Was Lovecraft really that great?

I should start by saying that Re-Animator is a top 5 movie of all time for me. So I can't really disparage all that he's done. I also love From Beyond and Dagon. And that's about it. So I guess it's really only Stuart Gordon's adaptations of his works that I like.

As far as his writings, I find it difficult to get through an entire sentence without falling asleep. Now this stuff was written like a hundred years ago, so you might just be able to say that it was a different time, and writing was different back then. It's just my modern millennial brain that can't comprehend the nuances or whatever.

But here's the thing. The things I always see Lovecraft praised for, is how he can't even describe what his monsters look like. People are always saying how great his work is because he leaves it up to your imagination. Saying shit like, "it was so horrifying that it was beyond description."

I'm sorry, but how the fuck is that good writing? You're not even able to describe the thing you're talking about? What if I were to tell a joke, and instead of giving you a punchline, I just told you that the conclusion was so funny I couldn't even describe it? Would you laugh? That's a bunch of fucking bullshit! A writer's job is to describe things. Just telling the reader to make it up themselves is as lazy you can possibly get.

2023 Trash Challenge Results 

No offense, but after watching some of you motherfuckers bastardizing this challenge with so many mainstream movies, I felt I had no choice but to destroy you all. I'm sure you understand. I appreciate your participation, nonetheless, and hope you join me for Trash Challenge VIII.

Tromafreak - 516 Points
Ballz - 231 Points
Box_A_Hair - 174 Points
OnyxHades - 133 Points
NoseOfNicko - 91 Points
Zed - 78 Points
Deferenz - 73 Points
ZombieCPA - 26 Points
Johan_WoW - 16 Points
Markus-San - 7 Points

Any recs or warnings? Any worthwhile discoveries or garbage movies you feel even the extra point didn't make it worth it?

Early on, I watched a pretty sweet Italian exploitation movie called Beastiality which included some pretty funny dog fucking. Glad I listened to Onyx and put in that Beastiality point.

Emanuelle: Queen Of The Desert was a pleasant surprise. As was Zombie VIII. Zombie Ass: Toilet Of The Dead wasn't bad, although, got a a tad silly for my taste.

Fuck Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2.
Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 sucked.
Birdemic 3 was a letdown. It's basically the original movie all over again, but not in a good way.Vampire On Bikini Beach was some worthless bullshit.

So, in closing, I watched a woman fuck a dog, a cannibal fuck a hog, several people fuck their parents against their will, a degenerate suck his own dick, Tommy Chong piss on a cop's leg, several buttholes get fingered, Otis throw a tantrum over a broken video camera, Divine get raped by a giant lobster, Chesty Morgan murdering some dudes with her uncomfortably large sacks of chest fat. Plus, some retards did stuff. Clearly a very productive month for me. How 'bout you?

Dead Dicks (2019)

A man keeps failing at suicide, because every time he dies, he is reborn through the big vagina on his wall. He and his sister are having trouble disposing of his dead bodies, as they keep piling up.

Recommended for lovers of the bizarre. Now playing on Tubi.

Movies with Mock Commercials for products or for other (non-existent) movies

Sorry, I've been a little over-caffeinated lately, just in general... I need to get that under control, and resume my normal, fairly sedate pace of posting stuff.

But, what are some movies that fit the above description? I can think a few right away, but there must be a lot that I don't know about.

Here's my starter list:

-- The Running Man
-- Robocop
-- The Stuff (of course. Basically the whole movie).
-- Blow Out (1981, the John Travolta movie) (if you look at the walls of John Travolta's workplace, posters are visible for several imaginary early 80s horror movies. I just vaguely remember that they were sort of clever).
-- M3gan
-- Repo Man (1984)(well, sort of. Not really, but Repo Man mocks the entire idea of advertising and brand names for anything. In the scenes in stores, there are canned goods with white paper wrappers that just say "Food," Drink," etc).
-- Shaun of the Dead (towards the end, they show Shaun channel surfing after the apocalypse has been brought under control, and the zombies are semi-domesticated. They have ads for a few imaginary TV shows involving tamed zombies).

I'm sure I'm missing some really big ones. Anybody have anything that leaps to mind?

Animation mini-challenge - Easter 2023

It's that annoying wonderful time of the year for parents like me when kids are off school for the Easter holidays so hey what better way to keep them occupied by watching some cartoons together - kiddy suitable of course, or otherwise...

Rules:

- You get one point per minute watched.

- All forms of animation count, including live action mixed with animation, i.e. Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

- Feature length, TV shows, shorts - they all count.

- The challenge will run from 00:00 1st April and last until 23:59 on Sunday 16th April - But it can always be extended if folks wish.

Mark your SPOT below!

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Early 2000s HBO Series...

was the golden age for cable tv. Many actors got their start or recognition from these shows at the time. Besides James Gandolfini becoming a star due to The Sopranos there were many others. Micheal C. Hall's role in Six Feet Under got him the starring lead in Dexter. Timothy Olyphant broke thru from starring in Deadwood which later got him Justified. It also resurrected Ian McShane's career. Rome had a great cast that many found themselves later cast in Game of Thrones. Ray Stevenson was the standout as Titus Pullo imo and Kerry Condon was just nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Banshees of Inshiren. I have often stated here I'm a big fan of Carnivale which imo is Clancy Brown's greatest role easily. Deadwood, Rome and Carnivale were all cut short, not for reasons of viewership ratings but due to the cost of making them. They are all period pieces with Deadwood taking place soon after the Civil War, Rome during ancient times and Carnivale during the Great Depression. CGI was still new and extremely expensive at the time so they actually went the way of building the sets and using props which shows and you just no longer see today. Anyways, I highly recommend to everyone here to invest the time in watching Deadwood, Rome and Carnivale...you won't be disappointed and it's a hell of a lot better than anything HBO has put out in years imo.

Trash Challenge VII: Herschell's Goin' To Heaven



We live in a world subject to constant change. Every second of every minute of every hour, changes take place. These changes are perhaps invisible to us because our level of awareness is limited. Take for example how the things we do and say to the people we meet, all these things affect our lives, influence our destinies... And yet there seems to be some kind of fantastic order to the whole thing. We never know how or when we will meet a person who will become a catalyst, or who will lead us to one. What is a catalyst? Well, in this case, a catalyst is a person who will bring about change. They could be good or bad... but there will be changes. You can meet one almost anywhere in your everyday life. In the supermarket, drug store, anywhere. Even riding down the Florida turnpike. A pretty girl with a problem. Who could resist? Certainly not Herschell... --Brad F. Grinter


Welcome to the 2023 Trash Challlenge!

As always, it'll be one point for every trashy quality below. It doesn't have to be a significant amount of anything. As long as it's there.

Nudity

Gore

Rape

Hardcore Penetration

Incest

Drug Use

Cannibalism

Intentionally Bad Qualities

Video Nasties - Any movie to ever appear on this list.

SOV - Anything shot-on-video from the 80's and 90's, or beyond, if you know of anything.

Beastiality

Necrophilia

Racism - One point for racist characters, or any type of blatant racism expressed.

Retards - Any characters who appears to be mentally handicapped is good for a point.

Garbage Point - One point earned if you genuinely hate the movie and have a difficult time making it through.

FTV (First Time Viewing)

Pleasure Point - One point earned for each orgasm you provide for yourself whilst viewing a trash epic.

And then, there's the Trifectas. Instead of using directors and series, the Trash Challenge trifectas are all about the classic Exploitation sub genres.

Sexploitation, Blaxploitation, Drugsploitation, Hixploitation, Hippiesploitation, Nazisploitation, Bikersploitation, Canuxploitation, Ozploitation, Nunsploitation, Bruceploitation, Fowlsploitation, Rape/Revenge, Lezbo-Vamp, Women In Prison, Jungle Cannibal Epics, Mondo/Shockumentaries, Nudie Cuties/Nudist Camp, Giallos, J-Sploitation/Pink, Hong Kong CAT:III, Throwbacks

3 in a row from any of the above sploitations will count as a trifecta. A movie can only count towards one trifecta.

Single Trifecta - 5 points

Double Trifecta - 7 points

Triple Trifecta - 9 points

Etc.

Films must run no less than 40 minutes to count.

This challenge will be for the month of March.

Good fucking luck!




I https://trashepics.com/post/9/105/
II https://trashepics.com/post/9/186/
III https://trashepics.com/post/9/229/
IV https://trashepics.com/post/9/236/
V https://trashepics.com/post/9/247/
VI https://trashepics.com/post/9/254/

John Wick: Episode IV - A New Hope

These movies have gone a little off the rails, huh? By the time we get around to this one, he's basically unstoppable. You have to turn your brain off to accept that he can get hit by a car a dozen times, fall off high buildings, and get shot and stabbed several times... and still keep going. There is no stopping him, because the box office is good. And the critic reviews are good. And the fan reviews are good too?

As Keanu says as his first of many^{very few} lines in the movie, "Yeah."

It is a fun movie to watch, even at that god forsaken runtime. It's the same old story as every other movie, what with the high councils, the ultimatums, the heavy bounties, and a massive body count. It doesn't matter so long as you have that last part. John Wick kills a lot of people.

The fight choreography is great. That's what we're all watching for anyway, and there's this cool top-down single-take fight scene that seems like it's being played in a video game. Pretty cool. Blind Asian Man and Black Guy with a dog are decent characters, Clancy Brown barely does anything, and Skarsgard is an asshole. Ian McShane is in a fair amount, but Lance Reddick has a very minimal role.

To all you boppers out there, there was a huge Warriors reference. "Nowhere to run to baby, yeah! Nowhere to hide!"

Since it makes money, they want to spin this off however they can. I'm not sure I care to see spin-offs, because it's going to become retarded like Fast & Furious at the rate it's going, so this entry would be a perfect place to stop watching and leave on a high note.

#Review

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (Part IX) 2021

In 2017, the series came full circle with a sequel that was also a prequel. It didn't have a number on it because things gets more laughable the higher the number goes, and this series was already getting exhausted at that point. As that one "ends", Jigsaw killer John Kramer is still dead, but only after having masterminded 8 over-complicated torture sprees upon the diagnosis of his cancer. If he had spent as much time seeking treatments, he probably wouldn't have needed to be such an asshole, but then you wouldn't have all this fine art, huh?

But fuck him. This movie finally moves beyond him and goes with another copycat. One with no connection to him other than his amazing engineering skills and sadistic tendencies. Chris Rock is a detective who gets caught up in this mess, which also involves his father Sam Jackson. As the story plays out, this "spin-off" veers more and more into familiar territory as the movie turns into more and more of the same-old same-old we Saw before. And of course, there has to be twist endings, right?


What I really hate about these movies is their "To Be Continued" vibes. They feel like episodes of some pretentious crime drama show, only with graphic torture to appeal to "horror fans". These films exemplify the term "Torture Porn" because they're more endurance tests than quality narrative and execution. The writing process revolves completely around torture methods, and there's never any optimism. Just about everyone tortured is tortured fatally, with no real desire for redemption in these characters, but rather the justification that they'll die horrible deaths. Glorified snuff shorts of sorts, and that's not exactly horror. It's not exactly fun. It's not exactly clever. And it's not exactly good. I find this whole series to be a rather low point for mainstream horror, and I don't pariticularly care for it.


SPOILERS

And of course, the cops had to shoot the black man at the end. I think this movie has a bit of a political agenda to it, which is probably why Chris Rock and Sam Jackson's liberal ass wanted to get involved. If all the sequels before had b-grade actors at most, then suddenly these more rich celebs get involved? And the timing after Floyd? 🤔

END SPOILERS


Of course they set it up for a sequel. All these endings are like that, implying that this dreadful series will go on forever. Some things need to end. Especially this review.

#Review

Trump Presidency rating

As you know I was hoping for a win for the Trumpster , I'll use this post as a record to see if in 4 years time, he has kept to his main promises.

1. Build a beautiful 55' high wall and make the mexicans pay for it
2. Drain the swamp, eg Senators limited to 2 terms
3. Increase median Wages above inflation
4. Decrease unemployment rate
5. Decrease government debt currently $19.818 trillion
6. Deport 2 Million people in the first hour of his Precidency
7. Impose 45% tariff on chinese goods
8. Ban muslims from entering the USA
9. Lock Clinton up
10. Personally become one of the 100 richest americans for the first time