Does The Trip really count as an Independent? AIP wasn’t a major studio and they weren’t overly concerned with quality but they were a studio and they provided the $500 grand budget for the movie to be made they didn’t buy it after seeing it and distribute it.

It really got the concept of peer pressure and societal structure of a HS, and the ending is just so down and perfect.

Yep, pretty much. I guess that explains something about GenXers. We were pre-traumatized, or something, by the media the Boomers gave us access to, so we just stumbled into adulthood jaded and prematurely weary? (Jesus Christ, when I think about the weird French movies my parents watched with me on video because they…

I HIGHLY recommend re-reading Go Ask Alice as an adult. It’s hilarious. The idea that anyone believed it was an actual diary is shocking, it’s so obviously written by a person who has never even smoked pot. It even got a good review in the NYT! I guess adults just wanted to believe a certain narrative. And kids too. I…

The book is horrifying.  They really laid it all out there for kids back then.  Between that and Go Ask Alice and a bunch of less famous ones ... teenage life seemed like a bleak hellscape based on my elementary/middle school reading.  

I feel like a title like “The Chocolate War” minimizes peanut butter’s struggle for recognition in the struggle for global confections. 

It’s a gorgeous film too. That doesn’t get brought up but Pasolini and Danilo Donati went out of their way on those sets and costumes.

No, don’t lump the Orgeon trail generation in with Millenials! We’re the youngest of Gen X! Personally I was born in 1977 (anyone born through the end of the 70's is Gen X) and played the original Oregon trail on the apple IIe in elemetary school.

the evil twin, the vanished twin, was FLANDERS all along!

And honestly, when you live in a society where a video like 2 girls 1 cup becomes "pop culture" Salo is a cakewalk.

More NSFW images please!  There may never be a better time.

Yeah, YMMV, but I enjoyed it. I did wonder where in the world Rod and Todd were while Ned was mentoring. Did he just leave them at the house while he took Bart fishing?

Clearly Chopping Mall is the movie for you, exploding head and all! Miller, Waronov and Bartel all accounted for. It’s missing Tom Atkins, but it’s got Barbara Crampton, Gerrit Graham and Mel Welles to make up for the omission.

And Dick Miller!

This has never happened, ever:

And this all time great quote:
“I’ve got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here.”
“What’s the bad news?”
“They’re dead.”

“You know what this is? It’s god damn biological weapons, That’s what it is! Government’s testing ‘em on Wheelsy! You know why? Cause I don’t take no shit from nobody at those state hearings! They want to bukkake Jack MacReady? They can kiss my ass! If this shit’s contagious and I turn into a fucking mollusk, I’m…

Just want to emphasize that Night of the Creeps is definitely “Watch This” worthy itself.

I love this movie.  I watch it again every year or so and am always impressed with you wonderfully fun and sick it is.  Hopefully more people discover it!