 And welcome to another episode of frankly forgotten horror movies and with this episode. We're gonna cap off our made for TV reviews But before we get started Think I'm gonna make a sidecar sidecar. I'm drinking martinis. You want a martini? Yeah, why not today? We're doing 1982's don't go to sleep. It is directed by Richard Lang He's directed tons of TV stuff But I wanted to point out one in particular of my favorites is the made for TV kung fu movie Which came out between the original series and kung fu the legend continues This stars Brandon Lee in one of his first roles the movie stars Dennis weaver and I think a lot of us You have a good martini 80s 90s kids will probably know him from McLeod where it's the cop show or he's riding his horse in the streets Not Connor McLeod from the Klan McLeod Fight me damn you Heather Heather Valerie Harper is in this Ruth Gordon is in this she plays the grandmother Robin Inneco is in this and she plays the the little girl the movie starts off with a family Driving to their new abode Grandma's gonna come and move in she smells funny They get to the new house and you know they're setting things up kids playing with his new Bunsen burner Flames are all super high and the daughter Mary. It's the first night there and she's in bed And she's hearing voices bed starts on fire. The dad. He'll puts it out because her room is all burned up It's all burned up. What do I know about cooking this shirt? She's forced to go move in into her brother's room And she keeps hearing these voices at night screaming to mom and dad brothers getting pissed off because he can't sleep either So he decides to play a little prank on her and records all these voices on his like big cassette Freaks her out again. So she's kind of being traumatized So one night she's had enough and she kind of crawls under her bed to kind of hide from everything Who is there a little girl sitting staring back at her? We find out it's her dead sister who had just died in a car accident just before they move Everyone is blaming themselves for the death of the daughter You know something happened, but they don't really come out and say exactly what it is quiet evening after work And the dad sitting there watching his news having a martini a couple of martinis How many of those have you had you make me a sidecar? I'm drinking martinis. You can have a martini He's all happy enough already Mary keeps seeing these visions of her dead sister start to get a scheme of a plan together to start getting back at the family somebody puts the iguana under the Grandmother's sheets and it scares the living shit out of the grandmother so much so that they gotta call a cop She's having a heart attack the poor grandmother ends up dying on the street in front of everybody It's kind of a crazy scene the family's all watching her dying like staring down at the grandma and the grandma looks that She's having this heart attack and has another heart attack Mary and her brother Kevin are playing frisbee the frisbee gets thrown on top of the roof of the house So Kevin the you know gets up on the fence and somehow gets on the roof like telling mom Yeah, the door opens right in front of Kevin and pushes them off the roof It cuts to the mom dropping that watermelon. Yeah, and so you know exactly what happened, right? The whole family is grief-stricken by this the dad is in the kids room trying to feed Ed And he can't find the food right like oh, come on buddy dangling that rag Like what are you feeding him some rag? Well, he doesn't know what he eats. He also doesn't know what it is I don't even know what this is And he kind of cester. He's like well, I can't handle this anymore. She's you can't handle. What exactly I've done everything Well, I'll do it He starts laying out his shirts and stuff and so things finally start to get back to normal in the household the dad is in the tub With his special bar table laid out across the tub with more martinis He's got the radio going. Yeah. Yeah, he's having a gay old time The daughter comes in to kind of start blow drying her hair the radio falls in the tub zap That's it all the lights go off in the house the mother's been out getting a pizza for the family It looks like shitty looking pizza. Yeah, which he opens it up. It looks all hard and it's all black like super overcooked It's just cutting it's like just fucking dig it in Send that fucking pizza back as she notices the lights are out So she gets him turned back on goes upstairs to find her husband and sees him in the in the tub and freaks out Mary has the pizza cutter in her hand and the two of them are left in the house Watch the movie to find out what happens cool twist ending too You're left to kind of maybe put your own spin on things to a degree, right? The way this movie was written is that it could be either or where you don't know if it's really the ghost of the dead daughter Or if Mary is actually just insane It's a neat spin on a kind of haunting movie because there is kind of a ghost involved But it's not haunting the whole family or anything like that. It's just telling the daughter Mary what to do, but it's not like books flying off the shelves or poltergeist type stuff grief Right this movie has it undertones of grief and how A family deals with it what happens if it's not dealt with properly Yeah, it's a really deep movie in in in that regard grief and mental health now alcoholism Well The old days where you know the the dad's all add too much to drink and he wants to leave and and the grandma Stay for another one and just one more You know the mom has drank less than the dad, but the dad insists on driving Yeah, and he is gonna drive and the kids are in the back like the acting is fantastic in this movie Not everybody is great in this usually kids are kind of sub par, but in this it's no way Yeah, Robin Inneco as Mary is Terrifying at moments dead stare. It's like oh man. Yeah, put the fear god in you that kid The parents like oh, yeah, you feel what they're feeling Dennis weaver as the dad is uh great Also for a made for tv movie the kill counts actually kind of high Children being killed and old women they don't hold any punches in this movie really is the fact that it's for tv They can't really go that one step further, but i'm kind of glad they don't exactly keeps it classy dark and Shattery and the like the way they use lighting like kind of the back lighting is yeah, it's creepy You know it feels like a dream. Yeah, the music helps to underscore the movie Which is exactly what it's supposed to do whenever there's a tense scene you feel it You almost you know clutch your your pants, right? It's like You know something to watch with the family even I think you could watch this watch this with the family and watch a family die It's perfect 1982s don't go to sleep Is a great great made for tv movie with a bit of a different twist on like The family haunting scenario. Yeah, and it touches on a lot of real world stuff Check out don't go to sleep and then afterwards don't go to sleep Keep drinking