Audio Commentary Tracks

This is my easiest way of earning points for the June challenge. While everyone else will be on summer vacation, we'll all be learning for the month, but I'm fine with that. I've still got a lot of dvds of my favorite horror movies, and I've probably forgotten most every commentary I've listened to at this point, so they're all fresh for a revisit.

What are some good audio commentary tracks on dvds? Hopefully, I might have one of these discs so I can listen. I think I need to start the challenge off with Things commentary. Will there be any insight to the madness of that movie? Have I listened to that commentary already? The world may never know.

Also, I think gimmicky commentaries can be great. I love how Spinal Tap does a commentary for their movie, in character. It's like a whole new movie.

Fave commentaries?
Who sounds bored, who sounds enthused? Cuz some of these can be boring as fuck.

Horror Period Piece Recs

I'm really into period piece movies right now. Anyone have any recs? Doesn't have to specifically be horror. Thriller and drama would be good also.

Jesus Franco

Hard person to work out
He's made a couple of decent films, and a few average films (so hes not completely incompetent)
but most are just plain crap. Watched one last night https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209458/ Vampire Blues (1999)
The closest film to it is 'Hip Hop Locos(•)' It is impossible to make a film this bad unless
A/ you do it on purpose
B/ you're an imbecile

So what is it, is he just taking the piss, or did he just hit his head back in the 60s?

(•) Its actually worse than hip hop loco's as thats a film by a single dude, Vampire Blues had a crew of ppl working on it!

EDIT:


Jesus has discovered you can actually alter a pictures hue's, like he discovered back in the 1960s that one can zoom in and out with a camera.
Of course being Jesus he decided not to use it for the occasional florish, hes changing the colors for like 45 minutes out of the 90minute runtime.
Even a 8 yr old would go, hmmm perhaps I'm overusing this effect a bit too much

Documentary Challenge Rules

Should we go with the original HB rules I already got listed or the new TE rules with a point a minute? I'm undecided and we got long enough to before it begins to tweak some shit. We'll see what everyone thinks after 24 hours and then I'll make the progress thread.

New Video: 13 Reasons Why

The Mother's Week Challenge Progress Thread

Rather than only watching motherly movies on Mother's Day, why not watch them for the rest of the week too? That's the idea of the Mother's Week Challenge. You can watch any movie from any genre featuring any kind of mother. She could be a badass like Sarah Connor or a nutcase like Pamela Voorhees.

The challenge begins on Sunday, May 13th and ends on Saturday, May 19th. Make your spot here.



The point system for this challenge is based around individual qualities that you might find within a movie. Just for quick reference, here again are the rules for those points:

Title Point - The word "Mother", "Mom", or another variation is in the title

Character Point - A mother is a main character

Mother's Day Point - Mother's Day occurs (doesn't have to take place the entire time)

Fake Point - Someone pretends to be a mother (mainly have the Psycho movies in mind, or it could be something like an alien in disguise; e.g. Body Snatchers (1993))

Nude Point - A mother undresses

Sex Point - A mother masturbates or gets laid (can be claimed with the Nude Point if it's the same scene)

Fight Point - A mother gets into a fight with someone or something

Abuse Point - A mother abuses or tortures someone (physically or mentally)

Crime Point - A mother commits a crime (includes movies where it's initially unknown that the mother's the perpetrator)

Death Point - A mother dies

You may add 1 point per instance. For example, if a mother kills 3 people, you get 3 Crime Points. Please include your total points at the bottom or top of your spot. Only movies are allowed.

Discussion Thread https://trashepics.com/post/8/43/

The Mother's Week Challenge Discussion Thread

Sunday, May 13th is Mother's Day. It'll also mark the beginning of the Mother's Week Challenge.

The idea behind this challenge is simple: to honor mothers for a whole week instead of one day. All types of mothers count, from any genre.

You can take 1 point for each instance of the following:

Title Point - The word "Mother", "Mom", or another variation is in the title

Character Point - A mother is a main character

Mother's Day Point - Mother's Day occurs (doesn't have to take place the entire time)

Fake Point - Someone pretends to be a mother (mainly have the Psycho movies in mind, or it could be something like an alien in disguise; e.g. Body Snatchers (1993))

Nude Point - A mother undresses

Sex Point - A mother masturbates or gets laid (can be claimed with the Nude Point if it's the same scene)

Fight Point - A mother gets into a fight with someone or something

Abuse Point - A mother abuses or tortures someone (physically or mentally)

Crime Point - A mother commits a crime (includes movies where it's initially unknown that the mother's the perpetrator)

Death Point - A mother dies

Only movies are allowed this time around. As I said, it's 1 point per instance, so if a mother kills 3 people, that's 3 Crime Points.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, this is the place for it. Especially if it's something regarding the rules for points. Feel like they're confusing or maybe a rule should be added or removed? Please let me know.

Considering that this is only my second time hosting a challenge and I'm taking a shot in the dark with how obtainable some of these points might be, I'm completely open to feedback and making changes. Hence why I'm posting this discussion thread a couple days ahead of time.

Progress Thread https://trashepics.com/post/8/44/

Mother's Day (2010), and the Home Invasion subgenre

In honor of the good old Mother's week challenge, I couldn't watch the "original" without watching the "remake". Not really a remake at all, but Goddamn if Lloyd Kaufman's face didn't appear in the movie anyway.

The performances in this sort of movie are what it's all about. We have some decent actors here, like Frank Grillo, Shawn Ashmore, Jaime King, among our lead antagonist, played by Rebecca DeMornay. She tries to play friendly, but turns nasty pretty quick. I'm sure she had fun with this role.

This is very much a sadistic movie. The villains are panicked, and often feel the need to hurt our hostages in cringe-worthy scenes, and there's plenty of violence. This was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman after all, who had made a bunch of the Saw sequels. He doesn't skimp out on the gore and violence in this movie.

The movie was two hours, so it seemed kinda long, but I got sucked into it. Home invasion / hostage type movies are all pretty much the same, but they're all pretty deranged. Movies like this one, You're Next, Better Watch Out, etc.

I watched the ending of that movie "Breaking In" at work, which is a very Hollywood home invasion movie, and it was tame as fuck. Give me this movie instead. I thought it was pretty damn good.

Mother's Day 1980, by Troma

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman's brother Charlie, Mother's Day is a story about three college girls who head off for a fun mini-vacation, and they end up at the mercy of a crazy backwoods mother and her moronic, violent grown sons.

It really isn't a bad movie. It came out before Troma got big with Toxic Avenger in '84, but it still had a lot of Troma qualities. It wasn't as goofy as a Lloyd-directed film though. It took itself more seriously, and that's not a bad thing. It had a few decent gore scenes. Some happen toward the end, and they use that bright red blood that looks like acryllic paint. The cool gore scene I like involves a woman holding a rope that's cutting off her circulation and digging into her hand skin. Really cool.

The characters were pretty decent, and you really hate the villains of the movie. They're all stupid pieces of shit, so it's easy to sympathize with the heroes for a change. However, there's a whole montage scene where one of the actors showcases his skills by doing clap pushups, one-handed pushups, etc. I couldn't do that shit even why I tried to be fit.

Anybody see the remake? How does it compare?

Recommendation roulette idea

ok if enough people are interested this could be fun and maybe hopefully stimulate some TE activity, which i for one have been guilty of neglecting recently.

stole this from someone else, basically everyone involved chooses a film for someone else to watch within a timescale. who recs whom is decided randomly by a free online 'wheel of choice•' app (or something, i dont dallt the kids these days) ideally a film that person hasnt seen before, but you think theyd like. you can check here on TE from someones ratings what thier taste is, or which films they havent seen. or check imdb, letterboxd, etc etc

for this example names here taken randomly from front page of TE at time of typing (ie - please dont moan if i dint include you in the example. but please still join in.) right, heres goes

Znep, Messiah, Onyx, Ballz, Atomic & Marcus are all in roulette.

first spin is Onyx, next Ballz = Onyx would choose a film for Ballz to watch.
next Znep = Ballz would choose a film for znep to watch.
and so on and so forth until last person would rec first out. eg Marcus rec Onyx.

then we have a week to watch the film & give a little feedback to the person who recd here on TE, from a simple 'thats great' or 'fkin dire' or a longer comment on what you liked or didnt about your rec.

it could be cool to share your favourite films with others, influence, or just stick to horror as most of us love that genre.

totally open to timescales of watching as know some are busier than others. we could help with torrent/stream links, or stick to easily accessible movies, whatever. all suggestions welcome to improve this idea

any thoughts? apart from i shoulda added images to this massive boring block of text?

oh yeah • = the dude i stole this off rabb.its the wheelspin live so if folk want to verify the randomness of the wheel it all valid. its either fun to see who you get, or massive paranoia that the spins fixed.

who cares, i just like the idea of us lot recommending each other unseen gems, which is basically what we do, but this gives a bit more impetus to actually get around to watching them, and some interaction.