 So and welcome to today's edition of Freightfully Forgotten, but to start things off, what are you drinking today? A German fest beer. Today we're going to be bringing to you 1993's Ghost in the Machine. It is directed by Rachel Talali. Tamali? Tamali! She directed another really cheesy 90s horror movie and that is Freddy's Dead. The movie stars Karen Allen and she's in some very classic 80s movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark and she's also in the Carpenter classic Starman. Along with her is Chris Mulkey and he's in tons and tons of stuff. One of the bigger movies he's in would be Cloverfield. Will Hornef is in this, he's not in much at all, but one horror movie he's in is the 1990s miniseries made for TV The Shining. He plays Tony. And lastly we'll have to mention, we have to mention, Brandon Quinton Adams. And he is in one of our favorite movies of all time, People Under the Stairs. The movie starts off this guy sort of sitting in his car and he's casing out this house. We get introduced to the main character, Josh. We learn that the dad's not in the picture. Back to the house where the guy was sitting outside casing it out, but now they sort of go through the house and they pan through. Some nice dinners and a nice home cooked meal sitting on the table. It shows the family and they're all dead. And it turns out that this man is a serial killer and he's coined the address book killer. He steals address books and he goes in order. Terry and Josh go to this computer software store, computer universe. And it's so 90s. Terry's looking for software that can help her digitize her address book. There's some scanner thing that you have to scan. And then it shows on the computer that moves the addresses over into like some filing system on the... It's a little bulky 90s software that never really existed. It's kind of useless too. Here's your address book and then on your computer screen it's just a picture of that. That's all it is. Like isn't it more convenient to have the book with you? I guess so. I don't know. In the 90s, I need an address, I gotta go upstairs, turn on the computer, wait 20 minutes for the fucking thing to boot as opposed to... Oh, there it is. Yeah, and 1993, you know less, you had to do all that shit on the doze. When they leave, she forgets her address book. It just so happens that this address book serial killer is working at that very computer store and he ends up taking her address book. He's so happy, I guess, that he starts driving in the rain like a complete fucking asshole veering in and out of traffic all super fast and going like driving head on with like all these trucks and everything, like, what? I guess he's really excited to get to that next kill. He ends up rolling the car and it starts to go down like disembankment. He's all laughing and going through some cemetery. Yeah, hitting all these tombstones. The paramedics arrive on scene, haul him away to the hospital. He gets put into one of those MRI scanning machines and while he's in there, there's a power surge, I guess, from the storm or whatever. He dies, but his, like, soul or his consciousness gets uploaded to the main frame. Through the lines. We also get introduced to Bram and he's a master hacker. He's also friends with a giant elephant. You see Bram's car outside in the rain too is convertible with the roof up and all this stuff in the back and his shitty boss too with some toupee. So all this strange stuff starts happening to Terry. She goes to the bank, finds out that all of her funds have been wiped and then now she no longer has access to her account. Bram, over at Datanet, notices that a hacker is trying to get into all these computers and these files. These info starts popping up. Now the address book killer has started going through her address book and making the kill. Poor old guy, he'd himself up a TV dinner. Address book killer comes through the power lines and like the door explodes open. So then all the radiation waves are just kind of being emitted into the kitchen. So bubbling up and you're just waiting for him to explode. Guy's head's gonna blow up. Then he slips on some mustard and then cracks his head on the table counter. He shows blood all boiling through. He actually gets into the VCR and shoots out a VHS tape and spooks the dog and the dog runs out of the house and actually ends up drowning in the pool. Josh comes home and finds the dog dead in the pool and jumps in. Possesses the pool cover and the pool cover starts coming over the pool and Josh has to swim and get out of the pool before he gets trapped. The next guy on Terry's address book works at a car manufacturing plant and they're testing to make sure the car is meeting safety and waiting for the guy to get it. He's looking under the car and like okay when is he gonna get run over or something. Nothing's happening and he gets in the car and it goes full speed and hits the wall and he survives. Well when does this guy get to fucking get it you know? Then he goes to the bathroom and washes hands, goes to the dryer, hits the button and BOOM! All this fire comes out of the hand dryer. The guy just gets cooked alive. Josh goes to his buddy's place, a little embarrassed but there's a babysitter there for sure. Yeah of course. They're gathering money, they're trying to get all this money together so they can pay her to flash a little bit. Oooooooh! She ripped them off! Yeah, yeah. It's like 30 bucks in the 90s. Go to a pool and see that. Address book killer gets into this house. The babysitter is sitting there reading, watching in living color. The dishwasher starts getting all haywire and bubbling and the door comes open and all the suds come out and she steps in it and gets electrocuted to death. Josh realizes the deaths are happening in the same order as in his mom's address book. The address book killer is continuing his work even though he's dead. They assume he has possessed the internet with the help of Bram, the ex-computer hacker, they're going to devise a plan to somehow capture and kill again the address book killer. If you want to find out what happens, keep watching the movie Ghost in the Machine. This movie is so fun, even though there's a lot going on in the movie, things do connect pretty well for the type of movie that it is. The best thing about this movie really is the kills. You told me to watch it, you kept messaging me, have you got to the first kill yet? I was like no, no, I haven't got there yet, you're going to love it, okay, I guess it'll be good, right? And that's an understatement, it wasn't good, it was fucking great. I had to laugh that hard in probably like a year. There's so many layers to that kill, for one thing he starts bubbling up and he's noticing all this shit happening, why don't you just leave, like he just stays there, then on top of that he slips and hits his head. And that's another cool thing about most of the kills in this movie is the misdirection in them, where they're kind of leading you where a kill is going to happen this way and it doesn't. So you're always waiting for this payoff and you get the payoff, but it doesn't happen the way that they lead you to believe it's going to happen. The build up to all of the deaths are really good too. The effects are great. 1993, so it's still before CGI has taken off. Yeah, there was the bad computer effects where they're showing him going through the lines, but the practical effects are really good. Like just a 90s time capsule. It's probably the most 90s thing I've ever watched. It's almost stereotypical 90s, but they're not trying, that's just how it was. They even kind of poke fun at some things, like the grandma says to Terry, I'll buy him some pants that fit, because everything had to be baggy. And when he tries to impress the babysitter and he's trying to look even more mind-blowing by tucking his shirt into his boxers and pulling his boxers out of his pants, it's almost his satire of itself. The technology of the day too, that's what the movie's about. It wasn't like a user-friendly internet or anything, there was no such thing. You had to actually read books and get programs at the store and shit. You had to be a genius just to get your internet up and running. You had to get the IP address to your fucking internet. It took forever. The ideas behind this movie, before seeing what we're going through today though, a lot of infiltration into our lives, right? Big brother can see everything in our lives. It's kind of neat that way, like they really saw the future. If you're in the mood for a fun movie, great kills, it's pretty innocent. It doesn't take itself too seriously, which is great. That's part of it too, right? If you're going to go this absurd, you can't take yourself seriously. Yeah, exactly. So if you like old school 90s, phony computer science movies. Like the net? Yeah. But with a big horror twist and lots of fun kills, you've got to check out Ghost and Machine and it's going to be a big, huge time travel back to 1993 and before we all kept drinking.