2019 October Challenge Results

I am delighted at the turnout for this years challenge. It was a busy month here at Trashepics this month, with users returning, hopefully we can keep the momentum going. It was a lot of fun! Congratulations to Vince for winning and setting such an impressive standard!

VincentPriceIsRight 177 films - (52 FTVs)
Bambithedeer 84 films - (50 FTVs)
ebossert 77 films - (38 FTVs)
Amon_101 69 films - (59 FTVs)
Znep27 69 films - (51 FTVs)
ZombieCPA 46 films - (23 FTVs)
Ballz 44 films - (31 FTVs)
ConditionedResponse 42 films - (19 FTVs)
Gymnopedie 36 films - (32 FTVs)
Basic_Username 36 films - (19 FTVs)
jimb14red 35 films - (33 FTVs)
Snowy_Owl 34 films - (26 FTVs)
BaseBallZombies 32 films - (17 FTVs)
BloodWank 31 films - (28 FTVs)
NoseOfNicko 31 films - (24 FTVs)
shroudoftheimmortal 31 films - (16 FTVs)
Box_a_Hair 31 films - (16 FTVs)
Triggerhappy6 31 films - (16 FTVs)
PickOfDestiny 21 films - (11 FTVs)
sfpx 10 films - (9 FTVs)
markus-san 8 films - (6 FTVs)
zed 3 films - (3 FTVs)
Der_Tables 3 films - (2 FTVs)
Brett_Lives 2 films - (2 FTVs)
JennySplatter 0 films - (0 FTVs)
iceflamez 0 films - (0 FTVs)
Tommix 0 films - (0 FTVs)
Red_Otter 0 films - (0 FTVs)

How you feel about slashers?

Well I have been on a Slasher Marathon lately. It's rather silly since it's not really a favorite subgenre for me but I tried out usenet for a month half a year ago (I forgot to unsubscribe in time) and I didn't know what I could download at the time so I went for the slashers found in the grindhouse database.

I have been viewing them more or less chronologically. I'm noticing a few things. Contrary to popular belief gore & blood seem to be the exception rather than the rule, many kills not shown on screen or just quick and/or dark. The gratuitous nudity is in most cases rather brief too if there actually is any.

Another thing I noticed and rather bugs me that there is movies with a fantastic first kill shown in detail, really unsettling and makes you hope for more of that only to find out that all the other kills are hardly to be seen or not shown at all. Don't Go in the House (1979) was such a movie, great first kill made me hope for more of that but the rest it played out to be rather lame focusing on psychology and still mananging to keep the killer rather superficial. Pretty much the same with Don't Answer the Phone (1980) also had a reasonably good first murder, the others are poor again superficial psychology and 2 incompetent police men and a psychologist making Chief Wiggum look good.
Is this done deliberately I wonder to make sure you keep watching and hoping for more of this? It almost makes me wonder maybe it's better to watch it in reverse when the best parts are often in the first half hour.

The worst (1 or 2/10):

Meatcleaver Massacre (1977)
The Final Terror (1983)
The Single Girls (1974)
Sugar Hill (1974)
Blood Thirst (1971)
Savage Weekend (1979)

Had potential but not a pass (3 to 4/10):

Don't open the Door (1975)
Drive-in Massacre (1976)
Exposé (1976)
Terror Train (1980)
Don't Go in the House (1979)

Don't Answer the Phone (1980)


Pass to almost good (5 to 6/10)

Criminally Insane (1975): my favorite so far, simple lunatic killer
Tower of Evil (1972): insane first good half, utterly bad second half
Don't go in the Woods (1971): low budget but fast paced and kills are pretty graphic, never boring
Prom Night (1980): It's rather slow after a great opening, picks up nicely in the last half hour

80s Challenge! Rules, and Discussion

Hey Guys, I know we are only a week into the awesomeness of the Turkey Challnege, but I wanted to let y'all know about nexts months challenges, and the rules!

To start off, the challnege will begin at midnight on December first, and will end at the stroke of midnight on New Years Day!

Basically the point of this challenge is to watch as many 80s movies as you can, and have fun!

You get 1 point for watching an 80s movie.

1 point if the movie is a sequel made in the 80s to a movie made in the 1980s or earlier

1 point, and only 1 point, if the movie features a Mullet.

1 point, and only 1 point, if the movie features a Mustache.

1 point if the movie is a John Hughes movie.

1 point if it's a Freddy Movie

1 point if it's a Jason Movie

1 point if kids go on an adventure

1 point for FTV

And since it is Christmas, a bonus point for any 80s Christmas movies!

This challenge will also have trifectas:

Actors for sure!

There will also be a Genre Trifectas. Horror, Comedy, and Action/Adventure.

Movies can only count towards 1 trifecta.

Single Trifecta: 3 points

Double Trifecta: 6 points

Triple Trifecta: 9 points


Just have fun this for this challenge, and as we get closer to December I will post a sign up thread, and repost the rules.

Jung Typology

Has anyone ever taken the test to find out about your Jung Typology? I just did, and it was eerily accurate. I used to really be into psychology, so taking the quiz was pretty fun. Usually I don't care about personality tests, but this one seems pretty true!


I am an INFJ. I'm curious to see what other people's types are!


Here is the site.
https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality

Since there's no month long challenge this May, is anyone interested in a week long challenge?

Sucks that the Documentary Challenge didn't happen this month. It's one I'm really looking forward to. Maybe I should've volunteered when @Messiah inquired about a host at the end of last month (I think that happened anyway, can't find it now).

I am however volunteering to host a week long challenge this month, if enough people are interested. I think it'd be best to start on a Sunday, so it'd have to either be this coming Sunday (13th) or the Sunday after that (20th).

To anyone interested, please help decide what that challenge might be. I recall a Shark Week being mentioned before, but that'd be better if it was saved for a summer month, yeah? Here are a few ideas I have:

Western Week

Simply watch movies that fall under the western genre. There are plenty of western movies out there to choose from, both old and new. Enough in fact that it could instead be used for a month long challenge, but I feel like most people here aren't big western fans. Not sure even I could remain interested in them for a month. A week though? That feels doable.

Halloween in May

It's like Christmas in July, but better. Because Halloween's better than Christmas. Also, Halloween is in about six months, just as Christmas is about six months after the start of July, so that sort of works too. This challenge wouldn't be a (complete) rehash of the October Challenge. Instead, the focus would be solely on Halloween-themed movies. Again, a month for this challenge would probably be too much.

Mother's Week

This challenge would only work if it started this coming Sunday, as that's Mother's Day. Movies with some kind of motherly aspect would apply. Psycho, Serial Mom, Mommie Dearest, to name a few. Isn't there even at least one horror movie called Mother's Day? I think the points would need to be something other than minute based for this one or at least the rules narrowed down to what specifically counts as a mother movie.

That's all I've got. Seriously, if you like any of my ideas, let me know, and if any of you have other ideas, pitch them. Your ideas are probably better than the ones I've thrown together. And if you have an idea which you'd prefer to host yourself, we can do that too. I'm just trying to get something together since it feels a little weird around here without an ongoing challenge.

Terminator: Dark Fate!

It's hard to give my thoughts on this movie without spoiling anything, because this is one of those movies with important plot points. However, the trailer does give a lot of them away, or at least infer them, so there's not much to spoil. If you've watched the trailer, you can basically guess the exact plot progression of the movie because trailers these days are awfully in depth. They leave nothing to the imagination, and this movie is no exception.

For what it's worth, the movie entertained the shit out of me. Our main characters are Dani, Grace, and Sarah. Don't expect much Arnold in the movie, though. You'll go at least half of this movie before you see him, but when he comes in, you'll dance with joy. He's got a very interesting dynamic and character arc, but we'll skip that for now.

So after T2, the future was changed, but the effects still linger and have a definite impact on what's to come. Is Skynet a thing? Obviously, the future is still fucked if this shit is still happening, but it's a slightly different future we're involved with. Shit is arguably worse this time around, because they have the capabilities of sending back the Rev-9, which is a merger of a hollowed out endoskeleton and liquid metal exterior. Gabriel Luna does a good job rivaling the menacing T-1000 with his superior and seemingly indestructible model, and only our enhanced protagonist Grace has the capabilities to combat him, but not without her own limitations, because she is still mostly human after all.

The inclusion of Linda Hamilton solidifies this as a worthwhile entry. Sure, Arnold has been involved in all the movies to some extent, but not all of them felt like dignified entries. Linda has only been involved in the quality movies, and this is (as they say) the best sequel after T2. She's hardened, nihilistic, and a much needed grounding to make this film feel on par with the first two.

As you watch it, you'll see a few similarities in the plot structure, a few callbacks, and whole lot of action scenes. It'll never have the same impact as the first two movies, but for what it's worth... Terminator: Dark Fate is a very satisfying follow-up that we all longed for. I've basically waited my whole life for a decent sequel to T2, and it only took 'em about 30 years to get it right. Thank God James Cameron was there to oversee the production and help get the tone right, because the past few sequels really botched that.

Was it really better in the past?

I'm asking this question after I read a post of one of my facebook 'friends'. Well I have traded action figures with the guy a few times but I keep our relationship rather superficial.

He posted a list of MTV awards from 1994 and put the awards from this year next to it with the message "The world is coming to and end". Pretty clearly he isn't too happy about today's music. He's from 1980 so he was 14 years old and I guess at almost 40 they are still his heroes. Some of the names are: Aerosmith,Janet Jackson, Snoop Doggy Dog, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones. I don't know anyone from the new list but it's clear it's a new generation of singers/music bands.

I think everyone is free to continue loving the music from their youth until they die but comparing two pretty different periods with each other and of course thinking the old stuff is superior sounds like the typical middle aged sour puss who doesn't like that the world is changing. Music industry changes just like the movie industry, just like technology evolves all the time. It's called progress and evolution. He probably said as a teenager to his mom and pops not to be so old-fashioned. In a few years when his own son is a teenager he will probably laugh with the dinosaur's music his dad is listening to.

When he said he doesn't listen to the radio any more I told him there is enough opportunities to listen to retro music in specialized music channels or just stream or pop in an old school CD of your heroes, simple as that!


Is it part of midlife crisis venting about how everything was better in their youth? Well I can think about a dozen things that weren't too cool when being young: restricted freedom, having to go to school, having to study, not being able to buy what you liked etc

I have always been more of a movie than music person. I do prefer older movies yeah even movies froma period before I was born. But I'm not saying they ware better. I was a kid in the 80s and I can honestly say that period cranked out a lot of crappola too. It's rare but even I can find some real gems in recent movies. Ghostland and A Quiet Place are examples which were an instant buy for me after I had seen them.

I bet friend Bert (that's his name) is getting of on the 80s tribute movies which had been the shit the last decade. I'm thinking of
The House of the Devil (2009) from Ti West
The Final Girls (2015)
Summer of 84 (2018)
As 80s kid I was really underwhelmed. Sure they had 80s things but it was clearly made in modern times and te young people were not even born to know what the 80s were like. Definitely in the case of the Ti West flick recreating the past to every tiny detail is painfully uninteresting and tedious (to me anyway).


He definitely does love the old Star Wars and Ghostbusters. surely he will be in the group of complainers (usually guys 40+) how the new versions ruined it all without even haven seen those. Guess what you do have the liberty to not watch or even ignore it.


I say yes to evolution and creating a different style. You never know if you are missing out on something you might like. If I want to be nostalgic I put an on old song, movie or videogame.

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George "Buck" Flower in They Live

I am watching this for the billionth time right now, and thinking about his drifter/yuppie character.

What do you think about his scenes toward the beginning, at the worker's camp? He sits there watching TV, and talks about different conspiracy theories to explain the world. It's hard to know exactly what to make of this, considering what we know by the end of the movie.

Is he spreading disinformation? Maybe trying to lay a trap for possible malcontents, seeing if he can get them to rebel in some way so the cops can scoop them up and throw them in jail? The cops seem to corral HIM, when they come to the camp and walk through taking shitloads of prisoners. But, they were probably told by the chief aliens to just keep an eye out for him and take him somewhere safe, while they beat the living daylights out of everybody else.

Any thoughts about this? The scene where the cops run through the camp is a little confusing, I might have always missed something important.

Also, if anyone here ever invents a time machine, could you do me a favor and bring the woman on the giant Come to the Caribbean billboard (the billboard that changes to "Marry and Reproduce" when looked at through the glasses) back to our time? I want to marry her, but it would probably be more fun to be with her when she looked like she did on the billboard than to be with her as she probably looks now. K Thanks bye!

Eddie Murphy - Dolemite is My Name

Just wondering what Trash Epics in particular one member thinks of this new Dolemite movie.

Rate the horror from the last 3 years

Horror movies that have been released 2017-2019. I haven't seen any from 2019 yet so it will just be 2017 & 2018 from me

2017
Trauma: 7,5/10 (torture/revenge tends to either be too tame, uneventful or go over the top, this one has a great balance, with godo gore and yeah nudity which is becoming rare this days but Chile is thankfully not scrutinized by the censors)

Primal Rage: apparently forgot to rate it must be around 5/10 (no brain slasher and gore)

Errementari: 8/10 (I like fantasy and horror but the combination rarely works for me, here it does)

Ghost Stories: 1/10 (actually it is suprising in plot but I was annoyed with the dark images and slow pace)

Tigers are not Afraid: 6/10 (not really horror though even though it is labeled as such, a bit of a Pan's Labyrinth wannabe)
Revenge: 6/10 (on first view yeah but I bet I'll find the unrealistic events irritating on a revisit)

Mom and Dad: 5/10 (having Cage is a loss of points for me, entertaining but not memorable)

The Lodgers: 6,5/10 (with a more believable love story I would have liked it more, very atmospheric)

mother!: 2/10 (no comment I loathe this kind of symbolism and religious mumbo jumbo)

47 Meters down: 5/10 (again pop corn entertainment)

It comes at Night: 4/10 (I mostly forgot, slow and boring)

Stephanie: 5/10 (I saw little horror)
Two Pigeons: 4,5/10 (it's rather filthy what the hidden guy does but unfortunately it gets repetitive, takes too long to come to a conclusion with little story)

Get Out: 4/10 (sells of as original and financial support surely helped but the experienced horror fan should know better, the message pretty much fails for me)


2018
The Possession of Hannah Grace: 3/10 (well already said in Gymno's thread, poor man's Autopsy of Jane Doe)

Hell Fest: 4/10 (typical slasher in a theme park, very cliché)

Ghostland: 7/10 (I like this kind of stuff, mixing dream and reality, past and present, nice setting, nasty villains)

a Quiet Place: 8,5/10 (feels like a silent, great idea, great execution)

The Strangers: Part 2: 6/10 (entertaining even though Bailee Madison was the main reason I have watched it, not seen the first btw)

Annihilation: 4/10 (sounded interesting, group of women going on and adventure like in The Descent but what was this even about?)

Hereditary: 3/10 (thx to the early death of the most interesting character, cliché and big rip off from Rosemary's Baby and some other flicks, Satan is doomed with that successor if you ask me)
Mandy: 2/10 (I ask you how canone even get past the uneventful first hour and who wants to see Cage in his underwear or that sissy villain in his pee-pee?)
Summer of 84: 3/10 (the umpteenth 80s horror tribute yawn, not really interesting when you know the killer by the first minute)

2019
none yet hopefully there is some I can pick up from you?