Death Becomes Her (1992)

Episode 442, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: We have a very special day today. We are joined by not one, but two guest speakers. I, for the first time ever, I think, yeah, it’s really great. Kristen and Heather. Kristen. Heather, say hello to everyone else. 

Kristen: Hello everyone.

Todd: Welcome to the show. 

Craig: Kristen and Heather have both been with us multiple times, but we’ve never had them together. And for our last week of our. Horror Comedy Month. This is the one I honestly, I think that this movie is the whole reason that I wanted to do this whole month. Um, I love this movie so much, and Heather, when, when we were in the middle of the horror comedy, she’s like.

Are you gonna do this movie? And I was like, yeah. And, and Kristen. Kristen was excited about it too. And I thought, I think we need to get both these ladies on here to talk about this movie. ’cause it’s just so good 

Todd: for those people just joining us on the podcast in general, who may not have heard some previous episodes, Kristen is Craig’s sister, and I have to imagine that part of the reason you’re on here is because you two have some memories watching this growing up.

Am I, am I right or am I wrong? 

Craig: We watch it all the time. 

Kristen: All the time. And it was funny for me to, we haven’t even said what movie it is, but it came out when I was 10 years old. So the first time I would’ve been viewing this and many times thereafter, I was, I was 10. 

Todd: Oh. So, so now we’re gonna reveal something you might not want revealed, but we’re doing 1992 is death becomes her.

Craig: Yeah. So exciting. Yep. 

Todd: It’s super exciting. This came out, what, 92? I think you would’ve been early high school. Late junior high, I guess. Yeah. Early high school. I think Jurassic Park came out around this time. 

Craig: Uh, Jurassic Park came out a little bit after, and they used some of the effects that they developed in this movie.

I think on it think, because I, 

Kristen: I heard the, the writer. Also wrote Jurassic Park. Is that right? Oh yeah. 

Todd: David Kepp. Yeah. One of the writers. Yeah. David Kepp has written a lot of really well loved movies. We did Stir Of Echoes on here. Mm-hmm. As well. And he wrote that he wrote the Mission Impossible movie, you know, the remake, uh, of course he did Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which a lot of people don’t like, but like a lot of Steven Spielberg films, war The World’s remake was his.

He wrote the screenplay for Sam Ramey Spider-Man. He did Panic Room The Shadow, which Oh God, I like that movie so much. And uh, and uh, we haven’t talked about it much. And then Craig and I did Toy Soldiers. That was one of his first among his first. I used to make Kristen watch that a lot too. 

Craig: Oh, what a great movie.

I love that movie. 

Todd: It’s not a horror movie. It’s like an action thriller movie. And we did it as a mini so for our patrons and posted that. ’cause we do that sometimes. Sometimes we just find non horse stuff and. We, we dive into it just ’cause we love it. I’m threatening to do it for a cloak and dagger, but Craig tells me you guys didn’t watch that growing up.

Heather, did you see Cloak and Dagger? 

Heather: I have not. 

Todd: Huh? See it’s not just me. Alright, well you guys grew up with this movie, Heather, how about you? When did you uh, first watch this? 

Heather: Probably similar. I mean it came out yeah, like Kristen said, when we were 10 and I, I feel like I watched it. Like I wouldn’t have seen it in the theater but I think it was a rental and then I’m pretty pretty sure we owned it and I watched it a lot because it’s fantastic.

Kristen: Well I wanted to ask Craig because I feel like, was Meryl Streep also in that movie? She Devil with Roseanne Barr? Yeah. Okay. I think we had recorded this on a VHS and it must have been some TV like double feature Meryl Streep because I remember watching Death Becomes Her and She Devil like back to back all the time.

Do you remember that? 

Craig: I don’t remember it being on the same, but I, I think Death Becomes or was on HBOA lot, but I, I, I don’t remember. I, but I do remember watching both. She Devil is a terrible movie and I still just think it’s absolutely hilarious. Uh, and it’s, it’s interesting that Meryl Streep was, you know, Meryl Streep is Meryl Streep, and she’s been Meryl Streep for a long time.

Um, that is profound. Craig, that hot tip from Craig, today’s, I guess, that she’s done throughout her career. She’s done some comedies and things, but she’s mostly known for being this highly regarded, well-respected, serious actress. And so she, this period in the mid early nineties, um, she was kind of doing some oddball comedies and I think it’s great because I think she’s hilarious.

What, what I remember about this movie, it came out like I, late junior high, probably, uh, for me, I didn’t know I was gay at the time, but. My enthusiasm about