Hellmaster 1992

First off, is this movie a Hellraiser rip-off? Sorta. The cover art features a pinhead-esque villian named Razorface. He isn't the main villain though. John Saxon plays a psychotic cult leader who injects drugs into people to create his evil cenobite-like servants while David Emge uses a crossbow with a counterdrug to melt their brains. And somehow, this movie STILL sucks.

Perverted Religion

What are your favorite movies that pervert religious beliefs? Any religion.
The Exorxist is probably the most famous of these, IMO.

Tenet

I've fallen off the Nolan bandwagon a bit over the years, but this one was alright. It's basically Christopher Nolan's big and overblown Hollywood version of "In the Shadow of the Moon", but I'm not complaining. With all the weird sci-fi shit he does, it's about time that he did something with time-travel.

Does it make sense though? Eh, it makes enough sense I guess. Nolan is big on introducing huge high concept sci-fi and leaving the mechanisms to the imagination, or flat out making up weird bullshit (I'm looking at you, Interstellar). But it's like Dean Lerner said, "If you're looking at the wires, you're a freak." which basically means shut up and accept it. It's a time travel movie, so it'll never make complete sense.

Does it feature Michael Caine though? Yes, and barely. It also features recycled plots from Inception about someone trying to get their kid back, as well as our "protagonist" being coerced into working with the bad guys. You can predict a few twists too, but maybe it's not so much predicting as it is reading character reactions to certain scenes. The little details are handled pretty well though.

It's kinda boring for the first half, but then it'll all start to get interesting as you watch things fold. Or unfold? Also, tenet spelled backwards is tenet. 🥴

Firecracker (1981)

My most recent foray into action/exploitation. This one directed by Cirio H. Santiago who has what seems like an unlimited filmography in this category. This is right up there with one of his more entertaining.

There is absolutely no plot or character development in this one. They just get right into it. Basically a girl goes to the Philippines to find her sister who disappeared. She runs into drug dealers and even a Bloodsport type martial arts tournament where people fight to the death. She just happens to be a tiny gorgeous blonde who is a master of martial arts played by Jillian Kesner. She kicks ass through out the film both clothes on and off while she tries to find out what happened to her sister. This movie was super entertaining and the actress was super attractive. Not sure how this didn't become a series of movies or why she wasn't a bigger star. She was in some other exploitation and horror films but in smaller rolls. I have been on a roll with watching some entertaining films and this was no acception.

Anyone Else Keep a Movie Seen List?

I got bored one day and decided to make an Excel spreadsheet tracking all the movies I've seen over the years. 2013 is when I started keeping track, and older ones as I remember.
Right now I'm up to 2760 movies seen.

What I have listed on the spreadsheet are:
Movie title with IMDB link
Year of release
My rating out of 10
IMDB rating at date of listing
Movie run time
MPAA rating
Medium viewed in
First three genres listed on IMDB
Primary genre (in my opinion)
Date first watched
Plot synopsis

Then I also have tabulations at the bottom tracking number each year, decade, medium, MPAA rating primary genre, and personal rating. And also a few time watched computation totals (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years).
By the by, just over half a year on what I know of.

Anyone else lead this boring a life?

Lore Podcaat

A couple years ago I was looking for a horror podcast to listen to while at work, and I came across Lore.
It delves into bizarre and true stories from around the world. Most of the ones I listened to had a dark edge to them. Some had a sharp edge, especially axes.
Some are about well-known stories, such as the Jersey Devil and Lizzie Borden. Others are some I never heard of.
They range from 30 minutes to an hour. Check it out if interested
And when you do, make sure you say hi to Aaron Mahnke. He likes it when people say hi.

Boss Level

I wont go into too much detail, but I've always liked Frank Grillo. He is one smooth motherfucker and I love seeing him be bad-ass. Mel Gibson doesn't have as meaty of a role as he did in Fatman, but put him in any movie and it'll be better. The science behind the time-loop is negligable compared to the action and comedy it provides, but at this point, is there anything more to say about time-loop movies? The protagonist goes through trial and error, tries to be a better person, yada yada...

Groundhogs Day was gold. Premature was moderately amusing. Edge of Tomorrow was fuckin' great. Happy Death Day was surprisingly decent. Happy Death Day 2 sucked... Fortunately, this movie proves that a misstep can be corrected, and while it isn't mindblowing, it takes a lot of its cues from video games, and the end result is highly watchable, if not inconclusive.

Mad Foxes (1981)

All I can say is wow. Can't believe it took me this long to watch. One the best bad movies I have seen in a long time. This movie should be the poster child of a board like this. It is so badly hilarious at times with the acting, dubbing and scenarios and then other times amazingly brutal with its violence.

I actually started to watch this on Tubi the other day but then looked into it and found out it was edited. The only unedited version I could find was the DVD directly through Full Moon so I picked it up. It was only $7.99 and they even threw a free DVD in with it. I was enjoying the edited version but some things didn't make sense. After watching the uncut version a few things were cleared up despite most of the movie still making no sense. 😃

Anywho without getting into many specifics or spoilers there is a studly playboy who runs into a Nazi biker gang. They proceed to get revenge on one another and the revenge gets more extreme as it goes. Besides the playboy and Nazis there is a karate gang, plenty of naked girls and guys for that matter, some castration and much more. A must see for any fan of trash cinema.

Nuke 'Em High, Part II

After the school was destroyed in the first movie, it's only natural that, for entertainment's sake, the school be rebuilt and merged with the nuclear power plant. Our protagonist is a beefcake named Roger who everybody views as a stupid nerd, which is pretty funny. He finds love with a woman named Victoria, who happens to be a subhumanoid with a mouth on her belly button, capable of melting down into a pile of green slime at any point!

I've been told that this movie sucks, but I was pretty entertained the whole damn time. It's very much in the vein of a Lloyd Kaufman directed movie, even though he served more as a writer/producer. Everyone is batshit crazy, dressed like punks and weirdos, and the women are completely objectified. Everyone gets covered in blood and slime, they're all dumb as shit, and I'm completely content with all of this.

It's funny how the main character always talks to his recorder, addressing it as Diane. This was around the same time that Twin Peaks came out, so it can very well be an homage or coincidence. I've always thought that Lisa Gaye is pretty sexy and ridiculous at the same time with her snooty bee-haviour and bee-hive hairdo. I looked her up and saw that she reprises her role in the next movie, as well as a 2020 Lloyd Kaufman film "Shakespeare's Shitstorm". So Lloyd actually directed a movie recently?!

Also, the film is part Godzilla movie, only instead of a giant lizard, it's a giant mutated Squirrel. It's Troma-riffic.

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Books with Bambi and Snowy! 

Hey guys, Bambi and I have started a book club, and are also becoming book bloggers to try and get more people reading! If y'all have a Facebook can you go like the page Bookswithbambiandsnowy. And if you have an Instagram ours is @bookswithbambiandsnowy!

If you guys aren't a fan of reading, could you please share the posts! We would reallly appreciate it!

Also we will promote trashepics on our discussions for horror novels!