Best of the Worst Spotlight: After Last Season
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2023
- Mike, Jay and Rich Evans face their greatest challenge to date: After Last Season. A DVD movie that has been looming over them like the specter of death lusting after a terminally ill cancer patient. The time has done finally come for them to put on this DVD and watch that film that only few have dared to watch before. A film that cannot be unseen. What happens when a man makes a film? A man that by all accounts may not have eyes. A man that may not have a brain. A man that seemingly placed a camera down and turned it on, hoping to capture the most terrifying film of the year. A man with access to a warehouse, lots of paper, huge vulgar chunks of cardboard, industrial metal shelving, laminated bright orange paper. Maybe a printer. Dusty dressers. And, of course, a real MRI machine. One grandma uses to check on her anus and make sure it's clog-free. How then does this filmmaker create a art of such a creation? Art does indeed come from adversity, but not mental adversity. Why does he made this film? What does he say with this art? What needs he say about ghosts and their ability to throw chairs and rulers. Why chips on the brain. Why telepathy? What a piece of paper pizza pantry? Only death will answers doesn't questions.
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Collin was so shocked by this movie that he didnt even say a thing this whole episode
@@kerouac7777 rewatch the episode again you clearly missed Collin dressed up as baby bink
That explains why Collin never told Mike about his participation in Jason X
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@@Pocketrocket-pj1us behind one of the white letter papers
I. iTunes vtvt buy rj r
"I'm having a difficult time moving that chair."
"The bag is too heavy, I can't hold onto it."
sounds like the player character narration from a 90s adventure game when you click the wrong things.
“Read my lips…I…can’t…pick…that…up.”
I can't carry anymore. I am overburdened.
Indeed, that is what it would say.
"My friend's never seen a movie and I'm independently wealthy" is the best possible backstory for this movie
The fact that there’s a ceiling fan in the room with the “MRI machine” is hilarious.
that is the cooling
The fact that there's not any pizza in the piece of paper pantry is pretty pitiful.
It makes you think about how grounded and consistent a Neil Breen movie is.
Breen is fucking Citizen Kane when compared to this
@@RyanReenBattikh lmfao im dead i cant breathe
Where ARE you?
So this is 3.6 Neil Breens out of 5...not great, not horrible?
It makes you appreciate Demon Cop and Ryan's Babe
Rich Evans is like a grizzled cop who's seen it all and no longer cares. But then suddenly a new inexplicable serial killer, in the form of the movie "After Last Season", appears and rejuvenates him
He *is* a Space Cop, afterall ...
"alright, this is the last case and i'm retired", he thinks to himself.
"What's in the (VHS) box?!"
i like any comment that talks about Rich Evans
Rich is John Wick, and After Last Season just killed his dog
As someone who has weird semi-lucid nightmares, this feels like an honest attempt at recreating one of them
It's eerily similar to the work of Kyle Edward Ball, the guy who did the recent theatrical "analog horror" film Skinamarink, and his "Bitesized Nightmares" CZcams channel. Just long, uncomfortably quiet shots of very little happening.
Lucid nightmares are the worst. I know exactly what you mean. Shit literally keeps me up at night not wanting to go to bed sometimes. You're just aware enough to recognize it's a dream, which makes you fearful of accidentally turning it into a nightmare, which, of course, makes you turn it into a nightmare.
@@WyattMcFeelz Just woke up from a new reoccur-er. I'll spare the details but I get locked in this place and I cant wake up, or I have a "fake" wake-up and I think I'm okay for a bit, but no one in the dream will respectfully hear/help me out
@@GoodStarfish Uuugh, the fake wake ups in dreams are the worst. You think you’re done and eventually you may or may not figure out “nope, not out of it yet”
@@mariecarie1Serious question: how do you ever confirm that you’ve really woken up? What’s the giveaway that you’re finally back to waking consciousness? I experience TLE, so these sorts of experiences interest me. Thanks!
I think I may have answers for your unanswered questions.
In my opinion the CG animation is the key to understanding what's happening here, I have a degree in computer animation and the level I see here is precisely what will be expected of you after your 2nd year as a student in the field. I think either the director, or someone in the family was just getting their degree. I believe the student skipped the classes on green screen and why it's used, I think that's the purpose of all the paper - he is using it for blocking - a CG EMR machine was supposed to be layered on top of the paper one, the sheets of paper are put on the walls for scale and so he can recreate the walls the way he envisioned them in 3dmax or maya. In post reality hit him hard - in order to put a CGI CT scan machine (on top of the paper white one), behind a doctor (in white coat), you will have to manually edit each individual frame - which is a nightmare - and you'll also have to put a lot of work in it, not just lightly retouch a frame messed up by the green screen filter. My guess is the sheer amount of work either scared the person responsible for the animation out of the project, or the "movie" had to be pushed out the door because of the 5 mil investment.
My favorite IMDB review of all time resides under this movie by the way, the title is "This movie was not released, it escaped".
You're actually giving the filmmakers too much credit. Those 3D models I'm pretty sure are from a program called "Poser." At most, they bought that program saw there were free characters for it and used that.
@@Lface8 but there is an actual vfx shot when it shows the prorolis corporation
My friends and I have seen this movie years ago and have always thought it was just some awful money laundering scheme lol
Makes sense.
I farded while read this :)
If the film ended with the scene zooming out until it's revealed that everything took place in a bizarre origami structure being built on a table by a semi-catatonic person in a mental institution, I might declare it art.
I too would declare thusly.
I concur
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I misread your post at first and thought thet's actually how it ended for a moment there. I was like, "Brilliant!"
If you were around for production, you would have single handedly turned this into an award winning indie film on that premise alone.
Rich Evans is the greatest ventriloquist. He sat there the whole time whilst holding a beer, and without so much as a sip, threw his voice into that homeless man.
The idea of a serial killer unknowingly chasing some people into a haunted building and then everyone having to deal with a ghost is an interesting premise.
Hmmm...back pocket!
Interesting premise doesn't translate to a good one.
So kind of like a supernatural Pitch Black?
Kind of similar to that PS4 game, Until Dawn.
@@KingThrillgore could be a good premise if executed well
Every time they cut to Colin from Canada holding his beer, I couldn't help but notice how much older he looks.
Time passes twice as fast in Canada
He is already old enough to travel without his dad!
Yeah, rough Canadian winters can age a man, ya know.
Colin Cunningham is 50 years old.
To be fair, he is regularly frozen solid for months at a time, then thawed to film a video. He’s basically a Neanderthal.
Mike has always said “I want to see a movie where the scariest thing that happens is a chair moves.”
Well now he got what he wanted.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes
Monkeys paw
Basically most of the paranormal activity movies
My guy got monkey pawed.
A24 vibes bro
This was one of the weirdest episodes, almost dreamlike. The whole thing felt like 15 minutes, not 40+.
Holy shit I actually thought it was 15 minutes lol
I had exactly the same thought when they reached the discussion at the end of the video. I figured it was around 20 mins or so, and was really surpsired that I watched 40+ mins of this. Weird.
It’s because, like in the movie, you cannot form a thread of what’s going on, because the movie scenes were seeing don’t appear to be telling a story or related to each other in any tangible way.
Time moves very quickly when things are happening but there’s nothing actually there for your brain to focus on.
Alls you are experiencing in this video is the incendiary joy of listening to Rich Evans lose his mind over the film, which is fun. Time flies when you’re having fun.
Sitting watching a really boring film that makes sense feels like a long time because you’re actually processing something, even if you hate it.
That is an accurate description of the movie itself. It sounds like a slog to sit through but it FLIES by simply for how insane it is.
Too accurate. When I realized I was halfway through I thought to myself "but I'm only 5 - 10 minutes in..?"
What if the random shots of things were actually shots of the ghost? So much rewatch value!
Genius
I actually thought of that theory! 😆
After Last Season feels like a movie from an alternate dimension where something horrible has happened. Something cataclysmic, that changed the course of mankind. The event is never discussed, all mention of it forbidden, but still permeates through every scene. This movie was never meant for our world. It shouldn't be here.
This is actually the best and most coherent film to come from this alt timeline
Was the cataclysm that Georges Melies was never born, so modern film theory never developed?
DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST! 😏
@@CyberPhoenix001 Blessed be the Regulations.
Liminal Spaces: the movie.
RLM is like alcohol, it delivers when I need it most and I’m probably gonna die from it
Dying of laughter is always the preferred outcome.
@@somerandolad its definitely better than liver failure!
My addiction to it has alienated my family
Same
cheers ill drink t that!
I just want to thank Mrs. Grimble's kindergarten class on the wonderful production design on After Last Season.
Hey give real kindergarteners some credit! They'd at least draw something on those sheets of paper!
@@SpecialkMMMs You don't get it guys... Those paper sheets are actually save points
This is like if someone took someone’s play through of The Sims and turned it into a movie.
Sims actions make more sense
Oh my god it really is. Sims 1 too, back when it was truly chaotic
This film is like one of those AI generated images where at a glance it looks like a room filled with stuff but if you try to focus on any particular detail, you realize there are no discernible objects.
This!
The 'this is what it's like having a stroke while watching a movie' the movie.
"You realize there are no discernible objects" might be the most terrifying sentence I've read in my life.
There's a fuckton of pieces of paper. They're plenty discernable.
@@angrboda45 This is the psychedelic insight. There are no permanent objects. Therefore, from the point of view of eternity, there are no objects at all.
“Picture a flat surface. Out of the surface, one letter rises.”
“From the alphabet?” Best line in a movie ever
it's like an mst3k movie suddenly developed sentience and started riffing on itself.
@@OliviaCLTFC Wow that's incredibly accurate!
Well maybe she thought he meant a letter as in that paper thing you send people via post. So she made sure if he meant a letter like a message or a letter from the alphabet
There are also the LeTarr people of western Belgium. Maybe he meant one of those
To be fair, it could've been the greek or cyrilic alphabets. It's a weird line nonetheless.
I'm so happy Mike and Rich won the custody battle for Baby Bink
I saw his picture in the paper
I am trying to figure out why the baby doll is there. I looked up Baby Bink and it appears that the doll is a doll version of the baby from Baby’s Day Out. Why is the doll there?
I remember watching this movie with some friends after I saw the RalphTheMovieMaker review and I'm so glad RLM finally watched it becuase I knew it would break Rich's brain. But the best part about this movie is the Director made a bunch of fake IMDB accounts to give the movie a higher score and reading through the fake reviews while we were watching and during the silent dream sequence my homie just got up silently and left the house for like 2 minutes and when he came back in he saw it was still going and walked right back out and texted me "NO!!"
A now no one has to watch Ralph's video anymore
@@kostajovanovic3711 Explain Ralph controversy
@@jakedanielsen4512 what controversy
@@jakedanielsen4512 what ralph
From IMDB: "Mark Region is a real estate business manager in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts. He watched lots of movies, wrote screenplays and made short films as a hobby for years until his breakthrough in 2009 when he directed the feature film After Last Season."
Did he just take all the paper from his real estate office?
I think the sheets of paper were put up as markers for all the CGI that the director thought could be put in post production, and the CGI company was like "You want us to do what now?"
I've obsessed over guessing why the director does so many things in this movie since I first saw it in a theater- what 10 years ago now. Like, I have had dreams about them building sets for some reason. I can't stop thinking about it from time to time.
They seem to have had a printer because that shot of the outside of the building is clearly a piece of paper with the name of the company written over it probably in MSPaint that they printed and then filmed the piece of paper with a camera. There is also a scene where they are supposed to be reading a newspaper and they cut to a piece of printer paper that was obviously printed off a computer with what they wanted the article to be (I think it's an article about the killer). So, I always assumed they used all the paper for the sets just because they had a bunch of printer paper lieing around for the printer they had for some reason. That was the one major purchase they made next to whatever CGI program they're using.
However, given the inserted text over pieces of paper CGI they did use maybe you're right. Maybe they intended to have more CGI in the movie. I honestly never considered that given how bad the movie is overall. Maybe the director doesn't even understand how keying works haha.
Can you imagine? The director wanted a CGI MRI machine so they built one out of cardboard and paper so they could CGI one in later 😄
"I marked all the editing spots with paper. Just color it in so I can use it as a bluescreen. What's so hard about that?"
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THIS WAS SHOWN IN A THEATER?!
@@cornbredx [ Maybe the director doesn't even understand how keying works haha. ] - Exactly, I'm sure the director questioned "Why would I paint the walls green?"
TBF, you could luma-key the paper. I doubt this is what they had in mind though!
The ceiling fan light in the MRI room is amazing
The fact that one of the bulbs is burnt out just makes it better.
That and the radio clock thats just a radio and clock taped together LOL
MRI rooms are well known for having large flimsy rotating metal ceiling fixtures near the huge electromagnet
The shoes randomly in shot is just the icing on the cake
@@STEPH.ANIE. WHY DID THEY BRING UP A RADIO CLOCK IF THEY HAD NO RADIO CLOCK WHY NOT JUST SAY RADIO AND OR CLOCK ASFDGDGGDFDS
Director Mark Region has cited The Sixth Sense and The Exorcist as inspirations for After Last Season. The film was shot on 35mm film, and principal photography took place over five or six days in one house with fake medical equipment made from cardboard. According to Region, the film had a budget of $5 million, with $30,000 to $40,000 spent on filming and the majority of the remaining amount spent on the film's computer animated neural visualization sequences.
Cocaine and hookers
That dude got ripped off. The UHF cgi scene was probably half as expensive, but twice as a good.
Dude. NO way!! There's no way someone spent $5m on this. I REFUSE to believe they spent even 1/5 of that on the final product
@@dallasdandigitalproduction393 Aside from being shot on film this has less production value than something made by a high school kid for a class project.
Did he also own the company that did the cgi? Is this a Producer’s situation?
Can’t believe they remembered the life support aquarium but during the pantry riffing no one made the obvious callback to the Pepperoni Pizza Pie Peephole.
I thought about the Pepperoni Pizza Pie Peephole instantly as well!
This movie gives me an uncanny valley feeling. Cause people are in it, but it doesn’t FEEL like a human made it
The people are so sincere and dedicated in delivering their lines that I feel like they were told the sets would be added in post.
Maybe this was the first movie scripted by AI.
@@DeflatingAtheism Thanks for noticing our sincerity ;) --Jason Kulas
@@jasonk.3358 If you are Jason Kulas, some kind of explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Kinda David Lynchian.
“How did they know where to go?”
Followed the paper trail, obviously.
My brother passed away yesterday and in dealing with the emotions, I’ve gone back to RLM videos to help distract. He was in the animation industry and loved film and he was the one who turned me to RLM. I’ve been a big fan since and even though no one will read this, I want to thank all the RLM guys for providing such wonderful and hilarious content.
Last Xmas I bought him a “Dick the Birthday Boy” shirt and he laughed half-embarrassed and said, “Well I don’t know if I want to wear this in public!” His smile said it all though, he was happy. Miss you William!
Sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry for your loss, glad to hear RLM could bring you some nice memories and possibly some smiles at this time
I'm so sorry you lost your brother. Sounds like he'd be happy that you're watching something he loved to help.
Thank you all for your kind words, I truly appreciate it 🥲
We all get to be part of this crazy RLM family thanks to these guys and this wonderful community.
I was also going through loss when I was turned onto RLM and I continue to go back to them to cheer me up.
We all may be alone at times but at least we have things in common as humans.
I hope you are healing 🖖
"Unique!" - Rich Evans
"It's a mystery." - Mike
"Oh my God it's over!" - Jay
29:00 The image of Rich laughing like a madman with the sleeves of his shirt rolled like a straight jacket is so cinematic.
More cinematic than After Last Season.
I could easily picture him in a white paper padded cell.
His flat refusal to simply accept this movie is everything
I watched that part 3 times in a row 😆
I often use "money laundering scheme" as a joke when discussing bad movies, but in this instance I genuinely believe it to be the case. There is nothing that 5 million dollars could have conceivably went into, unless they blew it on an absurd amount of paper and cardboard; then there's the whole director choosing to operate under a fake name, and I can't imagine any other possibility.
Most of that 5 million was for the CGI.
@@Zissou42 I don't completely buy that, unless the guy was outright swindled
For a comparison the movie Moon which came out the same year (2009) also cost 5 million and is an actual good movie. I'm sure a good chunk of that went to pay Sam Rockwell but there was still enough money to pay for passable special effects.
A money laundering movie would be rushed and slapped together but more coherent. It has to pass as a decent film. This sounds more like the creator bragging to hype up the film and make it seem more legitimate.
@@harizotoh7 This guy gets it. There is no actual PROOF the movie budget was 5 mil. What we've got is the "producer's" claim about it, as sort of "this is independent movie made with big budget for independent production". Never mind average indie flick can get you a fully professional production at about 2 mil range and you wouldn't be even able to tell it was cheaply made. I mean fuck, The Void was made for $ 82 500, so not even 100k. Good luck figuring that out when watching it. And The Void has an actual, elaborate hospital set, with lamps, equipment and what not.
This makes Breen and Wiseau look like Kurosawa and Kubrick
At 1:16, Rich Evans gives us "Rorshark," which, granted, is no "Folding Chable," or "Gun Chunks," but is still an excellent Rich Evansism, and he gave it to us right away too.
I have to applaud Tommy Wiseau for his amazing dedication to writing and production value
He did pour a lot of money into it after all.
What's line?
Say whatever you want about The Room but at least it looked like it was made by someone who's seen what a real movie looks like at least once
Having seen _Nukie_ in the early 2000s, I giggled every time someone said _The Room_ was the worst movie ever. Then I saw _After Last Season_ in 2016 and now I giggle when people say _Nukie_ is the worst movie ever.
@@Bacteriophagebs Thankfully there will always be something worse than than the worst you've seen.
28:47 Rich is so wholesome that upon noticing the onset of a psychotic episode, he creates a makeshift straight jacket for himself for his friends' protection.
*Joker theme starts playing*
@Edward Hannah replace the jokers laugh with Rich Evan's
I thought "that looks like Rich is in a mental asylum". now imagine if the final episode of the whole red letter media multiverse is Rich in a padded cell wearing a straight jacket laughing and we find out Mike, Jay, Mr Plinkett, Rem Lazar, and everything we've seen were just his insane delusions, they are not real, they are his imaginary friends.
@@pelgervampireduck In my mind, Rich is secretly the Joseph Jackson of RLM. Behind the scenes he's got the belt ready if Mike and Jay don't perform well.
Rich’s most heroic act was to shield his friends from is own psychotic break from watching pure, pure shit.
This movie is like if you asked Rich Evans to write instructions on cooking french fries.
Be cool about fiiiiiiiiiiire safety!
As a New Englander, I can tell you that we all have 3 pieces of paper taped to the siding of our homes. We've done it for hundreds of years, so we've become really good at keeping them attached all winter long, not "2 days" according to Mike.
Also, books are not allowed in the living room. It's punishable by death, if the police were to discover it in the living room. It's a very serious offense.
So what you're saying is if I take an axe to the drywall in your house, a steady stream of literature won't fly out and hit me in the face?
As a Bostonian by birth, I can confirm this. Though I am disappointed you neglected to mention that cardboard is not an acceptable substitute for paper and comes with jail time
I thought for a second that they replaced Rich with a baby doll and then I realized Rich was sitting right next to it.
It's one of the children from St. Jude's I believe. When RLM gave them the check from the Nukie auction proceeds, they must've allowed one child to be with them on an episode as a little bonus.
Which one is the doll?
@@larrylaffer3246 it's Ethan Allen Stoklasa
@@noneyabusiness3843 Rich Evans
Did the skin tones match?
The trailer voiceover was all I needed to know this was going to be a ride.
Was that a Scottish accent or just a really excited man
@@deadaccount1342 Yes.
@@Sigillimus 🤣
@@deadaccount1342 I think it was an attempt at Werner Herzog?
His accent is a rough German, sounding more like Schwarzenegger.
I don't know why, but I've listened to this episode over 20 times by now.
"I can't handle this, Jay. What do I do?"
"This is beyond the normal level of incompetence" ~ Rich Evans
I'm glad Rich brought his granddaughter to work, it warms my heart when kids spend time with their elders
She is not real. Like this Rich Evans, people are talking about... just a figment of our imagination! :)
Judging by the blank look that's not Rich's granddaughter that's the film's director.
That's just Jay Bauman
@@twalt Hm, and I wondered why I was so attracted to a hack fraud figure! :)
this implies Rich has had sex at least once
Based on the placement of the random white sheets of paper on other objects, I'm 90% sure the creator thought all contrasteed and blank white surfaces would work as a replacement for a green screen or markers for special effects..
holy crap this might actually be it
Are you saying the paper is actually a portal? D:
That was my thought as well. Then he found out he was very very much mistaken and just... didn't fix it at all lol.
I seriously doubt the director was that competent
Until the house.
Michael Scott making a movie and dressing every set with paper would actually be a very funny gag.
I don't know what it is but 0:21 just shows how these guys have been friends for so long and always will be. The classic Rich Evans laugh, Jay chuckling to himself, and Mike pouring a beer with a smile on his face (0:37) that's just so pure and seems to say I'm glad we're all here. Much love, hack frauds.
Ya love to see it
Really glad to see Macaulay Culkin back on the show! He was a little quiet this time around, but I'm sure he was just stunned by Rich Evans' imposing presence.
"The film is filled with 90's album covers" may be my favorite RLM joke ever.
It's so apt, lol
16:03 'Corporation' by Prorolis is the soundtrack of my teenage years
Looks like Jandek album covers.
just need a hour cut of various 90s album cover mock ups from this madness.
You have been called upon to make it. Don't forget to include Local H, Stabbing Westward, Bullet LaVolta, and Mudhoney.
Now you gotta do "The Time Machine (I Bought at a Garage Sale)"
It's the only other "movie" (that I'm aware of) which is as clinically insane, and comes the closest to the mood/tone/vibe of "After Last Season."
They'll HAAAATE that one, good idea.
i wanna look it up but need the date.
@@mistertagomago7974I Googled the sucker, turns out the title is actually "The Time Machine (I _Found_ at a _Yardsale),"_ which may be why you had difficulty searching for it.
Ugh . I'm glad we're giving bad movies ideas. Thank you. I haven't watched yet but I will! It better be terrible lol
26:38 It should be noted that the piece of paper "taped" to the pantry doorway is in fact, a piece of paper with a black paperclip hanging on a nail (or tack!) that was already hammered into the door. (It's where Grandma had the "In god we trust" sign) The fact this scene alone uses a paperclip instead of tape MUST be intentional, only adding to the intricacy of the movie.
The mystery of the hidden lore of After Last Season goes deeper
Grandmas ceiling fan in the MRI room made me have a full blown mike stoklasa laughing meltdown that I've yet to recover from
The best part was when they cut to a shot of it and it wasn't Mike fucking around.
I mean the second they turn on any rating of MRI that things coming off the ceiling in a fairly spectacular fashion oh God here I go again
You can't walk in to a room with an MRI machine with any metal on you at all. No way in Hell would there ever be a freaking ceiling fan right above a MRI scanner.
The magnet is always on. You can’t bring any metal near an MRI at any time. That ceiling fan should be glued to the MRI.
I mean, Rich Evans is the main RLM handyman it seems. He did all the Wheels, the Plinketto board, the nice big table they're sitting at in this very video. I think he'd plan out a very adequate building.
Yeah and I'm sure he'd be able to make a solid nuclear reactor too if he's given proper blueprints and instructions. He's a smart guy with a thing for engineering. Heck he'd probably even be able to get hang of the clothes modeling too if given time.
I'm afraid all of his buildings have crippling diabetes.
Let´s not leave out how nicely he have put all those papers in correct order as seen in this new webzone episode.
You step into the elevator of the Richard Evans Building. You press the button for your floor.
The Price is Right lose sound effect plays over the speakers. The elevator begins to descend. Too quickly. When it stops, you emerge into a lengthy corridor lined with blank VHS tapes...
@@pekinobo where can i find that?
I think the most interesting thing about the director was that he made dozens of fake IMDB accounts to give his movie a higher score and wrote literal essays on how great his movie was
I love how they all assume "The Thinker" positions as the movie goes on.
When I used to have weekly bad movie nights, we couldn't finish this one. The emptiness genuinely unsettled and disturbed us, like it was a movie made by a goddam ghost
(EDIT: I am shocked to learn the movie is actually about a ghost)
Yeah I always thought it was somewhat unsettling because of how empty it is
it's like the movie equivalent of a liminal place
I can’t imagine seeing this without any sort of accompanying information or context- that honestly does seem like a fucking living nightmare because this movie is disturbingly stark- like cinema as an art form has never been stretched so far from anything resembling a narrative or any degree of visual stimulation - to quote Jay, “this is borderline experimental”
@@nickkiller-0710 literally thought “is this a movie from the backrooms?”
so skinamarink if it wasn't intentional
I was just thinking those sets look like a vague location you'd see in a nightmare. The lighting is odd, the objects are just shapes, and of course the things you can actually tell are supposed to be something just look off.
I'm surprised how good that little baby still looks after 30 years. And the doll to the right of him held up well too.
Jay?
Bravo 🎉
I love how Rich encases his arms in his sleeves, like a preemptive straight jacket to contain the madness he witnesses daily
The low-angle shot in the MRI room showing...the ceiling fan. Amazing.
Damn, Jack had a major glow up recently. He looks years younger. Even got some of his hair back.
Sir, that's just Richard Evans.
It was really nice of Collin to donate his My Twin Doll to the crew!
LMFAO!
🤣🤣🤣
This movie is a triumph building upon decades of film history. The cutaways to random chairs and walls are clearly influenced by the "pillow shots" of master director Yasujiro Ozu, pure visual poetry meant to envelope the viewer in a time and place. The innumerable pieces of paper taped to everything, far from an incredibly cheap attempt at set decoration, are deliberately minimalist and stage-like, a la Lars von Trier's Dogville. And the plot, yes, though intentionally obtuse, is a clear echo of the time-twisting narrative and unreliable narrators of L'Année dernière à Marienbad. Not surprised at all these frauds didn't understand it.
Don't forget the incomparable editing similarly inspired by the French artiste Fuml De'Raetard
MRI room is full of metal furnishings, awesome
It’s like if David Lynch directed Total Recall, filmed at his grandmothers house and the prop department only had access to printer paper.
I tried to watch this movie for free but it was only available on paper view.
I love that creepy Gerber baby you have sitting at the table next to that doll.
The sets and the bizarre camerawork are actually pretty unsettling in that liminal space way the kids love so much nowadays so maybe this guy was just ahead of his time.
Also, the slow zoom-in at 28:47 of Rich Evans laughing maniacally with his arms tucked into his sleeves like a straitjacket is pure cinematic genius.
I was looking for a comment like that.
It really does look like some liminal space thing!
Ah, I see. This is a sort of proto-Pool Rooms: The Movie
The reason why it is unsettling is because the movie is about regular people trapped in hell and the audience sees the phony world that the devil has constructed to keep them unaware of the illusion while he stalks them. Seeing these people casually talk about events and items that have no actual substance informs us that they are under a spell. Even the movie's title acronymn is ALS, which is Lou Gehigs disease. A disease that breaks a person's functions down little by little.
It's so weird because when you watch the film there is a LOT of small talk about time and space, where things are in relation to each other, whether going through a town is the same as going to it, while the actual geography actively refuses to make sense. It's not just that there's a grandma house ceiling fan in the background of the MRI room, the director cuts in a close-up to make sure that you can't possibly ignore it even if you want to! It feels impossible that it could be by accident and yet everyone who worked on the film insists it was unintentional.
@@johnn.7849 needs more CGI water
It's extremely rare to come across the cinematic equivalent of a language isolate.
I love how they didn’t even have someone off screen pull the fishing line, they just had Mike do it under the table lmfao
The Pizza Pantry rant Mike did caused Jay to laugh louder and harder than I've ever seen before lol
It's like a live-action animatic. Like sketching out the movie you want to make using actors and vague, rudimentary sets.
This is what actually makes it seem fascinating! Sure, it probably sucks, but I love these weird movies that dare to take new paths instead of doing the conventional stuff on a low budget. This dares to be new.
Ever since I saw the DVD was on the Plinketto board, I jumped out of my seat and wished for you guys to watch it. I am so happy you are dedicating a whole Spotlight episode to this. 🙏🏻
I’m still waiting for the who killed captain alex spotlight ever since it came on the plinketto too, however this movie is still a gold mine.
Seriously. This movie was such an oddity. I remember when it came out it was a topic of discussion throughout Austin film circles. A lot of people were saying it was a money laundering scheme. So strange
YES! Me too. This movie is wild! It's worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space and The Room combined, and so incompetent you cant believe someone made this for real. It is my opinion- if this movie was made sincerely (which there is debate on)- there is no movie worse than this one. And to top it off it was released in movie theaters!
@@Sonikman103 I really hope they give it a watch at some point. It's such a fun U-movie, and it'll be a breath of fresh air in comparison to all the usual trash they watch.
@@Sonikman103 they had SHE on it once, I’ve been waiting for that one. It might have actually had somewhat of a budget but it’s so fucked up and weird.
We are ALL eagerly awaiting the Rich Eviano fashion line!!! Also, pretty sure the “FBI” on the “impressive FBI jacket” was haphazardly applied yellow tape lol.
Colin is looking younger than ever, though he wasn't very talkative this episode.
Had to look up when this was made because it looks like it could have been made anytime between 1978 and now. Troublingly timeless
If it was made in 1978 it would explain where the 5 million dollars went - the cutting edge cgi - and why there was no budget left for the rest of the movie 🍻
The pice of paper pizzeria pantry is now part of my vernacular. Jay laughing for those two minutes was sublime.
The rival pizza joint to the Pepperoni Pizza Pie Peephole
When they started babbling about that, I knew that this would be the movie that broke the guys.
The makers of Skinamarink saw this movie and were like "Ceiling fan shot for no reason!? GENIUS!!!!"
i wish they showed more hypothetical 90's album covers...
The random pieces of paper taped onto the walls and props of the RLM set while they're discussing the movie is just...perfection.
I love the part when Sarah is all like "I've never been TO it, butvive been THROUGH it" CLASSIC sarah
That's SO Sarah!
TOTAL Sarah thing to say
21:13 might be one of the funniest moments in RLM history...Rich's brain completely melts down and it's glorious.
Thanks everyone for this episode!. Watching this experimental horror art film makes me feel alot less ashamed about my own student films.
Rich desperately pleading for Jay to either help him understand or give him permission to leave was amazing.
The piece of paper pantry segment is one of the funniest things this show has ever done.
you could even say it broke new ground
my favorite moment is 13:48 where it cuts to a piece of paper to reflect mike's discussion about audio
Fun fact: if you go to the IMDb page of this movie, parents guide section .. every label is marked severe .. under the nudity label it says "it's nakedly terrible"😂😂
The way the ghost describes his existence (especially the part about basically being able to imagine having arms and doing things with them) sounds a bit like the experience of amputees. Maybe the idea is that a ghost is someone whose whole body is amputated?
I don't know who you are, but your comment destroyed me. I have nosebleed from laughter m8.
Your last line killed me. I can't function now
Makes sense.
“It’s all so poorly done, it’s so poorly shot. You’re so confused that you just start to reject the movie.”
i love how enraptured they look half the time. mike leans in, rich has a hand up and a mouth open in disbelief, and jay just laughs and laughs; it's like seeing them discover bad movies for the first time all over again
After watching this I'm so sad they didn't land on this in the Jack Quaid Plinketto episode. I feel like this movie would have melted any guest's mind. This makes Demon Cop look like cinema.
I still think Robot in the Family is the worst movie ever made. It seems like an unrelenting assault on the senses.
@DeflatingAtheism yeah that episode is like a fucking fever dream on Adderall.
Take ya fuggin pills!
@@DeflatingAtheism I've seen both _Robot in the Family_ and _After Last Season._ Also _Nukie_ and _Rollergator._ _Robot in the Family_ is worse than _Nukie_ because it's basically a more annoying _Nukie._ _Rollergator_ is marginally better than _Nukie_ because it's annoying like _Robot in the Family,_ but lacks the level of stupidity in _Nukie_ and _Robot._ _Robot in the Family_ is like the worst parts of _Rollergator_ and _Nukie_ combined.
_After Last Season_ is worse than all three of them.
Combined.
The first Rich Evans laugh spooked my cat thoroughly
Our dogs just didn’t understand started barking
This is literally incomprehensible. Like im sure the movie is, but I have no idea what I just listened to these men talk about for 45 minutes. Ive watched this like 5 times.
It’s like the movie absorbs them and they become part of the hive mind
Is there anything more joyous in this world than a Rich Evans laugh?
no. but Jay’s hair is a close second
The drunk doll had the most salient points throughout this whole review. Pretty hilarious, too. Can they please become a regularly occurring guest?!
Wait, that wasn't Macaulay Culkin?
It's a baby Bink prop from Baby's Day Out
His name is Mike and hes on pretty regularly
I dunno, he talked too much.
@@Jake-gj2xd no, no, the OTHER drunk!
You see a bad movie; I see a potent non-addictive sleep medication
They will just keep finding more and more bizarre movies until they're just watching screen static, looking for a plot.
I was doing my own impression of a Rich Evens cackle at the "Pantry" bit, it's just so gleefully entertaining seeing three friends having fun while also losing their minds.
you know you're in for some TRULY horrid when it's just these three trapped in a room together
And their emotional support dummy, which always has a beer even after Mike fucked up that Rick Baker original one of a kind Gremlins 2 The New Batch crowd shot background Gremlin, a bold choice on Baby Bink’s part
Found it, the full quote:
“After Last Season is a different type of film. The psycho-thriller blends science fiction, mystery and murder, with a lot of psychological twists thrown in.
I don’t really know what it is, whether it’s the way it was filmed or the way scenes and situations are played out, but the movie as a whole is so entrancing.”
They should have cut that pull quote down to:
"I don't really know what it is"
Baby Bink needs to be a guest more often. Both entertaining and knowledgeable about the craft.