 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, and before we get started, what are we drinking today, Adam? Today, we are drinking Dragon of the Black Pool Black Logger. If you want the recipe, click the link above our heads. Today, we're going to bring a weird and wacky movie to you. It is 1986's Crawl Space. David Schmoller wrote and directed this. He did one of my favorite horror movies, Tourist Trap. I really love that movie. He did Puppet Master. Klaus Kinski is in this. He was in that remake Nosferatu movie. Talia Balsam, she plays the main female lead in this. She was in a lot of TV. One of the big ones was Mad Men. So Crawl Space starts off like any good horror movie should. Unnamed female looking through this attic. She comes across this person in this cage. Shines a light over and sees these jars with all these body parts in them and everything. Turns around. It's a shame. I really liked you. Then some weird mechanism thing that impales her from the back. It's a great opening scene because number one is a good kill. It keeps you wanting more like, oh, what's this about? Who's this person in this cage? This weird old guy at a kitchen table by himself with this gun. He puts his blood kind of on the bullet. Starts playing Russian roulette. Then it shows a kind of woman getting changed. She all snips the nipples. Yeah, it's so bizzare. Why would you ruin a perfectly good bra? He's all in the duck system like crawling through the ducks. Yeah, and her boyfriend is outside leering in the door. Yeah, then he comes in and they end up like having sex. Looking in on them and everything. It turns out the Klaus Kinski's character, Dr. Gunther, is like the landlord or owner of this apartment building. This very 80s gentleman comes inquiring about the room and it's been rented. Close the door. And right behind him is a good looking young woman and she comes up inquiring about the apartment and while it's available suddenly. You're very beautiful. Yeah. He's just looking at his eyes and his demeanors. He's just so off-putting, contemplating the apartment. She's got her back turned. He turns on the stove and it's flame stove. He puts his hand over the flame and he can see it's burning. And he's like, take it. Oh yes, I'll take it. All girls, of course, live in this apartment having a dinner together. And he sets these kind of rats out through these tunnels with these trap doors and these pulley systems and everything. The little trap door comes up. The rat comes out and he torments the girls as they're having their dinner. He's eating some chocolate bar and he's reading that book. Yeah, here's the knock and it takes him forever to answer the door. But finally he does and this guy's like, I finally found you. You know, I've been searching for you. And it turns out that Dr. Gunther ended up killing this guy's brother when he was a doctor in Buenos Aires. So this guy's after him. Dr. Gunther's dad was part of the Einsatz group in World War II. Dr. Gunther continued the work, I guess. Threatens to get him taken away, put in jail. Rigs up some chair with like a spike through it and they're like, on the arms of the chairs, like the buttons to activate the spike through the seat of the chair. Up his ass. Up into him, yeah. Watching these Nazi propaganda films and like putting makeup on and like lipsticks. Yeah. Lori comes home and she opens up the fridge and the fridge is covered in rats. But she goes into the bathroom. He's floating in the tub. She tries to leave the part like the building too and some cage thing comes and stops her. And they end up dueling it out in the attic and in the ducts of this apartment building. That dolly system gliding down the ducts. This movie is very artsy but it's also just as fun. Just from the opening scene alone. Yeah. This movie sets the tone. Grips you right in. Yeah, exactly. Right from the opening scene you know that Mr. Gunther is the killer. Yeah. There's no mystery. That's out of the way. Now you just get to watch him be a weirdo throughout the whole movie. They gave you just enough to inch you along enough to be perplexed enough to want to watch the rest of the movie. But it's very simple too right? Yeah, it's very simple. The way it's done it's almost point form really. They don't get too bogged down in the characters in the building either right? You see just enough to okay you get a sense that they're fun party girls and stuff. Also I love the fact that it takes place in this one building. There's only a few scenes that they show. It's the attic, the dots, and a couple of the rooms. If there was a scene that took place really outside the apartment it would take you out of the movie completely. Yeah. And I love the fact it's just all the whole thing right in the apartment. Yeah. You feel claustrophobic at times too. Yeah. The dialogue is hilarious. She keeps calling them the wrong name which is funny. She tells this guy that she reminds her of her old rotten uncle. Yeah. Oh that's nice. Like if I was with a girl you're like my old rotten uncle. Oh yeah I'm very turned on now. Yeah. Come on baby. It's just such a great scene. This movie is so 80s but in a good way. Not in a bad way. It's in a very reflective way. Like the way to fly is 80s. 80s old mullet. It reminds me of Ricardo Montabon. He's a very tragic character right? He writes in his diary that he's addicted to killing. I think the Russian roulette scene is left up to your own interpretation. What does that mean? Yeah. I think it means that he's trying to punish himself. Yeah. He wants to end it. He doesn't really enjoy killing but he has to keep killing. Or he enjoys it but he feels bad that he enjoys it almost. Right. So he's punishing himself. Yeah. Like I love the backstory for Dr. Gunther. I think it's a very cool backstory. Nazi and hiding stories always been kind of neat. That's true horror. It's real. That has happened in real life. There's these Nazis that were out there who escaped that were hiding in America. People would actually try to find them out. So it could be a real story. The music for this movie is great. It's right from the get go. It grips you in. It compliments every scene perfectly. Another great thing about this movie is the lighting. It worked so well through the Venetian blinds. Right. The shadows and everything. It's just so creepy and when he's in the ducts again the same thing. There's those lines always kind of across his face as he's peering through. The projection of the Nazi propaganda. Always projecting these weird shadows on him. It creates the atmosphere. Klaus Kinski is perfect for the role too. He's a bit of an asshole on set though, right? Bit of an asshole. They clash. More than an asshole. Everybody wanted to kill him basically. That's where there's a documentary that's called Please Kill Mr. Kinski. He's lucky he walked out of there alive. Apparently Klaus Kinski isn't a big fan of directors. I watched all these interviews with Klaus Kinski. He's like, this guy, fuck, he's just a weird person. Another cool thing about this movie is all the weird devices that Dr. Gunther uses to kill his victims. Yeah, it's like a hallmark of this movie. They're macabre. They're macabre. You can tell there's a lot of thought put into them and it's almost like he makes someone else trigger it themselves. Where he's done actually the person doing the killing, right? Yeah. He's very akin to like almost like the collector almost. Yeah. This movie is a lot like people under the stairs, the collector. Yeah. You get a little bit of like Buffalo Bill in there. Yeah. And we love those movies so that's why we like Klaus Kinski. Yeah. This movie with like a really good antagonist and this kind of claustrophobic house that you must escape. Your light crawl space for sure. Yeah, definitely check it out. Until next time, keep drinking. Drinking.