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Cannonball Run, Cherubs, and Chaos: The Best of Anomaly
We’re diving deep into the Anomaly Film Festival wrap-up, and let me tell ya, it was a wild ride! We’re chatting about all the highlights from this year’s festival, which just wrapped up last week. The energy was electric with new films, fresh faces, and those unforgettable moments that make you go, “What the heck just happened?” We’ve got some amazing guests chiming in, sharing their fave flicks and the experiences that made this year totally epic. So, grab your popcorn, kick back, and let’s relive the magic before we crash into hibernation mode for a bit!
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Speaker A:Pretty great.
Speaker B:It's Anomaly Presents with your friends, the podcastronauts.
Speaker A:Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.
Speaker A:Supernatural perhaps.
Speaker A:Baloney, perhaps not.
Speaker B:Hello and welcome to the Anomaly Presents podcast.
Speaker B:The podcast about a genre film festival that's about to go into hibernation for a month or two because it just, just happened last week.
Speaker B:Evergreen, right.
Speaker B: th,: Speaker B:This is the Anomaly Presents podcast.
Speaker B:This is the Anomaly Film Festival wrap up show.
Speaker B:My name is Matt Austin and I am surrounded by some familiar podcast or not.
Speaker B:And some ringers because a lot of the podcastronauts are currently at home on the couch recuperating.
Speaker B:We'll go around the room here.
Speaker B:We'll start to my left with Megan Murphy.
Speaker C:Hi.
Speaker C:Some of their sleeping and I was poking them.
Speaker C:I said wake up.
Speaker C:And they wouldn't.
Speaker C:But I'm sure they're just sleeping.
Speaker B:I'm sure they're just sleeping.
Speaker B:Did we put a mirror under their noses?
Speaker C:Well, that just seemed rude and invasive.
Speaker A:This is fair.
Speaker B:We've got Magnus Champlin.
Speaker A:Hi.
Speaker B:Host of Mind of Magnus, Anomaly, Co.
Speaker A:Founder, Random weird guy.
Speaker B:Random weird guy, occasional podcastronaut.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Our guests for this evening, Carrie Lindstrom.
Speaker D:Hello.
Speaker B:And Mike Huntone of the Punches and Popcorn podcast.
Speaker B:Hello.
Speaker B:And as always on the ones and twos, keeping it nice and crispy for us.
Speaker B:It's our board operator, producer extraordinaire.
Speaker B:We are in his home.
Speaker B:We are invading his space.
Speaker B:It's Chris Lindstrom.
Speaker B:Hit the button, Chris.
Speaker C:I'm John Cena.
Speaker E:I'm also on my retirement tour.
Speaker C:Worth it.
Speaker B:Oh, so here we are.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker B:Is it now just a week from.
Speaker B:From the festival.
Speaker A:It feels like it happened yesterday and a month ago.
Speaker A:It really does.
Speaker A:Time is lost to me.
Speaker B:Time dilates as soon as we walk out of that theater.
Speaker A:I mean we do like 17, 18 hour days some of those days.
Speaker B:We do.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:I mean you, you were the champion Monday night.
Speaker A:Oh, thank you.
Speaker A:Saturday night.
Speaker A:I also feel a little bit Monday as a champion just because I ended up drinking with random people that were like, didn't want to make the party stop.
Speaker A:So that's another.
Speaker B:The party never stops for Magnus good or for bad.
Speaker B:So yeah, we're just going to kind of talk about the, the highlights, the things we, we found, the new friends we made, the, the experiences we had just to get you hyped for.
Speaker B:I think we're doing it again next year if that better.
Speaker C:See two months threat.
Speaker A:Oh, we're doing it Two months.
Speaker C:And then I'll be like, oh, this is a great idea.
Speaker C:Past Megan was a fool, but right now future Megan is a fool.
Speaker B:Yeah, we're all just very tired fools right now.
Speaker D:Oops.
Speaker D:All fools.
Speaker B:All fools.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So it don't Worry everybody.
Speaker B:I'm 99 sure we'll be back next year.
Speaker B:Only because our.
Speaker B:Our Slack channel is hopping constantly with.
Speaker B:With ideas.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker C:It's a sickness.
Speaker B:It's a sickness.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker B:It's burrowed in and I not to go too far behind the curtain but I feel like this is the most active our Slack channel has been post festival in multiple years.
Speaker B:So everybody's pretty juiced about it.
Speaker C: Putting in plans for: Speaker C:What's wrong with us?
Speaker B:It's true.
Speaker A:But that's actually the thing that I appreciate us.
Speaker A:We're adapting these like oh, this is us.
Speaker A:Future us is gonna be very appreciative of it putting it in now.
Speaker A:And I was thankful I had a note for myself.
Speaker A:I looked through it.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker A:Past Magnus literally like do this for Anomaly.
Speaker A:Bring it.
Speaker A:I was like, I forgot I even needed thing.
Speaker A:It literally was a mother person that helped me out my past self.
Speaker B:Thanks Past Magnus.
Speaker B:Speaking of things that we're going to have in the future, I realized today I was looking in the ads.
Speaker B:I'm going to get us a little toolbox.
Speaker B:I'm going to get us because you know it's getting to be that time of year.
Speaker B:I'm going to go to Harbor Freight and get Anomaly a toolbox because this year I don't know if you recall all the decorations, all the vines and everything.
Speaker B:Those were all.
Speaker B:It was a lot.
Speaker B:It was all sourced from Magnus's family farm.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:Really?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's all local and we had a lot of it too.
Speaker A:We had stuff.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was great.
Speaker A:It was epic.
Speaker A:We had some crazy cool vineg all this stuff and props and things.
Speaker B:Filled an entire panel van.
Speaker F:Wow.
Speaker F:With I believe it.
Speaker F:The decorations were next level nice.
Speaker B:And we were in the lobby of the Little.
Speaker B:I think it's probably the first time that we've used well that anyone has used a reciprocating saw on.
Speaker B:Power tool on foliage in the lobby of the Little.
Speaker B:So we're gonna claim to that I.
Speaker A:Was hoping to see some of the photos people be walking past and they on the sidewalk they would stop, take two steps back.
Speaker A:Also the phone would come out and.
Speaker B:Go click Away.
Speaker B:Because there we were on ladders with saws and everything.
Speaker B:Pruners trying to.
Speaker A:It was a fun.
Speaker A:We wanted the design to be a.
Speaker A:That, you know, not a haunted woods.
Speaker A:We wanted that there's a stories happening inside that woods.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Fairy tale wood.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Fairy tale would.
Speaker A:And we had a lot of different variations.
Speaker A:I love designing for the theater.
Speaker A:It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker A:The community aspect and people walking.
Speaker A:I mean, the theater is gorgeous in itself, but I want people to walk in and also be like, what the hell's going on here?
Speaker A:So it was a good deal for that one.
Speaker F:So I got a question because.
Speaker F:So I always appreciate that every year you all come up with a theme.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:And it's, you know, everything is kind of around that theme.
Speaker F:So I really loved the.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:That, like dark, kind of weird fairy tale woods.
Speaker F:This year, even with campfire and stuff, do you find like, how early in the process does that come together?
Speaker F:Like, is that something that just naturally.
Speaker F:Like, we know what we're going with or is it like last a month?
Speaker A:I can tell you that.
Speaker A:I can tell you this.
Speaker A:This year, I can tell you the exact point we decided the woods.
Speaker A:And it was last year, the day or two start.
Speaker B:We're.
Speaker A:We're wrapping up.
Speaker A:And that stuff is like.
Speaker B:And I think it was like Saturday.
Speaker A:Saturday.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And Matt Dirk was standing there ticket boxing.
Speaker A:He's like, I want to do a haunted woods.
Speaker A:And then Dan and I go, sure, we can do that.
Speaker F:All right.
Speaker A:Hell yeah, we can do it.
Speaker B:And then that spread like wildfire because it was just the three of you.
Speaker B:And then it got to the nine.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then we all started scheming.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:On Sunday, we're all like, hey, I know what next year's theme.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it was really neat.
Speaker A:This year we decided not.
Speaker A:We have not hit a thing yet.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:That was gonna be for.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker A:If that's really.
Speaker A:It works best.
Speaker A:We have had suggestions.
Speaker A:You had a couple.
Speaker A:I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker A:She had a couple suggestions.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's fine.
Speaker C:If it's not that people don't like fun.
Speaker C:And I won't take it personal.
Speaker A:But I think we will toss the ideas out because I'm keep doing this as long as you guys kick me out.
Speaker A:I want to keep doing themes.
Speaker A:So if it made this year, the more resources we get, the better it'll be.
Speaker A:And this year's design, we had a lot.
Speaker A:We actually had.
Speaker A:We planned to do some builds early on too, but just kind of life Got in the way.
Speaker A:And we actually had.
Speaker A:I didn't actually use them, but if you went to my studio, there were trees like cardboard full, like trees wrapped around.
Speaker A:We had bases.
Speaker A:We actually made interlocking segments to build these trees up, and we just didn't have time to make the skin to make them look right.
Speaker A:And I love.
Speaker A:Nothing hurts me more if I see something and it's not done enough.
Speaker A:So the design you saw was actually only done in the past two, three weeks when we realized we couldn't quite get the final touch of these big trees.
Speaker A:Like, if you walk in my studio, there were trees that were.
Speaker A:You and I could put my arm around.
Speaker A:That's how big the base was to go up and around.
Speaker A:And it was just made out of cardboard and cardboard, loose woods and, you know, textures that way.
Speaker E:Magnus.
Speaker E:I mean, it's good to have the right base without a base without a trace is what I think we all say.
Speaker E:So it's a great thing that you have the right base for it.
Speaker B:I think the thing that I enjoyed the most was the campsite.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:That was the ingenuity to set up those birch trees like that so it looked like it was infinite.
Speaker B:Was really.
Speaker B:That blew me away when you said it.
Speaker A:If you walked in, I just took, like, half.
Speaker A:Like, half inch thick foam core.
Speaker A:So it's light enough to be light.
Speaker A:And if it.
Speaker A:If something should fall, it's literally just paper.
Speaker A:It's, you know, foam.
Speaker A:So that's a trick with designing for the little theater.
Speaker A:I'm in a historic building, so nothing can touch walls.
Speaker A:I can't glue anything.
Speaker A:I can't build anything.
Speaker A:There's only a handful of people.
Speaker A:I got added to a list, oddly enough, of artists that can build at historic buildings, because I've done George Eastman do it inadvertently, just by my resume, put me in this sort of block there.
Speaker A:So the foam core is designed that super light foam core tall can cut up.
Speaker A:And my idea was having bright white with a black backdrop behind it, so these bright, bright white birch trees.
Speaker A:And then the backdrop we picked out was a light background with dark trees fading off in there.
Speaker A:So the trick was we're trying to make this feel like this an infinite room, kind of that barcode black and white.
Speaker A:So it kind of worked with the eyes going that way.
Speaker A:So we had a blast doing it.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:Dan stepped in with 10,000 lights and cool fabrics from Matt and wanted to have a safe, comfy spot before you go into the chaos.
Speaker C:And maybe one of my favorite things was our fake fire, which had the lights and the crackle.
Speaker C:And then it had a sound effect which was often just crackling fire.
Speaker C:Occasionally a much louder crackling fire that make you go, oh, no.
Speaker C:And then other times, murder ballads.
Speaker C:Out of nowhere, all of a sudden, the fire starts playing.
Speaker C:Playing banjos and it was great.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:It really puts you on edge.
Speaker B:We don't want to make you too comfortable.
Speaker B:We don't want you to miss your movie.
Speaker A:We love those little zones.
Speaker A:We have like the skeleton lounge downstairs.
Speaker A:We like just the.
Speaker A:I'm really enjoying this.
Speaker A:The transition room now is.
Speaker A:We're just having posters in that, like the.
Speaker A:That flickering light.
Speaker A:It's just nice.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:You don't want to go too much.
Speaker B:That middle lobby there where you get your popcorn and everything.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:If you look at the posters, I don't know how many times folks have looked, but those are all references to movies that we've run for the most part.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Designed by Dan.
Speaker B:Designed by Dan.
Speaker B:And it's.
Speaker C:And put up by very tall people.
Speaker C:And not just KP and me with some oars that Matt provided.
Speaker C:Just slapping them up on top.
Speaker C:We were the tallest people in the building that day.
Speaker B:The two tallest people on Anomaly are KP and Meg, if anybody's wondering.
Speaker C:You know, you all keep the ladder all you like, six foot.
Speaker C:We don't need the ladder.
Speaker C:I have an or.
Speaker F:Well, of course.
Speaker F:I always appreciate seeing the I Love New York Ninja placard up there.
Speaker C:I make sure it has a.
Speaker C:It goes up every year and I want it somewhere over an arch because it's important to remember that we love New York Ninja.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:His spirit lives in us.
Speaker F:That is a message that could unify this community, this nation, this world.
Speaker B:Here's the thing.
Speaker B:It unified all of us for the past how many years now?
Speaker F:That's true.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, I mean, we had discussions before the social media folks that just follow us.
Speaker A:They're great.
Speaker A:But like, we had a bunch of different people mention, like, hope you guys having fun.
Speaker A:I so love that New York Ninja showing.
Speaker A:It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker C:Chad's whole post where he was like, yeah, he couldn't, you know, he's not able to come, but he literally posted photos of like, when we played dead.
Speaker C:I'm like, this year, like, in reference to this festival, I was like, oh, man.
Speaker C:So you know, you did it when someone's like a couple years ago.
Speaker C:And I still hold that in my heart.
Speaker F:Chad is the best.
Speaker B:He is.
Speaker B:Horror movie barbecue is.
Speaker B:Is his handle if you want to check him out on.
Speaker F:Yes, all the socials.
Speaker F:Absolutely.
Speaker F:Do I know he's been on your guys show?
Speaker B:Not yet.
Speaker B:He has.
Speaker B:Oh, he's been exclusive to Punches and Popcorn.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah.
Speaker F:We've had him on a few times.
Speaker C:I'm sorry, Excuse me.
Speaker C:I'm hearing this for the first time.
Speaker C:Everyone.
Speaker C:Chad.
Speaker C:Oh, we were friends.
Speaker C:You send me that weird Earl Sinclair photo all the time on social media.
Speaker C:And yet.
Speaker C:And yet you haven't come on our podcast once.
Speaker B:Hunt books the biggest.
Speaker C:No, we're beefing now.
Speaker F:Get him on.
Speaker F:He.
Speaker F:He's marvelous.
Speaker F:We love Chad.
Speaker B:We'll get chad.
Speaker A:Stop it.
Speaker B:2026 is the year of Chad for sure.
Speaker F:That is the that portion.
Speaker F:Could the theme be chat?
Speaker F:If you make it rabbit themed, he will definitely come.
Speaker B:It's true.
Speaker B:It's very true.
Speaker B:So yeah, I think we started setting up on Tuesday and that ran all the way through to Wednesday.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:So that was the day people walk in.
Speaker A:It's like five o'.
Speaker A:Clock.
Speaker A:Opening doors, the last bit of tapes going on.
Speaker B:I was gonna say y walk in and you're early enough.
Speaker B:You will hear gaffer tape or painters tape going on in any number of locations.
Speaker C:I feel like it's always an eternal process, right?
Speaker C:Like, we get it mostly on Wednesday, but like, you know, by Friday, we're still adding some more stuff.
Speaker C:You know, there's always details.
Speaker A:I mean, look at us.
Speaker A:We love details.
Speaker A:We had stuff we didn't chance to go.
Speaker A:Like we had extra moss and things.
Speaker A:So the whole time I was like.
Speaker C:I could potentially moss it up.
Speaker A:There was stuff on Friday.
Speaker A:That Saturday, there was new stuff.
Speaker A:Like every time we have a chance, like, oh, I have a little free time.
Speaker A:I'm add this or add that.
Speaker C:We never stop.
Speaker A:Never stop.
Speaker C:Kick us out.
Speaker B:And we never really think about that because that just means on Monday that's just that much more we have to tear down.
Speaker B:That's the love we have for y'.
Speaker B:All when you come out is.
Speaker A:It's worth it for me.
Speaker A:I love having experience that way.
Speaker B:So same here.
Speaker B:Same here.
Speaker A:Speaking of experiences, I gotta.
Speaker A:I want to give a shout out.
Speaker A:Carrie, the merch.
Speaker A:Our designs this year are some of the, like the.
Speaker A:The set design, like the like building that.
Speaker A:But the merch tables, the other side of that, the lobby, we have this awesome thing there.
Speaker A:They turn around and we have that cool picture behind it.
Speaker A:And like one of the best displays we've.
Speaker A:I mean, the best display we've ever had.
Speaker C:What we were selling and how much it cost and how much we had left of it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's only year.
Speaker A:You can't rush perfection.
Speaker B:It's true.
Speaker B:We needed Carrie to up our game.
Speaker B:Absolutely incredible job, Carrie.
Speaker B:Thank you so much.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:I can't resist the opportunity to basically use what I do for my living to help Anomaly make their living basically and keep bringing stuff to Rochester, bringing people into the little theater and the Dryden.
Speaker D:Keep it going.
Speaker B:Well thanks.
Speaker B:Because it was such a huge part and we heard it all weekend how cool it was and your stickers that you put on the table were a huge.
Speaker A:People came up.
Speaker B:That is so cool.
Speaker B:What is that?
Speaker B:As a matter of fact.
Speaker C:Thank them right there.
Speaker C:This is it.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker B:Without Carrie this wouldn't be here.
Speaker B:It would just be all the stuff piled up on the table and we just have to guess.
Speaker C:That's okay.
Speaker C:We're eventually going to get around to deciding it.
Speaker C:We weren't sure.
Speaker B:We totally weren't.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker D:And I was like, you guys got other things you're focused on.
Speaker D:I can do this killer job.
Speaker F:Absolutely great.
Speaker F:Was so professional.
Speaker A:And it's very professional.
Speaker A:And I also like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:All the merch is there.
Speaker A:You don't have to have the pile in front of it.
Speaker A:You have the one example I want.
Speaker A:I want the.
Speaker A:The shirt C and xl.
Speaker A:You just point at that.
Speaker A:It's there.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It was great.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:As.
Speaker A:As a guy who likes having events and having sanity, it was nice to see the merchant folks not trying to pull their own hair up.
Speaker E:So.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:Like anytime I can kind of take the excessive words out of not only the person trying to buy but also the people that are trying to sell.
Speaker D:That is a moment, a big plus for me.
Speaker D:And I'm.
Speaker D:And I basically just wanted to make it not only themed in a very fun and anomalous way with a little nod to Creepshow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:But also bring in a lot of mentions to the horror goo and our Gordo dancing on a potato.
Speaker D:And so a lot of.
Speaker D:A lot of fun things that I've picked up from Anomaly over the years.
Speaker D:And I definitely wanted to draw our potato with many eyes because I've been like craving that for years.
Speaker C:They were looking great.
Speaker C:They appreciated it.
Speaker C:Because the potatoes upset with us.
Speaker D:Oh no.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because we kept them in a glass box the entire festival.
Speaker C:Now of course the glass box was the fortune machine and.
Speaker C:And they were hard at work giving fortunes and eggs to, to, to our, our audience.
Speaker C:It was important job.
Speaker C:But I could see day after day I looked into their many eyes and more and more they were rage filled.
Speaker C:So There's a warning for next year.
Speaker C:I don't know what they're going to do.
Speaker B:They're not used to that kind of work.
Speaker C:Yeah, I know.
Speaker C:By Sunday, I was like, I'm sorry.
Speaker C:Because now it's back in my bedroom where it usually lives and I'm hearing about it.
Speaker C:So I just want everyone to know it was amazing.
Speaker C:Magnus, thank you for the amazing mechanical and design work on that.
Speaker C:We are also deeply in trouble.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:If we don't see Meg next year, we know why.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:It was a really good gimmick.
Speaker C:Everyone loved it.
Speaker C:I saw children getting Fortune eggs.
Speaker C:They were full of joy.
Speaker C:Isn't that worth anything?
Speaker C:Nothing.
Speaker C:Silence.
Speaker B:I think that's what frustrated it the most.
Speaker B:The children.
Speaker F:I'm bringing joy to children.
Speaker B:Joy to children.
Speaker B:Ew.
Speaker B:That's not true.
Speaker B:We love the kids.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Kids at Anomaly now means kids that'll buy tickets later.
Speaker F:Exactly.
Speaker C:Get them early.
Speaker C:Get them early.
Speaker A:It is amazing that.
Speaker A:The evolution of that potato.
Speaker A:I will say, at some point we have to have a whole show, especially on the evolution and that potato.
Speaker C:The potato lore.
Speaker C:Some of it will be true.
Speaker A:I do have a question, though, Carrie.
Speaker E:How.
Speaker A:How many anomalies have you come to?
Speaker D:All of them.
Speaker D:Except for, obviously, the one that we had to do from home that none.
Speaker C:Of us came to.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:The one that none of us.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:During the panini.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:The gas leak year.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:One we don't like to think about so much.
Speaker B:But that was a fun year, too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:We had, like.
Speaker C:We existed.
Speaker C:That was our second year.
Speaker C:We're like, first year.
Speaker C:We're like, yeah, we did a festival and we didn't lose so much that we can't do it again next year.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Wait, what?
Speaker C:Oh, but, like, the tech and everything, like, figuring that out, like it was.
Speaker C:We learned how to do a festival and then had to learn how to do a completely different kind of festival.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:That was wild.
Speaker B:We have rebooted this thing three times now.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yep, yep.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:So can't kill us.
Speaker B:No, you can't.
Speaker B:You can only hope to contain us.
Speaker B:And you can't even do that.
Speaker A:Can't do that.
Speaker C:We can't do that.
Speaker A:No, because we're definitely growing.
Speaker A:I mean, like, it's.
Speaker A:The turnout this year was.
Speaker A:It was a hustling year.
Speaker C:New faces, new names.
Speaker B:I mean, thank you to everybody who came out for one or multiple shows.
Speaker B:There were so many people that we saw once on Wednesday, and then all of a sudden it was like they were there.
Speaker B:All weekend.
Speaker B:So thank you so much for the support, everybody, and thank you for coming.
Speaker B:I hope everybody had a good time.
Speaker B:I guess we'll.
Speaker B:We'll open it up to.
Speaker B:To Mike and Carrie because, like, our thing is we open the doors and then you guys come in and check out the movies and all the weird shit.
Speaker B:We did so well.
Speaker B:Do you have any experience you'd want to share about your time at the festival this year?
Speaker C:Good ones.
Speaker B:I mean, it doesn't have to be good ones.
Speaker D:I was just glad to see so many of the filmmakers, the short filmmakers stick around for many, multiple days after their short appeared.
Speaker D:That was really fun to.
Speaker D:I'm like, I know them.
Speaker D:They're just.
Speaker D:They're still here.
Speaker D:They're hanging around.
Speaker D:This makes me so very happy.
Speaker B:That actually, that was super cool.
Speaker B:I really enjoyed.
Speaker B:We had more filmmakers than we've ever had before, and a high percentage of them stayed for almost the entire show.
Speaker B:Like Meredith Berg from Tether was there until it snowed.
Speaker B:Until it snowed.
Speaker D:I was like, oh, no, snow.
Speaker D:And then I walk outside while somebody's filming and Meredith comes out.
Speaker D:It's like, snow, snow.
Speaker D:And I'm like, oh, right, you're from California.
Speaker F:Bless.
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker F:This is magical novelty Austin, folks.
Speaker C:LA folks.
Speaker C:We gave you snow.
Speaker C:It was on purpose and not like a depressing thing.
Speaker C:We said, oh, no.
Speaker C:They were like.
Speaker A:We got more shots of our marquee with the Anomaly name shared out on socials that day.
Speaker A:It was amazing.
Speaker A:So, yes, okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, we had 20, 25 different filmmakers coming in from multiple different films from all over la.
Speaker B:Austin local.
Speaker B:We had Zelda Adams come in from.
Speaker B:From the Addams Family of Hellbender fame.
Speaker A:And, yeah, the rest of the Adams family were in Europe traveling.
Speaker A:She was.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, she was.
Speaker B:She was keeping the home fire stoked and coming to hang out with us, which was really cool.
Speaker A:But, yeah, it was phenomenal.
Speaker A:I mean, like, it's Dust Bunny, the opening thing.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker A:The volley we had there was like, one hell of a powerful opener for this.
Speaker A:That great show pulled people in, everyone excited.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:People seem to really dig that.
Speaker B:I think that's coming up at the Little in a week or two.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I had more than one people when they wandered out of the theater, go.
Speaker B:It's kind of like if Pixar made John Wick.
Speaker B:And I was like, I wish I would have known that prior to.
Speaker B:Because that is totally the way I would have described that to people.
Speaker B:Because I was like, you know, it's kind of like dark fantasy it's like a thing.
Speaker B:And then they were like, yeah, Pixar, John Wick.
Speaker B:And I was like, hell, yeah.
Speaker D:I think I mentioned that to you because I was like.
Speaker B:You did?
Speaker D:I think it was.
Speaker D:Yeah, because the.
Speaker D:It's just charming and so heartfelt and.
Speaker D:And then also just.
Speaker D:It's not just happy sunshine and rainbows.
Speaker D:There's drama involved.
Speaker D:And so then there is also the incredible action scenes and then just beautiful comedy and beautiful scenery also.
Speaker D:Oh, that's right.
Speaker D:It was Wes Anderson as well.
Speaker D:If Pixar, Wes Anderson and the, like, Gun Fu choreographers of the Matrix came together to make a crazy kids movie.
Speaker B:More like a family.
Speaker A:I always had the.
Speaker A:Leon, the professional.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:That's what I feel a little bit of a sprinkling on of an energy about it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So truly, truly magical.
Speaker A:And that I had one of people walked up and was like, it was amazing.
Speaker A:I walked in.
Speaker A:It's one of the first times I've had to be in a theater being like, oh, I hope we can get seats together.
Speaker A:And that's how big the pack was in there with the last bit.
Speaker A:People got in there.
Speaker C:Amazing.
Speaker B:That's wild.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So thank you, everybody, for coming out.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I hope everybody was able to get a potato that wanted one.
Speaker B:Because traditionally we are now doing a potato.
Speaker B:Baked potato bar when we open the doors for our pass holders.
Speaker B:So if you want to get on the action, come and get a potato.
Speaker C:Buy a pass.
Speaker B:Buy a pass.
Speaker A:We'll give you a baked potato.
Speaker B:Give you a baked potato.
Speaker C:It's a good deal.
Speaker F:And you can promise that the great potato will not be furious.
Speaker C:Well, I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker C:The potato was in the box.
Speaker C:I'm realizing, staring at the potato bar the entire time.
Speaker B:Oh, boy.
Speaker B:That was a. Yeah.
Speaker C:No, we are.
Speaker C:I've been hearing about it.
Speaker B:Yeah, that was.
Speaker A:I got it off quick when I gave it to you.
Speaker B:Like, here you go.
Speaker D:We're done.
Speaker B:It's yours now.
Speaker C:Though they might see it as getting rid of challengers.
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker C:I haven't asked.
Speaker C:I'm scared.
Speaker A:I wonder if it's a stuff.
Speaker A:If you eat potatoes, then he can control you better if you have more potatoes in you.
Speaker C:Buy a pass.
Speaker C:We'll give you a potato and you can find out.
Speaker D:Mind control.
Speaker D:I mean, dinner.
Speaker B:Why not, though?
Speaker D:Why not?
Speaker A:People love that, though.
Speaker A:Our potato bar.
Speaker A:It's like people are elated when they walk in.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:They're so excited.
Speaker C:Brings us joy.
Speaker B:It does.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Speaking of little killer Creatures.
Speaker C:That opening night, the short in front of our second film, One Night Cherub.
Speaker C:The entire like filmmaking group, including Austin King, the filmmaker, came and this is the most important thing.
Speaker C:They brought the little killer cherub with them.
Speaker C:Demi, I'm friends with this little guy now.
Speaker C:Is he a killer?
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Does he maybe need to deal with like, his feelings on like pleasure and sexuality?
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker C:But he's also a little killer critter.
Speaker C:And I love them so much.
Speaker F:The best.
Speaker C:Yeah, I got photo.
Speaker C:I'm like, we're buddies now.
Speaker E:Look.
Speaker C:But you never know what celebrities are going to show up sometimes.
Speaker C:It's a killer chair from a short.
Speaker B:The excitement on your face.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker A:Cuz like I. I saw.
Speaker A:I started happening.
Speaker A:I was like, you have what?
Speaker A:Oh my God.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker C:Like, I got to peek in the bag first.
Speaker C:I'm like, I'm sorry, what's happening?
Speaker C:Magnus?
Speaker C:Like, come over.
Speaker C:I'm like, you here just opens up a bag like an illicit, illicit substance.
Speaker C:And instead it's a killer cherub staring up at me.
Speaker C:I'm like, anomalies, magic.
Speaker C:Anything can happen.
Speaker A:So he did a bunch of photos and you were wearing merch at the end of it.
Speaker A:He's like, ash, put the big away.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:You need to go to merch right now.
Speaker A:And he's like, what?
Speaker A:And I point.
Speaker A:I'm like, meg was here.
Speaker A:And he was like, oh my.
Speaker A:He was excited to show you because you were so excited to do it.
Speaker A:To actually have the unveil the real official not hiding in a bag.
Speaker C:I. I was going to say I love them.
Speaker B:I think that was my.
Speaker B:One of my happiest moments was not just seeing Meg's reaction to the cherub, but seeing their reacting to Meg seeing the cherub.
Speaker C:Because my emotions are on my face, y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker C:I can't help it.
Speaker B:It was Christmas morning times 10 for about four people standing.
Speaker F:Wonderful.
Speaker A:I cannot.
Speaker A:It's a highlight reel for multiple people in that role there.
Speaker A:Heartwarming.
Speaker A:God.
Speaker E:I mean, and speaking of monsters, I mean, we also got to see Melvin the Devourer.
Speaker A:Yeah, we did.
Speaker E:I have a tremendous stop motion movie.
Speaker E:I am Frank Hilda.
Speaker E:But how was it to see that on the big screen there?
Speaker A:I was happy.
Speaker A:So those.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Meldo Devourer is an idea of Roy who helped us a projectionist.
Speaker A:Roy is a Roy himself.
Speaker A:Oh my God.
Speaker A:Check out Roy Will work for Fame is his film studio and he's been working on this fun little.
Speaker A:This creature idea that's like a monster that eats film, that grows in size.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:There's so many hours of footage that he's done different script and he's like turning into like an episodic thing.
Speaker A:And it's been a fun journey to watch Roy create this sort of stuff.
Speaker A:And so he asked me, he's like, hey, can you make a little.
Speaker A:Well actually first he was.
Speaker A:He bought a monster from a guy online which technically wasn't his.
Speaker A:Like it was a creature but like it's not your creature.
Speaker A:Is that if you make a movie of it, that's that guy's likeness.
Speaker A:He's not, you know, it's like, you know, and he's like, well, can you make one for me?
Speaker A:Like yeah, sure, why not?
Speaker A:And it's actually funny that Melvin's based on a little kid that I by one ex used to babysit as this kid with this really big smile.
Speaker A:He's like little joker a little like I'll show a picture to it.
Speaker A:You're like, oh my God, it is Melvin's face.
Speaker A:This little tiny child, his face.
Speaker A:So it's a little monster going through there.
Speaker A:And then over the years he asked me to make.
Speaker A:I've made.
Speaker A:There's a puppet, there's a human sized version, there's a latex one that's kind of half, half made right now.
Speaker A:But Roy is kind of a skate punk guy.
Speaker A:So he's been footage and just doing like really interesting films of like the skate culture.
Speaker A:So Melvin is kind of done on super, super low budget and yeah, but it's also like a designed to be kind of rough around the edges fun skater punk monster and yeah, so it was awesome to see.
Speaker A:Of course I'm a person.
Speaker A:All I see is the faults and everything I make.
Speaker A:So I'm just like, oh, it's a big screen, I can see all the.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But I had a blast.
Speaker A:It was a great turnout and it was.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I was there for Roy.
Speaker A:I have fun making stuff.
Speaker A:He wants to make something he's you know and literally it's shoestring budget.
Speaker A:Funny thing is part of those monsters is actually the second time it's been inside the Anomaly movies.
Speaker A:Morrow one of the characters in that monster, he's like a ten foot tall troll had to make and Matt Roberts was wearing the suit in that thing.
Speaker A:But the monster came from a the Drumlins the beyond the Drumlins are movie.
Speaker A:This were when Dan and them made another movie in the past.
Speaker A:The monster from that part of the body actually you scrapped and used junkp so that monster has appeared twice.
Speaker A:An anomaly, oddly enough.
Speaker B:That's amazing.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So, yeah, Roy, I'm like, I'm using the spare monster parts over there.
Speaker A:He's like, yes.
Speaker C:So very rarely are you in a.
Speaker C:Can you be sitting down watching a short and going, was it filmed here?
Speaker C:Yeah, maybe on where I'm sitting right now.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Melvin could be anywhere.
Speaker A:You know, he was there.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:It was literally filmed in that thing, which is great.
Speaker A:And it's neat to work with Roy.
Speaker A:He takes what he has around him and makes awesome stuff happen.
Speaker A:He's a unusual duck, and I'm glad he's part of the anomaly, you know, more just been.
Speaker A:Just the film now.
Speaker A:His.
Speaker A:He's been a filmmaker and anomaly now, so.
Speaker B:And it was so cool.
Speaker B:It screened on his birthday and like, oh, wow.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:50th birthday.
Speaker A:He had a movie out and he.
Speaker C:Gave a very eloquent speech, which was Freud.
Speaker C:Do you want to have any words to say?
Speaker C:And he's like, no, not really.
Speaker C:I was like, there we go.
Speaker C:That's iconic.
Speaker B:It's perfect.
Speaker B:It's so good.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I want to celebrate that guy.
Speaker A:Glad he did it.
Speaker A:It was neat to see on there.
Speaker A:And it's a fun project.
Speaker A:He got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker A:There's so much in his head and having.
Speaker A:Helping him bring anything out that way.
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker A:I love helping a filmmaker make something happen.
Speaker A:And it's funny, the.
Speaker A:I was talking to a bunch of people who made different props, and they're like, they saw the giant troll, like, oh, my God, how much a troll cost you to make?
Speaker A:And I was like, I think I made like 800 bucks into it.
Speaker A:The guy's like, what?
Speaker A:And he pointed at, like, the thing in my film, whether he's working on.
Speaker A:He's like, yeah, that was like, three grand for me to make that thing.
Speaker A:I'm like, I am amazing at what I can make out of shoestring budget.
Speaker A:When I say shoestring, this is a punk budget, man.
Speaker B:And that thing is massive because I remember seeing that in your studio.
Speaker B:I stopped by for something and I walked in and it is bigger than me.
Speaker B:I'm not a small guy.
Speaker B:It was huge.
Speaker B:It took up, like, almost the whole.
Speaker A:It was over 99 and a half feet tall.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's just a lot of.
Speaker A:The most expensive part is a pvc.
Speaker A:And the fur I just get from everything else.
Speaker A:I like.
Speaker A:I have a monster pile at my studio, which is hysterical.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, it was great.
Speaker A:We in that front of that.
Speaker A:The I am Frankel that.
Speaker A:That was a phenomenal thing to have for the Anomaly Film Festival.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Gorgeous.
Speaker B:People absolutely loved it.
Speaker B:It ended up being the runner up for best feature.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:And everybody seemed to universally really enjoy it.
Speaker E:The.
Speaker B:The TV show that it kind of spawned from is on hbo.
Speaker B:Max, if you want.
Speaker B:Or HBO Go.
Speaker B:Hbo.
Speaker B:It's Max.
Speaker F:We're back to Max.
Speaker F:HBO Max.
Speaker E:Like five episodes.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:So yeah, if you want to check it out before Frank Elder hits screen soon, I think it's probably in the next few months.
Speaker F:Well, it'll be interesting if this will be.
Speaker F:This will complete a trilogy or three year streak now of Anomaly having a movie that was shown an Anomaly nominated for best Animated picture.
Speaker B:It's possible.
Speaker B:It's possible because we did hear this might be the cut that we saw may not be the cut that.
Speaker B:That you see because.
Speaker B:Well.
Speaker B:That everybody else sees when it screens.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because Guillermo del Toro really loved it and now he's helping them kind of.
Speaker F:Oh man.
Speaker B:Polish it up.
Speaker A:I would love to see what.
Speaker A:What the final product that way.
Speaker A:As.
Speaker A:As a film nut.
Speaker A:Like see what the magic of editing can do and just.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:So if you happen to see it in an anomaly that may not.
Speaker B:That may be the only time you'll see it.
Speaker B:That version.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker E:Very cool.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:And that, that was.
Speaker E:It was a blast too.
Speaker E:Like, it was such an engaging movie to watch and I still have like the lyrics stuck in my head, but I don't remember the lyrics.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker E:So it's like, it's just ringing in my head like for hours a day.
Speaker E:But it was, it was just such a delight that you like, you had emotions and it was fantastical and it was just.
Speaker E:Just a great expression of passion in an animated movie and kids could go to it.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Try to have one.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:It's worked out well so far.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker E:What was.
Speaker E:What was the one that won best.
Speaker E:Best.
Speaker F:Flow.
Speaker B:Flow last year?
Speaker E:What was the one that won best.
Speaker E:The fan vote for Anomaly this year.
Speaker B:This year.
Speaker C:Oh, that's like.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Segue.
Speaker C:Segue.
Speaker E:Good.
Speaker B:Segue.
Speaker B:It's actually the film that came on right afterwards it ends.
Speaker A:Oh, nice.
Speaker E:The Closer.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Which I feel like blew a lot of minds and broke a lot of hearts.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:It's one that we all enjoyed immensely when we saw it.
Speaker B:I. I missed the group screening, but from what I hear, that was the longest conversation you all ever had.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker C:Oh God, like 20 minutes or so.
Speaker C:We Were just talking like, okay, let's decompress.
Speaker C:And like, what did that mean?
Speaker C:What?
Speaker C:Like, before we even started talking about, like, oh, should we show this?
Speaker C:We're like, okay, we gotta figure this out.
Speaker C:Which I think this is absolutely going to be one of those films that, like, when your friends are like, oh, I want something new and different to watch.
Speaker C:Okay, let me hit you with this.
Speaker C:You know, it's like gonna be the film that film lovers know and like suggest, like, you want to watch something that's kind of low key, it's gonna blow your mind and you hop on.
Speaker C:It ends.
Speaker B:I had multiple people afterwards because I was working the gimmick station and number one, longest conversations after a movie universally, everybody came out and had their pizza and then I think everybody stayed back in the.
Speaker B:The inner lobby for a while and talked about it.
Speaker B:And then it kind of spilled out towards me.
Speaker B:And as it spilled out towards me, I heard a lot of people say, I can't wait to get home and show this one to my friends.
Speaker B:This is one of my all time favorite movies.
Speaker B:Now this is something that I'm going to shit like.
Speaker B:And yeah, 45 minutes of drilling down into what this thing could have been.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:That'S a sign of something that really hit and obviously it shows.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was voted best feature in the entire festival.
Speaker A:It's a big win for Adam, too.
Speaker A:The lineup this year was done so well, not just like.
Speaker A:I mean, the pacings go back and forth.
Speaker A:The shorts program is phenomenal.
Speaker A:But to end with it ends.
Speaker A:I mean, this looks good too.
Speaker A:I think it ends with hope.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But also it's just like genuinely a good ender.
Speaker A:The good ender.
Speaker A:He was excited for it.
Speaker A:He was talking about someone he was excited to see and watch the audience interact with it.
Speaker A:So it was neat from a person from both sides watching.
Speaker A:All of us excited to watch the chance to share with folks.
Speaker A:And then the people coming out.
Speaker A:I still hear about it now.
Speaker A:People are asking, yeah, so, yeah, I.
Speaker E:Think I had an existential, like, deconstruction with KP after.
Speaker E:It was just like, oh, yeah, I guess I would have been the.
Speaker E:I guess I would have been the one driving forever.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker C:I think I owe some apologies to.
Speaker C:Okay, so listen, if I handed you a Clif bar before you entered the theater and you asked me, does this have any thematic relevance to the film?
Speaker C:And I smiled and said, no, it's just a clif bar.
Speaker C:Okay, I lied to you a little.
Speaker C:And I think you knew that I was lying.
Speaker C:People didn't seem to trust me for some reason.
Speaker C:Anomaly handing out stuff before a movie that seems to have no connection.
Speaker C:Maybe it does have a connection.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker C:We're being a little, little, little cheeky.
Speaker C:Did you eat it though?
Speaker C:Did you eat it before you knew?
Speaker C:I'm just curious.
Speaker C:Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker C:But also, you're welcome.
Speaker C:It was pretty good, right?
Speaker B:That would be a good, a good social media poll to throw.
Speaker E:Did you eat.
Speaker C:Oh, that's good.
Speaker C:I'm right.
Speaker D:Should do it because I definitely ate mine before.
Speaker C:It was also the last movie, so I can understand why you ate it.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Once it, once it hits full release, that would be a fun one.
Speaker A:I actually love listening to the.
Speaker A:Once you get past the door and all the people are sitting in the seat waiting for something to go because everyone's now know each other.
Speaker A:People have been there for years.
Speaker A:They're seeing each other.
Speaker A:I love.
Speaker A:I'll be in the balcony just like listening in there.
Speaker A:Like, what do you think this is going to be about?
Speaker A:I listen to heads people talking about it like, oh, this is my favorite part.
Speaker C:You're right not to trust me.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:Oh my God, you're right.
Speaker B:It's so great.
Speaker B:And that's kind of the, the interesting thing going back to giving Adam his flowers because I always have to do it a thousand times.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I feel like when people have heard Anomaly in the past, they've been like, oh, it's the horror movie festival.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And we're super.
Speaker B:Not that.
Speaker B:But I think this year was the first year where you showed up and went, oh no, they're not the horror Movie festival.
Speaker B:There's such a.
Speaker B:And I don't want to just say that to toot our own horns.
Speaker B:Like, please feel free to weigh in.
Speaker B:Like I, I should ask.
Speaker B:This isn't loading you up, but like, was that your perception of Anomaly going in or like, you know what I mean?
Speaker F:So before the first Anomaly I attended, which definitely was the virtual one, my, my thought was that I'm like, oh, it's like weird horror.
Speaker F:But then the first Anomaly movie that I like rented to watch at home was Paper Tigers.
Speaker A:Oh yeah.
Speaker F:Fits of my stuff.
Speaker F:And I was like, oh, this is cool.
Speaker F:And it kind of opened my eyes to what genre film is.
Speaker F:And I think that it fits like our film community and like Rochester Buffalo, like we have such a strong base of genre film fans and we had like think of like the things like Saturday night Rewind.
Speaker F:And not even just that like the little does Their own, like our themed showings.
Speaker F:And it's this diverse range of genre films.
Speaker F:So I, you know, I, I always feel like, oh, I know there's gonna be some horror.
Speaker F:And I definitely like, I.
Speaker F:When I look at the lineup, I'm looking at like, okay, what's the horror?
Speaker F:And then I'm like, then I'm like, ooh, is there anything martial arts or action adjacent in here?
Speaker F:And then I film the.
Speaker F:I'm like, okay, well then the rest.
Speaker F:What else is like, interesting priorities.
Speaker D:And I'm there for the horror and the, the brain.
Speaker D:Messing around with my brain.
Speaker D:And then I sometimes get my emotions messed with.
Speaker D:And I don't appreciate that, but I stick around for it anyway because I love.
Speaker D:I love it.
Speaker E:You were like after the, the.
Speaker E:Was it the South Korean movie?
Speaker D:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, you.
Speaker F:So that was so good.
Speaker E:Harry was shook up a little bit.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:You asked me about the next film.
Speaker C:You're like, no, I can't do this again.
Speaker D:It's like, if you're gonna hit me in the feels again, where I'm like, yeah, understood.
Speaker C:I'm not cruel like Adam.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:I either go to you or Matt because I'm just like, yeah, yeah, tell me.
Speaker C:We're like, no, don't worry about it.
Speaker D:Am I gonna be able to catch this later?
Speaker D:A and B, if I don't can't catch this later, is it gonna mess with me right now?
Speaker B:Because I can't.
Speaker A:But we're not trying to catch anyone.
Speaker A:We want you to have a good experience.
Speaker A:We want you to have like, like my girlfriend, she is not a fan of I. I curate.
Speaker A:She's like, well, I like this one.
Speaker A:I'm like, no, like, you know, yeah, you'll enjoy for some aspects of it, but you're not going to.
Speaker A:Like, this is not your thing.
Speaker A:But when it is her thing, she loves like, I mean, we see people that show up, especially, like, what movie should I watch?
Speaker A:I get text messages all weekend.
Speaker A:Like, well, I'm like, come to Obex.
Speaker A:You're going to love.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:And I bunch people show up like, I'm here for my, my suggestions, you know, so.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:And I have to say, I love the amount of black and white films.
Speaker E:Like, I, I do love that modern usage of black and white.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker E:And between.
Speaker E:Obex and Manny Wolf and in the Mouth, I. I loved all three of those.
Speaker E:And that, like, that usage of modern black and white was so delightful.
Speaker E:And I, I loved, I loved Obex.
Speaker E:What a weird journey that had like two Separate whole vibes.
Speaker E:I loved that first half of that movie so much.
Speaker E:It was so much fun.
Speaker E:Like, it was just such a great meditation on loneliness or being.
Speaker E:Being apart from people.
Speaker E:But it wasn't sad.
Speaker E:It wasn't depressing.
Speaker E:It was just somebody who had found delight in his dog and creating something for somebody else.
Speaker E:And Carrie keeps on employing me.
Speaker E:I have to see the first movie that was an anomaly with him.
Speaker D:You felt my.
Speaker D:My thoughts burrowing into your brain as you're talking.
Speaker A:I'm glad that movie was so good.
Speaker A:Strawberry Mansion was so good that I went to a Strawberry Mansion party last year there actually, people that went there talked about it.
Speaker A:So we actually went and I actually brought a bucket of chicken.
Speaker A:Chicken.
Speaker A:Branded it all that way.
Speaker A:So I actually went to a Strawberry Mansion party.
Speaker A:That's how much people were impressed by the movie.
Speaker A:They had to show it to other people.
Speaker A:They got it.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So definitely worth checking it out.
Speaker A:But, yeah, that's Alfred Bernie.
Speaker D:Someday, someday he'll see.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:We mentioned Manny Wolf, which was the audience award winner for best short, our buddy Manny Wolf.
Speaker C:Listen, we're all big Manny supporters here, and we just want to see him succeed.
Speaker C:Now, I know it is in the past.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I know he's a wolf man, not a werewolf.
Speaker C:A wolf man.
Speaker C: ying to make it in Hollywood,: Speaker C:Turns out that's tough because they kind of, like, stereotype you into one role.
Speaker C:Yeah, but he's not.
Speaker C:He's our boy Manny.
Speaker C:He's not playing that.
Speaker A:He's got depth, man.
Speaker C:You just followed every day.
Speaker C:I'm like, yes, yes, I need you.
Speaker C:I need you to hit.
Speaker C:And now I'm like, oh, but he doesn't exist.
Speaker C:I can't go and see his, like, whole, like, back.
Speaker C:Like, the Dryden will never show a retrospective of Manny Wolf films.
Speaker C:And it breaks my ass or the.
Speaker D:Poorer for it in Othello.
Speaker E:I. I love this.
Speaker E:I loved his charisma, too, because he was so charismatic.
Speaker E:But, like, when, like, the flop sweats hit, it was like, oh, God, it was.
Speaker E:You just felt that crushing moment.
Speaker E:But it was.
Speaker E:It was such a complete thought.
Speaker E:And I would love to see that expanded.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker E:Which is when you see, like when you go to the shorts program, you're like, oh, I want to see that one expanded.
Speaker F:Yeah, that's actually what I want to touch on.
Speaker F:So that was probably outside.
Speaker F:I mean, I think I'm still trying to digest it ends because that was phenomenal.
Speaker F:The useful Ghost.
Speaker F:Like, the same thing.
Speaker F:I mean, like, everything, right?
Speaker F:But this is so.
Speaker F:The times that I've come before and, like, done the pass and gone to the whole thing out.
Speaker F:I typically skip the shorts just because it usually.
Speaker F:Well, so the problem is.
Speaker F:And you can yell, but I'm like, it's.
Speaker F:It's often Saturday morning, and with kids, that is the sweet spot for family.
Speaker F:But there's also part where I'm like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker F:But I'll admit there's part of me that was always like, okay, how am I really gonna want to sit through, like, two hours of shorts?
Speaker F:Stop whining.
Speaker F:So I made a point.
Speaker F:I went to the shorts this the Saturday morning, and I. Oh, my Lord, I loved every single one of those.
Speaker D:They were so different, but they're stellar.
Speaker F:There was stuff like that.
Speaker F:Like the cruelty with this woman getting chased.
Speaker F:I was.
Speaker F:I was absolutely terrified.
Speaker F:Like, I.
Speaker F:In the seat, like.
Speaker F:Like, I could feel my heart.
Speaker F:There was times where I felt like I almost thought that I needed to, like, get up and walk out of the theater because I needed to.
Speaker F:Look, you know, I'm not a young man, and, you know, I've spent.
Speaker F:We've talked before about how, you know, I went through this injury this summer, and I spent a lot of time on the couch, so I don't know that my heart rate was ready for it.
Speaker F:But, like, then you had one like Amira that I don't even want to say anything about.
Speaker F:Just, if you have the chance to see this, it's.
Speaker F:I promise you it is not what you think it is the whole time.
Speaker A:And no point while you're watching.
Speaker A:Do you think it's.
Speaker A:Would think it is?
Speaker A:I was like, twist.
Speaker A:So many twist.
Speaker F:Blows your mind.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:It's what we talked about.
Speaker A:There's certain shorts when we just, like, this is in there.
Speaker A:This one spoke to us.
Speaker A:This one stands for the gram.
Speaker C:I think I was like.
Speaker C:I think I was the first one who saw Amira.
Speaker C:We're going through.
Speaker C:And I remember writing down, everybody watch this now.
Speaker C:Like, everyone has to watch this now.
Speaker C:This might be the one I fight over, right?
Speaker F:Like, first just looking at it, because I remember my first.
Speaker F:First thought of it was, this is beautiful with the all the, like, candlelight.
Speaker F:Yeah, right?
Speaker F:It's gorgeous, right?
Speaker F:And then it's like, oh, wow, this.
Speaker F:It's gonna blow your.
Speaker F:And I don't want to like anything else.
Speaker F:But then you, like, followed that up with evil dinner.
Speaker F:Speaking of our friend, I would have fought for speaking of our friend Chad.
Speaker F:He is who I thought of immediately when I saw this, I was like, this movie is Chad to a T. I see it.
Speaker F:So Chad, you've got it.
Speaker F:We got to make sure Chad sees this because it's.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah, I love.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:And then it was, you know, an ending with Tether, which was just this fantastic.
Speaker F:And I like, even like the message of it.
Speaker F:And that was such a great way to kind of end that session.
Speaker F:And then having the filmmakers come up, have.
Speaker F:And I forget the.
Speaker F:The director of this when she came up, Meredith and like, talking about.
Speaker F:So Ming Nao Ren did the.
Speaker C:It's like the voice.
Speaker F:Voice of the cap.
Speaker F:And hearing her talk about getting to interact with Ming is incredible.
Speaker A:Those are my favorite things, those Q and A's.
Speaker A:And I'm glad you hung around.
Speaker A:That's what she made a universe.
Speaker A:And she's.
Speaker A:No pun intended, but she's gonna make more.
Speaker C:Well, sky and I had a great conversation with her at the merch table where she was talking about how.
Speaker C:How she wants to flesh it out and different parts of the story that she wants to flesh out as a feature and like, to get to have experience to, like, listen to a filmmaker go, I made this, but I want to do this right?
Speaker C:And then would be like, yeah, yeah, full support.
Speaker C:All the full support.
Speaker A:You can make that idea in a short film because we get so many shorts sent to us, and this is not a slight on short filmmakers, but, like, they editing.
Speaker A:Like, some people, their stuff is too sacred.
Speaker A:It's tough.
Speaker A:We get bombarded.
Speaker A:Mean hundreds, hundreds and hundreds, hundreds sent to us.
Speaker A:And I. I love shorts.
Speaker A:Shorts program.
Speaker A:Reason I'll fight.
Speaker A:I love opening for the shorts program.
Speaker A:I love the shorts program because that you have a little window from nothing to your heart beating to, like, and you're done.
Speaker A:I mean, so having her there, it was just what an experience.
Speaker A:Like I said.
Speaker A:But I trust her.
Speaker A:Like, you already did it so well here army with budget.
Speaker A:And we will be there for it.
Speaker A:I will watch it 100%.
Speaker C:And then other shorts program stuff.
Speaker C:So then we've had several local shorts makers and the runner up for the audience award for best short was a local filmmaker with sketchy characters.
Speaker B:Characters.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Which is this just.
Speaker C:It's just great to see because, like, we don't influence the audience awards.
Speaker C:We genuinely just want to see what people like.
Speaker C:And when a local short hits, like, that feels extra great because we want to give a little space.
Speaker C:Like, we are the Rochester genre film festival.
Speaker C:So we like to keep the Rochester in there too.
Speaker C:So between that short and then we played evenly matched, which was a local short in front of Cannonball at the Dryden.
Speaker C:So to be able to show like a filmmaker look on.
Speaker C:On the, on the screen at the Dryden is like, amazing, you know, can.
Speaker E:We talk about Cannonball for at least a minute?
Speaker C:Because I'm.
Speaker C:I'm controlling myself.
Speaker C:I would speak the entire hour about Cannonball.
Speaker F:What.
Speaker E:What a delight that was to see.
Speaker E:To see that.
Speaker E:Another.
Speaker E:Another, like, killer poll from Jared.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:You know, and the whole, you know, the team over at the Dryden pulling something like that out of the vault.
Speaker B:Jared is a champion vault diver.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:He pulled what, a half a dozen different.
Speaker C:Yeah, we went.
Speaker C:We were like once a month we would kind of he pull something out and be like, hey, what about this?
Speaker C:In fact, this is the longest.
Speaker C:Usually it's last minute because we're anomaly and we get overwhelmed, but this year we're like, hey, we want to really put extra time, you know, and kind of choose instead of going like that.
Speaker D:Surprise.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker F:So did you get to go like to the Dryden and watch maybe?
Speaker C:We were only a couple people at the theater, like, watching something that was kind of pulled just for us.
Speaker C:And I maybe see Corvette Summer with like maybe two other people in the theater, and it was a special cut that they showed on tv.
Speaker C:So I was like, anyway, so maybe I'm special.
Speaker C:Maybe that.
Speaker B:That will tell you the level of stuff that Jared's pulling from the vaults to.
Speaker B:It was the TV cut of Corvette Summer, so, like, it's getting really, really drilled in.
Speaker F:So, like, that's it.
Speaker F:You know, it's a dream of mine to have Jared someday come on to punches and popcorn and.
Speaker F:Because I just want to drill him.
Speaker C:About, what do you have?
Speaker F:What crazy stuff do you have there?
Speaker F:I actually want him to come and then our other buddy Chris Pajali to come on and just have these two talk about, like movies that I have never heard of.
Speaker F:And they're both like, oh, yeah, obviously, like, how do you not know that?
Speaker B:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker B:You could probably ask Jared and you'd be up for it, especially if you throw Chris out there.
Speaker F:Right?
Speaker B:I would.
Speaker B:I set up for like four hours.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:But like Cannonball it was.
Speaker C:It's so lovely.
Speaker C:Actually, if I remember correctly, it was the first of the.
Speaker C:Everyone got really interested in the seventies about the cross country car race that was happening.
Speaker C:So of course let's make a movie about it.
Speaker C:And being a Corman film.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Came out early because they did it quickly.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C: race movie called Death Race: Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker C:Did not like doing car race movies.
Speaker C:Roger Corman's like, okay, that one didn't do great.
Speaker C:How about we do it again in current time?
Speaker C:Do you want to make a film that you didn't want to make, but again?
Speaker C:And Paul's like, I guess as long as I get to fill it with gags.
Speaker C:And he did.
Speaker E:Can we do it now, but faster?
Speaker C:Yeah, it was fast.
Speaker C:Like, he's like, Paul does like.
Speaker C:I did not want to make this film.
Speaker C:But he got to have all his, like, director buddies.
Speaker C:Like, if you were hanging around set, he got to be that little baby Joe Dante.
Speaker C:Little baby Alan Ark.
Speaker C:Hush, they're in.
Speaker C:The film is Martin Scorsese and Sebastian show up for no reason.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because they were on set.
Speaker C:Did Paul Bartel write music that sounds like no.
Speaker C:Coward and, like, play almost the entire song?
Speaker C:Yes, yes, he did.
Speaker C:Because it was all.
Speaker C:He was keeping himself interested.
Speaker C:And we are all the richer for it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:He played that whole Cole Porter song for Dick Miller.
Speaker B:All for all for him to go.
Speaker B:That's not Cole Porter.
Speaker B:That's such a great bit.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, Dick.
Speaker C:Dick Miller's in this.
Speaker B:Dick Miller's.
Speaker C:This is the most important thing.
Speaker F:That's your sign of quality right there, everyone.
Speaker C:Like, I could tell people are having probably as good a time as you can have on a set where you're just like, go, go, go, go.
Speaker C:And he gave us car crashes.
Speaker C:Did he give us a car crash?
Speaker C:He gave us so much car crash at the end.
Speaker C:I'm like, 80% of the budget.
Speaker C:This car crash.
Speaker C:It's almost like he's like, oh, you want some, Roger?
Speaker C:Bam.
Speaker C:Bam.
Speaker C:Oh, we're not done yet.
Speaker C:Bam.
Speaker C:Five minutes later, there's still cars heading for the crash.
Speaker E:I can't explain the level, the depth of laughter that happened at the first row of the balcony when the car crashes.
Speaker E:Decided never to stop.
Speaker C:Never stop.
Speaker E:You know what?
Speaker E:Like, you know what the Blues Brothers are like, oh, God, we have to tone this down for the Blues Brothers mall scene.
Speaker E:We have to tone this down.
Speaker E:That was way too much.
Speaker E:And that's how much we got to see.
Speaker E:It was truly spectacular.
Speaker E:Just to see what.
Speaker E:I can't believe this is continuing to happen.
Speaker E:And I also couldn't believe the amount of time that David Carradine had a fully unzipped hoodie, sweatshirt and an ascot on.
Speaker E:I was blown away.
Speaker E:It was 90% of the movie.
Speaker C:No shirt.
Speaker A:Is that why you're wearing it right now?
Speaker A:Everyone's wondering about that.
Speaker B:This is why I was going.
Speaker B:I was trying to find an ascot to wear when I was doing the introduction.
Speaker B:I could not make it happen.
Speaker F:It really disappointed me.
Speaker B:Missed opportunities.
Speaker C:But that's what the Dryden can be, is we can find something real fun.
Speaker C:Okay, listen, War of the Dragons, that was the first Dryden one we showed.
Speaker E:Oh my God.
Speaker C:Was it?
Speaker C:No, it's when dragons.
Speaker F:When dragons.
Speaker F:You know what?
Speaker F:In some like Singapore or like I think it probably was called.
Speaker C:Yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker C:So if we play another martial arts one at this point we really set ourselves up because I'm like, how do we beat that?
Speaker C:So I feel like there's a weight.
Speaker C:Like when the next martial arts film comes, it's either going to be a stone cold classic or match when dragons collide.
Speaker C:I mean, it's so wtfness, right?
Speaker C:Like we can't, we can't like half ass it now.
Speaker C:We kind of hit a pinnacle kind of by accident.
Speaker C:Unless we have something that matches that coffin scene, we can't do it.
Speaker F:Oh my God, how long is it?
Speaker F:10 minutes of the coffin just floating.
Speaker D:Just vibing out in the ocean.
Speaker C:High watermark for Anomaly.
Speaker B:Jazz, funk, Immigrant Song is what I want played at my funeral.
Speaker C:Good.
Speaker C:So we're looking.
Speaker C:I want you to know that we're looking.
Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker B:Always on the hunt.
Speaker B:And maybe my favorite giveaway from Anomaly this year.
Speaker C:Oh, yes.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:So when I knew that we were playing Cannonball, we like to do fun giveaways.
Speaker A:Give away.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:So I was like, hey, how about this?
Speaker C:How about we do a button?
Speaker C:And first I was like, okay, we'll just like do the, do like the poster.
Speaker C:No, I said, or check this out.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:Because I know I can get a copy of this like on YouTube.
Speaker C:It's not the best version, but.
Speaker C:And I realized the most important scene of the movie is when Paul Bartel, the director is playing like the crime boss and he's visited by, I'm assuming the mafia, but he's played by Martin Scorsese and Sylvester Stallone and they're just eating kfc.
Speaker C:So I was like, what if I got that scene?
Speaker C:Can I find a clip of that scene that would be encapsulated a single image that we put on a one inch button and then hand it out after?
Speaker C:Because we hand it out before, it doesn't mean Anything.
Speaker C:And then Matt knows how to hand out a gimmick.
Speaker C:Is going.
Speaker C:Handing them out in.
Speaker C:Going like, Martin Scorsese and Sylvester Stone.
Speaker C:Eat kfc.
Speaker C:Martin Scorsese.
Speaker F:I mean, how could you?
Speaker F:How could you resist that?
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:I was like, you know what?
Speaker C:We did it.
Speaker C:I want to honor this movie in the correct way.
Speaker B:It was so fun.
Speaker F:I'm so mad I missed that.
Speaker F:To go watch the Sabres lose a hockey game.
Speaker B:The fact that you went to see the Sabres over anything.
Speaker B:We're showing at the Dryden.
Speaker F:The Sabres, who scored.
Speaker F:Not a sa.
Speaker F:Not a single goal.
Speaker C:Thanks, Buffalo.
Speaker B:They may not have scored to this day.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But the Dryden.
Speaker A:Having Anomaly take place at the Dryden just makes me feel like we're doing something really freaking cool.
Speaker C:Getting away with something.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:We're back.
Speaker C:You haven't chased us out with brooms.
Speaker C:Get out of here.
Speaker A:I got a chance to listen to some of the filmmakers coming in.
Speaker A:They're like, oh, do you know they did something at the George Eastman, like, Anomaly.
Speaker A:Does it, like.
Speaker A:Yeah, they pair with the George.
Speaker A:Because they're.
Speaker A:I mean, from out of town.
Speaker A:George Eastman, the museum.
Speaker A:It's truly a thing.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, it's a thing here as well.
Speaker A:But it's such a.
Speaker A:Like, they pair, like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I lean in, like, actually with Megan, they actually go and choose together.
Speaker A:It's just not just like, they toss something at us.
Speaker A:We work on it to put it.
Speaker C:Together nights right here.
Speaker C:But then they let us in.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Weird stuff.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It was neat to, like, hear, like, you know, kind of fly on the wall, listen to them talking about what's going on.
Speaker A:Because I think same thing, like, having us.
Speaker A:Plus, it's a good reprieve for us.
Speaker A:We have Wednesday of a crazy Wednesday, and then we get a chance to enjoy having it somewhere else.
Speaker A:The morning of, we get to kind of set up and do some more cleaning and do more sets and stuff.
Speaker A:But, yeah, being at the Dryden really makes you feel like, damn it, we're good.
Speaker D:It's like having a sleepover at somebody else's house.
Speaker F:Well, it's just so cool because I think, to me, it's one of the things that is special about Rochester is we have such an incredible film community here and bringing those together.
Speaker F:And, I mean, Anomaly is a part of it.
Speaker F:Like, I already talked about the movies like Robot Dreams and Flow that had Oscar nominations.
Speaker F:One of them won an Oscar last year, and we saw it here before it was anywhere else that I know of.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:And.
Speaker F:But that's not.
Speaker F:I mean there's been so many films that have been shown at Anomaly that have then become like big buzz films like Skin I'm a Rink and you know, so many So I mean it's.
Speaker F:And this is what I always to like anyone that likes genre again not just a horror like stress that like man, you guys like you're the tastemaker.
Speaker F:You have such a great like the nine are film Nazgul.
Speaker B:We go by Fellowship but I guess.
Speaker F:Yeah, you know the Fellowship of the Nazgul.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:But yeah, you just such an incredible job of watching films that like and again from a wide range of like this is scary, this is heartwarming.
Speaker F:Like man they're, they're always just that mean we.
Speaker F:They're so good.
Speaker F:But you, they're always movies that you walk away from and like you have to digest them.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:Like the quality is always incredible.
Speaker F:So I always hats off to all of you that watch and select these and it, it's amazing.
Speaker D:Plus I love that like I, I will take it all in Om nom nom, I'm gonna eat them all.
Speaker D:But.
Speaker D:I do love that like you guys have been making lists for folks that don't want the gore or don't want the whatever or they're for kids or whatever.
Speaker D:So you make safe lists and also like trigger warnings which is really, really forward thinking and very helpful for folks that do not have an omnivore diet.
Speaker D:With films like myself and Melvin the Devourer.
Speaker B:That'S something that we've taken really seriously.
Speaker B:I think almost since day one.
Speaker B:We try to watch everything and take copious notes to make sure that we're not pulling somebody new and experience they're not prepared for because we know how terrible that can be.
Speaker C:Want to serve the films.
Speaker C:Like I don't think it's putting your best foot forward if you're not telling people, okay, this is the film and this is what's in it.
Speaker C:If that's not something you want to engage with, that's okay like that it's a disservice to everyone involved, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's nothing worse than having a person who clearly is not enjoying the film in the theater.
Speaker A:If I'm enjoying it, I, I take a lot of people around me in that's.
Speaker A:I like theater because it can kind of vanish off there.
Speaker A:But we take a lot of energy.
Speaker A:Like when, when we added the oh, we need to have our trigger warnings or just concerns content warning something else when we're filmed now it's a.
Speaker A:It's a such an integral part.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Yeah, base level.
Speaker A:We watch something like the first part of a review is like, here's the.
Speaker B:Anytime we screen anything, those are usually like the first three lines of whatever the content warnings are.
Speaker B:I mean, it's also just being nice to each other too, because we know that everybody has their own level and.
Speaker C:You know, yeah, I can change day to day.
Speaker C:You're like, hey, you want to engage with us today?
Speaker A:And there's been a handful.
Speaker A:One was like, this is heavy.
Speaker A:I'm like, no, like, content warning, whatever it may be, like, I don't have that in me right now because I want to be the right head.
Speaker A:Because we watch a lot of films, but also what I love about it is when we're getting close to it, we have a list of our yeses and we're like, oh, we have maybe amazing horror films in there, but we don't have all of them.
Speaker A:That way.
Speaker A:We actually be like, no, no, we need some action here.
Speaker A:We need to have the indescribable needs to be here somewhere.
Speaker A:So because we get so many amazing submissions that we could easily have a whole just all horror all the way that way.
Speaker A:It's a heavy genre film, tend to lean that way a bit.
Speaker A:But the way we, like, clearly stack it so it's that full flavor of all choice.
Speaker A:It's an amazing thing that you know.
Speaker F:And the shorts are always well paired with the films.
Speaker F:Like, always.
Speaker F:Which is funny.
Speaker F:Now I'm like, why did I not think I would like.
Speaker F:Sure.
Speaker F:Because I always love.
Speaker A:No, that's.
Speaker A:That's a.
Speaker A:That's a thing.
Speaker A:A lot of people don't go for shorts.
Speaker A:And it's just.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker A:You're not used to it.
Speaker A:You're some TV shows and movies.
Speaker A:You see more people making shorts now, younger generations because of YouTube and social media.
Speaker A:So they're realizing, oh, a short thing is great.
Speaker A:You are your age group and same mind.
Speaker A:People don't go to for shorts films.
Speaker A:They're not.
Speaker A:They're used to it.
Speaker A:They're not trained for it.
Speaker A:But once you see it, you're like, oh, my God.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It's interesting though, because not to go fully off track, but like, my parents never thought that.
Speaker B:And then they went to the Oscar shorts programs at the Little.
Speaker B:Which, by the way, when it gets to be Oscar time, they do all the nominated shorts.
Speaker F:I'm so doing that this year.
Speaker B:I keep saying documentary shorts and otherwise, and they were like, we had such a great time with that.
Speaker B:And I think it really is.
Speaker B:And Carrie, I'm gonna steal something that you said to me a couple years ago where you were like, thief.
Speaker B:I love going to the.
Speaker B:The shorts because it's such a mix of all the different genres.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker B:You know, not.
Speaker B:I have to take the words out of your mouth.
Speaker B:If you want to talk more about it, please do.
Speaker D:I do.
Speaker D:But also, I mean, I mean, it is.
Speaker D:It's like going to a buffet and trying every little piece that you possibly can.
Speaker D:And like, oh, I don't know what that is.
Speaker D:I'm gonna put it on my plate and give it a try.
Speaker D:I also, when I hear, oh, I don't want to go for the shorts, or when I'm tired on Saturday morning, and I'm like, I can't.
Speaker D:I was here for the late, Late show on Friday night and now I'm dead.
Speaker D:I'm going to miss them.
Speaker D:I feel like I lose health.
Speaker D:I lose health by missing out on the shorts because I worry that I will never get to see them again because they may be.
Speaker D:It may be a perfect little bite sized, beautiful film that may be available on YouTube.
Speaker D:It may never be available to me.
Speaker A:That I want to see.
Speaker A:Now I tell people about and I can't find them.
Speaker A:I mean, like, we have to say.
Speaker B:There'S a lot of lost media.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:There's some things that I still talk about and I can't think of him right now, but like being.
Speaker A:Trying to be like, oh, my God, we need to find this.
Speaker A:And we even have the contact with some of the filmmakers.
Speaker A:I could probably do that way, but you know, there's not streaming here behind whatever.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker A:It's tough.
Speaker A:My God.
Speaker B:So, yeah, we did branch out.
Speaker B:We had two shorts programs this year.
Speaker B:So Mike, if you can't make it out on Saturday morning, cut out of work early on Friday, it's happening.
Speaker B:Because I know your boss is way easier than.
Speaker C:Doctors.
Speaker A:True.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:There was a note.
Speaker F:There was.
Speaker F:Yeah, I saw that all over our local social media.
Speaker C:My best stuff is the I come up with on Thursday night before Friday.
Speaker C:That's that.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:That's my I can plan monster stuff.
Speaker C:I'm like, what if I just do this thing we mentioned on the preview podcast, just passing and I wrote a note, said, do that stupid thing, Megan.
Speaker C:And then I put it on my whiteboard and then I did it.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's all.
Speaker A:A lot of the teams that way, though.
Speaker B:It's anomaly.
Speaker C:Yeah, anomaly.
Speaker C:And then we did it.
Speaker C:Anomaly.
Speaker D:Our past selves are our gremlins.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:That orchestrate the future.
Speaker C:Encouraging this.
Speaker C:Megan.
Speaker C:I don't know, Megan.
Speaker C:Seemed like a funny idea, but now we got to do it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:I have to listen to the gremlin.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker F:I did also want to touch on what Carrie was mentioning earlier about the.
Speaker F:The warnings in the list to specifically call out the slightly safer.
Speaker F:Because it's been a magical thing to be able to bring my kids to experience some of that.
Speaker F:You know, part of it, I'll admit, is selfishly that, like, if daddy's gonna disappear for a whole week, I can be like, ah, Daddy will show up for like five minutes and bring you this to this one.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:So I get like a little bit of less skill, but also I get that completely, dude.
Speaker F:Yeah, you do.
Speaker F:You know, but also like to be able to give the kids kids these experiences with these movies that aren't like the Minecraft movie.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker F:And not to knock that, like studio films and like, that kind of thing.
Speaker F:What?
Speaker F:You know, I'm glad that those things are out there.
Speaker F:The kids like those.
Speaker B:But I'll knock.
Speaker B:The Minecraft movie is annoying as.
Speaker F:Anyway, but anyway.
Speaker F:But you know that my, you know, my son, I think, what was it three years ago that you showed Riddle of Fire and he stilt and I mean, my son is 13, so he was like 10 when he saw that.
Speaker F:And he still talks about it like.
Speaker B:It was like the perfect age because that's like his Goonies, you know, Right.
Speaker F:It's so good.
Speaker F:And I love that, like, he'll still say, like, this is my favorite film.
Speaker F:And like, for just.
Speaker F:For any of us that are movie geeks, right, to be able to have our kids, you know, or any kids in like our community to have a touch point of an independent film that are like, this is something I enjoyed that just like, oh, I opens that door for them and I like.
Speaker F:And it gets.
Speaker F:You know, then hopefully they are like five years from now, they're coming to Anomaly because they're like, I remember when dad brought me to see Robot Dreams or something.
Speaker F:And you know, or just things like, like last year's flow.
Speaker F:I mean, now again, Oscar, it's got a freaking Criterion disc.
Speaker B:But, like, I didn't know about that.
Speaker B:That's news to me.
Speaker F:And that's it.
Speaker F:But it like, but that aside, like, I brought my two kids to see a movie with zero dialogue.
Speaker F:Like, to be able to experience a different type of storytelling, like, it's just, again, is one of the many, many things that you get to experience an anomaly that you're not going to walking into, like, Tinseltown on Saturday.
Speaker F:That's.
Speaker F:Again, it's one of the many reasons why I love what you all put together.
Speaker F:It's.
Speaker F:That's freaking awesome.
Speaker B:Well, thanks, Mike.
Speaker C:Or I, like, Blush.
Speaker B:I. I don't know what to say.
Speaker B:I guess.
Speaker C:Do we end it here or do we just talk ourselves into a bad situation?
Speaker B:I think what we could do is say thank you one last time to our.
Speaker B:Our sponsors for the year.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:I'm gonna.
Speaker C:Let me.
Speaker C:Here's the thing.
Speaker C:I'm bringing it up because I made this font, but I feel like I need to make sure I have everybody.
Speaker A:In there, because if anyone goes to.
Speaker A:We won't woo.
Speaker A:But if you're in your car listening to this, make sure to woo.
Speaker B:Be sure to woo.
Speaker B:We can't do it that loud because.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:And if you're in your car, it would be cool if you actually roll down all your windows so you can say it loudly so that.
Speaker F:Yeah, anybody is like, what's happening?
Speaker A:I. I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:This was year seven.
Speaker A:It's going to be even better.
Speaker A:Year eight, we learned a lot.
Speaker B:We did.
Speaker B:It's funny that we've been doing this seven years now.
Speaker B:We've rebooted it three times, and we're still, like, walking around going, you know, we could do better next year.
Speaker B:You know, it'd be a good idea.
Speaker B:You know, it'd be nicer to us and everybody else around us.
Speaker C:No rest.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I could charge for tails.
Speaker A:I'm a festival guy.
Speaker A:I was spun up more.
Speaker A:Like, I could keep going.
Speaker A:Like, I felt bad.
Speaker A:Everyone else is tired and be like, I still got some.
Speaker A:I could keep going, guys, a couple days.
Speaker A:I'll be very annoying on the pumble channels right now.
Speaker C:I got those.
Speaker C:I want to make sure I remember everybody.
Speaker C:And it's a thanks for the potato bar and for filling our tummies.
Speaker C:In between, it was Madeline's Catering.
Speaker C:We had Dorje Adornments, Joshalia Photography, Fright Rags, Rochester Greenovation, Lunchador Podcast Network.
Speaker C:We also had the Roster, Finger Lakes Film Commission, the Film Office.
Speaker B:Let's take a second with the Film Office.
Speaker B:They did oh, God, so much for us this year.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:They helped us out tremendously.
Speaker B:Tim Bannock and Nora Brown are incredible.
Speaker B:Tim Banik, if you see him, he's the guy that's at our screenings.
Speaker B:He's usually got some sort of baseball hat.
Speaker B:He's the guy with the black yeti cup and he is the key to the city as far as filmmaking and Rochester goes.
Speaker B:Incredible fountain of knowledge.
Speaker B:Great guy.
Speaker A:Really wants film to be here.
Speaker A:He is such a fan of the region and film and like this Venn diagram of a powerhouse that really.
Speaker A:I'm really happy that he's becoming a regular with Anomaly.
Speaker B:I mean, that's awesome.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:He was instrumental in a lot of the stuff we did for the filmmakers.
Speaker B:He took some of the filmmakers on a tour to show them around what Rochester could do for them making their.
Speaker B:Their films.
Speaker B:And we could have more films made in Rochester.
Speaker B:That's awesome, what Tim's doing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There actually was some discussions happening with Phobic.
Speaker A:Oh, you know, it was really neat to see.
Speaker B:It's cool.
Speaker B:So, yeah.
Speaker B:Shout out to the film office and shout out to Tim and Nora.
Speaker B:Sorry to take that extra minute out.
Speaker F:I feel like an important.
Speaker C:Then we had Pandemonium coffee and then Carrie, you can take the last one.
Speaker D:Crazy dude.
Speaker D:Art and design.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:If you like that.
Speaker C:Merch table, everybody.
Speaker C:Somebody who knew what they were doing.
Speaker D:She tries.
Speaker A:You succeeded.
Speaker A:It's great.
Speaker B:I also want to give a special shout out to our buddy, Chris Glenstrom.
Speaker E:Hello.
Speaker F:Hello.
Speaker E:What a delight this was.
Speaker B:Let me give you your flowers because you did something very special for us on the night of Cannonball.
Speaker B:You did all of the legwork to set up the outing at Old Pueblo Grill.
Speaker B:So Chris set that up.
Speaker B:It took a lot of work and a lot of effort.
Speaker B:He was probably ready to strangle me the amount that I was driving him crazy about it.
Speaker B:So I want to say in front of God and everybody, thank you so much, Chris, for setting that up.
Speaker C:It worked out real well.
Speaker D:It was a really good time.
Speaker B:Instrumental in doing that.
Speaker B:And everybody universally I talked to had an absolute blast with it.
Speaker B:It gave us the space for Meg to do the trivia.
Speaker B:Everybody had a great meal.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:Shout out to OPG for.
Speaker E:For hosting us.
Speaker E:I mean, Joe Zolniewski and the whole team was great to work with.
Speaker E:Reminded me of my nominate days.
Speaker E:I got to do this.
Speaker E:This dance with a small restaurant locally.
Speaker E:But it was great to see, like, so many people show up for that.
Speaker E:It just.
Speaker E:It felt, you know, it was sad to lose the, you know, poutinery.
Speaker E:But it was so great to be right in the neighborhood and supporting another great local business, doing great things.
Speaker A:And the food, they.
Speaker A:Impressive.
Speaker A:Trust the fat guy.
Speaker A:It was great.
Speaker A:But the people, the filmmakers, were also enjoying it.
Speaker B:OPG never fails.
Speaker B:It's so good.
Speaker B:Thank you again to them and thank you to Chris.
Speaker D:For.
Speaker B:For making that happen for us.
Speaker B:Us Last.
Speaker B:Last kind of shout outs to some of the.
Speaker B:The folks that.
Speaker B:That came.
Speaker B:They're the year after year folk, obviously.
Speaker B:Carrie, Chris, Mike.
Speaker B:I want to say a special shout out to Leslie and Stephanie.
Speaker C:Oh my God.
Speaker C:Beautiful, cute little gifts.
Speaker C:These little crochets.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:People giving gifts.
Speaker C:Pork potatoes when we needed them the most.
Speaker A:So magical Spudly, those folks.
Speaker A:I am so excited to see them every year.
Speaker A:They are family now.
Speaker B:I look forward to it every year.
Speaker A:Every year.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:I see him out.
Speaker A:Not in anomaly time.
Speaker A:It's a magical little thing.
Speaker A:Oh, geez.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker B:I haven't had the joy yet, but I can't wait.
Speaker C:I gotta shout out Kenya, who not only has been there every year, but this year with her twit.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:With her Instagram, she was connecting books with the movies.
Speaker C:And then my friend April also started doing that because she usually comes to like one or two films.
Speaker C:So now we had at least two local folks saying like, hey, if you like this movie, an anomaly, how about this book?
Speaker C:And like, oh my God, look at this media multimedia reach of anomaly.
Speaker C:And also just really cool local people doing amazing things.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:I got to meet Adam's dad.
Speaker E:What a delight.
Speaker E:What a delightful man.
Speaker C:Always at the table, getting the latest.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Taking pictures.
Speaker B:Every time.
Speaker E:I got to tell him about Svengoolie.
Speaker F:Did you really?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker E:My dad always watched, which is like so Anomaly coded.
Speaker E:I'm like, oh, I'm shocked you don't know about him.
Speaker E:Let's talk about this.
Speaker E:Let's talk about this weirdo on public access tv.
Speaker B:Watch him every Saturday night to this day.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And shout out to Daryl, who takes care of us every year.
Speaker B:Potato chip cookies were fantastic.
Speaker B:Provides the cookies for the pizza party.
Speaker B:If you're wondering where dessert comes from.
Speaker B:From the pizza party.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That's from Daryl.
Speaker B:That's from one of our attendees.
Speaker B:She always makes sure we're.
Speaker A:We're.
Speaker B:We're well sugared.
Speaker C:Been a volunteer for years.
Speaker C:Like, if you see a smiling face at the ticket booth and like that opening night, that's giggles.
Speaker C:And she's got us all taken care.
Speaker C:Like, like, she's the face you want to see when you come in.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:Welcoming just is the best and the best earrings in the biz.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:And all of our volunteers, 10 per deep.
Speaker C:Well, okay, listen, listen.
Speaker C:My brother's fine.
Speaker C:Tim kind of has to show up.
Speaker C:But thanks anyway, bro.
Speaker C:We appreciate it.
Speaker C:I know that we basically say, hey, you're gonna be at Merch.
Speaker C:And you're gonna work it forever because you're good at it.
Speaker A:Points in it.
Speaker A:It's amazing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Power of Murphy.
Speaker C:The Murphy's got a bit of carny in us and he's got the most.
Speaker B:He does.
Speaker B:Somehow that's how that happened.
Speaker B:And it's pretty impressive.
Speaker E:Are you officially ranking him last?
Speaker E:Meg.
Speaker C:First in Carney.
Speaker C:Now, of course, Matt, also known as Brother Todd.
Speaker C:He is in the family rankings.
Speaker C:Like, I just want people to know the local Murphy's Ia rank them.
Speaker C:I have to.
Speaker C:I'm the eldest.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Fight for my love.
Speaker B:But yeah.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And most of all, thank you everybody else.
Speaker B:Everyone that we didn't mention by name that we've gotten to be friends with over the years or just this year.
Speaker B:All the filmmakers, all the people that came to the shows.
Speaker B:Like, we can't do this without you.
Speaker B:We heard so many times like from.
Speaker B:From different people.
Speaker B:The audience in Rochester is.
Speaker B:Is so cool and it's.
Speaker B:You're so open to watching whatever we throw up on that screen.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:They impress the filmmakers.
Speaker A:The filmmakers commented how amazing our audience was and they go to film festivals.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's partially their job is to be a film film festivals year round.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And they commented like Rochester audiences are super cool.
Speaker B:And I can't agree more.
Speaker B:Like, we love you.
Speaker B:We can't do it without you.
Speaker B:So we look forward to seeing you again in real life.
Speaker B:Probably in January for Giallo.
Speaker B:I think that's probably happening coming back.
Speaker B:And then all throughout next year.
Speaker B:Keep an eye out.
Speaker B:We're gonna come up with dates.
Speaker A:We're plotting.
Speaker B:We're plotting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It may seem like hibernation, but.
Speaker B:But like I said that that Slack channel doesn't go quiet.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:From.
Speaker B:From the bottom of our hearts to the bottom of yours, thank you so much for everything this year and we look forward to.
Speaker B:To see any next year.
Speaker B:This has been Anomaly presents the Wrap Up Show.
Speaker B:I want to thank Mike Huntone, Carrie Lindstrom, Magnus Champlin, Megan Murphy, Chris Lindstrom on the one and twos.
Speaker B:I've been Matt Austin.
Speaker B:You've been amazing and we will see you soon.
Speaker F:For Anomaly, this has been a presentation.
Speaker A:Of the Lunchroom podcast network.
Speaker E:Ma.
Speaker E:Ma ma.
Speaker E:My wife k and my from punches and popcorn.
