What are you watching?

[Cody Layne]

Dead Silence: This is another movie I saw once before some time ago. While it's no classic, it's still a nice, spooky little tale, well-made by James Wan, and will definitely creep out anybody who's afraid of dolls and ventriloquist dummies. Also, that main theme is really creepy.

[Cody Layne]

I Vampiri: This was one of the extras on the Arrow Video release for Black Sunday, as it was a movie where Mario Bava was initially just the cinematographer, but had to step in when the real director left. I watched it simply out of obligation and didn't really pay it much attention. It is notable for being Italy's first sound horror film, and I can definitely see how it's influenced by other movies, but it didn't really grab me.

Thinner: This was only the second time I've seen this movie. I think it's enjoyable, even if the characters aren't exactly the most sympathetic, and it is a bit cheesy at points. Really good makeup effects to show the main character wasting away, and I think Robert John Burke is charismatic enough to where you do care about him, despite him not being the most moral person ever.

[f.ramses]

Nekromantik 2 - I've seen this many times but the last time I tried to watch this I found it so gross that I turned it off. Decided to watch it again last night and wondered why I had done that last time. Somehow the movie was both more boring and more entertaining than I remembered it being...

Thanksgiving - I was pretty into this for the first hour or so but it seemed to run out of steam a bit after the parade scene and even though it did pick up a bit it never seemed to be as good as I thought it was going to be. I'm sure I'll see this again at some point, maybe even pick it up if it's cheap enough.

Ölüler Konusmaz Ki (The Dead Don't Talk) - Been looking forward to those Turkish movies coming from Filmotronik next month and randomly put this in, not a great pick. Got the gist of it but the story didn't make a lot of sense to me and the ghost was kind of annoying with the constant laugh. One of several Turkish flicks I'm not sure I ever got around to watching, hopefully the next will be better.

[Cody Layne]

Black Sunday (1960). This wasn't the first Mario Bava movie I ever saw but it was one of the first, fittingly. This was the only second time I watched it, and I watched the AIP version, which I don't think was what I saw before (the first time I saw it was five years ago). In any case, it's a very interesting and memorable movie, and definitely an opportunity for Bava to make his mark from the get-go.

[Vincent Dawn Jr]

Chris is gone. All the rest are there.

I watched WCCW on Saturdays on some religious channel. Aired at 6pm. the Mid South/UWF was at 7pm.

AWA was one I never saw until I got cable in 90 and caught reruns on ESPN.

AWA was the first wrestling I ever saw, I'm guessing around 1983. I know Hulk Hogan was still in there at the time, so it was right before he jumped ship. I also remember hearing Black Sabbath for the first time when the Road Warriors entered the ring to "Iron Man." But one I saw WCCW, AWA (or any of the rest of 'em) just couldn't compare. WCCW was more violent, crass and fun. I never got to see any Mid South until they changed the name to UWF and got better syndication, I guess. It aired late night on the weekend, don't remember the specifics. I just remember trying like hell to stay awake to catch it.

To get back on track to the real topic of this thread, I started watching the Netflix Griselda show. Got 3 episodes in, and I'm not sure I can finish it (even though there are only 3 episodes left). Having seen the various Cocaine Cowboys documentaries and spin-offs, this show is total fantasy.

They've turned a murderous, drug dealing sociopath into a socialist feminist icon. 99% of the men ooze misogyny and are envious/afraid of her superiority and constantly express this in an almost cartoonish way. Plus, they juxtapose all the shit Griselda goes through with all the shit the female cop chasing her has to go through. They both have to deal with being the smartest most capable person in a field of buffoonish men. Not to mention, all these sex workers from Columbia that Griselda brings in to help peddle her poison are apparently fluent enough in English to hobnob with the Anglo country club crowd. Sure, right. (If that was the case, then the education system in that part of the world must have really taken a nose dive over the past 45 years because none of the recently arrived migrants begging at every intersection in my city speak a lick of English beyond "Please, please.") Like I said it's total fantasy.

[Newt Cox]

Chris is gone. All the rest are there.

I watched WCCW on Saturdays on some religious channel. Aired at 6pm. the Mid South/UWF was at 7pm.

AWA was one I never saw until I got cable in 90 and caught reruns on ESPN.

[Vincent Dawn Jr]

The Iron Claw

No theater near me was showing it. Hit VOD and good film but I wonder how this plays to someone that doesn't know the story. So much is left out. Not just removing one of the brothers from the story. But more like stuff like Kerry losing his foot in a motorcycle accident. Or plenty of other stuff.

Any of yall seen this and dont already know the story,how did it work for you?

I haven't seen it yet, but it's one of the very few modern films I'm interested in seeing. (With new mainstream films, I wait until my library gets a copy and check it out for free.)

Which brother did they remove from the story?

I have incredibly fond memories of being a kid in the 80's and watching WCCW on Friday nights. We'd get fried chicken with honey dipping sauce and fried chicken livers with grilled onions from some mom & pop restaurant whose name I can't recall, and watch wrestling. WCCW was my favorite promotion (way better than AWA or WWF) until UWF came along a few years later.

[Newt Cox]

The Iron Claw

No theater near me was showing it. Hit VOD and good film but I wonder how this plays to someone that doesn't know the story. So much is left out. Not just removing one of the brothers from the story. But more like stuff like Kerry losing his foot in a motorcycle accident. Or plenty of other stuff.

Any of yall seen this and dont already know the story,how did it work for you?

[Newt Cox]

Mississippi River Sharks

Fun to watch something shot down where I am now almost once a month. Sharks are coming up the river and attackign people. Fishing rodeo is going on in a small town. Jason London is here playing "Star of Shark Bite 1,2,4,5,6" Jason London. Cassie Steele is the lead. And all the FX work is cheap CGI.

Not bad. Not worth paying for. It's on TUBI.

[Cody Layne]

Hannibal (2001): Had seen this once before a few years ago, on Hulu. Definitely an inferior sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins is great, as always, and Julianne Moore is pretty good as Clarice, and the movie is definitely memorable and freaky (Gary Oldman's character is really nightmarish), as well as well-shot, thanks to Ridley Scott, but it's too long and doesn't leave that much of an impression when all is said and done.

[Randy G]

Bat Pussy would be a great double feature with Warhol's Blue Movie.

[Jason C]

Wait....... what?

Sam says "You don't even know how to fuck. You wouldn't know how if you was doin' yor grandmother." to Buddy. Very sexy stuff.

[Gary Banks]

Originally posted by Jason C View Post
They wouldn't know how to fuck, even if they were fucking their grandmother.

Wait....... what?

When she took her teeth out, Granny was the Knob Goblin of the trailer park.

I think I just made myself sick.

[Matt H.]

They wouldn't know how to fuck, even if they were fucking their grandmother.

Wait....... what?

[Jason C]

So its funny that back in June I was kinda bitching about spending too much money on Vinegar Syndrome porn and re-releases like Bat Pussy and Miami Connection.

Buying Miami Connection on UHD prompted me to re-visit it and I ended up loving it even more the second time. I do love Vinegar Syndrome's VSU packaging but the PQ and AQ are a massive upgrade and did add to my enjoyment.

Stiff Competition was one of my favorite first time viewings of 2023. Its hilarious and looks stunning in 4K.

But last night I watched Bat Pussy for only the second time, since the sealed release was sitting on my watch pile, and Holy Shit! Goddam motherfuckers making a sex film in my Gotham City. And they definitely do not know how to fuck. They wouldn't know how to fuck, even if they were fucking their grandmother. Wow! Bat Pussy is truly the mountaintop of the genre film fan experience. You can watch a lot of so called 42nd street, grindhouse, drive-in trash, but nothing can prepare you Sam and Buddy. Thank god the endless stream of insults and profanities is broken up by the serene view of a woman riding a hippty-hop while wearing homemade Batgirl PJs and peeing in the woods. As I watch this film I struggle to calm my mind as it floods with questions and nearly short circuits as I try to comprehend how and why Bat Pussy exists. Its the worst cocaine fueled amateur sex tape and should have been destroyed the next morning. But it someone choose to edit this footage into a film and project in a movie theater. And why? Did some Texan in 1972 rub one out to this in public? I get why someone years later would run this for laughs. But.... I'm so confused. And I'm so glad there isn't just one commentary track, but two. So after I was done, I watched it two more times with commentary so I didn't feel like I went through the experience alone. Cocaine, its a hell of a drug kids.

There are dozens of great Bat Pussy moments, but one of my favorites is:
Buddy: "Darlin', would you like to be fucked in the ass?"
[long drunken, disinterested pause]
Sam: Nope

This was another sale where I started to regret how much I was spending. When I think about the films I'm getting, it just doesn't seem worth it. But then the box gets here and I'm blown away by the quality of the physical product. And it's a given that the transfers will far surpass what the these films require to enjoy. It boggles the mind that films like THE ABYSS can't get a decent release, but we have THE INVISBLE MANIAC and SEX WORLD on UHD.

I wish all of my favorite films got the Vinegar Syndrome Ultra treatment. Road House and Showgirls are two of my favorites so its still hard to believe.

Bat Pussy and Miami Connection were the titles that prove I got a problem though. I thoroughly enjoyed both films but I didn't need an upgrade of either. Certainly not UHD or Extended versions. That said, I now have an even more amazing release of two decent flicks. They are really nice to look at it. But damnthat wasn't cheap.

Also bad is that I can't stop buying their 70's/80's porn. I don't watch them very often and I rarely find a "must have" when I do. But the slip covers are stunning (some of the best). And it is cool to see grimy porn look so great on screen. It is obnoxious that it feels like its the same dozen performers in all of them.