 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started what are we drinking today? We are drinking Wolf Creek. It's an Australian sparkling ale nice today We're gonna be talking about 1976's Alice sweet Alice this movie is written and directed by Alfred soul one of the only movies He's ever really directed he's done a couple of things But this is the only one of note a very very young Brooke Shields is in this Paula E. Shepherd is in this She wasn't in much. She was just in another movie called liquid sky Which is surprising again because she's so damn good in this right Linda Miller is in this too daughter of Jackie Gleason We watch Jackie Gleason as we eat Alice sweet Alice starts off. There's a family a kind of a broken family because dad has left the mother and two daughters Alice and Karen Karen's first communing is coming up and she's getting all the attention Alice feels left out She's jealous and she starts kind of acting out a bit scares the living shit out of her little sister Karen in this Abandoned warehouse. She's got the mask on which is scary enough Yeah, and then she takes off the mask and there's like another mask underneath this kind of old woman mass That's even scary or like whoa Takes Karen and locks her in this room and like won't let her out And it's the day of Karen's communion We see Karen being strangled in the church by a person wearing the same yellow Raincoat and translucent mask kills Karen puts her in this kind of storage bench unit rips off a crucifix She just got for her first communion and then sets the corpse on fire Alice enters the church and she's wearing Karen's veil that she's specially got for this she goes up to receive communion and just as she's about to get it Yeah Typical none in these movies old The estranged dad flies in for the funeral at the funeral were introduced to Alice's aunt Who is a major bitch like just as much as Alice is after the funeral they're gathered and they're kind of having their cake Do you really need that drink? Yeah? Alice's mom tells Alice to bring some leftover cake down to their landlord Mr Alfonso Disgusting slob with all these steens all over his hand Pistons? Pistons? Brought some cake for you fatty Take some of the cake off the far for finger licks it a little sexually right so it's okay What's going on here Alice and the aunt just are not getting along Everybody's pointing the finger at Alice right because she's maybe a little odd the dad doesn't believe it So he kind of wants to do a little bit of investigating on his own He's called in to the the detective's office and he they start grilling him about his daughter And he's kind of like well, I don't like where this is going her mother gets Alice to go up To mr. Alfonso's apartment to pay the damn rent and he's kind of sitting on one of those couches with some fan Fanning himself and your apartment's full of garbage and junk and it smells like cats piss He gets all pissed off and he starts kind of Feeling her aid you just wait the cops gonna love what I have to tell them about you She grabs one of the cats and just kind of throws it and gets out of the apartment you can hear him screaming While the aunt is sort of walking down the stairs this figure in the mask and raincoat Comes up and just starts stabbing away Super Crawls outside while it's raining She's screaming the whole time that it was it's Alice it was Alice The parents have finally got Alice into like to see a psychiatrist Alice has started menstruating right so she's Matureing she's becoming a woman but she didn't tell anybody but she's never told anybody so the dad gets a phone call It's like a little girl crying. I have your daughter's necklace. Meet me at this warehouse. We're yeah It's really creepy. She's making his way up the stairs and all of a sudden Somebody comes over the banister and stabs him in the arm and he kind of fights the person off It's him in the head with like a brick and he goes fucking down and he's out when he comes to He's all wrapped up start slowly rolling him towards the opening There's only a straight drop down the person has that cross that necklace and he grabs the cross with his teeth And starts beating him in the fucking teeth And just before the last roll the killer reveals herself that's where we're gonna end it We're not gonna tell you who the killer is it is a fantastic movie Just chalked full of all these neat themes Everything is done so smart and well for most people Religious people church is a place of comfort, you know and you go there and you feel safe and you know God is there whatever buttons horror movies that you was like You know the image of Mother Mary or whatever and it's frightening while somebody is getting killed This should not be frightening right it is it's the context in which it's used right So the movie touches on like you said tons of themes coming of age. She's like reaching purity. She's changing She feels invisible right so she's acting out She's acting like a bitch so people know that she exists wants attention She wants to be accepted. Yeah, and yeah, everybody just keeps taking everybody else aside not hers And she wants the right type of attention because the attention that she gets in the movie By mostly men is not the right kind of attention. Mm-hmm like Alfonso groping her and in that asshole Cop, oh, did you see her tits? She's just asking for it. Yeah No, that's not the type of attention a little girl wants, right? The movie also touches on I think the corruption of religion, right? Yeah, the ideals of religion how they're supposed to be so You know innocent and they're supposed to uplift people Well, it's not exactly what happens in this movie that has the opposite effect But that is also what does happen in real life. This killer is taken Yeah, these ideals and twisted them into their own weird morality the theme of what makes a family a family Because in this movie, it's like a broken family. We have you know, the father is kind of he's moved away He's got a different wife and she's left with the kids by herself and she's kind of Looked up down upon a little bit because well, she doesn't have the perfect family But it's also realistic because families like that exists. Exactly. Nobody's perfect acting in this is Fucking great. Yeah, you wouldn't think that they wouldn't be for the quality the film quality, right? But the acting is top-notch. You believe everything that these actors are portraying. Yeah, the grief the misery What Alice is going through all the crap that she goes through Alice is such a bitch But you still like her because because it's realistic Yeah, the way she acts and the way she kind of treats mr. Alfonso, but kind of gets a kick out of it Yeah, I think every kid has that in them. Exactly. Yeah it's also of course a really neat who done it because heavily implied in the beginning of the movie that Alice is the murderer because she has the rain Put on and that mask and she scares her sister, right? Then the murders are being conducted by the exact same figure, but is it really Alice? Well, you don't know until there is a reveal. There's still so much more that goes on in this movie Yeah, there's so many more twists and turns and a lot of times when movies reveal themselves too early They go downhill. Yeah, this actually starts to pick up steam. Yeah, because once you know who the killer is Yeah, there's a moment where the mother is in the same Room as the killer not knowing she is and it gets very tense the fucking VHS cover for this movie scared the shit out of us as kids and it's super creepy Oh, fuck even though it's not even the mask used in the movie But it's still a super creepy cover and I remember for myself like just seeing that I Never we never rented this movie No, and part of part of the reason why I never wanted to rent it was because of the cover Yeah, it looked fucking scary It's one of those movies were as a kid You would not appreciate all the subtleties and themes and brilliance that this movie has in it because You know, let's face it. You don't want that as a kid. You just want to be entertained You don't want to be thinking about it when it's over. What did all that mean? Yeah, you're not as a five-year-old kid You're not gonna think about all that shit. So yeah, if you want like a really good smart Horror movie that's got like a lot of themes and you can like finish watching the movie and go to bed Thinking about all what you know, what does all that mean? You know, there's like there's so much there You have to check out Alice Sweet Alice. It's such an underrated gem Deserves its place in the annals of horror history. Definitely. Definitely. So check out Alice Sweet Alice until next time Keep drinking