The remake of Street Trash is also the same. Whoever did it removed the edge, the rape jokes, missing the point of the homeless main guys being sleazy and trashy and changed them to be misunderstood loners, and thinks the point of the film is basic gore but with rainbow colors.
The fact it can even be shown in a movie theater in the first place is reason enough to call it a fake assed Toxic Avenger movie.
I figured that was PD and like, anywhere? I never really thought to look. Had an old VHS of it from Sinister Cinema
It's more the joy that anyone would make trash so easily available. When I first discovered it like 15 years ago, I had to torrent it like anything else.
The remake had been in development since 2010 and was planned to be rated PG-13, with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Melvin/Toxie. I was hoping that the remake would retain some of the original's edge, but that turned out to be wishful thinking. Are ICP references still funny in 2025?
They only kept one scene from the original, the de-schlonging, but placed it in a different context. The movie feels like a weak attempt at a "class war/eat the rich" narrative. The practical effects are a highlight, though they are sparse. Interestingly, in the special features, Roy Frumkes (writer of the original and executive producer of the remake) criticized the stereotypically Jewish character in the film, somehow forgetting how the original Street Trash mocked and humiliated every group imaginable. And he got fired from his New York City' School of Visual Arts career for sexual misconduct/harassment charges. How quaint.
All genres have tropes but horror even more so since it's hard to make something genuinely scary and there is always a level of subjectivity to what's scary and what's not. Much less risky to go with tropes that have been associated with financially successful films in recent years than attempt something unique and different, which might flop. Even in films with bolder and riskier premises, you will see at least some moments that fall back on those reliable tropes, at least for a few minutes. Usually.
I just watched this. My personal headcanon is that Freddie Prince only agreed to come back if he could kill everyone. Not a single likable character in the whole movie.
The thing is it's only something unusual and new that is ACTUALLY scary. You don't get scared by that shit you've seen a dozen times before. It's like the first time you saw a child get possessed by Pazuzu and her head spun around and spat green vomit at you, yeah that was pretty scary the first time. After that?
Your taste is so bad, you might want to listen to any voices compelling you to kill yourself. Just a suggestion!
The Terror was made as a limited series based on a Dan Simmons novel, but some retards decided it would make a good anthology series. Season 2 is an abomination with no connection to the superior first season.
Whoever came up with the "boots" trailer deserves some credit for somehow getting people to temporarily give a flying fuck about these things
Marketing is powerful.
Speaking of which, b movie enthusiasts be advised that Deathstalker is being rebooted by the Psycho Goreman guy:
Ha, I saw the trailer for this yesterday and it looks "okay" in that Asylum/Made for the Sci-Fi channel kind of way. Personally, I think the producers of this and The Void and Psycho Goreman may have pushed the schlock just too far. I hated the last thing they made with the puppets.
like, the c-list fantasy franchise that had a movie on MST? and isn't Gor?
