I will put this one out there as a mini-challenge for at some point during this month. Basically you will have 10-12 days to watch as many episodes from any HBO series (minimum 40 minutes per episode) as you can. You will get 1 point per episode. If you manage to complete a whole season (minimum 8 episodes), you will get a bonus 10 points. So for example managing to watch 2 seasons of Deadwood would get you 44 points. If anyone would prefer it to be based on the traditional running time though,... Continue »

This was a convenient concert that sprung up on der's radar, so I went to Dallas with him to catch the 50th anniversary of ZZ Top's career. FIFTY years, dude! The other two bands are only a few years from their 50th as well, but rock and roll has kept these fuckers young.

This was the same place we'd seen Alice Cooper and Deep Purple a couple years ago, but we were waaay in the back of the lawn this time. Not a problem though, because a lot of weed was passed around back there, but damn were... Continue »

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I planned on getting some shit done tonight, but I drank a bunch instead. I've been drinking a lot lately as means of cutting back on weed, and I've been feeling fucking FANTASTIC about it. I've been sleeping well, and I've been having all sorts of random-ass dreams. Do you hear me! Do you know what I'm saying?! I've been having dreams lately! I haven't had dreams in so long, so this is a good sign! It means I'm inspired!

My dream last night was about John Wick. I think? Cool ass movie... Continue »

Congratulations to Ballz, the victor of the war (pun intended) movie challenge. It was a close run combat right until the end with literally just a short movie in it. I have to say it, there were some disappointing showings with at least a couple of desertions (pun intended again). Court-martials will undoubtably ensue.. OK, I will stop now. Here are the results:

Ballz 4,019
Markus-san 3,929
Snowy 1,794
Box 712
Bambi 423
Der 325
Zomb... Continue »

We've had Once Upon a Time movies for all sorts of things. America, The West, China, Mexico, Venice, and now... Hollywood. Tarantino loves the era, and that's evident in a lot of his works, where he'll showcase grindhouse cinema, kung fu, Italian films, westerns, and whatever else inbetween.

This time, it's all about the behind the scenes for these movies, where we follow the washed up Rick Dalton and his stuntman Cliff Booth as they struggle to find work and relevance in an age of movie-maki... Continue »

And I don't like it! Where's the diversity around here? I want to see other people talking about stuff, and not just that idiot box! Who does he think he is? Some kind of admin?!

This place is all about hospitality! You hear that?! HOSPITALITY!

I've slacked hard on this month's war challenge, but I deemed it necessary to watch one of my favorite Brian De Palma movies. This one is based on a grizzly true story of a group of grieving soldiers who kidnap a local Vietnamese girl and proceed to torture and rape her.

The cast is excellent. Sean Penn is the main perpetrator of this heinous act. A man with seemingly no conscience as he views any natives as VC scum who deserve whatever harm they may get. Don Harvey plays his asshole lackey w... Continue »

It's the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, so what better way to commemorate them than a challenge for the month of July. The challenge will commence at 00:01 GMT on the 1st July and finish at 06:00 GMT on the 1st August.

Points will be awarded for running time, so with most war movies clocking in at well over two hours, you should be able to rack up the points. You can also watch any TV series, including documentaries if you missed out this month (The World At War... Continue »

A few female coworkers have been watching movies at my place lately. I'm trying to educate them on good movies. Currently, the goal is to show them something disturbing, to mess them up.

I figured "Bug" 2006 would be a good place to start, but it didn't phase them so much. I'm thinking of whipping out the big guns, and showing them something like "Megan is Missing". I was creeped the fuck out by that movie, so that's my best idea for a disturbing movie.

What would you show to someone if... Continue »

Now, I'm a goddamn pizza guy!

My life is hilarious.



Granted, I only worked one shift of pizza hut at my current theater job, but still. A fucking pizza guy.

I am watching Night of the Demons 1988 for the fifty kajillionth time, and I just want to say, I really want to track the actress down and chainsaw her head off because of the way she says "Oh!" very insultingly, at 23:15 here:


OK, now that I got that out of my system... I looked at her IMDB page, and apparently she does a lot of work with animals, and tries to help head off possible future animal poachers in Africa by reaching out to them when the... Continue »

Has anybody seen the viddie where they put Jim Carrey into The Shining? It's incredible how far technology has come, and it's also incredibly scary. This stuff can and will compromise the integrity of surveillance footage. It's only a matter of time before a grand conspiracy occurs involving this stuff, but is it new? Haven't we all been faked out for decades?

Shortly after the Shining video, we went back to the 90s for a T2 redux with Stallone's face on Arnold's body. I read that this... Continue »

"A Barry J. Gillis Film" is already selling me.



You got to love how his trailers feature titties in them. You also got to love how it takes nearly 30 years to get this piece of shit on video. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for this turkey.

The Gingerbread Man (Blu-ray)
Con Air (Blu-ray)
Lust for a Vampire (Blu-ray)

Also about to preorder Who Saw her Die? and Alice Sweet Alice, both on Blu-ray.

They announced their phase 4 plans, and it all has me rolling my eyes.

Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness is being called the first MCU horror film. As if! PG-13 horror is not horror. Provided the director has done a few horror films, you know they're gonna puss out and make it into a regular fantasy extravaganza. Honestly, the first Doctor Strange movie was pretty damn cool, but call a spade a spade. Don't lie to us and tell us you're making a horror movie out of a ki... Continue »

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 »