And killing any nearby dogs goes without saying

ATF logic: If you own a gun and have a shoelace or a tiny flat piece of metal, pipe fittings and brillo pads, you’re a fucking criminal mastermind and deserve to have your house raided and burned down.  If you pay the toll and have your name on the registry so we can keep tabs on you, that’s cool for now.  Otherwise fuck you.  We also walk weapons that we don’t trust citizens with to cartels to keep you worthless peasants safe.

 

Saw a few good horror movies

Shock waves(1977) is a Spooky low-budget movie about undead Nazis rising up to attack a group stranded on an island.  The death corps are different from the usual movie zombie types.  They hide in the water and trees and silently sneak around but can move fast if they have to.  They don’t eat their victims but kill with their bare hands, preferring to drag them underwater to drown.  Not much is revealed about them other than they were part of an experiment in WWII that was effective yet unpredictable.  But that’s all that has to be revealed; going into detail about why the sky turns yellow or how the ghost ship surfaced or what the dark goggles do would be too much exposition.

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers(1988) is pretty self-explanatory but it delivers on the premise.  A growing number of murders thought to be from a serial killer are really due to a chainsaw cult.  The leader(Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface) sends hookers out to seduce and carve up victims as a sacrifice.  A detective is looking for a runaway who happens to want revenge against the cult.  Chainsaws, humor, boobies, what more could anyone want from a title like this?

Street Trash(1987) is one of the ultimate gross-out movies on par with Troma’s best.  Part of it is about a mysterious case of booze found in a liquor store basement that causes people to violently and colorfully melt right after a mere sip.  It’s also about bums at odds with the world and vice versa.  Everything looks run down and hardly anyone is squeaky clean physically or morally. The main character is kind of an asshole, the cop is hotheaded, some bums are friendlyish but in general everyone is surly(one might even say TOXIC, hyuk) towards another.  The villain is a psycho who carries a knife made from a human femur and used to be a hitman and drug dealer in Nam.  Other than the meltings(and a fat guy explosion), there’s blood, puke, piss, tossing a severed dick around, and a couple love scenes with the unwashed.

3/3