THE TOXIC AVENGER

Starring Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, & Elijah Wood

 

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This is the movie that premiered at Fantastic Fest '23. 

Releases wide on August 29

I'm pissed that they put out a trailer, or even a photo of Dinklage since they kept everything under wraps for so long. Dunno if I even wanna watch it, should I? 

Also: why would anyone hold a meat cleaver upside down? 

EDIT: I watched it. Looks funny, but I would probably watch anything with Toxie in it so I'm biased. Hopefully they did mostly practical effects in honor of Jennifer Aspinell's incredible work on the first one. 

Edited March 21, 20251 yr by Curt McGirt

In an all-time first (Halloween III doesn't count IMO):

https://www.fangoria.com/john-carpenter-bong-joon-ho-horror/

EDIT: Oh yeah, and John is getting his own star on the Walk of Fame next month

 

Edited March 24, 20251 yr by Curt McGirt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh1Fob4VKs&t=135s&ab_channel=JanusFilms

The Shrouds 

New Cronenberg. Good seeing Vincent Cassel again, feels like it's been awhile. 

Saw the trailer for The Shrouds last night, seems interesting. Also I have a ticket to see John Carpenter do his thing live

The Rule of Jenny Pen:

I’ve seen this aptly described as a gender-swapped hagsploitation movie.
If we’re getting Bill and Ted doing Waiting for Godot on stage, surely Broadway has room for John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush in Whatever Happened to Baby John?

Anyway, Lithgow at 80 is still fucking terrifying, and his character here enters the pantheon of creeps and psychos he’s portrayed during his career. It’s a bit longer than necessary, but it manages to be both a gripping character study about end of life care while also being a creepy potboiler about a violent battle of wills between a principled misanthrope and a human monster he can’t quite comprehend. 

***

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

825 Forest Road:

Found footage auteur Stephen Cognetti, creator of the Hell House LLC franchise, directs his first traditional narrative feature.

Cognetti has a talent for creating spooky scenarios and shooting them to maximum effect, and there’s a few of those moments here. The problem is it’s otherwise a rather tepid American J-horror (vengeful spirit curses small town and takes out an ensemble cast in a series of disjointed vignettes.) Even the scenes that work are mined from very similar moments in the Hell House movies.

I was disappointed that Cognetti doesn’t  stretch himself artistically, and he shows here that he needs a writing partner to mold and define his ideas. He has a new non-found-footage Hell House movie coming out next; that franchise has its ups and downs, but I’m still hopeful Cognetti will learn from his mistakes on this picture. 

**

 

12 hours ago, odessasteps said:

 

Never seen that before and it's fucking awesome!

https://www.fangoria.com/john-carpenters-hollywood-walk-of-fame-ceremony-the-view-from-inside-the-box/

Yes, there is an Indian Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-_qsw4lVg

This one is even funnier because it's the audio of the original Nightmare teaser set to the video of that movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCxX8WBl4k

https://youtu.be/GTowMnn-8sk?si=nVpRzaJJ6zPvrvj2

Weapons

Directed by Zach Cregger (Barbarian)

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.

Very brief teaser but enough to go "well this is gonna fuck some people up"

A great comment on there was "they yearn for the mines" 😄

On 4/20/2025 at 3:46 PM, Curt McGirt said:

Yes, there is an Indian Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-_qsw4lVg

This one is even funnier because it's the audio of the original Nightmare teaser set to the video of that movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCxX8WBl4k

I used to own this on DVD. It's actually really fun. Sold it after it went OOP though and have regretted it. 

Per Hollywood Reporter - Urban Legend is officially getting rebooted.

No further info was revealed (ie: director or cast)

On 4/22/2025 at 8:29 AM, RIPPA said:

https://youtu.be/GTowMnn-8sk?si=nVpRzaJJ6zPvrvj2

Weapons

Directed by Zach Cregger (Barbarian)

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.

Very brief teaser but enough to go "well this is gonna fuck some people up"

It still cracks me up that one of the Whitest Kids U Know and co-Director of Miss March has become a successful horror director.

16 hours ago, JonnyLaw said:

It still cracks me up that one of the Whitest Kids U Know and co-Director of Miss March has become a successful horror director.

I sometimes like to pretend that the movie in this sketch is also part of Zach Creggars' real life directorial canon.

C

In Search of Darkness 1990-94 was pretty good. They weren't afraid to get down and dirty and talk about The Burning Moon, Schramm, and Nekromantik 2. It is still six hours long but what the hell, all the movies are great. The one missing link that I was surprised didn't get brought up was Alien 3; they had a lot they could talk about there and it didn't get one mention. 

On 4/22/2025 at 8:29 AM, RIPPA said:

Weapons

 

Very brief teaser but enough to go "well this is gonna fuck some people up"

So here is the full trailer

https://youtu.be/OpThntO9ixc?si=25L0BOC2VQT3Vgs9

And I wasn't lying

The trailer is so amazingly NSFW (well mainly the last like 10 seconds which takes a motherfucking turn)

https://youtu.be/gYbnjaK5nsI?si=O-he5QCxDDLJbGTw

Fear Street: Prom Queen

Bloody Axe Wound aint bad. Kind of a dumbed down Leslie Vernon. Think it is streaming on Shudder.

I just saw our local regal is showing Re Animator Monday night. Very tempting since I have the night off. 

 

Clown in a Cornfield is a pretty good modernized 80's slasher. Comedic, but not very much of that awful self-aware humor.

Final Destination Bloodlines is a blast.