@@NothingIsKnown00 Yeah, he only treated Rich like a person when he wanted to talk about Star Trek, which he forced him to, so unrealistic! That and always choosing the worst movie in this series or laughing at the elderly. He was just a poorly written villain. Evil for the sake of evil.
@@ashtraycommsllc1247 I actually liked the first twenty minutes of Space Cop or so. Then Mike appears and ruins everything, he is just a terrible actor, very cringy to watch.
@@ashtraycommsllc pretty much agree with this sentiment, but credit where credit is due there is one joke in Feeding Frenzy that has made me laugh harder than anything else they’ve ever done before or since.
"GO!" Thanks so much for your review of our movie Slaughter Day! What an honor to be on your show, we have been subscribed to @RedLetterMedia from the beginning! We never stopped making movies! We just wrapped our Reboot to Slaughter Day 32 Years later! Would love to send you guys a screener! The Cousins Brothers
GOOOO!!! Thank you for making Slaughter Day! Having worked at Troma and made 2 low budget features myself I understand the absolute hell of finishing a movie especially with heavy FX work. Bravo! Much better than SOV Redneck Zombies.
You see what happens? They leave Mike off for one episode and suddenly Rich is Mr. Funnyman, cracking jokes, looking competent and clever. This gross oversight must be corrected. But seriously, Rich was on fire this episode.
As an adult with ADHD, I have something to add about the Cousin bros. ADHD is more common in twins than singlets. ADHD is characterized by an inability to regulate or moderate attention. We either hyperfocus on the things that interest us or have divided attention / struggle to focus on the things that bore us. We are also born with lesions on the prefrontal cortex that limit impulse control. This includes controlling our emotions and expressions. The Cousins bros are twins who were 100% passionate about making a movie, at first, before it stopped being fun and became boring. And those feelings were all evident to the viewer because they couldn't hide the loss of passion in their filmmaking, tone of voice, or body language. I believe that they are my people. Two fellow ADHD boys All of this to say that them finishing the movie is even more impressive if they have the specific developmental disability of ADHD, which can make it hard to finish the projects you start.
@@janeeyre1990 marvelously said. We champion the Cousins Brothers because they are all of us, or at least who we hope to have a semblance of inside of us. Long love Cousins!
There's just something deeply wholesome about the way the guys all laugh while watching Slaughter Day. They're not laughing at it, they're laughing with it. Its so cute and charming. And they relate to the filmmakers. Now if Mike was here, it would've been Feeders all over again.
So happy after watching Redlettermedia over 10 years now, it's amazing they reviewed our movie Slaughter Day! Freaking Surreal! After 32 years we just wrapped our latest Film, it's a REBOOT to Slaughter Day! Were calling it DAY OF THE WICKED! The Cousins Brothers
@@thirdphaseofmoon you guys are still better than some of the literal professionally produced movies that RLM have watched. I eagerly await seeing it both for myself and on here!
You just know, had Mike been there, there's no way the vote would have been unanimous. The devil within him wouldn't have allowed such a harmonic ending.
When I was a horny 12-year-old I remember walking into a Blockbuster and seeing The Kid With X-Ray Eyes on the shelf and really wanting to rent it but being too embarrassed to ask either of my parents for it. This is some really weird unnecessary closure for me, so thanks?
These guys are great for those memories, aren't they? I vividly remember seeing what I called for years Green Baby In the Toilet every time we were in there... and having nightmares about it. These guys cover all that crap. Always a fun nostalgia trip, and while the closure might not be necessary per se, it's appreciated.
When editing with 2 VCRs, it was far more effective to edit using the Pause button, rather than the Stop and Record buttons. Jack mentioned this. HOWEVER, the Pause didn't last forever. So if you wanted to take a break, or stop editing for the day, here's what you'd do: You'd find your edit point on your tape (where you wanted to start recording again) and reset the counter to 0:00:00. Now then, there was an average lag time of 3 seconds of tape between pressing Record and the recording actually starting. So, you'd press Record, then press Pause immediately. You're recording, but the recording is paused at 0:00:03. HERE'S THE TRICK: If you pressed Pause twice in rapid succession, all VCRs would back the tape up 1 second. So you'd press pause twice quickly (start/stop recording), now you're at 0:00:02. Do it again. Now you're at 0:00:01. Do it one more time. Now you're at your edit point of '0:00:00' and ready to edit. I tell you, those were the days... that sucked... but were also great.
@Pocketrocket-pj1us I discovered this process when I hit the Pause button twice by accident while recording TV. I hadn't considered PAL or foreign VCRs. I used this technique on 5 different VCRs from 5 different manufacturers, and it always worked. Early to late 90s models. But, I guess, results may vary. :)
George C. Scott: Though he won the Best Actor Oscar for playing the titular role in Patton, he became the first actor to refuse the award, having warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences months in advance that he would do so on philosophical grounds if he won. Scott believed that every dramatic performance was unique and could not be compared to others.
Mike was top credited this episode. I can understand why - him dressing up and playing Tim the whole episode is an acadamy award winning performance. That´s effort man!
Hawk the Slayer originally had massive sets, elaborate castles, and multiple mythical kingdoms… then Jack Palance ate all the scenery so they had to film in the woods lol
Two senior citizens (Rich and Jack) trying to read the back of movies gave me the same inner peace as looking at a picture of a kitten with a yarn ball. It's like visiting my grandparents
@@jorgamund07I just picture Rich Evans's pantomiming squeezing his tits every time someone puts a period between those two words... it happened in an episode. or maybe it was a dream...
Can I just say, I really appreciated the love shown for the earnest effort of some young creatives in this episodes. I feel like sometimes "effort" isn't judged enough independently from "talent" or "results". Some failures are still worth celebrating, and some creators should be applauded and encouraged to keep on trying. That's what makes our world beautiful.
Absolutely, I hope these cousins/brothers/guys were watching this and after all these years get some sense of accomplishment that there is a little bit of polish to be found on their turd.
To be fair to them, I think they have talent, at least behind the camera. They just didn't have 'budget, equipment, acting skill, writing skill'. Give them a budget and equipment, they could make a decent horror film.
Jay: Immediately knows that an actor played a character in an obscure old movie just from hearing his name and seeing his face in another movie. Also Jay: Calls Deathstalker "Beastmaster" for the 15th fucking time.
Also Also Jay: Not recognizing that the green dinosaur car is from Death Race 2000, the Roger Corman classic starring Sylvester Stallone and… David Carradine.
The 'giant' eating chicken was played by the well-loved English comic actor Bernard Bresslaw. Interestingly he also played the Cyclops in Krull, that other 80s fantasy movie mentioned in the video. I once nearly walked into him as he was getting out of a taxi outside a theatre in Birmingham. He looked terrified. Maybe he thought I was going to steal his chicken.
I happen to love Hawk the Slayer, because its so British, so ambitious and so nostalgic. Given that it was made for a budget of just £600k at a time when the British film industry was completely collapsed, I like the sheer spirit of trying to make epic fantasy with a bunch of sitcom actors and a smoke machine. The car footage is from Death Race 2000 btw.
I'm with you. I have a bizarre fondness for Hawk: The Slayer. It sucks. It's a very bad movie, but... It's corny in a way that is comforting to me, if that makes any sense? I see the formula of a decent movie and a pretty sweet D&D campaign, but the actors don't try, the special effects suck/laughable, the jokes don't work, the story is more than a little janky. And I still kinda like it. It's not even entertainingly bad or good bad, like a lot of sword and sorcery movies were at the time (t*ts, Italians, horrible blood squibs, grotesque special effects monsters that needed to be real, jacked morons with blonde hair helmets), it's just *bad.* It's boring, it's very stupid, it's cheap, and it sucks. And I kinda love it and I don't know exactly why.
The reptile car stock footage in Kid with Xray Eyes was actually the Monster car driven by "Frankenstein" (David Carradine) in Death Race 2000. That movie rules
ditto on the upvote for death race 2000. sure its a funky 70s post-apocalyptic desert movie and roger corman production but it has a surprisingly subversive sub-plot as well as a pre-rocky sylvester stallone. rlm should definitely watch it.
A 58-minute shot-on-video home movie has been released on BD, but to date, the theatrical cut of the original _Star Wars_ trilogy hasn't. Take a moment to let that sink in.
Well for one, the theatrical cut of Star Wars was pulled from theatres and than re-released with edits, so which is the real theatrical cut? Most people saw the post-edited version in theatres.
@@Edax_Royeaux Theatrical cut of _Star Wars_ -- the version originally seen by audiences in 1977. So no added "Episode IV -- A New Hope" in the title crawl (but I'm sure a hypothetical HD release could contain both versions of the crawl, accessible VIA seamless branching, so the individual viewer could chose the one of their preference). Theatrical cuts of TESB & ROTJ -- the versions originally seen by audiences in 1980 & '83, respectively. Of course, I'd be remiss not to mention the various & sundry sound mixes packaged with all three films. Obviously, the most notable ones would all be included in a hypothetical HD release.
@@Duragizer8775 Yeah, but which version originally seen by audiences in 1977? There were multiple versions. What is the true original experience of Star Wars? The very rare first cut? Or the wider released edited version? 1977 Visual Differences The earliest visual edits to the original film occurred between the initial release in May and the wider release later in 1977. The edits are minor, but noticeable. They consist of four changes. All of these changes were made before the foreign language prints were made later in 1977 and well before the last good interpositive was struck in 1985. These four shots run exactly the same length. All of them exist in the earliest bootleg video tapes and in the English 16mm prints. The original three effects shots exist in many home video English language versions released during the '80s. None of these shots are found in the Definitive Edition, Faces Edition, or 2006 bonus discs, nor are they in any of the known extant 35mm prints, or Technicolor prints. When the Millennium Falcon is being pursued after taking off from Mos Eisley, the effects shot where the Star Destroyer is shooting at the Falcon was changed. The early version has different explosions and different flashes and looks less finished. When the heroes arrive on Yavin 4, the outdoor composited shot with the matte painting of the temple is recomposited and is not synced the same. It also has an artifact in the image. When the fighters take off from Yavin 4, there is an extra cloud and the shot is not synced the same. It also has an artifact in the image. The scrolling end credits are completely redone with the spacing, both vertical and horizontal, altered, and a glitch in composition at the beginning has been removed. 1977 Mono Audio Differences The film was originally released with 35mm Dolby Stereo and 70mm 6-track audio. Since these were both mastered from the same mix stems, there is little to no difference between them in terms of content. Both feature 4 main audio channels with the 6-track having at least one LFE, channel. A mono mix was produced in June 1977 for exhibition in cinemas with no Dolby Stereo or Surround support, which did contain the following changes in content from the other versions. The majority of foreign language versions use a stereo mix with many, but not all of the mono effects alterations. A different explosion sound is heard when the Tantive IV's reactor is destroyed. A different alarm sound is used as the rebel soldiers aboard the Tantive IV prepare for battle. When R2-D2 falls over after being shot by the Jawas, the thud when he hits the ground is different. Aunt Beru's lines are alternate takes (possibly even a different actress). When Luke and Obi-Wan discover the wrecked sandcrawler, R2-D2 beeps. The stormtrooper who interrogates Luke and the others as they enter Mos Eisley's lines are timed earlier. As Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan, and the droids approach the Cantina in the mono sound version, a Cantina musical cue can be heard. During the search of Mos Eisley for the droids, the stormtrooper's lines have been changed from "Alright, check this side of the street. The door's locked. Move on to the next one." to "Alright, check that side of the street. It's secure. Move on to the next one." More growls are added to Chewbacca that were not present in the stereo and surround mixes. A short beep can be heard when the Death Star's superlaser system is booted up to fire at Alderaan. A different, lower frequency sound effect is used for Alderaan's explosion. When R2-D2 shows the schematics of the Death Star's tractor beam, C-3PO now speaks over the scene, the line being "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave.". The sound effects for the schematics being displayed have also been changed. This change was later reinstated for the 1985 video release. The line, "We have an emergency alert in Detention Block AA-23" was changed to "Governer Tarkin, we have an emergency alert in Detention Block AA-23", possibly read by a different voice actor. Luke groans when he gets dragged by the Dianoga into the trash compactor's murky waters for a second time. The pipe creaks when it is being bent by the trash compactor walls. C-3PO's line "Use the comlink? Oh my! I forgot, I turned it off." is from an alternate take. As the stormtroopers chase Han and Chewbacca, one now says "Close the blast doors!" before the Rebels narrowly run through. The line "What good will it do us if he gets himself killed?" spoken by Luke is from an alternate take. The heavy echo from Luke and Leia's speech at the chasm is absent. The blaster sound is different when Leia fires it at the stormtroopers. Computer sounds are heard when Luke fires up the Millennium Falcon's targeting system. Luke's line, "So, you got your reward and you're just leaving, then?" is a different take. The speech over the X-Wing's radios have less garble and static, and some lines are from alternate takes. Different, louder sound effects are used for the opening of the X-Wing's s-foils. The line "Blast it, Biggs, where are you?" from the original stereo sound version was changed to "Blast it, Wedge, where are you?" to fix continuity. Porkins' scream when he is hit is cut out. When Tiree's Y-wing explodes, there is an additional explosion sound. This also appears in the 6-track mix. Sound effects for Red Leader's damaged X-wing engine were added before his crash. The voices announcing the progress of the Death Star's journey to Yavin 4 is different.
That "Harry Potter" idea reminded me of another scam. Former Beatle Pete Best released his own solo record when the band hit the big time. It was called "Best of The Beatles". Ingenious.
Dang, that *is* clever. Sort of like that Canadian guy who entered the politics game and changed his name to Above Znoneofthe, so that it was listed below the other candidates names (alphabetically) as Znoneofthe Above
Fun facts \ quick google search results: The *Boy* with the X-Ray eyes is (by all appearances) an actual movie that Fred probably intended to capitalize upon. A decade later he made "The Girl with the Sex-Ray eyes" which is more on brand. The stock footage at the start is from Death Race, which... come on, at least one person on the crew should have recognized that car.
@@Aetharnyou’re thinking of David Carradine, not Robert. David played Bill in Kill Bill. Robert is the one whose character sexually assaulted the cheerleader in Revenge of the Nerds.
Yes all praise the shockingly broken, dog shit copyright system RU-vid has made basically zero effort to improve. But investing in trying to break ad blockers so they can push YT Premium subs, now that they are happy to invest in and good luck with that, see how it worked out for twitch. The ad blocker extensions just get updated, and usually within an hour or hours when twitch does get them to stop working. And I say that as someone with YT Premium (splitting the cost of the "family" plan with someone, so it's $11 and covers 6 people total, the trown in YT Music Premium is pretty good too)
@@Around_blax_dont_relaxYou can find it if you look hard enough since many of us have it downloaded. That crazy lady does get the links taken down often though
As a man nearly old enough for the Geritol Follies, I assure you that Silly String was well known in the 70's. In fact, I would go so far as to say the mid-to-late 70's were its heyday. Pretty sure everyone watching this movie in 1980 shouted "Hey, Silly String!" at that scene.
My parents always promised to take me to the Geritol Follies but we could never afford it. So we'd go to the Tums Festival and they'd tell me it was the same thing. I knew the truth, but I appreciated that they made the effort even though we were so poor. Then one year my sister spoke up and said it wasn't as good and our dad beat her with an extension chord. But anyway, what were we talking about?
I enjoy the fact that RedLetterMedia edits their own videos. Not like a lot of these modern-day Let's Players who have a team of editors that make the video on their channel the watchable content that it is and all they do is say, "Editor cut that out, put this in, put an interesting effect at this time of the video, etc...." Honestly it gets to the point that I feel like I should be subscribing and contributing to the editor instead of the 'face' of the channel. Again, something I don't get from any given RLM video because Mike or Jay will not only be in the video but edit and upload it themselves. Sure it means you probably won't get a video until a week after the last one instead of daily, but at least I know the people who are in the video are the ones who get to decide what the audience gets to see in the final cut. Instead of a different editor spending hours making the video watchable in hopes that the Let's Player approves of it and receive little to no credit for their hard work.
I also have this problem, so it's fun to see someone else trying to hold back saying their mind echoes out loud. It tends to happen when you're a loud person with an empty cave for a head.
God bless you fine gentlemen for NEVER passing up the opportunity to make a David Carradine autoerotic asphyxiation joke. For a second I thought you'd get hung up and choke away the opportunity, but you came through in the clutch.
I'd like to make it clear that I love when Rich wears his peepers, and also that I love that he calls them his peepers, but I feel like Rich could play his own dad by just putting on those peepers. Peepers.
The joke about George C. Scott’s Oscar: in 1970, he famously refused to accept the Best Actor award for “Patton”, so I guess they’re saying someone threw it away and it ended up in a junk pile on the beach … ???
Yeah, the movie is not making fun of George C. Scott it is just calling back to Scott not giving a shit about winning. I think they are implying that he would have thrown it away himself because it didn't mean anything to him. Story is that Scott stayed home and watched hockey instead of even going to the ceremony. I think he is quoted as calling the Oscars a "meat parade." Funny thing is the he was nominated at least one more time after skipping and winning for Patton (and this was not his nomination for Man Getting Hit in Groin With Football)
Is it strange that they chose an older actor that RLM has actually praised in the past? Mike and Jay both praised his abilities during the re:view for Exorcist III. I can't really think of anyone else from that era that they've really talked about. Typically, when they see big stars from the past they are way past their prime, drunk, just doing it for a paycheck, or all of the above. I guess they gave George Kennedy some praise for...was it Demonwarp?
As a kid who played Dungeons and Dragons in the 80s, Hawk the Slayer was the closest I saw a movie come to representing the genre I was interested in. Luckily I was young enough at the time to let the cheese slide, but the film still holds a place in my heart.
I wasn't even alive at the time but it reminds me of the fantasy stuff I saw as a kid before LOTR came out, the british accents and those sets are just absolutely classic. Makes me smile just looking at clips.
We just wrapped our latest Feature it's a reboot after 32 years to Slaughter Day! We call it Day of the Wicked, keep an eye for it, hope to release later in the year! Thanks so much for your comment! It's people like you who inspired us to reboot the film after all these years. The Cousins Brothers
Jack trying to hold it in then laughing at the David Carradine joke then bursting out with the high pitched uncontrolled feel good inc laughter got me good.
Fun fact which strangely they didn't mention (or maybe I missed it): "The Kid with X-Ray Eyes" was released in the same year as "The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes".
I love that Jay can't stand people commenting when they don't mention obvious things, and that probably he changed the title to this video after the reupload to reflect his disdain. 😄
Nah I'm pretty sure that they changed the title because of youtube's absurd rules on demonetization of videos featuring or aimed at children, so they had to remove the word "kid"
Like we are supposed to believe Jack hasn't seen Hawk the Slayer countless times and, doesn't own the Rebellion Comics sequel which he reads fortnightly.
It really is a shame we didn't see more of the cousin brothers. There's a lot of actually really well made interesting shots in their movie. It's mixed up with terrible quality film equipment and a microscopic budget, but there was clearly a lot of talent and passion behind that budget.
We just wrapped our latest Feature it's a reboot after 32 years to Slaughter Day! We call it Day of the Wicked, keep an eye for it, hope to release later in the year! Thanks so much for your comment! It's people like you who inspired us to reboot the film after all these years. The Cousins Brothers
The replies in the comments really remind me of the situation with Len Kabasinski. RLM should have them on for an interview when their new movie is released
yes! its a staple of the 80s fantasy genre in my opinion, although krull and beastmaster are better films. another cheesy one im really into is yor- the hunter from the future starring reb brown of captain america fame. i could definitely see yor appearing on a future best of the worst episode.
@Cybernaut youtube age restricted the video immediately after it was published. we suspect it had something to do with both 'slaughter' and 'kid' appearing in the title.
It's disappointing the Cousin Brothers didn't make more movies (besides their other one). They clearly had some creativity and ingenuity with more experience they could have made some amazing things.
For real, that thing looked exactly like the film me and my mate _planned_ to make - including all the camera trickery we learned from, like, IndieMogul and other zero-budget filmmaker channels of early RU-vid - but just never got around to because we were poor and lazy. So I can't help but give 'em props for going further than we ever did! And shit, looks like they're getting decent, consistent views now, so... good for them.
that bit about vcr-to-vcr editing is so fascinating to me. i'm not too young for vhs tapes, but definitely for DIY vhs work. Super cool, and I can totally see why the guys were enamored with it like any other B-movie
@@spillanegottleib1681 There's a lot of overlap in people's ideas of semantics, but I'd argue that either could be considered as an oxymoron, because the sense of "quiet" is clearly against "thunder". The variable attuned to here is sound.
Some day there will be a hit series by the Cousins Brothers. It’ll be nostalgic horror about the 90s shot entirely on VHS. They‘d get my money for it which would be about 100$, so about a quarter of the budget.
Wanted to let everybody know that we just found about this review on our move we shot 32 years ago called Slaughter Day day! We are honored to be picked as the BEST of the WORST! We have been watching RLM from the beginning and to be reviewed by them is SUREAL! Just a heads up we just wrapped our REBOOT to Slaughter Day after 32 years, and were calling it DAY of the WICKED! We can't wait to share it with the world!
Hopefully, these guys have learned their lesson. You can't upload that type of filth and expect RU-vid to not take action. Rich should never forgive Mike for the trauma he caused.
@alexpolewski1247 I don't know, but someone else was speculating that it had to do with the title. The kid with the x-ray eyes- they removed the reference to the kid, because apparently the algorithm is touchy about 'kid' or 'child' related stuff? Again, this is just more speculation.
The original cut of this episode opening with 40 minutes of raw, unedited footage of 9/11 was a bold artistic choice. But I understand why RU-vid might've taken issue with it.
This has unlocked a core memory. In Hawk, the glowing stone in the sword is not electronic. It's reflective, and they had to direct a light onto it to get the effect. You can see the glow interrupted when the light misses the target, like when the actor is riding the horse.
Yeah, that was my conclusion on how they did the magic hula hoops and the bouncy balls, they're reflective and they put a disco light on them. It's a variation on the original lightsaber effect.
"I was acutely aware at all points of this evening of how much effort was being put in at any given time" *Rich Evans on the films, but also a quote for life*
9:45 That scenario happened in _Empowered._ The heroine, while bound, spotted an embolism in her captor and convinced him to untie her and go to the hospital, saving his life. Nothing new under the sun.
Gutted, but also proud, that Hawk The Slayer made it on here. One of my favourite films as a British kid born in the 1980s. Late night ITV on Friday nights was the home of this classic!
It's possible that VHS horror has just boiled my brain, but that scene where the guy gets folded in half is like...*super* visceral. Like the shitty camera and the fact that it's all practical make it feel shockingly real.
Same! Although practical effects can also take me out of the experience as I try to figure out how they got that effect to work and shoot/edit it look so great.
Being from the UK, Hawk the Slayer was a childhood favourite of mine and the soundtrack (score) is great. Hawk the Slayer actually has a graphic novel sequel. The women who is shot in the back on the boat by Jack Palance is Catriona MacColl from Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, The House by the Cemetery and City of the Living Dead.
It's like the making of Evil Dead. At the end of filming, they had 3 people left working. Perseverance! Cheers to the Cousins, from all of us, who have made a movie! Just finishing, is an accomplishment.
We just wrapped our latest Feature it's a reboot after 32 years to Slaughter Day! We call it Day of the Wicked, keep an eye for it, hope to release later in the year! Thanks so much for your comment! It's people like you who inspired us to reboot the film after all these years. The Cousins Brothers
