In a Violent Nature (2024)

This movie was based on a simple idea. What if an undead slasher was told through the perspective of the villain? So that's our movie. We follow some wronged "slow" person who revives when his bling is taken from his grave site. So, he pulls himself out of hell or wherever and goes on a search for his good luck charm.

The curiosity keeps it interesting for a while. I like seeing what he does and where he goes and how he kills. I had read reviews calling it shallow, but it is what it is. A halfwit brute walking through a series of victims.

It doesn't need to be any deeper than that, and I think it works very well as a Jason clone, and the side characters don't matter. They never matter, because they'll get pwned either way. One girl had one of the most wacky & fucked kills I've ever seen. The girl at the cliff.

What I didn't like was the ending. Or lack thereof. We're all waiting for something on that long road... and nothing happens. I guess Johnny Voorhees doesn't teleport. The climax was hidden in there somewhere, I guess. Then again, that whole epilogue might make it brilliant.

Someone had to make a movie based on that simple aforementioned idea, and it was actually pretty great. A little boring at times, but that keeps it real.

Also, his mask was kinda dumb. He should have kept his peripherals open and skipped the mask, but he is retarded, after all. Retarded killers are my favorite kind of retard.

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The Boogey Man (1980)

Directed by some weird German guy, this movie is all over the place. It feels like it's trying to rip-off a lot of things, but it doesn't know quite which one to focus on. I thought it was Italian at first, but it wasn't dubbed enough.

There's some backstory that traumatizes two kids, who resume the rest of the movie as young adults in the "present". Basically, there's a slasher who appears through reflective surfaces. However, John Carradine advises the heroine on how to progress this story, while at the same time telling her it's all in her head. They put that old fart in there to make it a credible horror film, but it doesn't matter. This film would have been awesome with or without him.

Awesome is a strong word. I was invested enough, not to the characters and plot, but to the vibes and weirdness of it. Like how they keep showing you the mirrors over and over again as if reminding you that the killer is using mirrors to do his thing. In case the viewer didn't catch that the other dozen times it happens in the movie. This movie thinks its audience is dumb, and I am.

This movie is shallow. It thinks it's original, but it's really just... an Amityville clone! That's the twist ending, because it turned out the house was a rip-off of the Amityville, with its glowing eyes. Remember in the first Amityville when he window comes down on the kid's fingers? Well, in this movie, the window comes down on some dickhole kid's neck. That scene right there really brought this movie up from a 2/5 to a 4/5. It added depth and meaningful social commentary.

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Death Ship (1980)

A happy cruise ship experiences technical difficulties. Probably because it was piloted by that dumb fuck George Kennedy. Only a handful of survivors are left to crawl aboard some abandoned Nazi torture ship from decades ago. And guess what? This ship is haunted!

As the merry band of heroes navigate the ship, it randomly kills them in dumb, psychic ways. It threw Saul Rubinek overboard before he could ever make his war epic Coming Home in a Body Bag.

Fortunately, this Nazi ship didn't account for one thing. One of the passengers on board was Richard Crenna. Colonel Trautman to some, That other guy from Rambo to others.

I fell asleep during the third act, but I'm pretty sure it played out exactly like this: The psychic ship read Trautman's mind and she knew that Rambo would come to blow her to bits if she fucked with his homeboy Trautman, so she let him go.

What I don't understand is how they can even call it an Expend4bles movie when Stallone wasn't even there on the boat with them in that movie. And most of the movie was on that boat. It was Statham and a few other cunts trying to avenge Barney's^Rambo's death. So Stallone never even got to fight the Death Ship, but it was the threat of war that had caused the death ship to surrender because it faced its own mortality. The End.

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The First Omen (2024)

The first original Omen from 1976 is a classic. Very ominous and unsettling all the way through, so where do you go next? The second film was a rehash that bears a mild charm, and the third one confused everyone with its disregard for any relevant timeframe. How is Damien born in 1976 an adult in 1981?

Honestly, forget the sequels. Although part 4 is mildly amusing and apparently a heavy influence on a plot thread of this movie, but ask most people and they'll agree, "There was a part 4?"


So our story solidifies the original film's setting by opening 5 years before it, in 1971. It features a to-be nun in Italy who runs into increasingly familiar territory for franchise fans. Reviews are somewhat mixed, but I was expecting way worse. I think the director of this movie might have actually been a fan of the original or something. Weird.

Also, this movie wasn't full of jump-scare BS, which pleased me plenty. Instead, it decided to build up a story and pace itself. I only zoned out a few times, but I was pretty happy that the movie wasn't shitting on the original. It actually stood on its own two feet. Mostly. There were obvious homages here and there, and they thought we wouldn't notice how they stole the ending of part 4. I'm pretty sure part 4 exists, people!

I give this movie 3 sixes out of 5.

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge 2024 - RESULTS

Welcome to this year's Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge.

You get one point per minute watched of any sci-fi or fantasy movie or TV series. The challenge starts at 12:00 AM September 1st and ends at 11:59 PM September 30th.

Make your SPOT below!



2017 - https://trashepics.com/post/7/11/
2018 - https://trashepics.com/post/9/211/
2019 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/73/
2020 - https://trashepics.com/post/1/748/
2021 - https://trashepics.com/post/102/19/
2022 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/101/
2023 - https://trashepics.com/post/8/102/

NECA Figures

I find that as I get closer to a mid-life crisis, the more juvenile I seem to be getting. All I've been doing this month is watching kiddie cartoons like TMNT '87 and thinking about costumes and action figures.

I think the NECA toys are really cool. A lot of attention to detail. So far, I have: Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Gill-Man, H2 Michael Myers, Dr. Loomis, and Ghostface. I shouldn't waste my money on these things, but I will.

Reign (2013)

I haven't posted in a while, but here is my latest useless contribution. I watched Reign. It was like someone took the dragons, etc... and excitement out of Game of Thrones and replaced it with feminism. I don't know why I finished the series, but I did and it was not good, but I for some reason liked it.

Furiosa (2024)

I was skeptical about this one. Not only was I not impressed with the character in Fury Road, but 2.5 hours long? Sheesh. Theaters booted it quickly for some damn reason, so it's probably rubbish, right?

Honestly... it was pretty damn good. The wasteland has never looked better. A visual feast with loads of action that somehow doesn't get boring. Seriously, how can a movie about constant car chases stay entertaining? I don't know, but it does.

I was surprised that Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't appear until about an hour in. That only leaves her with a mere 90 minutes of screentime. Gay. But she teams up with some Max-knockoff who looks like Stacy Keach. He's even got the lip thing going. There's a lot of connection to Fury Road with the citadel and Immortan Joe, but the timeline is still bogus. George Miller doesn't care much for the chronology and timeline of the movies, so why should we?

Since we're at that point where we've had one spin-off, I'm guessing this is intended to spawn a universe of endless dystopian car and desert hijinks. Low performance here indicates otherwise, so will the Mad Max universe fade away when George Miller does?

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Total Recall (2012)

This remake is just like the 1990 movie, except there aren't any mutants and it isn't set on Mars.

Wait, what? So instead, we're on Earth and there's a lot of robots and some conspiracy going on. I zoned out a lot in the later half, but I still don't know what the cover-up was. It was much more clear in the original movie, in which Arnold gives one of his most sincere and emotional lines ever:

Come on, Cohaagen! You've got what you want. Give doz people ay-uh!

They wanted to tax people for air, but in this one? Fuck if I know why anything was happening. All I know is that it was directed by Len Wiseman, which explains why Quaid's "wife" (Kate Beckinsale) is in a lot more of the movie.

Total Recall? I'll forget this whole mess by tomorrow.

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