I thought Rich said 'Mike Stoklasa deceased' and I almost became Mike Stoklasa deceased.

Sadly the only actor in the main cast to be in Star Trek was Jenette Goldstein, so there was little chance :(

@@sillyquiet I'd forgotten she was in Generations! Probably because I tried to forget everything in Generations, just like that nice Mr Plinkett taught me to.

I thought he meant alcoholism.

@@pinkimietz3243 That's Dan Haggerty's disease, a.k.a Cameron Mitchell's Syndrome

Wow, I didn't even catch the meaning of that joke.

Dead chicks can’t say no…

Keanu Reeves* /

@@erm_its_amie No, it was Crispin Glover alright.

@@erm_its_amie You tried.

Let's just pray their bones somehow can be made normal again

I love that. Awesome story.

Did you ask him how you get out of this chicken shit outfit?

@@guilhermehank4938 you secure that shit Hudson!

I love this story - thank-you for sharing it with us 😁🖤.

Do you like his horror film 'Frailty'?

There can be only one.

Jay is definitely consuming Rich and Mike.

@@juancarlos-jb8xb maybe he’s a vampire slowly sucking thier youth from them

RLM would be dead without Mike or Rich. They are the least up their own a** out of everyone there.

Rich saying Lance Hendriksen and Bram Stroker doesn't really help the perception.

🤣

It's like a vampire, you can't really kill it

@@garfself bruh

Had you searched it lol

Not sure if joking or not having any clue how YT algorithms work.

Maybe they could, or perceive it like a spider sense

The porn parodies practically write themselves!

Right! Could of sworn I just watched this two hours ago....so confusing.

Was it previously uppity up up on their channel?

This version is missing a clip that got the episode blocked in the US. You may notice that the last 30 seconds of this version is a blank black screen because the episode is 30 seconds shorter than it used to be.

Going to do that, then put it on Ebay and still make a profit after paying the replacement fee.

I found the Blu-ray at a used movie store for $4.99. They had no idea how underpriced it was.

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...

It’s on Shudder. Watched it last night.

The Swedish version of that film is a political allegory. Perhaps the most poignant one I've ever seen.

@@visicircle The Swedish version is the better one. The US remake is not as good!

Rich mentioned "Near Dark" and "Lost Boys" as beign the pioneers of this "Dracula-less" movie where the vampires are more like a community. "Vamp" (1986) did that a year before.

@@unityofvitality-5875 In the book, it explains that the girl vampire is actually from the ottoman empire, and was born a boy. When he was mortal he was castrated. We get a hint of this in the movie when her naked crotch is exposed and the wounds on her genitals are clearly visible. So he passed for a she, which wasnt hard since she never grew up . In the film she is an allegory for the effect of Muslim immigration to Sweden. She's a blood sucker, who lives off of others. She survived by seducing members of society to help her. Usually those who themselves are in some way vulnerable, and have weak morals. It's all displayed in the film quite clearly. The boy first meets her while stabbing a tree trunk and imagining it to be his bullies. She encouraged him to stand up for himself, and he cuts the ear off his bully. In exchange for his protection, the girl is willing to kill anyone that harms him. The vampire metaphor is commonly associated with the ottoman empire, and by extension, radical Islam. Any empire is essentially a vampire. It saps it's conquered territories of all it's potential and vitality. Witness how the Ottomans institutionalized the kidnapping of Christian children in the Balkans, castrating them, and making them elite troops loyal to the ottoman emporer. Is it any wonder that we inherited the story of vampires from Balkan nations? So when we witness the girl falling onto the drunks who were seated outside, and feeding on one, the metaphor is clear: it is the most vulnerable members of society she personally attacks. The drunks are a stand in for the lower and working classes. Those that, in real life, are often the target of drug addiction, theft, and forced protestution, etc. Finally, the alliance she established with the pedophile at the beginning of the movie, and with the boy at the end, symbolized how her entry to society will set its members against each other. She convinces her protectors to kill for her. To do the dirty work of draining the blood and essence out of their own countrymen. All this in exchange for her favor and love. You will see, more and more, members of different political parties dehumanizing each other. All over the supposed racism against "the Other." In Sweden's case the "other" are the Islamic extremists who have formed criminal gangs. They fight each other for the right to deal drugs to the native Swedish population. And their parasitic draining of the host society continues. There is no hate for Islam or Muslims in this movie. The criminal individuals are the only guilty parties. But the means and manner in which they were "let in," to Sweden, posing as refugees and victims of wars instigated by the West. Leveraging racism and religious differences to justify their crimes and predations on the host country-It is the same codependent dynamic the girl in the movie has with her two male protectors. So the film is an allegorical warning to societies that would seek to help the vulnerable. If you are going to act the role of the good Samaritan, and let strangers into your home, *make sure you let the right ones in*!

@@visicircle out of curiosity, is this stuff the author detailed, stuff that’s readily obvious in the context of the book, or just a series of observations you extrapolated from the material of said book?

Did something changed from the original version?

Yep

@@GamerGarm was it reuploaded or just hidden while it gets approved for ads?

@@GamerGarmImproved forehead shine

@@stephenmesquire It looks SO much better!

ahah I disagree, I think it's sad to see them going for that cheap nostalgia trick so soon. This remake just feels fake, the original defined a generation while this pile of garbage will be forgotten very soon

@@sargentocapitao9668 I whole-heartedly agree. The original was a satirical commentary on reviews of Near Dark while this remake is just a review of Near Dark. It's missing all the contextual symbolism of the original.

@@dirt410 to me it just feels out of touch you know? Times have moved on, the way I see it what they're trying to say isn't relevant anymore in todays society

While the original version, from this morning, had a lot of heart and superb chemistry between the stars, you must admit that this remake is spot on to the source material and has undeniably better special effects. I mean I don't fault the original for using the antiquated technology of a few hours ago, they did the best they could with what they had at the time; but this version is down right gorgeous!

This review is so underrated. Nobody ever talks about it.

Rich Evans and Jay are like the Phoebe and Chandler (in that order) of RLM. They rarely get any screen time with just the two of them together.

Obviously, that was more of a niche, but I also miss Rich and Jack Packard talking about video games, on their now defunct "Previously Recorded" channel.

100%

@@Kijinn was it ever said why they shut it down? Just didn't want to do it anymore?

@@crakhaed As far as I remember, Jack didn't have the time anymore. And Rich finds that he's lacking the ability to entertain an audience on his own. He might also lack the motivation to do that. Just my assumption, though.

I think I remember the one where Bill Paxton, in his gory makeup, would stumble into someplace and tell someone that he was involved in some sort of accident.

​@@danielmartini3229 copyright claim from Studio canal, old video was same runtime as this though

Nothing can stop Rich Evans! Not KZfaq bots. Not even..... AAAAY-IDDDDDDDSSSSSSSS!!!

@@DomoAggro or the OMEGA variant!

If Billy Bob Brockali, and Satan himself couldn't keep him down; I don't think a KZfaq bot could do the same right?

I assume they included a clip of the show Jay was actually talking about, instead of Top Chef or whatever

The scene where David Bowie falls asleep and wakes up horribly old and dying after only about 45 minutes to 3 hours was low key the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in a vampire movie.

And it helped bring Bauhaus into the public eye.

I underestimate it because that movie fucking sucked

@@moritzzz1 Vampires suck.

yes! my fav vampire film and just a great flick regardless of genre.

@@grahamgreene779 yes sir! i see it as much a movie about addiction than anything else. and the music is absolutely fantastic!

That's an amazing movie. Abel Ferrera's The Addiction is another vampire film that treats the urge to drink blood as a metaphor for drug addiction (obviously). It's not as good as Only Lovers, but the B&W cinematography is outstanding.

I know its a dumb complaint about a great movie but it kind of bothered me that adam in that movie is this ageless being but the music he makes is just 90s rock

I don't know of any other movie that so successfully conveys how immortality is a curse, not a blessing. Also love how Tom Hiddleston's character is into obscure technology that you don't see in the wide world, ostensibly because he was around when competing technologies existed and he chose the road less traveled by.

Yep, he got me too with that :D

He's a gentleman, but not a gentle man...

I think later after the Oscars, he actually defended the decision and Bigelow…

Jay, you sneaky hack-fraud xD .

​@@angusmacfrankenstein7227 If you look at IMDB, it says it was James who encouraged her to work on the hurt locker. When she was nominated for the oscar, He said "I wouldn't bet against her"

Thats awesome

Just read it, finding out who his travel buddy was gave me a good "Wow!" moment I haven't had in a while. Great reccomendation.

To be fair, if I had done everything already, I would probably also just lay down and let the end of the world be like a Timelapse to me

Nunca hubiera imaginado encontrar una cita a Borges en un hilo de comentarios de RLM, gracias Juan

Borges referenciado en RLM mira nomás que crossover.

Yes, quite surprising they didn't bring up Interview. Those books were all about immortal anguish. And Kirstin Dunst as a child vampire should have been a one to one comparison.

Interview with THE Vampire.

In my opinion, that would be too much "on the nose". That setup would work for a short story, but in a ~90 minute movie, I'd expect a better thought out ending than that.

@@Kijinn You're so right, this kind of endings work more for shorts, after the movie takes you into a story for more than an hour it becomes dissatisfying

kinda perfectly timed.. would have been a bit more tragic in the 80s

I was going to post about Interview With The Vampire as well, the first instance I'm aware of where vampires were depicted as something other than a Nosferatu or Dracula. In Interview Lestat, the foppish romantic vampire archetype, is only a side character who isn't even in half the book. The core theme of the story is how immortality is actually miserable and lonely. Sadly everyone latched on to foppish romantic archetype instead and he got so popular several sequels were written where he ended up the main character. But that's not how the first one was at all.

Well that and the success of slasher (horror) movies from the late 70s to the late 80s.

You're right, that's it! I saw Salem's Lot, maybe it was my first horror movie, when I was under 6. The kitchen scene with the parents and the friend scratching at the window, "open up, Danny".

It's now called Interview With THE Vampire.

You've been tricked by his cartoon laugh and the fact that when he gets warmed up on a point his voice goes into a range only dogs can hear.

Yeah, I know Jay and Mike are the film school guys but Rich is my favorite on re:View.

Been watching for a decade. Rich always makes great points

When you consider what an incredibly talented comedian Rich actually is, it makes sense that he would be highly intelligent. He just doesn’t have a traditional ”smart guy persona”.

Yeah but none of them have anything to do with Star Trek.

Somehow I had never heard of _Dollman,_ so I found it on Amazon and watched it at my next movie night. It was amazing.

For me, that it looped three times 💀

And their father is none other than Jason Miller (aka Father Damien Karras from The Exorcist). These two brothers were born into the horror genre.

He's also a gay screenwriter. There goes Jay again, punching gay kids in the face

Chazz michael michaels is figure skating...BOOM

@@kggregorie Well cut him some slack, he's just projecting his frustration about not being able to come out (ALLEGEDLY)

He was also the little brother in Class of 1999 and I've been wanting for redletter to watch that or review it for like a decade because it kicks ass

i did the same...also at 6 mins in

Wow guys! You both must have access to some kind of lightning fast blu-ray delivery service

@@LosBerkos nah theres sites with every movie for free.

And pirating..

This was definitely a film I watched late night on a random channel. Never really knew what it was nor its name until later in life. Great film.

You're wrong because these are very common tropes and Anne Rice didn't invent them.

I didn't realize Cameron was involved with Strange Days, thanks for the comment.

This. 👆

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

Strange Days has never been underrated. It's a flawed movie with odd casting choices and an unsufficient production value for what it wants to be. It got exactly the amount of attention it still deserves: Very little.

say 'strange' one more time. I dare you.

@Russell Collier He is truly great in everything he's been in. My favorite actor. He's been missed.

IMO, Frailty is Bill Paxton at his best, but this runs a very close second.

I’m intrigued to watch this but I genuinely have no idea what TV show they are talking about.

Yeah, how he eulogized the lamb steak, calling upon his chef trainees "YOU FOOKIN' DONKEYS. YOU SEE HOW FOOKIN' RAW THAT IS." before letting them take communion in it, biting into it, infecting them with a blessed strain of northern english salmonella that immortalizes, yet demonizes them in a cruel way. brilliant.

@@stevenlennie midnight mass

@@stevenlennie I don't wanna indirectly spoil it for the others, but if you look at Mike Flanagan's latest release on a certain streaming platform, you'll find it. It's damn fine.

@@stevenlennie The show is called Midnight Mass on Netflix

I feel like Jay is probably a fan of it, seems to tick all of his boxes. It’s also a cute adolescent love story despite its bleakness. The book is pretty great too and goes into a lot more of the miserable stuff that the movie did so well.

Not enough weird perv stuff for being on Jay's list. Maybe he is fan of the book.

Specifically I have to stress the Swedish original, 'Låt den rätte komma in' as it is one of my favorites for sure. Harder maybe for an American to evaluate, but if you can make it past the fact you need subtitles, it is the superior movie. I seem to recall another movie called Only Lovers Left Alive, which is more of the "vampires are just boring" style stuff.

@@motinuppi The American remake is titled "Let Me In', and I agree it was both unnecessary and not as good.

@@motinuppi oh I forgot that got a American version made. I’m in the camp that it’s completely incomprehensible why anyone would make a “county” version of an existing film. Just watch the original! Anyway the original was so messed up… coming up on 15 years later, after my single and only viewing, I still remember the saddest part to me where the old guy begs the vampire not to see the main character, and it becomes clear that he’s jealous and dejected, but too impotent to do anything about it.

There is going to be a casino in space called Moneystation where the rich elite go to gamble beyond all terrestrial laws. Someone is going to be thrown through glass into a server, and this blu-ray will pop out while they are electrocuted

The Player's Guide to the Sabbat features a drawing next to the Lasombra Clan entry that looks exactly like Bill Paxton's character standing at the bar with the shotgun over his shoulder.

That explains a lot.

Glad someone else here made the white wolf connection. As you said, it was listed in the intro to Requiem as suggested vamp fiction, and its focus on the “vampire night to night” relative to other movies was hugely influential relative to other vampire movies. This ran through all of WW’s vampire products, but requiem especially

The character from the intro fiction to 2nd ed rev guide to the Sabbat was basically Bill Paxton with a political agenda lol

The themes were all explored in 1976 Interview with a vampire

Also not about vampires, but Highlander deals with a bored immortal

Yeah Rich might like that one considering he hated the ending of this

@@alarabi7 Interview with the Vampire is the OG. That book is mesmerizing - RIP Anne Rice.

I thought so too, but it was before my time so I couldn’t say with certainty.

i think it was largely that, and "Salem's Lot" (& its TV miniseries). "The Hunger" (1983) showed it was economically viable to the mainstream as a film

Thank you. 1976. Explored all these themes with lestat Louis and Claudia. Inspired paleo-goth and an empathetic view of vampirism... Laid the foundations of vampire renaissance in the 80s movies along with 1975 Salem's lot and The Hinger with the the first lesbian movie scene. Sorry after dark was derivative and late... But interesting enough...

But the TRUE vampire renaissance started with Fist of the Vampire (2007).

Tangerine Dream is the only reason I've heard of this movie.

Except Cassidy wasn't killing innocents left and right Also I fucking hate the show version of Cassidy so much. His character just becomes this absolute sad sack after season one, which is honestly a huge 180 from the first season which is kinda more accurate to the comic. I know he's supposed to slowly be portrayed as pathetic in the comic, but in the show he puts up no mask to hide his pain and is so much less complex and honestly just comes off as fucking annoying /rant

@@lurksnitchtongue8986 My understanding is that Preacher is a pretty bad show in general.

Garth Ennis(writer of Preacher)had certainly seen Near Dark by the time he wrote Cassidy.Preacher's vampres are almost identical to those of Near Dark(sunlight being their only weakness,exploding when they are exposed too much to it).Also,in the Punisher:Welcome back Frank comic series,also written by Ennis,a character mentons Near Dark.

How can you play a blu-ray using Political Correctness?

@@pillsareyummy He means Player Character, i.e. a character that plays blu-rays.

@@aaronwebb1548 I was joking. Also, I think he meant Personal Computer.

Abe Simpson: IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!

Where do you even get a computer with an optical drive these days?

yep, it didn't start with movies. As usually it comes from books.

I saw The Hunger for the first time last year, awesome movie

I'm surprised every time the closure isn't Velcro with that distinctive riiiiip

He's doing the George Costanza thing and filling that sucker to the gills.

I want Rich to have the biggest, most obnoxious cellphone case, with Pac-Man on it, and also it'll glow in the dark and also hold not just his cards and money but also his car keys and have a built in swiss army knife

Shit….when did that become an “old man thing”?

It's finally comming out?? It was like borderline lost media for ages

@The Wizard of Oswald The Pirate Bay

One of the few times the academy wasn’t entirely terrible.

Dammmmm thats messed up :(

I feel like they did it just to mix it up since avatar was sweeping everything and it was getting old haha

@@kevinmcclintock4613 I dunno, Hurt Locker isn't all really that good.

@@Gonboo and it's still way better than Avatar

The Vampire: The Masquerade community is the reason I was made aware of this wonderful film. It’s great inspiration for characters and chronicles

The whole time while watching this I was thinking "this movie sounds like a very RP heavy Vampire the Masquerade game." Glad I wasn't the only one.

@@KrillLiberator Absolutely.

How do you rent a movie in 2022?

@@HunterTinsley he might have a really good Library. Local libraries now have movies for rental. I say this is somebody that was flabbergasted with the selection the now is somebody with a contact on the inside...

@@HunterTinsley you can rent movies on streaming services dude

Nepotism strikes again!

@@kostajovanovic3711 Don`t you mean vampirism? :)

Neat

He is also the son of Jason Miller who played Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist.

Figured Jay would know Tangerine Dream.

I've been telling everyone who doesn't care to listen on every discord server I'm on. Such a great film. 🍻

I feel that if they had to have that happy ending, it should have came with a level of sacrifice, like if the blood transfusion would only work if the father had to give so much blood it would kill him but he does it anyway.

Clearly not, that why Calebs dad was a vet 😂

A forgotten Tobe Hooper classic! I also own it on DVD. Does it get you laid all the time too?

I just referenced that movie today. We were talking about how Patrick Stewart raised the level of ST:TNG. And I mentioned that the first time I ever saw Stewart, he was getting kissed full on the mouth by Steve Railsback in that movie.

Really? I thought lifeforce was so damn boring lol

@@brandon17760 First i saw Lifeforce I was probably 14 (1986ish) and to this day the thought of that naked vampire alien lady gets me, umm, motivated... So no, I can't say I found it boring! lol

I swore to myself if I ever met Patrick Stewart I'd pretend I only knew him from Life Force and was a huge fan of it. ...Then I saw how he acted at Elia Kazan's awards ceremony and am tempted to spit on his shoe or face instead.

In case you dont know and want more content, they have movie commentary tracks available and their patreon has BTS, extras, and blooper type vids too.

@RxYouth OK, cool. I'll probably stick to the regular yt stuff. I will definitely be dishing out a few bucks for the channel. Well deserved.

Ditto for all of this. Except I discovered them a decade ago.

@@foxhound5043 the commentaries might be free, I can't remember, they're on bandcamp, there's some KZfaqrs who make great videos mixing snippets of the best parts of the commentary with the movie and references they say throughout and are usually about 20-40 minutes long, search for RLM and Commentary and you'll find em.

@RxYouth Bro, no offense but I'll stick with the source material. Thanks.

Good luck trying to actually watch it.

Morning I will do the best I have mmk

you should also watch from dusk till dawn, its kinda a western action vampire movie dude

@@nukie2743 it’s on Amazon with a subscription to a second party streaming service. You could feasible sign up, watch it, then cancel it. Shudder also still lists it as being on their site.

@@nukie2743 Yarr! It can be found upon the seven seas!

There was also something about the old hat becoming new. You had An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Wolfen and Full Moon High coming out in 1981. It’s possible that all the rising filmmakers were tapping into their love of old Universal Monster movies they saw on Shock Theater as kids in the 50s/60s. You also had a heaping helping of old monster remakes: The Thing, Cat People, Invaders from Mars, etc. I like the idea that a whole generation of genre filmmakers just threw their childhood fears onto the public.

Less stakes if the protagonist is "indestructable" as well for the "high noon" (high midnight ?) face off.

I didn't like the whole blood transfusion at first but I came to accept it because I think him fighting as a human is way more badass. I mean he has a clear disadvantage and has to fight his way up to an impossible top. Having the protagonist in that position is a nice thing to live through with him as an audience member. Sure, it could've been executed in a way that made more sense, but still putting him back in that place beneath his oppinents before the finale was smart.

@@tyrgoossens could have been easily resolved had he shown massive drawbacks and weaknesses from blood withdrawal, same with people that are starving. Which would have also made his resistance more admirable.

I don't think they are off-base by saying it seemed like a studio note.

Book's good too, if you're into that kind of thing.

highly recd. especially that sweden in the 70s setting gave some nice aesthetics. Never seen the US remake, but I figure it wouldn't be that good.