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Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon is another great meta look at horror movies, slashers in particular. It actually has a semi-similar story like Cabin in the Woods. The first half is a mockumentary about an aspiring slasher who is the recent in a long line of others who kill kids in order to keep the fear alive. It mentions slashers like Michael Myers, Jason, and Freddy, and even goes into detail for reasons why certain things happen in movies like the seemingly normal weapons of defense break after one swing, or why the windows are always jammed. The second part of the movie goes back to being a regular slasher but it is still a pretty good meta-horror movie. I googled for similar movies for both Cabin and T&D they each showed up. Other than that a bunch of recent horror movies were mentioned but they were just straight up horror movies. The only close thing to these two was the Scream series which just acknowledged the cliches but within a slasher setting. So Hell Baby was good? I've been hearing good things about it.

This and Cabin in the Woods are such great examples of a meta-horror movie turning the horror genre upside down. Scream did an okay job of having characters know the rules for surviving a horror movie, but still relied on the usual slasher tropes. I loved that T&D showed the movie from the "killer redneck" side while at the same time making it seem plausible to the "victims" that they were killers.

This was made solely because of Depp and while it may not have exciting parts, there is cockfighting montages, a drunk Nazi, an implied rape scene, and Aaron Eckhart threatening to shoot people on the beach.

I remember seeing this years ago when it came out on DVD. The idea of a serial killer butchering people and hanging them like art was interesting enough, but the idea of there being a law enforcement only rehab in the middle of a frozen tundra was bonkers. I also read that this movie was one of the biggest money losers of all time, losing 99.86% of its budget of $55 million, making only 80k.

That makes sense after hearing how his mother talked about his brother and him. It seems she raised the first son in an incestuous relationship with the hopes of making him as brutal and cruel as herself while Gosling's character was emotionally stunted and deprived in order to make him almost completely compliant to both of their needs.

Agree completely, after reading some of his interviews on this movie, he would be perfect for this episode.

I still laugh about a red carpet interview that G4 did with Josh Lucas, who for some reason was the star of the movie and not recent Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, where he basically gave away the ending to the movie before its premier. The hosts of the show went on to just rag on him about what a dumb move that was to do so, though it wouldn't have helped this hunk of shit from flopping.

Can we coin a new term for directors who go fully into the "arts" of film making in the way that actors go "full tard?" We could call it "full artsy." I agree that it was more for the visuals of it all and brief glimpses of what makes the characters tick, though when that mom said the brother probably had his reasons for raping/killing an underage prostitute, it made my head spin a bit and realize okay I'm in for a ride here.

I can see them doing this episode in the vein of the Fast movies and Crank. I really liked this movie and was surprised it didn't make a bigger splash in the US, I mean even the trust Wikipedia page only has the briefest summary of what the movie entails. The idea of the naked old men looking like our idea of Santa and that we were just WAY off was a great twist, and the main kid in the movie was fantastic. This along with Troll Hunter would make for interesting episodes as both were fairly low budget but made the most of it and had fantastic performances from their lead actors, while at the same time being absolutely crazy in a good way.

Slap chop I can understand, but was Shamwow really that big of a seller? And he did his first movie years before he started selling those things, so that still begs the question, how much coke did he have to sell to fund that shitfest along with buying midnight ad space on E!?

They did make fun of her a bit if I remember playing an interview she did.

Most think it was due to Jayma Mills being on the most recent season of The League.

Apparently they star in a movie called Repeater, a direct to DVD movie, which has become both of their primary wheelhouses.

No way it gets done as the original episode was removed from earwolf.

Leguizamo as Clown was easily the best part because he knew what kind of movie he was in and just hammed it up. This was White's chance to become a legit action star, and as this was his first major starring role, it single handedly killed his career to where he's just a character actor now. I can understand what Ebert was saying with the visuals as for that time they were pretty good for the most part, Malbolgia was the worst bit of the movie as it was too much for the little they had available, but the stuff with Spawn in the real world was pretty good. Overall this was a bad adaptation as it really didn't follow the comics in concern to who killed Al Simmons or the fact that Al's friend Terry is black in the comic, but white in the movie for some reason. Also, Martin Sheen's overall goal of gassing the entire world just so that he may be able to sell the antidote was ridiculous.

I'm still trying to figure out how Vince Offer got the necessary money to film not one, but two movies. I know he got a few million from suing Anna Nicole Smith because she dropped out of being in the first movie, so that would take a chunk out of the budget, but to get actors like Adrien Brody, Lindsay Lohan, and Michelle Rodriguez, who while not the biggest stars now command a decent salary, he had to get money from somewhere.

He now goes by Hellrazor.

Yeah, the look was a mix of "wait he can do that?" and "oh shit how am I supposed to combat against that?!"

I can see that. I remember buying the DVDs of the X-Men cartoon from the 90s because I loved that show as a kid, but watching it now there are times when it's laughably bad.

Yeah but Doug has gone on record saying he doesn't get the popularity of those two movies.

This or Clue.

Yes he does and for you Doug Loves Movies fans, this is the answer to the never picked category "Kangaroo Jack City" which never got the love that it should have.

Kazaam? FUCK YEAH that needs to be done! As far as this movie goes, I would have loved it if while the happy 80s music was playing in the credits, it was a shot of the arcade kid hanging in the diner bathroom after suffering the loss to Michael and the subsequent mockery of his cronies, because that was a loose end that was left untied. Also, to me it appeared that it was still double elimination in the finals, but Bull got disqualified as he headbutted Hawk(s) and pulled his arm up when Hawk(s) tried to go over the top, which led to the ref tying their hands together a la "Beat It."

This is a perfect HDTGM flick for being just an off the wall crazy movie based on a just as crazy book. With Ben Affleck in the start of his mid career downfall after Armageddon as a disgraced cop who carries a news clipping about a kid he killed with him, Liev Schreiber as a paranoid, immoral cop BEFORE becoming a villain in the movie, and a monster that killed the Mayans, this movie has a lot of WTF moments to make for a great episode. Plus with the crew's previous podcast with Kevin Smith, I would love to see if they could get Ben Affleck on to skewer this movie, if only for him to yell "Phantoms like a motherfucker." Oh and did I mention Peter O'-MOTHERFUCKIN-Toole is in this?

Already been done.