Red Eye (Dead Meat Podcast #42) 

I watched this with my Grandma, who was probably about 92 at the time. She was on the edge of her seat- LOVED this movie. And when it’s revealed that Cillian Murphy is the bad guy, she went “I just knew it. There was something in his eyes. He really just deserves a kick to where it hurts. Don’t tell your uncle I said that.” 😂 I always think of that whenever I rewatch this. I love this movie so much.

I think the backstory with Lisa being attacked was important. Not necessarily to the plot but to the character development. It happened in a parking lot in the middle of the day. It's reflective of her current situation. She's in a very visible place surrounded by people. All the comments Jackson says about the assassin "only responding to his master" and that her being raped was "beyond her control". The fact that he gathers more information about her than he needs when he follows her and the way he chokes her in the restroom when he doesn't have to. He's not just a trained killer but he is also a dominant rapist who gets off on controlling her. Their entire chemistry is reflective of an abusive relationship. He spends the entire time taking away her voice so Lisa finally takes back her control and takes away his voice when she stabs him. She makes her move and the entire plane is in a panic. That's why I love this movie.

“She looks like a fawn in human form” perfect description of her I fell in love with her at a young age watching Glee

James' face when Chelsea theorizes a plane has to make an emergency landing if someone takes a shit outside of the toilet is just... so amazing. I laughed so hard.

Red Eye is actually one of my favorite movies. I’m glad to see it reviewed on the podcast.

The fact that you just keep cutting back to Cillian saying "Cynthiaaaa" makes me sob 😂

"you can't on the nose have the guy in a red and green sweater" you know Wes did that exact thing on scream

The single greatest piece of movie trivia ever is that the turtle scene from Master of Disguise was filmed on September 11, 2001, and when they heard about the attacks they held a moment of silence. So Dana Carvey first reflected over the loss of thousands of lives while wearing a giant turtle costume.

16:29 the kid in red is Kyle Gallner from the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot and Jennifer's Body.

_Pink eye is even scarier._

I LOVED this movie!! The BTS really show how much fun these guys had. In fact Cillian didn't want Rachel to hurt herself again in the bathroom scene so he caught her head when he slammed it against the wall. Oh just to let you guys know I worked in Hotel Reservations and many of the managers that worked at the different hotels were about as young as Lisa!! And just as cheerful lol The remake of Last House is actually one of my favorite films but the original was very jarring and I agree different from most Wes Craven.

I've spent the past few minutes giggling over Scream with pool noodles. I can't stop imagining Ghostface running after people with a giant, bright-colored pool noodle in his arms. This needs to happen.

Cillian Murphy was in a Rom/Com with Lucy Lui called Watching the Detectives.

Listened to this while working in class and i got to say these podcasts really help me get things done! Ive been binge listening as I do other things for school and they really help me calm down from stress. Anyway most of the time I end up wanting to watch the film after I listen to the review to get my own perspective on it as well as having what you guys said in mind and its alot of fun to see what i may agree with in terms of movie choices vs what you guys say. Thanks for these awesome podcasts and i cant wait for next week's!

I saw Red Eye in an early theater screening, one of those things where you sign up and if they have tickets available you get them for free. They passed out free luggage tags with the movie title on them. I remember that more than the actual movie lol

I relate so much to Chelsea, literally the only reason I knew about/watched this movie was Cillian Murphy. Also yes to every comment about his cheekbones (9:28 and 10:01 are amazing)

I worked for a hotel right about when this came out. Each department of the hotel has its own management staff, and there's managers over the department leaders. So it's absolutely possible to have a young 20-something as, say, your Reservations Manager or Housekeeping Manager or even your Human Resources person, who's management by a different name. General Manager...probably not, but if the hotel was owned by a family-run business, it's absolutely possible.

Following up to your comment about how no one is listening in into Lisa and Jacks conservations, they do make it clear in a few shots that a majority of the airplane is asleep from the flight being a Red Eye. Also pairs well with the plot of the movie where Keife is suppose to be assassinated by dawn.

Interesting fact, that frosted tips guy you were talking about next to the headphone kid is Kyle Gallner who later goes on to star in another Wes Craven related film, the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, he plays Quentin.

This is what I have always needed in my life, someone to just sit and talk about (sometimes old) horror movies. I love this, and now I need to go watch Red Eye again

Red eye? One word comes to mind: *_Sharingan_*

I havent watched Red Eye in years. Might have to check it out again. As always, awesome podcast.

Oh, my god, I absolutely LOVE THIS MOVIE. Thanks so much for covering it.

I absolutely loved this review of 1 of my favorite movies! ***Side note*** You can tell where Chelsea's mind was during this 😂😂😂😂😂

You mention "Why would no one help her?" If you haven't researched it, look into the story of Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect. There are some good RU-vid videos that show just how unlikely people are to help someone in large groups. But that scene is very accurate to what would likely occur.

The closest I have ever seen Cillian Murphy play a romantic comedy lead was Watching the Detectives with Lucy Liu. I am still bugged that Tron Legacy didn't get a sequel because his character was set up to play a bigger part in the continuation of the story. This movie always reminded me of Nick of Time and also Cellular. Yes, the longer flights on bigger planes did have the phones in the headrest and they were expensive to use.

Y'all are goals

I keep getting an Audible ad featuring cillian murphy for some reason and it starts with a very loud "Hi. My name is Cillian." that scares the shit out of me every time. The first time I got it was sometime soon after listening to this episode for the first time and as soon as I realized who it was I burst out laughing.

Dude, I'd somehow been only faintly aware of this movie and got the impression that he's just some murderer on a plane. I had no idea there was so much intrigue. I think I'm way more interested in this movie now.

I just want to say that i never comment... I am grateful for the continuous camera shot specifically for 37:31 ... that made my morning.

They say that soul mates have similar noses, and you two have almost the exact same nose

The guy in the red shirt eating is Kyle Gallner, who is in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake

Thank you guys for making this amazing podcast and all the effort you guys put into it, I always look forwards to it. It's my favourite thing to listen to when I'm doing homework!! ❤️

Oh my god this unlocked in my brain at about 17 minutes in that I had seen this movie a ton growing up! Thank you for doing this movie and I’m excited for more of these weird gems

I would love to see you guys review some early 2000’s horror gems like What Lies Beneath and The Others.

Actresses that were considered for the role of Lisa included Neve Campbell, Amanda Peet, Rachel Weisz, Robin Wright, Jennifer Connelly and Claire Danes. Actors that were considered (and rumored) for the antagonist role of Jackson included John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Kevin Bacon, Willem Dafoe, Michael Pitt, John Malkovich, Edward Norton and Ray Liotta.

I'll say it now: Red Eye is my favorite Wes Craven and easily top 3 thrillers for me ever made.

I just watched this movie for the first time the other day, because I'm all horned up for Cillian. Was very pleased to find out you guys had done a podcast episode for it!

Ever since I caught up on DnDnD, I've been binge listening to dead meat podcast. I'm not mad. I just love hearing james and Chelsea speak. Obviously they work so well together. It's wonderful

If you love Cillian Murphy you have to watch his show Peaky Blinders. Think Irish Gangsters post WW1. So good. An yes he makes out with people in it. And dude.....its a gun with a silencer. You can even see the bullet wound on his side it's a red hole. If it was a dart there would literally be a little dart sticking out of him ;)

Idk why i laughed so hard at “i think it was a gun dude”

Hello! (: Hotel Front Desk Supervisor here to confirm 27 year old managers exist, probably wouldn’t be a General Manger, but for average sized properties you have multiple managers for every department so that’s totally believable.

Red Eye was a fundamental film of my childhood I’m thrilled to see it getting attention

This is super spooky but I was literally thinking what if you covered this film on the podcast last week!!! It’s one of my favourites. Keep up the awesome guys 👏

One of my favorite Rachel McAdams films! So happy you chose to review it now have to rewatch it after all these years!

On the hotel manager thing, my sister is on her way to being a GM at a hotel in Seattle, and she's almost 24. So yeah, if you go to college for that and intern early, you'll get that managerial position earlier than you thought \( ._.)/

I remember briefly seeing the trailer for this movie when it first was released and it's nice to hear more about it all these years later and appreciate it for what it is

With all due respect, James, if Jack were going after Rumsfeld, most of the audience would be cheering him on.

Awesome breakdown! :) Yes, back in the day phones on the back of seats were the thing (and yes, they were VERY expensive!!) Now forgive me because you made me want to watch this again!! :)

OMG! Just watching this and Chelsea talking about darts and rebar made me almost faint laughing! Love these two! Cynthia!!

Why does James have Carrie(One of the most classic movies in history) in his intros but never reviewed it

The interactions between you two are a fantastic case study, thank you.

I remember going to see this with my mom and both of us really liking. I haven't thought about it in years so cool to see it here!

I talk about this movie all the time! No one ever knows what I’m talking about! I’m so glad you two watched it!

Never fail to entertain. Yet another great podcast. Thank you for reminding my of this film I will have to find it and watch it again.

This was so good and relatable love yall.

Love this movie. Thank you for covering it because it is insanely underrated.

I’m so happy!!! I love this movie. One of my favorite suspenseful movies to watch late at night. A good Wes Craven flick too. I love the podcasts

I sometimes order bay breezes because of this movie! Also James comments about Gillians cheekbones had me rolling!

Yassss. New favorite episode of the podcast. Love this movie so much.

I remember watching this when it came out in theaters. I really should give it another watch, it's an excellent underrated gem of a film.

17:30 referenception

Same Chelsea I saw this when I was in middle school and I loved it, super underrated

I remember reading something in school & it mentioned the product Coca-Cola, and it had the copyright R symbol next to it. It happened twice, I can't remember what the name of the story was but it was like a kid's story or something. I also asked my teacher about how to put products from real life in a story, & specifically remember asking about the Gameboy. (No I wasn't a nerd, but I did love my gray brick Gameboy...)

Oh my god!! This my favorite movie when I was a kid. So excited to see it covered 😍

I read You before the series came out, it was so good! I'm on the second book, Hidden Bodies, now.

You two are just so adorable together I can't get over it

I love this movie! It does a wonderful job of playing with a horribly tense scenario.

Ha James I was never a horror fan and when I started watching the kill count it made want to watch all these movies. The first kill count I watched was Jason X and after that I went straight to the TV and found it and watch it I just want to say thank you for getting me in to the horror genre

I just assumed "the Comedy Marathon" was the Just for Laughs International Comedy Festival in Montreal...its the world's biggest comedy festival, airs in much of the world, has events sometimes referred to as "comedy marathons" and since it attracts a lot of non-verbal comedians it tends to get played a lot in hotels chains and on airlines around the world cause they can play it across multiple destinations without having to worry about being able to translate it to local audiences (so I just assumed they were trying to stay on the whole "hotels and planes" theme).

When Chelsea said maybe we watched a weird version of the movie I died lmao

34:55 the reason why she didn't do that was because up until that point Cillian had her under the impression her dad would be killed if he didn't call his man to stop, so no communication would mean her Dad would die. It was only after she had successfully made the call to the hotel that he let her know his man was loyal and wouldn't move until told.

I have to be that guy, even a year late. He didn't say sharpening rebar. He said sharpening his ka-bar, which is a type of knife, the one Cillian takes off of his corpse at the end. Sorry, it was bugging me, lol.

I gotta check this out cause I love wes cravens creepy, cozy and funny style

Dude I love these podcasts so much

Chelsea smiles more in one video than I have in 20 years

Lmao I forgot to mention this the first time but one time I let out an apparently very potent SBD(silent but deadly) fart on a bus one morning going to school in high school and the bus had to pull over to let everyone out until the smell went away. Then when we got to school everyone passed by me, some asked if it was me. I was definitely one that owned up to it. Plus I was laughing the whole time with my friend. Kinda gave me away. Anyways, main point, I cleared out a bus once with a fart. Needless to say everyone was always wary of me after that and my farts lol

52:20 That Rugats reference just killed me...thought i was the only one who remembered that song!

Fun Fact: The main bodyguard for the Deputy Secretary is played by Colby Donaldson who was on Survivor: Australia, All Stars and Heroes vs. Villains

a good romcom with a sinister Twist is He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not! i hate to say anything more about it because even saying there's a twist feels like giving too much away, but we watched it in my high school french class and i remember loving it.

I think there's another movie based on a Stephen King novel, and this time it involves killer trucks, Maximum Overdrive! Maximum Overdrive was released in 1986 directed by the novel creator Stephen King in his 1st directorial debut.

I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking "28 days later, Batman Begins, This now... This dude is getting all the paychecks"

I saw the movie and I liked it. This reminded me to rewatch it sometime

Will never forget the pen scene in this movie for some reason. Haven’t seen it since I saw it in theaters but I remember that part 😂

Great episode, Red Eye is so underrated

guys i was literally obsessed with this movie when I was 13 not sure why 😂

I had a really bad day so thanks for this

I know this is a year late and you probably know this already but I totally had to go back and watch the movie because after you mentioned seeing a dart I wasn’t sure either. Having just re-watched it when Rachel shoots him it does look like a dart but then when dad shoots him it looks more like a bullet. Weird but maybe the way it was LOL shot LOL 😂 pun recognized but not intended LOL 😂

I remember renting this movie from Blockbuster around 2006...fun times.

I finished watching this and went to log it on letterboxd and the top comments were people asking Jackson to choke them out instead of Lisa

If you haven’t already seen it I totally 100% advise you watch 28 days later featuring Cillian Murphy! I’d love to see you guys do a kill count or podcast on it! He definitely shines in that movie! (It was the first film I ever saw him in.)

This was my first horror movie; I remember going to see it when I was ten and it terrified me. I can’t believe it’s been fifteen years! Shit, I feel old.

I love how in the US hockey is field hockey and ice hockey is just hockey but it’s the other way round in the uk

I saw this in theaters what a terrific and fun experience

I would love to see either a podcast discussion and/or a kill count of the 1996 film "Bad Moon" starring Mariel Hemingway! Wich is a very underrated werewolf flick imo!

Was up James, much love, keep up the good work

He actually was in a rom-com, he played opposite Lucy Liu

Nothing like watching a movie and finding out theres a podcast for it

Heard a recommendation so I subbed and came by for the scary goodness.

Finally remembered (if I haven't commented about this already), Cillian Murphy is the lead in a romantic comedy called "Watching The Detectives." Haven't seen it in a while but it was pretty cute.