Captain Sparkle Fingers! (2019)

It's funny in a few ways... all the parallels to Marvel's "Captain Marvel", the various pokes to other DC characters in the shared universe, and because it's your favorite from the nerd herd, Zachary Levi as the buff red suit with a cape. What can he do? Well, that's part of the journey, to find out just that. And believe me, it's nothing original.

Interesting bit... John Glover returns to this third appearance in various DC canon over the years. This time, he's basically another Lionel Luthor from Smallville, and his son is also bald and evil.

I'm surprised this movie was set in a real city. Philadelphia. It's always sunny there. They make a few Rocky jokes, as anything good set in Philly should do. It's all about those stairs, and running up them, then jumping in joy as if you're a winner. Is this movie a winner? By the DCU's standards... yes?

If you're anything like me, you probably have no idea who Shazam is. He's some foster kid searching for his mum, fleeing various foster homes, until he's randomly bestowed superpowers. Along with his disabled sidekick, he must learn the ropes of his various powers until he has some sort of character arc or whatnot. Oh, and did I mention his disabled sidekick is disabled?

This movie is PC. An interracial family forms a strong bond after they all touch the black man's magic shaft, and bullying is wrong. Don't be a bully. Especially generic ones with zero substance, because you'll get yours, and it wont be that great.

Along with the Captain Marvel parallels, the old black man here is also in that movie, in an insignificant role. Fun facts.

This movie may change your mind about the DCU, but it wont change your life. I don't think superhero movies even try anymore. The villains have no substance, and there's nothing at stake when your protagonists are invincible. Thundercrack is also one of his names, btw.

Voodoo Zombies!!

Pop culture likes the classic Romero zombie. This is a day and age when shit like The Walking Dead is all the rage, and zombies are known to eat human flesh, and sometimes... brains.

But before the flesh eaters, we had the more classic voodoo/servant type, as seen in White Zombie, King of the Zombies, and others. I've heard the name Val Lewton mentioned a lot during this era, too. Some of those images look creepy.

So why did this breed of zombies go neglected in favor of another type that is less grounded in true-ish events?

I've always thought they were an interesting idea, but since they're not inherently evil, people must not consider your classic voodoo zombie a threat enough to be dangerous. Too docile? Maybe not dead enough? If you put a lethal attack on a voodoo zombie, will they actually die from it? Their bodies aren't technically dead, and their brains are barely turned on. Still kind of alive, right? Well, after a while, it didn't even matter anymore, with movies such as Zombi 2. They just merged voodoo with Romero, and BAM. Perfect sleaze.



So is voodoo zombie stuff more popular than I'm aware of? Here's a few titles I'm aware of:

White Zombie (1932)
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Started getting sleazier and more Romero influenced here...

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1973)
Sugar Hill (1974)
Zombi 2 (1979)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Wes Craven took a deep look into the matter with his film investigating the voodoo zombie phenomenon, and there isn't much more to say about them... but we'll ride the wave a little longer anyway.

Zombi 4 (1989) - Kind of voodoo, but not really?
Black Demons (1991)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993) - Matt Cordell comes back because of voodoo! As dumb as it sounds, these movies are awesome.

and most importantly...

Weekend at Bernies II (1993)

What a great fuckin' movie. Terry Kiser is the man. He's still dead, and he's dancing the night away.




Do you care about voodoo zombies? I might.

White Zombie is public domain gold

I always thought this was a great old school title featuring the legendary Lugosi, fresh off of Dracula. He plays a guy named "Murder", he has a unibrow, and he controls people (much like Dracula) through that nifty clenched grip thing he does.

Sure, there's a old-timey romance featuring some squares, and Lugosi mostly wants the woman because he's a conniving old bastard in this movie, but I love the scenes where you see your villain going about, smugly putting pieces together on how he can sabotage our heroes' efforts.


For a public domain movie, I'm still surprised that Rob Zombie never remade this title, with his own hellish brand of white trash smut. He did include it on tv in his Halloween movie, though.

Another interesting idea would be a prequel. Get some other guy with a unibrow to play Murder Legendre and showcase him building his zombie army, where he mentioned turning the executioner who nearly executed him. That stuff sounds pretty cool, and we'd later see that type of premise carried out in "Son of Frankenstein", also with Lugosi coordinating the acts of vengeance.


Basically the first (voodoo) zombie movie, White Zombie also has some great imagery. I love looking at the graveyard sets and that weird mansion on the cliff. Some of it looks pretty artsy.

Also, there's that vulture that sounds like a dying lady. Definitely worth noting...

Lugosi was always one of my favorite old school horror actors though. Sure, he was pushed into a lot of crap movies, but he's got an exotic charm, and the way he talks is fascinating. I should make my B&W Challenge all about Bela Lugosi this year. Dude is a legend.


IMDb lists "Revolt of the Zombies" (1936) as a sequel. Anybody seen it?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028174/

The Redeemer (1978)

I love this movie it's weird and so 70s and freaky and it's basically like every 80s slasher you've ever seen only not because it was made in 76/77 so it had more in common with grindhouse and exploitation movies no it isn't very gory or violent but the atmosphere is there in spades it's cruel and dark and gritty and weird and low budget there's just something about this flick i watched it again the other night I've seen it roughly 7 or 8 times now it gets better with every viewing I appreciate how ahead of its time it is I first saw it under the title of class reunion massacre on VHS yes I prefer that title but ah well you can't have everything in life ya know life is a bitch sometimes and yes i realize im writing one big ass run on sentence but fuck it man this is trash epics not english class anyway back to the Redeemer have you seen it if not get on it cuz it rules hard.

Is that the fuckin' Moondog?

Harmony Korine. You either love him or you hate him. I'm in the camp that can't look away. When he puts something on screen, I'm mesmerized. Even when I felt dirty after watching Gummo, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I watched it a few more times until I discovered a depth in its grim and hopeless redneck suburbia.

I've watched Werner Herzog drink cough syrup out of a shoe because he made it look like art. I've watched Die Antwoord roll up in their pimped out wheelchairs because Harmony Korine can make magic out of nothing. Just imagine what he can do if he has starpower and a budget to boot.



It's been a few years since we went on Spring Break with Franco and the ladies, but that seemed like a natural environment for Korine to explore more of. With The Beach Bum, he wants to show us Florida, and with a little help from McConaughey's laughter-filled performance, it's a fun trip that isn't even bogged down by sad scenes.

It's like we're all getting drunk and high and with McConaughey on the Florida coast for a few hours, drinking a LOT of Pabst Blue Ribbon and hanging out with Snoop Dogg. Sure, life tries to get in the way, but you got to keep at your own pace, and the universe will work itself out.

Films like this are about characters, situations, and art. The plot is derived from these things, and it seems inconsequential at best, because life is a rodeo, and the Moondog keeps on livin'. L-I-V-I-N.

Zac Efron plays a pyromaniac in jinco jeans who listens to Creed, and Martin Lawrence is a Vietnam vet who loves Flipper. I think this movie is set in the early 2000s. Snoop Dogg is basically playing himself. This is how I like to think McConaughey is normally, when he isn't winning Oscars. Just a bum who parties on the beach all day and all night. It's like Moondog is living by the motto of "Spring Break Forever", and we're given a hazy glimpse into his perfect world, and the idea of this perfection is contagious.

Critics consider this a flop for McConaughey's career, but he knew what he was getting himself into. This was a choice he made intentionally, to work with an auteur with vision, and you could tell he had fun making the movie.

Movies like this are a rarity, and that's what makes them important. They don't have conventional stories, because they have other things to say, and to me, it's all about that strange place they take me to. Nothing out of this world is going on, but it's hard to feel grounded when a movie makes you high.

This is my last post here.

I'm sick of this place. And you know what? I don't even like trashy movies. I'm going to go watch the latest blockbuster. Fuck you guys. 🖕

Google Your Old IMDB Sig Line

I had several, over the years on IMDB. I just googled the one I had toward the end of IMDB, and this thread came up. Good for the soul, to see it. My soul, anyway. What comes up when you google your old sig lines?
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/2947/

Looking for Moderators!

So as many of you know Ballz is our new Challenge Moderator and I would like to fill a couple other moderation roles if I can.

Below are the Moderation Positions I would like to have:
Challenge Moderator: Ballz - In charge of the challenge host queue and ensuring challenges start and run efficiently. Also Keeper of the Trash Cup. (That's a title idea "Keeper of the Cup")

Draft Moderator: - In charge of the draft host queue. In charge of ensuring drafts start and run efficiently. Tasked with ensuring that all drafts submitted for aproval by hosts are logically sound and don't have any glaring holes.

Board Moderator: - First off this in not a sensorship role. This mod is tasked with making sure that threads tagged in the "soapbox" are supposed to be there and not in another board, IE horror or games and the same goes with the rest of the boards. I am actively trying to convince @Box that a more propper index on our home page with the boards "Movies", "TV", "Soapbox(General Discution)", "Games and Challenges", "Site Information", "New to the Site" and "Site Ideas" would be benificial and also keep this place more organized and stop the overflow of shit from rants and beefs from the "Soapbox" to the rest of the site. So, this moderator would just make sure people didn't put topics in the wrong board and if they did they would move the post.


These are the first 3 I would like to fill, well 2 since Ballz already grabbed challenge mod, but as we get more organized I would like to have individual mods for each board just so there isn't so much for one person to look through.

If anyone is interested just let me know. Also let me know about what you all think of the more divided index as a home page vs the facebook like feed.

t-t-t-t-t-t-T-TOUCH ME!



I watched my favorite musical, Rocky Horror, last night, and realized it maybe my all time favorite movie. I'm thinnking about watching it again today, and already have the soundtrack playing. As a kid this must have been the first R rated movie I ever saw, although I had never really thought of it as R rated before last night. favorite movie of all time. My mom is an ex-ballarina and show choir performer so I saw this at a relatively young age, but you see I wasn't allowed to (and didn't)watch R rated movie until I was about 16, and my mother had shown this to me a few times and I think we even watched it when I was 13 in my Freshman theatre class. I was never I.D.'d the time I saw it in theaters and was like 15, so it really wasn't until last night that it hit me that this was a R rated movie. Even Hot Patootie has such a fun happy, almost early 80s light pop/rock, vibe, yet it ends in murder and then they eventually eat Eddie...




The thing that I find interesting is that almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it really is a Trash Epic! I mean everyone loves this movie, my mom, my director at the time, most all my friends (hell even my Marine of a father loves this movie), yet after thinking about it Rocky Horror really worked for it's R rating: Nudity, Gore, Cannibalism, Rape, Drug Use, Incest and Racism (7 point movie), but yet it's in just the right ammount and combined with so much fun that most audiences look right past it. In a way it's almost as the audience is who is really getting put under the persuation of Dr. Frankenfurter. Like Brad and Jannet, so many of the people I know who love this movie are very innocent. You know godly, wholesome working and business people, ignorant to 95% of the movies most us of know, and would probably not ever want to know of them anyway. However, when this movie comes on, those same people are completely unphased and seem to want to get dirty.



The flip side of that is that a lot of people I know who love horror movies and the more, let's say interesting, side of media don't like musicals at all. I can't even get @Box to go see Book of Mormon with me, let alone watch Fair Lady or Singing in the Rain. However, again most everyone I know like that just looks right past it. Hell I think @Box can quote the entire movie, and can at least recite the soundtrack. I've even seen friends of mine who listened to nothing but doom metal and watch very obscure movies, they were part of our techinal crew, lighting, sounds, video, etc..., and even they would step onto the dance floor at cast parties to dance to Time Warp.




That it what is so magical about this movie. It takes everyone out of their comfort zones at first by combining two things that aren't really in the same general ballpark. I even alot of homophobes I know will sing along with Sweet Transvestite. This movie makes everyones thinking scrambled. Think about it, think of someone you know that likes musicals, if you said "Hey let's go see a musical, it's a horror musical with cannibalism and trannies!", they most likely wouldn't go see it with you, neither would someone who hates musicals, yet both of these group are simply entranced by the movie.

I'm not really sure where else this rant is going, I was planning on reviewing the movie, but it turned more into a thought piece, so thoughts? Why do you love Rocky Horror? Have you ever shown it to someone who doesn't like it? Do you not like it, and why? This and any other feelings you have are welcome!




#RockyHorrorPictureSh

Horror Movies that are similar story-wise?

I always like to be on the look-out for horror movies that I like to see is there a similar movie out there to them.

Here is what I consider to be similiar:

Long Weekend (1978)/The Territory (1981) - both involving hiking trips with with Mother Nature fighting back
Duel (1971 TV Movie)/The Car (1977) - desert settings involving powerful vehicles.
I Am a Ghost (2012)/I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) - both poetic introspective haunted-house films involving female protagonists.
Sole Survivor (1984)/Final Destination (2000) - death hunts down and collects people in the form of destiny.
Martin (1977)/Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) - protagonists are not vampires, but need to drink blood.
I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)/Colin (2008) - documents physical and mental deterioration.
Cube (1997)/Saw (2004) - strangers involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)/The Night God Screamed (1971) - both involving cult of satanists.
The Babysitter (2017)/Better Watch Out (2016) - both horror-comedies involving babysitters.

Can anyone think of any in their opinions?