world where they go and like oh the confession room? You went in the room, you're like, what the fuck was Mike doing? It's actually around the corner, it's in the workout area. I can hear you. Yeah, so that's my number three. Cool. All right, and then my number three, we're gonna stick with the summer camp theme. Uh, this one is sleepaway camp. This is a summer camp who done it. It's as good an 80 slasher as any 80 slasher. It's characters you can laugh at and with. The kills, the practical effects are very good in this. A little creative as well. When when we do this movie for the pod, we're gonna have to talk about some of the wardrobe choices. You guys have seen Sleepaway Camp. Yeah. Do you remember Ronnie?

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I screenshot it in case you haven't. We'll see it. So let's we we're gonna have to talk about Ronnie's uh wardrobe choices here. He's in the white, if you can't tell. Smuggling some grapes up in there, man. Yeah, we're gonna have to have a long conversation of uh the wardrobe choices. Look away, look away. Um stare directly at it. Yeah. His shorts are shorter than they should be.

SPEAKER_01

That movie, I like that movie. I mean, when I first saw it, the twist was legit, but I hate the beginning of the movie. The ant or whoever takes it. The worst actor in the world. That is fucking hate the beginning of the movie just because of her.

SPEAKER_00

I hate to admit it, but I haven't seen this one, man. You haven't seen this one. I know probably because I know. Yes. Okay. I know that there's a dick at the end, right? There's this, yeah, spoiler. Yeah, you need to see this. Yeah, but like that's why I haven't seen it, because I know the ending.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, it's an 80s movie, you know how it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

But I have seen that Felissa, what's her name? Felissa Rose.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, she's been at a couple of those.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, she was at the Scarefest. The one I went to. You know what I forgot to tell you guys? I'm gonna tell you live on the podcast that Annie Dowd from Hereditary, Joan. Okay, lives in the same co-op as my sister's girlfriend. Like in New York, like a co-op apartment. Your sister's gay? Yeah. Okay. Is that okay, Charlie? No, no, I was just making a joke. Like literally. Okay, okay. Whoa, didn't know we found that out.

SPEAKER_01

Lives in the same co-op as your sister's girlfriend in New York. I have a sister in New York.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So her girlfriend's loaded then.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no, because like the co-ops are like rent-controlled kind of thing. So, like you, once you're in it, you never leave it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, so she got back. She would she got in like before Muriel's wedding or right after.

SPEAKER_00

So, no, probably. But anyway, I just thought that was another fun connection. We already know somebody that knows the god, uh, somebody's godfathers and Blair Witch. What was that? We've got all kinds of connections here. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, yeah, we're connected. Sleep away camp. Also, need to mention Jonathan Tyrston, who plays Ricky and Sleepaway Camp. He tragically passed away back in April. So just thought I'd mention that as well. Pretty pretty big news when that happened. So yeah, sleep away camp. Awesome. Love it. Yeah. That's my number three. All right. Charlie, on to your number two.

SPEAKER_01

My number two is the classic slepaway camp. Friday the 13th. The original. The OG. The OG. Yeah. With a Volkswagen Beetle and a cop on a motorcycle out in the way of the city. Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon. Scary Joe from the town. Oh, crazy. Crazy Ralph.

SPEAKER_00

Crazy Ralph. Crazy Ralph. Scary Joe, Crazy Ralph. Thompson News. I want a trivia question with that one.

SPEAKER_01

So I mean the Yeah, that it it's it's a tent pole movie. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Is it your favorite of the franchise?

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna have to say yeah. It is my favorite of the franchise. I although I am a kind of a big fan of Jason Gasha. Jason takes Manhattan. Dude, love it. I love that one. That's probably like my one and two. Okay. And then three is number three.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay. I mean, it takes Manhattan is not good, but I love it. Oh no. It was on my was it number one on my fave shit list? It might have been it's like pieces. No, that's actually a good movie. It's ridiculous. I mean, it's a fave shit list. Ridiculously good. That's what it is. Oh, okay. Awesome. Any thoughts on Friday the 13th, Justin? I I enjoyed the Friday the 13th series. I always felt like you had to be in the Freddy camp or the Jason camp, though, and I was more in the Freddie camp. So like I never fully committed to. No, Freddie's in your dreams. Jason is at camp. Can't. Good point. Michael's just running loose and subscribe. Michael's do whatever he wants, man. He's walking loose. Yeah. So that Friday the 13th, Charlie's number two. Justin, your number two. My number two will be drumroll, please. No, no drum roll necessarily. You know what bothers me? Dreepers Creepers was not in the summer. Anyways, spring break. I'm trying to find all these ones where they're out.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm moving. Trying to make connections, but like with Cabin in the Woods, knowing that it wasn't in the summer. I let that one go. It wasn't the summer.

SPEAKER_00

Also, in the summer is the descent. That's what it says. But it does. It doesn't make me think of the summer, though. Like that was kind of because where it shot. Just all underground. In the woods and you know, underground and overcast a little bit. So it doesn't make me think of summer. Right. Except the whitewater rafting. It's hot enough to go whitewater rafting, and that water's always cold. I mean, in summer, descent was one of my first picks for to do a movie. So I mean, I should, but I'm gonna zag I'm gonna zag and I'm gonna say Tucker and Dale versus Evil. Wait, so you're not taking the descent? No. Oh damn it, I typed it out. All right, all right. No, you're fine. It's hilarious. It is.

SPEAKER_01

First time I watched it, I did not like it. Second time I watched it, I was like, what the fuck was I thinking?

SPEAKER_00

This movie's great. Oh, it's kind of heavy for a half a guy. It's like the shit they say, and then that was an improv line. Just letting you know. Improv line. Yeah, it's just it's not necessarily right there with Shauna the Dead as far as funniest horror movies, but it's it's good. It's really good. It's got slapstick, it's got thinking jokes, it's you know, it's just silly spoof on all the redneck hillbilly killers in the in the woods kind of thing. So I really like it. I like it too awesome. My number two is probably your guy's number one. You've been five. Maybe, maybe not. It's gotta be, right? Jaws.

SPEAKER_01

How can it not be number one?

SPEAKER_00

I put Texas Chainsaw Master number one, and I I the only reason I did is just because it is like I mean, they're they're both in my top four in no particular order, but for this exercise, I mean, it is there's more blood and guts. There's more, I mean, it it they don't even show money many guts, but it's more raw and just eviscerating, and like when she could when they put Marilyn Burns like on the hook, it's like oh, you can just feel that happening, you know. And yeah, Jaws is like the closest thing to a perfect movie probably ever made. But I just put I just for this exercise put Texas Chainsaw ahead just because of all of the the the lore behind the shooting with the the you know being so hot and the the the roadkill aspect and just the the dinner scene just the the horror is throughout, whereas Jaws is like horror speckled in in places different in chainsaw horror is like from start to finish. Okay, yeah. I mean Jaws is the quintessential summer blockbuster. It 51 years later, people are still quoting it, it's memorable, theaters still run special screenings of this. You know, July 4th is around the corner. I'm sure Alamo draft houses around the country and small theaters around the country are gonna run this again. Pop culture, they reference this film all the time. It is at the beach, it's on an island, it's on July 4th, it's summertime as summertime gets. I need to see if this will pass the Teddy test. He's six now. There is a boy that gets eaten. Yeah, I know. I feel like I wasn't too far away from six when I first saw Jaws. Same, but did you did you get in a pool? Make him make him weird with the beach, though. For a while I didn't want to go in any water. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I'm gonna go. Might see if this passes the Teddy test. Yeah, that was it'll pass the Ben test. Ben's four, and he already wants to watch Stranger Things, and Teddy's like, no, Ben. I'm like, and so we started to watch it. Ben was like fine with it, and Teddy's like, I'm like, there's nothing's even happening, there's riding bikes. Maybe it's not gonna pass this test. But Atticus did not love Jaws. I made him watch it recently. That's because it was made 51 years ago. It was made a long time ago. Practical effects are like such an is the goat. That's all what the kids are saying. But yeah, the the shark, unfortunately, for being the scariest thing, was also the most unforgivable thing in some parts. The campiest. Yeah, but like it was it was good. Like when it ate, it was yeah, Quent. Oh god. And when it bites down like the second time, and then the blood comes out of Quint's mouth. Oh my god, so good. The skinny dipper. It it just it's probably a happy accident that the shark didn't work because that's that's why they didn't reveal it till like an hour and ten minutes into the movie. Best thing that could have happened, which is what makes some horror movies scary is not seeing it is scarier than seeing it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean the monologue and uh the USS Indianapolis stuff and the drunk and singing and the whole all the stuff on the boat, it's just it's as perfect as a movie probably get. And you get I'll probably catch shit for not putting number one, but I already tell my reason for but Texas we just for this exercise. I mean you are a slasher guy through and through, so like that made sense to us. It makes more sense, yeah. Now, if you ask me like to rank like just the best movies, like I'm gonna put Jaws ahead of this, but for summertime and like just for this exercise, I'm just putting Texas chainsaw ahead for the slasher aspect.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, you want me to do my number one? Yes, go ahead. My number one is Jaws. So for every reason, so I went into this thinking I'm not going with I'm going with the summary of the summer. I started at the top. What's the summer yest horror movie out there where they constantly talk about that it's summer, that's the summer season. If we don't make our money, if we don't make our nut during the summer, we're getting we we're gonna be busted for the rest of the year. Busted. On the beach, it's it's got like the 4th of July. I mean, it doesn't get any more summery than Jaws. And it's one of the greatest horror movies ever made. So it was an easy choice for me to make this number one. Definitely.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Jaws is the first one I wrote down as well. So Jaws is it's the first one you you think about pops into mind. Yeah, it's you know, there's I love the scene where they're sitting on the beach and nobody wants to go in, and the mayor's like, hey, get in the beach, guys. Yeah, the guys are like, fuck you. I just date. No, bro. I just put on sunscreen or something. We're coming up on these. Yeah. I saw I saw a t-shirt a couple years ago that said the mayor in Jaws is still the mayor in Jaws, too. That's why you need to go out and vote. Exactly. Exactly. I love it when people are like, he just stands on business, man. He stands on business. Something that's come up a lot in some of the audiobooks I listen to are is like the phrase, I don't have spit, right? And that's something that the what's his name in the yeah, Richard Dreyfus says that. Richard Dreyfus when he when he's trying to you know clean his lens thing. Yeah, he's just so scared he doesn't have spit. And I was like, that's a cool line, and it just keeps popping up in some of the stuff I'm hearing. Yeah, it is for sure. Like I said, there's a lot of cool shit like that. It's it's a perfect, it's a perfect movie. So good. Yeah. All right, Justin. I got nothing else to add about Jaws other than it kept me out of some water. Do you want to hit some honorable mentions? Yeah, hell yeah. Let's do some honorable mentions. I'll throw one out. Piranha 3 Double D. Faveshit movie for Mike. Yeah. Water park movie, fave shit. It's an adult water park after David Kechner's character inherited it from his dead wife. David Hasselhoff plays himself as a lifeguard in this. So he doesn't play his character from Baywatch. He plays himself being the lifeguard. Tons of fake blood. I think it's the record holder, like 80,000 gallons or something. Wait, didn't we just Iron Lung pass that out? Iron Lung did? I think so. Yeah, we talked about it. I can't remember. But yeah. Sorry, Mike. No, you're fine, but still, it's it's funny, it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01

I would put the original Piranha on the honorable mention list.

SPEAKER_00

I remember James Cameron one, or did he do Piranha 2?

SPEAKER_01

It must have been Piranha 2. Okay. So Piranha came out in like 78 or 79. And like I said, my mom was really into horror movies. She wanted to go see it. And the premier episode of the original Battlestar Galactica came out on the same night. So I had a choice. Piranha or the Cylons. And I went with Piranhas. Yeah. Go ahead. Do you regret your decision? Sometimes I do. Did you know how hard it is to find the pilot episode of the original Battlestar Galactica? I didn't especially back then. It took me like 25 years before I saw it.

SPEAKER_00

It used to be you didn't watch it. You never knew if you were going to see it again. Never. There were no DVDs back then that you could buy with old ships. What else you got, Mike? How about I Know What You Did Last Summer? Yeah. It's in the fucking summer. That was my number six. That was your number six? Yeah. Yeah. This was not my favorite. I mean, right or wrong, it came out in the wave of Scream's success, and I think Scream swamped this. You know, it can't, it just did. The sequel was incredibly forgettable, and the remake is so bad. Whereas Scream has been banging, banging them out for years now. So I agree with the forgettability of I know what you did last summer, but like it did have some iconic, yeah. Iconics. Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gallery had Ryan Phillip Philippi in ahead, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and somebody else too. Like Frederick, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that's another one. Eden Lake. Have you guys seen Eden Jake? I have seen parts of it. Is that the one with Homegirl from Tomb Uh Yellowstone? Yeah, Kelly Riley Riley. And Michael Fassbender. Oh, yeah. They take a little lakefront getaway vacation in the summer. There's some kids that keep fucking with them at their little beach. Yeah. They try to move, they try to stand up for themselves. Nothing really works. And they turn these fucking kids bad fucking kids. And it gets real bad real fast. And it's not a good hang. The devil's rejects is another one that's another Rob Zombie sequel to House of 1,000 Corpses. Feels like everyone is just hot and sweaty in this movie the whole time. They're in like a motel for a little bit where the air conditioner probably doesn't work. They're out in the desert for quite a bit. They go to some podunk town like that you'd see in a western for a little bit to hide out. They're on a road trip at some parts. It's it's definitely feels like a hot and sweaty, aggressive, abrasive movie. You know. Not I'm a fan of the execution of the movie, but not of the movie. If if you can stick with me, you're almost like they're trying to make you root for the the what Firefly gang almost as that they're awful. Like they're like rapists and murderers, and you know, so like you're rooting for them to get away. I'm like, I'm out, man. I don't like this. No magusta. Here's one for Charlie, Club Dread. Club Dread. You love Club Dread.

SPEAKER_01

It's always that's true.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, all right. If you yeah, I mean it's a beach horror movie. I love that movie. Yeah, I love that movie. I think of the beach. I'm like, it must be summer, even though it could be January, the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_01

Heads or tails. What was tails? You don't want to know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Island Resort comedy horror from Broken Lizard. In their prime thread. Yeah. In their prime. Uh yeah. The hills have eyes. Yeah. This is a road trip in the desert. Shit goes wrong. Car breaks down. But yeah, it is summer. Yeah, it's fucking hot. Another hot, sweaty desert summer movie. Yeah. Here's a throwaway. Last one I have on my list. Adam's Family Values. Summer camp movie. Nice. Don't sleep on it. Yeah, remember Wednesday had like Pugsley and Wednesday gets sent to summer camp. Summer camp. And when when Morticia has a baby.

SPEAKER_01

And they did the Thanksgiving thing? Yes. Yeah. At the summer camp. Thanksgiving and summer camp. Probably because of the summer camp. White privilege. I don't know. Yeah, I guess. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, if you watch it now, it's like the the two counselors, Peter McNichol and they are just not like people like you talk about woke, they're like anti-woke. Like the shit they say, I'm like, damn, how'd they get away with that? But they get their come up and Wednesday, you know, calls them out of their bullshit and ruins their Thanksgiving play with uh some stuff that really resonates 20 some 25 years later. So 20, you know, 30 years later now, probably. So for it. Yeah, it's as relevant today as it was back then, in my opinion. I've got a fun, uh fun, well not very fun, but a summer movie set during the summer. It's called Blink Twice. Anybody see this one? No. With Channing Tatum in it, and basically there's an island that they bring these that a bunch of rich people bring a bunch of partners to, and it's just this hedonistic, you know, like you just like hedonism too? Kind of, yeah. Exactly. Like the island. But yeah, but then you find out some shit's going down that people don't know about and stuff. And it's just like it's a good thriller slash horror film. Okay. It's good. And I referenced us earlier. Was Infinity Pool kind of like that? Or no? Was like that one, but that was the one where they could create, like you could, if you're rich enough, you could create clones of yourself to take the penalties. Right, right, right. That one's a fucked up movie. We watched that one together, the three of us.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that was fucked up.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah. Oh, you yeah, you mentioned us. I forgot about us. Yeah. Us is definitely a summer movie. Stanley goes to the beach, there's a boardwalk, there's carnival games. Yes. There's uh, you know, creepy carnival, there's I like to say us is like 92% perfect, right? It's it's the tone is set perfectly, the mystery is set perfectly. And did they fully land the plane? No, no, but no, but like it's good enough. Like the rest of the thing. Face planted. Face planted. No, no, no, no. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

They landed and they hide all these they hide all these.

SPEAKER_00

They land like millions of underground, right?

SPEAKER_01

Underground all across America. Like, nah, bruh. Nah, bruh. You can't just pop that shit out on us and then they'll come out, kill everybody, and old hands across America, and they just live on rabbits? Twelve rabbits? What the fuck? 12 rabbits.

SPEAKER_00

I have more than 12. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01

13.

SPEAKER_00

They had a lot of rabbits. Rabbits are known for reproducing, you know. They could even make rabbits. Hence the phrase fuck like rabbits. I was waiting for you to say. No, no, man. But yeah, us was us was super creepy. And it's one of those things where you write yourself into a corner, though. You're like, how do I explain like these devils of everybody?

SPEAKER_01

That's 100% what he did. He wrote himself into a corner.

SPEAKER_00

But I'm okay with it. Like it's like hands crossed. The rest was cool. All right, so us was great. My second favorite Jordan Peel film.

SPEAKER_01

What else you got?

SPEAKER_00

Any other I got some. Go for it.

SPEAKER_01

Go for it. And if I think of it. Okay. So it the first one. Yes. Oh, okay. School ended. Yep. And all their shenanigans happened between each other's earbook and summer black. But it wasn't enough. I mean, it wasn't. It's listed as a summer one. It's a summer movie, but. And it's a great movie. I love that movie. But it's not summery enough, I feel like, to put on my summer list. At least not in the top five. The blackening. Was that summer? They were there celebrating Juneteenth. Oh, nice. It was Juneteenth. I think we did Mike to watch that one. It's it's maybe someone. I like it. I like it. I don't know if you'll like it, but I thought it was funny.

SPEAKER_00

It's a lot more, it's it takes itself a lot more serious than like a scary movie, but it is kind of there's some parody elements. Yeah, some parody, some comedy. Final girls.

SPEAKER_01

The final girls. Have you seen that? Yeah, I've seen that one. Okay. Yeah, fun. Yeah. Girl goes and her mom dies, and she kind of gets somehow transported into a movie that her mom was in, which was a summer camp slasher movie. Pretty good. Cool.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's good. I don't have anything else. I looked at Evil Dead doesn't count because it's, you know, it's fall apparently.

SPEAKER_01

I saw Lake Placid on a couple lists, but I don't think of it as Maine. Maybe it was Maine. So even in Maine, in this, I mean, even in summer in Maine, I feel like there were there were jackets. I remember jackets. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Remember the movie The Ritual? We were talking about that. While you were in the woods?

SPEAKER_01

While you were disposed the Netflix movie? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that was summer, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00

The one where they like the grief. The one had the yeah, that was a good movie. And it was listed as summer, but it doesn't make you think yeah. It doesn't make you think of summer at all. It's cloudy because it's England, right? It's like cloudy in Germany. But they're in coats and shit. That doesn't say summer. Have you guys been watching all the TikTok and social media stuff about the foreigners coming into America? Oh yeah. Seeing all our food stuff. And then there was one where this guy's like, just look at the sunset. You get to see this every day. And it cuts away so many stitches on. Do they have nothing over there? Do they have a sunset? Didn't even have a sunset. Yeah, I saw that. Oh yeah. They're like, Europe, why do we not have ranch? Ranch. All the bridge smuggling over suitcases full of ranch dressing. Yeah. I have I have one more film. Jesse Morgan doesn't start talking too much. No. Serious. I this one I I tried to watch, and it really it's a movie that should not be taken seriously. I feel like they tried to make a serious movie out of it, which was not the best choice. It's called Aqua Slash. And this was a tell Charlie Moore. This is a water, this is a water park horror film. And instead of like having fun with it, they tried to make like it serious and try to be like you know, just too serious, maybe even too artsy with it. The score or the music choice was not good. This should have been a comedy, and it really wasn't. But there is this water park that I mean, I'll just get I'll get straight to the point. Somebody installs razor, giant razor blades in the tube of one of the water slides, and as people go down, they hit these razor blades that are like think of a potato going through a French fry cutter. So, like that, and you're going through the slide, you hit this, and then that was wet squelching. And then, like at one point, and then there's a part where like they're they're going down and like somebody sees it and tries to stop, but then the you know, the person up top sends the next person down and they bump into them, so they get pushed through the blades, and then the next person and they start getting backed up, and then they more weight like pushes people through the blades until finally they start seeing like the limbs coming out at the bottom of the slide. And you know, something should have been a comedy, and they tried to make this work. That's like a loose weird watch at the fest.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's not like it only lasts like 10 minutes. I mean, you can only get so many people in there.

SPEAKER_00

Runtime 71 minutes. Okay, and like I said, I couldn't, I didn't even have 61 minutes too. Well, it was like, yeah, I'm like, okay, like this is like I like like if that would have been funny, I'd have stuck it out. But I'm like, I like this goofy shit, but you're trying to be way too serious too. Yeah. So yeah. Aquaslash. Okay. Reminds me of this story I heard about some real people breaking into a water park. They brought like a bucket to the top of a slide with them to pour like water down it to make it go, and they slid down it, but at the bottom they had a barricade. So they slammed into like they broke their legs because they slammed into a barricade. Why would you put the barricade at the bottom and not top?

SPEAKER_01

That sounds like a booby trap to me.

SPEAKER_00

For that reason. That's what you get. I mean, you you don't go breaking into water parks. Play dumb games. Yeah. So think of broken legs. There you go. I can't. All right, guys. And don't break your legs over the summer, right? You know, take care of yourselves over the summer. Yeah. Come on, people. What are you doing? PSA. PSA. PSA. All right. That was top five horror movies. Should I recap everyone's topics? Yeah, you should. Sure. All right. Charlie, his top five was The Sand, Midsomar, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Jaws, Justin, Top Five Summer Horrors, The Ruins, Midsomar, The Cabin in the Woods, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Jaws, Me, Mike, The Burning, Friday the 13th, Part 4, my favorite of the franchise, Sleeway Camp, Jaws, which I'm gonna get shit for, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, number one, just for this exercise only. I think it'll be alright. Yeah, I mean like there's like two people to listen to it, and at least one of them sitting in this room. So alrighty. That was top five top five summertime horror movies, guys. If you have a top five list, or if you have some we didn't mention in our top fives, or you think we need to give more love to, drop us some fan mail in the show notes of this episode and engage with us. We'd love to engage with you back. So I'm already married, I can't be engaged. Oh my god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

I just called her. Her phone was engaged. That was quick.

SPEAKER_00

Sean of the day. Oh man. You've grown up. Better believe it. Hey, Barbara. Oh man. If you like what we do here on the All Guts So Gory podcast, best thing you can do is rate and review wherever you listen to your pods. Make sure you follow us so you don't miss your favorite horror movies as we break them down. And I won't know when this one comes out what movie we're up to, but we've just done some such as Hereditary and House on Haunted Hill and House of 1000 Corpses. And maybe we did another one before this one comes out. Debbie. Don't know. We're trying to catch up because we're gonna be on some summer vacation. So we're trying to get ahead here. But drop us some fan mail in any of the links of our show notes if you want to talk to us or engage with us about anything. That's about it. Anything else, guys? No, stay cool in the summer, guys. Stay hydrated. Justin's guest is gonna be out of town for two weeks. If you'll come over to his house and swim with us, come on over. All right, that's it. This is all got so gory. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, Justin. Andy, take us home. This is the end friend.