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.

Buzzard (2014)



Buzzard is dark drama/comedy character study. It's not a horror film by any means, but I believe it would be of great interest to many horror fans. Our main guy Marty is a dickhead slacker, and possible sociopath, who scams his way through life. When some of his scams start to catch up with him he has to take off into the city with nothing but the clothes on his back and his homemade Freddy Krueger Nintendo Power Glove. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. 9/10

The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier Serial Killer Movie)

Film Critics at Cannes aren't pleased with Lars Von Trier's serial killer film.

https://www.thewrap.com/house-that-jack-built-lars-von-trier-cannes-first-reactions-vomitive-torturous/

Emojis piss me off

So there I am, grabbing the news feeds from wherever it is that I get them, and then I see it. In the title of one of the feed articles, I see I goddamn balloon. A colorful balloon is NOT a letter! Or a number! Or a textual symbol! How these things caught on it beyond me, but I think they're fucking dumb.

How do you even type emojis, without using some sort of special character submenu? I see this in the shoutbox sometimes, too. Actual images, which surely aren't text.

I think this is one of the contributing factors to the destruction of the English language. Instead of typing out words and sentences, people are all about emojis and hashtags. Tweet-sized micro thoughts that generally don't convey valid thoughts, but rather how lazy people are.


Plus, that Emoji Movie was regarded as one of the worst movies of all time. It bombed hard, because emojis should have never caught on.

I'm kind of in the mindset of stripping these "characters" out of posts, and I think it's even stupid that I have to do that, considering how these dumb little things are becoming a standard.

Emojis. Good or bad?

Question about B Movies

Ok, this may be a stupid question, but what exactly qualifies a movie to be considered a B movie? Is it if it's just bad? Or does it need to have a very low budget? Can a B movie ever have a large budget? Can it be a mainstream movie?

I know The Room has a reported budget of 6 million and it's now launched into cult status, so is it still a B movie?

Mainstream Movies and their B Movie Equivalents

Let's say you are up for a double feature viewing and you get to pick a mainstream movie and a B movie. The catch is both movies have to be an equivalent to each other story-wise. For example, Jaws would be the mainstream and Mako: The Jaws of Death would be it's equivalent.

Which two movies would you pick?

Avengers: Infinity War - What do you make of it?

I'll try not to spoil anything here, so here goes...


In 2008, Iron Man kicked off this "Marvel Cinematic Universe" aka the MCU, and it's gone in phases. Some of this was natural, some of this was modified when Disney would acquire the rights to certain characters down the line, like Spider-Man most notably. Shame he couldn't have been there since the beginning.

Most of these movies have been pretty fun over the years. I still haven't seen Black Panther, but I wasn't lost. I guess that means his story was rather throwaway, but I couldn't say.

So this movie begins right about when Thor Ragnarok ends, and Thanos kicks ass and takes names. He shows us he isn't fucking around, because he wants those stones. He'll come to earth to get 'em, and that's where these characters start coming together. Provided, there's never one ultimate fight with everybody, as they're divided in groups for the most part:


Iron Man, Spider Man, Dr. Strange

Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy

Captain America, War Machine, Black Panther, Bucky, Hulk Bruce Banner, Black Widow

Vision, Scarlet Witch



Seem a little empty to you? Yeah, that's right. Nowhere in this movie will you find Ant-Man or Hawkeye. They just ain't there, for some odd reason.

Bucky is pretty pointless, as is War Machine (like always), Black Widow, and Black Panther. Hulk is barely in the movie, because Bruce Banner had a hard time getting angry. Hulk was wimping out after Thanos kicked his ass, and wouldn't come out to help anyone. There's a scene with Hulk running with Captain America, Bucky, and Black Panther that isn't in the movie. Hulk is barely in the movie, and when he is, it's mostly Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster suit. Kind of a jip, but okay.

Otherwise, everyone did great with their material. I think Vision is a stupid character, so his scenes and Scarlet Witch's were pretty meh to me. Otherwise, this movie didn't have any room for filler. There are a lot of fights and mindless action scenes, and Josh Brolin is more ominous as Thanos than what's-his-face as Apocalypse in X-Men. Thanos is actually a be-all-end-all villain, for a change, and if there's one reason for any of you fans of grim cinema to watch, it's because the ending of this movie is really bleak. I love it.