Joe Spinell is The Undertaker

The concept of a funeral home killing people to keep the business going is a good one, but it's only happened a few times. The most notable movie I can think of is The Comedy of Terrors, with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone. That one is pretty good from the cast alone, but we're not here to talk about that movie. We're here to talk about Maniac. Maniac 2? Maniac 2.5? The Undertaker.

Joe Spinell was in some awesome movies. Check his filmography and you'll see he worked with some of the greats like Coppola, Scorsese, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, William Lustig... but toward the end of his career/life, he started falling into some crap territory. Sadly, this movie falls into that category.

I don't even have much to say about this movie except that it's too derivative of Maniac. You've got a crazy dude who kills people, keeps their bodies, and talks to them. He even acts the same, putting on the regular front when needed only to laugh and cry to himself when he's alone or on the prowl. Also, the very end is basically an exact copy of Maniac's ending, too, where the seemingly dead body comes to life and kills him. It seems that Spinell may have actually gone crazy toward the end of his life if he thought he could keep rehashing the same old premise like this.

I watched this one on youtube, where the quality ranges from good to awful in some scenes. Some of the kills are alright, and some of them are far too blurry to tell what's going on. I can't believe it took four people to direct this turkey.

Crawl (2019)

Alexandre Aja teams up with Sam Raimi to make a survival horror story about a woman trying to save her father from alligators whilst trapped in the crawlspace of their Florida home during a hurricane. That about sums up the plot right there, but these kinds of movies don't need a heavy plot. It's a situation you have to survive, and there's always another obstacle being thrown in your way, be it gators, rising waters, injuries sustained, or crazy winds throwing all sorts of things at you.

For what it is, this movie isn't bad. It's good to see Barry Pepper in a prominent role, because he's always pushed into those bit parts when in reality, he's a poor man's Johnny Depp. This is one of those movies where it could be easy to sigh at the stupid decisions that characters make, but there aren't a lot of those in this movie. The only stupid characters tend to get chewed up by gators, so it's all good. The gore is there, too. Nothing too intense, but enough to make you say, "ew".

For what it's worth, this movie is alright. I'll probably forget most of it in a few days though.

My latest haul

I went on another splurge this week, here is what I bought:

Shiver (2008)

P2 (2007)

Citadel (2012)

Julia's Eyes (2010)

Rabies (2010)

The Battery (2012)

The Corridor (2010)

Across the River (2013)

Acacia (2003)

Midsommar (2019)

The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)

Deathgasm (2015)

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)


What do you think ?

RAF Round 3

Hey guys it's time for round three of this fun game!

Here are the rules:
Players have 3 options:
1. Shoot themselves
If you shoot yourself anyone else who shoots you dies and you live, but if no one shoots you then you kill yourself.
2. Shoot someone else
If you shoot someone else then they die, unless they chose to shoot themselves, then you die.
3. Shoot the sky
You kill no one, but you die if some one shoots you, however you don't run the risk of shooting someone who shot themself and dying from it.

Players will PM their choice to me.

Go ahead and sign up below!



Players:
Ballz
Der_Tables
ZombieCPA
Zed
Box_a_Hair
Basic_Username
Bambithedeer

Trick (2019)

Trick is a Todd Farmer / Patrick Lussier collaboration that snuck up on us today. It's about a masked psycho who goes on a killing spree at a Halloween party in 2015, and while he's seemingly defeated, he tends to return every year to up his bodycount.

A fun fact about Farmer/Lussier is that they were supposed to direct a sequel to RZ's Halloween 2, but that never took off. They must have put a lot of thought into the idea of a Halloween slasher and didn't want to let it go, so they created this movie instead. Now mind you, the final product turns out vastly different than anything regarding Michael Myers, but it must have been in their thought process when they decided to created a seemingly indestructible seasonal slasher.

The movie deals primarily with the detective trying to hunt down the killer each year, only 'Trick' is always one step ahead of him. Sometimes, annoyingly so. However, the payoff is pretty good because the story does make a fair amount of sense, and it's loaded with gory kills and seasonal imagery. Plus, you have Tom Atkins playing a bad-ass, but as expected, he's not in a very large role. It's still great to see him in another Halloween movie though.

Also to note is that we have a Scream 2 reunion with Omar Epps and Jamie Kennedy. The cast is pretty likable, so you want them to get a one-up on Trick, but that doesn't mean they don't take a hell of a beating to get there.

It gets more interesting toward the end too, but the less said, the better.

The Lost Boys sucks

I remember back when I bought a lot of dvds on Amazon and you could get free shipping if you bought $25 or more, so I tacked on this $3 disc hoping this movie would grow on me with further viewings. It didn't happen.

Something about this movie bugs me. Sure, it's 80s and all that, but it's not good 80s, if that makes sense. I feel like Joel Shoe-maker put too much of his gayness into this movie, because our bad boy antagonists are all pretty boy delinquents, not to mention that one random shirtless beefcake who was only in the movie because the director wanted to see him all oiled up.

One thing that's really stupid is the opening, right before the credits begin. The boys are kicked out by the security guard, and when he goes to his car afterward, he sees the vamps are after him. He tries to get into his car and grabs the door, but they fly by and pull him away, and his whole door rips off. Now that goddamn door would only come off if the security guard himself was strong enough to pull it off, but he wasn't. He was merely trying to open the door when they pulled him away, yet the whole fucking door rips off of that car? Was it held on by duct tape?

I also hate the main theme music in this movie. That song with the children singing? It's a real mood killer. Fuck that noise. Like I even like The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want", but definitely not when the children start singing.

1987 had a much better vampire movie that wasn't directed by a homo. It was directed by a woman, and it's called Near Dark. Watch that one instead.

Suggestion on Site Description

Looking up Trash Epics on a search engine turns up the following: "A community of creeps who love B-movies, retro fashions, and sleazy perversions of a psychotronic nature."

If looking to get more people to join, Joe or Jane Anyperson will look at that and say "No thank you."

If that's still the main drive behind the site, then no big deal. But if you're looking to expand the amount and 'diversity' (excuse the use of that word which I have grown to hate), them maybe tweak it.

2019 October Challenge Discussion Thread



All questions and suggestions about this years challenge go here...

Ready Aim Fire (RAF) Round 2!

Hello everyone! We're going to be playing this game again, but I will be the one you send your votes in to! This game is really fun & easy!
It is very simple and similar to rock paper scissors.

Here are the rules:
Players have 3 options:
1. Shoot themselves
If you shoot yourself anyone else who shoots you dies and you live, but if no one shoots you then you kill yourself.
2. Shoot someone else
If you shoot someone else then they die, unless they chose to shoot themselves, then you die.
3. Shoot the sky
You kill no one, but you die if some one shoots you, however you don't run the risk of shooting someone who shot themself and dying from it.

Players will PM their choice to me.

Go ahead and sign up below!

Players:
Snowy
Ballz
Der
Basic
Box

Children of the corn

I feel like this one has always been a little underrated. I like the perverted religious theme of this movie. The cornfield adds atmosphere. There is also the battle for power between Issac and Malachi that is very interesting. Linda Hamilton shines in this one too.