My latest splurge!

Ok, so I came into the money this week, and I decided to blow the lot on blind buys..

How did I do?..

The Voices 2014
The Plumber 1979
Mr. Jones 2013
Wendigo 2001
The House at the End of Time 2013
Vinyan 2008
The People Under the Stairs 1991
The Uninvited 2009
Two Evil Eyes 1990
The Last Winter 2006
Juan of the Dead 2011
Heartless 2009
Excision 2012
The Signal 2007
Livid 2011
Heart of Midnight 1988
Equals 2015
Dressed to Kill 1980
Willard 2003
A Good Marriage 2014
YellowBrickRoad 2010
We Are the Night 2010
The Cell 2000
Sauna 2008
We Are What We Are 2013
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Frankenstein's Army 2013
Love Object 2003
Wither 2013
American Gothic 1987
The Tall Man 2012
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead 2014
American Gothic TV Series (1995—1996)

Library haul

The Guest 2014
Sleep Tight 2011
Evolution 2015
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones 2014
Hollow 2011
Let Me In 2010
Julia's Eyes 2010
Kwaidan 1964
Onibaba 1964
The Monster Project 2017
Pet (2016)

Troma movies

I would guess that the majority of people here are fans of the Troma movies... And I would like to think that I am open-minded when it comes to horror..

I have seen around six of these movies to date recently - having not seen a single one in my life.. and I have to admit, and I don't want to offend anyone here - but they really are not very good, in my opinion.. they can be childishly silly and immature..

I know they completely conflict with my tastes, but is there anyone here who is not a fan of these movies?

Horror movie loners?

Off the top of my head Martin 1978 would be. I can't think of any more, surely there must me some more. What other horror movie loners are there?

Deja Vu is Epic Trash

41 years after the original "I Spit on Your Grave", Camille Keaton returns as Jennifer Hills to pass the torch over to her character's daughter Christy, so she too can be raped and get revenge, by the descendants of the original film's antagonists.

In 2010, we were given a brutal, gritty remake of the original that featured some of the gnarliest kills I've seen in any movie. It was a fucking great remake. One of the best. It went on to spawn two decent sequels, and then it was announced that we would be getting a "true" sequel to the original, by the same director. Interesting, right? Well, not quite...

Deja Vu is epic in the sense of it being long. Very long. This movie is 2 and a half hours, with some very drawn out scenes of exposition that we definitely don't need, but they're there anyway. The movie could have been an hour shorter and say all the same things.

Our cast here is filled with bad actors who aren't intimidating in the least. In fact, they're flat out stupid. Dumb as fuck, if you will. You know it's bad when one of the better actors is the retarded old man who kind of looks like Michael Berryman. Then, we have that raggedy long-haired fucker who overacts the living hell out of any scene he's in. Too expressive, and too scrawny to pose any real threat. Even Camille Keaton doesn't seem like she knows how to act anymore. The new girl does okay, but the execution leaves a LOT to be desired.

One thing that this film does with its excessive runtime is explain things. Over and over again. They drill it into your head and show a lot of flashbacks to a better film, as if the audience is too dumb to put the pieces together themselves, when the only people who are watching this turkey are fans of the original, and they already get it.

This film lacks the brutality of any of the films that came before it, and the rape scene is much shorter and very tame. The revenge is still quite necessary though, because the characters are so pathetic. As necessary as this revenge is, it's highly unsatisfying.

The movie tries to have a message about the futility of revenge, but it comes off as a bit preachy. There are forced religious overtones, and not enough grueling horror for them to mean anything. Not the worst movie ever, but far from anything you'd expect from the creative team of the original video nasty.

2010 remake > 1978 original > 2013 part 2 > 2015 part 3 > I Spit Chew on Your Grave > Deja Vu

Si vis pacem, para bellum! John Wick Chapter 3

John Wick Chapter 3 was cool as hell. It picks up right after the second film's daunting ending, where it's also revealed that Part 2 takes place within a week of part 1. So in that week, John Wick has killed sooooo many people, and he barely has any time to catch a breath because everyone is still out to get him.

Don't these fuckers ever learn? You can't kill the bogeyman!

This movie had the best fight scenes in the entire series. The violence is cranked up even higher, and my God, was it a fun ride! Some of these fights had me in awe, and the choreography is incredible. I don't know how they can coordinate this stuff as well as they do, but they do it. Especially in the scenes where he has to fight multiple people. There are knives flying, a 7 foot giant fight, motorcycle swordfights, ninjas, vicious dogs maiming people's balls, and finally... villains that actually put up a fight.

Mark Dacascos plays a ninja who yearns to kill John Wick, but is also a big fan of him. If anyone remembers the 90s, this guy played Eric Draven in the The Crow tv series. He had a decent likeness. He's the only guy who can last in a melee fight with John Wick.

Also, the movie was a little funnier than the last two. Mostly because some of the kills are so fucked up, you just have to laugh. It definitely satisfied my bloodlust, and if you haven't heard already... Part 4 is on the way.

A Whole New World

I know a lot of y'all aren't too crazy about disney, but personally, I think they did an amazing job with the live action Aladdin. I know it isn't the same without Robin Williams as the iconic genie, but Will Smith did an incredible job. He didn't try to be Robin Williams. He embodied the genie in a way that made the movie an incredible experience, while still paying respect to the original.

I watched Aladdin so much as a kid, but it has been years since I have seen it, but the minute the music started playing it all came back. The movie kept all of the original songs with just a few tweaks on a couple, and it even had a new song. I loved every minute of each song.

It was a mesmorizing experience. The cast was amazing, and everyone did such an incredible job bringing the movie to life.


Also Aladdin is loosely based off a short story in "One thousand and one nights," so it counts for May's challenge.

Stephen King Challenge

For the next two weeks of this literary challenge spin-off, it's a Stephen King ordeal, since that dude has infinite material.

From Sunday, May 12th to Saturday, May 25th:

+1 point per Stephen King movie OR tv show episode/mini-series episode, including sequels/episodes to his movies that he didn't necessarily have anything to do with. "It" (1990) is a mini-series, but it's basically 2 movies/episodes, and that would count as 2 points.

+1 if he directed it (Maximum Overdrive only)
+1 if set in Maine (ie Castle Rock)
+1 if a kid dies (does not stack)
+1 if an animal dies (does not stack)
+1 if he cameos (ie hogey-man in Knightriders)
+1 if Mick Garris directed it
+1 for FTV

Rewatches don't count. Make your SPOT, cuz this could get interesting.

Those goddamn Avengers... They did it again!

As much as I want to hate on modern cinematic drivel, I still make an exception for Marvel movies. Marvel was part of my youth, so I feel obligated to my younger self to stick with it, and sometimes... it stinks. Sometimes... it's incredible.

I wont ramble on that movie though... It was a crazy good satisfying conclusion to their 11 year effort, and I have no idea where they'll go from here. They probably don't even know. If Dark Phoenix is the conclusion to the X-Men verse, then Disney can merge all of its Fox properties into an even bigger scope. It's almost nauseating to think about it.


I read that some dude in China shouted spoilers for this movie, and he got a beatdown. 😄

The movie is killing it in the box office, though. Busy, busy... Too bad Universal made a really shitty movie and blew their chances at a cinematic universe. Instead, all we have now is the Conjuring-verse, and who wants that? The Conjuring stuff is why New Line isn't making any more Freddy movies, and that's some shit right there.

So yeah... Avengers was great and all, but it's no Citizen Toxie.

About "Prince of Darkness"

I saw this, for the seventeen bajillionth time, last night at a midnight showing. I guess there really is something special about seeing it on a big screen, because I had an idea that I don't know if I've ever had before, despite having seen the movie, as I said, seventeen bajillion times already.

There are several ideas in the movie that Carpenter probably borrowed from The Quatermass Experiment. There must be a lot of websites, Youtube videos, etc where people talk about this connection. But, I think the short story Beep, by James Blish, or its expanded version The Quincunx of Time, may also have been an influence/inspiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time

This occurred to me because, as I mentioned last night in the shoutbox, I realized that the Professor Birack character is probably inspired by the real theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Somewhere in my $%&•$#@!ing cluttered apartment I have an anthology of science fiction stories that includes the short story Beep, which I mentioned above. They talk a lot about Paul Dirac in that story.

By the way, I'm pretty sure that another book by the author of Beep, James Blish, was a big inspiration for Mortal Engines, the book that was adapted into the movie of the same title last year. Whoops, I lost control of that sentence, I meant to mention that the James Blish book that probably helped inspire Mortal Engines was called Cities in Flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight

Other inspirations for Prince of Darkness MIGHT have included Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Daniken, and a few books that try to connect quantum mechancs and theoretical physics to religion, like The Tao of Physics, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, and... there's another one like those books... I'll come back to this thread when I think of it.

Trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate

What do you think of this? I'd been waiting my whole life for the real Terminator 3, and it's finally coming. The trailer is a big tease though, and it doesn't show enough of what I'm looking for.



So as you can see, we have an endoskeleton with a liquid metal skin. The last few movies always made the new machines ridiculously over-the-top and it kind of pissed me off. This time, they just merged the first two villains into one, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I wish they wouldn't try to make things look "cool" and sleek, though. The machines started out as clunky robots that weren't trying to impress anybody with strong acrobatics. They were just armored killing machines.

Judging by this trailer, I'm still not sure what the story is. There's some girl who's basically the new Sarah Connor, while the old Sarah Connor is trying to protect her, along with some other overly-advanced hybrid type.

I sure hope the R-rating is pushed to the max, and that Arnold has a somewhat prominent role. As you can see, he's only in the trailer for 2 seconds, but every terminator fan knows that the movies don't work well without him.

Very vague, but I'm optimistic.