Movies worth a lot of Trash Points

What are some movies that would get me a lot of points in the trash challenge?

Typically, Troma movies are a great place to start. Anything by Lloyd Kaufman is bound to be obscene, but what else is filled with taboos? John Waters movies like Pink Flamingos are quite insane for the hell of it, too.

I was watching Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick-Baby, and that movie is loaded with inappropriate subject matter. Gotta love a movie that has no qualms normalizing shock value.

What movies in this or any previous trash challenge scored you a lot of points?

The films of Bethel Buckalew



Sure am glad I bought so many Something Weird Video dvds back in the 2000's cuz those things are either very hard to find or ridiculously priced. Love those double features. SWV put several director's filmographies on dvd over the years, including Herschell Gordon Lewis, Doris Wishman, and plenty lesser-known people. One director I discovered through Something Weird was one Bethel Buckalew, who actually may or may not have existed. I've read rumors of several exploitaiton directors getting together back in the 70's and making these movies, which none of them wanted to take credit for. So, they blamed them on poor 'ol Buckalew.

Was watching one of them the other day for the first time in a while, called Tobacco Roody. This movie is no different than all the others Buckalew directed. Heavily inspired by The Beverly Hillbillies above all. Really corny, childish hick humor mixed with one softcore fuck scene after the other.

Tobacco Roody is about this backwoods family whose drunken patriarch, Mose, has a hardon for his hot, adopted daughter, Tootie, who only really wants to go off and play with her sisters in the creek. Although they always run her off. Partially cuz they want to be left alone to eat each other's pussies, but they also genuinely hate her and don't consider her family. One day, they cover Tootie in mud and send her on her way, but after tattling on them to Mose, he comforts her the best way he knows how: By introducing her to his penis. He then slides it in Tootie and breaks her in, which in all fairness, does get her mind off the rejection. Meanwhile, Mose's wife is off fucking the sheriff, and I believe the daughters get involved in an orgy with some drunks. A pretty light-hearted, cartoonish tone to it all. No actual screen credits as they were all painted on rocks and the side of the barn, and pretty sure not only this one, but all these movies were filmed in Los Angeles, robbing them of any level of authenticity.

Tobacco Roody was released on a double feature dvd along with a film called Southern Comforts. Something Weird Video also released several other Buckalew double features such as The Pigkeeper's Daughter & Sassy Sue as well as Midnight Plowboy & Country Cuzzins.

Entertaining stuff, and a very overlooked part of exploitation history.

Slumber Party Massacre III 1990

Now here's a movie you don't see mentioned much. It's always about the first two movies and never this one, so why is that? Probably because it was made in the 90s. Yeah, 1990 is still pretty close to the 80s, but at the tail end when things started to lose their charm a bit.

SPM3 is kinda dull, isn't it? It's not nearly as fun as the first two, opting for a slightly more serious tone like the first one, only that one was still much better than this. Don't get me wrong, though. I do enjoy this movie, but it really doesn't have anything great going for it.

Who is the driller killer this time around? It isn't immediately obvious at the start like it is with the others. We're given a few weirdo creeps who may be the perp. One is a voyeur on the beach, and the other is some nerdy adult named Morgan who is overwhelmingly awkward. First, he breaks into the girl's house under the pretense of being on the market for a new home, but then he lingers. And then he lingers some more. I want to kick this guy's ass for being so lame and dry. But is he the killer? Hmm...

What follows is a strong rehash of the first movie. Girls have a slumber party, some dude bros try to crash it, the pizza guy^girl gets it, and then the real killer reveals himself. But before that, our protagonists act like sluts for a while. One of the hotties goes topless and it's rather jarring, because she has pepperoni nipples. I find that to be one of the most memorable aspects of this movie.

So spoilers for anybody who's 30+ years late to this party, but our killer is the seemingly regular guy with daddy issues (I think?). He's also got trouble getting it up, which is why he needs to get revenge on these stupid sluts for (not) turning him on. After breaking all kinds of household objects on his head throughout the film, the girls blind this dude with bleach and yet he still manages to kill a few more of these inept broads until one of them gets the upper hand and murders the shit out of him with his metaphorical penis: another big-ass drill.

It takes a while for the cops to show up because the asshole at the desk immediately assumes every call to the station is a joke and can't be bothered with. It's an easy way to keep everyone isolated, and this whole movie seems pretty void of life. It basically killed the series, until Jim Wynorski quasi-revived it under the new moniker Cheerleader Massacre. Now that's a good movie! I mean, it's pretty shitty, but he makes up for that by including dumber & sluttier chicks. Then the sequel to that one has robots.

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Leprechaun and F13 part 3

I'm just wondering if they were filmed at the same locations. There is a barn in each movie, and it looks like it sould be the same place. Also, the land and the trees just look really similar. They were both filmed near Los Angeles, of course, in somewhere called Santa Clarita.

By the way, at one point in Leprechaun they have lunch at a diner called the Saugus Cafe. As a Bostonian, that made me say something along the lines of "what the hell?!?" because there is a town north of Boston called Saugus. Apparently someone from there was a prominent citizen in Santa Clarita in the 1800s, and a local neighborhood there is named after his home town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saugus,_Santa_Clarita,_California

2023 Oscars

What a fucking joke. That movie Everything Everywhere All at Once won all the big awards. It was okay at best, but still a convoluted mess of a movie. They only gave it awards because it had Asians and gay people. They really didn't have anything better than that last year?!

I hope someone got slapped.

So, I Saw a Video

Called The Russian Lathe Accident. That was all kinds of ew 🤮

Poker Face, tv show

There's been lots of talk of it lately, so I gave it a whirl and watched season 1. It's pretty decent. Natasha Lyonne is great in it as the human lie detector who gets caught up in weekly murder mysteries in various settings. I find it comparable to The Incredible Hulk in that she's on the run from something, inadvertantly doing good deeds in the various places she hunkers down in. It's more episodic in that sense than a lot of other shows, so you don't need to pay too much attention to a greater narrative, though there is obviously is one.

There are a lot of good guest stars, notably Benjamin Bratt, Adrien Brody, Chloe Sevigny, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Meadows, Nick Nolte, Luis Guzman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clea DuVall, and Ron Perlman. I also noticed a cameo by Sean Lennon.

Also, the title card is reminiscent of Columbo and retro films, what with that "(c) MMXXIII MRC II DISTRIBUTION COMPANY, L.P. / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." subtitle. Fun fun.

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The Lost (2006)

First of all, what a pathetic title. Whatever happened to titles that make it easy for us to google them?!? Titles like Soylent Green, or Frankenhooker, or Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence? There's no way in hell you can find The Lost by googling it, without more information. OK, so, just so you have that information if you want it, it starred Michael Bowen, Marc Senter as the main character, Dee Wallace, Shay Astar, Megan Henning, Robin Sydney, Ed Lauter, Richard Riehle (Tom the co-worker, from Office Space) and Erin Brown, whom some of you may recall working unter the name Misty Mundae... hubba hubba hubba.

More info: The Lost was directed by Chris Sivertson, and was based on a... sort of a book between true crime and a novel, by Jack Ketchum, which was based on an actual psycho killer named Charles Howard Schmid Jr. Also, it was produced by (among other people) Lucky McKee! OK, if you remember just a few of those details, you should be able to remember enough to find it someday in the future, if you ever want to. I will stick a link to it in here somewhere, too.

Anyway, I started out with a negative comment, but it isn't really a bad movie. It's about a somewhat charismatic bad boy psycho killer guy, who draws people into his orbit, and who kills a couple of women early in the movie.

After the murder (it was actually only one of the women who died right away, the other lived on as a vegatable for four years, until the day the action of the movie resumes)... after all that, a couple of local detectives feel sure that they know the psycho killer guy (named Ray) was the one who did it, but they need more proof, or for his friends to step forward and tell the truth.

The two detectives are each sort of funny, in different ways. The Michael Bowen detective character is funny because he farts, and because he goes out of his way to make it very clear to Ray that he knows he is the killer. This is probably a difficult temptation for him to resist, but it is also pretty damned stupid of him, as we will see. The other detective, played by Ed Lauter, is supposed to be about sixty years old, and is dating a girl who is supposed to be about twenty. They seem to really like each other, but it just looks disgusting to see them together. I kind of wanted to slap my TV when he was shown with her. They actors really did have a forty year age difference when they filmed the movie, although Ed was sixty seven and the girl was twenty seven. Yikes.

The psycho killer guy Ray can be kind of entertaining and even amusing to watch, but you see evidence over the course of the film that he did not learn any kind of lesson from getting away with killing the two women at the beginning. You can tell, he could do it again, or something comparably evil, at any moment. He has one relationship with a female old friend, and another with a girl he met who seems to be kind of a bad girl. He wants to have ANOTHER relationship with Ed the detective's young girlfriend, although she makes it clear she is not interested. Also, he would basically hump anything that moves... hey, can't fault a single (-ish) guy for that.

One interesting thing about this movie is that they keep it sort of difficult to tell what decde the action takes place in. The true story that it is based on happened in the 60s, but most scenes could take place in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or early 2000s. You hardly see any references to pop culture to help place the film in any particular decade. The ways they entertain themselves usually could fit in in any decade.... you'll see what I mean, if you watch it.

Another interesting thing is that I suspect Ray might have been the model for the evil leader of the band in Jennifer's Body.

Anyway, the movie is mostly sort of a slow burn, as you gradually get a sense of what Ray is like, and what his friends and associates are like. I don't want to wreck anything, but it has a DOOZY of an ending, so it is probably worth watching just for that.

Anyway, yah. Had to share.

The Mick, 2017-2018 series

I'm a big fan of It's Always Sunny, if you didn't already know. It was around 2017 to 2020 that the cast decided they wanted to do other things. Other tv shows. Rob McEllenhey did Mythic Quest in 2020. Glenn Howerton did AP Bio in 2018. But before those, there was... The Mick.

Sunny is filled with great characters, but Dee is obviously the worst. Suffice to say, I wasn't anxious to tune into a show about bird-watching, so this show went under my radar for years. With a sudden curiosity and a dash of extreme boredom, it finally appeared on my screen and I what do you know... this show was fucking funny.



Kaitlin Olson plays a more redeemable character in this show, but she is still playing a greedy trashy person. When her sister goes to jail, aunt Mick takes this as an opportunity to mooch hard off the wealthy lifestyle while taking guardianship of the sister's three kids: possibly 7 year old Ben, 12 year old Chip, and 17 year old Sabrina. Then a bunch of dumb funny antics go on for 2 seasons (or 37 episodes), until it all ends on a cliffhanger and gets canceled. The show didn't have a chance, being on Fox network. They'll cancel anything, regardless of quality.



Normally, I hate kids in basically anything, but the Ben actor was adorable. Chip was that asshole bully in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp, and he's still an asshole here. Sabrina is the preppy high school girl, and the actress playing her is about 25, therefore I can say she is hot. There's also a fat hispanic maid, for good measure. But my favorite of the characters is Jimmy, Mick's "guy".

I quickly recognized Jimmy from something else. The actor Scott MacArthur played Big John from Halloween Kills! And much like his HK counterpart, Jimmy gets beaten to a pulp a lot. And so does the Mick. And even Chip and sometimes even Sabrina. Everyone takes a fair amount of abuse in this show, and physical comedy is always hilarious. I love watching people get hurt.

A few times, I was a bit surprised at how violent this was for regular tv. Mick gets hit by a car (multiple times), face beaten (multiple times), stabbed in the neck with a humongous shard of glass, shot, and more. That's when comedy tv rules set in, and everything is fine in the next episode.

Of all the Sunny actors' side-project shows, this one is easily the trashiest and funniest. That's what makes it comparable to Sunny, and yet it seems to be the least successful in terms of fewest number of seasons. I blame misogyny or some bullshit woke rhetoric, because I'm too lazy to think of anything more to say about this show except that I enjoyed it. She's not like a bird at all in this.

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Scream VI - No Spoilers

Obviously, I can't say much. The Manhattan setting is great. The movie is set on the cusp of Halloween, meaning Ghostface Takes Manhattan isn't a stretch. Everybody is throwing parties and there's an element of hiding in plain sight going on that's really wonderful. They certainly take full advantage of the NYC locale and try to exploit that in various ways. Notably convenient stores, subways, apartment buildings, and Central Park.

Our characters still got it, the violence is heavy, and there is literally a museum of references and callbacks to the previous movies while trying new things (but still emulating previous tropes). I liked most everything about it, but I'm not entirely thrilled at the killer(s) reveal/motivations. It does make sense in ways, and while the climax is quite fun, I'm still on the fence.

There are great moments in the film, and it's definitely not the worst entry. I didn't miss Sidney at all because the two leads are great. So hot. 🔥

What's next for the series? There's a lot of commentary on legacy characters, nostalgia, and subverting expectations. As things continue to distance themselves from the initial killing spree, the franchise admits that nothing is sacred and the series can (and probably will) move on beyond its roots. It is a franchise after all, and the only constant in this series is a killer in the ghostface mask. Will that be enough for future installments? Probably.

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