 Do you know what kind of dinosaur uses cheap toilet paper? What kind? A megasaur ass. Welcome back to our Stupid Rags with the Edits. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can also- It's done! I'm Twitter! With twat. Twote. I think there's some Patreon falling through the can, where the bell's going to use gumball. Twitter, where the juicy content comes out of your twat. That's true. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Look up in your backyard. There's trees down. The squirrel was getting on to the bird feeder through that branch, so I tore that branch down. Oh, well he's pissed because he's back over there now. I know, it doesn't stop him. There's nothing I can do to stop this squirrel. No. Anyways, welcome to Halloween month. I think we're calling it Halloween Horror Month, but yeah! I don't know if that it's going to stick to all the films that we watched during this month. We're just going to, in case you don't know, I've been playing this, that we're going to watch Scary Slash Spooky Slash Thriller, even though I know this is not the main genre of Indian cinema. There's not a ton of it. I know that. Like my underscore. It was great. But that's what we're doing Halloween month. As best we can. I thought it would be good to dip into Assamese films again, because this will be, what, our fourth? I believe that's correct. And we're exclusively only watching two directors. That's it. Because that's all there are. Rima Das, and the one like... There's only two directors in the whole Assamese industry. Yeah, that's it. I don't know if everyone knew that. Only two. Say his name. Bhaskar Hazarika. We interviewed. We interviewed our Dost. Yep. And this is a 2015, his first film ever. Ka-th-on-ol-ly? Sure. Ka-th-on-ol-ly. Ka-th-on-ol-ly. And it's written and directed by him. Yeah. It's based off of four folktales from the Assamese culture. Told everyone in that area kind of grew up with, would know them, like these folklore kind of things. And he kind of did a modernization slash more, making them a little more creepy as well, and enter while you wove them into kind of one film as well. But it's starring Sima Biswa Adil Hassan, The Wonderslong. Yep. And a few other people. Who I forgot was in it. So when he popped up, I was like, oh, hey. Say these ones? Zarifa Wahid and Umila Mahata. And a couple other people. And forgive him his pronunciation. I'm thinking of the four main ones that we saw. But if you haven't watched it, go watch it. Come back. There's gonna be 100 Fence spoiler review. Came out in 2015. We saw it on, what was it? Movie. Movie Saints. Yeah. We saw his first, his second film, Amis, which we love. Love Amis. Go watch that one as well. But Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Well, the first thing I wanna do is thank you. If you're watching this, that means that you are a cinema lover and you love to see everything from all over the regions. Because oftentimes, the ones that aren't, the mainstream popular things, they tend to not get a lot of attention. So if you're watching this, kudos to you, cinema lover. Good job. One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen in my life because the stories were so weird and I liked it. I have only one gripe and it's given with a big grain of salt as far as just extending grace. And that is, well, there wasn't anything blaringly, there wasn't anything blaringly bad with acting at all. There just wasn't anything riveting in the acting. This was definitely much more story-driven than any kind of performance-driven. The story is great. Acting was fine. It's kind of like how the other one was too. Yeah. Those had good performances. I thought those performances had to be a bit more experienced. Yeah, yeah. And that was probably what it all comes down to was just experience, probably. Well, some of these actors are veterans. But what, really? Oh yeah. One, Adele, obviously. Well, he's of course. She's in bandit queen. Those were the two I was gonna point out. Those are the two probably the most better, but there might be some other ones. Nothing blaringly bad. This gets for me, and I'm almost done with my rating system. Because the way it's weighted, the way it's weighted is gonna be believability and story. If you fail on believability, the movie's gonna get an F because you have to have believability. And if it's insanely over-the-top, straining credulity, then it's the entertainment body. Like DVLJ. Right. Then you're not looking at believability. You're looking at entertainment value, like bad stunt work. If it's intentionally bad, it's not believable, but man, it's entertaining. So anyway, this gets for story. Not only was it really original and bizarre, which I'm sure we'll get into, I don't know if this is intentional with the stories themselves, but I found them to be deeply profound metaphors for the struggle of women. Yeah, well, I think that's, I think that was, I actually really enjoyed the film as well. I thought it was extremely unique. I think our toast, yeah, Baskar, he does a really good job at telling stories and unique stories. And creepy. Really good. I love his creepiness. He's a really good filmmaker. If you haven't watched our interview, please go watch it. I thought he did a really good job. And go watch Amos this month. And you could tell, being his first film, you could tell even growth from this to Amos. You could. But for a first film. But for a first film, it's absolutely, but you could definitely tell the budgetary constraints he had. Sure. But that makes for some great filmmaking because you have to be so creative. Yes. Because you don't have the money to do kind of what you want. I bring this up all the time. It's like I am a Contameter. The constraints of I am a Contameter, where you have to write 10 syllables per line and 14 lines with maybe a breath to give you an 11th thing. Those constraints actually release a creativity that wouldn't be there. And that's the same thing with this kind of filmmaking when you have a constraint of budget, constraints of time, it causes you to go outside the box and often some of the most creative things happen with those constraints. Yeah. So I think he does really well because even in Amos, he had a low budget. Yeah. And he did so much with that. So much with it. And you could tell his growth even though he did really well in this as well. The story was definitely the part. But yeah, it's, because I think they're known, I think somebody said they're known as grandma's stories. Okay. And so it's stories that parents or grandparents would tell kids. To try to teach them a lesson almost. Isn't it funny? That's kids stories like Mother Goose Rhymes, the frickin' twist. Most of them are. Yeah. Most of the original Mother Goose or Disney stories. Yeah, they're twisted. The originals are very twisted. Like the original Cinderella, it's actually her, is like they start cutting off their own feet to try to fit into the slipper. Right. And so it gets really gory. Really gory. And that's how most of the like the grim fairy tales are, they're pretty dark. And I haven't, I haven't enjoyed an inanimate object. Oh. That becomes animated as much since Castaway. Yeah. It was really, I don't know if you- I started to become attached to that object. I didn't know if it was pulled on a string. I couldn't figure it out. What exactly they did. I know. They did a really good job. Great job. I couldn't see a string, I couldn't see whatever they did or if they, I don't think they CGI'd it in. No, I don't either. Maybe they, I don't know if they put a remote control inside of it. Oh, you may, it might have been a remote control ball, like they had some of those. That could be it. Yeah. They could have put a remote control car in it and it still got the signal and they could drive it, but it was flawless. It looked like a coconut, like a, like a green coconut too, but I think it's like a, something like a green apple or like nothing. It's the elephant apple. Elephant apple, that's what it looks like. Yeah. And it's like in tropical regions, I know they're in South America, but they're, it's particular to this region. It's funny because in Drani ate an apple. I forgot what it's called, but she showed it to me the other day and she opened it up and it looked like something from outer space. It was, again, another interesting, cause that fruit in this, if you've seen this film and when you see this film, never seen that before. No, I've never seen that before. We've never seen that before. But yeah, they definitely gave you a love for this inanimate object. Sure did. Well, I guess not technically, it's... Well, yeah, spoilers. So, once again, if you're still here, go watch it please. Go watch it, because here's the rest of the spoilers. So yeah, there's a little boy essentially in there. Well, there was a girl. Oh yeah, it was a girl. Sorry. A little girl. And I believe if she wasn't albino, she was real close. Especially in the daylight. They're walking in that daylight scene. Very white. Very, very light skinned. Yeah. But the way they decided to shoot it as the apple, the elephant apple, was so, it was so nice. Cause you're like, this is adorable. I want one. Yeah. I want one of those things to follow me around. And I started feeling bad that she got shunned. She couldn't help the fact that she gave birth to this when her husband kicks her out. I'm like, you dick. It's not her fault she gave birth to that. Yeah. Yeah. I love that whole storyline and then that arc and kind of, each story had its own metaphor behind it. It did. Like the one, the great one obviously of the mom trying to kill her step-daughter. Unbelievable. Great. I loved it. This is slow murder by splunch forced trauma. This is terrible. Are they really going to break her hands and her feet? Yeah. He just literally murdered her for that holy, but like that one was so interesting cause obviously she was kind of jealous of her for the husband loving basically her more than her. And I don't know if she had schizophrenia. I don't know if it was like a demon that was talking to possession. I think the story, and it's open to interpretation. I think it lends itself to the fact that that was a demon that was demon that was representing her in that. Yeah. Cause at first I was like, oh, that's a creepy guy. And then you're like, is he real? Right. I don't think he's real. I thought like this is the guy she's meeting up in the woods and having a fair with. But his eyes were so tweaked of like, eyes with the window to the soul. That's not a human being. That guy is a spirit. And then he just, I thought it was cool when he just shows up while she's there and he whispers in it. And he's always like smiling when he whispers in her ear. Did a really good job with that performance and acting. Yeah, he did. Cause, and just the fact that once again, our doce, massacred to tell a story in that way. And like I was saying, we are completely oblivious to any of these stories. Don't. So it was coming in as naive as you can be. Yep. Really good. And so it was a really unique way to tell like that style of story, to have a character like that. Yeah. Out of body. That's not really like a spirit or something like that. But make them, it's very believable. I don't believe this was a real person. I know. I don't believe it was a demon. As absurd as everything was, there was a level of believability to it that kept me intrigued. It wasn't absurdist, even though it was absurd. Even like, It was like Guillermo d'Otoro stuff. Exactly. It reminded me a lot of a Guillermo kind of thing that he would like. I loved the whole reason behind, like when the film starts off, how do you not love the fact he's fricking burying a baby alive? Like, okay, this is gonna be macabre. And then we get the pay off. Oh, I did not like that book too. We get the pay off later of why all the babies are like, yeah, yeah, because if he hadn't done it in 14, I was gonna poison him. Yeah, and I was gonna hack him up. Thank God he buried the babies. Yeah. So weird. Very strange. But that whole other story of that because you were like, this guy killed her babies. Yeah. Three of them. Three of them. And so like really, and then that whole, I did not expect like the babies to come out of the ground. But it was awesome. And did you notice the one? Cause low budget, he did it. It was obviously, it was like a baby doll. But I was like, Yeah, the I goo. That was great. That was great. I really enjoyed that. I did too. And then what was the other one was? Oh, the story of the, The marriage. The marriage. Python. Python, which is once again, so weird. And everybody's just talking about it. Like it's this normal thing. Mama, he smells. No, don't turn, don't insult him like that. It's such a weird thing. But it worked so well cause he kind of, he bought into the world very early on. And it was the second marriage. Like it didn't just happen once. Yeah. And the whole thing was the greed. Right. The grandma, cause it at one time happened. And so they're like, yeah, now you're going to marry it. Cause this guy's a prince. Right. But they forced it cause the other snake came into the village on its own. They forced the second one to do it. Very strange. Very strange. But also very cool. A great story of obviously greed, jealousy. Yeah. And that's what I alluded to earlier that I think is, I don't know if these stories teach those morals and they're wrapped up this way. Or if Bhaskar did them. But what I saw in this was this, these four vignettes doing this powerful metaphor about pretty much every kind of issue women face from patriarchy, which the woman who they said was a witch because she gave birth to the elephant apple. Yeah. And the way she was treated by her husband because, and that goes into the way women are treated whether they give them a son or a daughter and then arrange marriages, the one with the snake. And then the way little girls are treated and forced labor and child. I mean, pretty much if you really sat down you could do a paper. This would be a great thing to do in a theater class, college level. And go, when you watch this film, pinpoint each of the issues of human rights that you see are violated by women in this representatively or directly. And I bet you'd come up with like nine or 10. Absolutely. Easy. Absolutely. Yeah. There's another writer on this. Who wrote it along with Bhaskar. Yeah. Arupa Patangia Kalita. Because Bhaskar wrote the script. And apparently the dialogue was also helped by Arupa. I wanted to mention that. But another thing of really, one of my favorite aspects of the film was the score. Agreed. Oh my word. The score was getting past it. Some of the stuff they had for the themes of some of the characters. It was like extremely creepy sounds and just strange noises. Almost like they used it a lot in get out. Like the weird sounds hitting on a hollow something. I don't know what it was. But it worked so, so well. So absolutely agree. The composer is Amamath Hazarika. I thought it was one of my absolute favorites from the beginning to the end. And especially with the stepmom that just kept killing her. She had like this really creepy. And I think it was, they almost had some themes that kind of came back a bunch. Yes. Because of certain things. I think the demon whenever something was coming out of her, it was like a certain sound. But I thought it was really creative. Yeah, I did too. So I like that aspect a lot. Yeah, my only, the only thing. And again, it's acting's hard. And I don't feel like any, I don't feel like they worked with everything they had. And it wasn't that there were bad performances. There just weren't any that were grandly riveting. This isn't a movie I'd point to to say, hey, if you want to see some great acting, watch this movie. But not every movie has to have that. This is a movie with great story. It's weird. And for this month of Halloween where you get creepy scary stuff, good start. Yeah. And I think that's probably what we're going to get most in the films is more story driven. Cause obviously the whole point of at least here is to scare you. Right. Jump scares are a big deal. Obviously sometimes there's great performances than like get out and occasionally, but I think normally with like horror, the horror genre as a whole, it's more story driven than most. It definitely is with the one who I love and is at the top of the game right now is Michael Flanagan. Both his films and his TV series are, he does some of the best jump scares, which I love. And then his stories are so strong. Haunting of Hill House. If you've never seen the Haunting of Hill House and the Haunting of Blind Manor, see Hill House first. The Haunting of Hill House is, I don't want to say anything to give anything away, but the storyline when you stay through that show and you see where it's going, it's just Michael Flanagan's really, really intelligent writer of scary stuff. Yeah. So I thought this was a great start to Halloween month. What should be the next Halloween film that we watch in terms of like I said, scary, horror, spooky, thriller. And before you say street, we researched the fact that we've seen that. Yeah, that style. Yeah. Of street. And we've seen Tombad. Tombad. Amis, those style of films let us know what you think. And even if they're a campy, scary film. So like Young Frankenstein for American cinema, that counts as a Halloween movie. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't have to be like scary, scary, horror, horror, horror. It could be campy horror. But what should be next and Asami's? Yeah. What should be our next Asami's film that we should watch? Let us know down below.