It has begun.

November 16th, 39 days before Christmas, and the Christmas music at work has started. 39 more days. I don't know if I'm going to make it this year. If I disappear soon, it's probably because I killed myself.

2017 Trash Epics October Challenge Results



To some it's a challenge. To others, a competition. But to some of us, the October Challenge is a journey. A journey through the good, the bad, the old and the new of the Horror genre. This was my seventh one, and it shows, as I was very hard up for quality FTVs, especially since I was completely unprepared. But I won't make the same mistake next year.

So, a big thank you to everyone who supported the inaugural October Challenge here on Trash Epics! by far the biggest challenge we've had here, so far.

Goddamn! Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride! At least these days. I actually thought I had this one in the bag for most of the month. But congratulations to Gymnopedie for earning the top spot.


1. Gymnopedie - 106 Films - 90 FTVs

2. Messiah_Of_Doom - 100 Films - 62 FTVs

3. Corpus_Vile - 94 Films - 51 FTVs

4. Johan_WoW - 72 Films - 50 FTVs

5. Ballz - 72 Films - 37 FTVs

6. Ebossert - 60 Films - 31 FTVs

7. Foz - 58 Films - 45 FTVs

8. Triggerhappy6 - 55 Films - 43 FTVs

9. ConditionedResponse - 54 Films - 22 FTVs

10. Shroudoftheimmortal - 53 Films - 41 FTVs

11. Smerd - 42 Films - 32 FTVs

12. BarkingBaphomet - 42 Movies - 16 FTVs

13. Psychotronicbeatnik - 41 Films - 26 FTVs

14. Box_a_Hair - 41 Films - 20 FTVs

15. NoseOfNicko - 35 Films - 18 FTVs

16. Damn_Cyborg - 35 Films - 17 FTVs

17. ZombieCPA - 34 Films - 28 FTVs

18. Tommix - 34 Films - 17 FTVs

19. Onyx_Hades - 33 Films - 23 FTVs

20. Jimb14red & Amon_101 - 31 Films - 28 FTVs

21 BaseBallZombies - 31 Films - 19 FTVs


iceflamez - 25 Films - 18 FTVs

Zombee - 24 Films - 19 FTVs

Brett_Lives - 24 Films - 12 FTVs

Deadandburied81 - 18 Films - 5 FTVs

BloodWank - 16 Films 14 FTVs

Prolelol - 16 Films - 14 FTVs

Markus_San - 12 Films - 11 FTVs

Hazelrigg - 8 Films - 7 FTVs

Klownz - ? - ?


So, now that that's out of the way, let's talk about it. What were your favorite first time viewings of the month? what were your least favorites? Anything at all you have to say about the 2017 October challenge, let's hear it!


My Top 10 favorites

Blood Of The Tribades (2016)
The Appointment (1981)
Blood And Lace (1971)
1922 (2017)
It Stains The Sands Red (2016)
The Babysitter (2017)
Cult Of Chucky (2017)
Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010)
All The Kind Strangers (1974)
Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

10 Least Favorites

Thankskilling 3 (2012)
Gingerdead Man 3 (2011)
Gingerdead Man 2 (2008)
The Gingerdead Man (2005)
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Chopper Chicks In Zombie Town (1989)
Rings (2017)
Can't Take It Back (2017)
Jack Frost (1997)
Uncle Was A Vampire (1959)

My Watchlist

This is my list from imdb of all the shit (mostly horror) that I've been meaning to watch for a while now. Thoughts on any of these titles?

Taken straight from my imdb watchlist:
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur22090910/watchlist

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Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Bad Dreams (1988)
The Beast Must Die (1974)
Body Count (1986)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
The Boogey Man (1980)
The Cannibal Man (1972)
Christmas Evil (1980)
The Church (1989)
Contamination (1980)
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Darkness (1993)
Dead of Night (1977)
The Dead Next Door (1989)
Deadgirl (2008)
Death Spa (1989)
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dracula (1974)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Family Plot (1976)
Frenzy (1972)
Futureworld (1976)
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
God Told Me To (1976)
Golden Years (1991)
Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep (2015)
Humanoids from the Deep (1996)
Jeepers Creepers II (2003)
The Langoliers (1995)
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
The Mangler (1995)
Maniac (2012)
Mark of the Devil (1970)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Mother's Day (1980)
Night School (1981)
Nightmare (1981)
The Night Strangler (1973)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Possession (1981)
Prison (1987)
Reform School Girls (1986)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Screamers (1995)
The Sinful Dwarf (1973)
Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Trilogy of Terror II (1996)
Uncle Sam (1996)
The Undertaker (1988)
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)

Recent viewings - Vampyr (1932) and Night of The Demon (1957)

I last watched two horror classics, both of which are unique and interesting takes on the genre

Vampyr (1932) - 10/10

Could be considered a fairly inaccessible film for the modern viewer, but if you sit down and give this movie it's due then it's very haunting and creepy.

Night of The Demon (1957) - 10/10

I love that demon in Night of The Demon, but it's very true that the movie's strength lies on the power of suggestion, belief and superstition. And seeing the demon appear at the start does undermine that somewhat. But otherwise a fantastic film revolving around the occult.

The Wishmaster series

I made it a point to finish the Wishmaster series for this challenge, seeing as how they're both rated low enough to qualify. Not parts 1 and 2 though... those movies are too good, apparently, rated 5 and up. So what's so great about Wishmaster anyway? And how great is it as a franchise?

https://junkepics.com/film/?title=wishmaster

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Wishmaster (1997) - This is what I would call a Fangoria film. You have all these 80s horror icons bundled into a story about supernatural evil, and plenty of room for blood, guts, and practical effects. However, this is the 90s, and we're also getting some bad CGI.

The Tall Man himself, Angus Scrimm, narrates as it starts off with a prologue in a scene of balls to the wall chaos. People are getting magically murdered by a genie, because this genie is a dick. As expected, he'll twist your wish and steal your soul.

Robert Englund is some museum guy whose artifact resurrects the djinn, and begins killing off an assortment of our beloved horror icons, in various supernatural ways. There's a central female protagonist, there to defeat him. Right? And of course, we even have George Buck Flower, always playing a hobo.

Andrew Divoff plays the main antagonist, and there's something about this guy that makes it work. He looks like a real bastard. In the end, the movie isn't mindblowing, but it's damn sure a lot of fun. Wes Craven "presented" it, which basically means he endorses it, but not necessarily the sequels. It can only go downhill from here, right?

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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999) - The series is already starting to feel direct-to-video at this point. Andrew Divoff returns for no good reason, but we're all for it, because he's got a face you love to hate.

Again, there's a lead female protagonist out to stop him, but it ain't so easy this time around. And there aren't any good horror icon cameos this time around. Yet, they make up for it by having some decent kills. A man stares at his locked prison door and wishes he could walk right through that door, so guess what happens? The djinn takes things pretty literally.

Then, we have the lawyer scene. An inmate wishes his backstabbing lawyer would go fuck himself, so that happens. How exactly, is pretty preposterous. They crop the bottom half of this guy as he's sitting in a desk or something, and his legs go behind him and rotate, and start fucking him. I don't know, I was overthinking it, but it still seemed weird to me, but I still love it.

The film leads to a rampage at a casino, to rival the opening of the first film. This ending is better than all of Leprechaun 3 (which is set in Vegas). Overall, it's a satisfactory entry in the series, which is now officially a series at this point.

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Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001) - This is where the series takes a nosedive, because the script is so generic and dull. IMDB trivia: "Andrew Divoff was set to reprise his role as The Djinn in Wishmaster 3 and had even written an original draft, but the producers didn't like it so they went with Alex Wright's script instead, Andrew hated it and left." He hated it for a reason. It was so dull. I only watched it last night, and I can barely remember it. Of course, I was drunk at the time, but who cares? A bad movie is a bad movie.

The film features A.J. Cook (Out Cold, The Virgin Suicides), and she's wasted in an uninspired screenplay, directed by Chris Angel. Not the mindfreak, though.

The genie isn't as charming without Divoff, so they decided to have him steal someone else's face. Some square who isn't quirky enough. The wishes are all lost in translation, and none of them are really interesting. To make things even worse, there really aren't any good kills in the movie either. What has become of this series? It's only on part 3, and we're looking pretty fucked.

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Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled - This entry was shot back-to-back with Part 3, both of which directed by this Chris Angel guy. Immediately, this doesn't seem promising, but somehow, this entry is a lot more entertaining than the last one.

I think Chris Angel didn't put any effort into the last movie, saving it all for this one. They tried to work some romance into it, and it's okay for the most part. Our next female lead is having hard times with her boyfriend, because he's in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident. She loved fucking this dude, and he hasn't been able to for the last 3 years. Their lawyer is introduced, trying to get them a good settlement out of it, but the good old evil djinn takes this guy's face, and is back to his old, dirty ways... or is he?

He's kinda caught up in a plot twist, which I wont go into out of apathy on the subject, but for some reason, this one didn't rub me the wrong way so much. It actually had a few okay kills in it, and a decent ending, compared to the crap we had in part 3.

In all of these movies, the genie is obviously defeated in some way or another. Like in X-Men, they never kill Apocalypse. They only trap him, and that's the best you can hope for with this guy, too. Like Pinhead from Hellraiser, you really just want him to leave you alone, and hope he doesn't come back to you, because he can't be destroyed. But... seeing as how there aren't any sequels beyond this one (which really surprises me, actually), I guess maybe the djinn does die at the end?

Who are your favorite animal horror heroes?

I just recently watched Bad Moon (1996). Despite the inclusion of name actors Mariel Hemingway and Michael Paré, the true star of the film is Thor, the German Shepherd. His undying devotion to protecting his beloved family is what really made me emotionally involved.

Sleepwalkers (1992) had Clovis the cat. Where the human characters were practically useless, Clovis spent the whole movie kicking ass.

I'm sure there are plenty more I could list that aren't immediately coming to mind. Which are your favorites?

Politics

You want to know how to piss someone off?

Talk politics.

There's a stigma around the subject for a reason. Differing opinions lead to hostile reactions, and people get heated over the dumbest shit.

Is Trash Epics the place to talk politics? Hmm... probably not, because ideologies clash, and we really only want to talk about movies here, but it doesn't change the fact that stupid shit is happening in the world every day, and a lot of these things are becoming increasingly harder to ignore. So, sorry if my drunken rants offend your delicate fucking sensibilities, but I'm not going to apologize for having an opinion.

I'm a reasonable man. My life is governed by simple logic, and practicality. If people are going out of their way to be illogical, then I wont be able to wrap my head around it, and I'm entirely likely to get annoyed by it.

Life is made bearable when people are civil. If I have an opinion that differs from yours, don't just disagree with it and throw in the towel. Use your words, and most importantly, base your thoughts on facts rather than emotions.

I'm a self-declared tool, and I'm more than capable of being wrong. If I'm spouting off dumb shit, tell me. Educate me. Tell me why I'm being asinine, and I'll concede. Don't just trust the Fake News Networks and tell me you hate Trump because he's an orange racist. That's not a valid argument. Facts, I tell you. Facts!

If you hate Trump, that's fine. If you admire Hillary, that's fine. If you think Americans are imperialistic pigs, that's fine. Think whatever you want. It's your opinion, and you're always entitled to it. If life was full of like-minded individuals, it would get boring real fast.


It's okay to a liberal and it's okay to be a conservative. It only becomes a problem when you take it to extremes, and leave your reasoning at the door.

So to any users who've been offput by all this political talk, you're more than welcome to come back and speak your mind. If you think I'm a stupid republican, you wont be ostracized for it, and I'll do my best to keep my dastardly opinions out of your face. Just remember where you are though. You're on Trash Epics, and you can disagree with whoever you want.

Get Out (2017)

Just finished watching Get Out (2017). I did not like this movie at all. I felt it spent the entire runtime making the statement that all white people are racist. Wasn't even subtle about it.

Suggestions for some art-house vampire films, please

I am looking for some good artsy-fartsy vampire films, please. I'm looking to broaden my horizons a bit and explore some other vampire films, vampire films which aren't particularly concerned with action scenes or plot twists. Mostly looking for character studies, I guess. Here are some that I have seen that would fall into that category:

The Addiction (1995)
Martin (1977)
Nadja (1994)
The Hunger (1983)
The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
Habit (1995)
Ganja & Hess (1973)


Movies like these.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Troma catalogue on youtube

An easy way to catch up on this turkey challenge is to turn to our trusted Troma Entertainment. I'd forgotten until now that they have a huge selection of shitty full-length movies on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TromaMovies/

List of Full Movies: (hope this link works)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnfvt0Tjwhq8-7ZsXYAaxVrIjoAyo1NA


Any recommendations from this list? I just watched Nightmare Weekend and Buttcrack. Trying to shoot for some of the less mainstream ones. Too bad there's no imdb rating on there, but plenty of them are short runtimes, so even if the movie sucks, it'll be some easy points.