I told myself I only had to stay alive long enough to see Halloween 2018 as well as the upcoming Terminator movie, but those bastards at Blumhouse gave me another two somethings to look forward to. The same team from the last movie is coming back for some back-to-back horror in Haddonfield, so does anybody have any speculations?

Obviously, it comes as little surprise that Michael survives his 2018 outing. How he does this is beyond me, because SPOILERS... that damn cellar was secure. Laurie w... Continue »

You can now rate the gore factor of a movie on Trash Epics. This was a feature on zed's site and he told me I could use it here a long time ago, so I finally decided to implement it. I've been working on a lot of edits, so I figured I'd throw this onto the stack as well.

It's a 1-5 system of basically no gore, blood, gashes, guts, and splatter. Of course, I can't remember every instance of violence in film, so go with your best guess and it'll even itself out.

I'm sure I've overlooked a fe... Continue »

I have probably posted this before, I think this thought recurrently, every few months.... I just can't get rid of it. Anyway: people named Bruce have done disproportionately well in pop culture, for several decades now. Will this exciting trend continue?.... We shall see.

Can you think of any major Bruces who have been a huge part of pop culture, including, but not restricted to, horror movie culture? There are several obvious choices, but just to start out with something people might no... Continue »

The new season came out a few days ago and I didn't give two shits. Season 2 left a really bad taste in my mouth. It had no charm, I really hated Billie, the arc was underwhelming, and it seemed like a season of filler.

Season 3 is a comeback. Somehow, it glued me to the screen again, and I think that's because it had a very fun story this time around. David Harbour is going full Magnum PI with his look, and he's easily the best character on the show.

This season is set in the days leading... Continue »

Just interested in peoples least favorite movies of all time. My would have to be Eragon. I loved the books so much and that movie was the worst thing ever. Close is Dragonball: Evolution and Avatar the Last Airbender

Hey Box, is something wrong with the Shout Box? I guess it is also possible that I am doing something wrong. I have tried a few times in the last few hours to post something there, but it isn't working for me. What's up with that?? By the way, what I'm trying to post is a link to an article about Danielle Harris expressing interest in getting involved with any future Halloween movies.

For some quick and sleazy war points, I saw the poster art for some shitty Italian looking war movie with a Rambo-esque title and I was immediately sold. This is the original "Last Blood", unlike Stallone's upcoming 5th Rambo entry, which will undoubtedly be loads better than this spaghetti war flick.

Granted, this movie isn't very much like First Blood, but it does have a heroic cliche who is stepped on by his commanding officers to the point where he fights back. However, this quickly leads... Continue »

I've never ranted on here, and now is as good a time as any.

A few days ago, I said that a lack of activity wouldn't bother me.
I guess I was hoping "filmboards" would fill in some activity-gaps. Mistakenly so.

Back in March, a friend of mine said that one of our friends (much like myself) is the Soapbox-type. Which Soapbox would that be? They're all equally dead.

In the words of Rocky in Rocky 3, "How did everything good get so bad?"
I'm not sure I buy the social-media theory. I'm n... Continue »

When you're a young enthusiastic film buff, you try to see the basics, no matter what the genre. Coppola, Kubric, Scorsese, Scorsaza... When IMDb meant something, their Top 250 was a good reference for the classics. In retrospect, it wasn't good at all, because the system was so damn weighted because people abused the system, but even before it went to shit, you come across some legitimate old school cinematic wonders, and some of them are mindblowers.

In the early days of my blind-buying dvd... Continue »

Note: I tried to add a movie image or cover, but didn't figure out how. Ah, well...

Journey to the end of the night is about the tense relationship between a father and son who run a club in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

On one night, Russo and Paul's so-so fortunes are supposed to change, as they have a man named Baaba contracted (as a drug-mule) for a huge payoff.
However, things begin to awry when Baaba has a fatal heart attack while fucking a tranny.
This potentially screws... Continue »

About a year after creeping me right the fuck out with Hereditary, Ari Aster went in another similar direction with this bizarre trip to a Swedish cult festival in "Midsommar". The artistic direction is pretty wonderful, much in the same vein as the last movie, and the weirdness is way up there. Both movies share a lot of similar themes, and it only gets more obvious toward the end of the movie.

The movie is quite long at almost 2.5 hours, but throughout the film, you'll get a few shocking mo... Continue »

I just went on another splurge and brought in a big haul. I need to stop as I am running out of room!

How did I do?..

One Missed Call 2003
Gia 1998
Hair Extensions 2007
Perfect Sense 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Snowtown 2011
The Zero Theorem 2013
Mandy 2018
Adaptation. 2002
Lucy 2014
Powder 1995
Premonition 2004
I Am Legend 2007
He Was a Quiet Man 2007
Maléfique 2002
Tattoo 2002
The Ninth Configuration 1980
Project X 2012
247°F 2011
Tony 2009
All Good Thing... Continue »

David said that there are days when not a single post is posted.
That won't be a problem for me, especially since I have 2 year's worth of catching up to do.

It's not just that.
When IMDb shut down 2 years ago, we all had a high-level of expectation, as far as activity goes.
But by now, that expectation has severely diminished.

Kudos to David for having a bug-free site (or seemingly).
So many sites are down from time to time, due to bugs.
Also, in the words of the late-great Ray Bradb... Continue »

Had to share. For those of us from outside the US, this is a character from a cartoon called King of the Hill.
https://twitter.com/1AshleyLaurence/status/1146417879643901954

We used to have some more regular contributers here who posted some good shit, then vanished off the face of the earth. People like BarkingBaphomet, Shadow-345, iceflamez, Atomichotwings, klownz, RedHawk10, sethyeah, slasherfan85, AlcoholicNinja, Moffat, and all those others who rarely/never posted, but at least lurked. Anybody know what hole they all crawled into?

I'd think that some of the political talk scared 'em off, but even after the government calmed down and there was no talk of this... Continue »

Prepare for another long-winded rant here... because FaceBook has driven me to the brink of my sanity!

Ever since the most unfortunate departure of our proiminent users, I've been racking my brain trying to come up with ways to make this place more appealing to potential new users.

I'm not going to lie to you. I've been in a bad place for the past few months. People I'm friends with tend to hate the living shit out of each other, and it's caused a major divide in my life, as well as this s... Continue »

In the mood for some learning? Then you should make your SPOT below for this challenge.

1 point for any documentary.

2 points for a documentary about dark subject matter.

3 points for a documentary about the horror genre.

1 bonus point for an FTV.

DVD and Blu-ray commentaries are allowed and fall under the same rules, but no FTV point.... Continue »

Kind of a weird topic, I know. But what do you make of this "phenomenon?" What do you do about it? I mean, you know you've seen the movie, but remember very little or maybe even nothing at all about it. Do you ever have the urge to revisit it? Should we even be bothering in the first place, since there's an infinite supply of movies to see? (as I type this, 15 new movies just came out.)

For me, the majority of my rabid movie watching was in the '90s up until about 2004 or 2005, and then I kin... Continue »

It's only a half hour long and there's some gnarly gore in it. That's all ya need to know.

Last month's Stephen King Challenge put me in the mood to read some Stephen King. Because I don't always enjoy his novels, I decided to go with one of his short story collections, his first of several released over the last forty-one years, "Night Shift".

The book kicks off with "Jerusalem's Lot", a prequel to "'Salem's Lot". It's told through letters and journal entries from 1850, a time when (Jeru)sal... Continue »

This aired on TCM Underground last night. Unlike most of what they run on there, I hadn't heard of it before.

It starts with a couple leaving their young son, Billy, with his Aunt Cheryl before they take a road trip. This is the last they see of each other because his parents soon die in a freak accident.

Fourteen years later, Billy's a high school senior with a girlfriend and he's a great basketball player with a chance to earn an athletic scholarship. He's also still living with Aunt Che... Continue »

Just finished watching this movie for the billionth time and wow! This is my favorite Rob Zombie movie ever! Watching this makes me super excited for “3 from hell”. My boyfriend and I were discussing how it would’ve made sense for them to make another movie, but after rewatching it I can see how they pulled it off.. plus I just saw the teaser for the new movie & it makes sense!

To me there’s never a dull or boring moment.. The brother gives me Charles Manson vibes! I wonder if they d... Continue »

Most of you are probably aware of the drama going on between the original Child's Play series versus the remake, which was made without the consent or blessing of the original team. Don Mancini wrote every damn one of those movies, and even directed the latest installments.

Chucky is his baby, and it means a lot of him, and Brad Dourif, and everyone else who's been a part of it, because like 'em or not, they were all probably very fun movies to make, and it's become it's own mythology. Chucky... Continue »

Is anyone here knowledgeable about horror fonts? I have been looking for one that I saw somewhere once, and can't remember exactly where. It might have been in a horror short film on Youtube, possible a Fewdio... but, I have been looking through the Fewdios, and haven't seen it.

I'm thinking of a specific fancy, elegant, ornate, old-fashioned font, with lots of funky little curlicues sticking out in all directions. It was complex, but not so complex that it was irritating. I think elegant... Continue »