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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
The Rewatchables is brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where you can find House of R. Yeah. With Mallory Rubin, my longtime friend and coworker.
More than a decade together. Unbelievable.
Long times. Van Lathan, you can hear him and watch him on Higher Learning. Yes. Midnight Boys. Thank you. I appreciate that. And the single best podcast on the Ringer, Ringer Tailgate. It's very special. Or... The Joel Anderson show, as we like to call it. My name is Bill Simmons, and this is the most important month in Rewatchables history. It's from Hell Month, and it's next.
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See terms at Fando.com slash predict slash bonus dash offer dash terms. All right, it is the official start of From Hell Month. We kind of test drove it last week, squeezed our guy Steven Spielberg in, 2001, A Space Odyssey. Technically, in the parameters of From Hell Month, computer from hell. Absolutely. Not really considered from hell. Now we're in the sweet spot of from hell. Yeah.
This is it. Starting with single-wave female. I'm just going to read through some of the from hells, and then we can talk about it. All right, so what's from hell? We've already done a few. Mallory was on a couple of them. The Affair from Hell, Fatal Attraction. Yeah. The Fan from Hell, Misery. All of our worst nightmares for a podcasting fan just losing their minds. Yeah. Husband from Hell.
Sleeping with the Enemy. Me and Van did that one. Laura! Great one. Boss from Hell. Disclosure. Were you in that one? No. Sadly not. Oh, I'm sorry. I was on Disclosure. Here's ones we haven't done. The Little Kid from Hell. The Good Son. The Tenant from Hell. Pacific Heights. Amazing movie. Nanny from Hell. Hand That Rocks the Cradle. A movie Craig Horlbeck has not seen.
You're in for a treat, Craig, because it's coming this month. Second Husband from Hell. Domestic Disturbance. One of the funniest movies of the 2000s. Teenager from Hell. The Crush. Alicia Silverstone. Boyfriend from Hell. Fear. Mark Wahlberg. Dog from Hell. Cujo. I was about to say Pet from Hell. Cop from Hell. Cop from Hell is Lakeview Tears? No, that's Neighbor from Hell with Sam Jackson.
Okay. Cop from Hell is Unlawful Entry with Ray Liotta. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Temp from Hell, Laura Flynn Boyle. Mm-hmm. X from Hell, The X. Nobody's seen it. Yancey Butler, Her One Great Moment.
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Chapter 2: What are the key themes of 'Single White Female'?
Okay. X, Ex-Husband from Hell. Oh. What's that one? I just have a blank slate next to that one. What's Ex-Husband from Hell? I don't even know. Trucker from Hell, Duel and Breakdown, and then Today. The Roommate from Hell. Yeah. Single wife, female. Yes. A movie that provokes visceral reactions from female watchers, including my daughter last week.
Oh, first viewing.
Who didn't know anything that was happening. And the haircut scene happens, and my daughter was like, what the fuck?
It's an all-timer.
Just absolutely furious. Yeah. What is it about this movie, Mel?
Oh, my goodness. What isn't it about the movie? It has everything, right? It has sex and intrigue and terror. It has psychosis and deep-rooted fear. It has, distressingly, violence against animals, which is going to be painful to talk about today. Horrible.
I have a whole section carved out for that.
You did tell us that you might have a golden retriever puppy here with you today.
Yeah, I was going to stroke it, like, heady. Wow.
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Chapter 3: How does the character of Hedy impact the story?
Godfather 3. That's right. Apparently cut out of a lot like film war stuff cut out but had a little affair with Andy Garcia but then Single Wife Female 92 and Singles 92. Right. Easily. We're into the spoiler. That's Apex Mountain. She felt like the it thing. Yeah. Both of those movies, singles actually didn't do as well as this movie, but had like a distinct look too. And it just kept going.
Never really happened for her the way that I think we all thought. And the big one later was Jackie Brown in 97, which she's great in. And then has this great fork in the road now. Yeah. Turns down Ally McBeal.
Well, and then only acted for a few more years after Jackie Brown, right? Stops acting in the early 2000s. That's it.
Late Placid, 1999. Simple Plan, 98. Her last IMDb is in 02 and had a serious car accident in Malibu in 03. Yeah. And fractured a vertebrae and then just stopped acting. Her IMDb just ends. That's it. Like she died, but she didn't die. She's still around. She married Danny Elfman.
The Ally McBeal nugget is fascinating because now, of course, I'm forced to think, what would that have meant for Calista Flockhart and thus Harrison Ford? Maybe you're with Harrison Ford.
Maybe you. Yeah, maybe you're Mrs. Harrison Ford right now.
You know, we met recently at a whiskey event.
I heard. I saw. I studied the pictures.
Magical.
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Chapter 4: What are the significant moments leading to the climax?
She moved here and she just dresses like a supermodel. She dresses like a superstar. And you believe that fully. So this casting and that choice for her to be Ally feels right. I have a harder time imagining her as Hetty.
I agree with that. You're also in the Carolyn Bissett era. She's got that kind of same fashionista vibe. Kind of feels very early 90s to me. But more importantly, Jennifer Jason Leigh is incredible. Just going crazy. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I actually, like, this movie kind of ruined her for me. Oh. She's so creepy and weird and gross. But that's her thing, though. I know, but this one I, like, couldn't come back from where I'm like, I think you're just like this. I don't think you're acting. I really feel like this is you. Very tough. You're revealing because that's how convincing she was as Hedy. This is beyond acting.
Like when Hedy starts like really sizzling, I mean when the anger gets there, it's like scary. It's terrifying. It's scary and it's focused and it's intense and I think that's the thing that I probably would have had trouble with Bridget Fonda. Yeah, I would have felt like she was acting it. Right. Like when she's tied up in the end with the thing on her mouth and Hedy's getting mad
And all of a sudden, you hear stuff breaking in the background. And Bridget Fonda's looking around. And then Hedy just comes back in with the knife. Jesus Christ! I love this fucking movie. By that point... Serrated knife. Fully in crazy land. Oh, yeah. We are fully there. You know... We weren't fully there when she blew...
flew ali's boyfriend that is the jammed us that is the thing about the movie we really are always in crazy land yes in the movie we're all we're already there we're in crazy land when she is erasing messages we're in crazy land when she's hiding letters right all of that and that's right away deeply deeply crazy i would say the puppy murder the puppy murder which i'm not quite sure if she actually because i'm gonna come on i'm gonna make a defensive heady later abs
Absolutely not. I'm going to make a defensive heady later. But by the time we get to super crazy land is tied up, knife, screaming in the background, and you are just laughing and having a great fucking time with the movie, man.
I think there's a case that the scarier aspects of the performance are actually the early, like, subtle indicators that something is lurking beneath the surface really early. You mentioned, like, the letter, you know, we learned that's in, like, the first couple weeks of them living together, that that stuff is happening.
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Chapter 5: What are the iconic characters of Gen X in film?
A thousand percent. Who would they be? It would be Winona Ryder. It would be Bridget Fonda. Oh, Winona's. Winona's is number one. That's a great one. Winona is the number one Gen X darling queen. Without a doubt. I think Ethan… Ethan, are we going male, female, or just female? You can go male if you want to. Because I think Ethan Hawke is like… You think Gen X, you think Ethan Hawke.
Yeah, Ethan Hawke is there. I mean, we're really just doing a cast of reality bites. No, I'm just saying.
Chapter 6: How do the characters' hairstyles reflect their personalities?
When you think Gen X, it's those two movies. Right. But Bridget Bond would have to be in there because Singles is one of those films as well. But she definitely would be in it. I would have Josh Hamilton in Kicking and Screaming. That feels distinct to me. But then all the music from back then would be the other one. John Cusack? It's too late. Yeah, he's more late 80s. You don't think so?
I think he's late 80s. Oh, okay. I would have put him up there, but I guess. I have a 1992 thing.
Chapter 7: What are the key elements that make a thriller effective?
Yeah. Taking a Polaroid of your roommate candidates. Yeah. So you know what they look like. Right. Yeah. It's just insane to me. Paperclips. Making them pose like you're at TSA. It's crazy. Yeah, that is weird. Oh, we're going to take a break and then do the Floyd Gondola award. Mm-hmm. All right, the Floyd gondoli, butter on my ass, lollipops in my mouth award for something I just enjoy.
What do you have, Mal?
So we already did the do I want to fuck you, kill you, or be you story, which doesn't have to be two women like this, like talented Mr. Ripley, right? Any movie that kind of orients around that idea.
But because we already talked about that, I will throw out to you guys something that in a movie we don't enjoy would feel disqualifying, but when it's done well, I just fucking love even when it is disqualifying. So telegraphed and absurd. A Chekhov's TK list that is as tall as this New York apartment building. The air ducts. The incinerator. The elevator screwdriver. The stilettos.
Every single object or aspect that is going to prove crucial in the plot has like a blaring siren when it is presented to us. It is undeniable that it will play a role in the climax of the film. And then they all do.
Right.
All of them. And it shouldn't work.
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Chapter 8: How does the film's ending compare to the original story?
But I love it.
I just enjoy it.
Check off sex. That's mine.
I love crazy women in movies, man. I love crazy women in movies. The crazier, the better. Fatal attraction, single white female, a thin line between love and hate. There's never been a crazy woman in the movie that I have not enjoyed. I mean, this is the lifetime motto of crazy women and crazy ex-husbands or boyfriends.
Yeah.
Ripley is kind of in there. He's in that because there's a scene in Ripley to me where he's dressed up like him. Oh, he's like dancing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Juha comes in, he's like, what the fuck are you doing? Incredible movie. It's funny, but I love it. And I especially love the scene where the characters no longer play like that woman isn't crazy anymore. Right. Hey.
Bitch, you out of your fucking mind. I love it. So like this movie to me is the energy is everybody finding out that she's crazy and her no longer caring about trying to hide the fact that she is deeply, deeply disturbed. There's been 40 years of these movies really starting with Fatal Attraction. And I think I've seen 99.8% of them.
I would have guessed 100%.
Even like when Hilary Swank made hers. Which one was hers? She was the one when she was the One Night Affair. I don't think I've seen this. It's a black couple. I can't remember who the actors are. Oh, you're talking about it just came out. It came out like two years ago. Like two or three years ago. No, I didn't get a chance to watch it. Kalika went and saw it. I didn't see it though. Yeah.
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