No Point Stance

Oddly, I enjoyed Astron-7's earlier features (especially The Editor and Father's Day) a lot more than I did The Void and Psycho Goreman. Very much looking forward to catching up with Deathstalker though.

It's a tricky thing. One the one hand most of us that want in every year are die hard horror fans who've seen most things within that genre that appeal to us, therefore there's a temptation to pick something obscure, a hidden gem of sorts. But where that falls down is in not wanting to pick something that's going to be a pain in the ass (or basically flat-out impossible) for people to find. I know that I, personally, temper my picks many years, based on an assumption of accessibility.

I really like Troll Hunter, personally. It's 800 times better than the Netflix-produced ripoff TROLL anyway.

How the fuck did I not know that there was an Astron 6-adjacent Deathstalker remake?

Not in my country, they haven't.

Definite King Diamond vibes to that design

I think I've seen 8 or 9 of them. Can't quite remebmer if I've seen Body Bags.

*cough* Satan *cough* Secret Satan I am very much in and will pick a film very shortly~!

Not cinema, but definitely horror-adjacent; I'd highly recommend the graphic novel (can true crime be a novel?) Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schecther and Eric Powell.

Again I am in your debt

Fantastic - thank you! Here's the direct link, in case anyone's curiosity has been piqued: https://archive.org/details/now-1992.12.11

Where can this stuff be found? I need some Choshu vs Vicious Warrior in my life. EDIT: love Sid repeatedly going to the cut so he can smear Choshu's blood over his own face - seemed like a spur of the moment choice but absolutely 10/10 pro wrestling

Yeah. Funnily, I was never entirely comfortable with the Ghostbuster name, like it felt almost like it might be some kind of weird racial slur rib, like 'spook'. Then again, I've never warmed to the name Koko either for similar reasons, so it's probably just me.

Just watched the 1978 'spike floor death match' between Umanosuke Ueda and Antonio Inoki, which led me down a small Cagematch rabbithole, which in turn led me to a new holy grail must-see match based on the reviews alone. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=111&nr=71451 I don't suppose anyone has this on a drive to share? Can't find it on YouTube or Dailymotion, unless it's there under a Japanese language description and I missed it.

Koko did a nice job of protecting that guy, almost like he used his own shoulder as a neck brace. I'm not sure I've ever even seen him hit his finisher in a WWF ring, being that he was treated as glorified enhancement most of the time, but goddamn I love a good brainbuster.