Curt McGirt

The first thing that came to mind when I read that was Polanski's Repulsion.

Bearer getting busted open by Taker in the Cell while Mankind and Kane are desperately trying to get inside on (I think) the Raw before KOTR is another favorite Taker memory. Taker hits him with the stairs and he blades and I lost it. The funny thing is you'd think Kane could just rip the cage door off like at Badd Blood. On the AC/DC tip, I woke up with "TNT" playing in my head. Turned on the TV and they're playing "TNT" on some AXSTV AC/DC special! Didn't even have to change the channel. Weird. Maybe I left the TV on and that was a replay and my sleeping brain had already sucked it in.

I don't want to think about her at all and comparing her to Hash is sinful no matter the similarity.

Oh, yes. You don't have something like that without a good dancing partner and them and the cronies with the iron bars and meathooks were more than just capable, they were downright amazing. The footwork of the one dude is beyond me.

Re: Contentious films I thought about this at work tonight. The horror-comedy thing is one thing, but let's consider something else and let me give some examples. The Devils by Ken Russell could easily, IMO, fall under the horror category. It features disgusting dead bodies from the jump, scenes of excruciating torture, hallucinations, mad revelries, is a story about a man getting crushed under an oppressive government and religion for no reason except he stands alone and has a measure of personal power. Truly, a horrifying thing. The film is set during the time of the Spanish Inquisition and is based on a real person. It's horrifying (and blasphemous enough to STILL be banned from re-release by Warner Bros. decades later), yet it's an Art Film (TM), and technically an Historical Drama. BUT! What about Witchfinder General? Set in the warring days of Cromwell-era England and of the witch trials when Matthew Hopkins was riding high, it shares a similar theme. Also ostensibly an Historical Drama, and also a solid Revenge Film, it is also bleak, horrifying, incredibly intense, bloody, and to top it all off has one of the great horror actors and indeed great actors ever in Vincent Price playing Matthew Hopkins. In the days of the video store, this would be filed under Horror for that last fact alone, though it never got a proper video release to my knowledge. And a third argument: Mark of the Devil. This time we're in 18th Century Austria and people are still hunting and killing "witches". Another Historical Drama, but far, far lower-brow. Extreme scenes of torture abound, some of which are quite infamous. The name value of Herbert Lom and actual talent of him, Reggie Nalder, and a very young Udo Kier aren't enough to save this from being dumped right under Horror because that's what it is: Horrible. Do all of these count? They technically fall under the genre of something like Barry Lyndon, but their extremity takes them elsewhere. To make further comparison, because Straw Dogs freaks out and sickens you is that horror? Nobody is probably willing to make that argument. Psycho is a "Psychological Thriller" (studio code term for Horror/Suspense) but in the video stores if it wasn't under Horror it was in the Classics section, only because it was Hitchcock and in black and white. Silence is a "Psychological Thriller" yet it's full of utterly terrifying villains, skinned people, a head in a jar, a disembowelment, etc. which means it's as much of a Physical Horror Film as a "Psychological Thriller". Anyway, I'm rambling now, but these were some thoughts on the subject. I still say we should go for whatever floats everyone's boat and argue about it later.

Goddamn does the Drunken Master II ending still rule so hard. Jackie is a madman. Brass Knuckle Monday is Serenity and Jonah Hex? That's... different. There's an action marathon coming up with Sudden Death, Street Fighter, Lock Stock, Pulp Fiction, and something else I'm blanking on; V is playing again on Saturday. I'm actually looking forward to that because I never caught the whole thing even when they did that marathon.

This one's gonna be purely subjective on my part, not what's scariest or whatnot. Zombie and Inferno are gonna be in my top 10-15, like em or not.

Turns out we screwed up both titles. They're "Night They Missed the Horror Show" and "Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back".

You can see Frank tell that joke at the end of the Johnny clip

How about the fans only getting that much time and the match ending on a foreign... excuse me, this is WCW, international object strike in a freakin steel cage match where ostensibly that should be legal? That AND they drove through a blizzard. At least the crew were getting paid.

How the hell that pitcher didn't know Don Rickles walking up to him is beyond me. RIP. We won't get another like him anytime soon.

I'm drawing the line on horror comedy at The Return of the Living Dead, Dead Alive, and Bad Taste. Shaun isn't gonna be on mine. It's just not dark enough. And contrary to Jodie Foster, the studio, and unfortunately Rippa's opinion, The Silence of the Lambs is definitely a horror film. Manhunter I can make a go for just because it's so dark and so good. Red Dragon might've been gorier but it didn't have the emotional resonance of Manhunter. Really overall, my opinion is make it a free-for-all, and be prepared to be mocked and argue over why you inserted 'X' into your list. EDIT: Side note, speaking of dark, you'd be surprised how much darker and more 'horror' Young Frankenstein feels watching it on the big screen.

Not yet, I'm halfway through both collections and I think that's the last one in High Cotton. It's all disturbing enough, especially "Stitches in the Back of a Dead Man", that one really fucked me up.

Whew. New one makes next one look like they are in some reaaaaaal deep shit. This is getting into some True Detective (season one) territory for anyone enamored with that who wants to check it out. And after getting through half of High Cotton and Bumper Crop, this is tame for Lansdale

...and professional grinner.

Now I know what Anaal Nathrakh means. Coincidentally a member of the same-named band used to post here (or still does?)

Oofta. I remember the Whipwreck match that he went out on being really violent too, but doing the Rock thing right before starting WWF is on another level of stupid/crazy. Sabu driving around in an RV, smearing hotel walls in shit, and still doing what he's done since he started his career in and out of the ring has to be up there. And then there's Jeff Jarrett. But that's delusional, not crazy.

I absolutely love that piano version. It needs to be the main theme for a really depressing horror movie. On the other hand, that SummerSlam has made me avoid hearing "Highway to Hell" any time it comes on anymore. When you can make me not want to listen to Bon-era AC/DC then you played something WAY TOO MANY GODDAMN TIMES

I couldn't remember earlier but the tuna anecdote was in Sex, Lies, and Headlocks by Shaul Assael and Mike Mooneyham. Whether or not it's a good book, or factual, is probably up for debate It's funny that I read the Amazon comments about it and local weirdo Ripper the Clown commented on it. I met him at a local shop where he was dropping off flyers for some performance and noted that he had the Brian Pillman "F--- YOU" glasses on in the photo and turned out he's a big fan. Go figure. I would try and post a picture but I don't want to trigger anyone since he's, you know, a clown

ITS GOT AS MUCH PROTEIN AS WHAT I EAT FOR LUNCH PAL

One of the sleazier tell-all books said his office reeked of tuna so bad even Japanese visitors were appalled. Which sounds really racist, but hey.

We need some Angle and Backlund interaction.

I wouldn't be against it at all but that would spoil the combination of the four of them being outsiders with international experience and familiar history colliding.

You know they'd find some way to shoehorn Sheamus into that.

Or knee, depending on how he decides to attempt dislocating his jaw/fracturing his orbital bone/etc. From what I've seen with the Boma Ye/Kinshasa he likes to switch it up a bit.