Bring Her Back: An Interview with Danny & Michael Philippou

Summary

Summary of "Bring Her Back: An Interview with Danny & Michael Philippou"

Podcast Information:

• Title: Last Podcast On The Left
• Host/Author: The Last Podcast Network
• Episode: Bring Her Back: An Interview with Danny & Michael Philippou
• Release Date: May 29, 2025

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Introduction

In this special episode of Last Podcast on the Left, the hosts engage in an in-depth conversation with Danny and Michael Philippou, the creative minds behind acclaimed horror films like "Talk to Me" and their latest project, "Bring Her Back." The episode delves into their journey from amateur YouTubers to professional filmmakers, exploring the inspirations, challenges, and creative processes that define their work.

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Journey from YouTube to Filmmaking

Danny and Michael Filipou share their evolution from creating stunt videos on YouTube to directing feature-length horror films. They discuss how their early experimentation with stunts and extreme performance art laid the foundation for their storytelling abilities.

Michael Filippo: "The YouTube stuff was just practicing to become filmmakers. That was always the goal, always the aim." ([04:44])

Danny Filippo: "Horror movies are probably my favorite genre of movies." ([02:51])

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Deep Dive into "Bring Her Back"

The conversation shifts to their latest film, "Bring Her Back," highlighting its release, critical reception, and the thematic intricacies that set it apart in the horror genre. They emphasize the film's "lived-in" feel, world-building, and character development that resonate deeply with audiences.

Unknown Host: "Bring her back is kind of also the same where you're dropped into a world that's already going like, can you..." ([09:02])

Michael Filippo: "We’re designing right now that is like the hand of Talk to Me to the Bring Her Back universe." ([10:10])

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Inspirations and Influences

Danny and Michael cite a range of influences, from classic horror staples like "The Shining" and "Exorcist" to modern films such as "Hereditary" and "Let the Right One In." They discuss how these films inform their approach to creating suspense, building narratives, and developing complex characters.

Michael Filippo: "I love world building. I love, like, building out the Bible and the backstory..." ([09:27])

Unknown Host: "My truly favorite modern horror film is Hereditary..." ([35:28])

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On-Set Experiences and Challenges

The Philippou brothers recount various on-set anecdotes, including interactions with actors, the challenges of shooting intense scenes, and maintaining a collaborative environment. They emphasize the importance of trust and flexibility during the filmmaking process.

Danny Filippo: "We are blown away by everyone. Especially with young actors and everything." ([56:10])

Michael Filippo: "There’s no such thing as a bad take... it’s about finding it." ([56:35])

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Future Projects and Ambitions

Looking ahead, Danny and Michael discuss their plans for future projects, including potential sequels to "Talk to Me" and "Bring Her Back," as well as a documentary on Death Match Wrestling. They express enthusiasm for expanding their creative horizons while staying true to their passion for horror.

Michael Filippo: "We are going to do the documentary next." ([36:46])

Danny Filippo: "People are going to be coming to see them if you make them." ([37:00])

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Personal Stories and Lighthearted Moments

The interview is peppered with humorous exchanges and personal stories that showcase the Philippou brothers' camaraderie and unique sense of humor. From playful banter to shared childhood memories, these moments add depth to their personalities beyond their professional achievements.

Unknown Host: "Do you ever get in fight as brothers?" ([23:20])

Danny Filippo: "We used to fight people in the neighborhood. Yeah, we were pretty cool." ([23:25])

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Reflections on Horror and Storytelling

Danny and Michael reflect on the essence of horror storytelling, emphasizing the balance between eliciting fear and evoking profound emotional responses. They discuss the significance of leaving certain elements unexplained to engage the audience's imagination, making their films more impactful.

Danny Filippo: "My biggest pet peeve with horror movies is when they over explain and you guys really leave it up to us to figure it out." ([11:47])

Michael Filippo: "It's terrifying because you can't differentiate that line now. And you're lost between those things." ([13:15])

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Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, the hosts wholeheartedly endorse "Bring Her Back," positioning it as a standout horror film of the year. Danny and Michael express their gratitude for the opportunity to share their work and hint at exciting developments on the horizon.

Unknown Host: "One of the best horror movies of the year so far." ([57:08])

Danny Filippo: "We enjoyed being here. Have fun promoting the movie." ([57:50])

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Notable Quotes:

• Danny Filippo: "Horror movies are probably my favorite genre of movies." ([02:51])
• Michael Filippo: "I love world building. I love, like, building out the Bible and the backstory..." ([09:27])
• Unknown Host: "Bring her back is kind of also the same where you're dropped into a world that's already going like, can you..." ([09:02])
• Michael Filippo: "We are going to do the documentary next." ([36:46])
• Unknown Host: "One of the best horror movies of the year so far." ([57:08])

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This episode serves as an insightful exploration into the creative minds behind "Bring Her Back," offering listeners a comprehensive understanding of Danny and Michael Philippou's approach to horror filmmaking, their personal experiences, and their vision for the future.

Transcript

[Danny Filippo]

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[Mike Filippo]

Blah.

[Danny Filippo]

Head to the store for Pebbles. Yabba dabba doo. Fruity pebbles. Less blah, more yabba dabba doo. Pick up pebble cereal today. Yabba dabba doo. And the Flintstones and all related characters and elements copyright and trademark Hanna Barbera.

[D]

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[Unknown Host]

Carpool for the cars you couldn't live without.

[D]

Trust Ameca Auto Insurance. Ameca. Empathy is our best policy.

[Unknown Host]

Guys, I'm so happy you're here. Are we rolling?

[Mike Filippo]

Testing. Unosto. Estres. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Sometimes we get suddenly loud.

[D]

Yeah, that's what we do.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. It's our jobs. Oh, very much so. So first of all, if you had anything negative to say about our president, Donald Trump. I'm sorry, I just wanted to just check. I just. I just wanted to check at the very top, just in case you're having issues traveling back and forth.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Filippo]

We've got a visa. We have a. Are actually, we're visens.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Filippo]

Very nice. Yes.

[Unknown Host]

Well, I have an American Express.

[D]

Yes. And I'm.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, and you can get into certain clubs that.

[Unknown Host]

What's that all about?

[Mike Filippo]

There's lounges that you can't get into at the airports.

[Unknown Host]

It's called capitalism.

[Mike Filippo]

Do you have the card? And I was like, I do. What? I've got a business class flight. Like you can't get in.

[Unknown Host]

They want to make sure, you know, there's a place you can't get into in Australia.

[D]

If you just have a good enough ticket, they'll let you in here. They tell you to go screw.

[Mike Filippo]

There's like, there's like different clubs you can get in for 65 doll. No, you can't get him for $65. Do you want to step outside? Do you want to get knocked out right here?

[Unknown Host]

This is the kind of juice we need. Welcome to Last Podcast and love. We have a very special episode here. We have two of one of my newest, truly favorite movie creators. What you guys are doing is out of this world. The new movie Bring Her Back is coming out. It's now. It's out now, right?

[D]

Yes.

[Unknown Host]

By the time you hear this, it's out now. Bring her back. The directors of Talk to me as well. Danny Filippo and Mike Michael Filippo. Welcome. Hello.

[Mike Filippo]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Yes. Live studio audience. Here we have two people in the back here.

[Unknown Host]

Yes, we. Oh, yeah, the Rob is a producer. We got the gals making sure that you don't say anything too horrible. Our goal is to make you say horrible things. Yes.

[D]

We're in a constant battle. So before we get started, I just want to say I've. I love horror movies. Horror movies are probably my favorite genre of movies. I have been terrified to watch Talk to Me, and I haven't watched it. I specifically did not watch this movie because I'm like, this scares the out of me. I want nothing to do with this. I watched it last night with my wife and you. My wife had to sit there and see that. What is wrong with you?

[Mike Filippo]

I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me. Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

I don't know. You know, you just. You got to get the doctors out somehow. Yeah.

[D]

And then this morning. Morning, I woke up 7am bright and early to see Bring Her Back.

[Unknown Host]

Perfect breakfast film I've been trying to sell people. Honestly. See them at night.

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Like, get in at 3 o' clock in the goddamn afternoon and just experience it sober.

[D]

I. I had to. I was watching this movie. I had to pause it halfway through. I'm losing my mind. All right. I'm going nuts.

[Unknown Host]

I can't deal with this goddamn fucking movie.

[D]

It's too early in the morning. All right.

[Unknown Host]

I got a beautiful dog.

[D]

I'm like, I love you. Please kiss me. All right. And then so I'm like, all right. I paused.

[Unknown Host]

He's the mouth kisser to the dogs.

[D]

I go make. Oh, yes.

[Mike Filippo]

He gives me that vibe.

[D]

Yeah. You guys love it. And so I get. So I go and I go make my breakfast and I start, like, cutting my strawberries. And I got scared of the knife in my hand.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes.

[D]

Because of the movie that you.

[Unknown Host]

Yes.

[D]

It's like I was like. I was scared of myself because of what you guys did.

[Mike Filippo]

I thought it would have been breakfast. I'm actually just jealous. And why haven't you brought your dog in? I miss my dog. And I haven't patted a dog in quite a while, so you gotta bring your dog next time. What's your dog's name?

[D]

My dog. I got a new dog named Harley.

[Mike Filippo]

I'm gonna kill it.

[D]

She had a 20.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, she's 13.

[D]

You don't have to wait long. We actually got the funeral plans. Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Can I Ask how do you guys. Because you guys made, like, stunt vids, right? Like you guys are doing. How does it get like, was it just a natural progression of filmmaking from there?

[Mike Filippo]

Well, it was always. That was always the YouTube stuff, was just practicing to become filmmakers. That was always the goal, always the aim. And, you know, speaking of stunts, Michael couldn't be listed as one of the directors at the start of Insurance for Bring Her Back because he was in Detroit having death matches.

[D]

What does that mean?

[Mike Filippo]

It's like an extreme form of professional wrestling where they use, like, light tubes and barbed wire and real weapons, and they cut each other up for real. It's like an extreme performance art blood sport. We're doing a documentary on it, and I was like, I want to be in it.

[D]

You look okay, you know?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, they're Australians.

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

So they're, like, naturally immune to certain types of damage. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Luckily, we brought a barbed wire that.

[Unknown Host]

Listen, before we prolog any more any of these films, I need you to eat a light bulb.

[Mike Filippo]

You got to see it. It's visceral, it's bloody, it's good, it's nice.

[Unknown Host]

What was the. Like, so just like, you do that just for the thrill of it, or is it one of those that you just love physical action?

[Mike Filippo]

Both, I think. We've been obsessed with death match wrestling since little kids, so we used to do it with our friends, unfortunately, but we had a big parents that would literally not let their kids hang out of us.

[D]

No way.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, because we were so. We were delinquents. We were actual delinquents.

[D]

You just threatened to kill my dog.

[Mike Filippo]

It was out of envy. No, dude was out of envy.

[Unknown Host]

You guys had fun charges, though. I looked at your Wikipedia pages. Your charges are fun.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah, we've had a few fun charges.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. Yeah. They're not. Nothing bad. Like, really like, nothing. Just the stuff that honestly just excited me about you.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes. Yeah. Underwater cars. We got. Michael got arrested for. So did I, which wasn't even my idea. That was a video. Shannon had an underwater car made, and he didn't want to drive it. I was filming. And Michael's terrible excuse for everything. Michael is so bad at recording. You say, better recording people. Like, we were like, do a scene, and I try to be in the videos. I try to be in something, and his footage is, like, out of focus. There's, like, punched it in a weird way. It's like, dude, just point it at me and film it.

[D]

Yes, but you are correct to be scared to get in an underwater Car.

[Mike Filippo]

When I got in the underwater car, I was filming in there. Okay, Yes, I was in there. You weren't in there. I don't know why there's lies being thrown around.

[Unknown Host]

And then the cops came and found you while you were in the middle of shooting, right? Is that the idea?

[Mike Filippo]

No, it was like. So the video came out and then suddenly like a year later I would got. Danny got arrested. It wasn't a year later. It was like a couple of months.

[Unknown Host]

Anything but getting arrested over. Making art is one of my favorite things on the face of the planet.

[Mike Filippo]

It was so good. But I actually got arrested for pretending to be Michael.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Mike Filippo]

But then they arrested Michael. Got arrested for the art. Yeah. They said I was like I wanted felon. Like I had fled the country. I was like I haven't been hiding or anything.

[Unknown Host]

And then I put the evidence on youtub.

[Mike Filippo]

It's like a year long lawsuit. It was. What was the charge? Driving recklessly, driving dangerously, driving without a license. Driving without a seat belt. Driving a car.

[Unknown Host]

That's not seatbelt. Are you not American?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[D]

What happened was. How about littering?

[Unknown Host]

We were.

[Mike Filippo]

No, no, not littering.

[Unknown Host]

Not littering.

[Mike Filippo]

That would have been a bad one. They're pretty easy on littering. Actually. No, but it was a big thing in the end that I got off scot free cuz I didn't. I wasn't actually driving dangerously recklessly. No, we actually. It was a stunt perform pract. Car.

[Unknown Host]

It was a stunt.

[Mike Filippo]

The police said that they were going to have to recreate the underwater car to prove it was dangerous.

[D]

We're going to do your own.

[Mike Filippo]

Why don't we go for a race, boys?

[Unknown Host]

Okay. Let's get to movies. Let's get to some movies. I love books. Books. That's my favorite kind of movie. One that I'm directing inside of my own brain. I can cast it with all of my favorite porn stars. That's my favorite I. But when I watch your movie, the first thing I noticed, which is that one of my favorite attributes is that they feel extremely lived in. Like they feel like, like Talk to me feels like you're watching a story that's already happened before and now it's happening again. Which is also why Talk to me. The sequel will also be perfect at some point. Whenever that comes out, you better do it.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. Danny. Hey. Don't at me. Yep.

[Unknown Host]

Yep. And then Bring her back is kind of also the same where you're dropped into a world that's already Going like, can you. First thing I want to know is when you make that, like, with the hand and talk to me and with the story in Bring Her Back, do you know that entire story before you write the film? Because it seems like you know what's going on, but you leave sections out.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that's my. I love it so much. I love world building. I love, like, building out the Bible and the backstory and the law and, like, going into every possible detail. Like, I love ironing that out, and then I also love dropping people into the middle of it. And it's, like, told from the perspective of the characters and the point of view of the people that we're following.

[Unknown Host]

Yes.

[Mike Filippo]

And like. Like the kids being out of the depth of the hand and talk to me, like, I love that.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

They're not sitting there researching it, figuring out all the answers, but there's obviously a history that there's something happening. And the same. So this. There is something that we've built out and we're designing right now that is like the hand of Talk to Me to the Bring Her Back universe. And have you seen the bong, the.

[Unknown Host]

P. The bowl, the weed bowl that was made out of the hand?

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, yes. I love that thing.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. Yeah, that's great.

[Mike Filippo]

That's good stuff. Yeah. And. And it's like. It's a candle holder, mate.

[Unknown Host]

It's a tobacco pipe. That's what we say.

[Mike Filippo]

It's an incent holder, buddy. No, but it's the same as when you're writing a character. You've got to know the entire backstory of the character. You need to know all the moments that led up to this moment, why they like this, their personality. What are the key moments in their life that made them this way? And it's the same with the backstory of anything. Like, on that other side of it. The. The tapes, the. Where. Where did Laura get these tapes? The backstory. Who are these people? Who created them? Why? What is the. What is the mythos? The entire mythos. You got to know that stuff. That's important to know. So even though you never let's. Same with the characters, there's a lot of things you'll never see on screen. It's still important to have that so it feels real. I like that thing, like, with the Shining and like, that ending. Like, if you read the script, you know that Jack Torrance is been. He's like a resurrected person from someone that used to live in hotel. But it's completely cut out of the movie.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And Then there's the book that has all this backstory and you're getting glimpses of this bigger world and I love that there's this, there's a bigger stage that these films are playing in. Like, I love that. Like Malazan. Do you know those books? Yes, yes. You know, like there's this entire world and you're like, you're reading it and you're a bit out of your depth and you're like, wait, what's this? Who's this?

[Unknown Host]

That's my favorite. That's my favorite. It's like, dude, it's like why I like all this stuff where you're dropped in the center. Now your job as the viewer.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. You can figure it out.

[Unknown Host]

Is to stay engaged.

[Mike Filippo]

It's so good. I would say it's very arrogant of to compare yourself to the Shining. I. I did not compare myself. Sort of like Stephen King.

[Unknown Host]

The two of you together are close to a half a Cooper, right? That's what I'd say.

[Mike Filippo]

Maybe a quarter. Maybe a quarter.

[D]

But yeah, I love that. Cuz my biggest pet peeve with horror movies is when they over explain and you guys really leave it up to us to figure out. And it's scarier that way cuz my imagination runs wild. And I'm sure you know the answers, but I honestly don't want to know the fucking answer.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, it's sort of like the theorizing or when you come across like a piece of lost media or you look at those old school footage and you're like, you don't have the context and you're like what the fuck is this thing? This is terrifying. This weird clip or this execution video fake, but whatever it is. And it's like where are they? What language are they speaking right now? Like what is happening? Like that stuff just makes for really horrific art.

[Unknown Host]

I think that you guys are also bringing up which is the. Our, you know, probably closer to a younger generation, but also my generation of the discovery. Like our parents had finding weird shit in the woods. Yeah, we had finding weird on the Internet.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes.

[Unknown Host]

And we saw thing went in the street but like we saw mysterious things on the Internet and we. That was what inspired us. And I think what talk to me and bring her back are doing is understanding there's the same amount of mystery in the modern world as there was in the old world. And I feel like that's what you're bringing back.

[D]

In fact, I feel like there's more mystery in the modern.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, it seems like because it's more In a way, it's more accessible. The mystery. It's more accessible.

[Unknown Host]

You think it would be, but it's still things you can't scratch. It's still like, what did I just see? Is that real?

[Mike Filippo]

Is that fake? That's even scary because that is. You can't differentiate that line now. And you're lost between those things. And you're like, people can fake this stuff, but also it's real enough that that real stuff also does happen. So it's terrifying.

[Unknown Host]

It's terrifying. And also, you have Sally Hawkins in Bring Her Back, who's legitimately, like, a patriot missile actor. That is somebod. What a. That's like driving a Bentley.

[Mike Filippo]

I know.

[Unknown Host]

As a director.

[Mike Filippo]

And we thought there's no way that she would respond and she would say yes.

[D]

I still don't think she'll do it.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah. It was almost unreal because we. We. She was the first person that we reached out to and we were thinking, there's no way she's gonna say yes.

[Unknown Host]

She's like the new Amanda Plummer.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that's her. That's her. We said that you're like, the new Amanda Plummer. Turned down the film.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah. She's like, you both. You know who I am. I make wet films.

[Mike Filippo]

Y.

[Unknown Host]

She really does make quite a bit of wet movies.

[Mike Filippo]

She does. Well, she loves Shape of Water. She loved this. It was the only reason she was drawn to it. No, she was like.

[D]

She wasn't drawn to it.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. Oh, there's. There's water in it.

[Mike Filippo]

Count me in.

[Unknown Host]

Can I be moist in the scene?

[D]

She was like.

[Mike Filippo]

She didn't connect to it on, like, a genre level because, like, she always reads it from a character's point of view. It's just connected with Laura as a character. And she was just, like, going so in depth with Laura and picking up on the smallest nuances of the script. And she was. It's the best collaboration.

[Unknown Host]

She dropped the little pieces of lore in the middle of her extreme acting that you can like. But you were like, I'm watching it too. Being like, oh, she just. She's threading the needle of all the info.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And especially with that, with. There's, like, a scene with Wendy and she's like, okay, I can't stop her physically. I have to convince her. Like, please listen to me. Listen. We have a bit. Yeah. We have a history together. We know each other. Please listen, listen, listen. And, like, she's so desperate. Like, please don't. Like, let me explain this to you, I know it seems impossible. It seems psychotic, but I'm telling you, like, a miracle is happening here.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Wow.

[Unknown Host]

And she's. But she's nice in person.

[Mike Filippo]

She's beautiful. She is terrifying when she's fully in character.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, I fucking bet, dude. Are they. Can I ask this. Okay, again, I'm trying not to bring any real distinct spoilers for the film, because. Bring her back again.

[Mike Filippo]

Well, look, I'm the director, so.

[Unknown Host]

Can I ask, though? Rob brought this up. I brought my wife and I both kind of ping this, too. Or talk to me and bring her back in the same world, maybe.

[Mike Filippo]

Geez, who said that? So I don't know who said that.

[Unknown Host]

Mysterious. Mysterious.

[Mike Filippo]

Haunted.

[Unknown Host]

They seem to be like. They're kind of. Because they both revolve around. We're both like. It's like a mysterious object. It has an amazing. It has some storied past between the hand and the tape.

[Mike Filippo]

Well, there's this thing where it's like, you're writing stuff and you're always, like, putting things together. And, like, there was, like, parts in the script writing when characters in Bring It Back were in Talk to Me. Characters that were in Talk to Me were in Bring It Back because they were written at the same time.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And, like, you find that, you find your footing, and you find the structure and you find the bones. Like, the more that you go over a script, the more you iron over it, you're like, oh, okay, this is that. Like, this makes sense. Like. Like, sometimes when you. It's like scribbles. It's just like rough drawings everywhere. When you're first starting off with something and then eventually it. Like it. You know, you color it in and the full picture is there. Every movie is going to be set in the same neighborhood.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Someone's gonna be driving along, they'll look over Laura's kidnapping. Oliver, the hand's gonna have a hitchhiker thumb.

[Unknown Host]

We've got to get out of this goddamn neighborhood. This block's horrible.

[Mike Filippo]

You guys don't mind the Australian accent?

[D]

No, I love it.

[Unknown Host]

No, I love. Yeah, I love it.

[Mike Filippo]

Does it feel unclematic at all to people? What are you talking.

[Unknown Host]

You really think that? No, no, no.

[Mike Filippo]

People in Australia. No, I do as well. No, if you guys say, what's that over there? In an American accent, it sounds scary, but in Australian. Oh, what's that over there, mate?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, that scares me more because you are scared of.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, yeah, we're afraid.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, it must be scary.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, it's true. You Know, it's so funny because like you that like. No, honestly, I think one of the most incredible things you've done with also both is make believable friend groups and believable families and looks like they all like hang out and they all like belong together.

[D]

I felt like I knew them. I didn't even notice the accent, to be honest with you.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that's amazing. And like in Australia, like, and some of the stuff that we'd worked on, just like as crew members, they're like, you have to Australians not understand that. Like, like really, really pronunciated. So if you're like, oh, what's that over there? They're like, oh no, that's mumbly oh, what's that over there? And like it becomes okra Australian or too Australian where it feels really false. And then Australians have this cultural cringe about it where they're like, oh, that feels weird. And then Americans are like, that sounds weird. And then it's just there was something about it, like, especially when we like went into making Talk to Me, like the producers are the people that we originally gave the script to were like, can we film it somewhere else? Like, what about with American accents that could be more accessible. What about in America? You do it in America?

[Unknown Host]

That's very interesting. Just like I actually love the, the hometown authenticity. Like I like that.

[Mike Filippo]

I love it as well. And I love that there's certain words or phrases that are from Australia that audience members would be like, what's that mean? I think that's universe.

[Unknown Host]

But you know, they mean, do you know, you. The actors know what they're saying? You know what I mean?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think it's. It's something that's because we had one chance. It was like Talk to Me was it. It was our only movie we're probably going to make because it probably wouldn't work or whatever. So we it to us it felt right to do it authentically and Australian is authentic. That's where we knew. That's the people we know and how we grew up. So it felt right doing that. So the fact that it resonated, you know, kind of internationally and I think it does because it doesn't matter who the people are, where they're from. It's a human to human. Exactly. Yeah. So we all know those people. Doesn't matter. Yeah. Where you're from. Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Well, it's also the kids are using, especially in Talk to Me. They're using it to like. Like it's drugs.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

That's what's awesome. It's a fun game.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes, I would do the hand. If the hand was available to me, I'd be fucking on the. You would, wouldn't you?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

I fucking do the hand.

[D]

No, I'm not doing the hand.

[Mike Filippo]

Get on the damn hand.

[D]

If anything, I'll fight the people with the hand.

[Unknown Host]

No, you have to follow the rules. Yeah, as long as you follow the rules, you can use the hand. No, you can't.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes, you can.

[Unknown Host]

The rules are bullshit.

[Mike Filippo]

Boys, relax.

[Unknown Host]

This is our whole gig. Don't make us relax. I fell immediately.

[D]

Oh, man. But seriously, though, man. What? That would talk to me. I'm watching this movie and I'm looking at all these kids and they're going crazy. And I'm just like, stop touching the hand. Just stop it with the hand. You guys are going too crazy. And it's just like, it's. I felt the same way when I was at a party and like, someone kid had stolen like a. A nitrous tank from a hospital.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[D]

And like, everyone was doing the balloons and everyone. I saw like, two kids almost die. I felt like I was back in that room when I was watching that movie.

[Mike Filippo]

Dude, that was like one of the inspiration points was like, out these neighbors that we watched grow up. He was like, having a bad reaction to this drug that he was taking. He was on the floor convulsing, and everyone he was with was just filming him and laughing at him. And then I saw that footage and I was like, God damn, that's barbaric.

[D]

Yeah, man.

[Mike Filippo]

I was the one filming it.

[Unknown Host]

That's why you're a director. You're able to distance from the emotional effect, you know?

[Mike Filippo]

But yeah, even like when you're writing those characters and like, same as, like with talk to me and bring her back. Like, draw from real experiences. Like, draw from things that make you uncomfortable. Like for. For example, there's these things. Greek Orthodox funerals in Australia, they probably do this everywhere. I mean, you know when they've got an open casket.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And then in Greek Orthodox funerals, you have to kiss the head of the corpse.

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

See, that's something I did not know. I did not know about.

[Mike Filippo]

That's a real thing. You kiss their heads and you don't have to do it. Like, that's not something that you have to do. And like, so if people freak out about it, they don't go there and you can see it's really bothering them to see even like a body or a casket, they don't have to go up to it. But Laura is trained in this. Like, she's a child therapist. She's a psychologist. She knows this is bothering him, and she's like, I'm gonna pull him up.

[D]

There because she's trying to break his ass.

[Mike Filippo]

She's trying to break his ass, make him unreliable, get him out of the house.

[D]

Yeah. And.

[Mike Filippo]

And, yeah. I don't want to spoil anything.

[Unknown Host]

No, that's the problem. It's so hard to not do.

[Mike Filippo]

Because I want to. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And that's what's so terrifying. And it's like. It's tapping into that. Like that to me, as a kid, I remember when my grandfather died, there was, like, this woman that I didn't really like that much, and she was, like, not even really part of the family. And she, like, came up and put her arm around me, and, like, I was like, I'm trying to grieve here. And then she was like, pulling me. You're okay. He's okay, everyone. It was this weird thing where I was like, oh, gosh. Like, it felt really.

[D]

She told you to kiss your grandfather?

[Mike Filippo]

No, that didn't happen.

[Unknown Host]

Lower, lower. Kiss him lower.

[Mike Filippo]

It's not a cold marble.

[D]

Yes, I kissed a deadhead once, and it is upsetting. I wish I didn't. Where were you?

[Unknown Host]

What did you do?

[D]

My mom died, you know, and I.

[Unknown Host]

Was saying, it's fine.

[Mike Filippo]

Don't worry.

[D]

It's been a long time. We can joke about it.

[Unknown Host]

The other corpses that he's played with have mostly been extremely warm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's got him. He's got him fresh.

[Mike Filippo]

I feel like you two. You guys have probably killed someone.

[Unknown Host]

I know.

[Mike Filippo]

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[D]

Not in this country.

[Unknown Host]

You said, hey, you something.

[Mike Filippo]

Hey, cut that out.

[Unknown Host]

Cut that out. No.

[Mike Filippo]

Can I see your acting face of strangling someone?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, come on.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[D]

Now this is me taking it.

[Unknown Host]

Y.

[D]

You know, can you do it again?

[Mike Filippo]

I love you. I love you. I love you. You're my fine. You guys, we're going to wrap this up. My guys been fun, huh?

[Unknown Host]

We know how to talk to big director.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that's what we are.

[Unknown Host]

You're actually quite physically small.

[Mike Filippo]

That's. Yes. Were you surprised? A lot of people say that, but it's just a person. They go, go. Oh, I think we sound quite small.

[Unknown Host]

You.

[D]

Yeah, but you're wiry. I ain't trying to fight you.

[Mike Filippo]

You know.

[Unknown Host]

Did you ever get in fight as brothers? Like, did you fight dudes as brothers?

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, like together. Yeah, we did. We used to fight people in the neighborhood. Yeah, we were pretty cool.

[D]

It's just have. It's called having a go, right?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, you give it a crack. And that was just how like kids bought me. Like you just. You just fight each other. Yeah, a lot of the kids that we fought, we became friends with. Yeah, of course you gotta fight them and then you're friends with them.

[Unknown Host]

I was surrounded mostly by girls. Girls.

[Mike Filippo]

Did you fight them?

[Unknown Host]

No, we played little games.

[Mike Filippo]

My sister. My sister used to fight us and she would. You. She has to have the last hit.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, I bet.

[D]

Oh yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

She'll chase you with a frying pan until she cracks you over the head. She will not stop. There's no. No stopping her.

[Unknown Host]

Does she like the movies or she. Does she come.

[Mike Filippo]

She loves him. She's. She's. In the end. In the end of the. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't. In the. At the end of the film.

[Unknown Host]

Oh yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

At the end of the film, there's someone that gets out of a car. That is my sister. Oh wow. That's her cameo. And then our cousin was in the backseat too. And then she starts getting out and we cut it. She's so bad. She's like, I can't wait to be in the movie. And I was like, yeah, it was the same. It was the same in talks where she was in it and the scene got cut. Feels so bad. Yeah, I saw Alana. No, I saw Alana. But you could have performed better or we're not going to use it.

[Unknown Host]

Honestly, it's about being in the right thing scene.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes, correct. Or in the right position.

[Unknown Host]

Oh yes, I remember I was in Wolf of Wall street and one of the.

[D]

Here we go.

[Unknown Host]

Gather round, gather round, gather round. Let me tell you a story. Listen, there's many. I'm almost nine years older than you both. But I always remember cuz there was a scene, it was one of the plane orgies and the AD told everybody, all the ladies on set, that if you're going to be on set today, you might be nude. Right? And so there was ladies next, Leo. And he said to one of them, just so you know, you're going to be naked in this scene, so you're going to take off your clothes, blah, blah, blah. And she was like, actually I have a contract for previous contract where I'm not supposed to get naked in the scene. He's like, that's totally fine. We're just going to have to move you out because they've been talking about they want. And she was like, no, I'll. I'll do it. And then she just took off all of her clothes. Cuz she knew she'd be in.

[D]

She'd make.

[Mike Filippo]

Are you in. Were you in that scene?

[Unknown Host]

Yes, I was in all the orgies.

[Mike Filippo]

Wait, you're in the film?

[D]

Yeah. Have you seen Wolf of Wall Street?

[Mike Filippo]

I've seen Wolf of Wall Street.

[D]

He's the fat ugly one.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh my gosh. I love that film. I'm so interested.

[Unknown Host]

Hey, I love it. That was the old time. That was the old. That was the closest I ever got to seeing that.

[Mike Filippo]

Wait, so you, you are extras on different. How many films have you been on?

[Unknown Host]

I was an actor in that.

[Mike Filippo]

You were an actor?

[D]

Like six or seven legitimate films.

[Unknown Host]

I used to be good. I used to be very.

[Mike Filippo]

Do people get. Do you get rusty? People get rusty.

[Unknown Host]

I. You know what's funny is that I think I've got fat again.

[D]

Just kidding.

[Unknown Host]

I got skinny and then I got fat again. Again.

[Mike Filippo]

And what, as in like you lost roles when you got skinny?

[Unknown Host]

Oh, yes.

[Mike Filippo]

Really?

[Unknown Host]

Very much so. Oh no, I was, I, I will tell you the truth. This is a full on exposure. I was. It was between me and Patrick. What's his name?

[Mike Filippo]

Sway?

[Unknown Host]

Yes. Me and him always were against each other. Always.

[D]

Paul Hower.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, it was for I, Tonya. And then they asked me if I could gain 100 pounds.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh my gosh.

[Unknown Host]

And then they said no.

[Mike Filippo]

Is that.

[Unknown Host]

I was like no. Yeah, no, I couldn't get. I was too skinny. I got too skinny and then I. I lost all his roles.

[Mike Filippo]

£100.

[D]

It's a lot.

[Unknown Host]

No, they wanted, they wanted me to be.

[D]

Could gain 100 pounds.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, believe me, I just gained five pounds sitting here.

[D]

I'm a coach.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. Big fat piece of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

He looks familiar. Wait, go to his IMDb. What else? What have I seen him in?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, I did this. I was in a show called your pretty face is going to hell. This is amazing for me. We're going to cut all this.

[Mike Filippo]

Now.

[Unknown Host]

I'm just talking with them.

[Mike Filippo]

I want to do a podcast of him.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah. Look at that guy. I do it every week.

[D]

It's not that great.

[Unknown Host]

Can I, can I ask? All right, so. So now let's Id be pa. Back to you.

[D]

No trauma movies.

[Unknown Host]

Really?

[Mike Filippo]

I love trauma movies. I collected those as a kid.

[Unknown Host]

We know Lloyd Kaufman. If you want to go work for free, he'll gladly take his.

[D]

Actually, I think you have to pay him to work for him.

[Mike Filippo]

Our first like Six jobs on sets were completely free. I would have loved a Kaufman set.

[Unknown Host]

Dude.

[Mike Filippo]

Damn. The Troma movies are awesome.

[Unknown Host]

You know, it's funny cuz like, we did get in touch with the. That crew and it's. It is. Have you found that yet? Have you met. How do I put this? Have you met a hero that's disappointed you?

[Mike Filippo]

Do you know what's weird? Like, the heroes that I've met have all been pretty heroic.

[Unknown Host]

Great.

[D]

Nice.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes. Sam Ramy. Oh, he was so nice. You know what's awesome? It's so cool in la cuz all these people are local. So we had a movie night just the other night with Fede Alvarez.

[Unknown Host]

Oh man.

[Mike Filippo]

And we watched. And Zach Kriegers. We watched Weapons.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

That was so. I'm like, this is so Hollywood right now.

[Unknown Host]

Oh my God.

[Mike Filippo]

And you're like. And exchanging stories and stuff. It's incredible. Yeah. That's so awesome. Alvarez is funny.

[D]

Oh, he's cool, man. That new Alien movie was awesome. I really enjoyed it. I can't wait to see what else this guy does now. When you're in this situation, are you guys as fun as you are now or are you like actually playing it cool?

[Mike Filippo]

I feel a little bit of bother in the middle there, cuz like, we're at his house. We don't know him too well. But you came out with like guns blazing. So I was like, oh, yeah, we.

[Unknown Host]

That's the goal. Yeah. Here we're. We're not as elevated what any.

[Mike Filippo]

Any room that we're in. I remember we were at like a. This a 24 party. And it was. Was just all. All these directors were there. Real direct. Real directors.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And I felt so out of place in that room. I was like, I do not deserve to be in here.

[D]

I should do now, man. That's everything. You guys is incredible.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, dude. You're two for two.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Do you think so?

[D]

Yeah, I know so. I'll tell you what. We talking about the Shining earlier used to be the scariest movie ever saw. These two movies have taken it over in one day. At the scariest films I've ever.

[Unknown Host]

You also scarred him. This is the type of. That scars.

[D]

Yeah, I was. I'm like mad at you and also impressed.

[Unknown Host]

So can I ask. You were saying, like characters appear in and out of your films as you're writing them. I know that. Like, you know, obviously there's probably not a lot you could say about. You were developing a Street Fighter movie. Was M Bison ever in. Talk to me.

[Mike Filippo]

We weren't as in love with Bison as we were. Akuma, okay. Oh, yeah, we love Akuma. Do you know we were in the Street Fighter rabbit hole for a while? It was a lot of fun. I was traveling around Thailand, going to different Muay Thai camps, doing research for the real Sagat, who still trains people. Whoa. In Thailand, that level with a giant Buddha statue, That's a real place. No, that's an actual place in Thailand. Yeah. So I was going to these places and I was, like, speaking to these trainers that apparently he'd been with, and he's. They're like, no, he's over here now. So I was traveling around. It was awesome. It was so much fun.

[Unknown Host]

Did you ever find him?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, I found him.

[D]

Well, he's so tall. It's probably easy.

[Mike Filippo]

He's short in real life. He's shorter than me. He's short. He's shorter than me in real life.

[D]

How about Blanca? How was he in real life?

[Mike Filippo]

Exactly the same.

[Unknown Host]

You know what they say, Never meet your heroes. Exactly. Exactly as I wanted him to be.

[Mike Filippo]

It was hard to turn down Street Fighter. It was hard to walk. It was just. It was. It was. It was hard. It was just this. What are you singing? I don't know what that was. It flew.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Thank you.

[Unknown Host]

You're in America.

[Mike Filippo]

I'm in America. So I started singing. It was. It was just. It was just scheduling. It was between Bring it Back in Street Fighter and we love Street Fighter. Bring it back. It's more personal. It felt more. Or riot. I don't know.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, you were correct.

[D]

Well, luckily.

[Mike Filippo]

You know what, though? Legendary Pictures is amazing. And they. I think they're going to do a good job.

[Unknown Host]

Something like. That's going to come back around also. Something like that.

[Mike Filippo]

No, because they're making it still. I remember I read like a. Like, I read an article that, like, it's been postponed indefinitely, and I was like, yeah. And then I like, text him, like, what's going on with Street Fighter? Like, that's a full story. It's still happening.

[D]

Like, as far as video games go. You know what? No one gives a about. About Street Fighter 1. Street Fighter 2 is the real game.

[Mike Filippo]

I have to say. That's the real game. That's the best. Street Fighter. Hold on. No, no, he said Street Fighter 1. Oh, yeah. He's saying Street Fighter 2 is the make.

[D]

Street Fighter 2 don't make Street Fighter 1 because it's bound for failure.

[Unknown Host]

It's bound for failure.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. We'll start up a Street Fighter 2. Oh, my God. The set pieces were making. It would have been brilliant.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Anyway, bring it back. Bring it back.

[D]

Are you talking about the interview or.

[Unknown Host]

But truly, I. I think made the utterly correct choice because the more you guys are betting on yourself, the more you're making an extremely good movie. I think there's time. There's time for you guys to do some ip.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. And what. What's exciting as opposed to taking a big IP is making your own IP.

[D]

Amen.

[Mike Filippo]

And it's like, oh, what if in 20 years they want to remake Talk to Me? That pretty cool. They won't. Yeah, yeah, no, no.

[D]

They'll be on talk to me 10 by then.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, talk to Me X. Dude.

[Unknown Host]

Dude, Talk to me X in space.

[Mike Filippo]

Dude. I've written out. I've written out 40 sequel ideas. I'm going to show you the list. You it. Love it.

[Unknown Host]

That is all I want to see. The more they haven't show up at, like, you know, it should be. Go back in time. You can go.

[Mike Filippo]

Michael, keep talking while I get this up. You're going to love this.

[Unknown Host]

Yes.

[Mike Filippo]

I need to get my sequel ideas. Talk to me. They build with pyramids.

[D]

Well, honestly, we're doing this Alien festival in a couple weeks. Contact in the Desert. Talk to me. Bring that hand to the Alien Festival.

[Mike Filippo]

What's this Alien Festival?

[D]

Contact in the Desert. It's a. It's a bunch of people who've been abducted.

[Mike Filippo]

And I was on Time magazine as, like, the main. One of the main photos for the storming area 51.

[D]

No way. Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that was me. He clapped the alien cheeks. I was there.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[Unknown Host]

So wasn't it you stormed Area 51.

[D]

Do you have the bullet holes to prove it?

[Mike Filippo]

I was like. I'm like, if everyone runs, I'm running as well. And there were SWAT cars everywhere. There was people with guns. And then I was like, I can't wait to get there. We pulled up, like, 50,000 people RSVP'd. There was like 50 people there.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And everyone's like this.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

I think the military are like, if you do cross the line, we're gonna shoot. They're like, we literally will shoot you.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

You're like, yeah, we're not around. It's Area 51.

[Mike Filippo]

And yeah, everyone was just the Capitol.

[D]

Building, for Christ's sake.

[Mike Filippo]

It looked scary for those people. It was terrifying. And then people getting arrested. But no, it was a good time. Let me get my sequel ideas up quickly. Michael changed the subject. Change it. Talk to them.

[Unknown Host]

Honestly, did you Naruto towards Area 3.

[Mike Filippo]

I wasn't there. Naruto ran. Here's the picture. Does someone edit things?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Here's the picture. In fact, there's two pictures. Here's the two pictures. I wanted two different outfits. I was all about it.

[Unknown Host]

This is amazing. Wow, that's.

[Mike Filippo]

You know, it's a big deal, guys.

[D]

How come you didn't, by the way?

[Unknown Host]

Because, to be honest, I'm a. I don't want to get arrested. Let's be in the desert. You know, honestly, I'm so. I. I must be most. I'm sitting in water right now, like, same as Sally Hawkins. I literally am sitting within water right now just to sit.

[Mike Filippo]

Do you know what's cool about Sally Hawkins? No matter how cold it was, no matter how bad the stunt was, they're like, oh, we're going to pat you up because you're about to hit the wall. She's like, was Laura wearing pads?

[Unknown Host]

I. I don't.

[Mike Filippo]

I wouldn't. I don't think Laura's. There's a scene where she jumps in the water at the beginning of the movie was the first day, and they're trying to put a wetsuit on. Wetsuit. She's like, so when was Laura wearing. Did Laura put on this wetsuit before she jumped in? Did she see her daughter and jump in and it was like, yeah, she's.

[D]

I hope y' all are going to be pushing for her to get an Oscar for this, because it was unbelievable.

[Mike Filippo]

Do I. It's too. It's probably too genre to get an Oscar, man.

[D]

That. Not after last year. Not after the substance.

[Unknown Host]

My problem is absolutely.

[D]

It changed everything. It's all.

[Unknown Host]

If we let the Oscars infect horror movies, it will never be the same. If horror movies get too big for their britches, it's never gonna be the same.

[Mike Filippo]

We are get. Step back down.

[Unknown Host]

Humble yourself.

[Mike Filippo]

We're gonna win all the Academy Awards.

[D]

No, no.

[Mike Filippo]

It's sort of like. I like that the crossover is happening. We are in such a boom right now for horror. It's like. It's black. We're in the 80s again.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Heaven.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, Heaven. The fact that substance went that far.

[D]

It's like, honestly awesome. Those Faratu sinners. Now you. It's crazy what's happening right now.

[Mike Filippo]

Well, I. I wouldn't put us in that category. You put those three. Put us. We'll probably couple down there.

[Unknown Host]

But no, dude, I mean, bring her back. I'm not just suck. It's a forever movie.

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, like it's a great movie. I put it in close to like. Cuz I right now my truly favorite modern horror film is Hereditary and it is right on its tails. It's like doing the same. Same. It gave me the same feeling, which is literally what Eddie was saying. I wanted to shut the movie off and run away.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh my God, that's awesome.

[D]

I literally at one point today I stood up in the middle of my living room, woke up my wife who was still asleep and I'm like, it's just too much.

[Unknown Host]

He doesn't even want it. If you've seen the movie, you know what that sound is?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, you know what that is? Did I tell you? Here's a story. There was a certain sound that we couldn't replicate. The sound design was doing it. So I got a knife and I did it.

[D]

No.

[Mike Filippo]

And on the microphone, right up close and that's what you hear. It's like, okay, this is going to be hard to watch. You can close your eyes but do it. So you have to try and close your ears as well. It's going to be too, too confronting.

[Unknown Host]

See, that's a real director though. You stood in. You're like, I'm not getting it enough.

[Mike Filippo]

And also. Yeah, so like part of me is like, oh, I think this could like, maybe like, like non genre fans might like it. But then other part of me is like because of scenes like that, I'm like, you have to be a hardened horror fan to enjoy it. But I, I don't know. I don't know.

[Unknown Host]

Do you think you'll stay doing genre forever?

[Mike Filippo]

I think what we're doing the documentary next.

[Unknown Host]

Great.

[Mike Filippo]

Yep. So there's that and then I think that we're writing a few different things. We are. But I think the next thing, like I still want to do two more horror films. I know for sure I've got two that I've got mapped out of my head. Me and my co writer. And like I, I need to do them.

[D]

People are going to be coming to see them if you make them. What's the documentary?

[Mike Filippo]

The Death Match Wrestling.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, that's also going to do extremely well because I think that people are really interested in that and wanting see world. Yeah, I mean, well, I just don't.

[Mike Filippo]

Know because that's real blood. I don't know people can actually watch it. It's a real underground form of wrestling. But it's exciting. I find it exciting.

[Unknown Host]

How does people, when people get into death wrestling, like honestly, like is it just, is it real? Not, not to. I'm not saying that they're not quote unquote, real wrestlers, but it's like trained wrestlers also doing it as well. Or is it just psychopaths?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, no, a big thing of the documentary is why, what draws people to do it? Why do they do it? But they are professional wrestlers train. Yeah, yeah, but it's. And it's not for money. It's not, It's God forbid, something else. Yeah, yeah. They don't get. They don't make much money from it and they're literally killing themselves. Yeah, it's passion.

[D]

God.

[Mike Filippo]

There's a few different reasons.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, that's how, that's what I bring to my eating game.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

It's a passion.

[Mike Filippo]

Wait, hold on. I'm so sorry. I, I, I just want to. When does this alien festival thing. I really want to go.

[Unknown Host]

So are you a guy? Are you a true believer?

[Mike Filippo]

Dude, I love alien. Please.

[Unknown Host]

If you're ever in town for this, it's at the end year. It's called Contact in the Desert. Damn.

[Mike Filippo]

It's end of May. Damn it. I leave tomorrow.

[Unknown Host]

But it's the number if you're ever here. I'm certain that I don't know what Australia has in terms of UFO coverage. You guys actually have one of the most mystique. There's a great deal of UFO lore.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, I know.

[Unknown Host]

In Australia there's nothing else to do.

[D]

But look at the sky.

[Mike Filippo]

But there's also one that you guys don't know, which one. It's called Param.

[Unknown Host]

Please, please. He's elucidate.

[Mike Filippo]

Paramount. They experiment on aliens there.

[Unknown Host]

Oh no. Is that a base?

[Mike Filippo]

It's a base and there's a town near it. And when the lights go red, no one can get out of their house. Yes, yes, I've been there and it's horrific.

[D]

Really?

[Mike Filippo]

No, no, it's pretty chill. But like, apparently like there's theories there that there's aliens there. I've not seen any such aliens.

[Unknown Host]

Where is that located?

[Mike Filippo]

In South Australia.

[Unknown Host]

South Australia? Yeah, because we went through South Australia. We drove to Snowtown. Lovely place.

[Mike Filippo]

See, that's crazy. The eyes have been Adelaide.

[Unknown Host]

Straight to.

[D]

Snow Adelaide for 28 hours. And we were like, you know what? Let's drive to Snowtown.

[Mike Filippo]

Imagine what happening there. What, what were you doing? You were doing a show there.

[Unknown Host]

We were doing a show.

[D]

We had a tour in Australia and New Zealand last year.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh my God, it's so weird. There's like, like concerts don't come to Adelaide because no One goes to things, dude.

[Unknown Host]

Adelaide was.

[D]

Theater we were in was awesome.

[Mike Filippo]

Adelaide, what d. We love you, Adelaide. Ripping.

[Unknown Host]

I love Radel was one of our best shows in the entire little tour.

[Mike Filippo]

See, that's awesome. I love. See, it's changed. Changing. Then, like the pendulum shifting. Maybe we are becoming a bit more cultured and arty.

[D]

It was funny. It was like we. There were literally three dudes in the front row that were like the Three Stooges. They were beating each other up the whole show and, like, throwing beers at each other. It was amazing.

[Unknown Host]

But it was very funny. It was like they did. They weren't even that disruptive, you know? I mean, like, they were kind of just amongst themselves. But we went to Snowtown and they literally looked at us because they know why we're there. Like, why are these three fat Americans here? And they're like, what brings you down? What brings you to town? And we're all, like, just driving. Indian food.

[Mike Filippo]

I heard a disturbing story because you know how the. The barrels got discovered because the smell and the sludge. Yeah. So the. When it did get found out and it was on the news and everything, people were like. Like driving there and then trying to sniff under the bank vault to smell the.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Filippo]

Was that you boys? I just. I just want to smell it. I just want to smell it.

[Unknown Host]

Good, quick little whip out. Nothing I love better than a true crime story. That's scra. Scratch and sniff.

[D]

Oh, I. We. I forgot to offer you guys. Would you like some cheese crackers? Knife?

[Mike Filippo]

I'd love some cheese crackers.

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Would you like your favorite snack, which is a knife?

[Mike Filippo]

I'm loving this. Don't even wash out. Just throw that in the b.

[D]

Could you sign that, please? Man, you are too Larin, aren't you?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, we're a little.

[D]

We're a little.

[Mike Filippo]

Michael, are you okay? Ow. Sorry.

[Unknown Host]

Why?

[Mike Filippo]

He does deaf nuts wrestling, and that hurt him. Take it it easy, man. Take it easy. Oh, you know what I had in the. I was going to bring it, but I thought against it. It's in the car. What is it? I had a fake knife and fake blood, and I was going to start chewing it. No, you got blood all over that carpet.

[Unknown Host]

He did a real. You should probably. It's a shining carpet. Yeah. Yeah, it's a shining carpet. We're very on brand here.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, my gosh.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, we're very, very on brand here. The plants are fake. Yeah, we got a lot of accouterment. That's from. Oh, that is from a Wonderful place. We hear it's called Lowe's. What a wonderful place here.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, Alien. We have a lot of.

[Unknown Host]

All right, so, you know, if you ever want to come to, like, Contact in the desert is awesome, but it's like, we're all true believers. It's the first place that I've ever been to where I went to this place. It's at this resort near Palm Springs. Contact in the desert. And we. I kind of thought we'd all be getting drunk and being in the pool, and it's like all of these nerds in the lobby talking about UFOs. They are. They make.

[D]

They're, like, dressed up by, like, galactic.

[Unknown Host]

Fighters and stuff, and I am out of place. I must, like. I thought I was a serious one. I'm used to, like, literally alienating people and making people upset. I was like, y' all are alienating me. Like, I. I was like, you guys should be in the pool. This is the time for you to, like. This is the time for you all to. To flirt and each other. And this is like, you shouldn't be. You're all talking shop.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, my God. That is. Tonight. We were riding an Alien movie.

[D]

Oh, you better wait, by the way.

[Mike Filippo]

In the defense to the galactic warriors, you needed someone to defend you. And if the aliens were coming, they were ready while you were in the pool.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

They're protecting you.

[Unknown Host]

I'll. Aliens.

[Mike Filippo]

I would. Who knows what disease you'd contract? But no, listen, listen, listen. We were writing it. Writing an Alien movie. But then Jordan Peele released the trailer for. Nope.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

I was like, no. All right.

[D]

Nope was good as hell, but nope.

[Unknown Host]

He kind of made it into sort of like, a creature feature.

[D]

Jaws.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. Like, more than an Alien movie. I still think you guys got an Alien movie.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, my gosh.

[Unknown Host]

There's no way you guys don't have an Alien movie.

[Mike Filippo]

We were riding an Alien movie. Oh, it's. And there's this. You know what's a great Alien. Alien movie? Fire in the Sky.

[Unknown Host]

Yep.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

How great? Saturday Phenomenon. The documentary phenomenon. I love how it's wrapped everything up.

[D]

At the festival last year. And then at night, he's playing guitar by the fire.

[Unknown Host]

The guy from Fire in the sky is there, like, flirting with, like, he's, like, hanging out.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

That's wicked. I want to tell you a story about that off camera.

[D]

Okay, great.

[Mike Filippo]

It's the best. It's the best story you'll ever hear. Alien. Alien vibes. Alien story vibes.

[Unknown Host]

But I really think that you're. Because you know, it's. It's very real.

[Mike Filippo]

Cut that out because I'm going to feel like they're leaving out. We didn't mean to leave you out.

[Unknown Host]

No, we love to leave. We love to leave them out.

[Mike Filippo]

It's just one of those things that if you talk about you could get into trouble.

[D]

You've already given away like five spoilers for your movie that's not even out yet. Don't worry about it.

[Unknown Host]

Do you know all this stuff like. But I was researching about how United States had nuclear weapons bases in Australia pointed at North Korea. And when we decommissioned all those bases then all of this UFOs like this is in the last like three years. There's like a massive influx of Australian UFO stories that were hidden for a long time because they were all now told by guys that are decommissioned officers from those old bases.

[Mike Filippo]

Here's my thing. Okay. Aliens are real. Sure. Bring it back to the cinemas very soon. Don't forget that. Guys, it's out now.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, bring her back. You got to check it out.

[Mike Filippo]

You guys check that out. Bring it back. Just so we remember. But yes. Okay. You know we've got drones and we're flying them around.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And you know how we can like observe planets from all this miles away?

[Unknown Host]

Yes.

[Mike Filippo]

You know, we are like light years away. We can observe. If they're that sophisticated and they're that ahead of us and their technology is stuff that we couldn't imagine. How are we capturing them on camera? Why are they floating around down here? They can observe us. How are we even not. How's all the footage looks like it was on like a Nokia 33. Even when it isn't. Even when it isn't.

[D]

There's no.

[Mike Filippo]

Where's the 4k? Even when it hits the other at planets. Where's the good footage of the alien.

[Unknown Host]

Are barely acknowledged by them. What if they are? It's half the phenomena. Could be interdimensional. So what if when we see something that looks like an amorphous floating like kind of QB type thing that is our translation in this dimension of a craft that is literally going on a grocery store run in the another dimension that might look like one of those like things from like Starfleet.

[D]

They're not. Not even in it.

[Mike Filippo]

Or there's dumb aliens like tourist aliens. There has to be. There's dumb tourist aliens and they crash the UFO Earth. Like oh what the hell are you doing?

[Unknown Host]

They talked about it's the be.

[Mike Filippo]

Stop crashing. And on planet Earth. Crashed on Earth again. Outside of the Atmosphere.

[Unknown Host]

Take a look at this. I got the keys to dad's car. We're going on it.

[D]

Come on.

[Mike Filippo]

Bring the.

[Unknown Host]

You know, like. Like, that's the stuff. That's fun.

[D]

Yeah. But going back to what you said, it's hard to get a picture of that stuff. Cuz you're so in sh. Shock when you see it. Like right now. Going back to my dying dog. All right, I got a 17 year old dog that has seizures, okay? And every time she has a seizure, I'm supposed to get a video of it. Be careful with the knife. I'm supposed to get. I'm supposed to get a video of it for the vet, but every time, I'm like, worried about the seizure. So by the time I get the video out, she's done season.

[Unknown Host]

Why are you having things with the aliens?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

So in shock. Yeah. Filming his elderly dog seizing is definitely the same as intergalactic travelers.

[Mike Filippo]

No, I. I see it. You could be in that. That much shock, you know, that you don't. I don't know. If I saw the ufo, I would get that.

[D]

But you're a director.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, well.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

All right. Three. Just give us three Talk to me sequel concepts that you were going to.

[Mike Filippo]

Do before we go, so. Yeah, before we go. Wait, quickly. What happened was. My phone isn't working in terms of. Is there wi fi here?

[Unknown Host]

No, no, we're not allowed. Yes, it's right there.

[Mike Filippo]

Right there. Michael, do you want to. Did you have some talk to me ideas? It's not going to work unless I read them out, because they're written out. Michael, ask him another question before we go.

[D]

I'll pitch you one. All right, you ready?

[Mike Filippo]

I love, love it.

[D]

Go, M. Bison. Okay.

[Mike Filippo]

We'Ve already got that one. That one's written down.

[D]

All right. J.D. alvarez.

[Unknown Host]

Dude, you write it as you. As directors. Super meta.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Like, new night.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, you're new. But that's like number 11.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, that. Yeah, that's when we really get desperate. All right, it's going to come. It's going to come. It's going to come.

[D]

Can't wait.

[Mike Filippo]

It's going to come.

[Unknown Host]

Don't make him come. Please don't make him come.

[Mike Filippo]

All right, Talk to me.

[Unknown Host]

Yep.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[Unknown Host]

Already done. Written.

[Mike Filippo]

Talk to me again.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, okay.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes, yes, yes. Talk for me.

[D]

These are titles. These aren't.

[Unknown Host]

No, no ideas. No, no, I already see it.

[Mike Filippo]

This is. These are. Talk to me five more times.

[Unknown Host]

Wow.

[D]

Oh, no. High five.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, yes. High five. Yes, yes. Okay, I'll write That. Yes, that's fine. Why are you still talking to me?

[Unknown Host]

Whoa.

[D]

Number six.

[Unknown Host]

That's the retcon.

[Mike Filippo]

Yep. Talk to me in Tokyo.

[Unknown Host]

Yep.

[D]

Tokyo Drift.

[Unknown Host]

I was also thinking of one. Look who's talking to me now.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, yes, I love. That's your lyrics again. All these are just titles, right? These are. No, no, these are movies.

[Unknown Host]

These are movies.

[Mike Filippo]

I've read lots for these. Talk to me. Hand Takes Manhattan.

[Unknown Host]

Oh. Oh, it's got to be in the 80s club scene.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes. Oh, yes, yes. You can get. You can get a producer credit card.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And it's got. It gets a long pinky nail and it starts doing like. It does coke for people and shit.

[Unknown Host]

Now we're getting silly at it.

[D]

No, we're not.

[Mike Filippo]

We're getting good. These are good. Talk to me. Triple X Porno in space. Everyone's expecting space. Don't give them what they expect.

[Unknown Host]

No full penetration.

[Mike Filippo]

Talk 12. No, that one didn't hit. That one. That movie's not as popular. That one didn't hit as much unless.

[Unknown Host]

It in a heist and it's like Ocean's Twelve and then you have George Clooney having to steal the hand from a casino vault.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes. Yeah. Yes. Talk to me. That's like an AI version with Michael Jackson. Talk to me. Talk to me. Hey, you guys want to see what this knife is?

[D]

Oh, my God. Because of the glove.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes. Wow. See, he's getting it. Thank you. These are smart talk. Pork tomy, embalmed foot version.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, that's disgusting.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

That would honestly make. Why is it. If it's a foot, I'd vomit if I saw the film. If it was that you have to suck on the top toe or whatever in the movie.

[Mike Filippo]

Did you vomit?

[D]

No.

[Unknown Host]

Well, no. But not if it's.

[D]

Toe sucking was actually kind of peaceful.

[Mike Filippo]

You liked that, too?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah. He mouth kisses the dog. He sucks on his wife's toes. And he's a huge fan of your.

[D]

Film and he just.

[Mike Filippo]

You know what? I know it all adds up.

[Unknown Host]

He's.

[Mike Filippo]

He is the best movies I've ever seen.

[Unknown Host]

You're marketing it towards him.

[D]

How about. Oh, the porno one should be cocked to me.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, cock to me. Yes.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

There was a talk to me porno. There was a talk to me porno.

[Unknown Host]

Oh, of course. Seriously?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, Yeah. I sent it to Sophie and I was like, was that inappropriate? But then she laughed. I was like, dude, that is a.

[Unknown Host]

High level of praise.

[Mike Filippo]

I know.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

And they were possession porn. It was really.

[D]

Was it like fingering someone and then like, she saw a ghost.

[Mike Filippo]

I didn't watch it that intensely.

[D]

Come to me.

[Mike Filippo]

You feel filmed it, Danny. I did not.

[Unknown Host]

It's only harassment if you're in the film.

[Mike Filippo]

I did not harass. I was not part of that film. But yeah, yeah, they'll possessed and having sex.

[D]

Come inside me.

[Mike Filippo]

No, that's enough titles about this.

[Unknown Host]

Stop telling him to come inside you. They're just. They're trying to leave town.

[Mike Filippo]

What would you say? What was what stuck with you more since you watched them both today? Talk to me or bring over Back.

[D]

Bring her back. Bring her back.

[Mike Filippo]

Why? Why?

[D]

And why? It. It's definitely like half. I was like a half hour in. I'm like, oh, this isn't as bad. I can handle this. And then it's just so unforgivingly brutal. It really is. And it just like. It, like, made me visibly upset. I had to like. I literally turned it. I don't think I could have seen it in the movie theater. I'm going to now because I've seen it already. And so now I feel like I can see it in the movie theater because I know it's going to happen. I'm just gonna watch the audience get pissed. And then it brought me a level.

[Unknown Host]

Of discomfort that I haven't experienced since. Have you seen that coffee Table?

[Mike Filippo]

I have not yet.

[Unknown Host]

The coffee table's up.

[D]

Oh, I thought you were talking about the scene in the movie, but that's.

[Unknown Host]

No, I'm talking about a movie called the Coffee Table.

[Mike Filippo]

I'll check it out.

[Unknown Host]

That is up.

[Mike Filippo]

But you know what I like is when it doesn't feel like it's just exploitation. That isn't it? Like, that's what.

[D]

That's what.

[Mike Filippo]

That's why it messed me up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Because it was real and it was best in emotions and like, you know, as people. As someone who's experienced loss, you're a fragile person and you make these horrible decisions. That's why Sally Hawkins character is unbelievable in that movie because you could tell we were talking about this before you got here, that she used to be a really good person. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Like a character the young comfortably empathize with. And I think that's what was great about Sally is that she brought it. She. She brought a human element to it. It wasn't. She didn't play it like a horror villain. She played it as a broken human being. She struck. Struggling with what she's. Yeah, she's struggling. She really is.

[Unknown Host]

And then. But. Well, again, I'M just spoiling it.

[D]

You guys are.

[Unknown Host]

Honestly. The ending's amazing. You have to see the film. Is there, like. What would you say is, like, a series of references for you guys, like, in your films? Like, what are your main. Do you know what, like, go to films in your head.

[Mike Filippo]

Always in Treatment, which is a TV show. Yeah. Because of how realistic those characters feel and how real the world feels and. And something like throwing water on somebody feels like a car crash. So I love that film. I love Let the Right One In. Yes. I think that is, like, a really incredible.

[D]

Also kind of wet.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, yeah. There's a. Well, it's snowy.

[D]

Snowy. You're right.

[Mike Filippo]

Snow is wet. There's a. There's a. And then obviously. Obviously. The Holy Grail. Exorcist.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. Everyone talks about elevated horror. I'm like, they've been elevating horror since the 70s. Have you seen the Exorcist? Have you seen Rosemary's Maybe?

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Like those. Mouse Hunt is a good one. Yeah. Mark was obsessed with Mouse Hunt. You seen Mouse Hunt?

[D]

Mouse Hunt.

[Mike Filippo]

It actually is a good film.

[Unknown Host]

Is that the one with. Not with French.

[D]

They're hunting mice.

[Mike Filippo]

Have you seen Stuart Little?

[D]

I haven't seen Stuart Little, but I know the film Indian in the Cupboard. Have you seen that?

[Unknown Host]

Nothing I would love to see. Is the Mouse Hunt to Bring Her Back Pipeline, which is just.

[Mike Filippo]

It's connected more than you think. That they were very practical like those. That Mouse Hunt. They did things so practically. It is a little bit. Bring It Back is.

[Unknown Host]

You know who was. You know who's funny that there's an actor in that that used to. I used to love that. I haven't seen in forever. Is Lee Evans.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, is he in there?

[D]

Yeah.

[Unknown Host]

Where the hell's Lee Evans now?

[Mike Filippo]

Well, he's in Mouse Hunt. He's working on the seal.

[Unknown Host]

No, I don't think.

[Mike Filippo]

I think I should do Mouse Hunt too.

[Unknown Host]

You should put him in one of your movies.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, I should do Mouse Hunt.

[Unknown Host]

You should put Lee Evans to one of your movies. Listen. No, no, come here.

[Mike Filippo]

This is what.

[Unknown Host]

This is what my parents always do. Be like. You ever try being in a film? Like a big movie? Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah.

[D]

Have you ever thought about making Seinfeld?

[Unknown Host]

That's what my parents say.

[Mike Filippo]

You said, did you see me? I started Leon out of D Caprio. I'm naked at the back of that plane. Whoa. Did you show him that? Your parents.

[Unknown Host]

I had to go see it with my mother. Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, my gosh.

[Unknown Host]

It was horrible.

[D]

I saw with my mother too, actually.

[Unknown Host]

She was fine with it. She was happy that I. She. She was getting attention.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, she. She was getting attention.

[Unknown Host]

Well, just in terms of just being there. My mom just kind of believed that she was on display.

[Mike Filippo]

Oh, right. She was proud. We invited my mom to come watch Bring her back in America, but she wouldn't come.

[Unknown Host]

Why?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, she doesn't like flying.

[Unknown Host]

I understand. It's a horrible fight.

[Mike Filippo]

It's a terrible flat. It's long and she has anxiety about it. And 8:24. We're trying to do everything like, oh, what if we can bring a friend? What if we can up the class? And then my mom still said, no, no, it's.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah, but you know that she will see it though, you guys, and she'll be damn proud.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, she be so.

[Unknown Host]

She'll be damn proud of what she made. Cuz she then kept. She made the film cuz she made you.

[Mike Filippo]

She did.

[Unknown Host]

She.

[Mike Filippo]

And Laura was based on her, who was so. She was a sweet mother. Wow.

[Unknown Host]

Yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

That was one.

[D]

One scene. Which one?

[Mike Filippo]

That punch.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Filippo]

He did a couple of takes for real.

[Unknown Host]

Whoa.

[D]

I believed you, stun man. Yeah, I believe anything you tell. That's my job.

[Unknown Host]

We have committed access. Sally insisted she had to hit the blind girl. She insisted.

[D]

Was that girl able to do all that stuff with her eye?

[Mike Filippo]

She's naturally. She actually is. She's got vision impairment.

[D]

Okay.

[Mike Filippo]

Yes.

[Unknown Host]

She's great.

[Mike Filippo]

She's so good.

[D]

She nailed it.

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah. She never acted before.

[D]

Really?

[Mike Filippo]

Yeah, it was her first time acting.

[D]

All of the acting in both of the films was incredible. I was so impressed, especially because I didn't recognize anybody, obviously, because it's all Australian films and I was so impressed by the acting and everyone. Obviously. I'm sure you guys had a lot to do with that, but they all scared the out of me and I.

[Unknown Host]

Believe the hell out of all of them.

[Mike Filippo]

It's about finding the right people and especially the audition process. Yeah, it's in the auditions and everyone's so committed and down. So yeah, we're blown away by everyone. Especially with young actors and everything. You just let them know, like, there's no such thing as a bad take and. And you can change dialogue if you want to. Don't be embarrassed about anything. You're not letting anyone down. Yeah, it's like, like building up a trust and letting them know that. That it's okay to. To fail. Like, there's no wrong or right take. It's just about finding it.

[Unknown Host]

I also think that you are setting A good benchmark for responsible auteurs making stuff because, like, again, you name two alters like William Friedkin, Roman Polanski, both famously not great guys.

[Mike Filippo]

William freaking.

[Unknown Host]

Well, just William freakin was just a crazy guy.

[Mike Filippo]

He was crazy.

[Unknown Host]

But you guys were. But that's just wonderful to see. You're setting a great new tone. And you're ma. And you're not only setting a great friendly tone, but you're also making truly horrible and horrendous movies. And that's the best in the world.

[Mike Filippo]

I can't wait to make another movie. Yeah, I just want to be on set already.

[Unknown Host]

It's getting there, man. Don't worry. They'll force you. They're going to make it. So check out Bring Her Back, please. One of the. I'm going to say it's probably the best horror movie of the year so far already. So far, yeah.

[D]

So far, yeah.

[Unknown Host]

I mean, we saw Sinners. It's like sinners, obviously it's like Sinners in this. Or like ob. They're going to be. You know, you and Ryan Coogler going.

[D]

To have to fight Big year.

[Mike Filippo]

We might have to fight.

[Unknown Host]

You might have to fight him.

[D]

Kick the out of you.

[Mike Filippo]

He might kick the out of me. I would not survive that. And he's way more talented than he.

[D]

So.

[Unknown Host]

Danny, Michael Filippo, thank you for lowering yourself to be.

[Mike Filippo]

We enjoyed being here.

[D]

Oh, go have fun in New York. Promote the out of this thing, man.

[Mike Filippo]

Thank you, sir. Have fun. The alien thing.

[Unknown Host]

We will. We'll see.

[Mike Filippo]

Farewell, vfx. I'm gone.

[Unknown Host]

Guys. Thank you so much, man.