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30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story - I don't grow up with The Garbage Pail Kids so I don't have any nostalgic memories to it or anything, but ever since I learnt about GPK I've been loving it. So silly, so fun and so over the top, so when I saw this documentary I just had to watch it and it sure as hell did deliver. Super fun, interesting and informative. Really good documentary which led me to... The Garbage Pail Kids Movie - Yup, I had to watch this. This is an atrocity of a movie, but dear god was it entertaining. Super silly, stupid, over the top and cringe in lack of a better word. It's dreadful in a really good way. The maybe most fascinating thing about this entire movie is Mackenzie Astin and Katie Barberi. Katie looks about 10 years older than Astin, but is in fact only one year older. Which is really odd. It's like seeing a young teenager and a young adult. So fucking weird. It's a shame John Carl Buechler didn't get to direct the movie tho, as he considered to make it into a horror movie with the GPK to be serial killers. That sounds so awesome! Anyway, a must watch if you're a fan of so bad it's good. This isn't Troll 2 or The Room so bad it's good, it's Batman & Robin so bad it's good. Aside from the fact that the GPK masks wasn't fully done when they started making this movie and looks a bit undone and odd, it's actually a well-looking movie. The cinematography, the way it's shot, edited and so forth is actually very good. But so bad it's good nonetheless.

Oh yes, awesome! From the intro I totally get the "We were no longer in the 60s-70s zone but more in the 70s-80s. The songs sounded retro-futuristic and surreal" that they said. This should be damn good.

Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse Finally! It's been four years since the excellent Mayhem in Blue, so I am looking forward to this. Since Mayhem in Blue they've added three new members who've performed with them live from 2016. A keyboardist, drummer and new vocalist. So they have two keyboardists now, and I wonder if the addition of a new vocalist means Theoharis won't do vocals anymore. Or is the new one just a singer, while Theoharis will continue with the harsh vocals? Looking forward to this for sure!

What the hell? Only 72 years old too. Absolute legend indeed!

That's awesome. Both deliveries are as good as you'd expect them to be, and the beat sounds like something EL-P would've made a few years before he started working with Killer Mike. Neat!

Kill Ben Lyk - This is basically a less sophisticated, cheaper and bloodier Knives Out. Kinda. Not as good, but really, really fun and there's something about that one running gag that goes through half the movie which got me every single time. Really cool mystery comedy. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - First Shazam and now Birds of Prey? Have DCEU finally understood how to make good movies? Shazam was a light-hearted, funny film, and Birds of Prey was just really fucking cool. It's a straight-forward, braindead and stylish action-comedy where it's all style over substance. Really, really fucking cool film. I did not expect this at all. Margot Robbie's truly brilliant here, and she nails the character and makes he really Looney Tunes-esque. As good as the best MCU movies imo. Uncharted: Live Action Fan Film - Re-watched this for the n'th time. It's just unbelievably good, and it raises some questions: 1. Why the fuck ain't Allan Ungar hired as the director of the upcoming Uncharted movie? 2. Why the fuck isn't Allan Ungar and Jesse Wheeler hired as writers for the movie? 3. Why the fuck isn't Nathan Fillion given the role as Nathan Drake? He fucking _IS_ Nathan Drake!!! 4. Why the fuck isn't Stephen Lang given the role as Sully? He fucking _IS_ Sully!!! 5. Why the fuck isn't Mircea Monroe given the role as Elena? She fucking _IS_ Elena!!! As much as I dream of a good Uncharted movie, I kinda hope it goes to hell. Not giving these guys the job is a huge, huge, huge mistake. They could've made a movie that would be the Indiana Jones of the new century. A movie that would be considered a classic, and which new actors would look at and think "during my lifetime I want to play that type of hero. The one Nathan Fillion played in Uncharted and Harrison Ford played in Indiana Jones.". No kidding. This is true!

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio - A fun little anthology movie with 8 short films where creators Nicolás and Luciano Onetti and picked 8 already existing short films and made a wrap-around story about a radio DJ who tells scary stories. It's a bit up and down of course, but a fun ride where the best shorts were superb. In the Dark Dark Woods... only clocks in at about four minutes, but was by far my favourite out of the eight. Really cool, stylish and atmospheric. The Smiling Man and Into the Mud were second best. Both really awesome. The Smiling Man was pretty creepy to be honest. The most disappointing one was The Disappearance of Willie Bingham, and the fact that the non-english speaking shorts were not subbed. Which sucked. It really is about time I check out Luciano Onetti's movies. Sonno Profondo, Francesca and Abrakadabra have been pretty high up on my watchlist since they were released, simply because I am a sucker for giallos. Will hunt them down for sure now. Btw, check out the posters for Francesca, Abrakadabra and his upcoming film El pulpo negro. Looks NEAT as hell. One Must Fall - Cool and fun slasher-comedy. It's bloody and violent, it's funny, it's sleazy and it's both suspenseful and charming. What the hell more do you need? Nothing really. I thought this was really awesome. I hope people check it out cuz it deserves some attention for sure. The Hunt - Horror? Thriller? Action? Well, who knows. I'll satirical action-horror-comedy. It's caused a bit of a fuzz because of its portrayal of American left vs right, but as I see it it doesn't really take a stand. It's kinda criticizing both sides and how both sides reacts to things and takes much out of context to cause a fuzz. Anyway, as an apolitical I really appreciated its super cheesy characters, cool, stylish and bloody violence and humour. Turn your brain off and just appreciate this awesome action-horror-comedy. Fuck politics!

Yeah, I love Kenny Beats. His overall production style is just fire and incredibly versatile, but without loosing his Kenny touch. Best thing he did is the Netflix and Deal album with 03 Greedo, followed by Anger Management with Rico Nasty. Took me a while to get into the album, but when I first did I just couldn't get enough of it. This one off Freddie Gibbs' Freddie is fire. Both rappers spits fire over a beat that's just beyond everything. When you sample something as legendary as Boyz-n-the Hood you better do it justice, and they sure as hell did. Also check out Kenny Beats' The Cave. Both seasons are FIRE and among the better youtube shows out there. A new guest every week with people like Denzel Curry, Rico Nasty, Danny Brown, Slowthai, 6lack, Sada Baby, Joji, The Alchemist & Boldy James, Jpegmagia, Freddie Gibbs, Earthgang etc. It's awesome!

The Invisible Man - Fucking Leigh Whannell, man. Made his directorial debut in 2015 with Insidious: Chapter 3, a movie that just didn't hold up at all. Despite having a budget that was higher than both Insidious and Insidious 2 combined, it looked a lot cheaper than both of them, it felt cheaper and it just wasn't a very good movie at all. At that point I kinda gave up on him as a director. Then three years later he comes back with his second movie, Upgrade, a movie made on half the budget of Insidious: Chapter 3 and which I only checked out because of the awesome poster, but which looks like a billion motherfucking bucks with one incredibly memorable scene after another. It's a movie that managed to bring a lot of originality to how we can film and create action scenes. An absolute masterpiece of a movie, and close to perfect. Two years later and he's back, this time with a new adaption of H.G. Wells classic novel The Invisible Man. This was adapted already back in 1933, a movie which is a masterpiece, so I was a bit sceptical to this, but he nails it. Superbly written, shot, acted and played out, despite a somewhat cheap look to it. There's something about the colour palette that just feels a bit off. But other than that I thought it was really cool. Intense, suspenseful, atmospheric and just really cool. Recommended for sure. Papá Wrestling - As I am eagerly awaiting Fernando Alle's new movie Mutant Blast I just felt like re-watching some of his earlier work and ended up on Papá Wrestling. 9 minutes of proper absurdity and LOL-moments. It's as hilarious as it's over the top and bananas. Fantastic short film.

Yes! It's amazing. Next year he'll release In Search of Tomorrow, which will be the same but about sci-fi movies. I can't wait! Look out for In Search of the Last Action Heroes as well. Not as good, and much of that due to only being half as long, but totally recommended if you like 80 and 90's action. There's popped up a lot of cool documentaries about horror, action and exploitation film these last 10 years. Really looking forward to seeing Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini and Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror too. Looks neat!

Yeah, this was really cool. Am I totally off if I say this movie was like Cube meets Snowpiercer meets High-Rise? Well, Snowpiercer is the horizontal High-Rise, and High-Rise is the vertical Snowpiercer. So Cube meets Snowpiercer/High-Rise, I guess is more accurate. Anyway, awesome movie. Got a message, got violence, blood and gore, got some hilarious moments etc. Thanks for the recommendation!

Aye, but there's a big story behind it and for years upon years the denied he was the director of the movie as he used an alias. But he's just really embarrassed by the movie, which I can understand. But fans of sleaze and cheap eurotrash has taken it to their hearts, which is a good thing.

https://sweven.bandcamp.com/album/the-eternal-resonance Incredible album. As expected it continues where Morbus Chron left, but it feels more focused, and it feels a bit more death metal. This is a must hear for fans of atmospheric/progressive death metal, the last Morbus Chron album, Tribulation and Opeth. Superb stuff!

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - The sixth in the franchise is by far the silliest and most comedic of them all, but it's way better than I remembered and much better than what most seems to think. It's on the sillier side, with Freddy acting like a clown most of the time. But it's all fun, and the creativity is nice. 7/10 Wes Craven's New Nightmare - It's been no less than ten years since genius director/writer Wes Craven made the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, and he returned to the franchise with a BOOM. This is a bit like a spin-off as it doesn't take part of the lore itself, but this is meta horror at it's finest and the second best in the franchise. It's so different, so special and so unique, and it's full of great atmospheric, a superb story, great characters, some amazing (and some dated) effects and just brilliance throughout. This movie is slept on for sure. What a film!!! 9/10

Sniper: Ghost Shooter - 7/10 Tom Berenger is out again and Chad Michael Collins is still in the lead, but here Chad Michael Collins is actually able to carry the movie with help from a solid supporting cast. This is, easily, the best Sniper movie since the first. It's a lot different from 2-5, and feels like a breath of fresh air. It looks a bit too polished, modern and digital, but the film itself is really cool. Recommended for sure! This made me really looking forward to the next and so far last movie in the franchise. Awesome, and totally un-expected. Gone in 60 Seconds - Re-watched this today. The original of course. Amazing film with some insane car chases. It's fucking awesome throughout. A really overlooked movie, which is a proper shame. Writer, director and leading star H.B. Halicki deserves a much bigger legacy. Just by watching the movie you can tell that it was chaos on set. It feels kinda similar to the first Mad Max in a way, because neither H.B. Halicki or George Miller had any clue what they were doing, and safety came last. It was alla bout making a cool movie, cost whatever it will. Attitude! Classic movie.

Sounds awesome. Will watch this tomorrow for sure.

Jean Rollin is really good in general if you're into slow-burning, dreamy and sleazy lesbo-vampire flicks, as those are his best. Great Eurotrash! I feel like he's slept on, and it's a shame. The dreamy, surrealistic atmospheres he creates are pretty damn unique and un-matched tbh. I feel like the main problem with Zombie Lake, aside from the fact that it's pretty bad, albeit fun, is that it's a really, really poor man's Shock Waves. And Shock Waves had Peter Cushing and John Carradine. Sock Waves ia a b/c-movie, Zombie Lake is a z-movie. Such a huge difference in quality. But Zombie Lake is fun. But not the stuff I'd recommend from Jean Rollin.

Alexi Laiho who's out of Children of Bodom has a new band after a big part of CoB left the band and denied him any use of the CoB name: Bodom After Midnight. That is a boring and uninspired name tbh. Would be cool if he started making something good again, but after 20 years of awful music I can't even in my wildest imaginations imagine that he'll suddenly make something good again. But weirder things have happened, I guess? From that to this in less than 10 years: Fucking disgraceful. Best Children of Bodom album post-Follow the Reaper is Norther's Dreams of Endless War, which sounds way closer to Children of Bodom than what their later albums did. Sounds more like Children of Bodom's earlier albums, but without the flair and sense of melodies. Not nearly as good as Children of Bodom's three first, but way better than anything released later.

Aight. What did you think of 1984?

Watched American Horror Story: 1984 as I am working from home (aka spending about 3 hours on block programming daily. Ehe). As a sucker for 80's pop culture and especially slashers and horror movies in general this was a must watch for me, despite not having seen anything since season 1. And this sure as hell did not disappoint. Cheesy, over the top, silly and familiar, but with a bit of a twist on the traditional slasher genre with a few really cool and obvious homages to movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Carrie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Heathers, Ghostbusters and Sleepaway Camp. But I wish there was even more homages to slashers from the 80's. But overall this was totally fucking awesome! I kinda started wondering if there was any other seasons worth seeing in the series. I doubt it, but after this I might have to give it a new go.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker - Oh dear, this was super disappointing. I don't think it was awful and I did find entertainment in it, but it's by far the worst of the new Star Wars movies (sequel trilogy+spin-offs). It felt chopped up as it jumped from one location to another without any plan, as if they had made a 6 hour long movie but had to cut it and just cut part of either location and let some of it be in just because they had to show off, introducing a SHITLOAD of characters that doesn't get any screen time and turning the character into unlikable douchebags. Rey, who I really liked in the previous films, turned into a bitch of a crybaby, Kylo Ren, who I also really liked, turned into a weak fucking sausage of a pussy, Finn turned into a shell with no personality whatsoever, Poe turned into a poor man's Han Solo, just without the wit, charm and personality. The entire film feels disconnected to the rest of the universe, something that was also an issue for The Last Jedi but not nearly as bad as this. This was truly lackluster. To be quite honest, I feel like Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness are better Star Wars movies than this. Which is just weird. But they felt more Star Warsy, and they felt way more connected to what Star Wars is all about, than what this did. This was simply not good enough, and a sad ending to something that should've been amazing. But it's quite obvious that they have had no plan. They haven't made a huge universe and made movies out of that, they've just made movies based on a universe and done things along the way instead of planning ahead. Sniper: Reloaded - 4/10 First movie without Tom Berenger, and the worst one so far. Instead we get Chad Michael Collins as his son, and he isn't good enough to carry the movie. It did however have a few memorable scenes. Sniper: Legacy - 5/10 Tom Berenger is back and that helps a lot, but Chad Michael Collins is still the main guy and he doesn't carry himself too well. Tom Berenger doesn't get nearly enough screentime either. A few cool scenes tho.

Been listening to these two Vargrav albums a lot lately. One-man band by V-Khaoz (Druadan Forest, V-Khaoz, ex-Azaghal, ex-Kalmankantaja etc) playing symphonic black metal much in the vein of the Emperor pre-In the Nightside Eclipse, old Limbonic Art, Odium, Sirius, Troll etc, as well as strong Covenant - In the Times Before the Light vibes. Think both are truly excellent, and the type of black metal we don't get enough of nowadays. Sorely miss this type of symphonic black metal. Also this: Immense cover! This is how you properly cover a song.

Morbus Chron frontman/songwriter Robert Andersson took the name from Morbus Chron's last album Sweven and seems to just continue the sound from that album, but with more polished and better songwriting. Because this does sound better than Sweven. It sounds tighter, less random and more thought through. Really looking forward to this.

Satan's Fall - Past Of https://satansfall.bandcamp.com/album/past-of After one excellent demo, EP and single Satan's Fall finally returns with their debut album. Old school sounding heavy/speed metal that sounds like a mix of Mercyful Fate and Satan. This album rips! Horn - Mohngang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mJbL_LSwqY&feature=youtu.be German pagan black metal with Nerrath/N/Barrage Beast from Cross Vault, Shrine, ex-Bulldozing Bastard. Very Drudkh and Waldgeflüster-esque with fantastic clean vocals. Really emotional and powerful. The band's never quite hit the spot, but always enjoyable nonetheless. Evoker - Evil Torment https://evokerofficial.bandcamp.com/track/exhumation-of-the-damned Cool old school death metal from Australia. Not very original, but this new song rips. Really good.