I'm never going to Serbia

When I told @shaza I'd never seen this movie, she insisted I make it a priority. I know Serbia isn't all like this, but then again, I don't want to trust any country where a movie like this is made...

A Serbian Film is well-made, with the intention of shocking its audience and disgusting them. It's about as taboo as you can get, including prominent themes of incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, rape, et cetera, all revolving around porn and snuff films. I wont delve into plot details, but if you want to see some dark and twisted shit, this is the movie for you.

"Newborn porn!"

And what a fucking ending! Lord have mercy!

Intensity (1997 TV movie with John C. McGinley and

and also starring MOLLY PARKER, who I love and I am sorry I couldn't stuff her name into the subject line.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118350/

This is a pretty interesting TV movie. I think it was really well done. A very large part of it is basically a one woman show, just Molly Parker talking to herself as she thinks her way through various life-threatening predicaments... so, if you don't like her, better skip this puppy. But, I like her, so I really enjoyed this.

She plays a woman with a very disturbed/disturbing backstory, who must rescue a young girl being held hostage by John C. McGinley. I think of him as Dr. Cox from Scrubs, so it is interesting to see him play a cold, calculating, very deliberately evil character. You could call him insane, but he thinks hard about what he does, and why he does it, so his actions are not... um... unpremeditated. Anyway, Molly Parker has to rescue a girl from J.C. McG, waaayyy out in rural Oregon or Washington state. It's a pretty simple story, but I think they built the tension very carefully and effectively. John McG has a fair number of scenes, of course, and he is always chilling, but Molly Parker really carries this movie. Anyway, I recommend watching it if you can find it.

What is your favorite horror movie and why?

Boring thread, I know, but I think it makes sense to make it today.

You don't have to say why if you don't feel like it.

Mine is Dawn of the Dead (1978) because it's very entertaining, it has great likeable characters, it has some of the most memorable zombies of all time, it has a lot of great gore and the music is awesome. Also it offers everything you could possibly want from a movie: horror obviously, suspense, action, drama, comedy and even romance. I could watch it everyday and never get tired of it. Not only my favorite horror movie, also my favorite movie of any genre. 10/10

Sharon Mitchell (WIP)

Sorry, that's Work In Progress, not Sharon Mitchell with a whip.

8x10, mechanical pencil, 15 hours in. I'm having to do repair work, my original attmempt at capturing the look of black leather made it look more like a pea coat. I can do about two to three hours at a time before getting an eye strain headache.

Christian horror movies

A lot of the old stories about werewolves, vampires, ghosts, etc, have some kind of supernatural element, obviously. Often, the way to fight the evil monsters lies in some kind of Christian symbol, like a cross, or maybe a pre-Christian symbol that has been co-opted by Christianity, like... OK, nothings coming to mind, but I'm sure we can think of a few kajillion examples.

Anyway, in modern times, there are plenty of horror movies and franchises that have moved away from explicitly Christian ways of fighting the monsters, or they have somehow de-Christianized the Christian symbols... even in the original Fright Night, they do fight Jerry with a cross, but if you watch carefully it's more like the vampire killers have faith in themselves than in Jesus. I don't think they even mention Jesus... Peter Vincent can only fight Jerry with the cross after he has faith in HIMSELF, having succeeded in battle against Evil Ed. It's not really religious at all, it's just a weapon that only has power if you believe in yourself. I think pre-vamped out Evil Ed says to Charlie at one point "You must have total faith in it for it to work," referring to the cross... thats not exactly the same as having faith in yourself, but it's not explicitly about Jesus either.

But, of course, this is a much larger topic than Fright Night. What comes to mind, for examples of modern horror movies that are overtly Christian? I personally think that this could be a pretty disturbing trend, if it started really taking off in a big way, because it could be linked to a broader cultural shift toward a more medieval way of thinking, which, of course, we see all around us, in many ways.

Soooooo anyway, any thoughts on this?

Making 50 Shades sexy again!

Got my tickets for TX Frightmare Weekend 2017

Me and my DerTables will be going on Saturday, May 6th.

Here's the guest list:
https://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/guests/


I definitely want to meet Argento, Henenlotter, maybe Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), Michael Berryman, Debi Sue Voorhees, Michael Pare, and Ted Raimi.

Body Melt

This movie was wack. It reminded me a little of Street Trash. I welcome any comments or opinions... because of shit going on in my personal life I'm having a hard time focusing, so I probably missed some of the goodness, but enjoyed what I absorbed.



This was probably my last view for the Trash Challenge... thanks for starting the challenge Troma! 🤮
...and I just put in notice at my job. Good grief. 🥴

Blatant EVIL DEAD Rip-offs

I'm reviving this thread from the horror board. I suppose the main ingredients are the isolated setting (usually a cabin), and surviving the horde of undead or possessed people.

Night of the Demons (1988) https://trashepics.com/forum/724/
Things (1989) https://trashepics.com/forum/17/
Demon Wind (1990) https://trashepics.com/forum/2225/
Dead Snow (2009) https://trashepics.com/forum/1414/
Wither (2012) https://trashepics.com/forum/1322/

Less Blatant rip-offs, though heavily inspired by it:

Cabin Fever (2003) https://trashepics.com/forum/966/
Evil Dead Inbred Rednecks (2012) https://trashepics.com/forum/519/
Zombeavers (2014) https://trashepics.com/forum/1490/
Deathgasm (2015) https://trashepics.com/forum/1611/


While I've never seen it, I hear that evil dead itself was a rip-off of Equinox (1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067055/ , featuring a forest, monsters, and the necronomicon.

USA UP ALL NITE

Are you guys old enough to remember some of this shit?

I have seen tons of Bad Horror/Exploitation/Sexploitaion/Women in Prison.