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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 21h

21. Nightwing (1979) - Vampire bats invade a a Native American Reservation in Arizona. Good location and internecine Native American conflict. David Warner is great as a bat Van Helsing who seems insane but eventually admits he operates with grants from the WHO. The bats are, no surprise, adorable.

It gets established early on in the movie that the bats attack like piranha and piss all over everything, so when they attack it smells like ammonia.

The attacks involve lots of puppets and super-imposed footage of actual bats flying and, of course, the classic "person being attacked hold the thing attacking them and moves it around"

David Warner says the word ammonia at least 30 times in this film.

His big plan is to build a shark cage but for bats so that he can shoot one with a tracking dart and follow it to their nest.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 22h

20. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) - I liked Schoenbrun's TV Glow a lot but this was a miss for me. Felt contemptuous of slashers but only a surface interest in the genre, the humor falls flat, and the copious CG gore is lame even as comedy. It's interesting. Wouldn't go beyond that.

The use of CG was probably a conscious choice based on the plot (no spoilers) but it's just one of several ways that felt like the film sabotaging itself.

Meanwhile the optical matte paintings used throughout to create a sense of unreality were pretty neat, but again, seemed to work at cross purposes with the story. Do not go into this expecting a slasher or a funny parody of slashers. You will be disappointed like me. It's more of a TV Glow 2 but about nostalgia for slasher movies.

I feel a TV Glowniverse forming and I think it's a big mistake. But people seem to really like this movie so what the fuck do I know, right?

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 22h

19. The Jar (1984) - Bizarre one-and-done masterpiece(?) of Bruce Toscano is neon colors and weird reality shifts, completely overdubbed audio and gross-out flashes. I would say it exists on the periphery of Eraserhead but suddenly cuts to a Vietnam battle and a helicopter extraction. Singular.

I THINK the film starts with a guy being found at a car crash. The film plays loose with reality, sometimes switching the colors of objects or making characters disappear completely without explanation.

There is a woman in this who murders him or rescues him and he murders her...

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

18. Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985) - Christopher Lee as werewolf hunter Stefan brings so much seriousness and gravitas to this otherwise EXTREMELY stupid movie that I loved it. Stick around for end credits music video that repeats a clip of Sybil Danning baring her breasts 17 times.

Christopher Lee dresses in dour suits and never cracks a joke but then shows up at a werewolf night club looking like this and the movie is worth it for that alone.

It feels like half the movie is a gross werewolf orgy culminating in this hairy threesome where the three characters look like various shades of cookie dough rolled around on the floor of a barbershop. By the way, when they go full werewolf mode the costumes are from Planet of the Apes and rely heavily on separate closeups of werewolf masks to sell the idea that they are werewolves.

Despite the general crappiness, there are some really good gore moments including this inexplicable eyeball explosion.

Sybil Danning parades around in this extremely uncomfortable looking suit of armor for a big chunk of the movie and she is always wearing sunglasses in these parts because, according to the trivia, she had pink eye during a lot of the shoot.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

17. The House That Screamed (1969) - A school for bad girls in 1800s France is gasping with pent desire as a killer lurks in the shadows. The girls are giggling over corsets, getting whipped, planning conjugal visits, and getting knocked off one by one. Atmospheric, steamy, with a twisted payoff.

This moment was really weird because the girls all shower in giant wet t-shirts while the headmistress struts around looking like Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS but then she gets shocked when one of them takes off the wet t-shirt.

I don't remember why she got whipped but it seemed like something that wasn't worth getting whipped over.

The gore is light and intermittent, but this was a god moment.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

16. The Boxer's Omen (1983) - Wild masterpiece of gross out special effects and exotic location shoots. Asian Sam Raimi's Holy Mountain. There are multiple long (5-10min) wizard battles with goop eating, puking, summoning monsters from jars and shooting magic. Also it's really horny. 10 out of 10.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

15. Santo vs. Frankenstein’s Daughter (1972) - Luchador legend Santo's girlfriend is taken by Frankenstein's daughter, a blonde in go-go boots who needs the potent blood of Santo to maintain her youth. Silly, a bit gory. Feels like a 60s James Bond knockoff with the henchmen and the lair.

Dr. Frankenstein scheme to capture Santo and take his blood relies on her de-aged henchmen who need her anti-aging drugs, her gorilla man minion Truxon (created by transfusing gorilla blood into a man), and her monster minion Ursus (same actor as Truxon but he wears a shirt and has stitches), and multiple kidnapping schemes involving Santo's girlfriend and his girlfriend's sister.

When Dr. Frankenstein kidnaps Santo's girlfriend, he goes with her sister to search for her.

Santo's girlfriend gets hypnotized into cutting his eyes out (??) but he looks too cute in his luchador mask and she can't go through with it.

Poor Ursus, sent to kill Santo, gets impaled in a graveyard, but lives thanks to Santo wrapping a bandage around his stomach, inspiring Ursus to help Santo and save the day.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

14. Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) - Bizarre Jekyll & Hyde/Frankenstein mashup. Dr. Oliver Frank wants to build a babe out of junk body parts, steals brain from his teen girlfriend and puts it into a monster body. Also slips potions to another teen, turns her into a monster. Some hilarious moments.

Great cold open reveal of the creature (NOT Frankenstein's daughter, the male creature is Frankenstein's daughter).

This is what the monkey girl with the eyebrows looks like when she's not roofied with monster drugs.

This girl is friends with monkey girl and also goes to makeout point with the middle aged Dr. Frank, and he gets mad when she won't go all the way and chases her to steal her brain.

Which he puts in this creature, which is wearing a vinyl karate gi for some reason and does his bidding but they call it "her" and "she" I guess because it has a woman's brain it (no indication of this or the woman's character).

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

13. Children of the Corn (1984) - A strong argument to keep driving if you hit a child with your car. Daylight horror with an apocalyptic vibe. A small Nebraska town where the kids killed all the grownups at the behest of a holy corn entity. Creepy, great casting of kids, but the ending is cruddy.

This little nerd in the Amish hat is actually like 25 year old but he's great.

The more trappings of the corn cult we see, the less sense they make. Which isn't to say I dislike them. The corn bowl of blood rules.

This Courtney Gains face and giant hollering mouth are some of the best creature FX in the movie.

Some really dire FX happening at the end along with a bewildering mix of monsters. It's a cloud, it's in the dirt like tremors, it's lava, it explodes people it possesses people. Stick to a lane, corn monster.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

12. Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) - Return to the Chopping Mall location with a Phantom of the Opera knockoff instead of Killbots. Pauly Shore serves froyo. A few decent kills, a good nightmare sequence, and a fun but silly finale. You're watching this for the mall and it's great.

The phantom makeup is pretty gnarly but the phantom coverup mask stinks.

I like the two lead actresses in this and I found it very funny that (spoilers) one of them learns that the phantom was her boyfriend who she deeply loved and then looks at his face and is like "sorry nope"

No wheezin' the juice but lots of squeezin' the froyo. Also Pauly Shore a) always works alone at the froyo stand and b) seems to be able to wander around the mall whenever he wants as part of his job

Pauly Shore has a repeated gag of placing costume quality edible body parts (an ear, maybe an eyeball) into the frozen yogurt.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hell House LLC (2015) - Found footage cheapie opens with news of a disaster at the Hell House haunted house attraction. Then a doc interviews survivors and watches footage from workers at Hell House. It doesn't bring many ideas to the genre but given its budget it is effective. Spawned 4 sequels.

SPOILERS: The Hell House LLC crew was unable to limit their liability.

The moving clown dummies are main characters in the movie. Which is funny to me because it suggests they bought evil clown dummies and then entities moved them around to scare them.

A few genuinely good scares in this one. This girl's appearance probably being my favorite.

So much Blair Witching (staring at walls or with back turned) in this movie.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

8. Necropolis (1986) - Blonde witch from 17th century reappears with Gozer haircut riding a motorcycle in 80s NYC. She makes people kill themselves so that she can eat their gray brain jizz and advance her unknowable satanic agenda. I would not call this movie good, at all, but the witch is great.

The witch in the 1600s is trying to summon Satan by interrupting a wedding with a voodoo doll and then kidnapping the bride. Which... not exactly building up a lot of sympathy for the persecution of witchcraft, but at least this part of her plan doesn't seem to involve brain jizz.

I thin that's supposed to be Satan? There are a lot of pentagrams too.

There's also a plot involving an NPR (??) reporter and a descendant of the former slave who killed the original witch, but whenever they're on the screen you are wondering where the witch is and what the witch is doing.

The time traveling witch gets her boobs out frequently to dance around and then eventually decides she needs to grow more for her hungry (rotting gnome) boys.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

7. Curse of the Cat People (1944) - A little girl living in 1950s middle America is haunted by her dead cat person mother, Simone Simon from 1942's Cat People. More "creepy" than scary, there is genuine danger for the girl but it's more about being haunted by her past than anything supernatural.

The nuclear family of 1950s America: Father, daughter (half catperson), stepmother, and Jamaican manservant played by an actor named Sir Lancelot.

Dinner with catperson tonight...❤️ she made a giant birthday cake for all her friends and I'm the only one who showed. 😢 love her

She has a weird, extremely toxic relationship with an old neighbor lady who favors her over the woman's actual adult daughter, which nearly leads to murder

secret meetings with princess cat mommy in the back yard

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

6. Human Lanterns (1982) - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ed Gein. Lavish Shaw Brothers Wuxia Texas Chainsaw Massacre in gauzy cinemascope with the kungfu you want out of a movie about killing and skinning ladies to make lanterns. For all the fun martial arts stuff, the violence is truly gnarly.

The plot is broadly about two noble martial arts masters from rival houses fighting with each other over who has better lanterns. The fighting stuff is at its best when it involves the skull mask guy and his creepy jumping around monkey fighting style.

I would put the skull/monkey mask and costume (it's a mask in the movie, not a monster) in this up against Leatherface for creepy horror movie costumes. He jumps around and fights like a monkey too, adding to how creepy it is.

All the stuff involving the skinning and lanterns is pretty graphic and violent with peeling skin and big nasty machinery and drying human skin on clotheslines.

Of course the villain's workshop of death is eventually discovered.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

5. The Watcher in the Woods (1980) - Disney horror turn from Bette Davis and the director of Escape to Witch Mountain with a spooky country castle and some ominous woods and a poltergeist afoot. I'll spare you the twist at the end. High on atmosphere, low on scares. OK family horror. No gore.

Entering a house of mirrors and absolutely losing her shit at reflections

The blindfolded ghost girl appears a lot in this movie. When you find out what all the spookiness was about... prepare to be disappointed.

Not the greatest swansong for Bette Davis, but fortunately she had several more years and 1989's Wicked Stepmother (2.2 on Letterboxd!) left in her tank.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) - Brings back Langenkamp, gives Freddy big tits and a prehensile tongue and he puppeteers with tendons. Craig Wasson might as well be his loser from Body Double. Dream stuff is great and while I think the original is better this is peak Freddy.

Heather Langenkamp's Nancy has a lot of certainty about how to fight Freddy which is surprising as everyone dies around her for a second movie.

Worm Freddy chows down on Patricia Arquette.

My favorite dream warrior is the punk girl who imagines herself as a badass punk girl with a giant mowhawk and the two tiniest switchblades I've ever seen which she knows will kick Freddy's ass.

Craig Wasson ends up in a grave just like in Body Double but in this one he fights an animated skeleton to get there.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) - Fun horror comedy from the director of Haxan (a fav!) features idle rich guy who wants an adventure, ends up kidnapped to a cult/sex party with his girlfriend, aided by a little person and menaced by satan's minions. Twist VERY similar to Fincher's The Game.

This guy is a total goof but he does stick up for his girl at Satan's eyes wide shut party policed by a literal gorilla.

This warning is given by a little person who emerges from a cabinet to shout tips at our hero.

The seven footprints to Satan are a gameshow where you step on the right steps or you get set free, become Satan's slave or get executed.

Just some of the amazing people lurking around Satan's mansion.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2. Murder-Rock (1984) - The killer in Fulci's Giallo Flashdance has one move: walk towards women in the shower holding gauze soaked in chloroform. They don't resist, just pass out and he stabs a needle in their breast and kills them. The music (E of EL&P) is atrocious. The dancing is AMAZING!

If you're reading this just go watch the trailer with the dancing because it rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUUmGf08qI

All but one or two of the victims die in a shower or locker room and all of them die the exact same way. The kills are pretty lame, but the boobs, well, the boobs are great.

Nobody fights the murdering or the rocking.

Some delightful overacting all though this and like pretty much all Fulci it looks amazing.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. White of the Eye (1987) - The sunbaked southwestern Vaporwave Giallo from Cannon Films we all craved. Helicopter shots and Pavaratti, gory corpses wrapped in plastic, hundreds of eyeball closeups, David Keith installing stereos in desert mansions, a dynamite vest, all shot like a music video.

The murders in the movie are mostly more humorous and artsy than anything, although one bathtub drowning is pretty gnarly. The most gruesome part is when David Keith rips the head off a deer and drinks its blood.

Cathy Moriarty stars as the woman in love with the maniac killer stalking the desert hills.

This movie was directed by Donald Cammell, the co-director of Performance, a bizarre movie from Nicolas Roeg where a hitman and Mick Jagger in full glam makeup start blurring together into one person during a long, psychedelic encounter in a London house. This movie isn't THAT weird but it gets pretty strange.

Sorry about your face, kid. Unquestionably the ugliest child actor with the worst drip in recent memory. At one point she runs from the killer who is shooting at her with a shotgun and she is wearing red footy PJs and a bootleg Snoopy sweater. Just one of the most awkward, worst acting kids put to film. There is even a scene where the movie itself comments on how ugly she is! No offense.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

He should have easily won Best Renaissance Festival King Who Jousts On a Motorcycle for playing the king in Knightriders.

Ed Harris and his queen riding on their motorcycle in Knightriders.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Silent era actor James A. Marcus definitely has one of my favorite Letterboxd bio images:

The black and white Letterboxd image for actor James A. Marcus, known mostly for silent movies, depicts him snarling, wild-eyed, with a big walrus mustache, a mop of hair, and a horrible necktie

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

An Ohio travesty: Cincinnati Chili. It uses that ridiculous amount of cheese to hide the underlying sin, but when you get that first cinnamon-flavored bite of "chili" and overcooked spaghetti in your mouth you will taste nothing but regret. Many people like this. It's so disgusting.

A plate of skyline "chili" with an insane amount of cheese on top of a plate of overcooked spaghetti and cinnamon flavored chili

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

With James Gunn running DC I wonder if he'll have the guts to feature Wonder Woman's most diabolical villain

A panel featuring the character Egg Fu from Wonder Woman who is a giant racist caricature of a Chinese person I guess in the shape of an egg and he talks like a racist caricature as well.

Egg Fu, the giant racist egg from Wonder Woman is saying "The Amelicans would be warned if the locket were fired at rong range! So -- we will wait until their fleet comes too close for them to escape annihilation! And our scout planes ladar warns us that will be vely vely soon ! Heeee-ho!"

Egg Fu watches Wonder Woman on a screen and says his catchphrase Heeee-ho!

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I regret to inform you there is something worse

the king cake baby mascot from the New Orleans Pelicans

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

of course you do lmao do you have the flasher gremlin too?

the flasher gremlin toy showing off the goods

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It doesn't seem like @flophousecat.bsky.social is on here much but I feel like he and @dankmccoy.bsky.social need to know about this toy that might make them very horny

a toy of the female gremlin from Gremlins 2 complete with a wig and pink boa and high heels VERY SEXY

the box for the gremlins 2 female gremlin toy

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A lot of American dominance in WW2 is about manufacturing but you could get even simpler and boil it all down to one word: oil. We had so much, the axis powers had so little, and a lot of their strategy and technology reflects this disparity in resources.

oil shortages were so desperate that tanks would sometimes be abandoned for lack of fuel, oil sources became critical strategic targets, and cars converted to run on coal or even wood were seen on the streets of Germany and occupied Europe

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

they rule but not even the funniest disguise in season 2

a mysterious mustachioed Japanese man Mr. Tojamura arrives in Twin Peaks

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Do you eat it at your pub from Uncle Buck?

O'Sullivan's Pub exterior from Uncle Buck

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Always funny when I remember that the ultimate cool guy Alain Delon character in Jean-Pierre Melville's La Samourai is named Jef.

Alain Delon straightening the brim of his hat on the cover of Le Samourai.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

William Wegman Weimaraner looking disguise.

A photo of a Weimaraner wearing a chef's hat and jacket by William Wegman

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

picturing him transferring a big nasty worm to Scott Adams like the one from Jason Goes to Hell

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

My main political issue remains the same through both of their presidencies and Biden's and would bring immeasurable healing to America and the world:

The cover for the xbox game "OUTLAW GOLF" and the point is I want to outlaw golf.

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Plumber Charged Extra for Ghoulie @frownt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

94 movies (including a couple shorts) for October. Not bad. Thanks for watching horror with me. I hope you had a happy Halloween and I'll see you next year!

Benedict Wong heading into the convenience store in Weapons.

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