 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started what are we drinking again? We are drinking the D new pass Old ale all right today We're gonna bring to you 1982's next of kin which is a request by Alex Caliguropolis Directed and co-written by Tony Williams Jackie Karen is in this and also John Jarrett is in this too And he was in Wolf Creek Next of kin starts off with our main character here Linda going back home She found out her mother had died and left her her estate Yeah, basically an old folks home that she ran in the middle of nowhere out in the country as she gets there This other old persons being admitted and you can kind of tell she's like I don't really want to be doing this with my life. She gets there wants to kind of reconnect with her past She goes up to the attic and starts going through her mother's things and in these diaries Her mother is mentioning that weird things were happening in the house She's hearing things and something's wrong in this house and of course is an old folks home People are gonna start dying this old man is ready to get in the tub. There's all this steam and everything goes to put his foot in the tub and Someone's already in there and what they're dead And it looks like he's been dead for a while Death is starting to strike this old folks home Linda's kind of rekindle that old love of hers Barney or is this a body He comes over and they're about to go to nice party and suddenly she just loses the mood She doesn't want to go anymore because she finds out that another friend of theirs Who's kind of a competitor of hers in regards to Barney's love is driving them there Yeah, and he knows he fucked up too. He's like He takes off with their friend She hears water running and goes into the bathroom and water is running everywhere The steam is building up from all the hot water and got to be someone in here. Nobody Just water to the brim Flying everywhere Barney calls her from some sort of payphone. He did the right thing Yeah, he didn't go to the party with the other girl. He's like, I'm sorry and he's sober And I'm sober I didn't have a lick to drink Linda wants to know more about the house in the history So she starts to dig into the diaries that her mother left behind and she learns that her mother's sister was Looking after the death records and she thinks that there's evil in the house and that the house is haunted There's also deaths happening in the house that are sort of mimicking what Linda's been finding Linda starts to dig into those records. The cause of death is Different than what her mother said in the diary who's been signing off on these records is the town doctor She goes back to that dead body that old man that was found in the tub and she goes to inspect the body And he looks creepy. I wouldn't want to go close to that body like fuck. No, why is it still there a days later? I still hang in the house And she actually does see that there's like fingerprints in the neck So obviously there's foul play something's been done to this poor guy Linda gets all freaked out She just takes off she runs away runs out of the house and runs toward Barney where they're all drinking and he's like He's all passed out drinking beer She's all irate and he kind of calms her down and they go back to the house There's a fountain outside water that's coming out as clear It slowly turns to blood red and that girl Barney's love interest floating in the fountain With her throat slit they go into the house and Barney disappears. He comes Rushing out in a wheelchair and the wheelchair kind of stops and he goes flying towards her He's fucking he's had the biscuit. That's where we're gonna end it because there's a lot more That happens biggest thing about next of kin is it is really a mystery Is it a ghostly thing? Is it like supernatural or is it foul play? You don't know is it a conspiracy against her? You don't know and why? Actually movie to find out the setting for this movie is fantastic an old Huge house that's been converted into like an old folks home nothing but old creepy people around you We can't help you if you need help. They're not gonna be any help. They're completely useless totally useless And they're out in the middle of nowhere So it's a great setting for a horrible view in the atmosphere is great as dark as rainy It really helps to build the tension in this movie to like man you can cut the tension with a fucking knife It's amazing how they do that With nothing really going on they just kind of follow Linda around slowly going through the house with that music playing You're like, okay. Yeah, right Something's gonna happen and then it doesn't a lot of jump scares in this movie, but they're good jump scares And so it makes things just like close in it's like oh man. It's so good The imagery of this movie is fucking fantastic There's some some of the best shots I've ever seen in horror movies in this movie Yeah, when they show the dead guy in the tub when the old guy gets to step in uh-huh. Oh, it looks so good It's like Like oh, I get to shivers like oh that guy how long has he been in that water and yeah He's all gray kind of white and like oh fuck dreams Linda has right? It's like oh man like she got that weird dream to look through the window and sees like the guy drowning But he's in the window yeah like an aquarium like Salem's lot a little bit. Yeah, it's kind of super cool Oh, yeah, I love the fact too that they use such little content To go so far with it like they stretch. Yeah. Yeah, it's like silly party Yeah, take this thing is stretch it out as long as they can like the old man like on top of the dreams and stuff They also have like when he's on that table and he's like staring at them. Yeah, like when he's dead, right? That's fucking scary. It's like and you think that they're gonna do a jump scare of some kind But they don't they don't go there music in this is fucking fantastic. It is Some great 80s horror movie music has got the heavy synth Yeah, oh, yeah, and but it's also kind of a little orchestric at the same time But it it adds to every scene perfectly it Enhances every scene is what music should do exactly enhance it and this movie does perfectly Yeah on very little again. Yeah, you know the dialogue all Resonates to the characters and it all stays true Yeah, nothing really goes off the rails here where you you know you kind of lose interest It's all story-driven every piece of dialogue has roots in the story. Yeah It's not like just like bullshit or some subplot that goes nowhere No, it means something right and it moves the story forward the comedy in this movie is great It's sporadic like it's very it's peppered in there a little bit But when it's there it's there for a reason at a good spot where it kind of breaks up the horror a little bit But not too much where it gets stupid like the old woman where she gets that Walkman for a present. What is this? 20 minutes later. She's got the your phones on they're going to the bus to go in like a field trip whatever the guy's talking her I can't hear you like so subtle subtle, but it's it works and it breaks up the horror just perfectly These are old people right because old people can also be a little funny One old man that's kind of reliving his past in the war Nobody gives a shit old man Later on like going up the stairs. He's still talk. Yeah Talking about the barracks the shining star of the movie is is the final act It's so good doesn't disappoint. No, it goes from little haunted house kind of thing to like Just like and it's up like this it stays there to their Amazing tense scene where she's waiting a Linda's waiting. She knows something's gonna happen Doesn't know what it is. Yeah, but she knows something's gonna happen She's biding the time by building a little pyramid out of little sugar blocks. She gets to that top Oh It's fantastic Yeah, and I love that they don't destroy anything like that with useless dialogue and bunch of shit, right? They stay on point. It's paced slow, but it goes by quick, which is hard to describe I can't describe it, but it goes like it felt like 45 minutes Yeah, it's just the way that the movie plays out because you're always intrigued by the next scene You always want to see what's gonna happen next, right? And then that it's it's great They set it up perfectly next of kin is really like a solid master craft of Horror and mystery and it's Australian dude, right? You won't be disappointed great imagery great sound track There's nothing we could really knock this movie for at all perfect horror movie. So until next time Keep drinking Australian style. Yeah