In the days of my dvd obsession, I was always open to blind-buying the Anchor Bay disc of this movie because I enjoyed Don Coscarelli's work after watching Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep, but this title always evaded me. It fell out-of-print, so I was screwed.

Thanks to Amazon Prime, I was able to catch this movie over dozen years after my initial interest, and I figured it would probably underwhelm me at this point in my life. I'm happy to say I was wrong. This movie was a lot of fun.

Back in 1982... Continue »

Starts May 1st at midnight and ends June 1st at midnight!

Hey guys, this month the challenge will be a literary challenge. This means that any movie based on a novel, novella, poems and short story will count. Graphic Novels and Comic books will count this year.

The book must be the basis of the movie, and not the other way around. Books spawning from movies, like Star Wars, will not count.

There will be several ways you can earn points
1 point if the movie is based on a book
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Seeing as this guy has so much material, I still haven't seen all of his movies, so I sought out a few titles I haven't seen.


Hearts in Atlantis (2001) - This has quite a few Stephen King tropes in it, which is never a bad thing. It's a period piece primarily set in the late 60s and deals with a lot of childhood stuff in a Connecticut suburb. David Morse plays the modern day character reflecting on this youthful self played by a tiny Anton Yelchin living with his selfish somewhat of a b... Continue »

This could potentiallybe a pretty funny thread, if it takes off... I watched Bachelor Party (1984) a few days ago, and there's a great little scene where one of Tom Hanks' friends (the basket case drug addict guy who drives them away in the bus at the end) is watching TV, and he sees someone on TV who reminds him of his wife. He says something like "She was so young when we met... that bitch." I always thought that was so unexpected, how he just says it out of nowhere. I bet no one seeing the... Continue »

I'm going through Amazon Prime's list and I figured, why not? There's a reason this and the previous film didn't get theatrical releases. They're not that good and they don't have Arnold, but they were probably easy to shit out.

Stallone has a bigger role in this than he did in the last one. For some reason, they decided to give some random dude the spotlight in part 2 and Stallone was reduced to a bit part. Not sure why they thought that was a good idea, but they probably just figured this who... Continue »

That pretty much sums up this movie. Peter Weller leads a team of deep sea miners to collect metals and minerals and they discover a downed Russian ship. After excavating it, they bring aboard an infected bottle of vodka that kills and mutates the crew in a Stan Winston special effects bonanza.

Where it becomes The Thing is in how the infection merges people and transforms them into weird looking monsters, and it's also in an isolated setting where they must avoid infection.

It's funny to note... Continue »

Watching it right now. It's free, on On Demand. Mostly a waste of time, except for some cute girls, and the fact that supposedly they filmed it in an old building that was some kind of reform school where Rory Calhoun was sent sometime back in the late 1930s or early 40s. It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6032704/trivia

Out of all the seven dwarfs who do you think you would be. I would have to say I would be dopey cause I have a lot of blonde moments, and seen out of it a lot! But close second would be happy. Can I be a new dwarf, Happily Dopey!


And bonus points if you can name all the seven dwarfs without looking it up. I sat here for a bit trying to name them. I got six and was at a blank. But I finally figured it out!

Okay, so I know a lot of you probably aren't a fan of the cw or it's shows, but Arrow is honestly one the best shows I have ever watched. Sure it has a couple seasons, like 4, 5, and 6. I barely remember what those seasons were about.

Now I haven't always been a fan of Arrow. I watched a few episodes when it first came on, and I couldn't stand watching it. Four years later, I discover flash, who is my favorite super hero. So I binge flash, and of course this show has cross over with Arrow, bec... Continue »

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing amazing. I just wanted to make a quick little post and hopefully you all can help me out!

So I decided to finally host a challenge! I'm actually hosting 2 in the next two months. I am super excited! For the most part I have my July challenge figured out, but I am stuck on the slasher challenge for next month! Now I know and I talked to Snowy and usually the slasher challenge is only for 2 weeks? I wanted to change that into a month because I really like... Continue »

I'll be restructuring the damn thing to optimize it for a new feature I'm working on: the multiplayer turn-based arcade. I'm building a whole lobby/room system for it, which will also provide new shoutbox rooms for basically any page, so bear with the bugs and I'll try to make the downtime as quick and unnoticable as possible. You've been warned!

One of my go-to sources for great recommendations had mentioned this A24 indie a few weeks ago, and when I saw it was on Netflix, I couldn't pass up the chance. This is not so much a story as it is a collection of incidents with seemingly legitimate white trash Florida characters living in a motel run by the great Willem Dafoe.

Primarily, we follow a free spirit named Halley, played to perfection by Bria Vinaite, who I've never heard of before, but hope to see more of in the future. She lets he... Continue »

I don't know where to post this. You COULD watch it on TV, if you want, so I'll post it here. This is just something funny that happened last night. I was watching as it happened. Two... um... I was gonna say "chicks"... well, OK, two chicks, one of whom is an astrophysicist and the other of whom is a PhD candidate in biology, were hosting a little Youtube show they do sometimes. The name of the show is Drunk Science. God bless them for doing this. They don't seem to get totally hammered,... Continue »

I am curious y'all, how many of you guys want the Stephen King mini Challenge again this month. You can count whatever you watch on both challenges

This might be worth giving a shot, for some of us here. It's not exactly a horror, but... Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, and MONSTERS. Close enough, right?!? I mean, jeez Louise, what the hell do you want?!?

When seeking for some good movies from the early 1910s I found an animated short which really blew me away. The original name is in Russian (and hard to remember) as that's the creator's nationality I stick to its English name: The Cameraman's Revenge.

The animation is not done with puppets but real bugs. Sure they are dead but you wouldn't say so if you see how fluently they are moving. The setting is like our world and they act and interact like real humans. It feels so natural sitting on... Continue »

I can't really post any footage because the trailer for this 30 minute Netflix film will spoil everything, but this shit is pretty funny. David Harbour plays himself investigating his father's shitty Frankenstein melodrama teleplay, which reeks of old Dark Shadows vibes. Imagine VHS footage, lousy commercials, arrogant thesbianism, gothic sets, and inept plot twists. That's Frankenstein's Monster...'s Monster, Frankenstein!

I haven't posted this in a long time. It just cracks me up, it's one of my favorite short videos on Youtube. I will really bum out whenever they eventually take it down. If you haven't seen it before, just make sure you pay attention to what is happening for the first three and a half minutes or so. If you do, the last thirty seconds could be one of the funniest things you've seen in a long time. It is for me, anyway. And, somehow the Spanish subtitles make it all even funnier.

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What are your top three performances by an actor or actress? It doesn't have to be just in movies. Whatever you feel is your top three and an honorable mention if you have one.

My top 3
1. Kathy Bates in Misery (1990)
2. Charlize Theron in Monster (2003)
3. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


Honorable Mention

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

I finished season 2 earlier today and might say I liked it more than season 1.

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s2e01 - The Impressionist - directed by Armand Mastroianni
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716989/

A guy who's good at impressions is asked by top secret government officials to attempt communication with an alien that crash landed on earth. The alien itself is pretty goofy looking, but it goes through the motions. Eventually, it's revealed that the government wants to learn about its fusion power so... Continue »

I guess this post has to do with books more than anything else. Whatever.

There's an old Stephen Vincent Benet short story that I think many of us were forced to read in school, at some point. It goes by two different titles in different anthologies and collections, either By the Waters of Babylon, or In the Place of the Gods. It was written back in the 1930s, before nuclear weapons... that's important, for understanding the story.

Anyway, many of us were forced to read it against our will,... Continue »

So I am making a turn-based strategy game. Box is helping me with minor programing and the story. It is set in a post-apocalyptic ice desert. The earth has stopped spinning due to liberals outlawing fossil and nuclear fuels and to many giant windmills creating drag on the earth's rotation. I've made a lot of progress since not being able to go anywhere, but I am a programmer, not an artist. So I'm looking for a graphic designer to do some very basic design work. If anyone here is interested in g... Continue »

This is for anyone who wants to keep a log of their viewings/ratings every month please feel free to add yours! And I hope those of you who didn't, stick to doing it this year (you know who you are!).

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

2019: https://trashepics.com/post/30/9/
2018: https://trashepics.com/post/30/5/
2017: https://trashepics.com/post/9/97/

January

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I think I have already talked about this at some point, but I think it was on IMDB... well, whatever.

Any current or former Christopher Pike fans here? He was pretty popular among younger readers in the late 80s, and through the 90s. Like, early teen and general teen readers, not as young as the R.L. Stine readership... Was anyone here ever a fan, maybe many years ago? Or, you could have found a cousin's or older siblings copies of the books lying around somewhere, in this century, and gott... Continue »

For those on the site who read, what would you say your top 5 favorite books are. Or if you can't name specifics. Favorite series, or genres.


My top 5 would be:
1.) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.) Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
4.) Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
5.) Dorothy Must Die by Daniella Paige


My Top Series is: Vampire Academy and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead


And I gues my favorite genre would be Fantasy!


I want to hear y'alls!