"I wasn't that kid, but I was friends with that kid." "I kinda was." That made me think of the exchange between Kirk and Spock in Star Trek IV where Kirk in the past sells the glasses that McCoy gave him for his birthday. Spock asks "Weren't those a birthday present from McCoy?" and Kirk's response is "and they will be again. That's the beauty of it." You are friends with that kid again, Jay. What a nice moment.
Last year I remembered The Gate out of nowhere. Decided to check RUclips for any videos reviewing/discussing it and found this. This is the video that introduced me to RLM. I couldn't be happier. 🙂
The setup for the eye in the hand is there. It's when they're reading the dark book and it says that the demon bestows its dark blessing on the summuner. The demon had assumed that it was summuned on purpose and was fulfilling its end of the bargain.
This is the show that has made me appreciate Josh. This show is not really about comedy; it's just about movies. It's genuinely the perfect format for him to shine.
True I like him a lot in Re:View and he’s usually with Jay reviewing obscure or horror movies (or both!). But tbh I kind of prefer Jack and the main trio in Best of the Worst reviews, they have a perfect witty humour between them which Josh isn’t often able to take part in, he takes it more seriously. No fault to him but he’s way better reviewing films than being the joker.
@@GuineaPigEveryday Absolutely, Tim Higgins or Jack for BoTW, but Josh is definitely great on re:View. I think he probably has trouble during the group discussions because when other people are talking he just keeps getting distracted thinking about that juicy Shaq meat.
Wait "Ishtar" and "The Gate" came out at the same time? That is remarkable, one of the most notable structures of the ancient world is called the "Ishtar Gate"
They were unbelievably on point about The Gate. Said pretty much everything that I enjoyed about it. This movie got to me as a child because it knew all the things that got a child's imagination, sense of adventure, and curiosity riled up enough to turn against them to scare them, especially in the 80's (or to a greater time period late 70's to early 90's). One thing I think they forgot to mention was how Lovecraftian the story actually was in ways, and how it blended those elements with a normal kids life. The geode buried in the back yard had elements of the meteor from The Color Out of Space, how the kids were sort of adventuring and excavating the yard which brought about the relic of the geode, and then found the ancient script on that magnetic sketch pad, summoning the old gods who one ruled the universe, the semi-serpentine and tentacled giant demon, the demons exerting their small influences which grew and grew in potency, in order to bring about an exponentially greater threat, people being turned into monstrous beings against their will by this dark force, etc. I know many of those are general horror tropes, but Lovecraft was doing those nearly 100 years ago, and he pretty much invented most of them. Aside from Krampus the last horror film that had this sort of entry ground for kids element to it was Monster House, which purposefully hearkened back to movies like The Gate, Monster Squad, Gremlins, and the like. Actually, around that time there was also a Spanish film directed by one of the directors of the original REC (Paco Plaza) called The Christmas Tale, which was released as a part of a set of Spanish horror films collectively titled Films to Keep You Awake; and The Christmas Tale is exactly this sort of horror film as well, it really gets kids.
I can't stress enough how much I believe movies like this broaden a kid's imagination and helps them creatively throughout the rest of their lives. If youve never been terrified of the unreal and the unknown, you will never have cause to imagine the unreal and the unknown.
Exactly. I feel bad that this generation of kids don't have the movies we grew up with in the 80's. Creative, fun, memorable, era-defining, etc. The crap Hollywood churns out these days is just sad.
Eh I mean, the stuff I grew up with was pretty awesome. My parents didnt let me watch adult stuff in my early childhood (Bloody Roar was the only major exception), but I played so many videogames with interesting characters and worlds. Its really hard to explain the wonderworld I grew up in because of the Gamecube, PS1-2, and Disney animated movies. And hell, despite all that I still learned about Jason Voorhees in a Scholastic book about monsters. As a kid I honestly interpreted Jason as far darker the he is in his own movies, killing actual kids, not just the camp councillors. He's easily my favorite slasher. When it comes to my generation getting nightmare fuel, Courage the Cowardly Dog does genuinley filled that niche imo. I didnt watch it much as a kid but what little I did terrified me thoroughly. From my end, there is definitley a respect for 80s era stuff. How much of it I show my kids will probably depend. I really liked the bubbly 3D platformer childhood I grew up with so my priority will be to uphold that with my kids personally. Friday the 13th Jason Lives looks tempting though, since that movie lets the kiddos get involved in that movie.
@@doghousereilly3795well fortunately kids these days do in fact still have those 80's movies. Im 21 and my best friend was raised on cheesy 80's acrion and horror movies. And hes mostly fine!
Jay, you're right on about the gateway movie. Stranger Things was so great because it reminded us all of the gateway movies they made in the 80s. The Gate burned itself into my brain the exact same way you described. I was terrified of hands under the bed and had nightmares about the eye in the hand. Thanks to the movie Ghoulies I was afraid of monsters coming out of the toilet and eating my butt. Critters made me terrified of ever letting my hands dangle over the side of my bed. My other favorite movie that I think shows respect for kids is Little Monsters. Maybe Drop Dead Fred as well. Those movies feel like they were written with appropriate respect for what kids are capable of understanding and relating to. They understand that kids cuss like sailors. Cussing sailors, that is.
Nicholas Collins No one builds geodes like Trump can. He's gonna build the best geode. His balance sheet is so good that the US government had him rebuild the old geode on Pennsylvania Avenue. Make geodes great again
Well, to answer your question, I just watched this for the first time ever as an adult and I absolutely loved it. I think some of it is still genuinely creepy, and it isn't patronising to kids. And the stop motion arm in the door shot is absolutely sublime. Thanks for the recommendation
I can be prepped and ready to see an incredible and highly anticipated film, watch the first minute of a re:view episode, and will almost always dump my movie plans and watch whatever it is you are talking about. RLM has changed my LIFE dude
I just stumbled upon this film as a 29 year old and honestly loved it! It brought me back to the movies I grew up with but is also beautiful and super well written
I didn't like the movie much. Even as a kid I thought it was all a bit camp and silly but the little kobold dudes. They were amazing. They needed their own movie.
I've shown it to people as adults who never saw it as kids. Still gets them. It's the mix of that relentless score, and the gradual way it introduces the plot elements. It has a sense of dread and surreal imagery that just freaks people out. Great flick for this time of year.
I grew up with this movie too, (I was around 11 or 12 when it came out), and Jay and Josh were dead on with all of their observations.One of the other things I remember is thinking, at the very end of the film, "How the hell are they gonna clean that house up? What in the hell are they going to tell their parents?"This really worried me for some reason.
Look, I really love this re:view. I love every RLM video. But I've already watched it in full 15 times. Please RUclips, stop recommending and autoplaying it every single day
My husband loved this movie as a kid and introduced me to it a few years ago. It really is great, and part of that is the realistic characters. Even though I didn't watch this growing up, it still feels nostalgic because of how the kids act. Glad to see it on Re:View!
20:34 The Ishtar trailer started playing and my brain made a weird look on my face, caused by an emotion that I've never experienced before. I'm not quite sure but I think I've heard some people call it "hap-penis".
Good job, guys. I absoultely loved this movie when I was a kid. You're the first ones out of all my subscriptions who have done a review of this movie.
I'm genuinely surprised that you didn't let the whole Ishtar trailer play through and that be the full end to this re:View. It is just the kind of trolling I would expect from you Jay, and the reason why you are great.
thanks big time for shining a spotlight on this. I thought I hadn't seen it before, but as this went on, I realized I saw this movie as a small kid, especially the eye in the hand part.
I remember I bought the DVD "The Tommyknockers" from my local Circuit City thinking I was buying this movie. My cell phone at the time was crap and I was too excited to even "google it." It also didn't help that I did not know the name of the movie either considering I randomly caught it on the SyFy channel (or was USA Network? shit, I can't remember the old cable channels) halfway through. Man... there is too much nostalgia in that rant.
In the final scene, the kids exit the house and sit in the gutter by the side of the road, and all I could think was 'Where the hell are all the neighbours? A portal opened up in the middle of this house that's just been obliterated by demons and there isn't a neighbour in sight, no one peering through their blinds, nothing.'
Watched it last night for the first time with my wife and 11-year old daughter. It is a nice little movie. It really holds up today. If your kid wants to see some horror film - this movie is perfect for it (original Poltergeist and Gremlins are great too).
Ladyhawke! You guys need to re:View (ha!) Ladyhawke next! For such connoisseurs of 80's Sci-Fi/Fantasy, I've never heard you guys ever mention this movie. Maybe there's a good reason... but I'm curious to hear what you guys thiink!
@@Yusuke_Denton Danny Elfman always had an interest in Russian orchestra. He's of Russian heritage and rightly resents communism. Also, Oingo Boingo is the greatest band of all time. New Wave, not metal, but I could never limit myself to one genre.
Oh god, I completely forgot about this movie until they showed the scene with the eyeball on the hand and flood of memories of watching this movie rushed back into my head and thanks for that... Scarred for life now...
I watched this movie after Jay mentioned it in the krampus review, and man did I love it. I'm not the typical movie watcher, but as a horror fan and as a person who wants to make movies, it's a real treat to watch.
I woke up early some Sunday morning when I was like 8 and I turned on the tv and this was playing. I never knew what movie it was till know. But this has haunted me my whole life!
I watched it for the first time when I was 23 or so, still held up. Great movie. Half of my enjoyment of it was just marveling at the practical effects.
there's a movie called "the hole" that is kind of similar to this. it's even directed by Joe Dante of gremlins. it's not as hardcore as the gate though
Jay, you're absolutely right. I watched The Gate for the first time last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Granted, I'm not the cynical general audience, but its atmosphere, kids pov and few generally creepy scenes should please most people - as long as they're not expecting horror.
i gotta say that my brother and i discovered this movie a couple months ago and we both like it very much. It does hold up - to us at least. I mean, just look at the creepy stuff even if its stop motion, theyve done a great job but we also laughed at the end when dorff gets catapoulted out the front door, it looked funny and it was unexpected. ( hope you understood what ive written ) thanks for the re:view, guys
Oh, goody, a re:View of a hollywood movie that I've never heard of and it wasn't made in the last 20 years, so it has a small chance of not being complete rubbish.
This narrative needs to stop. Yes, there's a lot of trash because people pay for things like Transformers & the studios automatically gravitate to that but this year we've had good creative movies like Nice Guys, Hell or High Water, Kubo & the Two Strings among others but the fans don't support them financially so we go back to square one with the studios funding poor remakes.
All western cinema, hell even world cinema to a degree, are circling around under the influence of the black hole that is Hollywood. Eventually to the sucked down that drain.
the eye in the hand thing wasn't talked about beforehand but it is a recurring image in the movie, it is on the echa-sketch, in the dark book, and painted on the house wall in blood.
I saw this one as a child on tv and could never find it until you guys showed the eye hand scene. Holy shit some haunting stuff there, I don't know if I should be thankful or mad at you guys for being up this scarring film.
There are definitely geodes that large, you just don't see them very often, they're fairly rare in the field and very expensive if you find one for sale (a shop down the street from where I grew up had a couple comparable to the one used in the gate at the time it came out and they were around $300 for a half).
Also, just t be even more pedantic, the eye on the palm is set up by some of the art in the album near the beginning I'm pretty sure. I really liked this movie as a kid.
I remember watching all the gate movies at my sleepover birthday party in middle school. My friends and I had inside jokes from riffing those movies for years afterward.
Wasn't there a film on Best of the Worst and it had a similar plot, that a song played backwards cast the devil away? I think it had either Ozzy Osbourne or Gene Simmons in it, and they commanded the power of lightning?
I never saw this as a kid, but I always had an irrational fear of what was under my bed/couch. I developed a habit of sitting cross-legged in chairs and I noticed I was doing it as I watched this video.You hack-frauds made me revert to my childhood habits. Damn you!
Definitely agree with Jay's assessment, re-watched this as an adult and it just made me nostalgic for how it was to be a kid and the problems you deal with and how you think. Great gateway movie, that hand scene definitely stuck with me!
I watched this movie as a kid didn't watch it again until I was in my twenties. The eyeball in the hand scene scarred me for life which is why I avoided this movie all these years. I was haunted by that image.
"I wasn't that kid, but I was friends with that kid." "I kinda was." That made me think of the exchange between Kirk and Spock in Star Trek IV where Kirk in the past sells the glasses that McCoy gave him for his birthday. Spock asks "Weren't those a birthday present from McCoy?" and Kirk's response is "and they will be again. That's the beauty of it." You are friends with that kid again, Jay. What a nice moment.
This comment was a commitment but well worth it.
Hello Mike
Are you happy? *Right now Principal Jay is crying in his room like a girl (because of that star trek reference)!*
Last year I remembered The Gate out of nowhere. Decided to check RUclips for any videos reviewing/discussing it and found this. This is the video that introduced me to RLM. I couldn't be happier. 🙂
The setup for the eye in the hand is there. It's when they're reading the dark book and it says that the demon bestows its dark blessing on the summuner. The demon had assumed that it was summuned on purpose and was fulfilling its end of the bargain.
I just watched it and didn’t catch that. Thanks!
The eye in the hand is supposed to have a name. It's in alot of demonology lore
@@doctorfeinstone6524 I don't know. Nothing that i ever heard of.
Oh dear lord the moment when Jay looks straight at the camera and Ishtar trailer starts playing
i'm 32 and i just watched "the gate" for the first time in my life so i can see this review ...and i loved it!
It's amazingly awful, I remember seeing it in theatres when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me!! It's amazing to watch...
This is the show that has made me appreciate Josh.
This show is not really about comedy; it's just about movies. It's genuinely the perfect format for him to shine.
... drake and josh?
True I like him a lot in Re:View and he’s usually with Jay reviewing obscure or horror movies (or both!). But tbh I kind of prefer Jack and the main trio in Best of the Worst reviews, they have a perfect witty humour between them which Josh isn’t often able to take part in, he takes it more seriously. No fault to him but he’s way better reviewing films than being the joker.
@@GuineaPigEveryday Absolutely, Tim Higgins or Jack for BoTW, but Josh is definitely great on re:View.
I think he probably has trouble during the group discussions because when other people are talking he just keeps getting distracted thinking about that juicy Shaq meat.
Josh is irksome a lot of the time.
Wait "Ishtar" and "The Gate" came out at the same time? That is remarkable, one of the most notable structures of the ancient world is called the "Ishtar Gate"
The Stargate?
Maybe the Ishtar Gate was built in 1986!
(1986 B.C.)
Yabble dabble
that’s wacky
Also, Ishtar was one of the most notorious flops of all time, an honor it shared with another film called *Heaven's* Gate.
Saw 'The Gate' as a grown-ass-man in 2015. Totally holds up, and is a lot of fun.
Yup, same! Saw it yesterday! Such a fun movie. There is even a Gate 2, but no idea if it's good tho,
They were unbelievably on point about The Gate. Said pretty much everything that I enjoyed about it. This movie got to me as a child because it knew all the things that got a child's imagination, sense of adventure, and curiosity riled up enough to turn against them to scare them, especially in the 80's (or to a greater time period late 70's to early 90's). One thing I think they forgot to mention was how Lovecraftian the story actually was in ways, and how it blended those elements with a normal kids life. The geode buried in the back yard had elements of the meteor from The Color Out of Space, how the kids were sort of adventuring and excavating the yard which brought about the relic of the geode, and then found the ancient script on that magnetic sketch pad, summoning the old gods who one ruled the universe, the semi-serpentine and tentacled giant demon, the demons exerting their small influences which grew and grew in potency, in order to bring about an exponentially greater threat, people being turned into monstrous beings against their will by this dark force, etc. I know many of those are general horror tropes, but Lovecraft was doing those nearly 100 years ago, and he pretty much invented most of them.
Aside from Krampus the last horror film that had this sort of entry ground for kids element to it was Monster House, which purposefully hearkened back to movies like The Gate, Monster Squad, Gremlins, and the like. Actually, around that time there was also a Spanish film directed by one of the directors of the original REC (Paco Plaza) called The Christmas Tale, which was released as a part of a set of Spanish horror films collectively titled Films to Keep You Awake; and The Christmas Tale is exactly this sort of horror film as well, it really gets kids.
I can't stress enough how much I believe movies like this broaden a kid's imagination and helps them creatively throughout the rest of their lives. If youve never been terrified of the unreal and the unknown, you will never have cause to imagine the unreal and the unknown.
Exactly. I feel bad that this generation of kids don't have the movies we grew up with in the 80's. Creative, fun, memorable, era-defining, etc. The crap Hollywood churns out these days is just sad.
Eh I mean, the stuff I grew up with was pretty awesome. My parents didnt let me watch adult stuff in my early childhood (Bloody Roar was the only major exception), but I played so many videogames with interesting characters and worlds. Its really hard to explain the wonderworld I grew up in because of the Gamecube, PS1-2, and Disney animated movies.
And hell, despite all that I still learned about Jason Voorhees in a Scholastic book about monsters. As a kid I honestly interpreted Jason as far darker the he is in his own movies, killing actual kids, not just the camp councillors. He's easily my favorite slasher.
When it comes to my generation getting nightmare fuel, Courage the Cowardly Dog does genuinley filled that niche imo. I didnt watch it much as a kid but what little I did terrified me thoroughly.
From my end, there is definitley a respect for 80s era stuff. How much of it I show my kids will probably depend. I really liked the bubbly 3D platformer childhood I grew up with so my priority will be to uphold that with my kids personally. Friday the 13th Jason Lives looks tempting though, since that movie lets the kiddos get involved in that movie.
This comment was unexpectedly a revelation.
@@doghousereilly3795well fortunately kids these days do in fact still have those 80's movies. Im 21 and my best friend was raised on cheesy 80's acrion and horror movies. And hes mostly fine!
The kids of any future generation DO have these movies. We just gotta show them these movies. That's the magic of movies... They are always there
Jay, we all jumped from the lightswitch to the bed.
Jay, you're right on about the gateway movie. Stranger Things was so great because it reminded us all of the gateway movies they made in the 80s. The Gate burned itself into my brain the exact same way you described. I was terrified of hands under the bed and had nightmares about the eye in the hand. Thanks to the movie Ghoulies I was afraid of monsters coming out of the toilet and eating my butt. Critters made me terrified of ever letting my hands dangle over the side of my bed. My other favorite movie that I think shows respect for kids is Little Monsters. Maybe Drop Dead Fred as well. Those movies feel like they were written with appropriate respect for what kids are capable of understanding and relating to. They understand that kids cuss like sailors. Cussing sailors, that is.
FYI Josh, geodes can get fuckin huge, as in you can sit inside them huge.
They get huge, beautiful, no one can build a better geode!
Nicholas Collins No one builds geodes like Trump can. He's gonna build the best geode. His balance sheet is so good that the US government had him rebuild the old geode on Pennsylvania Avenue. Make geodes great again
+Gisle Andre Nybakk Dude what is wrong with you? Donald Trump does not build huge things! He builds YUGE things!
+Gisle Andre Nybakk
Because of another comment i read this while listening to The Best Polkas of Myron Floren. It made your comment twice as fun.
One of them in Ohio was a mile across. Probably a billion years old or so.
Well, to answer your question, I just watched this for the first time ever as an adult and I absolutely loved it. I think some of it is still genuinely creepy, and it isn't patronising to kids. And the stop motion arm in the door shot is absolutely sublime. Thanks for the recommendation
I can be prepped and ready to see an incredible and highly anticipated film, watch the first minute of a re:view episode, and will almost always dump my movie plans and watch whatever it is you are talking about. RLM has changed my LIFE dude
I usually have the intention of sitting down and watching a movie and then get stuck in a RLM review marathon. RLM has ruined my life.
Ishtar Re-view coming soon Confirmed.
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Tshistar!
Next thing they will say Jay & Josh will be hailed as the true messengers of God!
You beat me to it. I began typing, then scrolled down and canceled my comment. I dislike duplicate comments, that's for Paaawwwns!!!
It's 2020 my guy. Still no Ishtar
I just stumbled upon this film as a 29 year old and honestly loved it! It brought me back to the movies I grew up with but is also beautiful and super well written
13:22- Who ever edited jay's laugh with the mother's laugh needs recognition
I remember as a kid I watched this movie on VHS every Halloween for about 5 years running! Loved it!
"That image stuck with me as a kid"
Me watching this video after randomly searching for this movie over 30 years after seeing it: 👀
Huge fan of this movie. Digging the Halloween 3 shirt, Jay.
***** That's a Jarrett thing.
hey it's silvermania
Jake Nash hey it's jake nash, a fucking nobody who will die alone and afraid
That's silvermania alright!
I didn't like the movie much. Even as a kid I thought it was all a bit camp and silly but the little kobold dudes. They were amazing. They needed their own movie.
One of my all time favorite movies as a kid. Still watch it to this day.
"There are no geodes that is that large." Let me tell y'all about Crystal Cave or even The Empress of Uruguay.
I've shown it to people as adults who never saw it as kids. Still gets them. It's the mix of that relentless score, and the gradual way it introduces the plot elements. It has a sense of dread and surreal imagery that just freaks people out. Great flick for this time of year.
The Gate is the first movie to ever freak me out when I was a kid. I love it!
this is legit one of my fav movies and i watch it every year around halloween. thank you for reviewing this!
I grew up with this movie too, (I was around 11 or 12 when it came out), and Jay and Josh were dead on with all of their observations.One of the other things I remember is thinking, at the very end of the film, "How the hell are they gonna clean that house up? What in the hell are they going to tell their parents?"This really worried me for some reason.
Look, I really love this re:view. I love every RLM video. But I've already watched it in full 15 times. Please RUclips, stop recommending and autoplaying it every single day
I watch these guys at night. So when I see a new video in my feed, it makes my whole day better knowing I get to watch an episode that night!
They wondered if it would hold up for an adult now days. I saw it for the first time last year, and at 47 , I thought this movie was totally rad.
Great episode, Jay and Josh work really well together.
My husband loved this movie as a kid and introduced me to it a few years ago. It really is great, and part of that is the realistic characters. Even though I didn't watch this growing up, it still feels nostalgic because of how the kids act. Glad to see it on Re:View!
Will you be returning to NoBrand Con 2017 to check out some anime and pick up some manga?
darkdowngrade WoOoOoaAh!
And most importantly, eat some Pocky!
Is that where they sell future landfill?
Check out some anime, pick up some mang- ......
wooooaaahh!
17:02
The creepy eye in the hand was set up, but very, very subtly. You can see it at 15:10, on the wall.
That Halloween 3: Season of the Witch Shirt Jay is wearing! So awesome!
It was a good movie.
18 days 'til Halloween! 18 days 'til Halloween!
It is from Fright-rags lots of fantastic shirts
20:34 The Ishtar trailer started playing and my brain made a weird look on my face, caused by an emotion that I've never experienced before. I'm not quite sure but I think I've heard some people call it "hap-penis".
This totally holds up. Watched it for the first time the other day with some friends and we were all enjoying it.
Good job, guys. I absoultely loved this movie when I was a kid. You're the first ones out of all my subscriptions who have done a review of this movie.
I'm genuinely surprised that you didn't let the whole Ishtar trailer play through and that be the full end to this re:View. It is just the kind of trolling I would expect from you Jay, and the reason why you are great.
thanks big time for shining a spotlight on this. I thought I hadn't seen it before, but as this went on, I realized I saw this movie as a small kid, especially the eye in the hand part.
I saw The Gate for the first time when I was in my 20s, and I loved it. The effects are amazing, and it has likable characters. Good times.
I remember I bought the DVD "The Tommyknockers" from my local Circuit City thinking I was buying this movie. My cell phone at the time was crap and I was too excited to even "google it." It also didn't help that I did not know the name of the movie either considering I randomly caught it on the SyFy channel (or was USA Network? shit, I can't remember the old cable channels) halfway through. Man... there is too much nostalgia in that rant.
Josh appreciation comment. Thumbs up to send Josh some love.
Ohhhh! Exciting! The Gate was a great movie of its time. Havn't watched this yet- but Jay better support The gate.
Definitely the movie that helped me hone my ability to flip the light switch and be under my sheets before the light went out. Freaking arms, man!
In the final scene, the kids exit the house and sit in the gutter by the side of the road, and all I could think was 'Where the hell are all the neighbours? A portal opened up in the middle of this house that's just been obliterated by demons and there isn't a neighbour in sight, no one peering through their blinds, nothing.'
Looooved this movie as a kid. I watched it again a few years ago and it's still just as good!
Watched it last night for the first time with my wife and 11-year old daughter. It is a nice little movie. It really holds up today. If your kid wants to see some horror film - this movie is perfect for it (original Poltergeist and Gremlins are great too).
As a kid this one was one of the few movies that did scare me. Can't believe people dont know about this. Also, from Canada and enjoy metal
This is one of my favorite movies growing up.
Ladyhawke! You guys need to re:View (ha!) Ladyhawke next!
For such connoisseurs of 80's Sci-Fi/Fantasy, I've never heard you guys ever mention this movie. Maybe there's a good reason... but I'm curious to hear what you guys thiink!
95% of metalheads are nerds. Some of them may not look like it, but they are.
Metal music IS nerdy, It has a lot in common with jazz and classical.
Case in point: RazorFist
Lots of musicians got their start studying classical music before going metal.
@@Yusuke_Denton Danny Elfman always had an interest in Russian orchestra. He's of Russian heritage and rightly resents communism. Also, Oingo Boingo is the greatest band of all time. New Wave, not metal, but I could never limit myself to one genre.
YUP :) \m/
I had seen The Gate about the same time that Faith No More's Epic music video came out... That eye in the hand... The two are indelibly linked...
Oh god, I completely forgot about this movie until they showed the scene with the eyeball on the hand and flood of memories of watching this movie rushed back into my head and thanks for that... Scarred for life now...
I still have not recieved my special delivery of Man milk
Wizard milk.
Juicy Shaq meat
I like my juicy shaq meat man-milk boiled over-hard.
Fight milk is better anyways
They used it to make pancakes. As if they weren't fat enough.
I watched this movie after Jay mentioned it in the krampus review, and man did I love it. I'm not the typical movie watcher, but as a horror fan and as a person who wants to make movies, it's a real treat to watch.
the gate is the movie from my childhood I love that s***.
I woke up early some Sunday morning when I was like 8 and I turned on the tv and this was playing. I never knew what movie it was till know. But this has haunted me my whole life!
"No geode is that big"
I've personally seen a bigger geode, and there seem to be plenty of pictures of geodes much larger than humans
Like that crystal cave technically if I recall correctly
I watched it for the first time when I was 23 or so, still held up. Great movie. Half of my enjoyment of it was just marveling at the practical effects.
20:28 when jay stares into your soul and you know exactly what to expect
Those Estes rockets were *the* coolest toys to have back then. I haven't seen (or heard) of them in years!
"YOU'VE BEEN BAD!" oh man, I remember my friend and i rewinding that scene a dozen times.
I remember this movie from my childhood. My destroyed childhood. This is the first reminder of what scar'd me.
Poltergeist is the best horror film for kids. Scary, magical, fun for the whole family.
Henry G Except for Babys Day Out
I also used to jump to my bed like Jay but it was because of the fucking clown in poltergeist.
Same here :) That and because of the Demon's face in the Exorcist.
It should be on re:Wiev.
there's a movie called "the hole" that is kind of similar to this. it's even directed by Joe Dante of gremlins. it's not as hardcore as the gate though
Jay, you're absolutely right. I watched The Gate for the first time last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Granted, I'm not the cynical general audience, but its atmosphere, kids pov and few generally creepy scenes should please most people - as long as they're not expecting horror.
i gotta say that my brother and i discovered this movie a couple months ago and we both like it very much. It does hold up - to us at least. I mean, just look at the creepy stuff even if its stop motion, theyve done a great job but we also laughed at the end when dorff gets catapoulted out the front door, it looked funny and it was unexpected. ( hope you understood what ive written ) thanks for the re:view, guys
Agreed. The eyeball on the hand freaked me out as a kid.
Ishtar feels like the RLM answer to Conway Twitty
Just watched this movie for the first time and I loved it. It felt like army of darkness mixed with E.T., glad you guys introduced me to this!
Oh, goody, a re:View of a hollywood movie that I've never heard of and it wasn't made in the last 20 years, so it has a small chance of not being complete rubbish.
oh stop, you
holy double negativies
Haha holy shit you think new movies are better
This narrative needs to stop.
Yes, there's a lot of trash because people pay for things like Transformers & the studios automatically gravitate to that but this year we've had good creative movies like Nice Guys, Hell or High Water, Kubo & the Two Strings among others but the fans don't support them financially so we go back to square one with the studios funding poor remakes.
All western cinema, hell even world cinema to a degree, are circling around under the influence of the black hole that is Hollywood. Eventually to the sucked down that drain.
Jay's look when he signaled for Ishtar...fucking priceless.
Jay's clearly been hitting the gym and working his triceps.
"My man".
the eye in the hand thing wasn't talked about beforehand but it is a recurring image in the movie, it is on the echa-sketch, in the dark book, and painted on the house wall in blood.
So when is Stephen Dorrf gonna be a guest on Wheel of the worst?
I saw this one as a child on tv and could never find it until you guys showed the eye hand scene. Holy shit some haunting stuff there, I don't know if I should be thankful or mad at you guys for being up this scarring film.
I just watched it and I loved it. However, I grew up watching 80's movies on cable in the 90's, so the overall look and tone plays into my nostalgia.
Loved this movie when I was a kid.
"Kind of a *Gate*way movie"
"I LOVE the Minions!"
and fucking Ishtar... this re:view is so dense, every frame has so much going on
I loved this movie as a kid, glad to see it still holds up.
There are definitely geodes that large, you just don't see them very often, they're fairly rare in the field and very expensive if you find one for sale (a shop down the street from where I grew up had a couple comparable to the one used in the gate at the time it came out and they were around $300 for a half).
Also, just t be even more pedantic, the eye on the palm is set up by some of the art in the album near the beginning I'm pretty sure.
I really liked this movie as a kid.
Tiny Stephen Dorff!?....I never knew!
I loved this movie when I was a kid. Delightful re:View gentlemen!
One of the best horror movies ever! It's just so good. The creature effects make it super creepy.
Ha! Thanks to you guys now I'm now gonna check out some behind-the-scenes and making-of videos of The Gate.
I remember watching all the gate movies at my sleepover birthday party in middle school. My friends and I had inside jokes from riffing those movies for years afterward.
Holy shit! Talk about nostalgia. I remember watching this as a 7 year old kid with my friends. Crazy.
I watched this when I was a kid renting it from the local video store seeing that cover. The little demons haunted my dreams as a kid.
This came out when I was a kid. Watched it a million times …
Time Bandits!
This x 10 million.
"You've been BAAAAAAAAAAD!"
LOL. Great choice you guys. Thanks for reviewing this horror classic.
I just watched this movie for the first time this past Halloween and I liked it. I'm 30. I think it holds up.
Forgot about this movie. Thanks for unlocking this repressed memory.
Wasn't there a film on Best of the Worst and it had a similar plot, that a song played backwards cast the devil away? I think it had either Ozzy Osbourne or Gene Simmons in it, and they commanded the power of lightning?
trick or treat?
Oh my God! It's a Halloween Miracle!
DICK THE BIRTHDAY BOY
that's where i knew it from
Both of them.
I never saw this as a kid, but I always had an irrational fear of what was under my bed/couch. I developed a habit of sitting cross-legged in chairs and I noticed I was doing it as I watched this video.You hack-frauds made me revert to my childhood habits. Damn you!
spooked me when I was young, $1 VHS rental, was totally worth mowing the lawn
Definitely agree with Jay's assessment, re-watched this as an adult and it just made me nostalgic for how it was to be a kid and the problems you deal with and how you think. Great gateway movie, that hand scene definitely stuck with me!
Stephen Dorff in True Detective season 3!
I watched this movie as a kid didn't watch it again until I was in my twenties. The eyeball in the hand scene scarred me for life which is why I avoided this movie all these years. I was haunted by that image.
6:30 - wrong. lol dude there are geodes the size of caves!
Thank you!!
Really looking forward to seeing this one day. Laughed my ass off at the Ishtar part!