 Welcome to a special edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies. It's Canada Day! To celebrate Canada Day, we're gonna bring to you a movie that's Canadian. 1982's The Incubus. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we're drinking Tarman Black IPA. Nice for a 40-degree day. Drinking all this heavy black beer and it's like the hottest day of the year. Incubus is directed by John Hull and he's done quite a few staple horror movies. The Legend of Hell House, Hammer Horror Film, Twins of Evil, he did Watcher in the Woods. This movie stars John Cassavetes, and again he's quite the veteran actor, but the most notable movie he was in would be Rosemary's Baby. Along with him is Kerry Keane, and she was in lots of stuff, but I have to mention the made-for-TV Kung Fu movie. She's in that with David Carrity. The Incubus starts off a young couple who go to a quarry. Go for a little dip, I can use a dip right now. He tries to get a little fresh with his girl there too, not having any of it. Bitch. First line of the movie is His girlfriend walks over to this rundown sort of shack that's there, and she gets violently attacked by something. He goes in after her and he gets whacked in the face with a board with nails in it. From here we get introduced to Dr. Sam Cordell and his daughter Jenny. Sam Cordell gets called to the hospital. The boyfriend had died, but the girl was still alive. She was violently raped. Her uterus was ruptured, but Sam can't find any sperm. There's kind of the local museum. One of the women that works there gets violently attacked and raped as well, but this time she gets killed. Upon examining her, Sam notices loads of sperm, more than what he figures is just from one man. There's a reporter that's also coming around too, because she's getting wind that these attacks are happening. Sam takes a look at her and reminds him of his dead wife. She looks almost exactly like her. They get a little chummy. When they go back to his house, forces himself on her and kissing her and everything. Can I at least have a drink? No. What? Why? From here, there's a farm. There's the dad and two daughters. They hear something in the distance in the barn, so the dad goes out. He's got his double-barreled shotgun. Something grabs him and he ends up shooting his foot with the shotgun. And then he gets thrown right out of the barn. One of the daughters is having a shower. Boom! Something attacks her right through the glass of the shower. Her sister on the main floor hears this, and she's in a wheelchair, and she goes up to investigate. She sees blood kind of coming out. She sort of backs up and boom! The door to the bathroom flies off. Right off the hinges. Yeah. Laura Kincaid reporters decided to do her own research. She tells Sam similar rapes and murders happened about 30 years ago in the same town. We then see this weird movie theater, and all these weird-looking young kids are sitting there watching this music video. The worst-looking disgusting bathroom. I would never take a leak in this thing. Sits down on the toilet. She sees a shadow underneath this stall door, and these big hairy monster arms grab her by the legs and yank her out. Please come to investigate, and you see, like, the aftermath of this bathroom. A cop says, well, there's no way a man could have done this. Sam's daughter, Jenny, has his boyfriend named Tim, and he's been having these weird dreams. He tells Jenny that every time he has one of these dreams, somebody ends up dying. He might be the one committing these murders. Sam kind of gets the police and Tim altogether question him, and of course the police don't believe him. The head policeman doesn't want to listen to any of this, and gets in his car. Sam confronts him and says, I'm going to induce a dream, and you better beware, because there's going to be a rape tonight, and that's where we're going to end the plot point. So if you want to see what happens with Tim and Sam, Jenny and the reporter, keep watching 1982's The Incubus. So this movie was based on a book, a 1976 novel, by Ray Russell. There's a lot of subplots in the movie. They begin to go somewhere, and then they kind of just end. Sam's wife dying, and the reporter looking like her, like it doesn't really go anywhere, but I'm sure in the book it probably was fleshed out a lot more. When Sam gets everybody together with the old lady too, right, and she starts giving the cop shit, I put you into this position 30 years ago, and I can take you out. Yeah, like where did that come from? Yeah, like things like that, but it's forgiven. This movie has a very original story. I think that's what makes this movie so cool and so unique. The twists and the turns, right, more like a who done it, more of a mystery. An excellent job in this movie of treading that fine line, right, between the real, like you have the rapes and the murders, but yet it goes into the unreal with the supernatural, the witchcraft stuff, the monster arms, the dreams. All the murder slash rape scenes are really intense and really unsettling. Like it does its job of making you feel kind of uneasy. Like you see these women suffering. The woman in the library gets raped and she's being pushed up against that glass, and then there's that whole slow motion thing where it's like it's slowed down and she's screaming, and there's all that echo, and it's like, whew, it's intense. It stays serious throughout, and like you mentioned, right, you can't get jokey because when you're dealing with the unnatural and stuff like that, you need it to be serious. The cast of this movie is really good, and especially John Cassavetes as the lead role, he does a really good job of kind of anchoring it down and even sometimes a little creepy. Yeah, he's kind of got like a smile on his face almost. Like when he's creeping on the reporter there, it's like, hey, trust me, trust you. Which is kind of neat because everyone is a suspect, so even the main character who you're invested in, who can't be a suspect, kind of comes off a little creepy, just to kind of throw you off a little bit. The music for this movie is really good, and not just the music, like the score, but the music that people listen to in the background in this movie, like you said, that farmhouse scene, that weird music that's in the background, like it's like, what kind of, it's such an odd choice, but it works. The movie theater scene where they're watching that Samson video, vice versa, Bruce Dickinson's old band before he was in Iron Maiden. And speaking of heavy metal and horror, we'd like to make a shout out to a fellow Canadian on Canada Day and a horror movie lover, Chromium Dioxide Radio. He's got a great channel. It's mostly about metal music, but he has a really good episode about metal and horror movies. And keep your eyes out in the movie theater for movie posters. Oh yeah, there's all sorts of cool horror movie posters. Also, this movie's got a wicked twist ending, so you must keep watching. And you probably won't guess the twist either. No, no, that's the thing. There's tiny hints and clues throughout the movie too, which it took me watching it twice to really catch everything. I love movies like that where you have to watch them again. And every time you watch it, you pick up on something a little different that you missed last time. This movie's a lot like The Entity, Superstition. A good, underrated Canadian horror film to watch on Canada Day. Pop in the incubus. Doesn't matter if you're Canadian or live elsewhere in the world. You make sure to keep drinking. Especially on Canada Day. Yeah. A.