Cabin in the Woods and Scream: Two movies work together to invent a new horror movie trope - acknowledging something is a trope, having other characters make fun of them saying “that’s a horror movie trope, stop being paranoid,” and having the twist be that the trope actually occurs.
127 Hours with a Film Kid: We cheer ourselves up after yet another sad week in the film industry with some spooky urban legends about films.
Cabin in the Woods: We learn of the true monster in the woods, how Brooke’s trauma traumatized her mother, and the ominous possibility of Kevin.
Scream: Lindsey briefly makes this podcast a true crime podcast before immediately bringing it back to Twilight. We consider which of the Friends are actually nice and the number of red flags a person could have before being a murderer.
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Film Kid Giant Squids is produced and hosted by Lindsey Buttel and Brooke Hoppe. Intro music is by the band Poly Action, transition music is by neolein licensed under CC BY 3.0
Brooke: I’m eating a slice of bread because my stomach is growling a lot and if that’s on the audio I really apologize. I just got like really hungry halfway through your background. Murder me makes me hungry.
Lindsey: Gross. I was like ooh intestines spilling out of their body and Brooke was like mmm, intestines.
Brooke: Mmm.
[Intro Music]
Brooke: You are listening to Film Kids and Giant Squids
Lindsey: And other things that think they’re deep. I’m Lindsey. I’m Spooky Lindsey, now.
Brooke: Ooh, Spooky Lindsey
Lindsey: I guess.
Brooke: And I’m Spooky Brooke. And This week we are talking about Cabin in the Woods and Scream. It’s officially spooky month.
Lindsey: We are kicking off with - and by kicking off I mean forcing Brooke to watch 4 horror movies even though arguably only one of which I would classify as like intended to be unsettling.
Brooke: Yeah. I will say the amount of horror movies that I have watched in my life has gone up probably 100 percent. Before we can get into the horror we have to talk about the other horror, which is just dealing with film kids. With 127 hours with a film kid
Lindsey: Woo.
[127 Hours with a Film Kid Transition Music]
Brooke: This week was kind of another sad week for the film industry. The bond movie No Time to Die was delayed yet again to April.
Lindsey: Eh. This is our feel good section
Brooke: So it was supposed to be originally released in April – like last April and then it was delayed to November and then just this past week it was delayed yet again to next April. Cineworld announced that its closing all of its locations, so more than 500 theaters.
Lindsey: Oh is that the people that own … Regal?
Brooke: Regal? Yeah. So more than 500 theaters are closing their claim is that there is no product to put in these theaters and therefore they just can’t keep it open. Because I don’t want to be sad about the film industry, we’re going to do something a little fun and spooky.
Lindsey: Oh? I’m worried.
Brooke: We’re just going to talk about my favorite spooky urban legends about films.
Lindsey: Ooh!
Brooke: We’re doing 3 and 2 of them are haunted. But first is the non-haunted one which is the Wizard of Oz.
Lindsey: The Wizard of Oz is definitely haunted but okay.
Brooke: So, The Wizard of Oz. I’m not going to explain what this movie is - I feel like what everyone knows what the hell this movie is. In the scene where Dorothy, The Tin Man and The Scarecrow are walking down the yellow brick road and in the background there looks like a hanging munchkin swinging from a tree. I’m sending it to you now Lindsey. This was spotted once it was released on VHS people kind of -home audiences saw this. It’s like the shadow – It’s not something super defined.
Lindsey: Yeah.
Brooke: It’s a shadow in the background of what looks like a hanging munchkin. So the urban legend goes that it was one of the actors playing a munchkin something happened like romantically on set and the production just didn’t see that there was this hanging man in the background. However, it is false. What it actually is, is the production borrowed a bunch of like birds from the LA Zoo to have in a different scene and one of the birds was just loose and in the background of this scene. If you watch the full clip knowing it is a bird, you can like see the wings move and like walking around. But, it is like a famous urban legend that there is a dead munchkin hanging in the background. Okay so then we have the ghost boy of 3 Men and a Baby. 3 Men and a Baby was a 1990? 1989? Movie starring Ted Danson -
Lindsey: Aw.
Brooke: Why are you saying “Aw”? He’s still alive.
Lindsey: Because I love him!
Brooke: Oh.
Lindsey: He’s from The Good Place, right?
Brooke: Yeah. I thought it was like “Oh, I miss him” and like he’s still around. Stars Ted Danson, Tom Sellick, Steve Guttenberg. It is about these 3 bachelors as they have to deal with this arrival of a new baby. When it was released on VHS in 1990, the audience started to see a small figure in the one of the backgrounds about an hour into the movie as Jack Holden - played by Ted Danson - and his mother are walking through Jack’s house. You can see a mysterious figure behind the curtain in one of the windows. The legend goes it was a boy who used to live in the house where 3 Men and a Baby was being shot, but the boy committed suicide and that is why the house was vacant because the fam- the parents the couldn’t deal with the loss of their son in that house they left and that’s why the production was able to shoot there for cheap. All of these photos will be up on our blog if you want to go take a look.
Lindsey: Our blog?
Brooke: Er – Our Website. Sorry. They’ll be up on our website if you want to take a look.
Lindsey: That looks photoshopped in.
Brooke: No, that is a -
Lindsey: Except Photoshop didn’t exist in 80s
Brooke: Yeah, that is the actual still from the movie.
Lindsey: And that’s like not a real person.
Brooke: So what it actually is, is a cutout of Ted Danson. In the movie he plays an actor and one of the storylines that was ultimately edited out was that he was in this commercial for dog food and the cut out is from that commercial. There’s a couple other places where that cut out is seen, here is a better photo of it.
Lindsey: Cuz that’s not even ghostly looking!