Apparently there is "a new Michael Crichton novel" coming out in a few days. What that means is that it is a novel that he had done a lot of work on but did not finish, and now James Patterson has completed it and polished it up for him. Good enough for me. I am looking forward to it.

Does anybody here have a strong sense of how close we are to AI being able to just churn out content in the styles of various deceased authors? I bet they can do it already, but I have no idea how good the res... Continue »

My work had a 5.1 surround sound setup on clearance for $160. I saw it yesterday and figured I'd give it a day to mull it over. In that day, it dropped down to $120, so I took it as a sign. I set this fucker up and it was relatively painless, and it works.

What are some movies that really shine in surround sound? Probably some action movies where the bullets fly from every direction, but anything that helps with the immersion.

Thoughts?

Well, that subject line should grab people's attention (one would hope).

I just wanted to mention that I went for a walk last night, and felt a little like Randall Flagg. I was just out getting some fresh air so I could think more clearly about stealing a nuclear device to destroy a community of good people in Boulder, Colorado.... hey, maybe THAT'S why I felt like Randall Flagg! I didn't even think of that. Wow!

No, I was reminded of that character because of the stuff about him being Th... Continue »

I know many of us have fond memories of her. I haven't even heard her name in ages... anyway, I recently watched Shadow Puppets (2007), in which she played the main character, so I ended up google stalking her. Apparently she is married to Michael Rapino, CEO of Live Nation and possibly in some kind of very high-up position with Ticketmaster, if I have this right.

He has been in the news a bit lately, and probably will continue to be there, because of Ticketmaster's generally grotesque and... Continue »

I went on Saturday and after the always cofusing admittance process, I went straight to Matthew Lillard's line. Hey, my nephews love Five Nights at Freddy's, so I wasn't going to bail out on that. Besides, I hadn't met anybody from Scream yet, can you believe that? I've met just about all the other big deal horror guys, but nobody from Scream. Since his FNaF venture, Lillard's fame kinda blew up at these cons, so his line was pretty long, but he handled it well, and since I had chi... Continue »

Some of you reading this must already know about this. I just found out about it. This movie is an adaptation of an old Stephen King story! I have read the story, it's pretty good. Anyway, yah, had to share.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_(film)

The Phantom of the Opera is like Dracula or Frankenstein. They're all in the public domain, so there are a lot of them. Any other notables besides the following?

1925 - Silent film, iconic, Lon Chaney's weird makeup, colorized ballroom scene, solid old school stuff.
1943 - Universal one with Claude Rains. He was cool, though always more renowned as The Invisible Man. Not bad, but not as memorable.
1963 - Hammer one with Herbert Lom, one of Hammer's less boring entries.... Continue »

I'll stick this all here so as not to polute the shoutbox -


@Box & Vince. Perhaps you don't know but inflation happened all over the world. not just NY, calc.
Here from forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/05/10/how-windfall-profits-have-supercharged-food-inflation/?sh=3b43b5966672
forbes the famously pro worker, anti business periodical (thats sarcasm btw) look at figure A

Vince you spoke about mcdonalds. Look at their profits
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/... Continue »

The original 2008 film was a highly praised home invasion slasher when it came out. I was incredibly disappointed with that movie. The direction was terrible, the characters were lame as fuck, but at least the killers looked cool.

About 10 years later, they did a sequel, which was a hell of a lot better. If you've seen that movie, then you'll know that the strangers die at the end, so where can we go from here? Not just a prequel... but 3 prequels?

Renny Harlin is no str... Continue »

So a little over a year ago, this video popped into my recommendations. I was intrigued, so I checked it out.




Obviously, this is the kind of shit I live for. So I had to check more stuff by the Toxhards. I was a little confused at first, as the rest of their stuff sounded fairly normal by comparison, and apparently that wasn't even their regular lead singer, but their drummer, singing for that song. But then this song really grew on me, hard.

https... Continue »

We should do some kind of thread about him. If he doesn't get a little love here, then where will he? I mean, come on. I am in a rush right now, but if anybody thinks of any good stuff to post about him, please do.

I laughed about it with the great monkey fondler, of course by laughing god has cursed me with the same affliction.
I tell you my penis has a strip on it now.

It didn't used to this is untoward

Anything come to mind? The Vanishing doesn't exactly fit in here, but, well, sort of... some scenes fit.

I'm just trying to think of some good horror or thriller movies to watch that take place in a lonely western highway setting. Horror, ideally.

Joy Ride is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, I guess. I know it's not THAT great, but it surprised me the first time I saw it, that it was better than I expected, and I still like it.

Anyway, anything leap to mind?

ppl shit on everything. That is human nature, you want us to not be people, sorry impossible. Keep doing what you do, actually I was thinking this the other day, fuck I luv this site, true its cumbersome in some ways (but fuckin better than reddit/discord or whatever ppl are using as forums nowadays) I think I may of suggested (I at least thought) some years ago, maybe switch to some opensource forum platform instead of rolling yer own, well I own up now. I was wrong, what you're doing / have do... Continue »

We have probably done a few posts about this before... I'm just mentioning that apparently they have finished filming this. IMDB says it is completed, and that it is 153 minutes long. I guess they could still do some more editing if they wanted.

It is directed by Gary Dauberman, who has done a lot in recent(-ish) years.

One interesting thing that jumps out at me when I look at the IMDB page for it, is that Spencer Treat Clark as Mike Ryerson gets top billing. He is listed first as a s... Continue »

Let's watch some cartoons!

You get one point per minute watched. Both movies and TV series count. Live action mixed with animation like Who Framed Roger Rabbit is allowed.

The challenge starts on April 1st and ends on April 30th.

Make your SPOT below! Put any questions or recs in the shoutbox.

Coming this Halloween. Completely unnecessary. Just like The First Omen. And just like that crap movie Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. We don't need every backstory completely spelled out for us imbecilic viewers. Way to run another property into the ground.

I didn't even know this was a thing until a few days ago. Paramount+ put out this spin-off for the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, featuring the return of Idris Elba as Knuckles.

Now, anybody who has ever played the Sonic games knows how they are. You run through levels dodging enemies and collecting rings. So how does that translate to a tv show?

Yeah, you guessed it! This show is all about... bowling! Some inept police officer (Adam Pally) in the smallest town in Montana sets out to wi... Continue »

It only took me a month to get around to watching Part 4, but it was plenty of fun. We're finally back to busting ghosts in New York City, and our remaining original team has a bigger role this time around. Our characters from the previous movie are still the main focus, but Ray and Ernie have bigger parts. Bill Murray isn't in much, but he's definitely welcome, and I was happy to see William Atherton back as the asshole mayor. He hasn't learned anything over the years.

There's a lot going on... Continue »

I can't remember if I have posted here before about this. There was a guy named Josep (that's right, no H) Baque (long deceased), who was a cop in Barcelona in the 20th century. In his spare time, he had a hobby of drawing imaginary creatures that he made up on his own.

Some of his creatures vaguely remind me of the disturbing little dolls made by the girl in Hereditary. Just their general proportions and their colors, I think. Josep Baque drew or painted his creatures, he didn't make lit... Continue »

I've been seeing this weird shit plastered all over facebook and I really don't know what to think of it.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/neon-fear-a-friday-the-13th-fan-film

A dystopian future with Jason kill-bots, time-travel back to the 80s, and using real Jason to kill the kill bots? Like seriously, wtf?

Looks like a lot of AI/CGI, but I can't say I'm not intrigued. And this whole fucking mess is made by a woman? And a hot one at that?

I'll probably have to watc

In the 80s and 90s, there was an emergence of kid-friendly martial arts movies and video games that made every kid want to be a ninja. Karate Kid, Big Trouble in Little China, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 3 Ninjas, you name it. Here is another one based on a video game, turned into a super cheesy action/adventure romp about two brothers in a gang-ridden "New Angeles" tryi... Continue »

Looks pretty decent. I haven't seen Hartnett in anything in a while, and he looks like he'll be having some fun playing this character.



I hope it's better than Knock at the Cabin. God, that movie sucked.

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Honestly, I don't imagine this will be used much since this place is a goddamn ghost town, but it seemed like a funny idea at the time. Use it or don't. I don't give a fuck.

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