Things with Commentary

I'm talking about the 1989 Canadian piece of trash known as "Things". I watched the commentary, looking for insight, and here's what I can say about that...

The commentary is labeled as having director Andrew Jordan and star Barry J. Gillis. When the movie starts, you can tell that there are a lot more people there. It's like a party, and they seem quick to get to drinking.

There's a lady on the track that never saw the movie at the time of the recording, and she just kinda rags on the movie the whole time. Eventually, she hates it so much, she leaves, and Barry J. Gillis leaves the commentary to deal with her. Perhaps she was his gf at the time?

Eventually, Barry comes back. He seemed to laugh at LOT throughout the thing. Everyone involved seems to have fond memories of making their self-proclaimed "worst movie ever". Even worse than Plan 9, they say.

They make fun of the one guy's boobs a lot, they talk about how important that porn star was for their marketing, and by the end of it, I think they were all pretty drunk.

It's mostly like watching a home movie with friends and relatives, and they laugh about all the stupid shit. I still don't know what they were thinking at the time of making the movie. I'm going to guess that they weren't thinking.

While you do get some insight on the movie, it's still never enough. Things. A horrifying experience that will rip apart your soul.

What movies did you watch or buy this week? (6/3)

I've had so little time lately but I did watch a few the past week.

The Maze
Kidnapped
Don't Touch My Daughter

Audio Commentary Tracks

This is my easiest way of earning points for the June challenge. While everyone else will be on summer vacation, we'll all be learning for the month, but I'm fine with that. I've still got a lot of dvds of my favorite horror movies, and I've probably forgotten most every commentary I've listened to at this point, so they're all fresh for a revisit.

What are some good audio commentary tracks on dvds? Hopefully, I might have one of these discs so I can listen. I think I need to start the challenge off with Things commentary. Will there be any insight to the madness of that movie? Have I listened to that commentary already? The world may never know.

Also, I think gimmicky commentaries can be great. I love how Spinal Tap does a commentary for their movie, in character. It's like a whole new movie.

Fave commentaries?
Who sounds bored, who sounds enthused? Cuz some of these can be boring as fuck.

Horror Period Piece Recs

I'm really into period piece movies right now. Anyone have any recs? Doesn't have to specifically be horror. Thriller and drama would be good also.

Jesus Franco

Hard person to work out
He's made a couple of decent films, and a few average films (so hes not completely incompetent)
but most are just plain crap. Watched one last night https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209458/ Vampire Blues (1999)
The closest film to it is 'Hip Hop Locos(•)' It is impossible to make a film this bad unless
A/ you do it on purpose
B/ you're an imbecile

So what is it, is he just taking the piss, or did he just hit his head back in the 60s?

(•) Its actually worse than hip hop loco's as thats a film by a single dude, Vampire Blues had a crew of ppl working on it!

EDIT:


Jesus has discovered you can actually alter a pictures hue's, like he discovered back in the 1960s that one can zoom in and out with a camera.
Of course being Jesus he decided not to use it for the occasional florish, hes changing the colors for like 45 minutes out of the 90minute runtime.
Even a 8 yr old would go, hmmm perhaps I'm overusing this effect a bit too much

Documentary Challenge Rules

Should we go with the original HB rules I already got listed or the new TE rules with a point a minute? I'm undecided and we got long enough to before it begins to tweak some shit. We'll see what everyone thinks after 24 hours and then I'll make the progress thread.

New Video: 13 Reasons Why

The Mother's Week Challenge Progress Thread

Rather than only watching motherly movies on Mother's Day, why not watch them for the rest of the week too? That's the idea of the Mother's Week Challenge. You can watch any movie from any genre featuring any kind of mother. She could be a badass like Sarah Connor or a nutcase like Pamela Voorhees.

The challenge begins on Sunday, May 13th and ends on Saturday, May 19th. Make your spot here.



The point system for this challenge is based around individual qualities that you might find within a movie. Just for quick reference, here again are the rules for those points:

Title Point - The word "Mother", "Mom", or another variation is in the title

Character Point - A mother is a main character

Mother's Day Point - Mother's Day occurs (doesn't have to take place the entire time)

Fake Point - Someone pretends to be a mother (mainly have the Psycho movies in mind, or it could be something like an alien in disguise; e.g. Body Snatchers (1993))

Nude Point - A mother undresses

Sex Point - A mother masturbates or gets laid (can be claimed with the Nude Point if it's the same scene)

Fight Point - A mother gets into a fight with someone or something

Abuse Point - A mother abuses or tortures someone (physically or mentally)

Crime Point - A mother commits a crime (includes movies where it's initially unknown that the mother's the perpetrator)

Death Point - A mother dies

You may add 1 point per instance. For example, if a mother kills 3 people, you get 3 Crime Points. Please include your total points at the bottom or top of your spot. Only movies are allowed.

Discussion Thread https://trashepics.com/post/8/43/

The Mother's Week Challenge Discussion Thread

Sunday, May 13th is Mother's Day. It'll also mark the beginning of the Mother's Week Challenge.

The idea behind this challenge is simple: to honor mothers for a whole week instead of one day. All types of mothers count, from any genre.

You can take 1 point for each instance of the following:

Title Point - The word "Mother", "Mom", or another variation is in the title

Character Point - A mother is a main character

Mother's Day Point - Mother's Day occurs (doesn't have to take place the entire time)

Fake Point - Someone pretends to be a mother (mainly have the Psycho movies in mind, or it could be something like an alien in disguise; e.g. Body Snatchers (1993))

Nude Point - A mother undresses

Sex Point - A mother masturbates or gets laid (can be claimed with the Nude Point if it's the same scene)

Fight Point - A mother gets into a fight with someone or something

Abuse Point - A mother abuses or tortures someone (physically or mentally)

Crime Point - A mother commits a crime (includes movies where it's initially unknown that the mother's the perpetrator)

Death Point - A mother dies

Only movies are allowed this time around. As I said, it's 1 point per instance, so if a mother kills 3 people, that's 3 Crime Points.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, this is the place for it. Especially if it's something regarding the rules for points. Feel like they're confusing or maybe a rule should be added or removed? Please let me know.

Considering that this is only my second time hosting a challenge and I'm taking a shot in the dark with how obtainable some of these points might be, I'm completely open to feedback and making changes. Hence why I'm posting this discussion thread a couple days ahead of time.

Progress Thread https://trashepics.com/post/8/44/

Mother's Day (2010), and the Home Invasion subgenre

In honor of the good old Mother's week challenge, I couldn't watch the "original" without watching the "remake". Not really a remake at all, but Goddamn if Lloyd Kaufman's face didn't appear in the movie anyway.

The performances in this sort of movie are what it's all about. We have some decent actors here, like Frank Grillo, Shawn Ashmore, Jaime King, among our lead antagonist, played by Rebecca DeMornay. She tries to play friendly, but turns nasty pretty quick. I'm sure she had fun with this role.

This is very much a sadistic movie. The villains are panicked, and often feel the need to hurt our hostages in cringe-worthy scenes, and there's plenty of violence. This was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman after all, who had made a bunch of the Saw sequels. He doesn't skimp out on the gore and violence in this movie.

The movie was two hours, so it seemed kinda long, but I got sucked into it. Home invasion / hostage type movies are all pretty much the same, but they're all pretty deranged. Movies like this one, You're Next, Better Watch Out, etc.

I watched the ending of that movie "Breaking In" at work, which is a very Hollywood home invasion movie, and it was tame as fuck. Give me this movie instead. I thought it was pretty damn good.