Just wondering what Trash Epics in particular one member thinks of this new Dolemite movie.

Horror movies that have been released 2017-2019. I haven't seen any from 2019 yet so it will just be 2017 & 2018 from me

2017
Trauma: 7,5/10 (torture/revenge tends to either be too tame, uneventful or go over the top, this one has a great balance, with godo gore and yeah nudity which is becoming rare this days but Chile is thankfully not scrutinized by the censors)

Primal Rage: apparently forgot to rate it must be around 5/10 (no brain slasher and gore)

Errementari: 8/10 (I like fantasy a... Continue »

Emanuelle is a recurring character in several Italian sexploitation films. I've only seen one of these movies before, and that was Women's Prison Massacre, which was to be the end of the Emanuelle series, and I didn't even know it was a thing at the time.

Basically, Emanuelle is a gorgeous slutty reporter played by Laura Gemser, and the first half of this movie is basically a soft-core porno. After a nurse gets her nipple bitten off by a cannibal patient, Emanuelle questions her whilst finger... Continue »

When I watched this, my first thought was "What the hell is going on here?" After about ten minutes, I decided I was just going to believe what they are showing me. It's all true.
And it actually turned out to be not that bad, really. I still only gave it a 4, but that's at least two points better than I would have.

Do you ever wonder coming across an old horror movie which looks like original for the its time but you'll find out is is generally unknown? A movie that predates the better known classics by some years. usually they are obscure as they didn't really got much advertising or they got a limited release in theatre (perhaps not screening at all in the mainstream ones).


The ones that spring to mind:

Spider Baby (1967): Well it is said the filming started in 1964 which probably explains why it is... Continue »

What is your top 10? The criteria is no remakes, no separate adaptations, no sequels, no prequel, not a prequel or sequel, etc.

1. The Man Whi Changed His Mind (1936)
2. Day of Wrath (1943)
3. The Unknown (1927)
4. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
5. The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
6. Horror Hotel (1960)
7. The Witch's Mirror (1962)
8. Onibana (1964)
9. The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
10. Cat Girl (1957)

Granted, I was pretty drunk when I was watching this, but it got me right from the beginning. While it was made in 1998, it looks like it was made in the 70s. Very stylistically influenced by John Waters, what with the LGBT prominent trash themes.

This movie is mostly just stupid dialogue between a dull girl striving to be a bigshot in a pageant and some gay dude who started the movie as some actor playing Jesus. They'll just ramble on about how to be successful for about an hour until they go... Continue »

Does anybody here think maybe the baker/confectionery guy at the beginning of Demons 2 might really have been intended to be a demon, for the movie? I don't think we ever see his face, but right at the beginning there is a scene with what appears to be blood dripping, and a sharp knife... it gets the audience all freaked out, but then it just turns out to be a guy preparing a cake. So, the audience laughs at itself, and says "Chuckle chuckle chuckle, ohhhhh what a silly audience we are, for g... Continue »

It is that time of the year again!

Third challenge hosted here at Trash Epics, I believe, first by me.

Previous years challenges

https://trashepics.com/post/9/160/
https://trashepics.com/post/9/218/

Rules:


1. 31 Horror films must be watched during the month of October.
2. 16 of which must be first time viewings.
3. The challenge will begin as soon as October begins in your time zone.
4. In regards to runtime, historically, it is 4... Continue »

The original Halloween is cemented in horror history as a classic slasher film. An "immortal classic" if you will... Nothing can top it, and even part 2 is a solid follow-up, albeit ignored in modern continuity. But that anthology idea took things to a new direction... Halloween could have been a totally different series if Season of the Witch took off in the way that the creators intended.

I remember when I was a kid and I saw VHS copies of Halloween 3, and I absolutely did NOT understand how... Continue »

So with the 31st fastly approaching, I thought it was apt to look back on some of my most enjoyable FTVs of the month.

I am pleased with the turnout for this years challenge, and the overall upsurge of activity recently..

I will briefly list a few of the best views I have seen for this years challenge:

Ju-on (2000): the first installment in the Ju-on franchise, following two short films. With a runtime of 70 mins, it is super creepy. This is a film of slowly building dread and unease more th... Continue »

There seems to be a lot of them, old and new, and it's hard to tell one from another without having seen them because the titles are all so similar and they have mostly unknown actors in them.

I've only seen one of them and I can't recall the exact title. It's the one with Dee Wallace in it, and it wasn't great.

Are any of the others worth seeing?

Dan Curtis always had a thing for haunted houses, didn't he? After milking the horrors of Collinwood for about 5 years, he wasn't quite done with the subgenre yet, opting to turn this novel into a feature film. Funny enough, trivia says that he read the book years before getting the offer to direct, and thought that it was less than ideal for a screenplay. Fortunately for us, he put his magic touch on it and turned it into one of the best haunted house movies of all time.

The story is about a f... Continue »

I've made it a quest in my life to watch as many 1981 slashers as I can, because this was the pinnacle year for the slasher subgenre. Somehow, most of them end up being pretty decent because the genre wasn't fatigued yet. Filmmakers were enthusiastic about it still, and they had a few good ideas up their sleeves. Most importantly, they still took themselves seriously, and camp value didn't destroy the integrity of slasher movies yet.

When they made slashers back in the day, it all about finding... Continue »

Any faves there or opinions you want to share?

Mario Bava (probably my number 1 mostly because of his older atmospheric stuff) In my collection (all Arrow releases):I Vampiri
Black Sunday
Black Sabbath
The Girl who Knew too Much
Blood and Black Lace
Kill Baby Kill
A Bay of Blood
Baron Blood

Lucio Fulci (made some pretty decent gialli late 60s eearly 70s even though they don't really have RW value to me. I know The New York Ripper is well liked but that was the first in a series of 'monstrositi... Continue »

The concept of a funeral home killing people to keep the business going is a good one, but it's only happened a few times. The most notable movie I can think of is The Comedy of Terrors, with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone. That one is pretty good from the cast alone, but we're not here to talk about that movie. We're here to talk about Maniac. Maniac 2? Maniac 2.5? The Undertaker.

Joe Spinell was in some awesome movies. Check his filmography... Continue »

Alexandre Aja teams up with Sam Raimi to make a survival horror story about a woman trying to save her father from alligators whilst trapped in the crawlspace of their Florida home during a hurricane. That about sums up the plot right there, but these kinds of movies don't need a heavy plot. It's a situation you have to survive, and there's always another obstacle being thrown in your way, be it gators, rising waters, injuries sustained, or crazy winds throwing all sorts of things at you.

For w... Continue »

I went on another splurge this week, here is what I bought:

Shiver (2008)

P2 (2007)

Citadel (2012)

Julia's Eyes (2010)

Rabies (2010)

The Battery (2012)

The Corridor (2010)

Across the River (2013)

Acacia (2003)

Midsommar (2019)

The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)

Deathgasm (2015)

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)


What do you think ?

Hey guys it's time for round three of this fun game!

Here are the rules:
Players have 3 options:
1. Shoot themselves
If you shoot yourself anyone else who shoots you dies and you live, but if no one shoots you then you kill yourself.
2. Shoot someone else
If you shoot someone else then they die, unless they chose to shoot themselves, then you die.
3. Shoot the sky
You kill no one, but you die if some one shoots you, however you don't run the risk of shooting someone who shot themself and dying... Continue »

Trick is a Todd Farmer / Patrick Lussier collaboration that snuck up on us today. It's about a masked psycho who goes on a killing spree at a Halloween party in 2015, and while he's seemingly defeated, he tends to return every year to up his bodycount.

A fun fact about Farmer/Lussier is that they were supposed to direct a sequel to RZ's Halloween 2, but that never took off. They must have put a lot of thought into the idea of a Halloween slasher and didn't want to let it go, so they created thi... Continue »

I remember back when I bought a lot of dvds on Amazon and you could get free shipping if you bought $25 or more, so I tacked on this $3 disc hoping this movie would grow on me with further viewings. It didn't happen.

Something about this movie bugs me. Sure, it's 80s and all that, but it's not good 80s, if that makes sense. I feel like Joel Shoe-maker put too much of his gayness into this movie, because our bad boy antagonists are all pretty boy delinquents, not to mention that one rando... Continue »

Looking up Trash Epics on a search engine turns up the following: "A community of creeps who love B-movies, retro fashions, and sleazy perversions of a psychotronic nature."

If looking to get more people to join, Joe or Jane Anyperson will look at that and say "No thank you."

If that's still the main drive behind the site, then no big deal. But if you're looking to expand the amount and 'diversity' (excuse the use of that word which I have grown to hate), them maybe tweak it.

All questions and suggestions about this years challenge go here...

Hello everyone! We're going to be playing this game again, but I will be the one you send your votes in to! This game is really fun & easy!
It is very simple and similar to rock paper scissors.

Here are the rules:
Players have 3 options:
1. Shoot themselves
If you shoot yourself anyone else who shoots you dies and you live, but if no one shoots you then you kill yourself.
2. Shoot someone else
If you shoot someone else then they die, unless they chose to shoot themselves, then you die.
3... Continue »

I feel like this one has always been a little underrated. I like the perverted religious theme of this movie. The cornfield adds atmosphere. There is also the battle for power between Issac and Malachi that is very interesting. Linda Hamilton shines in this one too.