Please Make This

Laura and Hobert sit down with their buddy Gabe Michalski to talk about Rawhead Rex, a childhood fav of Gabe’s about a demon with a stupid name that terrorizes an Irish village. This lean monster thriller is heavy on monster rampage, light on explanation. If you’ve ever wanted an hour and twenty minutes of basic slasher leading up to a showdown in a church that includes piss-play and vagina lasers, do we have a movie for you! Tune in to this mini and check out Laura, Hobert and Gabe at GABEWATCH, a live movie riffing show returning to The Whistler bar in Chicago on January 28th!

Lee and Desker are two slacker friends who prefer smoking weed in Lee’s basement and talking about their favorite fantasy novels more than pretty much anything else. For years they’ve dissected and discussed Alton P. Thornshire’s Gates of the Hellmouth series, but without the final book (banned by its publisher after a strange satanic incident) all they can do is guess how it ends. When Lee finds book six in a closing book store in the town’s rundown mall, the pair discover a mystery closer than they could have ever imagined. What lies under the foundation of the mall, and who else is looking for it? 

Scripts Start at 1:13:32

Starring

Kerry Stevens

Hobert Thompson

Nate Todd

Laura Petro

Mary Fiala

Welcome to a polite and fun new miniseries where two best friends, Laura Petro and Nate Todd set out to watch all of the Saw movies.  In this minisode, they're watching the first Saw movie that's appropriately titled: Saw. Will this journey bring these two friends closer together? Will the gore-horror phase of the 2000s be just as gory as they remember? Let's see Saw and find out! 

Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back to take a slow-mo look at part one of ??? of Zack Snyder’s ponderous Star Wars knock-off, Rebel Moon. Join the rippers as they try to piece together Netflix’s seemingly abridged edit of this space opera that sacrifices third act coherence for drumming up support for an already completed director’s cut. Can Hobert and Mike Quasar salvage a movie they’d like from this big ol’ pile of space tropes? Not really, but they do have fun talking about a movie where the moon is stolen by the workin’ man. Seize the Moons of Production!

A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer’s room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there’s no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Hobert gives you a tour of his own writers’ room as he tackles the beginning section of The Window Guy, some other writing projects he’s working on, and takes a break to swim and buy cat food. 

Writing tunes recommendation: “This Heathen Land” Green Lung

Scott Payne is an aspiring actor who books the opportunity of a lifetime as the TV pitchman for a new window cleaner. When his enthusiastic pitching becomes a pop culture sensation, Scott is propelled into fortune and fame, but deep down, all he really cares about is telling the public about a product he’s so passionate about, it borders on love. As his career - and the public’s interest in cleaning their windows - fade, Scott has to reckon with his life on camera and his relationship with a product that turns out to be maybe a little bit poisonous. Shine-on!

Scripts start at 50:56

Starring

Gabe Michalski

Laura Petro

Hobert Thompson

And Chris Ianucci as Scott Payne

On a desolate future Earth, workers made of undead people enhanced with mechanical parts toil away in a factory. All day and night they make things the living need, but is there anyone left to use the household items they create? When one worker suddenly remembers his past life, he sets out to learn who he was, and remind his fellow workers what it means to be alive. UGGHHHH! 

Scripts at 56:30

Starring 

Laura Petro

Hobert Thompson

Chris Dritsas

Zoe Thibault

And Michael Serio as Josh Derek Steven

A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer's room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there's no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Laura finally breaks down this barrier to give you a peak into the full process of making a PMT episode. This time Laura's breaking down her ending for Syrens, her writing process, and what her ideas were to put together a thrilling conclusion to the ulitmate sci-fi horror flick. 

When six alien explorers visit an uncharted, water-covered planet, their mission is simple. Very simple, really. Just collect a water sample to prove the existence of water to their galactic empire’s ever growing search for resources. With time to kill before they return to their command ship, the researchers decide to party it up on a planet that boasts perfect sunsets and calm, clear waters. But what’s lurking under the waves? A friendly local sentient species? Or something much larger and predatory, something capable of luring in its prey by making them see what they desire?

Starring 

Hobert Thompson

Laura Petro

Lizzie Kaniecki

Madeline Wilson

Cate Hale

Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back with special guest Laura to spend five nights (or 58ish minutes) talking about Five Nights at Freddy’s, a film about an amateur dream detective who fights ghost robots that isn’t nearly fun or cool or interesting as that premise promises. Well, at least The Youth like it! Tune in as the rippers tear apart this lore-heavy, anti-sleeping pill PSA that loves its robot antagonists more than any of the living characters and try to piece together their own haunted monstrosity: a version of this film they would have liked!