Weird Al gets his own TV station, which he fills with ridiculous programming.

This movie is pure trash. This shit had me crying.

Does anyone know if there is a way to tell when the second showing of Stranger in Our House was? This was the made for TV witch movie with Linda Blair and directed by Wes Craven. It premiered on October 31, 1978 (same night as Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell on a different network). I didn't see it then, but it was rerun some time later, I think probably in the summer or fall of '79. That's when I saw it. I'm trying to determine the exact date because it was the same day as soemthing else that... Continue »

This is a good mid-80s NYC period piece following a bunch of juvenile delinquents. It switches between 1986 and the present, as recollected by Robert Downey Jr.

The setting is wonderful. The whole thing is beautifully made and the cast nails it. The crude teens harrassing everybody in town is a lot of fun to me. It's like Kids, where the teens are getting drunk and suffering adolescent melodrama. Shia LeBeauf is among the teens, mostly a spectator rather than instigator to the gang vio... Continue »

When I heard this was to be set between the first two movies, I wondered how the hell that was going to work. So here's the setup: The company sends a ship to gather some space junk from the Nostromo wreckage. Guess what kind of space junk they find?

But we're not dealing with them. We're dealing with a group of young people on a mining colony planet, and like most young people, they don't want to work. They form a plan to steal some cryo tubes from the wreckage of the ship that went out to g... Continue »

Released 50 years ago in October.

I first saw the '74 original when it was around 30 years old. It always seemed so old back then, almost like it was part of Texas culture. Before I moved to TX, I'd often imagine that any farmland or field probably had a hidden chainsaw psycho in there, like ol' Bubba. The film's title alone is enough to tell you that this movie is going to be different than anything you've seen before. And none of the sequels since can even top it.

I actually like al... Continue »

I haven't seen this film in nearly 20 years, so it was time to re-evaluate.

Dee Snider plays Carlton Hendricks, who goes by the username "CaptHowdy". He's a sadist and online predator luring teen girls to his lair where he sews their mouths shut and puts them in weird sex/trap devices.

What sets him apart from others is that his aim isn't to kill people. He just loves to torture them. What a fucking asshole, but Dee makes it w... Continue »

I'd just like to say, this film has a VERY strong opening. Very, very strong. Basically the first five or ten seconds after the opening credits and montage, immediately after the Zombies classic song Time of the Season for Loving finishes playing. It's just one hell of a solid scene. That's all I'm saying.

Some of us here must know this already, but if I ever knew it I had completely forgotten about it. In chapter 50, on page 650 of my copy of the expanded edition of The Stand, there is a scene where Mother Abagail (that's how she spells it) reminisces about a vacuum cleaner salesman named Donald King! It says she met him back in the 1930s. That is definitely a reference to SKs dad, Donald King, who sold vacuum cleaners. So cool. Had to share.

A weird thing happened in the world lately. And by the world, I mean what goes on in my head. Kristen Stewart, the chick from Twilight, who I've never found attractive previously, suddenly became hot. And not in the usual way. She became hot when she became... dykey. She used to be awkwardly gawky and lean in a bad way; the kind of lame faux-punk chick that losers who listen to Green Day go for. Now she's pooning women all over the place, got a hardass "men are scum" look in her eye and i... Continue »

Here's an instance where a movie has a perfect trailer. It sets up the plot that the FBI set up a sting at a pop concert to catch a serial killer. That's all you get out the trailer, and that's perfect. We don't want to ruin the suspense and the M. Night twist by yabbering on about the details, but the end result is this: This movie is crispy! Extra fried!

M. Night delivers what may be my favorite of his films thus far. That's not saying much since he's so hit or miss, but this one is a home r... Continue »

You guys, I just saw a clip from a movie called Shirley, about Shirley Chisholm. It looks like Lance Reddick had a pretty substantial role in it! I'm not 100% sure that that is true, but it sure looked like he had a really important role, from what I saw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_(2024_film)

That isn't necessarily a movie that all of us would immediately rush out to see, but I am going to try to watch it just for the pleasure of seeing Lance R. He was so awesome. This is o... Continue »

Good flick. Great cast. Brian Cox is out fishing when three teens hassle him and do something quite wicked. The rest is him trying to get justice while the parents of the evil boys try to sweep it under the rug.

Jack Kechum movies are always pretty twisted. This one isn't as disturbing as his later ones, but it's still very good. A cruel movie, and Brian Cox plays it real cool. I love that guy, one of those forever-old types.

Our host Zombie has gone AWOL so here are the rules from last time:

1. One point for each letter of the alphabet plus a # (so up to 27 entries in total).

2. Alphabetize the entry by the first significant word of the title (no "a", "an", or "the".)

3. For the # to count, it must be digitalised in the titles, e.g. 28 Days Later (2002)

4. Can be any genre.

5. Feature length movies only. Documentaries can count.

6. Begins August 1st at 12:01AM local time and you must start your final movie by... Continue »

Zed's empire 60.8 million square km
Nickos Empire 43.6 million square km
British Empire 35.5 million square km
Mongol Empire 24 million square km
Ballz Empire 23.56 million square km
Russian Empire 22.8 million square km
Markuz Empire 21.31 million square km
Zombies Empire 19.77 million square km
Qing dynasty 14.... Continue »

This movie is inappropriate. It's a Disney movie, but there's all this blood and murder and carnage. What gives?

When I go to the movies, I expect certain things. My shoes need to stick to the floor with every step I take. A single hotdog will come with 8 packets of sauce. And of course, all the blood and violence and cool stuff will be reserved for horror and crime flicks. Certainly not Disney flicks.

When I go to see a Disney movie,... Continue »

Alan (Sean Astin) is an introverted youth who is coerced into going on a long nature hike in the mountains, led by a nice looking survival expert named Vic (Kevin Bacon). Alan is a total pussy, too fixated on his radio and his stuff and taking shortcuts in his camping endeavors. This pisses Vic off, since he believes this whole camping trip is about the great outdoors, survival, self-discovery, et cetera. Soon, Alan begins to feel like Vic has it out for him, since Alan is always slowing the gro... Continue »

For a quick recap, I thought the original 1984 movie was okay. I liked the second (1987) one more because it had bigger action and I specifically remember eating Papa John's pizza when I first saw it. Pizza makes any movie-watching experience a thousand times better, and that's science. And when it comes down to the third, I'm pretty sure everybody hated part 3 (1994) . Somehow, John Landis dropped the ball on that one, but he would make a triumphant return to form with his next movie... The ... Continue »

This was a hit when it came out. It's been a while since I saw it, so I gave it another chance because of our leads, who were nobodies at the time.

Michael Fassbender plays romantic leading male, and Kelly Reilly plays sweet teacher leading female. This movie is soooo un-Beth Dutton of her. And it's sooooo un-Magneto of him. It's been out for a while, so SPOILERS if you're late to the party.

To recap, these two love birds take a we... Continue »

Using IMDB as a arbiter (under Country of Origin), Collect as many countries from around the world.
Films can be any Genre.
Scoring = 5 points if its the sole country, 1 if its one of a list of countries
you can only add a country once, but you can upgrade a countries score
eg say you had

Late Night with the Devil (2023) - Australia 1, United States 1, United Arab Emirates 1
then added
The Osiris Child (2016) - Australia 5
you'ld change Late Night with t... Continue »

The hype was big for this one. Directed by Anthony Perkins' son Oz, the movie is about an FBI agent who investigates a satanic serial killer. I think the movie is set in the 80s or 90s. It's one of those ominous slow-burners where you don't really know wtf is going on until it finally starts coming together at the end. I went in blindly and I wont say much else about the plot, but Satanic stuff is generally pretty unsettling, and this movie had a few creepy moments.

Maika Monroe is our lead, ei... Continue »

I avoided this one for a while because I was annoyed at the remake trend. I think the 1971 film with Dustin Hoffman is one of his best. A pretty tense flick about locals hassling a timid guy and his hot wife on a retreat. 40 years later, they decided to remake it. It is based on a novel afterall, so it's more like a new adaptation rather than being a remake, right?

The newer version follows the same beats of the original. Dead cats, retards, home invasion, etc. It changes the setting from som... Continue »

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To refresh myself I'm gonna watch them all in order

6/10 Dr No (1962) - Connery the big wuss, you can see plainly with the trantula scene its not crawling on him, but a plate of glass. Bond gets his comrade killed by having the bright idea of attacking a tank with a couple of hand pistols. It was night, they could of just hid in the dark. He saves the day by causing a nuclear meltdown. I'm sure the people of Jam... Continue »

You guys, I'm sorry, I try to never do this type of thing here. But, I follow this poor girl on Twitter, and I feel bad for her. She goes by the name Cassie the Friendly Ghost on Twitter, I believe that she is a real person. She is almost flat broke, she lives in her car, with two dogs. She is trying to survive a prolonged heat wave in Sacramento, where it has often been around 100-110 degrees, which is over 40 for all you international Celsius people. The next few days are supposed to be t... Continue »

Another month, another challenge to keep us all watching as many movies as possible. This time, the idea is to watch as many movies (or TV shows if you can fit it in) of that respective genre during a week and add up the cumulative total at the end (they can also be scored individually as mini-challenges if you don't wish to compete in all of them).

1 point per minute watched, as usual.

Genres must be "tagged" on IMDb or any of the major movie databases.

Here are the dates to put in your dia... Continue »