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Girl, I know what it's like to get in some pants.

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Greetings and salutations and welcome to Hacker Slash. If you're joining us again, welcome back. We're all equal here. Sort of like communism, but not really. If this is your first time listening, welcome to the party. We are a horror movie review podcast dedicated to telling you whether a movie is a hack.

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A total joke, a waste of time.

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Or a slash.

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Totally killer. Pun intended.

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We believe horror is for everyone, and as such, we're rating these movies with a perspective we've all gained from our varying walks of life and the flavors of fear we fancy most. My name is Chris, I'm your friendly neighborhood slasher enthusiast. This week I'm joined by the Superfly Space Guy Mac.

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Hola Muchachos.

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The Gore Lover Alexis. Hey everyone. And the Scream Queen Paris.

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Hey sweets.

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This week we have a new Shudder Original that just hit the streaming service in mid-March, but before we get there, we have some follow-up.

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We recently reviewed the sort of remake, but not really, of April Fool's Day from 2008. You can listen to the episode to hear how we felt about it, but let's just say it wasn't great. But we wanted to hear from our listeners because surely a myriad of opinions exist about this movie. And surprisingly, only 76% of them gave it a hack. And the other 24% actually enjoyed that movie. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Like 24% of those people were like, yeah, this was good.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

Yeah. When given the choice between hack or slash, they did vote slash.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

I'd venture to say they just tapped the wrong option.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

No judgment if that's you, or you know, it's just it's gotta put my put myself in the in in the mind of someone else who might have enjoyed it. It's hard to do.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Honestly, Chris, you might be right though, because all the comments really suggested that this movie was garbage. We have a comment from Sheldon who said, I feel like I was fooled. And I share that sentiment, Sheldon. We also have a comment from Rob, which is actually very bold. He said, quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

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Agreed, Rob.

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We also have a comment from Milton who said, I just couldn't finish it. Not worth the time. And to Milton, I say, actually finish it, because the end is maybe the best part. And finally we have a comment from Joe who said, trash, utterly a waste of money and time. But I watched it because I love your show, lol. And to that I say, thank you, Joe. And I'm sorry. That's true dedication.

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Yeah, misery loves company.

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But it is also fun to listen to like a really shitty movie and then we can all make fun of it together afterwards, you know? We are also very happy to announce that we're introducing a new support tier for our patrons. In addition to all the benefits from our previous tiers, Slasher 3 patrons also gain a single-use 25% discount code for an order from our merch site, as well as something that has been long requested by our listeners, the power of suggestion for slasher picks. They'll get to nominate a movie that'll be included in our monthly voting. And if you want to learn more information, you can visit patreon.com slash hacker slash. And that's our follow-up.

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This week we're turning our heads towards a different kind of joke, one that comes in the form of a horror comedy starring a pair of sentient jeans. This movie explores what happens when a young retail employee's first day in her dream job happens to be launch day for a killer new product. This week we're talking about slacks. What did you all expect going into this?

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Um pants, right? So we're I'm thinking, this is a movie about killer pants? This is gonna be trash. I'm about to watch a horrible movie and it's gonna be super cheesy. It's gonna be Thanksgiving level. That's my full expectation.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

That's so funny. That's what I was thinking. Thanks killing. Um, but on the weirdest level, because it's new, so I was like, oh, pants CGI, it's gonna be bad. It's it's just gonna be, I don't know how, but it's gonna. But I was kind of like, I think I might be here for it.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

I had a similar experience. I just saw the movie title in our recording schedule and I was like, what is that? A movie about pants, like as a joke. And I was like, I saw the poster and realized, oh yes, this is a movie about pants. Um, but from the poster, I got vibes from like kind of like dumb like 2000s movies like Mean Girls and things like that. And I was like, there's a chance that I might actually like this. So I was pretty optimistic to be to be frank.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Yeah, considering the aesthetic of this movie, I would have been surprised if you went into it not expecting to like it. You know what I mean? Like it feels like it would be aesthetically on brand for you. Now, I expected silliness abound. So I saw the trailer and I was trying to keep an open mind because I thought they probably gave the best moments away. So I I thought a lot of the comedy would have been put in there, but I was actually really amazed to see that they restructured some of the jokes in the trailer so that they don't happen that way in the movie and it kind of lands better. Nice. I think all around, in terms of my expectations, I was wrong. There's certainly some good stuff in the trailer for sure, but there's plenty in here that like kept me entertained while I was watching it. And I had some chuckle to myself moments, some genuine laugh out loud moments, and then it went some directions that I wasn't expecting. But how'd you all feel watching it?

SPEAKER_00 5:00

With my really low expectations for this movie, I very quickly fell into just a mode of being completely caught off guard, I think. The entire movie I spent just going, okay, this is completely not what I thought it was, and I was like entertained and picking up on details they were, you know, putting out into the story and to the characters, just going, like, it how is this movie called slacks? How is this about a uh a pair of pants killing people? And the entire movie just spent in disbelief of the fact that I was entertained.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Yeah, it definitely had my attention because I was like, How are they going to deliver this plot essentially? And you know, it it was entertaining in the beginning, and then towards the end, I don't know, to me it got kind of cringy towards the end. So there's just this like fell flat towards the end, but I I didn't overall think it was enjoyable and it was like interesting to watch to see how this like whole plot would take place.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

Yeah, I was definitely intrigued from the jump. Um, but watching this, I really felt I felt light, I felt at ease. Um, but I also felt like they really captured what it's like to work in a retail environment, like down to so many details and like dialogue choices that I was like, oh, I think everybody that works in retail is gonna feel in some way related to this movie.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

That's interesting because one of the things that surprised me was how I imagine that this is what a lot of people feel, but I was very grateful that I couldn't connect with a lot of it because I have a very limited retail experience, and I think the type of retail job that I work in, it doesn't really line up with a lot of like the fashion industry, right? So I think there's a lot of stuff that I'm able to avoid and not have experience, so I enjoy that. But I think what surprised me most, brace yourselves for this. If you've been listening to this podcast and I have a reference, my girlfriend, she hates horror movies, and she actually really loved this, and that was a big surprise to me. That's so surprising.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Hi, Maddie.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Beyond that, in all seriousness, when looking at this movie, I think of like, you know, what other movies are there about inanimate objects, right? Rubber, I think, is the one that comes to mind. It's like a movie about a killer tire.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

The fuck?

SPEAKER_02 7:01

It's something that I expected to just be silly in one note the whole way through, but it actually did something different and got a little bit darker and got a little bit more serious and grounded, grounded itself in a really important message. And I really wasn't expecting that.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

That's interesting. I know I was trying to recall if I had ever seen um a movie with inanimate objects, and I can only think of like dolls. That was like the only thing I that would come to mind. But um, that's interesting you say that, Chris, because although I was surprised that they took that turn um in this origination of sort of the pants, um, I don't know if it that part is what surprised me that they made that turn, and I don't know if I necessarily liked that. So I'm interested to see like how you break that down because I feel like that might change my mind a little bit. I was hella surprised about the gore in this. I was not expecting this to be as gory. And it was funny because I did see the trailer and I was like, oh, this is probably all the gore that's gonna be in there, and it there was a lot in the trailer, so I was expecting it to be less, but I was pleasantly surprised that there was a great amount of gore for this movie.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

I was honestly surprised by how, in some small way, I related to every single character in this movie on some level, um, which is very rare for me. I was like, okay, people I get. Um but I was also kind of disappointed by a lot of the choices that were made, especially towards the end. I think in line with what Alexis was saying about how some of the parts were a little bit cringy. There were certain things that I felt like didn't really add a lot of value. You know, it was a it was a mixed bag for me.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

I'm gonna go back to a couple things each of you have said. So, one, the gore was very surprising. The amount of gore that was in this movie and how it was delivered was very surprising. The retail environment was very surprising because they were able to capture not necessarily the exact things that people might say, but the exact feeling of how people talk to each other in in retail environments, like specifically like from top down.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

You know, there every company has weird internal terms that they use that just make you feel like you're in some sort of cult at some point. Yeah. Um, and every I'd say most retailers out there that I've experienced uh also have the like super crazy micromanagement going on. I was watching the movie and relating uh relating to it because I had a story from a a former coworker who used to work at a baby supply store, and literally the managers would watch them on the camera and like call them into the office because oh, you looked at your phone, and he was like, Oh, someone was calling me, and I silenced it. And they were like, You're not allowed to look at your phone. And that's what they were doing with their day was like watching the camera. And so I don't know, it just like felt really real to me, and that's what surprised me is that it's so over the top, and the characters are so over the top, but it really felt felt real.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I mean, there's uh I think a lot of them are caricatures of themselves, right? But there's certainly some lines that are equipped on like, mm-hmm, I've had some mediocre people say some kind of shit like that to me before. Uh like um, I'm tasking you with this because I have the confidence that you can do this for me. I'm like, how condescending can you be? And I have met that person a million times in life. I didn't expect this movie to be scary, but I think the scariness of the movie is and how accurate that is, right? Not necessarily the words and the big theatrics behind the gestures, but what they're rooted in, like how cutthroat some people can be, how some people see performance and and achievement as like stepping stones to just get where they want to be without the consideration of the health and safety of others or the ability for others to thrive in in in work environments. But uh I will say I was pleasantly surprised even then by the pants. Like I I can't find the pants scary, but I think the kills were pretty effective. Yeah, it didn't scare me, but I was down for it.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Kind of relatable the kills were. That's what was the frightening part is um have you ever gotten in a pair of tight jeans? Um it is a workout. And don't put on lotion before you put on pants or leggings. So that's the frightful part, is that it is very rooted in my everyday life that I'm like, I could understand the horror of trying to get pants on and then never coming off. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

They definitely did capture that experience really accurately in one of the scenes here. Um, but yeah, this movie I don't think anybody was really afraid of. The scariest thing is just like the capitalism of it all, and then just like seeing what length someone will go to for a regional manager position, which when you think about it is kind of just like, aww.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Yeah, that's that's the scary part. Working in fashion retail. Like I've worked retail and I've I've done a couple different types of retail. Gotta say, like, small business retail is my favorite so far. But fashion retail has just scared the living crap out of me my entire career. It's just something I want to avoid at any cost. And I mean, I I think the real like the scary part about a movie involving fashion retail is thinking about the human abuse that still goes into making our clothes in 2021. But Mac, last month was three seasons ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

That kind of shit would just drive me wild. I really in that's something that I don't know, I I've I've never even gotten like a really good vibe. Like in walking into places, right? I've never gotten a good vibe that like people really enjoy being there, you know what I mean? It seems like everyone's just kind of suffering in solidarity. And I want to meet someone who really enjoys that because I feel like the working conditions just must not be great.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

I mean, it was kind of fun. When you're in high school and you like don't care that much, it's fun to just like fold some jeans for half an hour while you talk shit about your coworkers with a friend.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

That's not what a retail is all about.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

That's very much what retail is about.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

It's interesting because I feel like fashion retail is kind of isolated because it has a lot of younger people working in it, and most of the rest of retail has expanded now uh in in terms of age. Like pretty much when you go to a place to shop, it's probably gonna be someone any anyone from the ages of like 20 to 70 at this point.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Yeah, no, that's totally fair.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

So unrelated to retail in general, while watching this, I kind of had the same conundrum. Have I seen other inanimate objects come to life and uh you know terrorize people? And aside from dolls, the only other thing I could think of was Christine.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Um, you know, the Stephen King piece. But happily, this was nothing like Christine. This was nothing like Brahms. I I don't know what it's like. And the entire time I'm watching it, I'm thinking like this is so weird because not only am I entertained, but I can't really relate it to anything else aside from being at work.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

Okay. You know what? I thought I was talking about inanimate objects, and rubber was the one that came to mind. Also, one of the worst fucking movies I've ever seen. There's a movie out there, and I can't remember what it's called, but it's donuts, like radioactive donuts that come to life and have teeth.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

They get delivered to someone's house and like they're just yeah, it goes wild. So this is not original in the sense of like things gaining sentience and coming to life, but I think it's done in a way that feels different and refreshing, and I'm totally happy with with the direction that they went and abandoning the overt silliness that you can find in a lot of these.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Did they abandon the overt silliness?

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Oh, it had some, but man, you watch rubber and then you let you revisit this comment, and we'll we'll discuss further.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah, and the silliness pertained to like the environment, in my opinion, not like the actual genes. You know, I mean there were a few funny things, but I don't think it necessarily was all about the genes. It was about the characters, it was about their environment, it was about what was going on, it was about this backstory, it was a lot going on, which you know, I think for it to put all that together and be something enjoyable and not something that's like super cheesy, I think it's pretty original.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

Yeah, I feel like you guys are making some solid points, but there is something so specific that this reminded me of. Um, and I'm prepared to be the only one that knows this, but I'm sure some of our listeners will be aware. Um, but there's an anime called Kill La Kill, and it's basically it's one of like the more sexy animes, and it's kind of notorious for that. But basically, this girl has like this outfit that is alive, and when she needs to fight, she puts on the outfit and it like bites into her skin and draws her blood, and that's like where it gets its power from. So this like very specific thing reminded was like I was reminded of that a lot during this movie. Um, so I'm wondering if maybe there was some sort of reference there. But ultimately this felt familiar but fresh.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

I have to wonder, does the character in the anime do they enjoy the biting?

SPEAKER_03 15:25

Yeah, they're like honesty, it's like a buddy comedy between her and the outfit, because the outfit has like a lot of really funny one-liners.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

What what does it sound like? What's the voice?

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Well, I only watched the the subtitled version, so he just sounded like a really like excited Japanese man.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Oh, so it's a man suit.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Yes, the outfit is definitely a man.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Biting into a woman.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

Biting into an attractive young woman, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Oh. That's like watching teeth, except the vagina can talk.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Yeah, you know what? Not far off.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

Well, this has gone a direction, and this movie certainly went a direction with the way that it approached its ending. And I know there are some things that Alexis didn't like about it, but I'd I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. This movie I think ends on a way more serious and dismal note than I think it starts. Was that satisfying to you all?

SPEAKER_00 16:08

It it was for me, but at the same time it was like dissatisfying the way it ends. But when I thought about it more, I was like, actually, it makes so much sense, and it kind of had to end that way to have you know the meaning that it was trying to carry the entire film. So in the end, I was happy with it. Although in the moment I was just kind of I was kind of bummed.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Yeah, you guys already know I wasn't a fan of the ending. I do like the way it ended ended. I like the final scene, you know, where I can't explain too much about it, but there's a conclusion and it is what it is. And I'm like, all right, I'm here for that, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 16:45

I feel like the the kind of reveal and exposition in this movie was a little bit drawn out. Um, but I appreciate that this movie had something that kind of grounded it to having a point. Otherwise, it might have just kind of been too light and frothy without any substance. So I wasn't the biggest fan of the execution, but uh overall not mad.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

But did any of you stay for the post-credit scene or even the behind the scenes footage in the credits?

SPEAKER_03 17:13

No.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

No.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

Okay, this is the kind of thing that you have to text us when we watch it.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

Okay, well, I think I was the last one to watch it, so I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Oh, probably.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

There you go. Okay, well, I won't ruin it for you, uh, but do check it out. And listeners out there, I know we're gonna get to the rating of this moon this movie in just a moment, but if you decide to watch this, make sure you stay. Because there's footage that is in your li um, there's footage that's mixed into the credits, and there's also like an actual scene, a little clip at the end of the credits. So I think it was worth it. But let's see how this all translates into how we feel about this movie. Now, before we get there, Alexis, how many people died?

SPEAKER_01 17:53

We have ten with an asterisk. Uh oh, can't wait to explain that later. No, there was no animals inside this retail store uh at all.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Well, with that out of the way now, let's get into the rating slacks in 2021, newly released on Shudder. Was it a hacker or slash?

SPEAKER_01 18:11

I'll go first because I don't want anyone to sway my opinion about this movie. Although I didn't like the ending, I, you know, could die and be fine with not seeing killer pants in my life. I do appreciate the artistic work that went behind it. Like, I don't know, this visual uh this was visually very appealing for me. And the idea and the concept is original to me, so I have to give the people who worked on this credit. So I'm gonna give this a slash.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

That was a roller coaster.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Was it? Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

So I have already said a lot of things about this movie. I was pleasantly surprised that I related to almost every character in this. The main character was probably my least favorite, which tends to be the case for me. And I really like the way this captured the feeling of working in retail, specifically fashion retail, which is something I do have experience in. It managed to conjure a visual appeal that sort of balanced the line between like looking clean and like polished, but also dingy and miserable, which I feel like is a really great allegory for working in retail.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

It's the fluorescence.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Yeah. Fluorescent lighting is nobody's friend. But like ultimately, this is a movie about killer pants, right? Let's not get let's not get carried away. Um I felt like this movie let's say paired well with a rose, and it straddled the seam of good and bad, but ultimately it was fun. So it's gonna get a slash.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Well, I'm gonna join in now. Uh I feel like it's my turn to give this a slash because this movie was fun, surprisingly fun. Like you read the synopsis, you may even watch the trailer. I didn't even watch the trailer, I just read the synopsis, and you expect one thing out of it, and then you get in and it's got it's got a cool vibe. And I think that's what I enjoyed most about it, is it's just it's got a nice vibe to it. Like you watch it, it's fun, it's entertaining. Parts of it are not what you would expect, which is sometimes good, and you know, not always good, but for the most part, I enjoyed it, and it was weird enjoying it because I was hoping that I wasn't going to. It was like a movie about killer pants, I'm gonna hate this. I'm gonna hack it so hard. And then I made it to the end and I was like, wait a second, that's a slash. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Yeah, I mean, I think this is an easy movie to enjoy. I think it's something that even when it swings and goes on a more serious note, I don't think it's swinging out of its shoes by any means. I feel like it makes sense how we get there. I think it sets us up nicely for that in the beginning of the movie. I had fun watching this. I was a little apprehensive because I was watching this on FaceTime with my girlfriend, and usually she'll like unmute as I talk some mad trash about a movie. So I expected going into it that she would have just absolutely hated it. And if you can have a movie about killer pants and you can go for the tone that it goes for, and you can have like all the jokes about working in a retail environment and still get someone who doesn't even like horror to watch it. I think that says a lot about the quantum the quality of movie that it is. And for being a comedy, it had just the right blend of laughs for me, where some of the things were absurd, a lot of them were actually kind of tongue in cheek, and maybe you weren't supposed to laugh overtly at. So I enjoyed it and it's a slash. And Brian's not with a snite, but who knows, she may have given it a slash because what she did say was for what it's worth, this movie is exactly what Chopping Mall wasn't in the best way. So we'll have to follow up on that later. But for now, Slacks from 2021, available exclusively on Shudder, it's a universal slash. You can find this movie streaming online, check it out, then join us in the second half so we can all talk about it together. See you in a bit.

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SPEAKER_02 22:44

Welcome back, folks. You are now entering the spoiler zone for Slax, which is a universal slash. We have a lot to unzip here, but before we get into the specifics of our ratings, we have the matter of gore to get to. Alexis, what size is the gore in this movie? Large?

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Extra large?

SPEAKER_03 23:00

I don't know what like a 12, a 16.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Probably like a 10, depending on what we're sizing here. But on the basis of what we normally categorize our gore, uh, it's gonna be high for sure, in my opinion. I and I wasn't expecting this, and that was what surprised me so much about this movie was how much gore was in it. And while there are 10 dusts, and I did put an asterisk on there, there's two scenes where there is a high, high thread count. Can't really make out, you know, exactly the thread count, but it's high. Um, definitely comfortable, definitely stretchy. But it was so surprising to me, and they did it so tastefully, like it wasn't like overdone where it was cheesy, it was just like the perfect amount. Lots of blood, and I love the look of the blood in this movie too. It's like kind of dark and rich. I loved all the kills, but if I had to pick one in particular, and I'm gonna go kind of offside um a little bit to give you guys, you know, a little bit more kills to pick from and not go straight for the obvious, obvious one is going to be Gemma's. One um girl, I know what it's like to get in some pants. And then also I was like, oh wow, they fit right to her. I was like, I need a pair of those. And then to see her like struggling in the toilet and like you actually see what's going on, and it's just like tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter, and you're like, oh crap. Usually in normal case, you just get a bigger size, but unfortunately she can't get these off. So yeah, and then I love the after effect where her legs are like kind of crisscrossed, and then um to go into that even more, just the look of her body all contorted in the um cabinet. That was that looking at that was pretty gruesome, but pretty awesome. Oh yeah, yes, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

I have a question about that kill.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

So she's on the toilet and then at the bottom, like under the stall, you just see all this blood, and she like lied about being on her period. Was the kill also a period joke? Was that intentional?

SPEAKER_02 24:53

I didn't pick it up as a period joke.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

I yeah, I definitely didn't, yeah. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

Just me then.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

I might have. I just missed it.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

To be fair though, cramps do feel like you're being eaten alive from the inside, so I guess there's that.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

And then your pants do get a little bit tighter.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

There's another one that you think is the obvious kill. Lord. Okay, I'm curious to see what everyone else says.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

Okay, okay. I'm gonna go Craig, because that for me was the pinnacle. Because first off, he's a mediocre dude, right? He lives in this environment where it's basically like eating each other alive, uh, just to like stay competitive and to ascend the retail ranks and whatnot. So to see him suffer the at the bites of a ton of jeans was super satisfying, down to the bone. You know what I mean? Just skeletal remains. It was so good.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Yeah, he was satisfying. Um but uh the skeleton at the end was like a little over the top for me. That was like one of the only practical or special effects that I was kind of like, uh, but yeah, watching him die was definitely satisfying. Um so I'm gonna take the obvious kill. Uh I'm with Alexis here. Lord's kill was my favorite, um, mostly because of how well the actor sold it. Um his reaction to having really each limb bitten off by a pair of jeans uh was very believable. It was a perfect combination of like ow, this hurts so much, and also what the actual fuck. Um, so his performance really sold that for me, and he gets my favorite kill.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Yeah, I love that one.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

So I just think there's a lot of good kills, right? I think everyone has picked a good one. I'm gonna go with Peyton because I found that satisfying for the pair of pants to finally get a kill in front of people in in the open and in a really bold way. It wasn't like a sneaky drag you off into the hallway. It was like, I'm literally gonna wring your neck in front of a group of people.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

On camera.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

On camera, and I don't care whatsoever.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Can I can I do a lamess kill though? Yeah, yeah. Because it was for sure hunter.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Yeah, because we didn't get to see anything.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Um I wish I saw that.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

I thought she was just trying to put the pants on.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Yeah, being constricted and just like randomly like it's like she was like tiptoeing around the room, and then all of a sudden just you hear her colliding with that thing, and like you see the blood from flowing down the wall, and that's cool, but it was the least impressive out of any of them.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

It was definitely like a diet sugar-free pretzel kill from Sysperia, like zero calories to get into those genes.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

So I love the blood, and like visually, it was just like very I think it's because the look of this store is so stark, like white and very geometric that there was such a contrast, and I'm sure you guys can relate. Visually, that's what I loved about this movie. It was just like I think the OCD came out in me that I was like, oh my gosh, everything in this store is perfect. The lines are perfect, like the clothes are folded perfect. Like it was just very visually satisfying.

SPEAKER_03 27:45

I gotta say, Alexis, I I agree generally. Um, but as somebody who has folded an entire wall of jeans, uh, that wall was far from perfect.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Little sloppy work there.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Yeah. Like if you didn't look too closely, everything looked really nice and graphic and bold. But if you looked at the details, it was sloppily done, and I would ask to do it again. But that was also my favorite visual element, just the way they captured like a store we've all been in, but doesn't actually exist for legal reasons.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Oh, this definitely exists, right? Is this not Urban Outfitters or United Colors of Bennington?

SPEAKER_03 28:15

No, not Urban. I feel like this was more unique low. Uh this was unique low all the way.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

I've never heard of this store.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

They sell really good basics. Yeah. But it also had like HM Zara vibes with like the culture.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

It felt like HM meets express, meets gap.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Yeah, it was it was every fast fashion brand there is in existence, and probably some slow fashion brands too. I think visually my favorite part was the moments of darkness. Um I feel like it was treated really well, and we get some subtle lighting throughout. We also get some moments where they're not afraid for it to just be dark. And I think it actually worked out really well because we're in this really enclosed space and we're after hours and it should feel like nighttime, because I feel like if there was so much light, this would this could be any time of day. If everything was really well lit, this could be a mall at 2 p.m. So I think it was it was really smart to make this indoor setting look like nighttime, and I liked it.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

Yeah, it had like dungeon energy.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

Well, you are trapped there trying to escape. What I think one of the things that is surprising me most about this moment is that no one has had the jeans. Because for me, the jeans were it.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Yeah, absolutely. The look of the jeans I was a fan of. The jeans with the facial expression, that's amazing. Like the first time we get the hissing jeans and like the little crumpling mouth and like the pocket for eyes, that was when I actually laughed out loud. I because I I'm again, I'm a sucker for Muppets, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:37

So that was a thing for me. That's totally right up your alley because I thought that was the cheesiest thing. I was like, is this a snake? Uh is there a snake in this pants?

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Exactly. Or what?

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Give me some spicy jeans and I'm happy. I it's totally fine. Did you did you also like the um design of the logo? I did.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

It reminded me of that one S that everyone makes in uh in middle school.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Oh yeah, with the six lines.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

Oh yes, oh yes. It felt very adjacent to that.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

I had major problems with that logo because it's literally SS, which is which is not good.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Oh yeah, that is true. Well, they're evil genes, so that's right. And they filled with blood every time he killed someone, which was kind of weird. Evil in every thread.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

I do have a question about the the genes, um, because I couldn't tell if it was like some good puppetry or if it was like CGI. Um, but it definitely reminded me of something very specific, and I'm hoping somebody here can help me remember what it is. But it's like this old claymation show from the 90s that had like this little green guy who like lived under a bed and he had like really big eyes and like occasionally like his tongue would get really long.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

It was not gumby.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

No, it wasn't gumby. He was like short and like mostly eyes and a mouth, and he like lived under a bed with a couple other claymation things. Wait, I got it. It's bump in the night. Oh my god, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Yeah, there it is. There it is.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Okay, I described that green thing perfectly if I'm if I do say so myself. You did.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Oh, you can watch it for free on Tubi right now.

SPEAKER_03 31:00

Watch it and tell me the animation style wasn't the same thing they used for those jeans. That's a compliment, honestly, because Bump in the Night was great.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

I remember watching that all the time. Yeah, and the jeans looked believably alive.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

The work that went into those jeans gives them so much personality, and I absolutely love that. Some of the best scenes in this movie center around the jeans emoting, right? For me, my favorite, was when you have the jeans and it has like the mannequin, right? So it's now wearing a shirt, it has a Bindi on its forehead, and they're interacting with it at the secure with a security camera. Start playing the music and the things dancing, right? Once they start talking to it, it's like shuffling slowly towards the camera. For some reason, that shit cracked me up. I absolutely loved it. Oh, that was so cringy.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

Wait, I also laughed very hard. It was funny because it was like the juxtaposition of them having this like really intimate, like important, serious moment with a mannequin that was giving no emotion whatsoever, but we were supposed to be getting emotion from it. I thought it was really funny too.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Yeah, and then like just walking around with a a bloody stump of a hand written writing in the blood of its victims.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

As soon as that mannequin torso got added. That whole interaction, I think, was probably the moment where I was like, this is a slash. This right here, the mannequin holding the stumpy hand, drawing on the wall, writing its story. I was like, this is obviously a slash. This hat this has made it for me. I think my favorite scene though is also a dancing scene, but it's the jeans just dancing the first time we get the Bollywood music, and the jeans are like, Oh, oh, I like this, and they and they start dancing. That like that made my fiance crack up, and we were like, This is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

I I also love that that's just the moment we realized that she actually did like that song.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

That's funny, Mac. That was actually my worst part. Um, so we can knock that off right away. As soon as it happened, I was like, okay, this is where it's going too far in the cheesy direction, and they've lost me for the next two minutes because that scene went on forever. But my favorite scene was actually when Libby first gets to the store and she kind of bounces around between like seven different employees who don't feel like helping her because they have shit to do, and but like nobody wants to be the one to like help out the new hire, and she's like so eager and like wide-eyed, and they're all like, can somebody else take this bitch away from me? I'm like busy doing literally nothing of importance. Um, but that was a really funny interaction seeing her introduced to the entire employee staff there.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

Meanwhile, if that were Paris, he'd take her under his wing and show her the ways.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

Honestly, I really would.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

I've seen you do it.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

I like to get in on the ground floor and lay a solid foundation for a quality worker.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

Although I was, you know, talking shit about the ending. I like the complete ending. Um, surprisingly, usually when it just I don't know, I'm I'm a sucker for like a Disney ending where you know everyone, you know, wins. The girl gets the guy, you know, you found your glass slipper, like all that sort of cheesy stuff. When we get to the end, the moment where the jeans and Libya are having like a very intimate moment. And I was like, is this supposed to like please? Like it's to me, it's still jeans. I'm just like, what? I get the backstory, but the the backstory to me was just a little bit that was the crunchy part. I just loved how they there was just like this rawness of these these jeans being like, nope, fuck this, or we're gonna attack. And I I I mean, I wasn't expecting that, and I really love that. And I you just see this like massacre and you see all this blood everywhere, and it was just not the ending I was expecting. I was expecting it to be like, oh yeah, you're right. We'll forgive you. Um, no, actually, because that's not really what happens. Uh, and we're slaughtering people.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Yes, no, the killer jeans definitely go for the jugular. Yeah, they go for the jugular with the zipper. I'm sorry. Have you ever seen a pair of Wranglers back down? No, they're all in it.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

Raw Denim is hot right now.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

I don't know. I love that you bring that up, Alexis, because I think the the cool thing about that is just the juxtaposition, right? Because yes, it is still jeans, but also there's a human behind those jeans, you know, in some way, shape, or form. And I absolutely love the genes as a character. You get Cadet's backstory and you find out that she's this young girl who suffered a tragic fate just in the beginning, right? We saw where this came from. We saw the cotton that these this denim was made from. And I think that's what made it a slash for me. The fact that it's still on its surface, like a light fun comedy, but at the end of it, you have you know, commentary on child labor, corporate greed, bullshit influencers, and uh even things that like having to tackle diversity and inclusion in a retail space and just the dumb shit that people say will say to you, right? Or the way that people approach you about things, but even a little bit of feminism, right? Like just the whole package for me uh comes together in the threads of those jeans. Absolutely loved it.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

The ending for me, uh initially I was I was bummed by it, Alexis, because I'm like, we we get to the end and she falls and hits her head, and it seemed it seemed so light when it happened when she was getting trampled that I was like, there's so much blood, but you know, it happened, whatever, I'm fine with it. And then you start thinking about the fact that like she was now like just given vision to see what's the reality behind this thing she was idolizing, this this brand, and then she's like, I'm I'm gonna be able to stop this somehow. Of course not, like it's global, and so when that she's trampled by the masses, it's just it's it's deep, it's not like that deep, you know what I mean? It's not philosophy like 404 or something or however college course numbers work. Um it's definitely like in the 102 kind of category, but it it's it plays to the reality in in that we like seemingly can't do much about it because it's so big, it's so massive, and we're we're mostly all aware of it. Like there was I I I forget which show it was on, but there was a really good expose on on fashion brands and how much waste there is and how much they're like destroying the world.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

Textile pollution is terrible.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Oh, it's it's horrible. The pollution, the fact that people think that you can just like donate your clothes and then you're doing service to the environment. In reality, they're just getting thrown out anyway. So in some cases. But I don't know, it's it's kind of crazy that we get to this point and you're like, oh, she didn't make it. That's so sad, but she was working so hard or whatever. But you're like, yeah, that's the point. Is that we you could you could find out what's really happening and then think that like your individual voice could do something, but the masses will just like swallow you right up.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

Welcome to your dream job. You will die alongside your hopes and dreams.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

You thought really deep into that. I was gonna say, it just reminds me of uh like uh what is that Friday afternoon? Black Friday, yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

But Mac, yeah, I I agree with you, Alexis. I am glad that your distaste for the ending was based in such significance and depth. Um, because for me, I just wanted Libby to get like trampled harder. Um, she was really just kind of pushed, and like you said, there was a lot of blood for how light that little head smack seemed. I wanted like a full Black Friday like trampling that kind of matched the level of gore that we got throughout the movie. I felt like it was a pretty underwhelming death for her, but I gotta say, she was not my favorite character. Um, so I wasn't mad to see her go.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

She was not mine either. She was so annoying.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

Yeah, she was kind of the annoying one, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:09

She's like a wannabe final girl, but you're not. I didn't mind her at all.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

The jeans are the final girl. Gemma was obviously one of my favorite characters, probably the one I related to the most. Just seeing her walk around like as just like a hot, dumb bitch with limp wrists. I was like very that. Um, and then when she said it's a small price to pay for an awesome ass, I was like, There you go, girl. You you get your best life. And that's when I knew she was gonna die first.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

See, I was a fan of Shooty. That was my favorite character of the whole film. And it was unfortunate that the jerk off Craig had to like stab her right at the end.

SPEAKER_01 38:38

Yeah, I was like, what the heck? And it was quick too.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

Like she went out like I know, yeah, boom, quick stabbing on the floor, game over. That was sad.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

I I maybe because I haven't been so involved in retail that I can't pick up on, you know, the typical, I don't I don't want to say tropes, but possibly tropes um of certain characters. But um, I don't know, like to me they were just surface level characters that were deep enough for the movie, but no one like I really liked in this movie, no one I was rooting for. I mean, I was rooting for the jeans, honestly. As you should be. I know. Who wasn't because the backstory did its job. Yeah, it did, I guess. It it did something. Uh but I was rooting for the jeans, and I was like, all right, cool. Um, but honestly, like it was cool. All of them were like shitty in my like I know they were supposed to be. Like the store manager was like the worst. And at one point, you know, with his arc for his character, I was like, oh, he's turning around. And then he ends up even shittier than he was before.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

I was like, Are you kidding me? Coming at you with classic lines, like, do you want everyone else to be afraid? That's not really showing team spirit. Gaslighting your employees.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

But I also loved, I highly advise against that course of action. Like instead of telling someone no.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Just avoiding it at all costs.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

That's the way the CCC has always done it. And we will not deviate at this crucial juncture.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

All the little lines like that were so satisfying because it felt very, very retail. Yeah. It felt like, oh, someone has heard this before. Like the whole ecosystem thing hurt my brain to hear because it felt so real. Because it is real.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

Oh, yeah. And Alexis, you were absolutely right to use the word tropes because these are all people that I have worked with, which is why in some way I could relate to them. Um yeah, they're not the most likable, but they are real humans. Honestly, I was actually a little disappointed that Hunter died as quickly as she did. Because I felt like she had like aspiring manager vibes, and I felt like she was one of the more competent and at least like driven or like focused of the team. So to see her go in such an underwhelming way, I was like, oh, Hunter. But also she was like having sex with that teenage boy.

SPEAKER_02 40:45

Yeah, aside from the sexual relationship with her co-worker, on top of being okay and just feigning ignorance to uh employee theft. Besides those two things, she's great.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

I I'm with you, Paris. Everybody that was on screen reminded me of someone that I've worked with, even the guy who's like folding, he's one of the new hires, I think, as well. And he's like folding something, and Craig walks up to him and says, you know, whatever he says, and the guy just like completely responds incorrectly. And like even that guy reminded me of of people I've worked with in the past, and it's just it's so on point. It's obviously absurd, it's taken to the maximum, but honestly, that's kind of retail sometimes. Like sometimes people are to the max.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

Yeah, to the max, just like an overuse of radio when you're right next to each other.

SPEAKER_03 41:29

Oh, that was very well done in this movie.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Oh, that that was so I was like, I've seen people do that. I think the best part for realism was probably uh Peyton's crew that was with her just like absolutely not caring about what was going on. Their faces for sure. Yeah, who is she supposed to be?

SPEAKER_03 41:45

She's just an influencer vlogger, like an amalgamation of different influencers.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

The worst part of this movie for me comes in two places. It's every time someone is like gonna be uh a vlogger or someone's doing some kind of like web series, they always have the shittiest looking handicam, right? It's always a video camcorder, not even like a DSLR, not anything that anyone would actually take seriously. It's always that one shitty thing, and it drives me nuts. But then on top of that, I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel because I do I did like so much of this movie. The only thing that I would think I was like a little meh about was the literal hypnosis of people to putting the pants on, not the fact that they were hypnotized, but the green glowing in the eyes. Got a little weird.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Okay, I feel that. I mean I already said that my my worst part was the dance sequence. A close runner-up is the two separate flashbacks we get to things that happened maybe 15 minutes ago. Uh at this point, we've seen it so many times that it's a new pet peeve I didn't know I had. But literally just like Libby piecing things together in her brain that like did not need to be reviewed in order for the audience to understand that what was happening. Um, that felt a little awful.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

Very James Wan. Yeah. Uh I don't think James Wan is that of like, oh really?

SPEAKER_02 43:00

Oh, oh for sure.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

But he'll do it like at the end of a movie as like a long long form recap that leads up to 15 minutes before. This was just 15 minutes before.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

I was gonna say, and also his movies are a little bit more intricate, so sometimes I do need the flashback to remind me of what I'm watching. I think if you have to go for a flashback, you haven't told your story well. Well, I don't know. They told the story very well and didn't need the flashbacks in this, and that was one of the worst parts for me. So I was watching this in the car, so I'm like, maybe it's the internet lagging. Um, so I was like, paused it and then I went back, and I honestly had watched a flashback, I think like three times.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Oh no. I don't have much to pick on here for worst part. So I'm just gonna go back to the fact that they chose the SS logo on the jeans. That that was a pet peeve. I feel like they could have done like a little bit more research to maybe come up with something slightly better. Maybe it was on purpose. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

Wait, are we sure it's SS and not WW?

SPEAKER_00 43:55

No, it was definitely SS for it was like supersizers. Right, super slimming or something. Okay. Yeah. And honestly, that's probably my second worst part. Canadian cotton sounds like a store that I would be interested in shopping in. I'll be like, oh, that sounds cool. That sounds fresh. Let me go in there.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

They got you.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

They got me just with the name.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

You know, it actually brings me to a point. So again, this is like a Canadian horror movie. I don't think I've ever seen a Canadian horror product that I disliked. Because Black Christmas was made in Canada. My Bloody Valentine is also a Canadian horror film. There's this. There's the slasher on Netflix is made in Canada. I'm a big fan all around, I think, you know.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

I mean they made Degrass.

SPEAKER_02 44:37

So all had to say. I'd absolutely watch this again. How about you folks?

SPEAKER_01 44:41

I think I would. It'd be some time, but like I totally would and have to be like in a few years and like want to see something silly but good.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

I mentioned before this movie goes well with Rose. Um, but I feel like just drinking in general is a great accompaniment for this movie. So if you have friends and you guys want to watch something that is fun, stupid, and a little bit good, uh crack open a cold one and put this on.

SPEAKER_00 45:03

Best part of the movie was the runtime for me. This is such a quick watch.

SPEAKER_04 45:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

And I know people online have complained. I've heard some reviews with like, oh, it should have been another 15 to 20 minutes. I'm like, no, it was the perfect length of time, and it lends itself, I I think, to the rewatch value. Because if you wanted to rewatch this, it's like an episode of a TV show plus a couple minutes. And so I I think it's got some some good rewatch value.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

Oh, for sure. You know what increases that rewatch value?

SPEAKER_03 45:30

The scene we missed out the credits.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Learning more about it in fact or fiction.

SPEAKER_00 45:33

Well, let's see if we can add a little bit of value. This is some value-added text for you. Um, number one, the jeans used in slacks were custom made for the movie because the filmmakers wanted certain features like their scary pocket eyes.

SPEAKER_03 45:45

Fact. Okay, so this is actually tough because I have a catalogue in my brain of what the butts of different brands of jeans look like. So I feel like honestly, these were a pair of maybe American Eagle or Aero Postel jeans that were very slightly modified. So I guess fact because that would make them custom.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

This one is a fiction. So the jeans were part of an existing line from a company called Naked and Famous, which is an ethical clothing company out of Montreal. And they literally like had to buy them, you know, off the peg, but they worked with the company because they wanted to find the right jeans that had the look that they were going for. But they didn't have like to customize them. They just like picked the one that looked the best.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

Okay, but wait, Mac, they had the logo on them.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Well, you know, when we're talking about like custom made, that means like someone took some denim and like made some jeans for you, not sewed a little logo on. Number two, the director, Elsa Kephart, has recently announced Slacks is the first in a line of fashion-based horror film.

SPEAKER_01 46:38

Down for it. Um, I'm hoping this is a fact.

SPEAKER_03 46:41

I want this to be true too, but I'm afraid it's not. I'm gonna say fiction.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

Socks from the makers of Slacks.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

I'm ready for that. This one's a fiction. Boo. I know. Kephart stated this is a one-and-done, but she did also mention working on a film about a tree that seeks revenge, so that could be cool.

SPEAKER_01 46:57

This is not Pocahontas.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

Grandma Willow, back in the habit. Look, I paint with all the colors of the wind.

SPEAKER_02 47:04

I bet you do. I don't want to step out of my cultural zone and into years. Number three.

SPEAKER_00 47:10

Although the red thread that fills up in the jeans logo was done in post, the rest of the movement of the murderous pantalones was done by Puppeteers.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Okay, sometimes it looked like it was Puppeteers, but then sometimes obviously CGI. I don't know. I'm gonna say because I'm on a roll, I'm just gonna say fact.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

I'm gonna say fact too because it reminded me of other animation styles that were done without CGI.

SPEAKER_00 47:34

Yeah, this is a fact, which is pretty cool. Nice. We'll dive a little bit more in with our last two fact or fiction questions, pieces of trivia, I don't know, challenges. So let's go to number four. The puppet of the pants was rigged with a flexible skeleton that could be easily repositioned to create different poses. But the props team made 12 puppets over the course of the movie due to the flexible wire breaking due to overuse.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

That has to be a fact. I mean, those pants were swerven a lot, so I I believe this is a fact.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

Yeah, this feels factual. That sounds like something plausible that would have happened during the production.

SPEAKER_00 48:08

This one's a fiction, and I have a quote for you. We had to create 45 pairs of pants for each different expression that the pants have, and we had backups. Getting the pants right was one of the hardest elements, giving them a personality, almost turning them into an animal.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

Wow, that's really interesting. Also, I deserves a slash. So we need to revisit the animal report, is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

Possibly. And that brings us to number five. The slithering motion of the pants was done by only one to two puppeteers, but was effective because of the framing and size of the sets used in the film.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

Fiction.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

I'm gonna say fiction, I feel like it was probably like twelve puppeteers.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Everyone had a hand in pants.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

Hands in the pants. This one was a fact. So they were able to pull this this really cool look off with just a couple puppeteers. Um but if you notice when you go to re-watch it, they did use some really smart choices with their camera work when they showed the pants slithering away. Yeah, and it gives you that feeling that you just can't recreate in CGI. That's right. Because CGI is almost always bad, except for when you're watching Marvel movies, because I'm a huge Marvel movies fan.

SPEAKER_01 49:11

So you're saying when it stood up to, do you know? Like when it's the tears.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

I mean, I'm just going based off It just looked fake. Yeah, when it was dancing around. I know. So I've I've I'm using quotes from the director. There's not a ton of information out there yet. So if I'm wrong, please, you know, at me or at us.

SPEAKER_02 49:28

I'm telling you, watch the credits. Oh, okay. They show how they got the jeans to dance, and it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Oh my god. We're gonna do it. Well, that was factor fiction.

SPEAKER_02 49:37

There you have it, folks. Slax, the innovative jeans with the universal fit, has earned a universal slash. And we've had a lot to talk about here, but that doesn't end here by any means. This is a hot new movie. A lot of folks are watching, so we want to hear your take. Did you dig it? Did you dig the deeper themes, or were you a little tired of seeing the pants dance around? Now keep in mind there are a number of ways you can reach out to us, starting with our website, hacker slash.com, and on our social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

SPEAKER_01 50:03

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SPEAKER_00 50:19

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SPEAKER_03 50:24

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SPEAKER_02 50:39

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