Lucifer Valentine's Vomit Gore Movies

Thoughts?

If the aim is to repulse, then the movies definitely succeed.

In a way, that's something that a lot of horror doesn't achieve anymore.

They're even better when reviewed by a German!

Challenge of the Apes - Progress Thread

Now with New & Improved Bonuses! (see below in red)

This is where you'll keep track of your progress on Challenge of the Apes. Q&A and discussion can be found here:
https://trashepics.com/post/7/6/

General Info:

Please be sure you record the running time of what you watch and keep a running total of your points. Points are awarded based on running time of whatever you watch plus bonuses.

The Challenge of the Apes begins July 1st and ends at midnight on July 31st (based on whatever the time zone where you live).

What Counts?
Watch any film, short or TV show with apes or monkeys in it.
Read any book set in the Planet of the Apes or Kong universes (see bonuses below).

Bonuses awarded for the following:

Watch the original five Planet of the Ape films (POTA ('68), Beneath the POTA, Escape From the POTA, Conquest of the POTA, & Battle For the POTA) = 50 point bonus.
Watch the more recent extra crispy POTA films (Burton's POTA, Rise of the POTA, Dawn of the POTA & War For the POTA) = 50 bonus points.
Watch the 14 episodes of the POTA TV series from 1974 = 50 point bonus
Watch the 13 episodes of the animated Return to the POTA TV series = 50 point bonus

Watch any five Kong films from this official list and get a 50 point bonus.
EDIT: Since there are now twelve films on the list you can cherrypick and get this bonus twice:
KK (1933)
Son of Kong
KK vs. Godzilla
KK Escapes
King Kong (1976)
King Kong Lives
The Mighty Kong
King Kong (2005)
Kong: Skull Island
Queen Kong
Kong: King of Atlantis
Kong: Return To the Jungle


Read any novel or collection of short stories or comics set in either the POTA or Kong Universe and get a 50 point bonus! Each of the movie bonuses can only be claimed once but the reading bonus can be claimed for each book you read.

Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

The original is a classic.

Bride of Re-Animator I do enjoy quite a bit.

The third entry is the weak entry of the series but they still remained very creative with the special effects. I still enjoyed the film.

What do you think of it?

I liked it...what other terrible movies do you suggest?

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(No, I don't really think this is a terrible movie, I own the 2-disc Tromasterpiece edition for crying out loud)

Fair-themed horror movies

The county fair was this past week where I live so I got to thinking about fair-themed horror movies. The two main ones I can think of are The Funhouse and Strangers on a Train. Carnival of Souls maybe fits to a point, since it was centered around an abandoned amusement park.

There has to be many others I don't know about.

Your thoughts on As Above, So Below (2014) ?

Obviously, I remember when As Above, So Below was out, but I have never seen it. I blind bought it today - it was only cheap. The reviews are quite mixed, from what I read.

Anyone seen it? What did you think of it?

Transgenders

This stuff pisses me off. Trump said no trans in the military, and people are angry about it. The military doesn't let anyone in who needs medication, and they need hormones. A lot. People think it's all about his intolerance, but it's all about practicality. We don't need a bunch of special-needs people in the military, demanding special treatment.

@der was telling me how Obama created a loophole to let people join the military to get gender reassignment surgery, while serving no real time in there, AND getting paid for it. All this gender-identity stuff is pure garbage, and it's just another way for people to claim that they're oppressed.

Now, facebook is trying to censor some website from using "tranny" and "cross dresser". This is getting ridiculous. Those are some of my favorite words!

Dreamhome (2010)



Any love for this one? One of the better satyrical horrors i have seen, some fantastic gore effects which was an extra bonus.

The Frog and Peach

completely self indulgent, been watching some Cook n Moore so thought i'd share

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) Review

Watched Horrors of Malformed Men (1969). Striking from the start, as striped spiders crawl on a web while the credits flash in bold, coloured panes. Then a fake knife attack in a mental asylum, exposed breasts, a scary bald man, a fight with and killing of a scary bald man, and an asylum escape. This is just an introduction to the main character, a medical student seeking his forgotten childhood, going on memories of wave crashed rocks and a lullaby. Things really get going when he impersonates a dead man (everyone knows the man died so he pretends to have risen from his grave). And this isn't even half way through. Pretty much just set up. As the title suggests, there are malformed men too, Butoh dancers in post apocalyptic gear and bizarro make up/prosthetics. One has their buttocks sewn to a goat. There is, it is fair to say, a lot going on in this film...

The Synapse DVD makes some pretty bold claims for this one. "Banned for decades! The most notorious Japanese horror film ever made" and such. Actually, as the liner notes explain, it fell out of favour for a while due to its political incorrectness and nobody saw it much for a while. The original Japanese title is apparently considerably stronger and more pejorative than Horrors of Malformed Men, and the film is not exactly wholesome in its treatment. Also, I might speculate on disquiet linked to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and their after-effects, or even Dr Shiro Ishii and his deeds at Unit 731. But, as can be told all the performers are able bodied, no exploitation took place in the making. And its pretty difficult to take this as anything other than insane pulp (it's an adaptation of tales by Edogawa Rampo), there's nothing really to connect it to reality. Also, its nowhere near as tasteless (or frankly, foul) as many films in the pinku eiga/roman porno boom that came a few years after, or as gruesome as any vintage era or 80's onward torture pictures or as disturbing as fellow 60's Rampo adaptation Blind Beast, or some of Koji Wakamatsu's work that decade.

So, its not so imposing. But is it good? Well, it does enough. Made on a decent budget, with mostly good raw old school film-making talent (editing and compositions on point), this is pretty impressive for a number of stretches. Striking colours, vivid, perverse visual imagination, uneasy score to match, fine choreography, at times images flow and bodies whirl like a fever dream of a madman transposed straight to celluloid, the effect is mesmerising, thrilling, joyful. Plot is as wild as the visuals and there's a good deal of sleaze too. So its pretty essential for weird cinephiles. But on the minus side, only the villain really engages, the lead and most other characters remain rather flat and bland throughout, so there are definite dips in interest when events slow down around the middle of the film. Also, the out of control plotting is resolved with climactic exposition dumps, a method which I feel generally only works at the theatre with excellent performers. And in general there's a nagging feeling of inconsequentiality. There's a lack of weight here, of real purpose or meaning, and so like a painting with inferior primer, the images don't all stick as well as they should. A few years ago I would probably have loved this dearly, nowadays I'm left still a little hungry. But still, I enjoyed it on the whole. My criticisms shouldn't be taken to heart. Well worth watching if it sounds like your cup of tea.