PG: Psycho Goreman (2020) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the kill count where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies i'm james agenese and today we're looking at pg psycho gourmand a canadian film from 2020. psycho gourmand was written and directed by steven kastansky of the film collective astron 6. his previous films include the lovecraftian the void and the very enjoyable little shit require leprechaun returns both of which featured fantastic special effects which is definitely the strength of astron 6 productions psycho gorman is a continuation of that impressive practical work with a ton of tactile creatures and violence that's an absolute delight to watch the film combines horror science fiction and fantasy to deliver a loud explosive feast of creative sights the titular extraterrestrial terror psycho gorman himself is one of my favorite recent horror characters i never get sick of his magma looking blood vessels his baritone bellowing or his insatiable quest to end all life in the universe the scenes featuring him and his galactic exploits are the highlights of the film and his super serious facade lends itself to a bunch of hilarious moments it was nice meeting you it would be nicer if you were dead all right bye unfortunately those fantastical scenes are about the only part of psycho gore man i like the film is just as much a comedy as it is anything else and i'm not a fan of its sense of humor which i can only describe as la random most of that comes from the lead human character mimi a pint-sized prepubescent wannabe despot who belittles everyone around her and screams her lines in wacky ways it's crazy paul now i want to be clear right away actor neeta josie hannah is perfect at playing this part she's doing exactly what she was directed to do and giving it a thousand percent so good on her but fuck can i not stand mimi i don't find her funny and i don't find her cute she's just mean and annoying and drags down the movie almost as much as her dad who's defining trait is laziness but who mostly comes across as that improv friend who can never turn it off between those two characters and some self-observing jokes the movie is never sincere enough for me to fully enjoy it's always commenting on itself and saying gee isn't this stuff crazy instead of just being a good time and letting its madness speak for itself as always though don't take my word as gospel humor is subjective and a lot of people really love this movie you might be one of them so might as well give the thing a shot psycho gourmand is a pretty big problem for people on earth but not every problem comes in the form of an ancient evil alien sometimes your problems can be more internal and thanks to today's sponsor better help you can start resolving those now chelsea and i are huge proponents of mental health upkeep and as therapeutic as horror movies can be it also helps to speak to licensed professionals better hub can match you with a therapist based on your personal needs and you can 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gorman that we'll learn about later right now let's meet these kids playing motherfucking crazy ball it's nonsense in the mold of calvin ball and while it's funny in close-ups with metal music i think they used the joke of the awkward objective shot way too early [Music] especially since it gets back into the speed metal right away psycho gorman's music was composed by blitz berlin who tailored the movie's tracks to different inspirations and styles the crazy ball music which makes me feel like i'm playing killer queen black is meant to evoke early 90s media like power rangers and the original tmnt movie younger sister mimi wins the match meaning older brother luke has to dig his own dirt bed to be buried in while digging he finds a glowing gem that mimi takes for herself causing a pink eruption to come from that brown hole you never want one of those the kids are put to bed by their parents greg and susan who hate the shit out of each other as they sleep an ancient evil being punches its way out of the ground in their backyard it makes its way to an old shoe factory where it comes across a trio of thieves and assimilates their language immediately a variation of the aronian tongue how primitive the being slaps aside the ringleader and pulls the others towards him with space powers after calling them weak he rips off both their heads holy shit dude the son of a bitch is awesome but this colorful being isn't a one-size-fits-all tormentor i don't want to die and he laughs as he grants the lead thief his wish to remain alive the next morning after seeing that something crawled out of their hole mimi violently makes luke agree to go look for whatever it was later and bring your friend aleister too luke cause mimi likes that kid in a weird aggressive way hey kitty you look good in your little outfit there why don't you give us a spin hunky boy um no thanks not darn mimi she's so wild and wacky right that night the kids tracked the claw marks and footprints from their backyard all the way to the old shoe factory they discover the head thief gagging and stasis and a bunch of body part art both of which portend the main man of the hour who shows up promising to kill em both nice and sweet quickly of death you will be spammed the sight of your planet being torn to pieces mimi yells back at the being since she has no respect or fear and strangely enough it obeys her when she tells it to let luke go all because of that glowing space rock the gemini snake yeah glowing space rock gem of prax attacks whatever the gem grants mimi control over this guy who's forced to obey her every command he warns her that he'll kill her as soon as he's able to a fate that befalls the frozen thief after luke bumps into him and he smashes apart yeah he was my masterpiece okay he was dude actually that was a masterpiece of the film's effects artist like mike hamilton and the toronto based studio masters effects headed by todd masters excellent work here and there is plenty more to come the angry evil being says he has no name but goes by a kick-ass moniker the archduke of nightmares that's not good enough for mimi though and after a pretty bad brainstorming session she lands on something titular psycho gorman this is the film launching into its premise and it has a solid start i'm mimi and i'm luke unimaginable to your simple minds psychogorman's performance and look are great he was designed by stephen kustansky who did all the creature designs in addition to writing directing producing and editing the movie that is a lot for one person to do probably too much kastansky designed pg to look like a toy he'd want to buy as a kid mission accomplished bro he reminds me of batman arch nemesis of stretch armstrong on the performance side pg's fantastic voice acting comes courtesy of steven vlajos but the much more intensive part of this portrayal was done by matthew ninaber he'd arrive on set hours before anyone else in order to be transformed into the character though the end result looks amazing it was tantamount to torture both physically and psychologically that's because the suit's prosthetic pieces were glued to his body preventing him from sweating and cooling himself down it just cooks you to cope with the long hours ninaburr would zone out in between takes and try not to think of how much longer he'd have to endure this hell that suit almost broke me mimi uses her powers to make pg take a seat and leaves him overnight grounded under her control she's thrilled to have a new plaything even though luke's worried about all the murder and world rendering rhetoric as he should be pg is an intergalactic menace we learned this when the movie transports us to his home planet of gygax inside a stormy tower the geigex council frets about pg's awakening on earth once again kastansky's creature design is a delight i especially like tubeman a puppet who rarely talks unlike the verbose cortex played by fellow astron 6 member matthew kennedy cortex and the others talk a whole lot with dialogue that's obtuse and bureaucratic it's clear that the rules of the nigaxian unity accords have failed us it's an intentional nod to george lucas's bewildering screenplays for the star wars prequels you're impressed with what you're seeing but you're also maybe a little confused by the dialogue that's happening the council's leader is pandora a templar who doesn't want to risk justice when it comes to pg the only verdict is for him to die by my hand pandora is a force for sanctimonious lawful good which is reflected in her late motif by blitz berlin so angelic that it's like horrifying how angelic it is she's the kind of good who's so rigid it starts to become evil exemplified when she summons a human to examine earth's native species don't be afraid well i guess she can't be afraid can she pandora because she's a meat cube now and meat cubes don't have fear but boy do they taste good all the protein you need to become a human the next day the kids take alistar to meet pg they bring a crt tv which along with the lack of cell phones and an earlier discussion about an n64 game are our indications that this movie takes place in the 90s that feeds into the nostalgia factor kostansky was going for in addition to the tv mimi also brings pg magazines look at all the hunky boys i do not care for hunky boys ha we stand a bicurious king at luke's inquiry and mimi's command pg sits down to tell them his backstory he was born before time on the planet of gygax where he and his race were enslaved by the ruthless templars the templars forced them to build their pyramid shrines until one day pg came across the gem of peroxide it gave him the power to liberate his people with glowy eyes and i'll kill count seven templars that he's standing atop in a heap here as well as this eighth one whose head gets decimated with a punch flames of awesomeness with his powers pg took control of gigex then traveled to other planets to kill indiscriminately i'll count a whopping 55 kills here as pg goes about his goal of killing every living thing in the universe sure 50 of them are these background bodies on stakes but they're still countable you know kind of to stop this destructive force the templars imprisoned pg with the gem of pericles he stayed in this terran prison cell until he was released by these idiot kids the flashback story segment is my favorite sequence of the movie due to its extensive use of green screens stop motion and miniatures i'm always impressed by detailed miniatures like these which were shot by cinematographers andrew appel and pierce dirks it's so fucking cool how you can make these creations look like a stormy planet with simple tricks like the use of a spritz bottle these practical effects which were mostly done in kostansky's workshop evoke his earlier film manbork which took him three years to make after mimi and the boys leave for the night pg tunes the tv to channel blood 01. this puts him in contact with his loyal generals whom he tells to come to earth and kill the kids luke has alistair over for a microwave chicken dinner prepared by their ruthlessly inept father greg is my least favorite character of the film but he does get a funny line in here back when i was in the army we used to play guns all the time except it was called the iraq war and you played for keeps the rest of his lines feel more like an actor trying to be funny than an actual person who is funny like he'd work as a character in a three-minute britannic video but not in a feature lane film greg was written specifically for actor adam brooks who co-founded astron 6 with jeremy gillespie in 2007. kostansky and brooks described greg as charming and pathetic which is an assessment i sadly only half agree with shunned by alistair and luke wanting to play without her mimi uses her jemmy to call for a frendy and eventually pg arrives mimi asks him to quote make alistar less of a dork and pg's idea of granting that wish is to turn alistar into a giant brain with googly eyes susan and the cowardly greg wind up outside and though pg promises to one day murder them with the hatred of a thousand sons at the moment mimi is still in control and she promises her parents that he's really a big softy don't worry be worried if we really want to soften pg up we're going to need a montage to the most cringe-worthy song i've ever heard [Applause] oh i get what they're going for but hearing heckin and friggy over and over is just not my sense of humor i hate cutesy cuss subs just say fuck it's not all bad though i get a good laugh out of pg killing a heckling kid by blowing her up with his alien mind bonus after well-worn jokes and disney channel style head peeking the try too hard trio has a fried food break and let me tell you those guy guys know how to eat pg takes special note of mimi's continued assholery towards luke and in an effort to divorce her from the gem he attempts to exploit luke's unhappiness by visiting him in a dream i love the shot of luke waking up in his bed in a cemetery as a direct homage to a similar shot in phantasm and i love that the reference is underlined when pg makes his entrance that is a tall man boy to a t or b boy pg tells luke to steal the gem from mimi because she's a little fucking monster who treats him like shit how long before she puts her life before yours this is the closest the plot comes to being interesting in my opinion but i don't think there's ever any satisfactory payoff i do enjoy the ending to the sequence though with its long awkward silence while zombies wriggle around in the dirt mimi tries to teach pg the rules of crazy ball but since it takes a whole montage to explain they're barely finished when the 5-0 arrives and pg hates 5-0 he grabs officer vince and fuses to him like a cronenberg and his blast of ancient galactic troops is enough to turn the cop into a melty moaning mask he sounds like that batman ytm d pg sends the other cop to spread word of his presence while his partner is left being a sorry son of a shambler he doesn't like it this character is actually biopop the subject of a fake movie trailer made by kastansky back in 2011. i mean i didn't need to put biocop in the movie but i had to put biocop in the movie the biocop trailer was included on the dvd of manborg and the guy who played biocop then robert homer reprised the role here nearly a decade later i thought that was really cool at the police station officer dennis is relaying his brush with the archduke of nightmares when pandora arrives in her brand new human form she extracts the info she needs from the police officer's head and considering her track record with humans i'm gonna assume this kills the man even though we cut away before it can be confirmed a minor dispute in the woods leads mimi to ordering luke's death at the hands of pg and though she calls it off this was just a power is power kind of moment it's worrisome enough for luke to begin considering pg's dream overture a bunch of lightning strikes touched down in front of them each transporting a new fanciful being these are pg's loyal generals the paladin's obsidian and he's called them here to kill the kids and finally set him free to his dismay they instead laugh in his face and say that things are much better without him in charge we take turns as the appointed leader so everyone gets adventure as you can see it is currently my turn the paladin's obsidian are another kickass part of psycho gorman their specific and unique character designs remind me of venture brothers where idiosyncratic characters are sometimes constructed out of a single joke like this robot pirate cassius 3000 who's played by astron 6 member connor sweeney or their leader dark scream who looks like you need a hobbit or you know at least their legs they don't need those or this mr bucket looking bastard who's named death trapper his backstory is that he collects bodies from the battlefield and melts them down to shoot out of his arm cannon he's voiced by rich evans of red letter media which kastadsky is a big fan of mimi mad that pg was trying to kill them orders him not to defend himself against the slow motion ass beating i hate that they reused two jokes in this scene both of which are more of the movie commenting on itself how long is this going to go on for luke just asked that during the phantasm dream scene they also reused the joke they did with crazy ball where the action zooms out to show an awkward objective shot i wish this movie's humor was a little less obvious but at the same time this scene is a triumph of practical effects getting all these costumes and effects to work properly is not an easy thing to do especially with a low budget fight choreographer alex chung who also plays the lead paladin dark scream put a ton of work into making sure everything ran smoothly the day of the shoot in fact they did pre-visualization for the entire fight first mapping out each individual shot to know how it all fit together chung specifically requested they work in a so-called gyver kick named after the guyver films which served as an inspiration for psycho gore man kastadsky loved how geivor 2 was like an r rated power rangers and he sought to recreate that tokusatsu style here thus all the sparks accompanying sword strikes after mimi rings an apology out of pg she lets him get up and give my graphics creator something to do first pg quickly murders death trapper with a single archdukey and punch as the kids watch with detached snack eating this witch master lady uses her staff to tear off pg's head hell yeah but it unsevers itself in no time and pg shows her how it's supposed to be done by making her body disappear and leaving her as just a hand pg stabs vince the cop in the eyes with the witch master's broken staff finally putting him out of his misery nice little gift since it turns out it was the poor dude's birthday pg then turns to the medusa-like queen obelisk and rips out the rose she has for a heart that's enough to make her blow up into masonry bits and for cassius 3000 pg uses a pool of eternal darkness to make the android pirate realize some universal truths then a hand reaches out of it and rips the guy's face off love those googly eyes dark scream is saved for last and pg gives him a warrior's dab which in geigex terms means eating him whole with his giant expansive mouth yo i thought this was sci-fi whore not sci-fi more after the battle pg finds himself weakened i'm dying what turns out the paladins used cursed weapons and now pg's losing pepto-bismol fast he sends a screaming telegram to greg on the shitter yelling that he needs help and giving him directions where to go it's an extended bit that goes on for way too long just like the argument greg and susan had in the scene right before this one they were fighting over greg's laziness which is just too over the top for me to find funny oh yeah i bought a new tv in other news i'm gonna take a couple weeks off work till my hand can heal completely so you might want to pick up a few extra shifts at the pharmacy that's not real human behavior greg helps pick up pg and on the way back home runs over the witch master's head as it's rolling down the road finally putting her on the kill count when they get home they find susan waiting with pandora and the battle lines are drawn between good and evil since mimi friggin sucks luke hightails it to the templar side but because their parents hate each other so much greg decides to spite susan he signs with mimi and pg and they all drive off together to the old shoe mill there mimi wraps pg up in her finest cow print blankie would that be a bamushka the movie grinds to a halt with two painfully unfunny scenes one wherein greg tells a childhood story and another where mimi pretends to pray only to break a crucifix in the name of psycho gorman back at home pandora reverts to her natural form and invites susan to become like her by drinking a little templar tonic it's time for you to stand beside me and write the wrongs of this universe i'll drink to that pandora busts into the shoe factory followed by susan in her new metallic get up luke's here too and he's got the gem cool now let's everybody pair up so we can get through the climactic fight scene okay all three of the lady combatants gain their respective upper hands but pg invokes some ancient rules and the quarrel comes down to a game of crazy ball in mimi's words team suck vs team hero right on par with the rest of the movie this climax is a senseless montage of style over substance all jokes no plot 5 bonus with a switcheroo and a gut punch mimi wins the game for team hero but turns out all that bullshit was pointless because pandora goes to kill pg anyway as susan holds off the templar to protect her kids luke goes for a heartfelt moment and tries to get mimi to see how fucking annoying she is instead of an apology or a real character moment she instead does a down tempo acoustic version of that awful freak off song luke likes it i guess and hands over the gem pandora strips susan of her templar powers so she finds herself solo fighting a newly empowered psycho gore man now with batteries included pg strafes past pandora on munch until he's collected enough body parts to make himself a weapon it's now time for a quote masters of the universe style sword fight which was once again choreographed by alex chung for the two suit performers matthew neneber and kristen mcculloch who plays pandora in her true form mcculloch had an added difficulty when it came to wearing her suit the fact that pandora's eyes are a pair of wings a great idea courtesy of concept artist aurelio mazara but which made it difficult for her to maneuver around safely on set as the two of them fight mimi finally gets around to apologizing although she doesn't do it verbally she only knocks it out in their code language that's not good enough luke quit enabling her during the fight pandora ruins pg's hunky boys giving him the strength to defeat her in battle he then gives her a warrior's death a sight that those parents are better off not seeing thanks to mimi the unspeakable evil has triumphed and pg agrees to spare her family as he sets out to conquer and murder okay kisses for chaos i do love him hopping through a portal and starting wholesale destruction willy-nilly the movie ends with a news report about a giant psycho gore man destroying the world though there are thankfully no clearly broadcasted kills for me to count the credits play over a supper time scene reminding us of alistar's unfortunate state with his mom played by kristin mcculloch pandora's actor out of the suit how many people died in pg psycho gore man the answer reminds me of a time when i counted kills on the planet guy decks while avoiding laser rise from the invasive new sea monster using the gem of proximity i was able to increase my size i managed to tame the beast when all of a sudden wait what was i talking about oh yeah the numbers by my count there were 76 deaths in psycho gourmand the victims included men women children templars orcs mrs bucket and plenty more so don't even think about touching that pie chart it is full of purpley space stuff with a run time of 95 minutes that left us with a kill on average every 1.25 minutes goldman chainsaw for coolest kill is actually gonna go to two separate kills cause i just can't decide between them firstly the head thief since i legit laughed when luke knocked him over and those people parts look great thank you secondly dark screen a warrior's death is the noblest death and also the nastiest i love pg's unhinged jaw dome machete for less kill will go to the 50 bodies we counted on stakes which is definitely a bio cop out but most every other kill was awesome and that's it pg psycho gore man came out in 2020 and director stephen kastansky says he plans to do more with the character in the future i'll keep an eye out for any sequels but until then i'm james agenese this has been the kill council for the next kill count detroit michigan hockey hockeytown motor city the big d these three small-time criminals are trying to get out of motown and they're robbing houses to make the money they need you know we keep hitting houses like today's rocky and bye-bye detroit this next hit should be their last and also their easiest because they're robbing an old blind man and no way that guy could be a threat ooh never mind don't breathe is 90 minutes of pure tension where the criminals become the victims and the victim is much more than meets the eye this week raise your heart rate and watch don't breathe and on friday watch the kill count on dead meat don't breathe can currently be watched on the pictured streaming platforms yeah you'd always recommend you watch the movie for yourself before it's kill count it's the only way to have your 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Length: 26min 9sec (1569 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021