The History, Thus Far

Most internet forums have a whole board for new users to introduce themselves. I don't think a whole board is required, but here in the likes of you obviously open-minded individuals lingering on a website that's apparently devoted to 'trash' (and I solute you for that), I feel we should all be okay with divulging a few dirty little details about our past, not just for an intro thread, but whenever even. Nobody ever knows what's going on in your head unless you express your thoughts, and as a paranoid recluse, I've never been able to do that very well, but here goes.

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I'm not a very social person. I don't go to school, I don't hang out with "friends", I don't drink, I don't drive, I don't fuck, I don't play video games, I don't watch tv, I don't follow sports, I don't listen to new music, and I don't know why I don't believe me, but I don't even know how to write or read. Well... the first nine don'ts are true, at least.

I'm exceptionally ignorant on many things, and I live in Texas, so I figured I'd be a white trash idiot and I picked up a loaded bowl, and suddenly... I wanted to get my thoughts out, and work towards something. This isn't to say that I've done absolutely nothing with the 25 years I've been on this earth, but rather to present the ideas I've had from the simple few things I did do in my life: watch movies, go to work, and jerk off.

In watching movies (and anything else, for that matter), I've educated myself on action and consequence. I've seen enough horror movies to be wary of my surroundings, and know that I must treat people with enough respect so they wont snap and go on killing sprees. In fact, that's why I love movies so much. You can experience all walks of life and never take a single step.

To say you've led a fulfilling life is all you can hope for when you're getting eaten by your death bed. In my life, the only things I've left behind were a few uninspired stories and song lyrics I'd written in my teenage years. I say uninspired because I'm clearly far too influenced by certain films, artists, and people to the point where I debate to myself whether or not I have a voice of my own, or if I'm just another inferior homage to something greater that came out far before my time. Still, if I can't do it better, I can still do it my best, so I began to flesh my ideas, stories, and lyrics out over the past 8 years and I've build up this grand vision of an ongoing horror movie hippie commune drive-in theater that's taken over my mind, and become my obsession.

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I've always wanted to do more with my life, but I could never find the right means of doing any of it. I began learning web coding in 2009 I believe, but I never knew what to do with it. Not until the summer of smoke in 2013 did I get the obvious revelation that I was to merge all of my thoughts and ideas into one central theme in order to mentally unclutter my life, and see things clearly. People need something to believe in. I was always drawn to horror, which was a genre that encompassed so many sub-themes (and with varying degrees of quality), that avid viewers of these films are bound to come around to a grander cinematic scope, because any good horror film should also be a good film in general, and the best horror films (the ones that will be remembered) are made by people who know their film, but emulated by everyone.

I've never had much of anything in my life, save for the dvds I bought, and my unoriginal ideas. I've come to realize that originality can't be forced, but you can always go into something with enough heart that it just might catch on. If it's based on a winning formula that resonates with you, just remember that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I began plotting and writing stories that were heavily inspired by the aspects I enjoyed about each decade of film: vampires and Frankenstein monsters of the 30s... werewolves and monster mashes of the 40s... body snatchers, things, and blobs of the 50s... Hammer, hippies, drugs, gore, and classy gothic horror tv of the 60s... disco, exploitation, Italian sleaze, cult trash, and slashers of the 70s... deadites, Troma, horror icons, and sequels of the 80s... and finally, white trash and hopelessness in the 90s...

I took all of my ideas and built this website to host them, promote them, and most importantly, gather the audience to not only watch them, but be part of them too. In this day and age, you can never expect to accomplish something new and groundbreaking, because someone else has already done it and monopolized it. I realize Trash Epics may never have a large fanbase, but it doesn't need one either. As long as I have a few active users on this site, that'll mean the world to me, because it is my world.

Sayin'?

#Intro

Anyone really good at Break dancing?

I mean how has that not come back yet?

I can do the back spin

#backspin

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I've watched it a few times on cable recently. I keep thinking, it's kind of funny how they make everything SOOOOOO stereotypically Texan, in the first part of the movie, until the part where Chop Top and Leatherface show up at the radio station and... you know.

Anyway, I keep noticing little thing they threw in there, to make it all seem more Texan. One character says something about some "old boys" he knows... plenty of people are wearing cowboy hats, of course... the female radio DJ, who is also the final girl/woman, has a doozy of an accent. I don't know enough about this to know for sure that it's a Texas accent, as opposed to just general south/southwest, but HOO BOY what an accent she has. There's one scene where they show a marching band marching down the street, playing patriotic music, for no reason that I can see. That chili contest seemed pretty Texan to me (not the implied cannibalism, of course (I hope)).

Also, Chop Top is probably the first role that Bill Moseley made an impression on people with, so it's a cool movie to watch just for that reason. Hey, some people were just talking about Vincent Price on the Shout board here today... VP and Bill Moseley both went to Yale. So, whatever, that's just kind of interesting.

Anyone have anything to say about this? Do any Texans here LIKE the Texas-ness of the movie??? Or is it just irritating and stereotypical and incorrect? I have no idea.

A little entertainment...

Enjoy...





#HeWasOnce #ShortFilm #Youtube

Zombillenium (graphic novel)

Is anyone here a fan of this?
https://www.amazon.com/Zombillenium-Gretchen-Arthur-Pins/dp/1561637343

I just saw it the other day in a library. It was actually the French edition that I saw. I didn't even try very hard to read it, because I assumed it would be full of incomprehensible French slang... the next time I'm in that library, I will give it another shot. I should be able to read it at least a little... I was forced to learn French fairly well in school, kicking and screaming, totally against my will, by teachers who are lucky I didn't run amok and kill.

Anyway, it looked interesting. The art is really cool to look at. Any thoughts??

Top 3 favorite action movies of all time

Rambo
Commando
Die Hard

How do you dress?

Me, very simple and casual. T-shirts and shorts. I like shirts that are earthy in color and have skulls on them. Shorts are usually cargos. Love camo shorts especially. I buy clothes from Wal-Mart, Target and Ross. I can't bare to spend more than $10 on a shirt. My shoes are a mix of Nike sneakers, Chuck Taylors and some Vans. Around the house I'm always in a shirt that I've cut the sleeves off of and basket ball shorts. I guess I kind of dress like a teenager, but I love maximum comfort at all times; I cannot stand feeling restricted. Only in the coldest of temperatures will I ever even think of putting jeans on. Oh yeah, I also like to wear baseball caps a lot.

What about YOU?

Curse of the Worst

2016 was a bad year for cultural icons passing, esp those involved in music or film. Best of the Worst is an online show from Red Letter Media, where some guys watch 3 shitty movies n drink beer n talk shit about them. Some of the folk they mentioned died.

...but not Wilfred Brimley!

Vampires or Werewolves?

Which do you prefer?

Werewolves for me.

But obviously you can't have horror without vampires.

In fact if you research the origins of mythology for both of them you'll find they were both created out of the same folklore.

R.I.P. Radley Metzger

2nd in an ongoing series of what I hope will be very irregular posts. I'll try and give notice to some of the overlooked passings of figures deserving of trash recognition.

This time I'm here to note the passing of the sexploitation pioneer, Radley Metzger. I've enjoyed all of his films - his artier ones he did under his own name as well as the porn he directed under the nom de plume, Henry Paris (Henree Paree - dig it!). Metzger approached all his films with an artistic eye, a willingness to let the eroticism unfold slowly then building to mutiple climaxes, and a great sense of humour. He dabbled with some risqué subjects such as bi males, S/M, and bondage. If you've never seen one of his films you should check them out. There's one for just about every taste and all the ones I've seen are fun as well as erotic. He deserves to be remembered.

"When I was coming of age, eroticism was always in films, but eroticism was punished. The promiscuous girl never got the leading man, the woman who sold her charms, always had a bad fate. The "good girl" always achieved ends the bad girl never did. As a reaction to that, I tried to do the opposite. You could have a free attitude and behave in a free way and not be punished. A parallel to that is that it could also be light. It didn't have to be tragedy. You could look at [sex] in a fun way. That was a personal thing, to work against the clichés in cinema when I was growing up."
- from a January 8, 2014 interview with Metzger in Cinedelphia.

R.I.P. Radley Metzger (January 21, 1929 - March 31, 2017)