Ah, the old 70s doc/slasher... once a rare collectors item unavailable on dvd for the longest time, thus a coveted title with a sort of biased popularity to it among us genre fans. Does it hold up, though?

From director Charles B. Pierce of Bog Creek fame, this guy seemed to like the documentary approach. I guess it works though. We skip all that boring exposition with a guy simply telling you the less interesting inbetween moments, and sometimes we see the law on his trail. Then we jump into s... Continue »

In the hockey movie Miracle (2004), does the Kurt Russell character ever yell "Hey Sweden!" at the Swedes, at any point, when his team is playing against Sweden in the 1980 Olympics? If not.... damn, that was a hell of a missed opportunity. They totally could have come up with some excuse for him to say that.

This topic happened to come up for me several times, over the last week or so. Actually, of course, it really comes up dozens if not hundreds of times every single day, if you are paying attention in real life.

Anyway, what is your favorite evil (fictional) corporation? Or law firm, it could be a law firm like Wolfram & Hart, from the Angel TV show. I'll make a little list to get started, starting with that.

Wolfram & Hart, from Angel
The RAMJAC Corporation, from Jailbird, by Kurt Vonn... Continue »

When this movie came out, everyone praised it as a Halloween-esque suspenseful home invasion movie. I saw it and I hated it. I've been known to come around to a movie after some space, so about 15 years later, I gave it another whirl, and it still sucks.

I'm not crazy about Liv Tyler to begin with. Something about her is awkward to me and I can't pinpoint it. The other lead Scott Speedman is an incredibly dull actor as well, so what does this movie have going for it besides a few well dressed... Continue »

Since I've been on a Danielle Harris kick, I can't ignore her first/only solo directorial effort. It was around this time that her career was hitting a horror resurgence, so she jumped in with both feet.

The premise has a group of friends heading to an 80s murder mystery party. Whenever there's one of those in a horror movie, you know it always ends up as more than just that. Our guests are quickly drugged so they can't use their legs, sat around a table, and forced into playing a sadistic ga... Continue »

I'll spare you all of a meaningful review, because this movie doesn't deserve your time. This PG-13 turkey sucks a dick.

It's kind of like that movie Lights Out, since it has to do with monsters coming out in darkness. That movie also sucked, and so did Pitch Black, so fuck off with the darkness monsters already.

I forgot how I used to obsess over her when I was a kid. I saw Halloween 4 when I was about 10, so she was always alluring to me. She had captured my feelings in an interview where she said how a lot of her fans are right around her own age bracket because most of them were kids when they had seen her Halloween movies. She also mentioned that many of these fans have also told her that she was their first crush. It's like she's reading my mind.

I'm more inclined to believe that Danielle... Continue »

I have watched this twice now, yesterday and today. I thought it was quite good. I can't say much about it without giving spoilers... I can just say that it's about a very frazzled-looking young woman who shows up at a somewhat older (30s or early 40s) woman's home, raving that she is being chased by some kind of monster. I want to talk about this, but I shouldn't... I guess I'll just black out everything I say, and if you're sure you'll never watch it you can read it anyway. Or better yet,... Continue »

The 90's was an awkward time for Horror. The first few years, especially. Attempts at originality had about the same effect on the audience as uncalled for sequels to 80's franchises that had already ran their course. For one reason or another, the Horror genre had once again fallen dormant. But there was one Horror masterpiece that would come out of the 90's which would transcend the decade, as well as breath new life into the genre. Jason Goes To Hell is not that movie! Continue »

How about a zombie flick, but instead of biting you, they want to have sex with you?

A redneck rapes a corpse in the morgue and gets an STD from her. He gains a compulsion to stick is dick in anyone, spreading the sex-crazed zombie syndrome. Throw in a group of teens en route to spring break, but of course they have to stop at that motel in the middle of nowhere first...

The trash level is through the roof. I also saw Nicola Fiore from Blood Fart Lake in this. You've got to love a w... Continue »

I have not seen this in a long time, but Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is in it. If she floats your boat, maybe give this movie a shot? I just saw her scenes in Halloween H20.... I remember thinking that Out For Blood really wasn't that bad, for a straight-to-video (hmmm, in 2004.... possibly straight-to-DVD, at that time?) movie. It only got a 4.1 average rating on IMDB, but maybe people had inflated expectations of it because it has Lance Henriksen in it.

I am probably damning it with faint praise... Continue »

I had heard this was in the works. Then one day... it was already on streaming. This is a prequel, but what is canon and what isn't? I think it wants to be related to the original 1989 film, because that 2019 remake wasn't nearly as effective, coming across as abundantly pointless. But the timeline doesn't quite add up, so it ends up as its own thing really.

So our "prequel" is set in 1969, following young Jud Crandall, played by 27-year-old Jackson White. Are we to believe that in 20 years, th... Continue »

13 years after the first movie comes this prequel, starring a 25-year-old as a "10-year-old"? Yeah, the concept is already ridiculous, but that's the thing with prequels these days... they completely disregard appropriately aged characters because the fans are willing to overlook these things in exchange for another bout with a popular character. It's like in Dexter when the flashbacks gave Michael C. Hall longer hair and expected us to believe he was a teenager. Or in the Saw movi... Continue »

Yeah, it's that time of the year when I ramble on just about any horror movie I watch. Today, we'll be revisiting this late 90s college slasher, which actually has some merit to it.

Don't get me wrong, it's far from perfect, but it's far from shit. I can take or leave the twist/reveal, because this movie was written around the urban legends and the kills they could get out of it. So if you get a few cool kills and a cool cast, who cares about the killer's motive?

Brad Dourif plays a stuttering... Continue »

A John Wick prequel mini-series of 3 movies set in the 70s. Ian McShane's character from the movies is a young man who acquires the hitman hotel from a psychotic Mel Gibson.

There's probably a plot in here somewhere, but given the nature of this shoot-em-up, it's 100% irrelevant. You'll watch it for the action scenes, then probably zone out during the rest like I did. Mel Gibson is definitely the best part. He's over-the-top and mad, and that's how I like him.

Overall, I'm a little upset that... Continue »

Bill Moseley has appeared in Halloween, TCM, Silent Night, Devils Rejects...

Robert Englund has appeared in Elm Street, Hatchet, Wishmaster, Urban Legend...

Brad Dourif has appeared in Chucky, Halloween, Urban Legend...

Kane Hodder has appeared in F13, Hatchet, Wishmaster, Ghoulies, TCM...

I'm missing a lot.

So who reigns supreme?

I've avoided this one for years because it sounded stupid. It ended up being pretty good. That orphan is one crazy little bitch. You think she's cold and calculating, but after a while, she starts getting sloppy. She definitely puts adoptive mom Vera Farmiga in a pickle by making her look crazy. And this movie is cruel to children, which is always ballsy.

I hear the recent prequel is stupid. My guess is the actress needed to milk this character for all her worth. I'll watch it soon. I guess pre... Continue »

That's right. Season 3 goes there. I think it's hilarious that Devon Sawa keeps coming back as different characters. This time, he's the president. You can't top that, unless he ends up playing God in the next season.

It's a funny thing when horror goes that route. Ash vs. Evil Dead had a promo video of Ash running for president. Burt Gummer also had a video of him running for president under the new Gummertarian party. The Re-Animator series was long rumored to have... Continue »

This one isn't quite as amazing as The Giant Spider Invasion, but it's pretty fun anyway. Some angry tarantulas live in a barn and like to eat people and web them up. William Shatner's hammy acting rules, and the trash value is up there. There's a certain horror piano cue in the score that has been used redundantly in pop culture. As well as throughout this movie.

The spiders are mere tarantulas, like a dozen scattered about in any given scene. I never felt any threat, since they were sl... Continue »

New on Hulu. Trending a lot, so what's the big deal?

A girl in an isolated house goes through a cat and mouse ordeal against some old school aliens. For this movie to work, the aliens need to work. I think they're pretty good: thin, weird appendages, jerky movements, and that classic big-headed black-eyed classic alien head. These things are assholes, and our heroine of minimal dialog has to best a lot of them. They also have telekinesis and tractor beams on their ships. Very traditional alien... Continue »

TE looks boring if you haven't picked a theme, so I added the "Featured" theme, which will reflect any seasonal aesthetics, such as October should obviously use the Halloween theme, and when this month hits the 13th, it would switch to the F13 theme.

Then I defaulted all guests, new users, and existing users with no theme to use the Featured theme. If you hate it, you can always switch it back to no-theme. But then you'll be boring. You don't want to be boring, do you?

I'll probably find a few... Continue »

Some sources say it's from 2020. I've seen all the other ones, so why not? It's a rather crummy DTV series, with only a few notable entries. Then again, which franchise isn't exactly like that?

The 1984 original isn't great, but I like it anyway. It has a good eerie cornfield atmosphere, Linda Hamilton, and a bunch of creepy kids. I hadn't seen it until my late teens, so I had a long period of my life where I could look at that cool red sunset poster artwork and build up the movie in my head an... Continue »

Oh man. I forgot how bad this was.

Ouch.

But, I feel like there could almost be some way to sort of enjoy it. If you just approach it as a sequel to Salem's Lot, then...... you're totally screwed. It's impossible to enjoy it that way, it's just a terrible sequel. The acting is worse, the whole plot has way too many problems, and it just generally looks like they didn't care enough to even try.

BUT. Maybe... maaayyybeee.... if you have recently watched The Stuff, House (1985), Pha... Continue »

It's time again for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge.

You get one point per minute watched of any sci-fi or fantasy movie or TV series. The challenge starts at 12:00 AM September 1st and ends at 11:59 PM September 30th.

Make your SPOT below. Ask any questions in the shoutbox.



2017 - https://trashepics.com/post/7/11/
2018 - https://trashepics.com/post/9/211/
2019 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/73/
2020 - https://tras... Continue »

I can't believe I'm just finding this now. It was referenced in Red Letter Media's re:View of the Friday the 13th series. I'm even familiar with some of Jon Lajoie's stuff, but I never heard of this one.