The Redeemer (1978)

I love this movie it's weird and so 70s and freaky and it's basically like every 80s slasher you've ever seen only not because it was made in 76/77 so it had more in common with grindhouse and exploitation movies no it isn't very gory or violent but the atmosphere is there in spades it's cruel and dark and gritty and weird and low budget there's just something about this flick i watched it again the other night I've seen it roughly 7 or 8 times now it gets better with every viewing I appreciate how ahead of its time it is I first saw it under the title of class reunion massacre on VHS yes I prefer that title but ah well you can't have everything in life ya know life is a bitch sometimes and yes i realize im writing one big ass run on sentence but fuck it man this is trash epics not english class anyway back to the Redeemer have you seen it if not get on it cuz it rules hard.

Is that the fuckin' Moondog?

Harmony Korine. You either love him or you hate him. I'm in the camp that can't look away. When he puts something on screen, I'm mesmerized. Even when I felt dirty after watching Gummo, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I watched it a few more times until I discovered a depth in its grim and hopeless redneck suburbia.

I've watched Werner Herzog drink cough syrup out of a shoe because he made it look like art. I've watched Die Antwoord roll up in their pimped out wheelchairs because Harmony Korine can make magic out of nothing. Just imagine what he can do if he has starpower and a budget to boot.



It's been a few years since we went on Spring Break with Franco and the ladies, but that seemed like a natural environment for Korine to explore more of. With The Beach Bum, he wants to show us Florida, and with a little help from McConaughey's laughter-filled performance, it's a fun trip that isn't even bogged down by sad scenes.

It's like we're all getting drunk and high and with McConaughey on the Florida coast for a few hours, drinking a LOT of Pabst Blue Ribbon and hanging out with Snoop Dogg. Sure, life tries to get in the way, but you got to keep at your own pace, and the universe will work itself out.

Films like this are about characters, situations, and art. The plot is derived from these things, and it seems inconsequential at best, because life is a rodeo, and the Moondog keeps on livin'. L-I-V-I-N.

Zac Efron plays a pyromaniac in jinco jeans who listens to Creed, and Martin Lawrence is a Vietnam vet who loves Flipper. I think this movie is set in the early 2000s. Snoop Dogg is basically playing himself. This is how I like to think McConaughey is normally, when he isn't winning Oscars. Just a bum who parties on the beach all day and all night. It's like Moondog is living by the motto of "Spring Break Forever", and we're given a hazy glimpse into his perfect world, and the idea of this perfection is contagious.

Critics consider this a flop for McConaughey's career, but he knew what he was getting himself into. This was a choice he made intentionally, to work with an auteur with vision, and you could tell he had fun making the movie.

Movies like this are a rarity, and that's what makes them important. They don't have conventional stories, because they have other things to say, and to me, it's all about that strange place they take me to. Nothing out of this world is going on, but it's hard to feel grounded when a movie makes you high.

This is my last post here.

I'm sick of this place. And you know what? I don't even like trashy movies. I'm going to go watch the latest blockbuster. Fuck you guys. 🖕

Google Your Old IMDB Sig Line

I had several, over the years on IMDB. I just googled the one I had toward the end of IMDB, and this thread came up. Good for the soul, to see it. My soul, anyway. What comes up when you google your old sig lines?
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/2947/

Looking for Moderators!

So as many of you know Ballz is our new Challenge Moderator and I would like to fill a couple other moderation roles if I can.

Below are the Moderation Positions I would like to have:
Challenge Moderator: Ballz - In charge of the challenge host queue and ensuring challenges start and run efficiently. Also Keeper of the Trash Cup. (That's a title idea "Keeper of the Cup")

Draft Moderator: - In charge of the draft host queue. In charge of ensuring drafts start and run efficiently. Tasked with ensuring that all drafts submitted for aproval by hosts are logically sound and don't have any glaring holes.

Board Moderator: - First off this in not a sensorship role. This mod is tasked with making sure that threads tagged in the "soapbox" are supposed to be there and not in another board, IE horror or games and the same goes with the rest of the boards. I am actively trying to convince @Box that a more propper index on our home page with the boards "Movies", "TV", "Soapbox(General Discution)", "Games and Challenges", "Site Information", "New to the Site" and "Site Ideas" would be benificial and also keep this place more organized and stop the overflow of shit from rants and beefs from the "Soapbox" to the rest of the site. So, this moderator would just make sure people didn't put topics in the wrong board and if they did they would move the post.


These are the first 3 I would like to fill, well 2 since Ballz already grabbed challenge mod, but as we get more organized I would like to have individual mods for each board just so there isn't so much for one person to look through.

If anyone is interested just let me know. Also let me know about what you all think of the more divided index as a home page vs the facebook like feed.

t-t-t-t-t-t-T-TOUCH ME!



I watched my favorite musical, Rocky Horror, last night, and realized it maybe my all time favorite movie. I'm thinnking about watching it again today, and already have the soundtrack playing. As a kid this must have been the first R rated movie I ever saw, although I had never really thought of it as R rated before last night. favorite movie of all time. My mom is an ex-ballarina and show choir performer so I saw this at a relatively young age, but you see I wasn't allowed to (and didn't)watch R rated movie until I was about 16, and my mother had shown this to me a few times and I think we even watched it when I was 13 in my Freshman theatre class. I was never I.D.'d the time I saw it in theaters and was like 15, so it really wasn't until last night that it hit me that this was a R rated movie. Even Hot Patootie has such a fun happy, almost early 80s light pop/rock, vibe, yet it ends in murder and then they eventually eat Eddie...




The thing that I find interesting is that almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it really is a Trash Epic! I mean everyone loves this movie, my mom, my director at the time, most all my friends (hell even my Marine of a father loves this movie), yet after thinking about it Rocky Horror really worked for it's R rating: Nudity, Gore, Cannibalism, Rape, Drug Use, Incest and Racism (7 point movie), but yet it's in just the right ammount and combined with so much fun that most audiences look right past it. In a way it's almost as the audience is who is really getting put under the persuation of Dr. Frankenfurter. Like Brad and Jannet, so many of the people I know who love this movie are very innocent. You know godly, wholesome working and business people, ignorant to 95% of the movies most us of know, and would probably not ever want to know of them anyway. However, when this movie comes on, those same people are completely unphased and seem to want to get dirty.



The flip side of that is that a lot of people I know who love horror movies and the more, let's say interesting, side of media don't like musicals at all. I can't even get @Box to go see Book of Mormon with me, let alone watch Fair Lady or Singing in the Rain. However, again most everyone I know like that just looks right past it. Hell I think @Box can quote the entire movie, and can at least recite the soundtrack. I've even seen friends of mine who listened to nothing but doom metal and watch very obscure movies, they were part of our techinal crew, lighting, sounds, video, etc..., and even they would step onto the dance floor at cast parties to dance to Time Warp.




That it what is so magical about this movie. It takes everyone out of their comfort zones at first by combining two things that aren't really in the same general ballpark. I even alot of homophobes I know will sing along with Sweet Transvestite. This movie makes everyones thinking scrambled. Think about it, think of someone you know that likes musicals, if you said "Hey let's go see a musical, it's a horror musical with cannibalism and trannies!", they most likely wouldn't go see it with you, neither would someone who hates musicals, yet both of these group are simply entranced by the movie.

I'm not really sure where else this rant is going, I was planning on reviewing the movie, but it turned more into a thought piece, so thoughts? Why do you love Rocky Horror? Have you ever shown it to someone who doesn't like it? Do you not like it, and why? This and any other feelings you have are welcome!




#RockyHorrorPictureSh

Horror Movies that are similar story-wise?

I always like to be on the look-out for horror movies that I like to see is there a similar movie out there to them.

Here is what I consider to be similiar:

Long Weekend (1978)/The Territory (1981) - both involving hiking trips with with Mother Nature fighting back
Duel (1971 TV Movie)/The Car (1977) - desert settings involving powerful vehicles.
I Am a Ghost (2012)/I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) - both poetic introspective haunted-house films involving female protagonists.
Sole Survivor (1984)/Final Destination (2000) - death hunts down and collects people in the form of destiny.
Martin (1977)/Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) - protagonists are not vampires, but need to drink blood.
I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)/Colin (2008) - documents physical and mental deterioration.
Cube (1997)/Saw (2004) - strangers involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)/The Night God Screamed (1971) - both involving cult of satanists.
The Babysitter (2017)/Better Watch Out (2016) - both horror-comedies involving babysitters.

Can anyone think of any in their opinions?

Ooh, those dirty fools!!

Johan must really not like me. He made his own forum, about the same damn shit we talk about here. https://horrorntrash.freeforums.net/ is of the same design as imdb2, a site that we had both expressed our disdain in, but fuck it so long as it ain't this place, right?

Stab me in the fucking back, why don't ya? All to make a shoddy knockoff of a site that was designed to cater to all and anyone's requests? I've spent thousands of dollars and hours to learn how to code this site. I live in sleaze and eat ramen fucking noodles so there can be a dedicated forum for epic trash discussions out there, and because certain users have decided to make issues out of nothing, we experience a new divide in our already diminished user base? Fuck that!

I thought Johan and I were on the same page on a lot of things. I thought he understood that we need unification, but the guy runs off to start another forum with some generic free host. Now, one of our most valuable contributors decides to split in favor of a barebones message board system, leaving us all in even further divided camps. And who does he made his moderator? Tromafreak, because God forbid that guy exist on a forum where his mod status and thus masculinity are in question. Yeah, that's right. Johan makes his "head mod" a guy who tried to ban him from here. More than once.

What's the hell is going on here? The dude likes to makes himself out to be a victim, but tromafreak has been totally unreasonable about this whole fucking mess. He acts like there's preferential treatment or something, but there isn't. He's had a bug festering up his ass about Der ever since the notorious "Cars 3" rants, and that somehow put ME at fault with troma, because he'd gotten very distant from me since then. Guilty by association, I suppose. Angry that he can't be "head mod" if I allow myself to get programming assistance through der's account. Boo fucking hoo.

I don't interfere with user/user discussions, because I've got better things to do than pick sides, and he's treated me like villain ever since. Sure, I know the guy can be a bit irritable at times, but I always got along with him before. A lot of my most favorite films are movies he's introduced me to, and I genuinely thought we were on good terms until he raged at me in a private message, saying in so many words to go fuck myself, and ran away from his own goddamn website. I don't like saying this is my site, because it's a group effort. I want others to realize that this is their site, too, but nobody seems to get it these days. Tromafreak didn't even bother reading what I had to say about it, and that hurts. He didn't even get to read the part where I tell him to go fuck himself.

The whole thing is frustrating. The guy just wants to throw away everything we've been working on for half a decade, because he doesn't like Der? That's some real bullshit right there. And Johan joining a freeforums site? That's a step backwards. What do these people want out of a website? Standard, soulless machinery that lets them feel like the proprietors of a new and untamed frontier of lost message boarders seeking a new place to call home? Fuck no. Nobody cares about message boards anymore. It's all about facebook and apps now, and they're putting themselves in an even smaller margin of activity now. If Johan was upset that his posts didn't get enough exposure, then why the hell would you narrow that scope even further with a site comprised of users--fewer users than your normal userbase--who for some dastardly reason or another decided to flee this place because they were "offended" by users... and strangely enough, some of which whom are currently over there now?

If they think they're mad, how the hell do they think I feel? They walk away from a place I built for them, in favor of a shoddy knockoff of this place? It's fucking stupid, is what it is. Well, I can be stupid, too. They try to rip this place off with free forum software? Well, I've built a shoddy knockoff of their shoddy knockoff:

https://trashepics.com/app/ff/


As you can see, I've made a rather ugly and shallow skin that's somewhat functional. I might add mobile support later. I might just kill myself instead.


If those guys ever get their heads out of their asses and stop sucking each other's dicks over there, there's a real website over here waiting for them.

Trash Arcade

I'm trying to get better at my web programming and I am trying to make some basic games. I'd like to put them on the site if people would play them.

What I'd like to know is what basic games do you guys like and would you like to play them on here?

Game Pipeline
1. Trash vs Zombie (What I'm working on Currently
2. Trash Man Beta
3. Trash Poker (I'll figure out a better name for it)
4. Trasha-noid

Completed Project
None yet, but links coming soon

Motel Hell (1980)

Now this here is one strange little movie. If you go in blindly, it's going to take you a moment to figure out what this movie is about, but when it hits you, you know you're in for a fun ride.

So who is Farmer Vincent? Who is Ida? What are we doing in this movie to begin with? Rory Calhoun plays a charming southern gent who runs a motel and jerky business with his fat and smug sister. Yeah, I've already said too much...


This movie came out in October 1980. What a fun fucking movie this would have been to see when it came out. People would need to know why a guy wearing a pig's head is weilding a chainsaw. Oh, what imagery. I love how he laughs maniacally during that chainsaw duel, too, but I'm getting ahead of myself here. This movie has a lot of stuff going on, and it's almost mesmerizing to watch it all play out.

Vince and Ida are still pretty shady people, but fortunately for them, their own dim-witted brother is the sheriff. He's a clueless horndog. He's the hero, and he's incompetent, so this movie is all about the villains.

But villains? What are they doing anyway? Well, it becomes pretty obvious when they're talking about how they ate their dog before, and Vincent laughs the line, "Meat's meat, and man's got to eat!"


Even though this came out before the 80s got its groove/cheese, it still had a lot of it, but not enough to ruin the mood of it by making it too goofy. It has gore, titties, perverts, inept cops, traveling rock bands, health inspectors, hypnosis, drive-in movies, and a great and atmospheric rural setting to work with. Oh, and most importantly, it has... Wolfman Jack, playing a sleazy televangelist. I think each scene of this movie serves a purpose, and it's generally just a fun movie to watch.

I love the way they harvest humans. Force-fed, probably shitting and pissing themselves in their dirt hole, but that's why they wash 'em good before they cook 'em! Vincent has his secret family recipe, and he knows how to run his business. Of course, this all comes crashing down because he fucks up. He falls in love. Ida has a strange jealousy about that, often trying to kill the girl he likes. So much zany shit going on in this movie that it all just seems normal in the end. After all, they do present Farmer Vincent as a rather sympathetic character, until the end, when he puts on that pig head...

MGM Midnite Movies had a great double feature of this and "Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile" (1974). Both twisted tales of rural american butchers.

Imdb trivia:

The movie's original screenplay was originally a darker more disturbing piece with bestiality, a lot more violence and was not a black comedy.

Harry Dean Stanton was originally approached to play Farmer Vincent, but declined.

I would have loved to get some bestiality points for this movie, but I think the end result is pretty entertaining either way.