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Blood, Swords & Restoration: The Untold Story Behind Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter · Cinema Yūgen

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  G'day. That's right. It's that time again. Time for Cinema!
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  Welcome back, Eugenites. Welcome back.
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  Tim Thomason is one of my heroes. I've interviewed him.
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  Go back through the episodes. You can check it out. And I thought I'd seen everything
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  he was in. I thought I'd seen everything he was in.
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  So it was quite the gift to feast upon Mark Terry's samurai priest,
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  vampire hunter, which sees Thomason bring a
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  samurai sword and his legendary cool to another
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  incarnation of jack death except this time
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  the trances well they're not
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  your garden variety bloodsuckers there's different kinds
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  but they're fighting against their own extinction along
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  with this avenging angel that
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  stalks their trail he is the samurai
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  priest vampire hunter
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  he is the legendary tim
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  somerson and my guest is the beautiful and powerful the legend himself to tell
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  us all about the adventures of the creation of samurai priest vampire hunter
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  and where you can get it check the links in the description but for right now welcome him,
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  Eugenites, ladies and gentlemen, the legendary Mark Terry.
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  G'day, Mark. Hey, what's up? What's up, everybody in Australia?
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  It's me. It's me. It's Mark Terry. I'm here in Los Angeles.
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  Kent, thank you for having me. I'm ready to go. What's up? Mark, this is fantastic.
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  I thought I had seen every Tim Thomas.
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  Being a Tim Thomas and man, I thought I'd seen every Tim Thomas and thing that there was.
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  And then out of the blue, So, you know, when we get screeners in that for Film
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  Thread, I see this samurai priest vampire hunter. Ah, hang on.
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  That says Tim Thomason's in this. I haven't seen this Tim Thomason movie. And it was awesome.
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  Well, we found the right guy. I mean, this is perfect.
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  Well, let me, can I first explain to you how we got with film threat,
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  the little behind the story scenes with Chris Gore.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is hilarious. So back in 2002, I did a movie called B-Movie,
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  The Shooting of Farmhouse Massacre.
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  It was like a mockumentary, like a Christopher Guest kind of movie,
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  real low budget type thing.
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  Yeah. And so we send this, Debbie Rashawn was in it and Susie Lorraine,
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  a lot of the EI and Troma people. This is when I lived in Florida.
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  Right, right. So, you know, it was, it was what it was. I'm not saying it's anything great.
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  I mean, there's some funny moments in it and yada yada. If you can find it somewhere
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  on DVD, it's out there. But, uh, what happens is we sent it in a film thread.
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  Right. And I, I think there's a guy named like, I think his name was Brad Slager.
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  I think. I can't remember. Brad Gibson's still there, I think.
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  Is he still there? So he writes a review. Now he don't know us.
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  He don't know what we're doing.
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  He don't know why we're doing it. And he just shreds the movie.
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  And he calls me because i'm in the movie i'm a screen actors guild member i've
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  been in a sag after since for over 20 years since you're in 2005 you're in so he says that i am a,
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  and this will lead into the film to it i am like what's the guy in seinfeld
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  a kramer yeah what's it richard forgetting his name i'm like him with no talent
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  and no timing this is before Kramer went into the racist rant later on.
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  So nowadays it actually means a lot more. So I'm at monster Palooza last month
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  and I, I have read Chris Gore's film festival book and have quoted it hundreds
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  of times in different Q and A's.
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  He's got a phenomenal book about film festivals. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  The survival guard. Yes. He's updated over years and had the history of the
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  Blair Witch guys and all that, which later on, I got a chance to work with Eduardo Sanchez and them too.
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  It was always weirdly around this. And I said, when I was younger and maybe
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  a little bit more upset, if I ever see that Chris Gore guy, I'm going to say something to him.
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  You know? And I was like, so I saw him because he's got like the white hair
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  and I was like, and I didn't want to say anything mean to him.
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  And I'm, you know, not a vicious guy or anything.
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  And I go up to him and I said, Hey, my name's Mark Terry. And,
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  you know, you gave me a real bad, it wasn't him who gave the review with somebody else.
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  You gave me a real bad review 20 years ago.
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  And he started laughing and all that. He's got that white hair.
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  So he's real recognizable. And he's on a bunch of television shows.
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  He's very successful in reviewing and just kind of being one of those celebrity
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  types that's out there talking about movies.
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  So I said, you know, but what you should, I mean, I understand.
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  And he's like, oh, it's not my fault. Whoever that was is probably gone.
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  You know, he made some joke. We started laughing.
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  Kind of broke the ice. And I said, I'd love for you to see samurai priest vampire hunter.
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  He's like, submit it to us. So I did. And it must've found you.
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  Yes. It very much did find me.
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  And I, I gobbled it up like a greedy little Tim Thomason fan that I am. Just, just.
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  I thought, wow, how come I, how did I miss this? You know? So here's how,
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  here's how you missed it. Let me, let me explain it to you.
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  Live Evil was the original title of this movie and it released,
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  uh, in 2009 when the economy was at in November 1st, 2009.
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  This is like when the economy and people were getting laid off in the United States.
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  It was the worst of the worst time,
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  but it releases via Warner Brothers on streaming and Netflix on demand.
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  And this is before Netflix is as big as it is. Now we got a two-year contract
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  with Netflix and I forget how long it was with Warner Brothers for the streaming.
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  Well, after that point, don't forget it's, it's pillar box.
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  I know you've never seen live evil. It's pillar box. We shot it on film in four
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  by three pillar box standard definition. Yes.
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  Well, by the time our contracts run out, by the way, we never sold to Australia.
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  We tried, I think there was a company there named Peacock that we were in negotiations
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  with before Peacock, the streaming network.
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  That was a distributor there. I don't remember what happened with that.
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  We had Japan, but we sold Germany, Thailand, Russia, and a bunch of other international
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  territories, some of which we're still waiting to get paid for, by the way.
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  But anyway, the point is when HD came in, it killed everything.
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  Excuse me. So what happens is by 2011 or 2012, when the HT conversion happens,
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  it, you know, we're going to re up our contracts. It's dead in the water.
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  So if you didn't see it in that timeframe, it's gone except for maybe like a
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  hard to find DVD or an international DVD. So what happens is come around 2017, I have all the film.
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  I mean, I own the movie a hundred percent. It's my movie.
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  And I mean, I paid virtually for everything. And I said, why don't we start scanning the film?
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  And that's what started to kind of lead into, it changed it from,
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  from live evil to what is my Snyder cut, samurai priest, vampire hunter.
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  Comic books came in. People are 10 years older. So we don't have a time machine.
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  Some of the film is rough. So how do we replace this?
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  You know, so it ended up- That was pretty genius, by the way.
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  Yeah. Well, thank you. And a lot of people, I mean, I'm not, it's not just me.
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  Mike Hoffman, who is the editor of this film, he also directed a film called
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  Girls Gone Dead, which has-
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  Jerry Lawler and Linnea Quigley and all that came out in 2012,
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  but, uh, he's a real good guy.
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  And we start, him and I started going through this process of sending film negatives
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  and forget there's 20 hours of film, 45,000 feet of film for this movie.
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  We start sending it around the country.
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  I even started negotiating deals where Mike and I, we went to Ole Miss university in Mississippi.
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  They had a scan station in the back of the room because they were scanning old
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  arch Manning, uh, Archie Manning football films from when he played there.
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  And we started, we start like scanning stuff.
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  Then we had to re-scan it and re-scan it and re-scan it. And it turned into,
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  Mike started telling me, he's like, Mark, there's better cuts. There's better shots.
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  We can make this better. And it transitioned into something that I,
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  that isn't live evil, in my opinion. Right, right.
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  So that's why you didn't see it. And then if you were to see live evil you're
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  like what is this doesn't make any sense why well liquid death wasn't around
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  in 2009 you know it's like so those kind of things are like why is this weird
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  and that's why it is so i kind of look at it like yeah justice league like there's
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  the whedon one the original.
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  Yeah because i mean you because you could be i mean i i i not knowing the the
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  backstory which we've talked about a little bit i i i figured that it had to
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  have been recent because of things like that you know.
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  How can we make this better? There's new scenes that were never in the movie
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  before. And how can we expand it?
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  You know, some of the comic book stuff in it can, we can also hide stuff.
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  So that's how it happened. And
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  it was just ripe for somebody like vinegar syndrome or shout, you know?
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  So, I mean that, that we were, we were talking to those people because they
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  restored films, but we restored it all on our own.
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  It's not like we handed them the film and they did it. We did it.
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  Yeah. And that's the difference.
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  And it took five years. Yeah. Wow.
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  I mean, you wouldn't, you wouldn't see, I mean, just, just, just from someone's
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  perspective, just watching it and not knowing any of the backstory that we've talked about. Sure.
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  Just, I thought, wow, this is
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  like, how did, like, I, like, we just talked about, how did I miss this?
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  And, and B, because you've gone back and, and, and done some stuff,
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  it's still, it feels like it's still pretty fresh, but of course.
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  That's what we're hoping. It's much younger.
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  Here's the thing. Like you, I'm a huge Tim Thomerson fan.
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  I love Tim Thomerson in movies. He's a great guy in person. I love his work.
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  And I always joke that this was a Tim Thomerson fan's wet dream of a movie.
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  He's not like Jack Death. He's a little bit more evil. He's more hardcore.
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  He's shooting people. He's slicing people apart. He's saying the lines.
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  He just belts Kimberly in the face to take her back. Yeah, he punches her in the face.
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  So that's all that's, I mean, he's, he's a little, there's, they're kind of
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  like, you know, they always hear about how movies are written and who's the
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  monster in the room. And sometimes you think it's the vampire.
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  Actually, the samurai priest, Tim Thomerson is the, is the monster in the room.
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  His, even though he's kind of the good guy in this, this scenario,
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  but yeah, he's, he's a badass. I wanted to work with him. And Mike Hoffman,
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  who I've talked about before, my producing partner, Shreya Stewart,
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  and myself, who were the three main people on the, you know,
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  kind of the restoration new version of the movie.
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  We all love Thomerson and we're like, this is a shame if this just sits here dead.
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  It's too much of a legend. There's too many. I don't know what your age is,
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  but let's just say you were 16 in 2009.
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  Right. You might be 35 years old now and just discovering, you know,
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  so what about all those people? Yeah.
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  You know, I'm old enough to have seen Metal Storm in 3D in the cinema.
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  You sound young. You sound like a young guy. I never know.
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  Well, I was 27, 28 when I made this. So I mean, I was, I was,
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  you know, younger when I made this, you know, in my twenties and one of my goals,
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  I moved out from Florida.
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  I knew nobody. I had no help, you know, and my goal was to sell a film to a
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  studio before I turned 30. Right. And I did that.
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  So that, and that, that's this one and it's, it's just crazy one.
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  So. Dude, you made a Tim's Homerson movie.
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  Yeah. Every Tim's Homerson fan would love to make a Tim.
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  I mean, I know I would. I mean, I've got to talk to the, was found as you've
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  heard a little bit of the interview, Courtney Joyner, I was actually interviewing
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  Courtney Joyner about a book of his and we were talking about Tim Thomas and
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  he said, oh, he was over here for breakfast this morning.
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  And I said, I'd love to talk to him. And he said, well, I can get you his phone
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  number. And then he gave me his phone number.
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  And so I'm sitting there looking at Tim Thomas's phone. I go,
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  what do I do? Do I call him?
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  You know, this is weird. Like, you know, they say never meet your heroes,
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  but it was, it was quite the opposite.
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  It was awesome. Yeah. He, as much as you would think of him in the movie,
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  he's like a chill kind of laid back surfer dude, you know, that is,
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  you know, you know, he's, he's going to have a gun on him, but you would never know.
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  Yeah, you know, he's a California guy, but he's not Mr.
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  Hollywood. He's not the kind of guy that would want to join the Academy.
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  At least this is my take on him. But he's going to show up on time.
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  He's going to know his lines.
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  He's going to be professional. He's going to be badass.
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  You know, everything you would think. You mentioned Courtney Joyner. Yeah.
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  He was around kind of some of the, because when I was making this, there was a lot of,
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  not Courtney Joyner per se, but there was a lot of these people who were in
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  and around that former full moon kind of group that I was, you know,
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  some of the guys Sterling and Courtney Joyner was a little bit higher up.
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  I think Mike Hoffman, our editor cut something with him, but they used to have
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  a party every 4th of July.
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  And I'm forgetting the guy who, uh, there's a guy named Darren Scott who produced
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  Menace to Society. And I think he did like Tales from the Dark Side. directed that.
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  So a lot of those people would go to this 4th of July party.
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  And I think I met Courtney Joyner there or either there at Bob's Big Boy in
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  Toluca Lake. It's right next to Warner Brothers.
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  And that group of guys, they were real cool. And that's how we ended up actually
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  getting Jeff Burr, who was the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 and Pumpkinhead
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  and a bunch of other stuff whispered to a scream.
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  He's actually in a cameo, the movie.
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  And if you were to watch Live evil that scene's gone
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  it's not in the movie so jeff burr passed
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  away recently rest in peace jeff good guy another good
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  guy i would say you know had movies
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  in movie theaters a higher end director and a very
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  cool guy so we want so there's other things like we wanted to restore jeff's
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  scene for jeff right right yeah and anytime i had a question for jeff or some
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  of these guys that i looked up to you know even maybe not even knowing who they
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  were by name you know they were cool to me, including Tim Thomerson and Ken Foray.
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  You know, very cool. What's Ken like?
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  Is he a cool guy? You know what's weird about Ken? Ken only worked for us one day. Okay.
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  Wow. Both hours, one day. One day's work, okay. Wow. Yeah, but he's like throughout the movie.
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  So it looks like he's in it a lot. And he had just come off of the Rob Zombie
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  where he's in the Halloween movie where he's in the bathroom and he's beating up Mike Myers.
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  You know, the, you know, the biggest, the biggest waste in that,
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  that Rob Zombie Halloween was he had Richard Lynch.
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  In it and he doesn't have any lines well it i was let me get back to richard
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  lynch in a second i got a little story about him too yeah but you know ken fray
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  a cool guy came in did his job,
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  you know i i he's he's one of these guys that is always going to be relevant
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  because of dawn of the dead and he's he's he's still active you know i mean
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  he's just he's out there but i wish we could have done more with him that that's
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  the only like i wish there could have been more and i maybe just in the more of,
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  more of like promotions or,
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  you know, but I mean, since he works all the time and he only worked,
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  he worked one day in 2007, what's he going to do? Spend a week promoting a film, you know? Yeah.
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  Right. Right. Yeah. That's a long time ago, you know? Yeah.
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  But he's a cool guy and he did a great job and he certainly got a lot of gravitas
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  to, you know, to his approach and his appearance.
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  So you mentioned Richard Lynch. Yeah.
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  Originally I was trying to get Richard Lynch to play the priest.
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  Oh, okay. That would have been. And that's a different movie,
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  but that would have been, it would have, well, and, you know,
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  let's just be a hundred percent honest, you know, Richard was going through
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  some personal stuff at the time.
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  I mean, I think it was kind of public, you know, of what that was,
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  but I was, I became pretty close friends. Did you ever actually speak to him?
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  Like talk to him? I actually spoke to him through another, uh,
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  I had a producer buddy of mine named
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  Bo Unger, who's one of the executive producers. He was close with him.
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  And I think I may have spoke to him once briefly, but Bo was,
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  you know, kind of bringing him in.
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  And well, we were, so the idea was, I know we're going off in the weeds a little
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  bit, Richard Lynch as the priest and the Max role, which is the Ken Frey role
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  would have been Don Kalfa from Return of the Living Dead. Wow.
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  So I was really close with Don and Don Kalfa rest in peace. He passed away too.
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  In fact, I'm the one who put it in a Hollywood reporter when he passed away.
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  But Don Kalfa, they all lived up in this little weird area outside of Palm Springs called Yucca Valley.
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  I mean, I don't think it's a big deal to talk about it now. They've all passed
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  away, but a lot of actors went up there because it was cheap up there in the 80s and all that.
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  And it was still close enough to come into town. So Richard Lynch,
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  I don't know if, I think that the word, I'll just be, I'm not going to bullshit you here.
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  He said that we didn't have a pot to piss in and he didn't want to do the move.
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  And little did he know that I had Russian arms and car chases and all this stuff
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  planned, but he was going through some stuff. He just didn't want to do it. Okay, no problem.
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  Maybe better for us in the end. Then he was a pretty extreme guy from what I understand.
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  I heard he was a little, you know, difficult to deal with. Right. Yeah.
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  But I mean, the results are on screen. I mean, no one choose the scenery like Richard Lynch.
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  I got an Invasion USA poster right next to me.
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  You know, I love Richard Lynch. I would have loved to work with him,
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  but I think this worked out better. Don Kalfa then comes in and says,
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  well, I want to play the priest.
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  And I'm like, Ooh, but he's not, he's not as known as those other guys.
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  And he's always been a character actor.
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  So we started getting him going, cutting his hair, discussing the role.
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  And what happened with Don is I just don't think he would physically be able to do it. Right.
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  And we, so if you check out the Blu-ray that's released through Vinegar.
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  Yeah, no, I'm so glad I'll, I'll totally have to, like since,
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  uh, since reviewing it, I've been like, yeah, going crazy. Gotta get it.
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  We'll get you a, we can get you a Blu-ray. It's not a problem,
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  but, uh, the, there is, I do a little special feature and we recorded on the
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  first day that we shot in the diner and that's out in a town called Amboy,
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  California, where they shot the Hitcher and a bunch of other movies.
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  But, uh, uh, we rented out the whole town, the whole ghost town for a thousand bucks for a weekend.
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  How about that? But, uh, so Don Kalfa came out and we recorded a voiceover for
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  him before he kind of came out of the movie and that voiceover is on the Blu-ray.
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  Like we put it out there and I explained the story about how he was almost involved.
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  So I would have loved to have him. And then when he kind of came out,
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  Don Kalfa did, I had a bunch of buddies who's like, I don't know if this is going to happen.
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  Well, when they, they left, I got all the rights to everything.
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  I mean, basically started everything anyway.
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  And then that's when Tim Thomerson came in. Yeah.
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  So it could have been a lot different, you know, but I'm, you know what?
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  I'm so much glad, happier that it's Tim Thomerson.
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  The other thing that we had for Max was we were going to, we approached James Hong. Right.
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  And, you know, he's been, he's a hundred years old. He's been in hundreds of
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  things, Chinatown, you know, Blade Runner, you name it.
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  I think Blade Runner. Big Trouble in Little China.
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  What's that? Big Trouble in Little China. Yeah, that's the best one probably to quote.
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  But he comes out and he was doing a movie called Balls of Fury,
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  which is a ping pong movie.
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  And I had worked on actually a student film with him that was called,
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  it was like, it was another mockumentary.
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  I don't think it ever released. It's called Blunt Movie.
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  It had Pat Morata in it actually training a midget, believe it or not.
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  I know it sounds crazy, but.
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  It's a bit like the Gary Oldman one where he plays a little person.
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  Yeah, it's like something goofy like that, but I don't think the movie ever
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  released. But I met James Hong and I got a chance to talk to him.
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  And actually I drove him off the property. this is in
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  2003 so way before obviously live evil samurai
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  priest i said if i ever have anything can i reach out to you
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  and he's like yeah of course and when i reached out to him
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  he was in the middle of the press for balls of fury and so that's what led into
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  ken foray right wow so yeah mark i gotta say the more the more the more i get
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  into this samurai priest the more the more i'm enjoying it Like the story behind the film is, is,
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  is nearly as top shelf as the film itself.
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  I mean, it's. Yeah. The story is crazy.
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  I mean, I was working with a company. Do you do a commentary on the Blu-ray? Oh yeah.
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  Yeah. There's a commentary. There's a, there's a, there's a,
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  there's a very good behind the scenes featurette from Mike Hoffman about the
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  restoration of the film. It's 22 minutes long.
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  I have one that I did on my own, which is about the car chases and the stunts
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  and how we got all that. Yeah. Yeah.
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  So I, no, I love, I mean, I love, I love everything. I mean,
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  besides from the Tim Thomas, in fact, I love everything about this movie.
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  I love how you sort of went different places with a vampire lore.
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  I love the vampire babies.
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  I love the sort of subtle link. If, if it is indeed linked to once upon a time in the West.
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  A little bit of that in near dark and trancers. So yeah, you're on the right track.
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  Yeah. Yeah. I mentioned all of those in the review, but yeah,
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  cause I don't want to give away the ending for people who haven't seen it,
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  but there's a, there is a beautiful sort of link to, if you're a fan of one
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  spot at a time in the West with Tim Thomason's character.
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  And here, here's the thing. The weird thing about this movie is there's so,
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  I mean, there's probably 20 people who could be contributed to the writing.
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  I'm just the final guy. Well, the beginning guy and the final guy,
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  I guess. if you want to put it that way.
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  But, and then there's probably eight people that had, you know,
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  involved with the direction of, you know, and different insights and this and
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  that, but there's no, like, I'll give you an example.
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  I worked with a company called Filmotechnic USA, or Filmotechnic International at that point.
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  And I rented out and booked the Russian arm camera car crane.
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  So I convinced, and this is part of that, that special feature on the Blu-ray,
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  I convinced the owner to give us the Russian arm, which was going from,
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  I Am Legend and Transformers and, you know, Fast and Furious 3. Right.
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  Yeah. So we're talking like a $15,000 a day piece of equipment,
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  which you can probably do now.
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  A big boy's toy. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like Holly. Like I remember during. Like a Michael Bay toy.
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  I dropped off equipment in Long Beach on Michael Bay's set of Transformers and
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  saw him doing it. I know people, you know, trash talk Michael Bay.
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  I like him. I'm like, look, he's got two Russian arms. I want to hang out with
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  you for a day, Mark. Yeah, he's
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  got three helicopters in the air and I'm like, I just want to get one.
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  So it goes from Transformers to our movie.
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  It's ridiculous. This is beautiful. So we got lucky with some of that stuff.
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  And I have a bunch of buddies that are in stunts because I came up in stunts
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  and I always joke about this. You can always practice acting.
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  You can practice swinging a baseball, you know, a baseball bat at a baseball.
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  You can't practice setting yourself on fire. Either you do it or you don't.
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  And the guys and girls who were doing some of the stunts of the car flips,
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  they wanted it for their reel.
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  And I'm like, well, I could pay you some, but I can't pay you the,
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  the $30,000 that this would cost to do this.
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  So some of those happened because they were just friends of mine that wanted
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  to do big stunts for their reel.
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  And I'm like, there wasn't even a second car chase in the script.
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  Yeah. That was actually pitched to me by a stunt guy.
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  He's like, I'll do, I could do that little blue car flip with the El Camino.
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  That's nothing. I'll do something 10 times as big.
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  Yeah. Wow. So it's just crazy.
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  It's incredible. You should write a book or something. I don't know.
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  I just want people to watch the movie and have a good time.
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  That's, you know, that's, yeah, that's, that's why I'm here.
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  I want people to watch the movie before we run out of time.
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  Then Mark, can you tell our wonderful listening audience where they can get
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  all their hands around all the goodness that is Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter?
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  Go to SamuraiPriest.com. It has our three trailers on there.
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  It, the places to watch it right now are, are going to, I think the best place
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  to watch it overall is Amazon. I think it looks the best there streaming.
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  It's on Tubi, it's on Plex.
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  If you pay to watch it on Amazon, you're going to see it better than you would
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  on Tubi or Plex, but it's free on Tubi, Plex, and Fossum right now.
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  And I think it's still on demand on like Comcast and Xfinity and some of those places.
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  But I think the overall best place is ETR Media through Vinegar Syndrome.
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  The Blu-ray is phenomenal.
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  Yes. Check all the links in the description listeners.
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  I know I'll be getting over to get my hands around that Tim Thomas.
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  Get yourself a Blu-ray. They're international.
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  And I tell you this one little quick story during the pandemic.
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  One thing I always wanted for the original version of the movie.
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  Remember the movie trailer voice guy in a world, Don LaFontaine. Yeah.
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  So there's a guy out there. Morgan Freeman. Yeah.
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  In a world. Dude, we're going too far. Yeah.
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  He died in 2008. We were trying to get him to do the voiceover.
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  So he's passed away. And we go into the Screen Actors Guild.
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  They have a Don LaFontaine voiceover lab and all that kind of,
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  the guy's a legend, right? So there's another guy out there named Pablo Francisco,
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  who's a comedian, and he does in his act, Don LaFontaine.
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  So during the pandemic, I contact this guy on Cameo.
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  And I, you know, Cameo, you get, hey, happy birthday, whatever it is,
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  you know, that bullshit. And I said, listen, we got this for you. Can you do this?
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  And so he comes in, and if you watch the trailers, we have three or four trailers on SamuraiPriest.com.
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  It sounds like Don LaFontaine. That's fantastic.
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  The hilarious part is when I said, you know, say Tim Thomerson,
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  Ken Frey, and Samurai, he said Tim Silverson.
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  And I'm like, what the fuck? How the hell do you not know who Tim Thomerson
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  is? Both of you are stand-up comedians.
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  Tim Thomerson did Stagecoach. This guy does Don LaFontaine. How could you get that wrong?
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  But he got it right. and I hope I can cuss on here. That's cool.
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  You can do whatever you like. You're a beautiful, powerful man.
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  Thank you for going through a long, long, sordid, triumphant history to bring
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  us this samurai priest vampire honor.
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  And thank you extraordinarily, sir, for coming on Cinema You Can to share it all with us.
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  Thank you, Kent. Love you, Tim Thomerson. Love Ken Ferre, and love the fans
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  who will get this movie. Again, we're not saying it's high art. We're saying it's fun.
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  And I hope you enjoy it if you check it out. Yes.
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  Samurai priest, vampire hunter. What a legendary film from the legendary Mark
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  Terry starring the legendary Tim Thomason.
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  My review will be coming to filmthreat.com. So check it out.
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  You know, they, they, they get around. We get a lot of films to review.
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  They all make it up there.
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  Trust me. They'll get there. if they're on the list to be checked off by the
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  editor they will be there so stay cool stay calm but get over to the links in
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  the description and get your hands around mark terry's samurai priest,
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  vampire hunter starring the legendary tim thomason very well could be,
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  His swan song film. And if it is, what a way to go out. God bless you, Mark.
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  God bless Tim Thomas. And get to the links in the description.
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  And as always, my little Eugenites, thank you for listening to us on Spotify
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  or wherever you choose to listen to your favorite podcasts. I'm Kent Hill.
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  And until next time, you've been listening to Cinema Eugenics.