Sorry, this is completely OT, but it's just interesting. This guy is from my hometown in Massachusetts. He has been working as an actor for many years, and has just started going to college, near Los Angeles, in his late 40's. He's playing college football! 47 is not just his jersey number, it's also his age. He turns 48 in a couple weeks. Isn't that amazing? He's not even a particularly huge guy, he just stayed in shape, over the years. I am not supporting the fact that he has decided t... Continue »

Anyone seen this 80's slasher parody yet? It's dumb as hell and everyone involved certainly knows it, which makes it all the more better! Watched it as part of the October Horror Challenge this year and I'm already tempted to watch it yet again.

Besides the long-awaited blu-ray of Kill Baby Kill I picked up Poughkeepsie Tapes, Inconceivable and Devil's Mile. I don't know anything about the last two.

Anyone seen this? It's supposedly a slasher film about a mentally challenged kid who gets blamed for a murder, sent to an asylum, then gets out years later and starts killing the people who framed him. It also has a female villain with a Bettie Page hairdo named, appropriately, Paige.

It sounds like it could be worth checking out so I wondered if anyone here knew about it.

I have Hannibal (the movie) playing right now... I am struck by the contrast between the beauty of many shots, especially of Florence, Italy, and the horrifying ugliness of other scenes. Florence is so beautiful... I think I actually get a (very small, but real) attack of Stendhal Syndrome, just watching Hannibal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome

Does anyone here have any other movie that comes to mind, in terms of shifting back and forth between great beauty and great ugline... Continue »

Netflix has been on a roll with their original movies, lately. Gerald's Game, The Babysitter, and now... 1922.

It's another Stephen King story, because the dude apparently has infinite stories. Tom Jane returns for his third King collaboration (Dreamcatcher, The Mist) to play the conniving farmer, and he hits it out of the park. He's always been an under-appreciated actor, and he plays this character wonderfully. The story is alright, but you're watching this movie to watch him.... Continue »

Out of all the many Exploitation sub genres, there's one that doesn't get brought up nearly enough. Generation-X-Ploitation. Yeah. I just made that up. But go ahead and watch Gregg Araki's 1995 sex-fueled cult comedy, The Doom Generation, and tell me such a thing doesn't exist. The Doom Generation was Araki's second part in a trilogy of dark, offbeat, homo erotic comedies based in L.A. which starred James Duval. The Doom Generation being much... Continue »

As I'm watching the 7th entry in the Child's Play series, I started thinking of how horror sequels often implement mental institutions as a plot device. No, really!


- Halloween 8 (and the original film) has an asylum, '07 remake and '09 sequel have asylums
- Elm Street 3 and Freddy vs Jason have institutions
- Phantasm 2 and 5 have institutions
- Wrong Turn 4 is set at an abandoned asylum
- Friday the 13th 5 is set at a halfway house for weirdos
- Basket Case 2 is a loony bin
- Angela... Continue »

Watched Nightmares (1980) the other night. A sleazy slasher (naked death!)/acid humour combo that must be among the wildest of vintage Ozploitation. Jenny Neumann (Hell Night) plays Helen, an aspiring actress who as a young girl called cathy caused the grisly car accident death of her adulterous mother. She gets a part, a role in a local theatre production of a curious play of dubious merit, a comedy about death. Also begins a romance with a fresh faced and friendly young co-star plucked from a... Continue »

but I made a lot of money off it, so I don't care. I kept telling him "Yo, I'm not even human. I'm a goddamn weasel, made completely out of death," but he didn't care.

Now that I'm a millionaire with no integrity, I'm gonna donate all my money to the Stop Hurricane Harvey Weinstein foundation, where I can pretend I'm a victim, too!

Centered on philosophical, religious, political and spiritual themes, it tells the story of four strangers from "the quiet corners of the globe" connected by a vision they all receive of a coming evil. Their search for the truth behind the vision leads them to each other and to far larger and more disturbing truths than they could have expected.

I blind bought Broken Saints [DVD], an animated Drama|Mystery|Sci-Fi recently on Amazon and I had never so much as even heard of it be... Continue »

Any questions about the challenge goes right here. Anything at all to say about it goes right here.

Watched Jess Franco's classic A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) a few nights back. The weird and wonderful tale of Christina, who returns home to her family at Monserrat Mansion after a long absence, to hear the reading of her father's will. Stopping at an inn on a stretch of dismal coastline (in fairness I suspect it may be nicer in season), she is mysteriously told that no one lives at Monserrat Mansion, but by the by she is summoned. A coach ride full of obscure musing brings her, and it... Continue »

Maurice celebrates the Challenge of the Apes finale. And it was good! We had a grand time monkeying around and I learned a few things - like Smerd is an even bigger Ape fan than I am. It was exciting to see so many of us immerse ourselves in the Ape universe. Here's how the final results stacked up:

beatnik (moi) - 5775 points - Makes me Caesar - Long live the King!
SethYeah - 5658 points - he... Continue »

(This a story I wrote years ago. I've gotten better since then! Promise! Anywayz, just thought I'd post it here, on the off-chance that some of you may get a kick out of it.)


Walter had always loved to dote on his mother, ever since he was a boy. Fatherless from an early age, he took it upon himself to be the man of the house - her provider and protector. When she’d fallen ill, he dropped out of medical school immediately, less than a month until completion, to care for her. Her il... Continue »

Last year, I told myself I wanted to write a book. I started writing some... then scrapped it. I started over, and finished the story, and I came back to this little bit of writing I attempted back then, which is vaguely in tune with both the the beginning and ending of the story. Without further adieu, I present a prologue for the story, for anyone interested.

If you can fake control, then do you have control? Take a minute to think about it. You're a smart, resilient individual,

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I have ever seen was the boil/goiter/growth on the redneck''s neck at the end of Easy Rider.




It looks 100% real to me, which is why it makes me want to dry heave, yet I was fascinated by it when I first saw the movie a few weeks ago. Deadandburied's post reminded me about it.

Holy hell... I just read that John Dunsworth, who played Jim "The Liquor" Lahey on Trailer Park Boys has died!

This truly breaks my heart, as he was an amazing part of the Trailer Park Boys legacy. He played a drunk bastard trailer park supervisor for over 15 years, and he was so much fun to watch.

I'm gonna get drunk as fuck tonight, boys... 2017 can go fuck itself.

RIP

Any love for this one? I thought it was such a fantastic movie, i knew it was good beforehand (rewatch) but i forgot just how amazing it actually is and i don't usually dig supernatural horror flicks.

When you think about who directed this movie, you laugh. "McG" directed this, and we can't take a guy with a name like that seriously now, can we? He directed Terminator: Salvation, for fuck's sake! While he always struck me as a bit of a tool, I guess his heart was in the right place. Here, with Netflix's new Friday the 13th release "The Babysitter"... he might have finally redeemed himself! Continue »

The Irish stand up comedian, writer and actor has died of liver failure aged 51. Probably best known for being a team captain on music comedy quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks, he was also in a few films inc The Butcher Boy & The Commitments and briefly had his own sitcom.

He was well known to enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle, and kept his sense of humour until the end - "I went to the hospital with my psoriasis. They gave me a DVD of The Singing Detective and said "Good luck with your life"."

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Yeah. Troma isn't really what it once was, is it? Nowadays it seems like they only pick up random garbage that nobody else is interested in. And this problem goes back well over a decade. Whatever notoriety they still enjoy is certainly not due to anything they've done lately. Kaufman or Non-Kaufman. I'd go so far as to say 2011's Father's Day is currently their last hurrah. Where did it all go wrong, you ask? Well, don't ask me. I'm... Continue »

I still prefer House of 1000 Corpses but this is definitely a strong Rob Zombie horror film. Sid Haig, Ken Foree and Bill Mosely are all hilarious and terrifying. The role reversal at the end is interesting.

It's an interesting parallel that Tiny shows up at the end as a saviour figure for the evil characters when earlier in the film there was a scene with a victim calling out to God for help and no one came.

Sequels. Yeah, they're ok, sometimes. There were a lot of them before the reboot revolution. And just like reboots, the sequel craze was a bit much. Very few were necessary, some were pretty good. However, most sequels are just obvious cash grabs, every bit as much as these stupid reboots we're now stuck with. The 80's was the point when so many directors got the idea that an overabundance of part 2's was okay and not at all cheapening oth... Continue »