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As a special effects makeup artist in-training (I’m still taking classes and whatnot), I can tell you how they created the mask of the main actor’s face for the head of the puppet, Kennie! It’s a practice that goes back centuries, called a “death mask.” I’ve had one done myself, and it’s pretty freaky. Would not recommend if you’re claustrophobic! I won’t go into the *whole* process here, but essentially you make a cast of the face, the person has to sit with the “cast-ing” substance on their face for around 20 minutes, waiting for it to set. After the setting period, the cast is removed from the face and plaster of Paris is poured into that cast to create the actual “death mask,” which can then be used & reused to create any other fake versions of the face, as a canvas to fit/create facial prosthetics that will go on the actor’s actual face, or to create a horrifying spider puppet for a questionable art film! Lol Hope that helps! ☺️
I watched this movie before watching this episode and I thought it was terrifying. The slow burn made the terrifying moments stand out even more and the long wait between them was very tense because I was genuinely worried about the puppet the whole time.
I've been watching ✨Mike✨ here and there for a few years now...and legit didn't find out that's his name until this series started 💀 I kind of assumed his name would start with a "G"
I feel like Possum would have been better if they had gone from just an allegory of implied childhood trauma to actually exploring it. There was potential to really show how the implied abuse the character faced at the hands of his Uncle (a domineering figure) affected him into adult in every aspect of his path. They let the allegory to a bit too long for me.
Yep, like, if you wanna make a trauma drama just go ahead and do that, don't dress it up as a horror movie. I HATE it when people keep trying to stuff "deeper" meanings into their movies through some sort of physical representation of something psychological. We get it edgelord, you wanna feel like you're smart and sophisticated and all that jazz yet still be dark and artsy and gloomy, make a 5min short movie or a music video and stop trying to stretch it out into an hour and a half when you had one thing to send across and nothing else entirely.
@@Toxihex I dunno, the puppet was pretty fuckin cool and creepy, I wouldn’t want this movie without the disgusting roadkill puppet. But if I recall, yeah, you kinda get exactly what it’s going for WAY too early. And they only sorta “reveal” this at the end to confirm it, but don’t really explore it. You gotta keep the puppet tho
There are other movies that do that. The point of this movie was to trigger the fear of "uncanny". It was a film maker taking a challenge to make a movie on a subject and going above and beyond.
@@Toxihex All good horror movies have some subtext, without it they are just generic slashers. I can understand not liking the degree of subtext in this movie but to say that none should have more to them would just be Friday the 13th sequels. Don't get me wrong those are good for what they are but why limit a genre to lack of substance.
I do think we need to stop depending on Rotten tomato scores to determine how well a movie is received critically. Rotten Tomatoes only determines how many positive and negative reviews a movie gets. It doesn’t really suss out critical acclaim and whether critics “loved it”. There are many movies with over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes that I wouldn’t say that “critics loved”. As for this movie, I think it’s creepy, unique and solid enough. Nothing amazing but certainly leans more toward good than bad for me. However, yeah, it’s a flick designed to be divisive.
instead of rotten tomatoes, John... people will eventually come to More Butter to get more curated discussions and reviews. we are building something special here 👀
I am using this vid to shout out Garth Marenghi's darkplace. It’s a comedy parody show by the director of this film, Matthew Holness, and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The general idea is that fictional horror writer Garth Marenghi's wrote a show in the 80s and now him, his producer, and one of the other actors are doing a retrospective on it. Unlike this film, there are jokes every second, it’s utilizes the idea of so-bad-it’s-good, it’s a great parody of hospital dramas, supernatural horror, and 80s soap operas, and is honestly a really fun character study of an egotistical, out of touch writer. It also stars Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade who you may know if your into British tv. It’s free on TH-cam, as well as all the extras which are equally hilarious. Please watch it, it’s so underrated!
There's a lot of things I can overlook in a movie, but boring is not one of them. Been on the fence whether to watch this or not, thanks for the heads up
I did the same thing! I watched possum I felt it was more of a psychological story, didn’t feel it belonged in horror. I immediately went to Ryan Hollingers video as well, and felt like I got it but it just didn’t affect me other than the fact that I felt pity for the main character.
Same. I actually watched it and it felt like a drama with some scary bits, but the scary bits were just making trauma, so like ....cool. I feel like the babadook did well and still people are trying to rip it off. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it turns out like this movie where it's not bad, it's just really boring.
The name of the movie gives me creature feature vibes. Like, there are movies about killer turkeys, so before I watched this, I figured it was one about a possum.
if you hate movies with a lot of silence you would probably also hate A Ghost Story (2017), but I feel that movie has a more compelling narrative than Possum
Kennie's struggle to explain, appreciate, and improve this film (not to mention Mr. GG's struggle having to process these stoner-esque descriptions) IS the best metaphor for this film. Life unintentionally(?) imitating art... beautiful.
Soooo....I'm loving the podcast so far. I wanted to drop a disturbing movie suggestion. The Depraved 2011 which I believe is also called Urban Explorer....no idea why. But I saw it once back in 2011 and have yet to revisit it, it was that unsettling for me. I thought maybe the camp counselors would like and or enjoy this film to cover.
I’m watching this literally right after watching Ryan Hollinger’s video on this film & while it’s fascinating to see the difference in y’all’s opinions, it’s also kinda wild that the 3 of us just watched the same video explaining Possum?? 😂😂 Not that Ryan isn’t a well known TH-camr, I just don’t see his work referenced by other creators in their videos a whole lot, so I’m surprised to see him referenced here!
I really like this one. I could see how it would feel long to a lotta people, but I think that’s part of its point/purpose. It is a study of trauma and how it haunts us, obviously. But a big part of that is the isolation that comes with it. The silence is representative of the silence we put around our traumas. The lack of extremity in the violence even serves to underline the sorta expectations of catharsis vs their realities, which are often a little underwhelming. Hoyever, Ryan Hollinger is always dope.
God I love possum so much. Definitely not horror more of a thriller. I wish more movies would go back to being categorized as thrillers instead being every movie that has any once of scare as horror
I watched this movie a couple years ago and I don't remember a damn thing about the storyline but I'll never re-watch because the puppet was disturbing enough to remember.
omg the "duce" is reaking Ryan Hollinger!!! hoyever i get the movie wasn't all that, but i love all of you! so glad you got to see his content omg Spooky Rice! collab with him
Ayyy shout out to Ryan Hollinger. I watched his Possum video because I was too creeped out to actually watch the movie. Good to know I wasn't missing much.
"The whole movie bored the fuck out of me!" Glad it wasn't just me. I never managed to finish this movie., despite trying multiple times, because of how much it dragged.
Possum was made as a film maker trying to make a horror movie of Freud's writings on fear of the uncanny. They were trying to create movies based on what Freud said was fearful. He could have just made a slasher with an uncanny puppet or mask but tried to effect people on a deeper level. Going into it thinking of it as a regular horror flick not an art film with the story behind it it can definitely be seen as bad and pretensious.
Listening to you guys review this makes me want to suggest you guys watch "Loon Lake" It's such a horrid movie. Even my ex who loves bad movies hated it. It's the only movie that we watched that was so bad that we actually wrote reviews for it. Warning: if you put a negative review in almost instantly someone posts a positive review and my ex and I suspect it's someone that worked on the film or a friend or family member. There is also so much red in this movie that my ex wondered if it was symbolism. We couldn't find any info regarding that so now we suspect they needed to paint things and the only color they had on hand was red. I'm sorry if you do watch it and feel like you lost an hour or more of your lives after this.
If you hated this, I wonder how you'd feel about Ghost Story. It's also a slow burn, and it either resonates with you or not. For my husband, it was torture. For me, my eyes were glued to the screen the whole runtime. Even during "the pie scene."
great video guys! i would LOVE yall's take on the movie "Mother!" I've seen it twice and I still don't even know if I like it or not. Its a Darren Aronofsky film so of course its a wild ride but its definitely the most overwhelming movie I've ever seen, it escalates so much so fast.
Honestly when I watched it on Shudder, I fastforwarded after 20 minutes to the last 20 minutes and felt good about that. I just don't have the patience for super slow burns.
As one of the resident art people in your audience, I disagree with y’all 100% on this one… but damn, did I have fun watching this episode! Great one, you guys!
Jarritos are old school pop bottles so your sol if you don’t own a cork screw/bottle opener. I speak from experience, couldn’t have a bottle for two weeks because I didn’t have one. 😆😆
Sounds like something from Goosebumps. But the script was rewritten by a cinematographer who wanted to make the script as minimal dialogue as possible. PS Kennie, you literally make the most boting or unwatchable movies entertaining. Literally rather watch you talk about the movie than watch the movie. You are the content!
One thing it could be is that they made the metaphor or whatever too obvious. Kind of not making it a metaphor at all. They told a story of a molestee turned possible molester and he's just crazy. He thinks his doll is alive.
I thought the movie was too long for its own good, it could have been a short movie or an hour long movie and it would have had a much more bigger effect and even people may have understood the implications.
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Aww I appreciate the little shoutout to Ryan "Hoyever" Hollinger. He's fantastic.
yes!!
No this made me cackle bc whenever I see “however” I pronounce it that way 😭
@@Branflakies same 😀
@@Branflakies same same!
Yeah they said they watched a video and I was like “Ryan?” And then they started describing the video and I was like “Ryan! :D”
Loved the shout-outs to Ryan Hollinger and Spooky Rice ☺️
you got it Tony!
As a special effects makeup artist in-training (I’m still taking classes and whatnot), I can tell you how they created the mask of the main actor’s face for the head of the puppet, Kennie! It’s a practice that goes back centuries, called a “death mask.” I’ve had one done myself, and it’s pretty freaky. Would not recommend if you’re claustrophobic!
I won’t go into the *whole* process here, but essentially you make a cast of the face, the person has to sit with the “cast-ing” substance on their face for around 20 minutes, waiting for it to set. After the setting period, the cast is removed from the face and plaster of Paris is poured into that cast to create the actual “death mask,” which can then be used & reused to create any other fake versions of the face, as a canvas to fit/create facial prosthetics that will go on the actor’s actual face, or to create a horrifying spider puppet for a questionable art film! Lol
Hope that helps! ☺️
So neat!
I watched this movie before watching this episode and I thought it was terrifying. The slow burn made the terrifying moments stand out even more and the long wait between them was very tense because I was genuinely worried about the puppet the whole time.
I've been watching ✨Mike✨ here and there for a few years now...and legit didn't find out that's his name until this series started 💀 I kind of assumed his name would start with a "G"
I feel like Possum would have been better if they had gone from just an allegory of implied childhood trauma to actually exploring it. There was potential to really show how the implied abuse the character faced at the hands of his Uncle (a domineering figure) affected him into adult in every aspect of his path. They let the allegory to a bit too long for me.
Yep, like, if you wanna make a trauma drama just go ahead and do that, don't dress it up as a horror movie. I HATE it when people keep trying to stuff "deeper" meanings into their movies through some sort of physical representation of something psychological. We get it edgelord, you wanna feel like you're smart and sophisticated and all that jazz yet still be dark and artsy and gloomy, make a 5min short movie or a music video and stop trying to stretch it out into an hour and a half when you had one thing to send across and nothing else entirely.
@@Toxihex I dunno, the puppet was pretty fuckin cool and creepy, I wouldn’t want this movie without the disgusting roadkill puppet. But if I recall, yeah, you kinda get exactly what it’s going for WAY too early. And they only sorta “reveal” this at the end to confirm it, but don’t really explore it. You gotta keep the puppet tho
There are other movies that do that. The point of this movie was to trigger the fear of "uncanny". It was a film maker taking a challenge to make a movie on a subject and going above and beyond.
@@Toxihex All good horror movies have some subtext, without it they are just generic slashers. I can understand not liking the degree of subtext in this movie but to say that none should have more to them would just be Friday the 13th sequels. Don't get me wrong those are good for what they are but why limit a genre to lack of substance.
@@TheLegPumpkinyeah their comment was one of the stupidest takes ive seen in a while
I do think we need to stop depending on Rotten tomato scores to determine how well a movie is received critically. Rotten Tomatoes only determines how many positive and negative reviews a movie gets. It doesn’t really suss out critical acclaim and whether critics “loved it”. There are many movies with over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes that I wouldn’t say that “critics loved”. As for this movie, I think it’s creepy, unique and solid enough. Nothing amazing but certainly leans more toward good than bad for me. However, yeah, it’s a flick designed to be divisive.
instead of rotten tomatoes, John... people will eventually come to More Butter to get more curated discussions and reviews. we are building something special here 👀
True.
Art is really subjective. At least in my view. How we feel about a story depends on us as a person
Ryan Hollinger’s the shit, I fucking knew you were referencing his essay. He’s rad as fuck
3 things. 1. best episode yet guys
Thank you Wolf!
I am using this vid to shout out Garth Marenghi's darkplace. It’s a comedy parody show by the director of this film, Matthew Holness, and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The general idea is that fictional horror writer Garth Marenghi's wrote a show in the 80s and now him, his producer, and one of the other actors are doing a retrospective on it. Unlike this film, there are jokes every second, it’s utilizes the idea of so-bad-it’s-good, it’s a great parody of hospital dramas, supernatural horror, and 80s soap operas, and is honestly a really fun character study of an egotistical, out of touch writer. It also stars Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade who you may know if your into British tv. It’s free on TH-cam, as well as all the extras which are equally hilarious. Please watch it, it’s so underrated!
There's a lot of things I can overlook in a movie, but boring is not one of them. Been on the fence whether to watch this or not, thanks for the heads up
thats what we do!
You two together in one video feels like the best fever dream ever. Wow
I loved Possum but I also get why people wouldn’t like it, also shout out Ryan Hollinger
it goes both ways for people
ryan hollinger makes really good horror content. cool that you shouted him out!
I did the same thing! I watched possum I felt it was more of a psychological story, didn’t feel it belonged in horror. I immediately went to Ryan Hollingers video as well, and felt like I got it but it just didn’t affect me other than the fact that I felt pity for the main character.
Same. I actually watched it and it felt like a drama with some scary bits, but the scary bits were just making trauma, so like ....cool. I feel like the babadook did well and still people are trying to rip it off. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it turns out like this movie where it's not bad, it's just really boring.
I'll be honest, that doll thing was unnerving as fuck
LOL
Great episode as always! & wooo Ryan Hollinger! lol His video essays are well put together so I'm glad he's getting some love 🙌🏽
Omg I'm glad someone is talking about this movie, I can never find it on streaming services!
It was on Prime for a while. I think it’s on Shudder.
@@Sharpe1502 thank you!!!
Shudder yes. Let us know how you like it Haley
you telling me his first name ISN'T Mista????
The name of the movie gives me creature feature vibes. Like, there are movies about killer turkeys, so before I watched this, I figured it was one about a possum.
I love the movie. But I'm into artistic horror and stuff, so there's that.
we welcome all opinions here
I looooove that Mista GG, Amanda. And Kennie have come together!!
us too!!
if you hate movies with a lot of silence you would probably also hate A Ghost Story (2017), but I feel that movie has a more compelling narrative than Possum
Kennie's struggle to explain, appreciate, and improve this film (not to mention Mr. GG's struggle having to process these stoner-esque descriptions) IS the best metaphor for this film. Life unintentionally(?) imitating art... beautiful.
Soooo....I'm loving the podcast so far. I wanted to drop a disturbing movie suggestion. The Depraved 2011 which I believe is also called Urban Explorer....no idea why. But I saw it once back in 2011 and have yet to revisit it, it was that unsettling for me. I thought maybe the camp counselors would like and or enjoy this film to cover.
Can you guys PLEASE watch The Lure(2015). It's a Polish Mermaid Musical and I'm desperate to hear the counselors thoughts on it!
I’m watching this literally right after watching Ryan Hollinger’s video on this film & while it’s fascinating to see the difference in y’all’s opinions, it’s also kinda wild that the 3 of us just watched the same video explaining Possum?? 😂😂
Not that Ryan isn’t a well known TH-camr, I just don’t see his work referenced by other creators in their videos a whole lot, so I’m surprised to see him referenced here!
Possum is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I certainly understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea lmao, great episode! :)
I really like this one. I could see how it would feel long to a lotta people, but I think that’s part of its point/purpose. It is a study of trauma and how it haunts us, obviously. But a big part of that is the isolation that comes with it. The silence is representative of the silence we put around our traumas. The lack of extremity in the violence even serves to underline the sorta expectations of catharsis vs their realities, which are often a little underwhelming. Hoyever, Ryan Hollinger is always dope.
This looked like a chore to do for both of them 😅
Finding out his name is Mike has shattered my world view
I love Ryan’s channel, I can binge watch his videos all day, however I can’t sleep afterwards
this episode is just ryan hollinger appreciation.
God I love possum so much. Definitely not horror more of a thriller. I wish more movies would go back to being categorized as thrillers instead being every movie that has any once of scare as horror
I watched this movie a couple years ago and I don't remember a damn thing about the storyline but I'll never re-watch because the puppet was disturbing enough to remember.
SO distrubing Ambs.
“Gotta go watch Mike’s video” me watching all the Chris Hansen content 😂
omg the "duce" is reaking Ryan Hollinger!!! hoyever i get the movie wasn't all that, but i love all of you! so glad you got to see his content
omg Spooky Rice! collab with him
if you're wanting another crappy horror film to trash I recently heard about the film "goblin" and the ending... I'm speechless
Ayyy shout out to Ryan Hollinger. I watched his Possum video because I was too creeped out to actually watch the movie. Good to know I wasn't missing much.
I wanna try Jaritos so bad but I, Ironically enough, live in Jamaica and we don't have Walmart lol.
You have Ting and DJs!
"The whole movie bored the fuck out of me!" Glad it wasn't just me. I never managed to finish this movie., despite trying multiple times, because of how much it dragged.
Possum was made as a film maker trying to make a horror movie of Freud's writings on fear of the uncanny. They were trying to create movies based on what Freud said was fearful. He could have just made a slasher with an uncanny puppet or mask but tried to effect people on a deeper level. Going into it thinking of it as a regular horror flick not an art film with the story behind it it can definitely be seen as bad and pretensious.
I think stories like this generally work so much better as short media, you're asking the audience to bear with you for a lot less
Me every time “who is Mike?”
Listening to you guys review this makes me want to suggest you guys watch "Loon Lake" It's such a horrid movie. Even my ex who loves bad movies hated it. It's the only movie that we watched that was so bad that we actually wrote reviews for it.
Warning: if you put a negative review in almost instantly someone posts a positive review and my ex and I suspect it's someone that worked on the film or a friend or family member. There is also so much red in this movie that my ex wondered if it was symbolism. We couldn't find any info regarding that so now we suspect they needed to paint things and the only color they had on hand was red.
I'm sorry if you do watch it and feel like you lost an hour or more of your lives after this.
Came here after watching Miata GG’s interview of Kendall. Had to watch the mess that was Possum. Hi! 👋
I throughly enjoyed reading your interview on buzzfeed ❤ kinda wanna watch this film..I like things weird!
thank you Becky!
These are two of my favorites. Love this, new sub🥰✌🏾
the large stints of silence seems to be a bit of a thing with debut/indie british horror, it either builds atmosphere or completely kills it.
no way GG is a mike…
If you hated this, I wonder how you'd feel about Ghost Story. It's also a slow burn, and it either resonates with you or not. For my husband, it was torture. For me, my eyes were glued to the screen the whole runtime. Even during "the pie scene."
loooove ghost story! i still listen to the song 😭
End of Days is VERY worth seeing. It’s pretty wild in that early 2000’s way. Content for days.
Schwarzenegger fighting Satan is a good movie. Now I gotta watch it tonight
tell us how that goes
I didn't even know they Collaborated.
*This is the greatest movie review crossover of all time.*
I literally never knew his name was Mike
GGs
23:07 so we are dubbing this the possum challenge right?
*Me having watched GG since 2016 and not knowing his name is mike*
Loves Ryan Hollinger’s vids
great video guys! i would LOVE yall's take on the movie "Mother!" I've seen it twice and I still don't even know if I like it or not. Its a Darren Aronofsky film so of course its a wild ride but its definitely the most overwhelming movie I've ever seen, it escalates so much so fast.
I liked the movie🤷♂️ it’s supposed to be abrupt and jarring. I like the metaphors of abuse and thought the main actor was incredible
Honestly when I watched it on Shudder, I fastforwarded after 20 minutes to the last 20 minutes and felt good about that. I just don't have the patience for super slow burns.
As one of the resident art people in your audience, I disagree with y’all 100% on this one… but damn, did I have fun watching this episode! Great one, you guys!
"This guy with an Irish accent"
HOYEVER GUY! Yay Ryan Hollinger :)
Jarritos are old school pop bottles so your sol if you don’t own a cork screw/bottle opener. I speak from experience, couldn’t have a bottle for two weeks because I didn’t have one. 😆😆
"The town is so barren and weird!" Yeah, normal British town mate
Sounds like something from Goosebumps. But the script was rewritten by a cinematographer who wanted to make the script as minimal dialogue as possible.
PS Kennie, you literally make the most boting or unwatchable movies entertaining. Literally rather watch you talk about the movie than watch the movie. You are the content!
I appreciate the way Mista GG explains movies
I watched this entire vid and am CONVINCED you guys are spitting truth 😂🤣😂🤣
I absolutely loved Possum! Loved the modern take on old school expressionism. I respect and thoroughly enjoyed your opinions of the film! :)
I didn’t even watch the trailer but I sure did watch the silent movie..
One thing it could be is that they made the metaphor or whatever too obvious. Kind of not making it a metaphor at all. They told a story of a molestee turned possible molester and he's just crazy. He thinks his doll is alive.
haven't seen it, but i'm wondering if it's anything like how Requiem for a Dream is a great film but one I never want to watch again.
We need a ghostbusters ( remake ) review 💖
wow, ok ok ok
That cosy boy hoodie is awesome, where can i get that lol
I knew it was gonna be Ryan Hollinger, haha. Love that guy!
I still don’t understand the movie lmao
Also idk if Mike & Kennie are single but I ship y’all 💕💕💕💕
Can you guys please review “Lamb?” I don’t know what I was expecting, but I personally was very disappointed by that movie💀
Definitely recommend End of Days. It's stupid and sacrilegious and entirely entertaining.
Ok but why the fuck is the movie called possum where is the through line
Just found out his name is Mike today, that's the most disturbing thing in this video.
Kennie's music is amazing. Love Happy! In Retrospect. Which is up on Spotify 🤣
The editing is click bait, make u think the film is more fun to watch than it actually is .
the title literally says they trash the film….
@@anthonyholloway896 thanks Anthony
@@anthonyholloway896 I think she might have been talking about the movie trailer, not this video?
@@elinam1139 ooooh okay
Is there any reason she couldn’t bother to remember Ryan’s name?
She probably _just_ watched the dude, it's nothing deep.
Wow Mr GG is just Philip DeFranco
yo i literally watched the movie BECAUSE of the ryan hollinger video and waited to watch the explanation until after I saw the movie
I thought the movie was too long for its own good, it could have been a short movie or an hour long movie and it would have had a much more bigger effect and even people may have understood the implications.
HIS NAME IS MIKE?!
Elvis the alien needs a recurring guest spot on this podcast
Ok... but where was the Possum on the film? Did I miss it?
I need an episode on Fresh.
I actually went to the theater to watch End of Days😂😂😂
I just learned his name is Mike. Truly embarrassing I've been watching his channel for years.
Omg no one ever wants to talk about Possum with me
MISTA GG'S NAME IS MIKE?!?!?!
I also saw that video! Seem like it's much better than the movie
Honestly idc where I find him, but when I see mista gg, i click the damn video.
Lol I actually saw this. Pretty much agree with mike and kennie
Edit:correction on Kennies name! Spelled it Kenny! Sorry! 👻
WE WANT A "BATMAN AND ROBIN" REVIEW... Ok, it's just me but you should do it anyway
I love watching the content especially when you play who's high 😂😂GG got this one in the bag