 Hello and welcome to another edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started. What are we drinking? We're drinking the demeanor's fate Russian Imperial stout. Mmm. Today. We have another patreon request. It is requested by it came from the nerd cave You can follow them on Instagram. They would like us to cover 1977's rituals, which is a Canadian movie. Yeah, that's right This movie was directed by Peter Carter This movie starts Hal Holbrook and he was in John Carpenter's The Fog Yeah, he was also in creep show Lawrence Danes also in this and he was in happy birthday to me and Scanners both in the same year. That's right I think we covered happy birthday to me you did link above the movie starts off with five doctors or surgeons on Vacation basically they're taking some time off on a bonding trip right from the get-go There's sort of tensions already flaring up the pilot turns around the plane all takes a nose Look like somebody tried to pull your ass all out through your stomach So they get there and right away they start treaching through the forest They're trying to not get their packs wet and the cameras They finally make camp for the night drinking dancing around the fire and chanting and everything the next morning They get up and our boots are gone. Where's our boots like well, they're up where we left them like no They're not there. Somebody stole our boots DJ. He gets mad at all of them He's like one of the things was for you guys to bring an extra pair of shoes, and he didn't do it He jay he hikes to this dam that's up the river because he's got an extra pair of shoes Yeah He leaves everybody else there to stay and to wait for him to get back during the night They kind of hear rustling in the woods see a deer head that's been put on a spike Sort of like a weird omen for them, right the next morning. They decide They're not gonna stick around anymore not with all this weird shit going on they patch up their feet They're wearing all these bags and everything in these shitty socks and they start hiking into the forest They come across this big beehive that just gets thrown into their path Roll down these hills and everything and get into this water to try and get away from the bees They see Abel at the shore his neck has been broken one of them. They say that they saw Possibly a figure up on the ridge that maybe threw them off So they decide to keep moving forward and they got to go through this river this line That's been put between the two sides of the river and they figure out that's DJ's line He used it to get across follow his path and they're taking this line and underneath the water And there's all these bear traps under water and you're like oh man when it's someone gonna get it Yeah, lo and behold snap Martin gets his leg caught in his bear trap. He's fucked, right? They're all doctors. They know how bad it is, right? And they got a reset the foot. How do you want your instep? They've set his foot in this scream that that guy makes is oh horrible Martin's out of commission. They got to build a stretcher for him now They got to carry him through the water and these rapids Up these hills and these mountains while somebody is out there during this time Harry and Mitzi start to get at each other's Throats yeah and all this shit from the past starts popping up in the meantime Martin is slowly dying because his foot's getting infected and he finally reached the top of this big mountain and it's like Oh, they don't even know how close they are to this dam But I guess they're closer than they were before camp out They don't even have like a tent or anything you know sleeping out in the open They wake up in the morning and they look over and there's see this head on this spike and they get closer It's Abel's head is on this spike right in the ground throws a head off The whole head Mitzi and Harry get into a big argument about what to do with Martin Mitzi doesn't want to carry him anymore, and it's a big butting of heads carry Martin again Make it to the dam. They see the dam and that's where we're gonna end the plot So if you want to see what happens at the dam keep watching rituals because it's a great great Yeah, this movie wouldn't be what it is without the actors. No, like let's get real here These actors are Fantastic for the roles they play you feel the grittiness right and you feel the shit that they're going through you feel the friendship Mm-hmm as well as the fact that they also are butting heads. It's a hard thing to get across Yeah, we're friends, but we also kind of don't get along right but in the end we're friends Hal Holbrook Himself is great. Lawrence Dain is awesome. I love the different personalities that lock heads. Yeah, it's perfect And because they're such good actors it makes this so much more believable Even in the beginning when they're just chatting in the diner having breakfast or whatever It's like I believe them and even like the bitching right? It's like, yeah, okay You can be really close friends. You're still gonna have disagreements. You're still gonna bitch at each other It's reality Which brings us to the character building is great You know it starts off but you get a little bit of a glimpse of what their life is their professional life But as the movie progresses and they start budding heads all the stuff from their personal lives now start to come out Shit gets worse and they start opening up about all this garbage in the past brings out the worst in them Right, but it also brings out the best in the beginning of the movie He seems sort of a bit of a distant Asshole a little bit, right? But he starts to become more and more compassionate as the trip unfolds Yeah, it opens up a bit more. The character arcs are great too. So not just character building but character arcs How you see them all change throughout the movie from start to finish in the entire movie That's a constant is this moral debate, right? Yeah, that is the theme of the whole movie What is right and what is wrong? Yeah, and it even transcends Their characters and into their past which they dredge up throughout the movie, right? Which is amazing. It's amazing how they managed to do that Purely through dialogue who starts off with him just talking to diner about Being a doctor's and what's right about the practice. What's wrong? Yeah, is there a right or wrong? When mitzi doesn't want to carry martin anymore. We should make a run for it. He's done He's a goner. He's not going to survive. We should save ourselves and harry. No, we should carry him What is the right answer? Is there one? Yeah, there really isn't really isn't and I think that's what this movie is all about There really isn't a right or wrong In this situation. It's you just have to do what you got to do Yeah, and really you have to work together. It's about working together Yeah, if that's maybe the the theme of it too, right? Maybe a secondary theme It's that you got to work together because if you don't you'll never get out of a situation like this by yourself Yeah, the setting of this movie of course is great and it's really cool how the setting changes They're plopped in the middle of this kind of forest So it starts of like a kind of a forest atmosphere then they make it to the water and it becomes more of like a Rushing river is the setting. Yeah, and then they get past that and they get to this forest It's all burnt out from a forest fire Which is a great looking setting. Yep, then they make it up to like the mountains and they're on these mountain tops In many ways the setting the the backdrops for the movie are just as much of a killer Yeah, as whoever's out there Then they get to the dam and the dam's another cool setting And then there's another setting yet at the end of the movie that they make it too Each setting also seems to bring out different aspects of their relationship to it seems right? Like as the settings become more desolate it starts to Create more despair it starts off. They're all happy. They're all alive That's number one there and they're in the forest with, you know, these nice vibrant trees. Everything's alive There's birds and then as it progresses they keep going to these settings. They're more dead Yeah, no by the time they make it to that forest. There was all burnt out by a forest fire It's like it's desolate. Yeah, and they too have become like desolate. Yeah, they're sort of losing it more and more Setting reflects what's happening to them. The effects and the kills in this movie are simple and basic, right? But they're so effective for the type of movie that this is There's not many effects in this movie at all few that are there Look spectacular. Yeah, like the head on the stick It looks great. It's like it looks like a real fucking dead head great effect where Someone not going to mention who gets their hand blown off with a fucking shotgun It looks like whoa like and it's quick too and it's like the guy's hand is fucking gone There's another great effect when they actually reveal the killer the way he looks Is an effect and it looks really good. There's also an effect with fire too Which is done really well and the kills too for this movie are great A lot of it is behind the scenes as a viewer you don't even really know yourself But it did happen and it scares the shit out of them and you're even more intrigued a bit of comedy in this movie and It works. It's just there to kind of break the ice a little bit You know a lot of it it comes from their banter boys being boys talking shit There's one part that really is funny where Mitzi and harry start fighting in the river and they got martin on that stretcher and they forget about martin He's all kind of screwed up There's a waterfall And then it just kind of cuts to them like with martin again at night. So you don't know how they got him back Yeah, they got him. Yeah The mystery in this movie is great too because at first you're not even sure if there is a killer These things are happening, but they could be by coincidence or accident or they could be by design You don't know once you realize there is somebody out there after them It's the motive of what he's doing is a good mystery like why is he doing this and he leaves clues He leaves x-rays behind of these botched surgeries and shit, right? Yeah, and then as surgeons They're like, wow who would have done a butcher job like this like who would have done this is terrible They're kind of getting mad At whoever did this and maybe it was one of them, right? You don't really know Maybe this is a revenge story or something like that the lack of music for this movie is interesting because This movie doesn't really require it such a great atmosphere on its own Done by the settings and the characters that work everything up around it that You don't miss music there's a little bit Yeah, there is a little bit of music here and there where there needs to be to kind of elevate things a bit You don't even notice it. It's just the tension in this movie. You're so enthralled by what's going on Music is incidental too much music could almost take you out of The setting they want you to be sucked in they want you to be there with these guys And you you are you're there with them ending of this movie is great too We're not gonna wreck it for you, but it's a terrific ending like it is fucking tense and the clock is ticking A lot of people are this movie's coined as a the answer to deliverance or something like the Canadian deliverance Yeah, not deliverance at all This movie is completely different besides the setting and there being a bunch of boys on a trip There's not really is different. Yeah, there's there's not much more that really is the same I think this movie is deeper than deliverance Deliverance is a lot more face value. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, because this one dives into this weird past that the characters have Yeah And deliverance is really all in the moment. Yeah, and this movie is kind of more about Not more about but it really drudges up the past It's more about them paying for their sins. Yeah, the cat and mouse thing is completely different The dynamic between the characters is completely different than deliverance. Yeah, not even close actually If you want a really good Horror thriller that can almost be a slasher. Yeah, because there is a guy out there killing fucking people off It may not be like Stabby and gory, but it's kind of a slasher. Yeah, just before dawn comes to mind. Yeah, but way better Way better 10 exillion times better It is really a masterpiece and it's canadian and it's canadian totally check out rituals It's worth a hundred percent of your time. Oh, yeah, for sure You'll be sucked right in from the get go and until next time keep drinking