Welcome to the Kill Count, where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror media.
I'm James A. Janisse and today we're looking at Social Mediasochist II: On and On, a music video released in 2019.
On and On is the sequel to the 2014 smash hit music video for Social Mediasochist,
which took the song written and performed by Common Shiner and placed it in a world where horror icons attend high school together.
These music videos were created by Zoran Gvojic, a good friend of mine who's been editing Kill Counts since 2018.
"I did it for you, James. I did it... all for you... James."
Zoran's role on the channel is about to expand significantly -
because THIS WEEK on Wednesday June 2nd, we're premiering an all-new series created by him.
It's called They Talk! and shows us what masked horror movie killers were REALLY saying.
"Who left the poke in the fire, you're gonna ruin this! This was my GrandPoppy's. Hey, scream-y girl, did you put the poker- wait waIT WAIT! Ohh!" *girl screams*
He's been working on it for months now and it's absolutely hilarious.
Make sure you tune in for it.
The reason why I wanted to give Zoran his own show is because his video-making work is incredible, as evidenced by these music videos.
Social Mediasochist II takes place years after the original,
with Jason Voorhees and his high school sweetheart Carrie White having settled down into a life of domesticity and office work.
The video is set to the song On and On by Morgan Foster from his album Life Neurotica - and it's catchy as hell.
♪ "I heard life's what happens, why you regretting what you chose..." ♪
♪ "And then on and on and on and on it goes." ♪
Just like it's predecessor, this video is packed to the gills with horror movie references.
I'll point out a few of my favorites during this Kill Count,
but Zoran's gonna be releasing a video detailing each and every one of them on his channel, LowCarbComedy.
It might not be up by time this Kill Count is released, cause it's a ton of work, but that's all the more reason to subscribe to his channel and catch it when it comes out!
With his hormonal high school years behind him, will there be less slaughter in Jason's life?
Let's find out and get to the kills.
The music video begins with swish pans, re-orienting the viewer into this world.
Whereas the first video featured similar shots of Jason getting ready for high school, now they show him tending to the duties of fatherhood.
And fatherhood is messy, look at all these toys everywhere - NOT YOU, REX!
While Jason deals with various body fluids,
his fuckhead friend Fred Krueger is still livin dat slasher life, and I'll count this selfie victim as our first kill just cause it's freakin Deborah Ann Woll!
Like I mentioned in my Kill Count for her movie Escape Room, she's a D&D fan and has DMed games for Zoran. Here's the proof that they're friends, muthafuckas!
Jay Man doesn't have time for slashin like that no mo', not when he and Carrie have dinner parties to get ready fo'!
They drop the baby off with Baghul, played by Zoran himself, and his twin assistants, played by Robert and Dartanian Sloan -
the actual actors from Sinister II, and the first of this video's many fun cameos.
Also making a cameo here is the Michael Myers house -
which I, too, filmed in front of for a joke in the Halloween 5 Kill Count.
"I know the frickin Myers house, and THAT is hashtag-not-my-Myers-house. This is my Myers house, THE OG, SON!"
Gods, I was young then.
Jason just can't help but miss his killy days -
dinner parties aren't the same kind of thrill, not even when they're attended by people like that Unhealthy Doug Dude, a recurring character in Zoran's work.
Also in attendance is my lovely fiancée Chelsea as Pennywise, in a costume she made by hand herself -
at various points in time, the two of us have cosplayed as both versions of Pennywise together. It's always a lot of fun
"Ah ha! Ah ha! Ah ha!"
Naturally, Pennywise is here with his date the Babadook, played by Morgan Foster - the singer songwriter of this very song.
Jason's disinterest in dinner - oh, and dessert, I peep that Creepshow cake there -
earns him a talking-to from Carrie that also gives us three more kills to count -
Unhealthy Dog, Pennywise, and the Nun Valek, all destroyed by Carrie's telekinetic wrath.
I'm not counting Annabelle, since she's a doll, and Babadook was able to slide on outta there.
Jason works at Reboot Co, headquartered on Belko Boulevard,
where his rebooted high school bullies continue to torment him -
AND hit on fine ladies like Reboot Barbra from the 1990 Night of the Living Dead, who is once again played by my lovely lady Chelsea.
Freddy, who's still his same old self, works here too - alongside this Maniac Pixie Dream Girl, an original character created by Zoran for this video.
Freddy's into her and Jason is too - even though he's a married manboy! Jason! Get out of here! Go match cut into a meeting, man.
The meeting is another excuse for Jason's co-horts to tease him,
and he starts gettin kaleidoscope mad, just like his wife did in the original film from which she came.
But it's not Jason who takes actions against these bullies -
the Lakewood Slasher, from MTV's Scream series, is killed by the Maniac Pixie Dream Girl with a paper cutter blade, in a reference to Mark's kill from Friday the 13th 2.
The body is rolled out of the room, signaling that once again, these bullies are fucked.
Pinhead's the first to be killed, getting a pair of giant scissors in his eyes
in a way that harkens back to a kill from Friday Five, when that super naked chick got killed with garden shears the same way.
Next up is big boi Leatherface from the reboot, killed when his head is slammed through the wall, giving us a visual nod to the RV kill from Friday 6: Jason Lives.
An intrepid Kill Counter tries to track the madness, but gets done in himself by Jason in a reference to Part 7's Sleeping Bag kill.
FINALLY! I get to count myself on this show.
You know, I still haven't forgiven Look-See for letting me walk away like that.
The last baddy, Mikey My My, gets his block knocked off, and boy is the body left behind a spurty mess. YouTube ain't about all that.
Much to my delight, Zoran shot all of these kills practically -
the only CG involved was layering the elements together.
He worked with an amazing FX team consisting of Ryan Ward, who Zoran met at Monsterpalooza and who's worked on Westworld and American Horror Story;
and the guys behind Infested Films, David Sherbrook and Scott Davidson.
They had a blast building and testing out all these bloody kills. And I'm sure their neighbors loved them for it.
MPDG tries to go in for a kiss, but a face full of blood finally reminds Jason that, hey dude, YOU'RE MARRIED! To the MOTHER OF YOUR CHILD!
How could you forget that beautiful Red Wedding, or that Honeymoon with my basket boi Belial and Thom Matthews -
Yes, THE Thom Matthews, who played Tommy Jarvis in Friday 6!
He was also in those fanmade Jason shorts I covered, Never Hike Alone and Never Hike in the Snow, which were made by Vincent DiSanti -
who also cameos in this music video as Richard Fenton, the killer from the Prom Night reboot.
He's in the background talking to Helena Marko from the Suspiria reboot, played here by Zoran's lady Megan Gorman.
Jason flees his bloody almost-mistake and hurries home,
reconstructing his wedding ring finger while a Green Goblin semi maximally overdrives the speed limit.
He gets home and makes overtures of apologies to Carrie, who embraces him with a smile right before his head is split in half -
courtesy of a machete wielded by the Maniac Pixie Dream Girl, who is quite unhappy indeed.
Carrie responds by sending a bevy of weapons and blades into the husband-killer, ending MPDG before she could even get a sequel.
Carrie then sticks Jason back together and bleep blops on a computer until he's resurrected as Uber Jason from Jason X.
I'm still counting his head-splitting as a kill, though.
The music video's credits play over another fun cameo - Ricky Dean Logan, who played Carlos in Freddy's Dead, forgiving his former tormentor for cutting off his ear.
The two of them see Uber Jason and start making fun of him, though Logan takes the frivolity a smidge too far
"Don't hit me! Do not hit me!" "I'm sor- Okay! Okay... okay."
The video ends with Carrie putting an end to this nonsense and voicing two thoughts that I was thinking myself
"Thanks for telling my husband to cheat on me, dick!"
"Where's our baby?"
Office jobs can be deadly boring, but they still need proper accounting.
Let's take care of that at the numbers, just as soon as we find that damn baby.
Oh- oh hey, Baghuul, thank you so much! I don't wanna have a bunch of concerned comments.
Aw, hey lil guy!
11 people died in Social Mediasochist II, way fewer than the first one,
but things slow things down as you get older, you know?
The victims consisted of 3 women and 8 men, assuming the Lakewood Slasher was a dude beneath that mask,
and with a runtime of 2 minutes and 40 seconds, that left us with a kill on average every 14.55 seconds.
Don't pee on me.
I'll give the Golden Chainsaw for Coolest Kill to Jason, even though he does come back to life in the end.
That effect - done practically - is absolutely fantastic.
A whole Dexter-ass Kill Room had to be constructed in order to film it, thanks to all the spraying blood. Good effin work, Zoran!
Dull Machete for Lamest Kill will go to the dinner party guests, killed offscreen and not even a reference to anything! Psh.
And that's it. Social Mediasochist II: On and On came out in 2019 on Zoran's YouTube channel, lowcarbcomedy.
Reminder that his very own series, They Talk! premieres in just a few days on Dead Meat -
make sure to check this channel on Wednesday in case you don't get a notification for it.
Until next time I'm James A. Janisse.
This has been the Kill Count.
On the next Kill Count...
Just when you thought we were done with zombies...
*zombie snarls*
we're puttin them on a muthafuckin train!
*people yelling and zombies snarling*
Train to Busan is a South Korean spin on the living dead, with zombies who would run laps around the Romero zeds.
That, or just roll over them in a zombie ball.
*zombie ball tumbles*
But just because they're fast, doesn't mean this movie's brainless.
Romero would be proud of the social commentary here,
on work culture, on class divide, on corporate greed...
it's got it all!
Along with kick-ass zombies and fantastic performances.
This week watch what may be the best zombie film of the 21st century so far.
*zombie noises and train chugging*
And this Friday, watch the Kill Count on Dead Meat.
Train to Busan can currently be watched on the pictured streaming platforms.
Dead Meat always recommends you watch the movie for yourself before it's Kill Count. It's the only way to have your own properly informed opinion.
Kill Counts are never meant to replace the experience of watching a film.
Hey, thanks a lot for watching this Kill Count on Social Mediasochist II, made by this guy, Zoran Gvojic!
Zoran: I did that, I did the thing, that you watched!
Yeah! Zoran: Yeah!
Hope you liked it. Zoran: I did.
Me too, I hope they do though, cause we've got another series coming out, man.
Zoran: Why am I here?? I should be editing. *James laughs*
You guys wanna know how tall Zoran is? Zoran: Oh yeah, lemme stand up.
Yeah, thanks. *both laugh*
Zoran: But, yknow, to make James more comfortable. Yeah, thank you.
Zoran: Don't be surprised if you meet James in real life and you're like 'Ohhh!'
No, I'm an average person! Don't be surprised when you meet Zoran in real life and you have to crank your neck up.
Zoran: Why don't you- why don't you thank some Patreons or something?
I don't have any Patrons to thank, I'm thanking you for making this awesome music video, but now I'm not!
I'm rescinding it, fuck you, be good people!
*both laugh*