We all know the story. It was a Grindhouse trailer that's been in limbo for about 15 years, and just when we had lost all hope... this movie suddenly and actually exists. Thanksgiving has been pretty scarce on horror, so Eli Roth decided to step up and finally give the holiday a worthwhile slasher flick, and he's still got it.

A year after a Black Friday mishap, a target group of the teen variety get picked off in thanksgiving-esque ways. Meanwhile, the police investigate the whodunnit w... Continue »

Hey guys I last watched the remake of Suspiria.

I don't know what the general consensus is but I actually thought this was quite good.

They made a pretty interesting decision here since the original Suspiria is pretty well known for Dario Argento's color palette and with this movie they decided to go with a stripped down color style. Probably a good decision in hindsight since any attempt to imitate the original cinematography might have come off as a second best imitation.

Anyway they... Continue »

Who's the actor you've seen the most films of? (i.e. not counting TV episode stuff)

I guess mine is Jackie Chan (though according to IMDB I've only rated 55 films of his, though I do remember at one stage having seen over 100 of his films, though this was in the days before I rated things on IMDB)

Christopher Lee 81 films
John Carradine 71 films
Peter Cushing 57 films

Everyone who comes to this board would LOVE this movie. I don't know how to talk about it, exactly. It's sort of like if the characters from Killer Joe, or from Flesh and Bone, were brought into a sci-fi comedy, but it is set in Florida instead of Texas. It might have also borrowed some ideas from Baby Is Three, AKA More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon. Also also, it has quite a bit of prolonged, completely gratuitous nudity by Jacqueline Lovell, God bless her.

The dialog is really pretty... Continue »

When you think of weasels and flesh tearing do you think of the film or the album?

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I've been thinking a lot about Vince's comments and decided to buy a few eggplants. The only way I know how to eat them is cooked & cheesed over pasta, but that's good enough. Does it make me racist to only eat them in Italian foods?


Users may now report other users over stupid little things. There is a button available on a user's info page labeled "⚠️ Report User", working similar to how IMDb's system works:

1.) You select a reason, 2.) You submit the report, and 3.) Moderators ign... Continue »

I was just thinking, I bet these aren't too far off in the future, technologically. Like, a t-shirt that has a moving gif on front, in some way, so it appears to be woven into the fabric of the shirt. They already have flexible phone screens, obviously.

I was thinking that I would totally wear a t-shirt that a gif on the front of Kenny from South Park, in the Major Boobage episode. They had several scenes showing him having a psychedelic experience, floating away to Heavy Metal Land. I wo... Continue »

Blumhouse likes to shit out these meta high school horror movies, and this one is a doozy. A group of high schoolers get on the bus for a field trip and find themselves fighting off zombies.

Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it isn't. It's a pretty generic experience with some pretty lame high school drama interwoven into the plot. We have some BFF girls, some misfits, some jock douchebags, the basic high school starter pack. Maybe it would be better if it was a straight-up zombie flick (likely... Continue »

That's another October Challenge done and dusted, so let's see who managed to cross the finish line and then some...



Went the extra mile!

Soph - 66 (58)
Ballz - 63 (38)
Box - 62 (47)
ebossert - 60 (17)
jimb - 57 (49)
Trigger - 55 (49)
Troma - 53 (34)
Conditioned - 48 (19)
defer... Continue »

A brief recap of Amityville movies... there were a few movies about a haunted house, then in the 3rd movie, the house blew up. At part 4 and just about every movie after that, it was about some random cursed items from the house winding up in cities all over the country. It didn't really matter after a certain point, and then the b-movie companies went hog-wild with it, just like they did with shark movies. There are infinity Amityville movies now, and this is one of them.

https://trashepics... Continue »

I haven't done anything on Halloween for years, but this year was different. My neighborhood sucks, so I went to my sister's rich-people neighborhood and guess what? People were actually trick or treating! And they had decorations up! I haven't seen any of that festive behavior in a while, so it was a great place to be a creep. I dressed up as Michael Myers and simply walked around a few blocks, but it felt great. The anonymity is one thing, but the fact that it was perfectly acceptable and expe... Continue »

This has always bugged me, but I guess I have never paid close enough attention to really figure it out. Tonight I.... um...well, it still doesn't quite seem right to me, but I got a little closer to being able to live with it.

Marianne Hagan played Kara Strode. She is supposed to be a college student with a little boy, but the little boy isn't really THAT little. He looks like he's about nine, to me, although they say he's supposed to be six.

So, this has always just seemed vaguely OFF,... Continue »

It's that time of the year again. You all know the drill but for any newbies, here are the rules:

> At least 31 horror films must be watched during the month of October. 16 of these must be FTVs (first time viewings).
> You get 1 "point" per movie watched.
> Runtime is 45 minutes minimum.
> Kiddy-friendly "Halloween themed" movies will be permitted as... Continue »

I'm talking about the.... um... let's say three-quarters crazy old guy, who gives Dr. Loomis a ride, and a drink, helping him out on his way to Haddonfield in Halloween 4.

I wish they had done something more with that character, either in H4 or in a later sequel. We just get that little glimpse of him in H4, but it's so tantalizing. I wonder what his backstory was.

That could make a pretty decent graphic novel, probably, now that I'm thinking about this. Something about Rev. Sayer in hi... Continue »

SPOILERS (here and there, I'm too tired to find them and black them all out, it's very late where I live).

I saw this the other day. It's not terrific, but I think they were probably attempting to do some interesting things with it. I am still trying to figure it out.

It's about two couples, one of which has kids, renting "cabins" at some kind of camping ground. The cabins are pretty freaking nice, by the way. At first I thought they were just in a home that belonged to one of the co... Continue »

Good God, why did anyone feel the need to make a sequel to a TV movie after all these years? Let alone the writer of the original? What's he trying to prove, except that lightning doesn't strike twice?

This one looks and feels DTV. They get the scarecrow costume right and they make sure to reference the original film's events to establish canon, but it was super boring. At least in the first one, you have the charming asshole Charles Durning to keep you entertained, but here? We got nothing. No... Continue »

Ah, the old 70s doc/slasher... once a rare collectors item unavailable on dvd for the longest time, thus a coveted title with a sort of biased popularity to it among us genre fans. Does it hold up, though?

From director Charles B. Pierce of Bog Creek fame, this guy seemed to like the documentary approach. I guess it works though. We skip all that boring exposition with a guy simply telling you the less interesting inbetween moments, and sometimes we see the law on his trail. Then we jump into s... Continue »

In the hockey movie Miracle (2004), does the Kurt Russell character ever yell "Hey Sweden!" at the Swedes, at any point, when his team is playing against Sweden in the 1980 Olympics? If not.... damn, that was a hell of a missed opportunity. They totally could have come up with some excuse for him to say that.

This topic happened to come up for me several times, over the last week or so. Actually, of course, it really comes up dozens if not hundreds of times every single day, if you are paying attention in real life.

Anyway, what is your favorite evil (fictional) corporation? Or law firm, it could be a law firm like Wolfram & Hart, from the Angel TV show. I'll make a little list to get started, starting with that.

Wolfram & Hart, from Angel
The RAMJAC Corporation, from Jailbird, by Kurt Vonn... Continue »

When this movie came out, everyone praised it as a Halloween-esque suspenseful home invasion movie. I saw it and I hated it. I've been known to come around to a movie after some space, so about 15 years later, I gave it another whirl, and it still sucks.

I'm not crazy about Liv Tyler to begin with. Something about her is awkward to me and I can't pinpoint it. The other lead Scott Speedman is an incredibly dull actor as well, so what does this movie have going for it besides a few well dressed... Continue »

Since I've been on a Danielle Harris kick, I can't ignore her first/only solo directorial effort. It was around this time that her career was hitting a horror resurgence, so she jumped in with both feet.

The premise has a group of friends heading to an 80s murder mystery party. Whenever there's one of those in a horror movie, you know it always ends up as more than just that. Our guests are quickly drugged so they can't use their legs, sat around a table, and forced into playing a sadistic ga... Continue »

I'll spare you all of a meaningful review, because this movie doesn't deserve your time. This PG-13 turkey sucks a dick.

It's kind of like that movie Lights Out, since it has to do with monsters coming out in darkness. That movie also sucked, and so did Pitch Black, so fuck off with the darkness monsters already.

I forgot how I used to obsess over her when I was a kid. I saw Halloween 4 when I was about 10, so she was always alluring to me. She had captured my feelings in an interview where she said how a lot of her fans are right around her own age bracket because most of them were kids when they had seen her Halloween movies. She also mentioned that many of these fans have also told her that she was their first crush. It's like she's reading my mind.

I'm more inclined to believe that Danielle... Continue »

I have watched this twice now, yesterday and today. I thought it was quite good. I can't say much about it without giving spoilers... I can just say that it's about a very frazzled-looking young woman who shows up at a somewhat older (30s or early 40s) woman's home, raving that she is being chased by some kind of monster. I want to talk about this, but I shouldn't... I guess I'll just black out everything I say, and if you're sure you'll never watch it you can read it anyway. Or better yet,... Continue »