F13 memorabilia at a silent auction in a mall aquarium. 

This past weekend while vacationing in San Antonio, me and the gal went into the mall on the River Walk, to take a look at the Sea Life aquarium. Oddly, while making our way through, we came across a couple of tables set up with a silent auction. None of the stuff had anything to do with aquatics, it was mostly just signed memorabilia, pertaining to movies or sports. There was just one thing that caught my eye.




A framed Friday the 13th poster and license plate signed by Ari Lehman. It had 0 bids! I thought what the hell and signed myself down for the lowest possible bid. I forgot all about it, but just today I was notified that I won! It will be shipping shortly.

Teacup, on Peacock

Teacup is a new show, I have not seen it. I just wanted to mention that apparently it is based on the novel Stinger, by Robert McCammon. I have rambled on about his books before, I'm pretty sure. I'm a big fan of his book They Thirst, about vampires taking over L.A.

Anyway, I hope they did a good job with it. Had to share.

In a Violent Nature (2024)

This movie was based on a simple idea. What if an undead slasher was told through the perspective of the villain? So that's our movie. We follow some wronged "slow" person who revives when his bling is taken from his grave site. So, he pulls himself out of hell or wherever and goes on a search for his good luck charm.

The curiosity keeps it interesting for a while. I like seeing what he does and where he goes and how he kills. I had read reviews calling it shallow, but it is what it is. A halfwit brute walking through a series of victims.

It doesn't need to be any deeper than that, and I think it works very well as a Jason clone, and the side characters don't matter. They never matter, because they'll get pwned either way. One girl had one of the most wacky & fucked kills I've ever seen. The girl at the cliff.

What I didn't like was the ending. Or lack thereof. We're all waiting for something on that long road... and nothing happens. I guess Johnny Voorhees doesn't teleport. The climax was hidden in there somewhere, I guess. Then again, that whole epilogue might make it brilliant.

Someone had to make a movie based on that simple aforementioned idea, and it was actually pretty great. A little boring at times, but that keeps it real.

Also, his mask was kinda dumb. He should have kept his peripherals open and skipped the mask, but he is retarded, after all. Retarded killers are my favorite kind of retard.

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The Boogey Man (1980)

Directed by some weird German guy, this movie is all over the place. It feels like it's trying to rip-off a lot of things, but it doesn't know quite which one to focus on. I thought it was Italian at first, but it wasn't dubbed enough.

There's some backstory that traumatizes two kids, who resume the rest of the movie as young adults in the "present". Basically, there's a slasher who appears through reflective surfaces. However, John Carradine advises the heroine on how to progress this story, while at the same time telling her it's all in her head. They put that old fart in there to make it a credible horror film, but it doesn't matter. This film would have been awesome with or without him.

Awesome is a strong word. I was invested enough, not to the characters and plot, but to the vibes and weirdness of it. Like how they keep showing you the mirrors over and over again as if reminding you that the killer is using mirrors to do his thing. In case the viewer didn't catch that the other dozen times it happens in the movie. This movie thinks its audience is dumb, and I am.

This movie is shallow. It thinks it's original, but it's really just... an Amityville clone! That's the twist ending, because it turned out the house was a rip-off of the Amityville, with its glowing eyes. Remember in the first Amityville when he window comes down on the kid's fingers? Well, in this movie, the window comes down on some dickhole kid's neck. That scene right there really brought this movie up from a 2/5 to a 4/5. It added depth and meaningful social commentary.

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Death Ship (1980)

A happy cruise ship experiences technical difficulties. Probably because it was piloted by that dumb fuck George Kennedy. Only a handful of survivors are left to crawl aboard some abandoned Nazi torture ship from decades ago. And guess what? This ship is haunted!

As the merry band of heroes navigate the ship, it randomly kills them in dumb, psychic ways. It threw Saul Rubinek overboard before he could ever make his war epic Coming Home in a Body Bag.

Fortunately, this Nazi ship didn't account for one thing. One of the passengers on board was Richard Crenna. Colonel Trautman to some, That other guy from Rambo to others.

I fell asleep during the third act, but I'm pretty sure it played out exactly like this: The psychic ship read Trautman's mind and she knew that Rambo would come to blow her to bits if she fucked with his homeboy Trautman, so she let him go.

What I don't understand is how they can even call it an Expend4bles movie when Stallone wasn't even there on the boat with them in that movie. And most of the movie was on that boat. It was Statham and a few other cunts trying to avenge Barney's^Rambo's death. So Stallone never even got to fight the Death Ship, but it was the threat of war that had caused the death ship to surrender because it faced its own mortality. The End.

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The First Omen (2024)

The first original Omen from 1976 is a classic. Very ominous and unsettling all the way through, so where do you go next? The second film was a rehash that bears a mild charm, and the third one confused everyone with its disregard for any relevant timeframe. How is Damien born in 1976 an adult in 1981?

Honestly, forget the sequels. Although part 4 is mildly amusing and apparently a heavy influence on a plot thread of this movie, but ask most people and they'll agree, "There was a part 4?"


So our story solidifies the original film's setting by opening 5 years before it, in 1971. It features a to-be nun in Italy who runs into increasingly familiar territory for franchise fans. Reviews are somewhat mixed, but I was expecting way worse. I think the director of this movie might have actually been a fan of the original or something. Weird.

Also, this movie wasn't full of jump-scare BS, which pleased me plenty. Instead, it decided to build up a story and pace itself. I only zoned out a few times, but I was pretty happy that the movie wasn't shitting on the original. It actually stood on its own two feet. Mostly. There were obvious homages here and there, and they thought we wouldn't notice how they stole the ending of part 4. I'm pretty sure part 4 exists, people!

I give this movie 3 sixes out of 5.

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge 2024 - RESULTS

Welcome to this year's Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge.

You get one point per minute watched of any sci-fi or fantasy movie or TV series. The challenge starts at 12:00 AM September 1st and ends at 11:59 PM September 30th.

Make your SPOT below!



2017 - https://trashepics.com/post/7/11/
2018 - https://trashepics.com/post/9/211/
2019 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/73/
2020 - https://trashepics.com/post/1/748/
2021 - https://trashepics.com/post/102/19/
2022 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/101/
2023 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/102/

NECA Figures

I find that as I get closer to a mid-life crisis, the more juvenile I seem to be getting. All I've been doing this month is watching kiddie cartoons like TMNT '87 and thinking about costumes and action figures.

I think the NECA toys are really cool. A lot of attention to detail. So far, I have: Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Gill-Man, H2 Michael Myers, Dr. Loomis, and Ghostface. I shouldn't waste my money on these things, but I will.

Reign (2013)

I haven't posted in a while, but here is my latest useless contribution. I watched Reign. It was like someone took the dragons, etc... and excitement out of Game of Thrones and replaced it with feminism. I don't know why I finished the series, but I did and it was not good, but I for some reason liked it.