What Movie is Playing in the Living Room in High on Life?

In the first section of High on Life, after you’ve disposed of 9-Torg and returned home, you may notice … something strange on TV. Not only has the infamous alien bounty hunter Gene Zaroothian made your home his home, but he’s watching … a real movie … on TV? Like … it’s not a fake movie made for the sake of this game, but rather … a real, real movie?? It even has Paul Walker?!

If curiosity is getting the best of you here, that’s perfectly reasonable. After all, this doesn’t seem to be a one-off gag showing a solitary scene from the movie. No — the movie just keeps playing, uninterrupted, for the next 20-30 minutes if you sit around and watch it. What is this movie?!

What Movie is Playing in the Living Room?

The movie in question is called Tammy and the T-Rex, directed by Stewart Raffill. It was released in 1994, and stars Denise Richards, Theo Forsett, and Paul Walker. According to IMDB, the film is about a high schooler who is killed, whose brain is implanted into an animatronic T-Rex. Doesn’t that sound exactly like the kind of thing that would be in Justin Roiland’s latest foray into gaming?

As I said, if you sit around and watch, it’ll play about 20 to 30 minutes before it loops. But, it’d seem as if each mission you complete will let you watch more of the movie. I guess the devs didn’t expect many to sit around and watch Tammy and the T-Rex in their game about stoned aliens. Or, maybe they did. I can’t tell which is worse.

As you progress through the main story, you may notice the movie changes. If you were wondering what the second and third films that are shown are, you’ll be glad to know that we’ve found the answer. In addition to Tammy and the T-Rex, the second film that Gene watches is called Blood Harvest, from 1987. It stars Tiny Tim as Mervo the clown. And, shortly after your house is teleported again, he starts watching a film from 1978 called Vampire Hookers, directed by Cirio H. Santiago.

What About the Movie in the Theater?

As soon as you gain access to the Warp Remote, you can acquire the Movie Theater Warp Disc from Blorto. Then, if you head back to the Port Terrene Outskirts and use it to warp in a Movie Theater, you can watch — presumably — the entire runtime of Demon Wind, a 1990 film from director Charles Philip Moore. I say presumably, because the act of warping in the theater triggers an achievement called “We Paid For The Rights To Put A Whole Movie In Here.”