 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started. What are we drinking today? We're drinking leprechaun water Is he gonna try and steal it? Yeah, cuz it's full of brewers gold and golden promise that little bastard Today we're gonna bring to you 1974's death dream this movie was a request from one of our viewers Dustin Bainbridge Bob Clark Directed this and he's also famous for black Christmas, which is a Canadian gem Children shouldn't play with dead things on a lighter note Christmas story. Yeah, it's funny all these dark Seedy gonna or movies in a Christmas The movie is written by Alan Ormsby who also wrote children shouldn't play with dead things and he also Wrote and co-directed a movie Covered a long time ago now in our first season called deranged the movie stars John Marley Who was famously in the Godfather? Lynn Carlin is also in this as well as Richard back us not Brackus Brackas The movie starts off kind of as a flashback almost to all these war scenes in the jungle in Vietnam And you see somebody get shot and you hear please come back Please come home then we get introduced to this family their son Andy Who's away in Vietnam hoping and praying that he comes back They get a knock at the door somebody from the military who hands them a telegram. Yeah, the dreaded dreaded Telegram nobody ever wants that when their children are out to war. It's it's Andy Yep, and no it can't be right that the mother's in complete denial So we see this truck driver that kind of stops at the side of the road He picks somebody up he pulls off into this diner. Oh, just a couple packs of smokes and some coffee Yeah, I gotta get going I'm running late. Who's there with you just some guy picked up He's kind of weird and he's a soldier it cuts back to the family the daughter wakes up And she hears noises downstairs while they're downstairs investigating it turns out Andy's home He is alive and the dad. He's like I thought you were dead and Andy's response, which is very chilling I am the mailman as he's coming by on his route stops in they're like oh you want some sandwiches egg salad Sure, I'll take some of that iced tea to Everything and like Andy's just sitting there and he's just silent and kind of dead and Andy just gets up and walks away I would do who wants to listen to that shit the dad is kind of pissed off by Andy's behavior Well, I came back from war two But I didn't act like that and he brings all these like Neighborhood kids over it's like oh yeah, you come come on over come on. There he is. Yeah. Yeah, you talk to him I know karate I can show you some moves and the dog starts barking to it He grabs the dog by the neck And just holds it there and just chokes the dog to death in the meantime They've actually found this truck driver dead kind of drained of his blood They find a small little pinhole on where he's been drained. Yeah, and his neck's all torn open The dad's so distraught about the death of the dog but she but she did he goes to the local drinking hole Like anybody would do I think and gets right pissed friend walks in the doctor Well, maybe you could come and talk to him and go up to his room He's just rocking in this chair and Andy doesn't have much to say But he does find out that Andy got home hitchhiking and being picked up by a truck driver He also just finished examining the dead body of the truck driver, and he kind of puts two and two together, right? It doesn't have a house to go to yeah Doc goes back to his like office at the end of the night and picks up the phone You think he's gonna call the cops to let him know about Andy or think he's gonna change his mind He starts seeing all these things right shadows and hearing things Okay, maybe we'll talk to the cops and by that point the lines dead goes to the door and it's Andy I'm here for my checkup Oh Middle at night. There's no pulse. No blood pressure. No pulse. I died for you doc Yeah, and then he kills doc of taking some of dog's blood to rejuvenate himself because he's kind of slowly been decaying Andy's sister is trying to get him back into real life and sets up a double date Andy at this point just before he leaves he looks in the mirror and again He's all deteriorating and falling apart his hands are all crumbling So he puts on these gloves and puts on these sunglasses. He looks kind of cool So they go to the drive-in and he's in the back He starts attacking his date and she's trying to fight him off and she takes off his glasses and just reveals He's dead eyes. He's kind of blank Yellow eyes that's where we're gonna end the plot one of the best things about this movie believe it or not Even though you don't see a whole lot is the makeup, right? You make up and the effects which were done by the master Tom Savini This is one of his very first movies that he started out doing makeup on the lighting for this movie and like the shots And stuff are also very very good only light what they want you to see there's a lot of Darkness and that darkness is there for a reason because they don't want you to see they want you to wonder It's very professional. You have all these professional things going on on the low-budget movie. Yeah, which is interesting There's some neat ambitious shots in this movie zooms that come like right out of the window of the living room Yeah way far out things are done for a very specific reason in this movie It's just not like just throw up a camera and the shoot It's all planned out very well and another thing that's planned out well is the sound design It tells the story along with what you see. Yeah, like all the background noise like the crickets outside And then like when they're just sitting inside and all you hear is like clock Yeah, it's kind of unnerving right? Yeah, there's that scene where the dad's Sitting with the cops and he's kind of all nervous cop playing with the blind right annoying Yeah, and even like Andy Most of what he does at home as he rocks back and forth in that fucking rocking chair and it even unsettles like the dad He's like, what is he doing up there? Well, just leave him alone while he's making me nervous You know and like it's unsettling which brings us to the characters in the acting is fantastic Exactly and for a low-budget feeling movie that the actors are top-notch Oh, yeah, you know and you really feel their anguish you feel what they feel you like Lynn Carlin as the mom like when she finds out that Andy's dead Oh, she breaks down and it's like oh man you believe it Yeah, like feeling it with her the dad when he's starting to get all angry that Andy's not right and he's gets all Drunk and everything. He's super believable. He's frustrated. Why are you drinking? You know I am drunk Richard back is says Andy does a great job of just being this kind of blank Canvas he's so unnerving right soon as when they first opened the door and you see him standing there Yeah, this movie is basically just chalked full of like metaphors and it's got a lot of meaning behind the movie is saying something Exactly about war. Yeah, and you know these guys coming back from war The Vietnam War was still going on for another while year. Anyways, this war was different from other wars previous Which they kind of allude to right the old man. Oh, I came back from World War two. I didn't come back like that Nobody seems to understand these kids that came back and what they went through Andy coming back dead Exactly kind of like dead inside symbolizes these kids that came back from war PTSD and basically that dead inside they're not the same they're not the same person they were when they left the kid comes Back and the parents just naturally assume that life will resume like normal And they just want him to like snap back into normal life Like nobody seems to understand or even want to try and understand what he's going through or to give him time to Exactly or anything or just thinking like the next day things will return back to normal Yeah, well, that's not exactly the case and the movie also kind of has a bit of that Monkey pot theme to it where it's like yeah, be careful what you wish for you know because mom's like come home Yeah, please come home and Andy come home. He does come home, but it's not the Andy you wanted To come home, right exactly death dream is a very simple low-budget movie that works Perfectly it all clicks it all works very effective for what it does and for the story that it's trying to tell Right, it gets everything across Yeah So if you want like a good simple down-to-earth, but meaningful movie that's trying to save something about the time in which it was made And has you know a little point of view on the Vietnam war check out a death dream If you're a fan of like those orbs be movies, you know deranged and children shouldn't play with dead things and Tom Savini Right you like other Bob Clark movies like you know black Christmas. Well, then you have to check out death dream exactly It's it's up there and one of the best movies that those guys ever made I think so Yeah, yeah, because it's saying something unlike children shouldn't play dead things It's kind of like a schlocky horror movie. This movie is like it sets out to do something exactly, but it doesn't Jam it down your throat. Right. Yeah, please check out 1974's death dream and until next time keep drinking and dreaming