Curt McGirt

Yeah, that's in every Philly mafia doc. Gruesome. And to wrap around to our original conversation, go figure... it's the Philly news.

Yeah I was WORRIED when they started showing those photos. I was so waiting for the hammer to fall and it thankfully didn't. I hope on the OJ doc they're at least blurring out faces like in mafia docs and stuff.

For a second I thought Funaki was Tenryu.

You gotta love Suzuki corpsing over the whole situation. SEND FOR THE MAN!

Highly doubt we see any of that footage. They'll probably do that "in the shadows" recreation instead. BUT, it looks like we will see that guy get stabbed, so you never know. It was ECW, they wanted a warm body and there was one. He shouldn't have managed to make his way backstage anyway, but he did, so...

https://www.joshwhotv.com/video/14445/the-man-who-saw-frankenstein-cry-paul-naschy-documentary Double dipping here with the Doc thread. A Paul Naschy documentary? Please and thank you! (This also features the not-so-favored John Landis but whatever)

https://www.joshwhotv.com/video/14445/the-man-who-saw-frankenstein-cry-paul-naschy-documentary Hey, check it out, a Paul Naschy documentary!

That was a double venue show so there were a lot of matches. From the looks of it, 3 or 4 seems about right

Soulseek is still awesome.

Thundercage was okay too though it was overly gimmicked in how it transpired. Bossman was the ref and the cage was to keep Harley out. Of course, Bossman gets cuffed to the cage, Harley gets inside and locks everybody else out. Flair makes a big comeback and beats on Vader and Harley, Bossman manages to break the cuffs and calls for the bell as Vader's in the Figure Four. Arn and Steamboat are on the outside and ask Doug Dellinger who is finally showing up with the bolt cutters "where were you?" This felt really short but the crowd was feeling it, right down to the old school "OOOO!"s for every big punch Flair hit. Really surprised nobody juiced here.

Ric Flair vs. Vader (Starrcade '93) You know, I said I didn't watch WCW until the Goldberg era, but I remember this match due to the advertising it got on TV and in print. It seemed like a big deal, that Flair was putting his career on the line against this guy who pretty much epitomizes the Wrestling Monster. When Vader showed up in the WWF I was all-in on him from the jump. However, even though I knew about this match, I'd still never seen it until now. And of course it's pretty damn good. The emotion is built in because it's going down in Charlotte, Flair's adopted hometown. Michael Buffer is out to do the announcements and Flair has his game face on; Vader is out with Harley who's growling away at Flair and sporting a fine mullet from his curly locks. Jesse is announcing with Tony and it reminds me how disappointing is that Jesse is cut out of the WCW and WWF matches on WWE DVD sets due to his feud with McMahon over money. His commentary is great and always welcome. Match itself is methodical, with Vader basically mugging Flair the whole time, and Flair managing to escape when Vader misses a highspot. He almost always comes back immediately with a short lariat and gives Ric absolutely no time to breathe. The whole time he's also yelling at him saying he's not man enough. Harley of course gets his licks in too. Finally though, after the crowd is almost silent watching the beating he's taking, Flair (whos chops and punches have been mostly no-sold) finally puts fists to Vader and drops him to a knee which makes the building erupt. By now his mouth is busted from Leon's vicious shots. Flair takes him outside and pops him with Jesse's plastic chair while Randy Anderson is finagling with Harley. He starts working the leg, gets the Figure Four but Vader gets the ropes; while he's doing that Harley decides to go for a flying headbutt off the top and hits Vader instead. Anderson then tosses Harley out on the ramp! Crowd (and myself) pops big for that. Vader has missed the Vader Bomb and the moonsault so now he's out of tricks. Flair goes back for the Figure Four and it doesn't work, but he manages to take out Vader's knee from behind and does a kind of sloppy rollup to get his shoulders down for the three and the title, and surprisingly kind of hightails it to the back, though he celebrates on the ramp briefly. We go to the back in a minute and Vader is tearing apart the dressing room, punching the lockers and yelling "I WANT IT BACK!!!" Flair meanwhile has his family with him and is emotional. Sting and Steamboat both come back to congratulate him as well to really babyface Ric. Lots of emotion in this one. Flair really played the underdog here and Vader came off as the world destroyer that he was. IIRC in his book Flair said this one was really special to him because he had his whole family there, and take in mind this is before Reid died from an OD, he got remarried for the tenth time, and that Charlotte looks to be all of six or seven years old. Now I'm gonna go watch the Thundercage match they had from SuperBrawl IV because apparently I haven't seen that either.

I forgot about Argento but, uh, there are reasons why. EDIT: We still got Joe Dante too!

I've seen a metric ton of Abby but never noticed that, though I ALWAYS catch him blading himself (multiple times, in every match). Weird. The Hokuto/Kandori match we were talking about in the Secret Santo thread had another bad example as Wally Yamaguchi bladed Hokuto too deep. At first you don't think it's too bad and then you realize "whoa..."

Speaking of which, goddamn that footage of Eddie bleeding out in the Benoit doc was sudden and brutal.

Finished Tiger King.

I didn't see Dead End Drive-In for years and then when I finally did I was disappointed that they didn't end up revolting. I guess the reasons you gave are pretty good, but it's still such a downer.

Goddammit. Who do we have left now? Carpenter and Cronenberg? Sam Raimi? RIP

Every time I see that I think of the Chappelle Show skit where he says "that crazy dancin makin my penis sof'" ? That might've actually been a whack at a prior Apple commercial.

What were the prior picks? I'm feeling at a loss with this one. It might end up being a pretty obvious pick, but so be it.

Shit, these people may have changed their names for all we know. And I wouldn't blame them.

I'm just gonna leave this here as it comes recommended as a New York sleaze picture of the highest caliber. The real name is The Tenement, AKA Game of Survival (which this video is titled), AKA Slaughter in the South Bronx. This is one of the only films rated X solely for violence by the MPAA. Of course there is also a nasty rape scene but you probably expected that. Here's the trailer: Now THAT is Grindhouse. And very NSFW but most of you probably aren't watching from "work" anyway This also features Dan Snow (Cigar Face from The Toxic Avenger) and Paul Calderon (from King of New York/Bad Lieutenant/Pulp Fiction [the bartender] etc.)

As long as Geto Boys still plays during the printer-bashing scene. That should never change.

That footage of Hector Guerrero giving Buh Buh a Ryder Kick through a table was BOSS. Old man clearly did not care about breaking his tailbone. As far as the Undead Realm stuff goes, James put it succinctly: "Who books this shit?" ? Love love love the jacket he was wearing.

Because I have to one-up Eddie in tastelessness: I wonder if the cat suits had buttholes

Yeah gotta admit, I don't know what I would do myself in that situation. I'd like to think that if I felt guilt I'd go no matter what. Vince definitely had a reason in that he didn't want it to blow up in his face any further. It's complicated. However, picking someone as the one person to go as the company rep when you aren't willing to do it yourself... EDIT: You know what, we don't know if Vince made him go or he went on his own so I'm just gonna shut up about it.