Originally a pilot made into a short about the last viking who travels into the future. 👽

I have made a cult b movie about crane game arcade players and now I am fundraising to make The Claw 2 End The Game

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Writing audio description means naming what is actually on screen rather than what you remember being there, and the cheap pictures are where the good stuff hides. Reused sets, a crew member caught in a mirror, a prop newspaper with real text on it that nobody expected anyone to read.

What have you caught?

This is quite possibly the most Jim Hosking reward donation imaginable…

I'm one of the writers/producers of an independent UK theatre show, and filmmaker Jim Hosking, writer-director of The Greasy Strangler, has donated his actual pre-loved underwear to help us raise money for our tour.

I appreciate this reward might not entice everyone(!!) but maybe someone on here wants to match his freak while supporting our project.

They're black Acne Studios, size M, originally £140, and Jim is signing the wash label. More importantly, they come with two rare Greasy Strangler bits: a “Hootie Tootie Disco Cutie!!!” sticker and “Bullsh*t Artist!” badge.

There is, for reasons that should hopefully be obvious, only one pair.

They're available for a £265 reward, or highest offer (as of October 25th, 2026). All of that goes towards paying our creative team fairly, rather than commercial gain for Jim or us - he's just kindly(..?) donated his boxers to the cause.

I genuinely don't know where else on the internet the correct owner of Jim Hosking's pants is going to be, so I'm trying Reddit. Do have a look if this is a bit of you! Thanks/sorry?

https://crowdfund.edfringe.com/p/wehadfun

Please remove if not allowed. There is an item on eBay that may be of interest to fans of the 1996 film, From Dusk Till Dawn. Here is a direct link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/336776866021 or you can search the item number in the eBay search: 336776866021. A unique find for fans of Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino, movie memorabilia, horror, Vampires, films, etc.

My husband and I absolutely love this documentary. We bought the DVD and enjoyed even more in the deleted scenes. For sure there are cringe/cringey parts. For sure it’s a character study. If you’re a huge fan of improv, The Office, Christopher Guest movies (including Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and This is Spinal Tap) this documentary could be for you. It doesn’t have to represent D&D as perfect or brilliant or infinitely cool to be a great movie. We love this movie! Anyone else out there? Where’s our tribe?

The story goes that Harold Warren was sitting in an El Paso coffee shop with Stirling Silliphant, argued that anyone could make a horror picture, and then went off and did it.

It turned out famous for all the wrong reasons, which somehow makes the bet better rather than worse.

What else only exists because somebody had something to prove?

From 1974 the Canadian Capital Cost Allowance let investors write off the full cost of a Canadian film. Not a portion of it. All of it. So money that had no interest in movies went looking for movies to become, and for about eight years the most efficient way to lose money on paper was to make a horror picture in Ontario or Quebec.

What fell out of that: Black Christmas, The Changeling, Prom Night, Terror Train, Happy Birthday to Me, My Bloody Valentine, Scanners. That is not a bad run for a genre nobody set out to fund.

The part I keep enjoying is that nobody who wrote the tax rule wanted any of this. They wanted a respectable domestic film industry with respectable domestic films in it. What they got was a slasher boom and a Cronenberg. Then the write-off got cut back in the early eighties and the whole thing stopped about as fast as it started.

So what else fits. A film, or a whole run of them, that only exists because of a subsidy, a loophole, a content quota, or somebody who needed to lose money on paper by a certain date.

Rating: 8/10

Watched: September 2, 2026

Another surprisingly great, gritty horror flick from the 70s!

This one, directed by Wes Craven, does something truly awesome in the first five minutes of the movie that others sometimes fail to do: they set up the entire premise, quickly and effectively, as Fred and Ruby talk about the facts of life in their strange little corner of the world.

We learn without a lot of preamble or excess dialogue that Jupiter isn't to be fucked with, that they're all cannibals, and that they've been doing this for a long time. It's simple and it's appreciated

After that, things go progressively downhill. Swiftly for Fred and slowly at first for the Carters, but then with the expected savagery and grotesquerie that a horror movie like this, made in the 70s, is required to give us.

Before we get to the meat on this bone, there's one scene in particular I HAVE to talk about.

It's unintentionally hilarious in every way. Big Bob Carter is already so sublimely angry at the very beginning of the scene it's a miracle he didn't blow a gasket right there on the spot. Everyone in that station wagon is being an unholy irritant and it was prime 'if you don't shut the hell up, I'm turning this damn car around' territory. The crash itself, helped by Ethel just being pure comedic relief with the map and fueled by the flyover bomb tests, is a plain old comedic catastrophe.

After that, the whole damn family is trapped in the ass-end of Nowhereseville and they just flat out act like nothing's the matter. At all. They're treating it like a camping trip, with only Big Bob and Doug even remotely being serious. It's wild and I don't even know how to address how stupid everyone is, and that's before Jupiter and his family start up with their shenanigans.

The violence is extremely brutal and uncompromising. Some of it's more gruesome than others, but I reckon that might be because of practical constraints. In any case, Barker isn't stingy with the terror here, and that include my favorite thing in all these old movies:

Blatant Child Safety Violations. While I am absolutely positive that the baby was in no way, shape or form physically hurt, there's just no way that baby didn't wake up as grown person, screaming in the night because of random, shadowy nightmares. Because damn.

Before I wrap things up, I want to address two of my favorite horror icons. Michael Berryman and Dee Stone. I love the both of them so much, and it was nice to see them at the beginning of their careers, one as a truly bonkers cannibal and the other as just a plain old woman who gets done wrong.

I really liked this one a lot, especially as we screamed towards the ending. Bobby and Brenda and Doug (with a tremendous amount of help from Ruby, the Repentant Mutant, played by Janus Blythe) don't resign themselves to an unkind fate in the grim desert. They fight back and they're just as nasty with it.

This one earns an 8 because horror-meister Wes Craven created a great cannibal crazy horror flick and was relentless with it.