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I was going to ask how much they covered Fulci until I clicked on the Daily Grindhouse review. An actual gripe was two Fulci films getting covered at the expense of other more obscure films from the early 80's. Fine by me, as long as one of the films isn't just guys taking the piss out of the stupid Donald Duck-voiced killer in New York Ripper. On the Argento segments, Phenomena should at least get a quick mention for its batshit insanity. I've seen the Boogens several times, but it barely left any kind of impression on me. Googling the movie just now, I barely remembered what the monsters looked like. Night Beast is something that popped up on Roku's B-Zone channel recently. I caught a few minutes of it, and I really need to watch the rest of it. Seen some of Dohler's other movies (Alien Factor has usually been the Rifftrax version) and they are vintage pieces of shit. The review on Daily Grindhouse mentioned The Keep as the type of obscure movie that was overlooked in favor of talking about multiple Fulci movies (or "shining the spotlight on a single director" as they put it)..... but I'd say anything that features The Boogens and Night Beast is leaving very few stones unturned. I find it hard to believe it won't eventually end up on Shudder. It might be September or October before it's on there, but I'm sure it will land there eventually. If it is around Halloween when it finally finds its way to Shudder, that still gives them time to spring up 2 or 3 more 48-hour flash sales. I'm actually probably going to end up blowing $40 bucks on the Psycho Goreman: Hunky Boys Limited Edition, even though I'm sure the movie itself is also going to end up on Shudder by the end of next month. I just can't do $70 bucks for In Search of Darkness II though.

L.A. Knight just sounds like a pair of sneakers from the 90's.

At least, Xia Li looks the part of a possessed warrior that could tear the balls off 90 percent of the NXT or AEW male competitors. Besides it's nowhere near as outlandish as the entire costume and set piece changes you get with Blisslexia on RAW. I'd probably put it more along the lines of Wrath and Mortis, because the magic doesn't creep into the actual wrestling beyond her being booked like a brainwashed killer. Eventually they'll have to demystify and depower the gimmick, which they'll fuck up six ways from Sunday.

Now I'm sad that John Nord didn't come down with lycanthropy during that whole phase of late era WCW with Vampiro and The Kiss Demon fighting for a sacred cup of Anton LaVey's preserved jizz. "I've Always Been Berserk.....But Now Wolfman's Got Nords." Then the Gambler would return at Halloween Havoc to vanquish him with a silver bullet.

I feel like a golden opportunity was missed for Hollywood Hunk to not call himself Dolph Zabka....instead of Tharp Hilgenbrink, or whatever his generic jock name is.

The one thing I always remember about Cannibal Apocalypse is that Giovanni Lombardo Radice's character is named Charlie Bukowski. Now that I think about it, a Barfly sequel (or prequel, for that matter) where he turned into a cannibal could have had real potential.

Mercedes was put into a feud with Io Shirai.....at the end of December. How does that figure into her being a big deal back when she was feuding with Ripley? I said everything you said about her being treated as dangerous, but also pointed out how rarely she was in actual matches last year. To me, Mercedes should have been the 40-year old they pushed this whole time instead of Baszler, as even without an MMA background, she has much more of a Cris Cyborg killer vibe than Shayna ever will. I don't think Ripley should have been the champ instead of Io, but with as uneventful as Asuka's long title reign has been, it seems that Raw was wide open for somebody like her to move to the main roster and seize control of that division, after Summerslam.

She had a good year after Wrestlemania because she beat somebody who was barely on NXT TV? I'm not denying how much of a badass Mercedes comes across as, but they barely put her on TV, or gave her any matches. Up to this point, Mercedes has been mainly featured as muscle. She had just as much TV time under a mask as part of Retribution. Besides, the Mercedes match was tied into the Robert Stone Brand crap, so it was really just the same feud. Shotzi Blackheart's toy tank has also been a focus of the division, arguably a bigger focus than Rhea Ripley in the last few months.

Whoever the Vikings GM was should also be in the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor.

She also ate the pin in the triple threat against Io and Charlotte following Wrestlemania, and then lost to her again recently before losing her exit match against Raquel. It's not pulled out of thin air. She also lost to Toni Storm, off interference in the build-up to facing Raquel. Key losses to Io, Storm, and Raquel on her way out the door since November. 1-2 in her only feuds doesn't sound like a great year to me. Since Wrestlemania, she had one legitimate win over Mercedes, somebody who should be a much bigger deal, but for whatever reason was barely featured on NXT for most of the year. To be fair, I understand that jumping to the main roster is basically going back to square one (for better or worse). Many times, the more heavily featured you were in NXT, the worse off you end up on the main roster. Just ask Shayna Baszler. Rhea will probably be thrown into some on/off dead end feud against Nia and Shayna for the next six months.

I still need to see Angst, which is also available on Shudder. I always put it off because the prolonged torture (that I'm expecting) is a little too grim. The genius and shock of Henry was never lingering on the actual murders as they were happening, instead mostly showing the aftermaths, and actually making these dimwitted psychopaths somewhat relatable and even charming for the rest of the movie.

I was too young to have that kind of crush when the movie originally came out, but I didn't finally see it until 2011. By then, I fully appreciated her performance. The vampire make-up is right there with Mr. Barlow for me. I never found his buck-toothed fangs too terribly seductive though.

"Not my HUNKY BOYS!" The best description I can think of is GWAR, ultra violent Power Rangers, live action Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Masters of the Universe, and Monster Squad thrown into a blender.

Is Rhea's nearly year-long humiliation ritual (after losing at WrestleMania to Charlotte) over yet? I don't think she's won a single feud besides beating Aaliyah and Robert Stone. The Robert Stone Brand is so irrelevant having to feud with them was a major step down. It was the following year's Royal Rumble when Asuka finally got some legitimate shine back by tapping out Becky. Of course, that didn't last long. A worthwhile payoff to invincible Alexa Bliss would be if she got squashed for the title by Rhea Ripley at Wrestlemania. That would never happen though. Bianca Belair winning a title is also long overdue. I don't see them doing Bayley/Sasha again at Wrestlemania. Bianca/Sasha would be interesting, but it would work a lot better if one of them went full-blown heel, instead of some flat mutual respect approach. Any predictions that don't figure in Charlotte are probably way off. Charlotte challenging fiend Alexa Bliss would be a fun mess. What's the over/under on the match length for Goldberg/McIntyre? 3 minutes? I guess I'll take the over. They might give them 5 minutes for this latest finisher spam-off.

Alexa Bliss has always had supernatural healing powers or been nigh invincible. She missed no time after having her ass kicked and her arm broken in 30 seconds of actual match time by Ronda Rousey at Summerslam a few years ago. Only to come back a month later and control 14 minutes of a 17-minute match. It didn't matter how cool it looked for Alexa to use her double-jointedness in selling the armbar, because she didn't even go away for a couple of weeks to sell the beating. Going back to Bray's original cult leader recruiting practices, (but not necessarily his current incarnation) Nikki Cross seems more like the type of wayward, disturbed soul he might have taken under his wing. Giving Bliss supernatural invincibility bullshit powers is as ridiculous as if Miz suddenly came down with some such nonsense.

The Sect (1991) is a total shot in the dark. It had some of those elements and some pretty striking visuals, but there was no actual trip to the underworld. There was a scene involving the exploration of a labyrinthine hospital morgue that might evoke the underworld. I searched for the title on the site JT provided and their summary would make you think you were seeing a movie that sounds close to what you describe. The actual movie is nowhere near as epic as The Labyrinth meets The Odyssey but the summary fairly accurately describes the plot while also sounding vaguely like the movie you remember hearing about. As you can see from the run times (the IMDB run time is even longer than the version I saw) it is nearly two hours long. It does start off strong with a pretty wild depiction of a Manson-like cult leader wandering up on a group of hippies camping out on the beach. Then it sorts of meanders along for about an hour. However there is a memorable weird dream sequence, a scene which would merit a comparison to The Labyrinth, in terms of giving off a dark fairy tale vibe. It's from the same guy that directed Cemetery Man and The Church, Michele Soavi. If you liked either one of those movies, it's definitely worth checking out. The Sect (1991) - IMDb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Daughter_(1991_film) https://www.allhorror.com/movies/the-sect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foroacPuxbQ

So it turns out I wasn't hearing things and Taz's son is actually named Hook.