 Curse his head floating in the toilet. Nothing better than a good head toilet seat. Yeah, I love it Hello and welcome to today's special Canada Day edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies We're gonna be tackling another underrated Canadian horror movie 1983's curtains. That's right. But before we get started. What are we drinking today? We're drinking caprini green smoked porter Nice John Vernon is in this and he was in tons of things but little notably is animal house Double secret probation killer clouds from outer space. We've got to mention the much maligned Linda Thorson is in this She was Tara King in the Avengers and took over M appealed spot big shoes to fill That's right and did not feel them very well. I might add Samantha Eger is in this She was in the brood another Canadian Staple which we covered exactly one year to the date. That's right last year for Canada day And Michael win-caught is in this briefly main protagonist the bad guy in the crow and he was in the newer movie Nope curtain starts off with one of our main characters Samantha. She's on stage pulls all this gun and shoots it directors Oh, no, no, no, no, no good. No cut pulling up to this big mansion And they go in and you find out that she's being committed to the same asylum. Yeah You're like well, what happened between first scene and now they bring her in to see the doctor And he's like well, she seems perfectly fine to me Like starts trying to kill the director all these orderlies come in and they kind of put her in the Straight jacket find out that they're intentionally committing her method acting for this role for this director known as striker And you know he's gonna be an asshole So while she's in this insane asylum researching her role Descending in the madness Right, and then you find out that the striker guy is now Recasting this role as she's in the asylum. Yeah, fucking asshole finds us out by getting this newspaper That says you know casting call for this movie and she's like what the fuck like this is my role And I'm in here suffering for this role and she escapes talking to this unknown person She's not the shot, but saying basically I'm gonna get them as she's burning the pictures the headshots of all the actresses Get introduced one by one to all these actresses that are gonna be auditioning one of the women is like laying in bed And this guy's coming in you got the stocking over his face There comes in a bus in and you think he's gonna kill her, but it's her boyfriend, of course No, they're all role-playing role-playing this Burton Cummings looking at That's Intentional it has to be because later on she has this dream and this Burton Cummings song is Comes up to this creepy doll and the doll kind of like comes alive and like Then she wakes up this person's in the house with this hag mask and kills her We then slowly get introduced to all of the women in this movie as they arrive at Strikers mansion to audition for this new role Yeah, quote-unquote Audition while everybody's sitting around the dinner table start to learn a little bit about What makes these women tick and what each one of them are willing to do to get the role, right? Most of the things include sexual acts Yeah, which I'm sure strikers banking on right they noticed that one of the girls is missing as Actually, they're supposed to be six and there's only five, but Samantha shows up unannounced and it scares the shit out of striker Because she thought she was still locked up she's got daggers in her eyes for this fucking striker One of the girls goes skating the next day got a ghetto blaster starts playing. It's that Burton Cummings song I wonder how much they paid Bert to get that song in the movie probably tons fuck They could have just paid me nothing. I would have done it And she starts doing a bit of skating and then the song stops and she looks at the ghetto blaster There's nobody there and she looks behind and there's somebody Chasing after her on skates in that hag mask and Pulls out a sickle they get into the woods a little bit and there's a little bit of a cat and mouse She leans up against a tree and Ding During one of the auditions with striker striker grabs the hag mask Well, how the hell did he get a hold of that throws it at Samantha make me want you? Make me love you Why does he have the hag mask? Brooke is lying on the bed in her high heels for some reason she gets up. I go to bed Every single night Brooke gets up and goes and looks in the toilet She sees curses head floating in the toilet. Nothing better than a good head toilet Yeah, I love it and she tells striker about it and striker goes up and looks and of course There's no head in the toilet. She lays down a striker and then she all gets a striker like That one girl goes into her room and then There's He's all pleased with himself Somebody comes into the room with a gun and that's where we're gonna end it So if you want to see what happens with striker with this person at the hag mask keep watching 1983's curtains man the mystery and misdirection of this movie is fantastic And it gets you right from the beginning first scene and you have that little audition thing She's doing and then it cuts to the insane asylum You're instantly like what happened and there's so much misdirection in this movie too, right? They feed you a little bit from the start and then those little clues and snippets that they give you show up Throughout the movie. Yeah later and later and later and they keep sort of popping up So it must be this person who's the killer. Yeah, but it's not maybe it's somebody else, right tons of misdirection With the hag mask, there's lots of misdirection with that weird creepy toy Certain things or dreams the way the plot is structured to in this movie also it adds a little bit of misdirection to that's weird It's like it's a slasher movie, but it's not structured like a slasher whatsoever No, it's structured like a play between acts. Yeah, but where where the movie is sectioned But it doesn't hurt the movie at all. It actually no plays for its benefit The movie really starts off as more of a psychological horror then in the middle it turns into a slasher Yeah, out of nowhere then it kind of goes back. Yeah, it's a neat flip how the movie changes Style throughout the movie, which is interesting very original actually seems so out of left field Yeah, in reality It works better than a real slasher exactly Yeah, it feels more real life the characters in this movie are fantastic Striker as like even though he's not the slasher per se. He's kind of the main villain. Mm-hmm You love to hate this guy Oh, yeah, and you do yeah, and he is so good like from the moment you see me like oh this fucking asshole And he's just out for his own shit and the way they write him to and the way he plays it is perfect Like what an obnoxious egotistical thinks he knows everything about Acting and everything is like you're a director. You're not some acting coach But he's bringing all these women into like yeah, just hate him because you know, he's just abusing his power exactly Yeah, you get a real in-depth look into the souls of all these women too, right? And it's just strictly through dialogue you learn What each woman is about by what they say they'll do and they'll do yeah What they're going to do or what they're willing to do for this part And it's like really you're willing to go to these depths for something like this Well, then that shows what kind of a person you really are and then when it comes to audition time and Striker is alone with these women and you see what each one of them does or doesn't do Based on what they had said it's very revealing of that character, right? Like there's a one character who's not really a traditional actor. She's a stand-up comedian and She's basically tell them to fuck off like I'm not doing that. Fuck you you want to hire me hire me Yeah, based on my merits, but I'm not fucking you. He walks upstairs There's odd What the fuck the music for this movie is fantastic and it's done by legendary Canadian Composer Paul Zaza who's done lots of great Canadian horror movies. Lots of them we've covered. Yeah Ghostkeeper prom night prom night to prom night to my bloody Valentine and the list goes on Yeah, it's actually pretty crazy all the prominent shit. He's done. Yeah, and he's a great composer He composes every scene perfectly he gives each movie its own little soul the kills in this movie are really good But it's not the kills themselves. It's not like it's a gory type kill because you see very little of the kill itself It's the lead-up. It's the Tension building and the suspense that leads up to the kill is what makes it so brilliant. That's right Yeah, there's that skating scene where it's long and drawn out right a lot of it is the tension because You see the skates so somebody else is there obviously it's not her It's not Kirsty pans up to see the hagmasks like oh shit Then she pulls out that fucking sickle. It's like scary as hell and the way it's shot too It's actually like a beautiful scene because when Kirsty is just practicing her skating. It's a beautiful scene It's so this all snow. It's shot really well There's that Burton coming song and you're kind of just enjoying watching her skate turns into something You know is gonna have a bad ending which starts with a beautiful type scene It's like the contrast there right between the beauty and the horror There's something that this movie does really well and the way it's shot to like slow motion the skating Obviously they took their time to like put the tracking on the the rink To be able to track the skating perfectly like just to think I was watching it like the Preparation it took to do these shots probably took days. Yeah, it would have been really intense And it pays off Like crazy. Yeah, just like the ballet scene with the other girls. She's practicing her ballet moves again It's very beautiful. She's doing something artistic You're enjoying watching her do her moves and then out of nowhere she gets killed and it's like this contrast This beauty in this awful thing happening to her very fittingly final act is amazing It's incredible and it goes on forever like there's a huge chase scene and The setting for it too, which is extremely fitting is like a backstage prop Department department. Yeah for a play so many things that pop out at you. There's so many vivid colors There's so many mannequins Creepiness then you've got this cat and mouse chase between the killer and the victim too, right? It's great It's fantastic. That is one of many great settings the insane asylum is a great setting in this strikers mansion Another great setting the wilderness around in the winter. Yeah, so if you want to run away You could only run away so far before you freeze to death Then the last setting at the end of the props department couldn't get any better. That's right Yeah, and then the movie doesn't quite end there though either right there's still more you think that that's the end Yeah, the final chase scene you think it's gonna end there But not quite and then you get more of a twist to the plot And more of a reveal so that the movie just keeps giving and giving and giving right obviously has some commentary on Some social issues especially to do with Hollywood. Yeah, and probably the 80s and probably even today too Of course, this probably stands true is what casting couch what women have to go through to get parts in Hollywood Like yes striker having all these women at his mansion to get a partner talking about what they have to do to get it Well, that's obvious. Mm-hmm in your face commentary on the Hollywood system and people abusing Yeah power right that they have yeah, and not just that not even the newcomers But then what happens is someone who's already made it like Samantha's character She's already a star, but she's getting older striker doesn't want her anymore, right? So it's like yeah, you have a shelf life as a woman in Hollywood. That's commentary on that And I think the hagmask is commentary on that, you know. Yeah. Yeah, the old woman is getting her revenge I'm too old for you now the hagmask was used In a few movies prior to this in the comeback 1978 which we covered a hag tight mask was used in the terror train at all But neither of those were as effective as this movie like it's it's used so much more Effectively here you get a more poignant sense of why it's being used. That's not even your grandma's face When trick-or-treating is me and Mark Mitchell Yeah, with that old man mask and my grandma is flipping through pictures once and she's like What's wrong with my face in that picture is like that's that's a mask grandma That's not you and we're gonna keep drinking for Canada Day to celebrate you keep drinking too We just won't go as crazy as we did last year when you entered that drinking competition with Saskatchewan Well, you dislocated your liver with one minute remaining in the second round both Canadians are landing some incredible combinations But neither has been able to seize the advantage Justin's down he's hurt What a blow for Winnipeg if he can't continue they will have to forfeit and the Winnipeg team will lose the points They have earned so far We can't let you go on no right coach No Pop it shit out of pop it Justin you can't go on dirt dirt dirt Tape it if I'm out it's over I can hold them over 30 seconds tape it Now there is just 30 seconds left on the clock he can hold on he keeps the points and Winnipeg is still in it put your liver somewhere else Let your liver go There is no liver Justin drinks and scores for the beautiful back swing The buzzer sounds and that's the end of the match Justin Bush injured liver and all has defeated Saskatoon and managed to keep Winnipeg's hopes alive If you want a great Canadian horror movie to watch on Canada Day well look up curtains. It's fantastic Yeah, it's one of the better slashers that come out of Canada and there's lots that came out of Canada that are great But this one stands above really and it's very well done and originally and until next time Keep drinking