Notes from the Turkeyground: 12 Turkeys

For the twelfth year, I present my survey of new turkeylands explored during November. Most years, I've found the first movie watched is an omen of things to come. If we're fortunate enough to watch a good one, especially if it's unexpectedly good, it's going to be a fun challenge. If we start with something awful, well, hard to get the sand out of the vaseline. This year, we started with 4/20 Massacre, a movie about a bunch of college girls who go out to the woods to talk about feminism and queer issues. Unfortunately for them, there's a secret crop of weed in that forest and a ninja-suited murdered who will protect it to the death! It's bad. It's shot bad. The dialogue is awful. Worst of all, it's not funny. A movie called '4/20 Massacre' needs to be funny. They also lied and said the OKC bombing happened on 4/20. In fact, that's the day they caught Timothy McVeigh. The bombing happened on 4/19.

But y'know what? Maybe my old Turkey's Almanac prognostication doesn't hold up. We has some fun ones next. The Craft: Legacy is a goofy but fun continuation of The Craft story. Also, the second movie in the row that's obsessed with feminism and queer issues. It's like a bunch of low-budget screenwriters found a Master Class on youtube that instructed them to be more woke. There were no feminist, queer, nor issues of any kind in Zombie Tidal Wave, Ferrante's follow-up to the Sharknado series. The brain goes off for this one. It plays exactly like a Sharknado movie, but with fewer cameos.

Where most years we cherry-pick our movies for points, this year we went through our Turkeys DVR folder and just watched whatever. We were at like 70% harddrive capacity. So a slew of forgettable movies, like another version of Turn of the Screw with Finn Wolfhard, a zombie movie whose big headliner star is Michael Dudikoff (they couldn't even get Eric Roberts?!), and ugh... Aquaslash. Aquaslash, which should've been a cringe-inducing gorefest about razorblades all over a waterpark is actually 70 minutes of insipid drama leading to a single, 5-6 minute gore scene. That's it. We followed with The Gallows: Act II. We thought we'd be playing it safe with a Blumhouse movie. I hated The Gallows. The sequel is a pretty good mix of supernatural cat-and-mouse.

Speaking of playing it safe, what's safer than Larry muthafuckin Cohen? One of my favorite filmmakers. We had never seen Wicked Stepmother. It had Bette Davis. How could it be bad? Well, it isn't. If you enjoy Larry Cohen at all. If you don't, you might not 'get it.' But we all get Larry here, right? Fun story about this movie is Bette Davis did NOT get Larry. She didn't know what he was doing or why he was doing it. So she, uh, just left. She went to get some dental work done and never came back to the set. So Larry has her change into some broad with huge bazooms about halfway through. The Bette Davis scenes are still great, because she's Bette being Bette. But the topless scenes work much better with Busty McGee.

Let's see... I'm not going to cover every movie. So I'll skip over the bigfoot rape movie (Primal Rage), the Hostel knockoff (Anarchy Parlor), yet another awful 'musical prodigy pushed too hard' thriller (Ambition), and skip right to one of the few trifectas we did do this year: the great Barbara Crampton. She disappeared for a while, but now she's back and doing b-movies. Sacrifice (2020) is about a couple that return to the husband's childhood home of some-Norweigian-island, where they have strange customs and argue with you about whether calamari counts as seafood. Barbara shows up as the island's sheriff. And yes, she does a Norweigian accent. "My hoos-bawnd." Most of the movie's 'good' moments are dream-sequences. It's strange, has its moments, tries too hard to be intellectual. Dead Night, our next Babs movie, is even stranger. Veering back and forth from bizarre zombie-like murders in a family's wilderness cabin and an Investigation Discovery show profiling the murders after the fact, you'd think there aren't my surprises. But there are. Crampton plays a candidate for governor whose campaign strategy involves playing dead in the snow and sacrificing people to a rock. Finally, Day of Reckoning, about hordes of creatures that emerge from beneath the Earth's crust thanks to drilling operations. They kill millions of people, then disappear for 15 years. But... they're coming back! Why did we just leave the drill site open for 15 years, you ask? 'cause those bad CG monsters have to come outta somewheres!! Crampton is a survivalist nut's wife here, a pretty bland role for her usual tastes.

We had enough new movies, so we decided, hwo about some old-timey turkeys? Kiss of the Tarantula, about a girl who murders with her league of spiders was first. An odd, incestuous '70s movie. Kind of a snooze-fest. If you manage to stay awake for that, though, ohhh boy, because Death Curse of Tartu was next. A movie that simulates the feeling if being dragged through the everglades. Now I know Death Curse of Tartu is an influential and favorite of '60s regional cinema. Especially if you're from Florida. It's really, really boring. It does have some zen charm, though. Scalps, Fred Olen Ray's tribute to Death Curse, was much more enjoyable for me. And Rattlers, a killer snake movie where no actor ever has contact with a snake. I've never seen people so menaced by stock footage. And just as the movie is hurtling toward the climax, the main guy and girl go to Vegas and have a long date night montage! It's like they saw a Ray Dennis Steckler movie and thought, "Yes, this is how you make a film!"


The best movies of the challenge came toward the end. Killer High, a fun and witty SyFy movie about a boar monster loose in a shitty high school reunion. Lots of good one-liners, kills, and silliness. I Am Lisa, an underrated werewolf movie about an outcast bullied by the local corrupt sheriff and her family. They leave her for dead. Too bad for them, she done gone werewolf. Letters to Satan Claus, another SyFy movie that paraodies Hallmark Christmas movies. A girl returns to her small hometown of Ornaments, where everyone is obsessed with Christmas. And she notices, there's a lot of dick in town worth riding. Damn Satan gets in the way, though, and starts killing all her best lays. Will she learn the meaning of Christmas so she can finally get boned? It's crude, 'subversive', and has a lot of fun doing it. My favorite of the challenge, though, is the latest Black Christmas remake. Everybody hated this movie. Why? It's full of over-the-top woke dialogue, obvious alpha male villains, the absurdist evil cult I've seen in a while, and Imogen Poots looking stoned out of her mind the entire movie. It's amazing. Lastly, Black Friday, Bruce Campbell's new movie about Black Friday shoppers gone mad... with alien goo! Competent b-movie with good humor.

Worst movie of the challenge? That has to go to Verotika. The main actress is a whole lot of eye candy. There are some really cool costumes and ideas. I guess that's why it annoyed me the most. All of the incompetence that ruined what could've been great. For one, he has no idea when to cut. A scene with two cops talking took like 3 minutes. The last minute was watching them just stand there. Is it a tribute to Jean-Luc Godard that I'm missing? I mean, the whole movie is set in France, where everyone speaks not in French but in atrocious French accents. So maybe it is. Except Godard didn't do that shit, Antonioni did! It should've been set in Rome. Anyway, the accents are bad. The audio echoes randomly, because it was recorded in a high school gymnasium apparently. And nobody can act. Not even eyes for nipples could save this movie.

All-in-all, it was a good challenge. We took it light this year, but what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality. I want to leave you all with a heart-warming turkey story before I go. When I was about 11 years old, living in a small fishing village on the east coast of Quebec, a new video rental store opened in town. Super VideoTeck [sic]. They had all kinds of horror movies the mom-n-pop place didn't. So for a sleepover, my friend and I rented one. We picked Hobgoblins. We thought, hey, this'll just be Ghoulies 2 with fewer toilets. Instead, it was an epic of garden tool fights, old man fu, and cheesy jokes. We were young enough, we enjoyed it for what it was. I finally got to watch it again, 26 years later, and I enjoyed it. I know it gained a reputation as a terrible movie. But hey, it's a z-budget movie where the jokes as written actually land sometimes. That's rare. So I wrote Rick Sloane on facebook to let him know. He replied the next day to tell me he appreciated the message. I never imagined, when I was 11 and watching that incredible fight with the garden tools, that someday the director of that movie would write me. Aren't you glad you stayed for this story?

Until next year!

Idea for a challenge: found footage

Hey TE boarders

I have been wondering if there was an interest in a challenge considering the found footage style of filming. If I mention The Blair Witch Project, I guess everyone knows what I'm talking about. The movies are often shot in POV with handcam, sometimes really shaky and dark, and have usually also a documentary/mockumentary feeling. Originally this definition comes from filmed material of people lost that disappeared or ended up death, the footage being the last evidence of their actions on earth.

BWP made the style more popular and set some kind of standard (not a standard I was too happy about but that's not what I want to discuss here). Before 1999 found footage movies were a rarity. It's only from 2000 that they really started to boom even though the first real movie that was labeled found footage (in retrospect) is from 1961 titled The Connection. Less than 30 FF movies were made before 1999. A few are so obscure I hardly found any info on them.

This is the list I have been able to compile from all the FF movies from the previous century. • indicates I was unable to track a copy of it online. ! indicates I have seen the flick.


The Connection (1961)
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Rape (1969) • directed by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
Punishment Park (1971)
The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
Alternative 3 (1977)
! Cannibal Holocaust (1980) not full found footage

Special Bulletin (1983)
Manson Family Movies (1984)
! Guinea Pig 2 - Flowers of Flesh and Blood (1985) Japanese movie, Charlie Sheen apparently alerted the FBI as he thought he was watching a snuff movie

Psychic Vision - Jaganrei (1986) Japanese movie
UFO: Secret Video (1986) •
! 84 Charlie MoPic (1989) Charlie MoPic the follows a group or American soldiers on a mission in Vietnam, perhaps the first FF I ever saw in my life before even knowing it was FF, really needs a rewatch

! The McPherson Tape aka UFO Abduction (1989) one of my favorites, has long been believed by UFO enthusiasts to be real

Lenin Was A Mushroom (1991) a Russian movie it's on youtube but in Russian and no subs
Ghostwatch (1992)
! Man Bites Dog (1992) Belgian movie, French spoken about a bunch of film students tagging along with a serial killer, I wasn't a fan. Comparable to Henry: Portrait of serial killer which I consider a lot better.

Paul Calf's Video Diary (1993)
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video (1994)
Without Warning (1994)
Alien Autopsy - Fact or fiction? (1995)
Forgotten Silver (1995) this one is from Peter Jackson
Little Sister aka Zusje (1995) a Dutch movie
Area 51 - The Alien Interview (1997)
The Last Broadcast (1997)
Alien Abduction - Incident in Lake County (1998) from the director of McPherson Tape
Watching a Movie (1998) •
Curse of the Blair Witch Project (1999) the docu that apparently should have made people warm for the movie
! The Blair Witch Project (1999) as much as I don't like it it needs a rewatch

Sticks and Stones - Investigating the Blair Witch (1999) short docu on BWP
Dirty Cop No Donut (1999) •

Some I found thanks to wikipedia but most helpful was this site:
https://foundfootagecritic.com/hubs/hub-films/

Ok FF is not my favorite style but I like to give myself a challenge and I'm particularly interested in the period before BWP made it 'hip'. And even though this style is often linked to the horror genre, it could practically be used in any genre. In the list above, there is also crime, war, drama, sci-fi, documentary, comedy, exploitation... Especially the alien theme is often reoccuring.

So my question are there people interesed in a month (or perhaps a bit longer) watching FF movies. I would also like to include TV show episodes as the main idea is 1 point per watched minute so shorts can be included as well. Bonus points for anything FF before 2000 and also for a FTV.

Chucky - The Series

After a bit of a wait, the show finally premiered on Syfy, and what do you know, it's actually off to a strong start! I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up with the new episodes as they air, but I'm gonna try, damn it!

Our setup is pretty simple. A bullied middle school kid finds a Good Guy doll at a yard sale, and you can figure out where it goes from there. Of course, you've got Brad Dourif back where he belongs because Don Mancini is at the helm of this whole shindig, so he's doing it right. Apparently, we'll be seeing a lot of recurring characters from the series in later episodes, so there's always something to look forward to.

On a side note, Syfy was also advertising their remake of Slumber Party Massacre, which actually looks halfway decent.

Turkey Challenge 2021 - Rules / Progress Thread

1) Use IMDb ratings.

1.0 = 6 points.
1.1-1.9 = 5 points.
2.0-2.9 = 4 points.
3.0-3.9 = 3 points.
4.0-4.4 = 2 points
4.5-4.9 = 1 point.

2) First time view = 1 point.

3) Can be any genre.

4) Trifectas. Director actors, and series. For director and actors you can bunch siblings and parent / children or grandparent / grandchildren.

5) A movie can only count towards one trifecta.

Single Trifecta - 5 points
Double Trifecta - 7 points
Triple Trifecta - 9 points
Etc.

6) 1 bonus point if there is at least one head decapitiaton in the movie.





7) Movies with 5.0 ratings or better don't count for any points.

8) Must be at least 45 minutes long for full credit. Half credit for films between 25 and 44 minutes.

9) Start - 12:01 AM on November 1.End - You must start you last movie prior to November 30 11:59 PM.

October Challenge 2021 - Results!

And here they are. Congratulations to all those that completed the challenge this year (was a first time for me!). And an extra well done to Vincent and Ballz for sitting pretty at the top of the table. We'll call it a draw as Ballz had more FTVs 😉.

SMASHED IT!
Vincent - 83 (28)
Ballz - 82 (40)
ebossert - 75 (21)
Troma - 71 (59)
Amon - 63 (54)
Box - 63 (35)
Johan - 53 (42)
Triggerhappy - 51 (47)
Deferenz - 50 (33)

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
jimb - 37 (34)
Nicko - 37 (33)
Zombie - 35 (23)
Baseball - 33 (16)
markus - 32 (26)
insanis - 31 (31)
Seth - 31 (25)

JUST FELL SHORT
Brett - 29 (16)
Onyx - 26 (10)

DIDN'T EVEN TRY/GAVE UP!
zed - 18 (18)
shroud - 12 (9)
ConditionedResponse (or NoResponse) - 0 (0)

Until next year then folks...

Clownado Gore

This was the first Todd Sheets movie I've seen, and it wasn't completely deplorable as one might expect. I still wouldn't say I liked it though, but this isn't a review. This is more of a compliment/complaint about the gore.

Yeah, the movie has a lot of gore, and it looks somewhat realistic and gross. The slicing through flesh is great, but the blood is inconsistent. Sometimes, it looks like normal dark blood, but other times it looks like goddamn ketchup.

But that isn't the real complaint. My biggest beef with the gore is the framing. Every time someone gets stabbed or maimed or something, it's an extreme closeup. For some damn reason, the gore will NEVER be in the same frame as the character, which is pretty damn annoying. It's like all the gore scenes were filmed separately using a prosthetic they couldn't match to the actor, and it ruins the effect.

I know HG Lewis liked to zoom into his gore while his villains were playing in the guts, but he would also show the gore ON the person too. Clownado doesn't understand how to accomplish this effect at all, so it doesn't seem like the attacks are happening to the character at all. It's fucking stupid.

2021 Viewings

This is for anyone who wants to keep a log of their viewings/ratings every month so please feel free to add yours.

The links for the previous 4 years viewings are here if anyone still needs to access them for reference:

2020: https://trashepics.com/post/30/31/
2019: https://trashepics.com/post/30/9/
2018: https://trashepics.com/post/30/5/
2017: https://trashepics.com/post/9/97/

January



Dunkirk (2017) - 7.5
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - 7.5
Unhinged (2020) - FTV - 6
The Nightingale (2018) - FTV - 8
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) - FTV - 6
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - FTV - 7
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) - 5.5
Spree (2020) - FTV - 6
Dark Waters (2019) - FTV - 7
Color Out of Space (2019) - FTV - 6.5
They're Watching (2016) - FTV - 5
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - 8
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) - FTV - 4.5
Wrong Turn (2003) - 6
The Rental (2020) - FTV - 6
Avengers: Endgame (2019) - 7.5
The Witches (2020) - FTV - 5.5
The Body (2012) - FTV - 7

February



Batman Forever (1995) - 5.5
Saint Maud (2019) - FTV - 7.5
Bad Samaritan (2018) - FTV - 6
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) - FTV - 6
Villains (2019) - FTV - 6
Relic (2020) - FTV - 6.5
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 6.5
Willy's Wonderland (2021) - FTV - 5
Batman & Robin (1997) - 3.5
Se7en (1995) - 8.5
The Prestige (2006) - 8
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) - FTV - 6
Wrong Turn (2021) - FTV - 5.5

March



Tenet (2020) - FTV - 7
Inception (2010) - 8
Late Phases (2014) - FTV - 6
Naboer (2005) - FTV - 6.5
Gravity (2013) - 7
Pacific Rim (2013) - 6.5
Sunshine (2007) - 7.5
Miss Violence (2013) - FTV - 8
Aquaman (2018) - FTV - 6
Passengers (2016) - FTV - 6
The Dark and the Wicked (2020) - FTV - 6
Violation (2020) - FTV - 6.5

April



Kong: Skull Island (2017) - 6.5
Dead Silence (2007) - FTV - 5.5
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) - FTV - 6.5
The Queen of Black Magic (2019) - FTV - 7
Godzilla Vs Kong (2021) - FTV - 6
Run (2020) - FTV - 6
Night of the Demons (1988) - FTV - 7
The Monster Squad (1987) - 7
In Search of Darkness (2019) - FTV - 7.5
The Vanishing (1988) - 9
Alien vs. Predator (2004) - 5
Mortal Kombat (2021) - FTV - 6
Re-Animator (1985) - 7

May



Star Trek (2009) - 7
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) - FTV - 6
Love and Monsters (2020) - FTV - 6
Sound of Metal (2019) - FTV - 8
Oxygen (2021) - FTV - 6
Arachnophobia (1990) - 6.5
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 8
I Care a Lot (2020) - FTV - 6
Army of the Dead (2021) - FTV - 6.5
The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) - FTV - 7
Candyman (1992) - 7
Psycho (1960) - 10
The Father (2020) - FTV - 8
Tremors (1990) - 7
Hostel (2005) - 5.5
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) - 7
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) - 6.5
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) - FTV - 7

June



Child's Play (1988) - 6.5
Doctor Strange (2016) - 7
It (2017) - 7
Avengers Assesmble (2012) - 7
The Nun (2018) - FTV - 4
Bloody Hell (2020) - FTV - 6.5
Psycho Goreman (2020) - FTV - 6
The Devil All the Time (2020) - FTV - 6.5
The Thing (1982) - 8.5
Terminator Salvation (2009) - 5.5
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - 5
VFW (2019) - FTV - 6
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) - FTV - 4
A Quiet Place Part II (2020) - FTV - 6.5
Joker (2019) - 8
Night of the Living Dead (1968) - 7.5
Men In Black: International (2019) - FTV - 4.5

July



Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021) - FTV - 6
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002) - 8
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - 6.5
Another Round (2020) - FTV - 8
A Classic Horror Story (2021) - FTV - 6
Black Widow (2021) - FTV - 6.5
Critters (1986) - FTV - 5.5
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021) - FTV - 6.5
Guns Akimbo (2019) - FTV - 6
Star Trek Beyond (2016) - FTV - 6
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) - FTV - 8
A Quiet Place (2018) - 7
Stardust (2007) - 7.5
Aliens (1986) - 9

August



Mulan (2020) - FTV - 5.5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 5.5
Promising Young Woman (2020) - FTV - 7.5
The Suicide Squad (2021) - FTV - 8
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - 6
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) - FTV - 5.5
Vendetta (2013) - FTV - 5
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - 5
Commando (1985) - 7
Child's Play 2 (1990) - 6

September



Joker (2019) - 8.5
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - FTV - 6.5
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - 6
Boss Level (2021) - FTV - 6.5
Malignant (2021) - FTV - 6.5
Jaws 2 (1978) - 6
Deep Blue Sea (1999) - 6
Star Wars (1977) - 8.5
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - 9

October



Till Death (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - FTV - 5
Return of the Jedi (1983) - 8
Nightbooks (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - FTV - 4.5
Slaxx (2020) - FTV - 4.5
Mom And Dad (2017) - FTV - 6
No Time to Die (2021) - FTV - 7.5
Superhost (2021) - FTV - 6
Terror Train (1980) - FTV - 5
The Mortuary Collection (2019) - FTV - 6.5
Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017) - FTV - 6
Van Helsing (2004) - FTV - 4
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021) - FTV - 4
Ma (2019) - FTV - 5.5
When a Stranger Calls (1979) - FTV - 6.5
Burial Ground (1981) - FTV - 5
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) - FTV - 7
Candyman (2021) - FTV - 6
Stage Fright (1987) - FTV - 6.5
Blood Quantum (2019) - FTV - 5.5
A Quiet Place Part II (2020) - 6.5
Halloween (1978) - 8.5
Halloween Kills (2021) - FTV - 5
Braindead (1992) - 8.5
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971) - FTV - 7
All the Colors of the Dark (1972) - FTV - 7
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) - 7
Old (2021) - FTV - 5
Halloween II (1981) - 6
The Fog (1980) - 7
Alone in the Dark (1982) - FTV - 6
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) - 6.5
Prince of Darkness (1987) - FTV - 7
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - 8
Just Before Dawn (1981) - FTV - 6

November



Nobody (2021) - FTV - 6
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - 6
Speed (1994) - 7.5
Pitch Black (2000) - 7
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) - FTV - 7
The Trip (2021) - FTV - 6.5
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) - FTV - 6
Don't Breathe 2 (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Red Notice (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Last Night in Soho (2021) - FTV - 7.5

December



Jungle Cruise (2021) - FTV - 5.5
Titane (2021) - FTV - 7
Alien (1979) - 9.5
Free Guy (2021) - FTV - 6
Die Hard (1988) - 9
Jingle All The Way (1996) - FTV - 6
Home Alone (1990) - 7
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) - 7.5
Gremlins (1984) - 8
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - 6.5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) - FTV - 7

TV Shows



Alice in Borderland (2020) - FTV - 7
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021) - FTV - 6
Ash Vs. Evil Dead - Season 3 (2018) - FTV - 7.5
Time (2021) - FTV - 8
American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) - FTV - 8
American Horror Story: Coven (2013) - FTV - 7
The Mandalorian - Season 1 (2019) - FTV - 8.5
The Walking Dead - Season 10, E17-E22 (2021) - FTV - 7
The Mandalorian - Season 2 (2020) - FTV - 9
WandaVision (2021) - FTV - 8
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) - FTV - 7
Loki (2021) - FTV - 8.5
The Walking Dead - Season 11, E01-E08 (2021) - FTV - 7.5
Squid Game (2021) - FTV - 8
Hawkeye (2021) - FTV - 7

What movies has everyone bought or watched lately?

With the challenge I figure people maybe are buying more lately. I sure have, after some time of not buying much. Lots of good stuff has come out on Blu ray recently, and more is on the way in November from what I've heard.

One Dark Night (Blu ray)
Terror Train (Blu ray)
Anthropophagus (Blu ray)
House on Sorority Row (Blu ray)
Byleth (Blu ray)
And Now the Screaming Starts (Blu ray)
Switchblade Sisters (Blu ray)
Crimes of the Black Cat (Blu ray)
Puzzle (Blu ray)
Someone is Watching Me (Blu ray)
The Evil (Blu ray)
Forgotten Gialli Vol. 2 (Blu ray, 3 films)
Open House (DVD)
Cockfight (DVD)
Living in Peril (DVD)

Anyone seen any of these films?

Nightmares (1980, not the anthology one)
The Fourth Victim (1971)
Girls Night Out (1982)
Living in Peril (1997)

Radical Jack (2000)

For a Billy Ray Cyrus movie with a 2.4 rating, I would have expected something a lot worse. I think people jump at the chance to give it a bad rating simply because it has Mr. Achy-Breaky Heart in it, but he does a decent job as the drifter Navy Seal vet who's being used by the government to stop an arms dealer in a podunk town.

When I was searching for this movie on Tubi, they only had the Rifftrax version, and I'll be damned if I let those fuckers talk throughout the whole movie trying to convince me I'm watching shit. Let me be the judge of whether it's shit! So I found the regular version on IMDb TV, and quite frankly, I didn't find this movie nearly as deplorable as its rating would suggest. I actually found it pretty engaging.

Basically, this movie is a big ripoff of Roadhouse. It even has some roundhouse kicks, and the fight choreography is pretty good. It has a couple babes in it, and the production values are decent, but the most noteworthy thing about it is... George Buck Flower! And he isn't reduced to a minor role, nor is he playing a hobo. In fact, he's playing a lead antagonist! One who happens to be wealthy! Kudos to the film crew for including a legend in such capacity.

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