 Hello and welcome to the ACMI podcast show the show where we experiment with all things podcasting Listen listen along as we click fumble and fade our way through some hands-on learning with ACMI staff and members In this pilot episode, we will Some of our favorite spooky movies since tis the season for all things ghoulish paranormal and possessed Today, I'm your host Katie, but next time I might be someone else With me today is All funzo Doug and Jen all ACMI members and I'll hear and interested in what it takes to make a good podcast Thanks for being with us today. We're very happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Hi Thanks for being here. This is my first time podcasting. We'll see how it goes No nerves at all So let's talk about Halloween. What is your favorite Halloween? Doug Well, um, you know, I was just thinking about we're talking a little earlier about how exciting it was when you're a trick-or-treater to get a You know the full-size candy and then there was talk about Kit Kats And I remember getting up full like a big Jumbo Kit Kat that was a that was a pretty exciting Halloween for me Yeah, I remember we always used to talk about like, oh, which house has the big candy bars, right? It's like oh, it's that house like all the kids know which house go there Planet prep. Yeah. Yeah, I think Kit Kat and then now today Kit Kats are oh, man all different flavors and who knew who knew back then They're so good. Have you had the green tea Kit Kat? Not yet. No, I'll have to get those for next time What about you Jen? Well, I'm not the best person to talk about trick-or-treating as a kid because we weren't really allowed to Because I came from a large family and my parents were not up to getting us all dressed up and Going out for Halloween, but I take my daughter and I am a forever Snickers person So when she does get them, it's it's it's bargaining time Because that's that's my candy of choice is like a little nutty little caramel Snickers definitely I hear it satisfies I Always bring Snickers bars on my on my hikes to like give to my friends if someone's getting grumpy. Yeah Yeah, it's a health food, right? There's nuts. Yeah Nougat, I believe That's about that's part of the food pyramid I Think there's a tie for me Butterfinger That one is You know, I try and show my kids that you know, like, you know We're only gonna have you know just the right amount of candy and we have to say no and put the bag away at some point But then, you know 1111 30 p.m. Rolls around and then you know you start looking through the through the bag and then the only problem with butterfingers is Leaves a lot of evidence it crumbles Oh, yeah, I got a lot of chocolate stains on my on my shirt the next day, but I would say butterfingers and Baby Baby Ruth a classic Goonies reference Right There's there's a I believe there's a baby Ruth reference in them in the movie Goonies but yes, baby Ruth and and Butterfingers baby Ruth because Being a small when I was a small child. I remember my dad after work Would sometimes bring some candy home and usually it was one of those big charms Lollipops And then baby Ruth was was another was another one so I think I just equate it to two good times when I was a kid So so I'll go with baby Ruth to be I'll go with baby But to go back to your Butterfingers for a second What I love them, but what are they made of do we that's a good question. What is it? What is it evil? It's evil. Okay evil things Well, there must be some sort of milk chocolate. Let's call it milk chocolate. That's right. Let's call it low-grade milk chocolate Yep, and then what's inside? lard Things that I want to think about around 11 30 p.m. And there's telltale dust from that in a way like there is it'll be on your shirt orange dust on your shirt or in the couch Butterfinger over that like a let's say a heath bar, you know So it's just like a butterfinger like you're not gonna break your tooth off like you know biting into it But with the heath bar like you got to kind of you got to work that you know And so it's just and but they're the same thing. It's like candy covered over with the chocolate, right? It's just but that's the the plus of the butterfinger is that you can actually take a bite out of it And not lose a tooth while you're going It's sticky though, it gets stuck in my teeth. That's like my one thing about butterfingers I think and the age the age of the butterfingers Will say here that my my my researcher and personal assistant Just brought me some breaking breaking news How is a butterfinger made a concoction of Molasses oh in a very 1880s right molasses corn syrup sugar and something healthy You know if you're dehydrated have a couple of butterfingers This podcast has been worth it just for This podcast brought to you by Butterfingers Well, I'll say Reese's Reese's peanut butter cup is my favorite it's not in Kit Kat bar, but I'll say Reese's That's just me cuz I don't like peanut. I'm not a huge peanut butter fan. Oh, yeah, I could see that I nerded out really hard when I was a kid I Counted all my Halloween candies one year and I actually did a bar graph. That's how nerdy I am I was like, I was so obsessed with peanut butter cups. I was like, I'm picking all the peanut butter cups at all these houses I'm gonna count it. I'm gonna graph it. I'm like just see I don't know why The house is to visit it's like well these people the folks that like pass up Peterborough cups So the that little bar Larger in comparison, so you're just doing research. You had data. Yeah Great. Well, let's move on to our scary movie topic. So scary movies or TV shows, I guess you said the goonies Which I guess is not it certainly scared has scary elements to it scary elements But I don't think I don't think you'd put it in the in the horror horror section At blockbuster. I just dated myself. Sorry No wedding wheel I was thinking my favorite Halloween movie is Shaun of the Dead just kind of like a horror like comedy It's about zombies. It's with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So it's Kind of comedic It was my first zombie movie that I think I saw and it was a good like intro into zombies because now I love zombies, but at first it was like a little too scary, but it's a comedy. So you get some laughs in It's a hard question, huh? It's a hard question. I had to admit that I'm not a big horror movie genre person But things that skitter really fast in movies. Oh scare the bejesus out of me I like things that like crawl across the floor super fast or like, you know, crawl up a wall You know at like three times the speed of a spider like that is just not my thing But I am a stranger things fans strangely enough And they've got plenty of gore and like scary stuff, but um But yeah, some of the more hardcore horror stuff. That's not me Sam. Yeah You know, I was when I was thinking of this question I was No, I'm thinking about I'm staying right now. I'm taking care of my elderly mother in the house I grew up in I hadn't been back for a long time. So a lot of my Answers to these questions I go. I'm kind of a wash and nostalgia, you know where I am and maybe I'm that way anyway, but What I immediately thought of was was a TV show and it's not a I mean not technically a horror TV show or anything, but it definitely remember getting scared by it But yet loving watching it was in search of you ever remember in search of with Leonard Nimoy. Oh he would It was like this half-hour show was on every week and it would be like, you know in search of the Bermuda Triangle Solved mysteries exactly and early but 1970s Oh, right. So the other thing that adds to the level of creepiness for me or like, you know, they're They're sweaty because it's the 70s, you know They get the 70s clothes on, you know a lot of bad acting reenactments, which are creepy too like People doing pretending to be pilgrims during the witch trials, but but they still look like they're from 1975 kind of and strange camera angles and weird Zither like check this out. Yeah, I would highly recommend it highly recommend it There was one about a couple about UFOs and to get kidnapping and things like that and I just remember I'm in love in it But it was just very creepy and then they also had like experts, you know experts in the paranormal that would come in and They were always creepy because they lent this kind of you know at the time thinking oh, there's a scientist, you know This was credibility's must be true like those like Sasquatch and Bigfoot TV shows. Yes Oh, like we have a real biologist here on the team exactly really questioning, right? Right so it must be so telekinesis must be real like things Things like that. So that that whole thing I love that show and made me start to watch it And it start to get into a kind of a binge Checking it out again. So yeah in search of in Lender Nemoi's voice also Added a lot to that classic. Yeah local local boy. Yeah Well kind of like Jen I would I would say horror is not my my genre But I guess go again going back to childhood. Maybe the original nightmare nightmare in Elm Street That's that's a Halloween movie. That's a scare. That's a scary one. Yeah My wife is not sitting next to me or anywhere here, but that Halloween is her is her favorite But for me, I think I'd go with a good Freddy Krueger the original original Freddy Krueger Someone had a claw to my head. I think I think I think Freddy Krueger. I think that's the one I'd go with Remember the the song in the in the there was not a song. What do you call it a? a No, not a chance. There was like there was like a song There was like a song there was a little song that this that the school kids would would sing and it was One two Freddy's coming for you three four better lock your door 56 better get a crucifix seven eight I Don't remember And Yeah, you're wound up to I don't know. I only got you up to up to six and seven little children singing Yes, little children singing very scary scary. Yes, the shiny makes me think of the shine. Yes. Yes And for the life me I can't find anything on it, but there was like a zuny fetish doll So like this this fellow is walking along the street and a street vendor is selling these like very You know tribal looking dolls and I guess like a key falls off of the doll And so the doll comes to life But he has no idea and he brings it home And it's just like little does he know that like you know now the dolls like alive and is like trying to kill him Basically, and I I that had to be one of the scary it maybe just because I was a lot smaller I'm like, oh my god that doll came to life. You know it's trying to stab him underneath the bathroom door like you know And that was a it was closer to real as a smaller person But it's like I can never find like the name of the movie You Jen we'll watch this together It's trilogy of trilogy of terror. Oh, is it yeah, and it's it's like well We did not set this up. It was like 1976. It was it was it was filmed. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean a little doll Yeah, oh my god, and then the ending, you know the ending of it, right? It doesn't Doesn't the soul of the doll like jump into him or something. That sounds right to me Oh spoiler alert. Sorry everybody. If you haven't watched this movie since 1976 Spoiler alert spoiler alert that used to scare that it was very scary. Oh, man Well, I want to make sure I give our we have an audience. Yeah, I don't know if they want to hop on and give us their Their movie wrecks We welcome charlotte's hi charlotte's on our mic and Texas chainsaw massacre. No, really? Well, I don't know if it's my favorite I don't know if I'd ever watch it again, but I Remember several scenes from it and you know just the devices they use to create that suspense and horror and Actually abject fear, you know, I haven't seen that one Okay, I'll think about it. It's the classic thing where You know, there's even a Commercial that they made for some Some you know car or something Yes, recent recent commercial. Yeah, the kids are they say all the gyco or something You know, these kids like run and hide and it's yeah, and it's behind the you know a bank of chainsaws and right I know what you're talking about But it's referencing them. But yeah, the movie. Yeah, and then there's black mirror the TV series Where you get to choose like They choose the path one of the episodes is like a choose your own adventure. Yeah But it's a little more kind of tech scary tech They're like each episode is like a futuristic like what if kind of scenario So there's probably like an AI episode. There's like, you know, it's it's they're really realistic. So it's kind of Yeah, yeah, I think they actually got some There's some controversy about it I'm scared just thinking about it Karen joins us as well. Do you have any? Yeah? Can everybody hear me? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, actually one of my favorite movies was witches of Eastwick and What's really interesting about that movie is it was made about Eight or ten years after I graduated from Cohasset High School the it was filmed actually in Cohasset and you know, it's a town where I went from middle school to high school graduated high school in Cohasset and it was for me. It was just great seeing, you know, some of the places I had visited while I was at school there was It was more of a comedy then, you know, there was some pretty scary very graphic Costuming it was does anybody remember was Jack Nicholson and Cher and Susan and Michelle Pfeiffer And it was it was hilarious. I just watched it last night and just I Completely forgot about the underlying plot, you know, it was really it was kind of like a relationship movie at the same time you know, there were three desperately lonely women and What they wanted more than anything else was a relationship and who answers the call but Jack Nicholson as Darrell Van Horn the devil and You know, he just visited upon this very, you know parochial New England town and Caused all kinds of havoc, but it's still one of my favorites Well, when you say Cohasset, this might be too real, but it makes me think of that murder that happened recently Anyways not to mention bears. Oh bears. Oh boy Cohasset had bears murders. Oh my gosh. I think that was within the last year. Well, my oldest lived lives in Salem Do y'all go up there? What's Salem? Until November. Yeah, November. Don't go this month Unless you're on a bicycle or yeah, they set up three satellite Parking things and you can take it. Oh, wow It's just like it's kind of like the biggest tourist trap there is but in a ham. Yeah, but it's They they make a lot of money Well, I think that movie Hocus Pocus That that the sequel I think came out a year ago and people were I mean they had filmed the original in Salem And I think that that they actually filmed the the sequel in Salem as well So it's just I remember there being a big hubbub is I had actually never seen Hocus Pocus until then which is like, you know, I'm a little behind there But it's just um, but it was I mean it was an interesting movie and and the Paranormal and things like that like those kinds of things are always really interesting too. My daughter loved it But it's like Salem. It's just one of those places where it's kind of Halloween all year long early is yeah Does anybody watch the the Chucky? Oh, yeah They are like the classic I have never watched them and I never will I will not my grave with a creepy doll in your future, okay? But I think I kind of like the the humor and horror, you know, like that that combo is much Yeah, well, give me comedic zombies any day Cool, well, maybe that Maybe that wraps up This spooky first episode of the AC my podcast show Thank you so much for joining us if you want to make some scary films, you know, you we are a TV station We have equipment the resources and I'll help you need to make a scary film But as for this podcast tune in next time and maybe you'll witness another person hosting in this chair Or join us if you're in Arlington and want to learn what podcasting is all about my name is Katie With me today was Jan Karen Doug Alfonzo and Charlotte And our music today was by Kevin McLeod a popular provider for real tea-free music