We don't want to start a panic, Mr. Bennell.

I was just thinking about the name Bennell, in IotBS. It's a pretty uncommon surname. I have never met anyone with that name in my life, as far as I can recall. It makes me wonder if they were trying to make some kind of statement, by naming the character that.

It might be a reference to Luis Bunuel, the surrealist filmmaker...? That would make a certain amount of sense. Especially when you consider Mathew Bennell's broken car windshield in the 1978 film. He had to drive around for practically the whole movie with that fractured perspective that surrealists, and I guess cubists, strive for.

It could also have been a little homage to Stephen Vincent Benet, maybe? I was thinking, his short story By the Waters of Babylon is about the end of the world. Well, obliquely... I won't wreck it for anyone who hasn't read it yet.

Or, maybe it was supposed to be a combination of Bunuel and Benet. Could beeeeeeeeeeee...... well, whatever. Had to share.

Upcoming ALIEN tv show and/or game?

Anybody care about the 'Alien' franchise? It had a movie in the 70s, 80s, 90s[x2], two shitty spin-offs in the 2000s, and two more prequels in the 2010s. The Prometheus movies didn't do much for some people. Kind of hit or miss. I thought Prometheus was an interesting, albeit barely relevant backstory to the first Alien movie, but in a sense, that's what I liked about it. It featured the mechanics of an Alien movie, without the xenomorphs themselves. Alien Covenant had a few 'memberberry moments, but it had some ultra-predictable twists that wont impress you at all.

To most people, the xenomorphs ARE the Alien series. I suppose that's mostly true, but I think the technology and dystopian setting can provide for a lot of interesting ideas, and it's only taken the producers 40 goddamn years to figure this out. Androids? Space ships? Intergalactic travel? Terraforming?

Now, there's talk about a tv show and some form of interactive companion piece to that. My mind jumps to some Bandersnatch scenario, if not just another video game.

I think Alien can work as a series, even if it isn't all about the xenomorphs. Sure, they can appear in a few episodes, but even without them, there's some good sci-fi shit they can exploit, and us old school sci-fi/horror fantasy nerds will eat that shit up.

Thoughts on the ALIEN franchise? Would you watch a tv show? Or is this a cash-grab, doomed to fail?

Zed

Hey mate, you're still in hospital I take it. I've just arrived in Barcelona so are pretty bored at present no pc etc to fulfill my time gf's at work etc. so why don't I ring you up and chat sometime. I'm in uk/Spain Timezone and you're in Canada, Winnipeg? So we will have coordinate a time that works out best. We can ring on WhatsApp, zed - the currently sober person did not even have a beer on New Years

The Big Lebowski: Inspiration for Trailer Park Boys?!

I threw it on for a quick laugh, and I was struck with a few parallels to Trailer Park Boys. Besides the protagonist being a low-life who drinks and smokes all the time, this 1998 comedy came out right before the black and white Trailer Park Boys debut in 1999.

First off is the shit-mobile. We'll gradually see the Dude's car turn into a pile of garbage, just like Ricky's.

Then, we have the Roadhouse connection. We have Jackie Treehorn (who treats objects like women, man) and Sam Elliott in this movie, both from Roadhouse. Roadhouse obviously features Patrick Swayze, aka Julian. Sexy Julian...

Also, the Dude answers a question with, "Did the pope shit in the woods?", and Ricky is known for his "Rickyisms" (him fucking up common phrases), saying, "Does a bear shit on the pope?"

Then, the Dude is being hassled, trying not to spill his White Russian, "Careful man! There's a beverage here!". Julian (not Patrick Swayze) is a man known to never spill his drink... or be seen without it.



Just drawing parallels and shooting the shit. Anybody a fan of either of these?

Guess which movie this shirt is from

@der got me a Christmas present that I'd been wanting for years. Guess which movie this is from:





This is the best thing I've ever seen.

Private message to someone

https://trashepics.com/post/33/add/
Is this the link, if not how does one do it on an tablet/phone?

I assume /33 is to user 33?

Ok I see this has gone into the main forum, so I guess my question is open to all 😛

I think I might of Sussed it now
https://trashepics.com/post/33/add/?pm=xx
Xx=user you wish to pm

Fuck IOS sucks compared to android, I've been using it for many years and every time I want to do something basic like transfer movies from pc to iPad I have to google how to do it, contrast that with android plug in and transfer, god I remember a few years ago trying to get my Linux pc to talk to my iPad ffs

New Years Horror

Christmas usually dominates the month of December, but we still have a good week in there where we're recovering from Christmas, and moving into the new year. There aren't a lot of movies about this thin period where you can't really decorate or distinguish yourself from that generic Christmas and/or Holiday spirit.

I've only seen a few New Years horrors, and I barely remember anything about most of them. We have have Terror Train (1980), in which Jamie Lee Curtis resumes her role as the early slasher scream queen. It had a stupid mask, and the David Copperfield was pulling some of his crazy magic, but I don't remember much else besides some gnarly necrophilia prank in the beginning.

New Years Evil (1980) also seems to be cashing in on this craze. I guess holiday-themed titles were getting snatched up in this era, because everyone wanted to have the definitive holiday horror movie. This one... yeah, I don't remember much about it, except that I was interested in how we were mostly following the killer for the whole movie. Well, at least for a good amount. He's not trying to be creepy per se, but he's definitely insane. Probably? Not the worst.

One that I'm more familiar with is Schwarzenegger's End of Days (1999), which is more of an action movie, but it's the closest thing to a horror movie Arnold will probably ever do. Maggie was okay, but in more of a drama kind of way. We basically have Gabriel Byrne as the devil, trying to fuck Robin Tunney (that girl from The Craft) and only Arnold can stop him, because everyone has to fight the devil sometimes. Toxie did it, Keanu Reeves did it... Cher can even do it.

What other New Years horror have you got? Does this holiday even have any potential for horror?

Howdy (not Captain Howdy, just howdy)

Hey everybody, what's up? Sorry, I have been out of the loop while many things are happening here. I am (still) visiting family, and they have all my time pre-scheduled for me. I'm just getting driven around between people's houses all the time, without enough downtime to do anything online. Sorry.

One of the things my family did was to volunteer together with an organization bringing meals, clothing, shoes, etc to homeless camps. Holy fuck you guys, those people have it rough. I was sort of expecting something like the camp of semi-homeless laborers at the beginning of They Live, but Jesus Christ it was sooo much worse than that. At least in They Live they had a certain dirty, gritty dignity. But in real life... holy SHIT life sucks for those people. (When I say "those people," I realize that I myself, and most of us here, could EASILY be included in their ranks at any moment, because the world economy could go down in flames... um... NOW. No NOW. Noooo... NOW. OK, not yet, but it really could).

Anyway... there is just no dignity at all in living in those camps. We visited three, near highway overpasses in the middle of a city. There was trash EVERYWHERE, just all over the place. I could hardly even breathe, partly because of the fumes from the cars on the highway, and partly from the stench of the garbage, and from urine. It was even difficult to think clearly, somehow the combination of the fumes and the constant roar of the traffic zooming by made it hard to hold a thought in my mind. PLENTY of people could not possibly EVER get out of a situation like that. Once they are there, they will STAY there until they die. We spoke with a few people, and they were all so confused and frightened, and humble. This is going to take me a long time to sort out in my brain, and/or my soul.

So, I will get back in the swing of things here as soon as I can. but in the short term it looks like I will have LESS time than I have had in the last week, not more, so I just wanted to say hi. Hang in there, and thank God, your lucky stars, your rabbit's foot, or whatever does it for you, that you don't live in a homeless camp under a highway.

Bandersnatch

Anybody watch this yet? Netflix released their Black Mirror choose your own adventure movie about a young programmer in 1984 who has to create a choice-based computer game, but naturally, he goes mad during the process.

When the time comes to make a decision, you have a timer in which things are streamlined, and in some scenarios, you'll die and have to start over from a previous point, but sometimes... you get different options when you go back, so I'm sure there are a lot of ways to get through this, and various endings.

I watched it, and took some of the darker options, and I got a negative ending, but I plan on doing it again and trying different things. It was a fun experience that I don't think they can repeat, because it seems like it might only work in regards to the theme of that particular "episode", but what do I know? Maybe multi-directional movies are going to be the next big thing?

Remember Final Destination 3? The dvd had a few options for how to change the story, but it definitely wasn't as intricate as this.

Escape Plan 2: Stallone escapes a theatrical release

Remember in 2013 when Stallone did his first legitimate team-up with Schwarzenegger? He plays Ray Breslin, security expert, who must escape from the craziest prison out there, and with the help from another legendary 80s action icon, he kicks everyone's ass and made for a fun, if somewhat forgettable action romp.

Years later, a DTV sequel snuck up on us, and what do you know? Stallone is actually in it again. Usually, they recast the main character for these sorts of under-qualified sequels, which is why it's surprising that he's still in it. Of course, his role isn't as meaty as it was in the original, but he becomes more prominent in the final act. Still, he doesn't have much to work with, but I guess he felt that it was an interesting concept that he didn't want to part with quite yet.

Without Schwarzenegger, the movie has to rely on various other characters, as well as Batista, but he doesn't do much at all.

I'm not sure why this movie was made. Especially without both of the primary talents involved, but for what it was... it ain't the worst DTV action sequel I've seen. Hell, they're already in post-production of the next one. I'm sure I'll watch it eventually, because Stallone movies are great. How many movies does he need to make where he busts out of prison? Tango and Cash, Lockdown, Escape Plan 1, 2, and 3?

It is what it is. I'm sure Rambo V will be way better though.