As a bigger nerd, I can assure you that yes, the line between prog and metal are just that blurry in all senses

Thanks Mildo! My friend actually wrote this and I'm one of the freaks who enjoys it. Great work

I really feel the "They got to play with the skeleton puppet" part because I heard an interview with the director and it did have a very fun vibe of "I can't believe I got people to give me money to do this."

My husband is really proud thay he caught that he was Bill and not Ted

It's very fun that one part of this movie seems to be an intestine monster playing drums, but it gets no mention in this video.

Mildred, you said that Alex Winter had a cameo and his fingerprints are all over it... He plays Vlad! Thats the best part of the obnoxious character, it's Bill S. Preston's head screaming in way too much prosthetic makeup! I loved this film.

I get that his motivations were so elaborate to the point of parody, but honestly I haven't felt so represented in media. Yes, all the motivations, my life is chaos.

What you’ve described is a movie that leans tonally, thematically, and in every other way into “prog rock is difficult to get into but rewarding once understood”, and made a whole movie about both that experience and the FEELING of that experience, how having a niche interest means being undercut not only by other around. You who don’t get it, but also by yourself for not having a more accessible interest. Not that I would know, I play D and D and it’s super popular and all of my friends love hearing about it 😊😐😑😔

Everybody, out loud, involuntarily and at full volume the moment you said Alex Winter: "Ohhhhhhhh"

When I realized the lead was Jonah Ray, I also got where a lot of this was going. I loved his stint on MST3K, but his specific vein of comedy there aligns with a lot of what you're saying here. Music was a big component, but often also music esoterica. Weird niche bands or pining about eclectic sounds. But also a lot of nerd anxiety stuff as well.

"I'm a Babadook" killed me

Fun Fact: that plastic rainbow unicorn skull at the end of the video...was likely bought at a Joann's craft store (RIP). How do I know this?....I too, own one. And it was bought on a halloween clearance sale. Hangs out with my dragon figurines atop my bookcase.

So it's Dead Alive but with prog rock? I'm... surprisingly here for that. Think I may check this one out.

"Did I like this movie?" [20 seconds of horse noises]

Glad to see you back. I miss the Forever Knight content. I have found I have listened to each of the Forever Knight videos at least half a dozen times. If this channel becomes completely dedicated to Forever Knight content, I promise to have the fight with my spouse necessary to permit me to become a patron. Thanks.

As a fan of math Rock and Midwestern emo, those genres are the definitive nerd genres.

im sorry but an adam sandler version of mandy sounds too insane not to want... just wife murdered by hellraiser bikers "uuuuuuuohwhwhwhaa whyd ya do thaaaat"

those are some pretty damp puppets

throwing me to see jonah ray playing with the Joann's Fabric Store rainbow unicorn skull in a real actual movie, we have one of those in our living room

Have you done the CRANK movies? Cuz I feel like the message of Crank 2 was, "oh you didn't like how batshit the first movie was? WELL FUCK YOU HERE'S ALL BATTIER BATSHIT! ...oh... oh you *did* like the first movie? WELL FUCK YOU EVEN MORE! HERE'S ALL SHITTIER BAT SHIT!"

When Alex Winter's connection was mentioned, this movie suddenly made a lot more sense to me. Freaked is a gem.

The moment you said Alex Winter made this everything just clicked into place

I appreciate the mantra of, "not every person will get it, but the right ones will" being in the movie, as Joel from MST3K has said that was the show's ethos.

I've recommended this before but I'd love to see your take on Dia de la Bestia (dir Alex de la Iglesia, 1995), it's one of my favorite horror comedies of all time. Not gonna give away too much but it's about a mild-mannered, elderly parish priest who discovers the date of the apocalypse is mere weeks away, and comes up with a plan to thwart the devil's army from within - a plan which requires him to sin as much as possible in the limited time remaining. If that concept alone isn't enough to hook you in, I dunno. Right up there with Peter Jackson's early stuff (though nowhere near as splattery) or Cemetery Man (which I'd also highly recommend).

I don’t think Adam Sandler would make a movie where the protag… Learns his neighbours aren’t so bad after all. And doesn’t get the girl.

Always so happy for a fresh Scaredy Cats!

I was just rewatching your Reanimator marathon, and I get this bounty? YASSSS 💗💗💗

You had me at, "Alex Winter."

Hey, I showed _great_ restraint in not scrolling immediately to "um, actually" the Bill and Ted reference, I'll have you know

I got nothing to add other than I found this KZfaq both entertaining and engaging.

YES! New Bobby Dook and his sidekick!

This feels like a movie I will love. About an hour after eating way to many edibles

Tabitha: Did you mean Draonforce or Dragon Sound?

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden released his solo prog rock concept record/CD/whatever they release these days called "The Mandrake Project", and my guess is this movie is referencing that.

I don't know why I didn't smell Alex WInter all over this from the instant I saw weird sfx makeup subhumans like Vlad on the screen, but as soon as you outed his involvement, Mildread, I recognized him under Vlad's makeup. As for a review suggestion: SPOOKIES! 👻It's on Shudder as we speak! Basically Ghoulies with, like, half the charm. Or wit. It is fun, though, and has an array of puppet moisture ranging from displeasingly arid to . . . quite, *QUITE* wet . . . 😏

More positive on Destroy All Neighbors than Mildy but agree on points. All over the place tonally, not all of it landed, but I *really* liked a lot of what hit. Enjoyed it! It was bleak as shit but also fun? Jonah was exactly as annoying AND ALSO relatable as a frustrated musician whose tunnel vision fucked with his relationship with the community around him? GOOPY PUPPETS The obsessive focus on needing to finish things and express things and how annoying you can be to get there (with tiny ear canals!) I really liked the score, they did a great job on Vlad's "EDM" that came off like a strategically lo-fi version of some hotline miami fire.

I will never watch this movie because I don't hate myself enough, but I am glad it exists.

I was JUST checking this channel to see if you had any new uploads. So what I'm saying is, I willed this video into existence. It was definitely me manifesting it and altering the entire universe to serve my wants, and not anything else.

I wore my Wet Puppets shirt out and about and someone yelled out “That’s a great shirt!” and I said “Thanks!” That’s all you Mildew!

Honestly this could be the start of some great genre mashups. I'd love to see a movie about an Earth, Wind and Fire tribute act surviving against robots or a demonic cult or something.

And when the world needed her most, she returned

Great video Mildred! Love to hear you heap more praise on my favorite movie of 2023, Godzilla Minus One!

This movie was pleasantly cray-zee! Mildo, so good to see you❤

4:07 Gloryhammer and BiB is Powermetal though. Well Gloryhammer defo is BiB can be all over the place in a good way.

i couldn’t help but love this movie for just how earnest it is. this was created with so much love and joy, it really Makes the film.

Always a great day when Milly uploads!

Only like 3 minutes into you insulting this movie and I knew it was perfect for me. Thanks for the rec!

So happy to see a new Scaredy Cats video, and this one was pretty fun. I'd been blitzing through old Thought Slime videos the last few days, so this was perfect timing for me, especially as I was considering going back through the Scaredy Cats library next (spoiler: I did)

I sure didn't say, out loud, to my screen, "No he didn't! He was Bill S Preston, Esquire!" Nope. I sure didn't.

I have no idea how much I would laugh at this movie's jokes, but I cracked up several times in your description of it.

Tbh every single music nerd who watches this movie will immediately recognize “all the motivations” guy. Anyone who’s tried to make a real go of slinging an instrument has either known or been that guy, or is slowly realizing they are that guy. And Winter absolutely nailed the level off over the top that Vlad needed to be in order to be a proper gateway to the film’s over the top premise. The final product feels like a sort of Cronenbergian accident involving the writer’s rooms of The State or Mr Show.

you have fantastic eyebrows

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose FREE WILL(IAM)

I think you covered that well. I felt much the same after watching with my wife. I picked this one, and again I found some weird stuff.

I always thought of prog rock is the label that people put on music they recognize is technically good but they still don't like it.

I’m friends with the guy who plays Auggie and I had him watch this. He was very happy with how many shots you used of him.

Whenever I see Bobby Dukes, I gain an extra 5 year of life

I’m glad to see this review on this channel - when we watched this a month or so ago, one of my more persistent thoughts was “…but what would Scaredy Cats think?”

"it's you, it's for you." Dang. You right.

It is...actually wild how even the parts where you were sincerely talking about parts of the movie you think did not work on any level, made me want to watch this movie even more. They might have made this movie *for me specifically,* I don't know, I'll report back later when I find out if I liked it or not.

This is not new Forever Knight content 😡

Your video's are always a great pleasure to me. Thanks for sharing them with all of us!

We have a suggestion for a trio of... Well, not movies, but stage productions. The Hatchetfield series from Starkid, which has a mini-series and a short film under its belt as well. The three musicals are The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Black Friday and Nerdy Prudes Must Die. We love the whole series, and it explores the nice niche of horror-musicals that should be far more common.

"You just start to see how the elements come together in more interesting ways than you might have assumed" is a great explanation of the appeal of progressive music, honestly.

Got to admit, I liked this movie a lot, and while I was watching it I was actually thinking about how I know very few people that would also like it. So - spoopily accurate analysis, Mildo, presumably deliberately since you know what you're doing and all.

"it is loud, it is over the top, and it makes bizarre choices at every turn, seemingly just to see if it can" the most fitting definition for hyperpop i have ever gotten from a horror movie review

You’ve given this movie more thought than it merits.

"Perfectionist, but also his stuff sucks" no, nope, that's accurate. that's how that works. "perfectionist" doesn't mean you're too perfect, it means you can't cope with reality.

That's pretty funny that he plays a lawyer in this, since his most famous role is "Bill S. Preston, Esquire". The term "Esquire" is an honorary title given to a lawyer.

this was a really good episode! Thank you for lightening my mood

i do love that i caught the Bill & Ted mixup immediately because of that one Keanu Reeves interview where the interviewer mixes it up and Keanu roasts him for it

If that KZfaq music screen is yours, we have the exact same taste in music! Rock ON!

11:40 I have that Stylophone... Well, that's movie night sorted :)

Yaaaay new Mildo video! Hadn't heard of this movie at all, but it deffo seems up my alley. Thank you!

The name is most likely a play on The Weirdos' album "Destroy All Music" (1977) Nels Cline has an absolutely great album called Destroy All Nels Cline, which acknowledges being named after the Weirdos' album.

I missed yous guys, Mildread and Bobby

Vlad's silly voice is giving deranged Swedish Chef and I'm... kind of here for it?

I like how Mill gaslit me at the end

I actually had to pause the video to laugh so hard when mildo got called out for dragonforce

Me: "Yeah, I probably won't get around to watching th- holy shit, is that Thomas Lennon?!"

I’ve got twenty minutes left in this movie that I started bc I saw this video exists. I’m glad to see that Mildred isn’t super into it. It’s…not bad?

This has the Fido vibes where the end of the film can be summarized as a testament of the human spirit with a "Dude's rock" ass vibe.

Would love you to cover "Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon"

A good bit of talent in front of and behind the camera.

I think half of why I loved this is Alex Winter's performance as Vlad. Just insane.

I'm IMMEDIATELY going to watch this now that the video is done lmao

Boy, now I'm wondering what would happen if you watched something like The Greasy Strangler.

4:10 - I feel very attacked right now as I listen to these and also sing karaoke of those bands in VRChat

Wait, that means... BIll S. Preston, Esquire, ACTUALLY became a lawyer

YAY more scaredy cats!

Jonah has gone mad from The Bots and the bad movies. Bill lost contact with Ted in a time machine accident and started to let himself go.

Nerd's aren't mad at their favorite things, they're mad about their favorite things being ruined.

we've missed u,gonna hav2go thru ur whol catalog givin thumbsups+positive comments now😁

Am... am I wrong that Alex Winter ALSO plays Vlad, the monster neighbor?

Fantastic stuff

Oh yeah, i gotta watch this movie now. Thanks Mildo!

i havent seen this movie (tho might check it out now just to see how it vibes in person) but the way mildred describes it reminds me of a movie i am pretty fond of, dave made a maze

downstairs neighbors who complain about 'stomping around too late' are the fuuuucking worst like, im so so sorry? im so sorry that im existing? sure go ahead just keep complaining and making the building manager fine me thats normal and fair

Potential film for your next vote: Terrorvision or maybe have your patreons choose which of the three basketcase films they want to force you to sit through.

Prog rock fan here. Much of how you describe this movie can be directed at a lot of prog music as well-- throwing everything you've got at it & to hell with seeing whether it sticks or not. Prog is a lot like jazz, in a way, just (generally) much less improvisational. There's a lot going on to try to follow & not everyone's going to be up for it. The biggest problem that haunts a lot of prog is it can be pretentious & self indulgent. Complex music for complex music's sake, "Ooh look what we can do!" Check out South Side Of The Sky by Yes for an example of quality, classic prog. In the meantime, I'm going to check out this movie. Stay awesome Mildread 🤘😎