Election 2020

With the US election on the horizon I figured it would be nice to have a place for CIVIL political discord. That being said feel free to drag your third world non-american politics into the mix as well

What movies has anyone bought lately?

I haven't bought a lot other than these, almost all at the same time and all blu-ray:

Friday the 13th Part 2
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
Massacre at Central High
Death Laid an Egg (supposedly with an English language dub option this time)
Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

Peter Dinklage as the Toxic Avenger??!

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT??!!!!

Oh, I get it. Because Toxie is huge, let's make the new one small!

https://screenrant.com/toxic-avenger-reboot-movie-peter-dinklage-casting-perfect-reason/amp/


Okay, I know Screen Rant is a pile of shit that is only still in business because of the Pitch Meeting videos, but what the hell is this? Is this for real? He better only be playing the Melvin version.

Oh what the fuck, I'm sure it'll suck either way....

I don't know where to ask this

Can someone just explain something to me. I don't know where to ask this question, I'm just gonna ask it here. Please just leave this up until someone has explained this to me, I reallly want to understand it.

When people in the comments section on Youtube videos, or on Twitter, or probably just basically everwhere online... when people make a post that goes like this:

Nobody:
Nobody ever:
Something something: punchline

What the hell does that mean? What are they talking about? I must have some kind of mental block, I can't understand it. I sort of get that.... no, I just don't get anything, it makes no sense to me. Can someone just tell me if it's a joke from Two And A Half Men, or if you have a minute just walk me through the logic of it? It must mean something, I see people posting it all the time.

Help!

Movies like The Legacy (1978)

I mean, movies set in England, or anywhere in the UK I guess, in a big old "country house"/manor/semi-castle/whatever. Does anybody have any good ones that come to mind? The Legacy is the first one that comes to mind, for me. Also, The Crimson Cult, AKA Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), whcih was on TV late-ish last night, and is the reason I'm thinking of this topic. Also, Vampyres (1974), Wicker Man (1973), Lair of the White Worm (1988)(partly, not the whole movie but sometimes)... you could sort of say The Omen (1976), but I'm thinking more along the lines of movies in which there is something about the house itself that provokes fear, or is intrinsically connected to whatever provokes fear in the movie. Anyone have any great ones?

DVD Trove Found at Goodwill

Someone cleaned out (or had cleaned out) a lot of horror DVDs. Picked up the following:
Starship Troopers 3 (2008)
The Roost (2005)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Return to House in Haunted Hill (2007)
Chain Letter (2010)
Torment (2014)
Kill for Me (2012)
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Romero presents Dead time Stories Vol. 2 (2011)
Devil's Pond (2003)
The House of the Dead (2009)
Starship Troopers 2 (2004)
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
The Fatal Hour (1940)
Dead Men Walk (1943)
The Mad Monster (1942)
Red Riding Hood (2011)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Hellhounds (2008)
Hydra (2008)
Wendigo (2001)
Howl (2015)
Psycho Ward (2008)
Alyce Kills (2011)
Basket Case (1982)
Basket Case 2 (1990)
Basket Case 3 (1992)
The Inheritance (2010)
Dead & Breakfast (2004)
Hallowed Ground (2007)
Carny (2009)
Crystal Skulls (2014)
11:11 (2004)
The Black Dahlia (2008)
Shark Night (2011)
See No Evil (2006)
Warriors of Terra (2006)
High Plains Invaders (2009)
The Burrowers (2008)
You're Next (2013)
Offspring (2009)
Trespassers (2005)

Plus about 20 more I already had. Not a bad haul at $2 per.

Jack Frost (1997)

This is a movie that, much like Ice Cream Man 1995, is one that I thought would have been terrible and had avoided for most of my life. It turned out I was wrong. Again.

The premise is dumb as hell, but the execution is lot of fun. Our serial killer embodied in a snowman has snow-related powers and kills people in ways that start off seeming like accidental deaths, but he quickly progresses to some of those creative slasher kills we were all waiting for.

For the most part, you don't see much of him because it would be too ridiculous. He remains statuesque for ambiguity/budgetary reasons, and when he does move, you realize why they tried to hide him so much. Also, the poster art features a random evil snowman. Jack Frost never looks anything like that, which is probably for the best.

However, the movie has a small town element to it to keep us distracted from the absurdity. Regular citizens with real problems and real kicks, though we primarily follow the sheriff as he tries to keep his family and his town safe from the evil killer snowman. Somehow, it's quite entertaining.

Random IMDb Trivia:

Shannon Elizabeth's first acting role in a movie and her first nude scene. She filmed this before she got the breast implants she reveals in American Pie (1999).

One actor who read for the role of Jack Frost pulled a knife at his audition.

This film was initially going to be directed by Renny Harlin, with a $30 million budget.


And to paraphrase one trivia, there was an improv rape scene. Yes, that is correct. This movie features a rapist snowman.

#Review

Turkey Challenge 2020 - Rules / Progress Thread

1) Use IMDb Ratings, Scoring Chart:

1.0-1.9 = 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 additional point

3) Can be any genre

4) Trifecta Rule: Directors and Series
(e.g. watch 3 movies by David DeCoteau to get a 5 point Director Trifecta bonus; or watch 3 Puppet Master movies to get a 5 point Series Trifecta bonus)

5) A movie can only count towards one trifecta and all movies in the trifecta must be 4.9 or under.

6) Trifecta points accumulate
(e.g. watch 6 movies by David DeCoteau to get 7 point Double Trifecta bonus)

Single Trifecta - 5 points

Double Trifecta - 7 points

Triple Trifecta - 9 points

Etc.


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

8) Movies must be at least 45 minutes long for full credit.

9) Substract 2 points for watching with the Rifftrax/MST3K commentary on. That's like putting ketchup on your turkey. C'mon!

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

NOTE: The Turkey Challenge has been long-hosted by creator Zombie CPA. For personal reasons, he is unable to host this year. Let's wish him well and honor him by watching a whole lot of trash.

Now, get gobblin'!

Victoria Jackson's movie rating system

Victoria Jackson is trending on Twitter tonight. Not because ofanything she did, it's just because someone who is in the news today looks like her. But anyway, it reminded me of an old Weekend Update where she revealed her brilliant method of rating movies. The way to think about this is to think about how enjoyable a movie actually is, to watch. Gandhi, Gone With the Wind, etc are fine to watch now and then, but probably not every single day. A three star movie, on the other hand, is just about perfect to watch at any time: not a masterpiece, but solidly entertaining. A two star movie is probably just pathetic dreck. A ONE star movie is "so bad it's good," sooo, better than two stars. OK, I just completely wrecked it, but anyway, here's Victoria Jackson.

Years w/ Multiple Movies w/ a Common Theme

I was just thinking about this recently. Sometimes there is a year in which several very similar movies (or at least fairly similar movies) come out. There could be more than one reason why this happens, of course. Maybe a screenwriter is describing his idea for a movie to his girlfriend at a Hollywood restaurant, and is overheard by someone working for a rival studio. Or, maybe there was a big story in the news the year before, which started a sort of craze to make movies related to whatever the news story was. Or... there could be all kinds of reasons. I started a little list of years that have some kind of theme featured in at least two movies. If anybody can think of any other years with something similar going on, please post them here in the comments.

1979 -- Figures from British Literature of the 1890s Come to Modern America: Love at First Bite, and Time After Time
1981 -- Lycanthropy as a Lifestyle: American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and (sort of) Wolfen
1984 -- If You Die in Your Dreams, You Die in Real Life: Dreamscape and NoES
1987 -- Cool, Badass Modern Vampires with Attitude: Near Dark and The Lost Boys
1998 -- An Asteroid Threatens the Earth: Deep Impact and Armageddon

What are some other good ones? I know you guys can come up with some. It is debatable whether we should count SyFy movie trends... there was probably a year or two with multiple Sharknado movies, or years with multiple types of mutant giant spiders.... anyway, anyone have any other years with themes?