Hi folks. I've been lazy as shit lately, and I apologize for that. Winter drains my will to live.

So, February is an empty month here. Is the Trash Challenge happening in March like usual? The Found Footage Challenge was more fun than I thought, but I burned out after about a month. I think a mini challenge might be a good idea to prepare for that possible Trash Challenge, just to keep the routine going.

February is black history month, and I blew the chance to do something with that. At t... Continue »

I watched this the other day. I have seen it before, of course, but I haven't paid close attention while viewing it in... several years, maybe more than ten. Yikes.

Now that I've watched it without being distracted, I can't stop thinking about why it isn't better than it is. I can't figure it out. It seems like it should be a major horror/sci-fi classic, just for the scenes with Brad Dourif and Sigourney Weaver talking to each other. Just stop and think about that, for a sec. What a great... Continue »

Unless they get her first... she'll never let them out alive! Gator Bait has a surprisingly interesting story going for it. The deputy and his redneck friend lust after a sexy swamp lady in her daily gator wrangling routine, but if she's crazy enough to be playing with alligators, you ought to know this ain't no ordinary woman. As soon as they make their rapist intentions known to her, she plays victim, speeding away in her motor boat until she baits them into her trap.

Snakes! Scaring the men... Continue »

This is for anyone who wants to keep a log of their viewings/ratings every month so please feel free to add yours.

The links for the previous 5 years viewings are here if anyone still needs to access them for reference:

2021: https://trashepics.com/post/30/37/
2020: https://trashepics.com/post/30/31/
2019: https://trashepics.com/post/30/9/
2018: https://trashepics.com/post/30/5/
2017: https://trashepics.com/post/9/97/

Has anyone actually gotten this blu-ray? I pre-ordered it Novermber 8 and the street date was supposedly November 23. The place I ordered it from never got it and keeps saying it's backordered, and it's now listed as out of stock everywhere. It's not listed on the Arrow website at all. Did it ever actually get released?

Whilst browsing Shudder's epic catalogue, I remember hearing about a zombie movie about a girl with big boobs going to a hospital for a reduction and then having to deal with a zombie outbreak instead. That movie is called Yummy, probably because she looks very yummy indeed.

The whole movie has her self-conscious about her breasts while everyone around her is telling her that she has a beautiful body and that she should be happy with what God and nature gave her. Then, the zombies come along... Continue »

Before I cancel Disney+, I wanted to get through all this shit while I can. Right off the bat, I can say I think this "phase" is weak as hell, and I'm not impressed with most of what I'm seeing. The whole Marvel Cinematic Universe is becoming so formulaic with forced diversity when a 90s era comic fan like me doesn't want to see any of this new shit. I only want to see the same old shit I grew up with, which is to say the characters I grew up with. They're introducing so many new boring characters, it makes my head ache. Anywho, here goes... Continue »

We're a little over halfway in the season of Dexter: New Blood, and they're starting to throw a lot at us. I'm not sure how spoilery this thread will get, but the ending of the latest episode has me antsy to see what happens next.

So...

Harrison is a bit of a dick, Dexter is still leaving out too many details for him to truly connect with anyone, and Kurt is trying to win Harrison over. Dexter's gonna need to step up his game if he wants his son to not hate him!

And a somewhat unrelate... Continue »

I've been trying to squeeze in a few more found footage viewings before this month ends, and since I loved the first Hell House, I suppose it was time to check out the second.

What we have here is more or less the same. Another documentary crew goes into the Abaddon Hotel to investigate the disappearances of the last slew of victims and are quick to find themselves trapped in a hopeless situation. There were definitely a few creepy moments, but this entry did seem a bit more overt, and a lot of... Continue »

I've seen the theatrical version twice, so I was pretty certain I would notice the extended scenes when they came up, and the verdict? WHY THE FUCK BOTHER? There are a total of TWO extended scenes that total maybe twenty seconds, plus the extended ending which seemed cooler in theory than in actual execution.

What are the extended scenes? In 1978 when Lonnie is bullied by the kids, he starts running home. He sees Michael staring from behind a bush, who then hides. There's half of your extended... Continue »

Test your fandom with this epic 50-question Halloween quiz. This covers all 12 movies to some extent, as it's hard to balance out so much convoluted shit.

You're probably wondering, "Why is this idiot posting a Halloween quiz now? October was months ago!" Well, the extended Blu-Ray for Halloween Kills is out now, and I'm too jazzed up to keep quiet about it! I bought it today and I'll probably re-ramble on that later, but for now, a quiz ought to suffice.

Give it your best shot and... Continue »

This was a found footage movie I saw several years ago. I got it from the local library. It has the word Tapes in the title, like The Poughkeepsie Tapes or The Anderson Tapes. It's a bunch of young people or kids in a large forest at night, one or more of them with video cameras recording everything, and they think they are being watched or tracked. I think they were investigating some urban legend about a pedophile ring and missing children. Some of them disappear and the others keep seein... Continue »

It's been a while since I saw them, so I kicked off my FF viewings with the first three movies and I liked them more than I remembered. Generally entertaining anthologies, though I have to say that part 2 is my favorite of the bunch. Highlight skits include the bicyclist who encounters zombies who crash the birthday party in the woods. The one that stuck with me was the alien invasion. Normally, I could care less what happens to the people in these things, but... SPOILERS... who cares if the boy... Continue »

How's everyone's 2021 Christmas been? How did you celebrate? Was it fun times, or just another day?

My experiences tend to be mediocre at best, but I'm feeling better about things this year. I have a steady job that pays better than my previous part-time minimum-wage fare, so I decided to treat myself to a (free) month of Shudder and Back 4 Blood on PC, which is a lot of fun. I hear it has crossplay, which sounds promising if anyone else is into killing zombies.

The year is almost over,... Continue »

A group of dumb teens play with a ouija board and bring a man back from the dead. And apparently he isn't too happy about it.
Plenty of bad editing, as well as a pretty bad story and worse acting doomed this to failure.
About the only highlight was Jonah's makeup. But even that wasn't anything great, as it looked like a poor man's attempt to copy Frank from Hellraiser 30 years earlier.

A priest opens his congregation to wayward souls, including drug addicts, transgender, a woman who performed a self abortion, and a lipstick lesbian.
But a new priest is assigned, and he doesn't look favorably upon this collection, so he summons the spirit of an evil nun to cleanse the church.
Had the occasional flash of competence, but overall not very good. And clocking in at close to two hours? Should have been 80-90 minutes. But I'm assuming they loved their film, and felt everything was imp

I watched this movie once... Ok, fine. I watched this movie a bunch of times way back when, and it was great! Seriously, this movie was hardcore! It had drugs and blood and boobs and fucking all over the place. This movie was "anti this" and "anti that", and there was a bunch of pissed off homos and super edgy references to the end of the world. Oh, and people wanted to kill themselves and stuff. Some actually did! Then there was this alien... Y... Continue »

Starting December 12th, ending December 25th^{January 1st}. That's two^three full weeks of Christmas cheer^trash.

Watch as much Christmas shit as you can. Movies, TV episodes, Christmas specials, shorts, whatever.

1 point per minute
+10 points if there's a shitty Santa (drunk, pissy, thief, killer, etc)
+10 points if someone ruins Christmas
+10 points if someone is a scrooge (hates Christmas)
+50 points if Santa dies
+25 points for FTVs... Continue »

When it comes to found footage, I like to scoff at how ineffective these movies are. They often strike me as cheap and unprofessional output from people who think they can make a great horror movie simply because they own a camcorder. There are a few passable ones out there, but dare I eat my own words when I say that this movie gave me chills.

I guess every found footage movie tries to pretend it's a true story with some documentary wrap-around, and this one is no different in that sense. It f... Continue »

Here's a new way to break in the quiz system. Take this trivia quiz to see how well you know the Chucky franchise.

You can win up to 30 trash bucks based on your best score of 3 attempts.

Finally, a sequel to a Christmas movie that actually has something to do with Christmas! Of course, it still has nothing to do with the story that started it all, but after the last few, it's a breath of fresh air. As the title suggests, this one is about... killer toys!

A boy is gifted an early Christmas present that he's not supposed to open till Christmas, but he's stupid and tries anyway. Before he can rip all the paper off, his irritable dad sends him to bed, checks it for himself, and you... Continue »

If you thought the last movie was bad, wait until you get a load of this movie. It has almost NOTHING to do with Christmas except a few vague scenes that can easily be removed with no consequence to the overall "plot". What gives?

Our story follows a reporter who follows the story of a woman who "spontaneously combusts" and falls off a roof. Okay? Then she's stalked by Clint Howard's ugly ass, then she meets a few o... Continue »

You may think you know. I thought I knew, but I was mistaken. I didn't really know. But I do, now. For the first time in my life, I know what bottom of the barrel cinema truly looks like. And now, you get to know because I'm going to tell you. I have to because I really need to talk about this one. For years, I've been under the impression that maybe a Blood Lake or a Splatter Farm might be it. Those aren't it. Oh, I've found IT, alright! It's... Continue »

Sure, we got a https://trashepics.com/post/88/186/ Found Footage Challenge going right now, but I love the Christmas challenge. It's pretty easy too because there aren't genre requirements. Any Christmas movie or show counts, scored by runtime. I'll probably add a few other gimmicky ways to get points.

This is NOT the progress thread. I'll post that later. This is a memo thread. The challenge will run from Sunday the 12th to Saturday the 25th, making for a 2 week challeng... Continue »

Part 2 gets all the hate, but at least it's entertaining. This movie sucks, and it's really boring too. The only copy you can get is full screen, which means it's bordering on the 90s era where nobody cared about the movie enough to preserve it right and give it a proper release.

We start out in a white hospital room where Richard Beymer is using our blind^bland female protagonist's psychic powers to jump start comatose Ricky's brain. Yeah, we're jumping the shark a bit with th... Continue »