I've seen a lot of gross out comedies, but Wetlands is something all its own. Wetlands is a German comedy, drama directed by David Wnendt, and damn is it weird!

The plot is as follows an unhygienic woman named Helen who has strange views on sex and hygiene wants her divorced parents to reunite. This is only the beginning of Helen's issues because Helen has also been hospitalized due to cutting a hemorrhoid when she attempted to shave her as... Continue »

About a year ago, I started writing a book. A dirty soap, as I call it, chronicling the misadventures of the local delinquent cheerleaders in a crappy hick town, and the lame male protagonist that longs for them. Last month, I finished it. It's a whopping less-than 200 page male fantasy about disco, drugs, and delusional deadbeats. If that doesn't reel you in, GTFO. Continue »

...in the Season 3 episode of the Love Boat who gets involved with Steve Kanaly's character in the last ten minutes or so? No women will date him because he wants them to sign a paper before they date. This lady doesn't mind because she wants him to sign the same kind of agreement. She's not credited, and I wondered if she ever appeared in anything else. She's one of the best looking blondes I've ever seen.

Anyone enjoy this obscure movie based on Yokai Monsters of Japanese folklore?

It has two follow up movies (100 monsters) and another one. There is also a more recent but unrelated Yokai War movie.

Spook Warfare



100 Monsters

Any thoughts on the new season?

What are your thoughts on this upcoming sequel?

Personally, I hate the Saw movies. They're kinda shit, if you ask me. Convoluted shit, in which our antagonist has way too many contingencies in order, to the point where it gets preposterous, and fast. After the third movie, Jigsaw DIES, yet he had so much going for him that he had 4 more movies planned. FIVE, if you count this new movie. Continue »

I'm watching "11.22.63", starring James Franco as a time-traveler who has to prevent the assassination of JFK. It's pretty interesting so far. It's mostly a 60s period piece, but it's top notch, exploiting some civil rights stuff at the time, but still being an interesting thriller.

Gotta love that Stephen King is still relevant. Theaters here have not only Dark Tower, but now "IT", which has had surprisingly high hype. I haven't even seen the trailer for IT, but it's sold out at my theater,... Continue »

If you happen to have a copy of The Dead Zone, or if your local library has a copy, you might find this interesting.

I was just re-reading The Dead Zone this weekend, and in Chapter 21, Section 3 (each chapter is subdivided into numbered sections), there are a few paragraphs that make me think of the movie Dreamscape. They are on page 317, in my edition. They describe Johnny Smith's visions of the world after Greg Stillson is elected, which is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The book is a... Continue »

I missed last week so this one is for the past two weeks.

I got Eye in the Labyrinth and The Intruder from Diabolik DVD the other day. I haven't gotten to watch The Intruder yet but looking forward to it. I've already seen Eye in the Labyrinth on YouTube several years ago and liked it, so as soon as I found out there was a Blu ray I ordered it. Watched it last night and it looks good, though there are no extras on it. From my experience Code Red never does much in terms of special feature... Continue »

A woman destined for freedom manages to escape Hell. When she arrives from the sewers of Earth, she is used to punish Sinners. But the last thing she expected to find was love.

I seen this last night, and I was surprised by just how solid it was. The special effects are superb, the acting is great, and the story is surprisingly good, for what is a low-budget film.

Anyone seen it? What did you think?

Whether they be mindfuck movies, or movies that just stuck with you, so you thought about them over and over again...

Lately, with the sci-fi challenge, I delved into Predestination (2014) and it's a very unique movie. I thought about it enough that I wanted to rewatch it again today, and I am. I guess Fight Club was also a mindfuck. I remember when I first saw that one, I made it halfway through, and then I had to leave for a family gathering at Chili's restaurant. Then, my dad... Continue »

I haven't watched the Martyrs remake and i will do the same for Inside (2016)

Here's a relevant theme for the sci-fi challenge. I had to say "space alien" so you know I'm not talking about the xenomorph movies. They really monopolized that word, huh?

What are your thoughts on aliens in movies? Which are your favorite space alien movies?

Popular movies tagged with "alien":
https://trashepics.com/media/?category=1&tags=alien&sort=value Continue »

Discuss this Italian creature feature masterpiece.

Starring everyone's favorite wife of a Beatle, Barbara Bach.

And star of Citizen Kane, Joseph Cotten. If it stars him it must be good!

It's been about 10 years since I started collecting dvds. Sadly, they're mostly obsolete now, but that's not gonna stop me from buying more movies with my infinite supply of Amazon gift cards (courtesy of my Bing searches). So considering that, I figured I should get an up-to-date list of my dvds on here.

Since it's hard to distinguish between the several different regions, re-releases, and disc versions... I'm simply going by which titles are available to me given my current selection of discs.

View the list here: https://trashepics.com/app/dvd/

Beaumont, Texas is in the news a lot right now, because of Harvey and all the flooding. It made me think of Charles Beaumont, who was a pretty important writer for The Twilight Zone. He tragically died in his 30's of some horrifying disease, or combination of horrifying diseases. Anyway, I used to have a book or two about The Twilight Zone, and it had a lot to say about him... interesting guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beaumont

https://twilightzone.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Beaum

Driving to work last night I noticed that every gas station I passed had an enormous line. Later on my break, it took about 5 seconds of googling to find out that there was a confirmed false rumor that Austin was having a gas shortage, and everybody is filling up, whether they need to or not, before we supposedly run out. Of course this rumor is now becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, as every gas station in town is struggling to keep enough gas in stock to satisfy all the gas horders.... Continue »

I noticed in our news feed that they're making a Planet of the Apes / King Kong crossover comic.
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/246179/king-kong-crossing-planet-apes/
Comics can get all sorts of cool crossover treatments, like Evil Dead meets Darkman / Re-Animator, etc.

I know @smerd read a lot of PotA comics for last month's challenge. My question is more like multiple questions. Kinda drunk and rambling here, so bear with me...

Are the Planet of the Apes comics good?... Continue »

Anyone here ever go to Burning Man? My brother and his wife have been there for the last week or so. They go every year. It sounds so insane to me... I could probably take it for a couple of days, but a whole week would drive me out of my mind. Has anyone here ever been to one??

I went camping once, a long time ago. I never knew whether or not it would turn out to be something I enjoy, and to this day, I still don't. Let me explain. The one time I went camping, I was deathly hungover. The kind of hangover that keeps you uncomfortable for a better part of the day. I wanted no part of this camping trip, but my friends made the day's plan out to be far cooler than it was. It turned out to be a disastrous, humi... Continue »

God dammit! George Romero a month ago, and now Tobe Hooper. Not many of the big ones left

You know, like the Kevin Bacon game. I recently noticed that Elsa Lanchester, who was the Bride of Frankenstein (1935), starred on several episodes of a TV show called Nanny and the Professor, back in 1971. Kim Richards was on that show, on those same episodes, I think. She was just a little kid at the time, like 6 or 7 years old. And, of course, she is Kyle Richards sister, so that connects Elsa Lanchester to Halloween (1978). Kim Richards is also Paris Hilton's aunt, so I guess that conne... Continue »

Troma and I had a discussion recently on what qualifies a movie to be a gore film. I realize that the overall definition is a splatter film or gore film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

But can movies that show only a few scenes of gore be considered a gore film? Or are they just gory? Is there even a difference? Does the gore have to be the main element of the movie for you to consider it a gore film?

As an Irishman, I am bound by patriotism, to support McGregor, even thou he is the underdog. I can't wait for this fight - it is considered the Fight of the Century by some. I don't consider myself an aficionado of boxing, or even MMA, for that matter. McGregor talks a good game, he is a tremendous trash talker, and he didn't get to where he is witho... Continue »

I just used the IMDb advanced search of my ratings and these are what I really liked under 4.9 rating. There is quite a lot of them, and I was kinda surprised to see some of them rated really low. Anyway.

In order:

Grave Halloween (2013 TV Movie) (4.2) 8
Hell of the Living Dead (1980) (4.9) 8
Demons 6: De Profundis (1989) (4.4) 8
The Nesting (1981) (4.6... Continue »