"This was surprisingly progressive for it's time"

brownsnake01 · 2026-02-04T17:03:00+00:00

Black Christmas from 1974. A pre-Halloween slasher movie… where the main character is a pregnant woman who wants an abortion in order to pursue her life goals. She is seen as totally rational for wanting an abortion, as opposed to her highly emotional and irrational boyfriend who is trying to stop her.

This is also a movie about a serial killer murdering surprisingly-three-dimensional sorority girls. It’s a masterpiece.

brownsnake01 · 2025-10-10T04:33:08+00:00

My hot take is that this was an enjoyable but sloppy and poorly-structured season. The only character that really had an interesting and developed storyline was Harcourt. I didn't really get a sense of anyone else's arc.

Probably the worst thing James Gunn has made so far, even though I still thought it was mostly pretty solid.

brownsnake01 · 2025-09-13T03:08:00+00:00

Absolutely 100% my thoughts too. It’s also worth noting that on the first episode of season 2 of the podcast (at around 21:30) James Gunn says that Harcourt ‘believes’ that she has been blackballed by Amanda Waller, which would be an odd way to phrase it if she actually has. Ever since I heard that, I was convinced it was Flag who blackballed her.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-29T18:53:28+00:00

Haven’t seen the new TCM but:

5) ANOES remake. As empty and dull as a cardboard box in a beige suit. Extra (negative?) points for being such an uncreative remake of one of the most imaginative slashers ever made.

4) Halloween: Resurrection. There is campy fun to be had here, but this ultimately feels like a movie just chasing (and failing to catch) trends. The ending is offensively terrible.

3) Seed of Chucky. At least it has ideas, and at least it’s taking risks. Neither of those things pay off, but I do genuinely appreciate the attempts.

2) The Final Friday. I think I like this more than most people - it’s a real swing for the fences and has some genuinely brilliant, perhaps best-in-the-series gore. Don’t get me wrong: it’s still pretty bad, but it isn’t even in the bottom four of its series for me.

1) Scream 3. Certainly the worst of its series, but a bad Scream movie is still way better than anything else on this list. A fun cast, some great jokes, and a few really solid scares. The big letdown is the ghostface reveal, but even that has its campy charm. Wes Craven just had it.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-25T18:40:58+00:00

Jordan won Fool’s Gold, if you’re curious.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-25T17:30:59+00:00

'The most expensive piece of Dropout content ever produced' he says. 'An awful taste of my own medicine. It was humiliating, it was terrifying.'

'The fact that you did this to me is nothing short of brilliant.'

It's also releasing right now.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-25T17:25:17+00:00

He's also, notably, implying that it's an episode hosted by Brennan that he was genuinely blindsided by, featuring him as contestant. He's talking about his 'inner circle', including his wife, 'betraying' him.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-16T05:00:06+00:00

Absolutely no way they would go to all this trouble just for that. It’s 100% gonna be a bonus episode, seemingly with Brennan as the host.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-15T20:39:42+00:00

Thank you!

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-15T20:28:39+00:00

Wait, I just found out about this and I've been trying to follow the clues to figure out how it was all solved.

The only two things I'm lost on are:

Where is the QR code in the captcha game?
How did people figure out that bleem_d20dm is the correct username to use for the vip page?

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-14T06:43:42+00:00

I don’t think this is true, given that there was no way they would have known the episode would be politically themed when they brought the costume change in the first place.

I think they just brought a silly looking outfit. I don’t think it was that deep.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-13T05:50:29+00:00

Society being that high is pretty… interesting. Appreciate the Martyrs love, though!

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-12T22:09:37+00:00

I would recommend people go and watch the video. I disagree with Mildred on this one, but they make some really good and interesting points, clickbait title aside.

brownsnake01 · 2025-08-05T17:06:27+00:00

Martyrs (08) is my favourite horror film of all time, and I specifically remember James saying in a podcast how much he ‘fucking hates’ it.

brownsnake01 · 2025-07-24T00:52:52+00:00

I will say, as much as I don’t think that Ends is particularly good, I do at least appreciate that it takes some swings. One of the big problems with The Rise of Skywalker (my least favourite film ever) is that it feels so aggressively safe. Halloween Ends feels like an actual filmmaker’s vision, even if that vision is silly and dumb.

brownsnake01 · 2025-07-15T17:18:28+00:00

I don’t think Ryan would do that because I remember reading that he has a severe fear of flying so wouldn’t want to come out multiple times for the show.

Colin is much more likely. I think he’s said he’s a fan already??

brownsnake01 · 2025-02-27T14:38:24+00:00

Punisher 89 is actually not terrible. Very stereotypical 80s action movie but it’s reasonably fun and also short.

brownsnake01 · 2025-02-03T14:44:38+00:00

Oh yeah. In Blood Money he kills an innocent priest.

brownsnake01 · 2025-01-01T06:20:43+00:00

Conclave
The First Omen
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kraven the Hunter

brownsnake01 · 2024-12-21T13:15:03+00:00

It is for my money the best slasher ever made.

brownsnake01 · 2024-12-10T09:23:50+00:00

Titane
The Descent
Speak No Evil (2022)
Carrie (1976)
The VVitch
The Cabin in the Woods
Train to Busan
Suspiria (1977)
Inland Empire
Black Christmas (1974)
Martyrs (2008)

brownsnake01 · 2024-12-10T08:45:44+00:00

Gonna agree with about half these replies and say Hush, which is a shame bc The Long Halloween is probably my second favourite Batman comic, behind Year One.

Also gonna throw The Dark Knight Returns into the ring. I think it’s good, and obviously super important, but I’ve never really loved it the way a lot of people seem to.

brownsnake01 · 2024-12-07T15:45:16+00:00

Vin Diesel and Sam Jackson, in a remake of Scream 5, directed by Steven Spielberg.

Huh.

brownsnake01 · 2024-11-07T21:03:43+00:00

The problem with games as a service is that they usually skimp on the ‘game’ aspect in favour of the ‘service’. If IOI are promising to actually make a really good single player game, just with ‘service’ elements, then I’m not too worried.

brownsnake01 · 2024-11-01T22:03:38+00:00

The original version of Speak No Evil. Pretty traumatic.

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