Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I've watched it a few times on cable recently. I keep thinking, it's kind of funny how they make everything SOOOOOO stereotypically Texan, in the first part of the movie, until the part where Chop Top and Leatherface show up at the radio station and... you know.

Anyway, I keep noticing little thing they threw in there, to make it all seem more Texan. One character says something about some "old boys" he knows... plenty of people are wearing cowboy hats, of course... the female radio DJ, who is also the final girl/woman, has a doozy of an accent. I don't know enough about this to know for sure that it's a Texas accent, as opposed to just general south/southwest, but HOO BOY what an accent she has. There's one scene where they show a marching band marching down the street, playing patriotic music, for no reason that I can see. That chili contest seemed pretty Texan to me (not the implied cannibalism, of course (I hope)).

Also, Chop Top is probably the first role that Bill Moseley made an impression on people with, so it's a cool movie to watch just for that reason. Hey, some people were just talking about Vincent Price on the Shout board here today... VP and Bill Moseley both went to Yale. So, whatever, that's just kind of interesting.

Anyone have anything to say about this? Do any Texans here LIKE the Texas-ness of the movie??? Or is it just irritating and stereotypical and incorrect? I have no idea.

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Zombillenium (graphic novel)

Is anyone here a fan of this?
https://www.amazon.com/Zombillenium-Gretchen-Arthur-Pins/dp/1561637343

I just saw it the other day in a library. It was actually the French edition that I saw. I didn't even try very hard to read it, because I assumed it would be full of incomprehensible French slang... the next time I'm in that library, I will give it another shot. I should be able to read it at least a little... I was forced to learn French fairly well in school, kicking and screaming, totally against my will, by teachers who are lucky I didn't run amok and kill.

Anyway, it looked interesting. The art is really cool to look at. Any thoughts??

Top 3 favorite action movies of all time

Rambo
Commando
Die Hard

How do you dress?

Me, very simple and casual. T-shirts and shorts. I like shirts that are earthy in color and have skulls on them. Shorts are usually cargos. Love camo shorts especially. I buy clothes from Wal-Mart, Target and Ross. I can't bare to spend more than $10 on a shirt. My shoes are a mix of Nike sneakers, Chuck Taylors and some Vans. Around the house I'm always in a shirt that I've cut the sleeves off of and basket ball shorts. I guess I kind of dress like a teenager, but I love maximum comfort at all times; I cannot stand feeling restricted. Only in the coldest of temperatures will I ever even think of putting jeans on. Oh yeah, I also like to wear baseball caps a lot.

What about YOU?

Curse of the Worst

2016 was a bad year for cultural icons passing, esp those involved in music or film. Best of the Worst is an online show from Red Letter Media, where some guys watch 3 shitty movies n drink beer n talk shit about them. Some of the folk they mentioned died.

...but not Wilfred Brimley!

Vampires or Werewolves?

Which do you prefer?

Werewolves for me.

But obviously you can't have horror without vampires.

In fact if you research the origins of mythology for both of them you'll find they were both created out of the same folklore.

R.I.P. Radley Metzger

2nd in an ongoing series of what I hope will be very irregular posts. I'll try and give notice to some of the overlooked passings of figures deserving of trash recognition.

This time I'm here to note the passing of the sexploitation pioneer, Radley Metzger. I've enjoyed all of his films - his artier ones he did under his own name as well as the porn he directed under the nom de plume, Henry Paris (Henree Paree - dig it!). Metzger approached all his films with an artistic eye, a willingness to let the eroticism unfold slowly then building to mutiple climaxes, and a great sense of humour. He dabbled with some risqué subjects such as bi males, S/M, and bondage. If you've never seen one of his films you should check them out. There's one for just about every taste and all the ones I've seen are fun as well as erotic. He deserves to be remembered.

"When I was coming of age, eroticism was always in films, but eroticism was punished. The promiscuous girl never got the leading man, the woman who sold her charms, always had a bad fate. The "good girl" always achieved ends the bad girl never did. As a reaction to that, I tried to do the opposite. You could have a free attitude and behave in a free way and not be punished. A parallel to that is that it could also be light. It didn't have to be tragedy. You could look at [sex] in a fun way. That was a personal thing, to work against the clichés in cinema when I was growing up."
- from a January 8, 2014 interview with Metzger in Cinedelphia.

R.I.P. Radley Metzger (January 21, 1929 - March 31, 2017)

2017 Trash Challenge Results

Well, that was just fucking awesome, wasn't it? I do believe I have a new favorite challenge. In fact, I actually considered extending it an extra month. So much more I wanted to fit in, but I ended up spending most of the challenge earning Giallo and Bikersploitation trifectas.

So, tell me, everybody. What was your favorite film of the month? What was your least favorite? And what would you say was the trashiest film you watched?

I got myself a new favorite Giallo since watching Your Vice Is A Locked Door And Only I Have The Key. Masterpiece, imo. Best FTV of the year, so far.

Least favorite? That'd be Herschell Lewis' Black Love. The all African American fuck Documentary. I don't know how to explain why I didn't like it without coming off as a total racist. Let's just say it didn't do anything for me.

And the honor of "biggest piece of trash" has to go to John Water's Multiple Maniacs, which I got a whopping 7 points for. Woulda been 8, had it been an FTV.

And the winner of the first ever Trash Challenge is none other than IMDb's own master of challenges, himself. Psychotronicbeatnik. Enjoy your victory, pally, cuz next year's going to me!


Psychotronicbeatnik - 71 Films, 229 Points 🖕

Tromafreak - 56 Films - 187 Points

Smerd - 26 Films, 99 Points

Triggerhappy6 - 25 Films, 80 Points

Fozmalucachu - 24 Films, 76 Points

Peeptoad - 20 Films, 74 Points

OnyxHades - 17 Films, 73 Points

Box_A_Sperm - 21 Films, 67 Points

Avira - 19 Films, 59 Points

Ballz - 13 Films, 42 Points

BarkingBaphomet - 22 Films, 40 Points

NoseOfNicko - 14 Films, 37 Points

Brett_Lives - 7 Films, 33 Points

slasherfan85 - 10 Films, 28 Points

AlcoholicNinja - 5 Films, 13 Points


Thanks to everyone who participated. I never thought there'd be a challenge on Trash Epics. Much less a successful one.

Horror/Thriller movies based on reality shows/live

Some examples i recall watching :


My Little Eye (2002)
Kolobos (1999)
Girlhouse (2014)

There must be more out there, right?