 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. And happy Thanksgiving to our neighbors down south, from your friends up north here in Canada. We're gonna bring to you today 1987's Blood Rage, which is a Thanksgiving Day slasher. That's right. And this is a Patreon request from Matt. We don't have a last name or anything, just Matt. That's all. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Death Ship. Glacier Smash IPA. Blood Rage is directed by John Grissmer. And he also did a movie called Skelpole, which is a very good movie that we will definitely be covering. It's on our shortlist. Louise Lasser is in this, and she was also in Frankenhooker, which we covered. So go check out a review for that after this one. Don't stop watching this one to watch Frankenhooker. Watch Frankenhooker after. We'll talk later about them exploding bitches. Blood Rage starts out in the drive-in movie theater. Everybody's all trying to get with each other too, right? They're trying to get a little while the movie's playing. But we see a mom and her boyfriend get a little fresh with her. He notices that the boys in the back are sleeping, so then she starts kissing the guy back. The two brothers, they leave the back of the car, and they go wandering around and they find this couple making out in his car. The one brother has this hatchet. He goes up to the car and the guy, get the hell out of here. What are you doing, you little freak? And he kills this guy. He chops him right in the face. As the crowd is starting to come around to see what happened, the brother paints the other brother's face with all the blood and hands him the hatchet. So they immediately zone in on this other brother who didn't do anything. He's all kind of catatonic. They haul the one brother away, and ten years later, all that time in the insane asylum has caused the sort of normal brother to actually start to go insane. And it just so happens that it's Thanksgiving, so the mother, on a yearly basis, she always brings her son a piece of pumpkin pie. Pissed off and everything. He takes the pie and just all crushes it all. Starts mashing it all up. He gets up and he throws it at the wall. It's like, fuck, you're fucking mad to be throwing pumpkin pie at the wall. Yeah, pumpkin pie is so good, man. Who do you fucking throwin' that around for? What are you, nuts? I guess so. It's brother Todd that's in the asylum, and brother Terry that's out to roam free. He's living the good life. That's right. Yeah, he's got lots of friends, and he even has a bit of a love interest going on, too, where they're living. So while they're sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner, the mom has her boyfriend there, and she wants to make this big announcement that she's gonna get married to this putz-landlord guy or wherever the fuck he is. When she makes that announcement, Terry that's sitting there, a switch goes off. They get a phone call. She learns that Todd has actually escaped from the insane asylum. Doctor from the asylum shows up at the mom's house with some fucking loser guy, like with a tranquilizer gun, like just some bomb. Like, who is this guy? Like, would you have the cops with you? You know how to use the fucking thing? Like, just some normal guy with a fucking... He's just helping out? Looking for Todd. Todd's not there yet, so they go out and they start looking for him, right? The lame-ass boyfriend is back at his house having a good old-style lager. There's a knock at the back window. It's Terry with a fucking machete. Cuts the guy's good beer hand off while still holding the beer. It's all moving. Blood's spurting everywhere. Now the mom is starting to fucking lose it because Todd has escaped and she's freaking out and she starts drinking all this wine super heavily, like getting pissed drunk. Worse than Laurie Strode in H2O. Yeah, way worse. Like, this mom gives her a run for her fucking money. Sitting in front of the open fridge just eating food and suddenly cleaning the oven. Like, vacuuming and everything. Starts making these phone calls to the operator and just talking to whoever's there about whatever. Yeah, yeah. I gotta talk to my boyfriend. Get me in touch with someone. So losing it? Completely lost her fucking mind. Terry starts killing like everybody. He kills that doctor that's out looking for Todd and that shitty guy with the tranquilizer gun and starts killing off like his own friends and everything. Todd is making his way back home to confront his brother Terry who framed him 10 years ago. And that's where we're gonna end the plot. If you want to see what happens at the end of Blood Rage, keep watching the review because we will spoil it in the Trash or Treasure segment. Blood Rage is one of those very rare VHS tapes too and if you do own a copy of it, I would say you're extremely lucky. Funny coming from you. I had a copy and you wrecked the damn thing. Yeah, I wrecked it alright, but I did save your ass from those hillbillies. Son of a bitch! What are we gonna do with it? Well, there's only one thing we can do. Take the tape back to Winnipeg, turn it over to RCMP, tell them exactly what happened. Tell them what exactly? Well just that, what happened? They assault one of our VHS tapes at gunpoint. It's justifiable arrest if anything is. You think it's still playable? Not now. What are we gonna do, Justin? You wrecked the tape! That's right, I wrecked a tape. A rare one. First edition. But I'll be damned if I'm gonna stand trial with fellow tape traders and collectors sitting in the jury box. This isn't one of your fucking skits! You wrecked the tape! There is! I see it, Adam. But you're wrong if you don't think that this is a skit. Now dammit, we can get out of this thing with no questions asked. This will be hanging over our heads our whole lives. We gotta get rid of this tape. Just how are you gonna do that, Justin? Where? Anywhere. Everywhere. Nowhere. What about the review? The review? Fucking don't ya? Yes I do. Well then there's only one thing we can do. We gotta drink this moonshine. And I'll take a shot. And so will you. Take this shot, Adam! Adam, take this shot! We're trapped in these woods, Justin! You're the one with all the answers! What do we do now? Now you get to watch the tape. It's ruined, Justin! It's ruined! Before we really get into it, we gotta mention, I happened just out of the blue to watch a shitty, truncated version on fucking YouTube. It cut out all the gore, all the boobs, everything! That makes an 80s horror movie great! So when we're putting together the trash or treasured segment, Justin kept saying these things. I was like, well the effects are great and you're like, no I don't think they were that good. You didn't see anything. What do you mean you didn't see anything? I didn't see nothing! I went and popped in my blu-ray and it's like, you're like, I didn't see any of that! There's a lot of good fucking kills! So, his opinion's gonna be skewed a bit. The treasured, well the first thing that I gotta mention is the music, the super 80s synth music. It's like, I can almost guarantee you, everything on this was done on a Roland Juno 106, which I own, because I know those sounds like the back of my hand and they're like, that's a Juno 106. The effects, which I never saw initially for fuck's sakes, seemed pretty good from what I saw after on the blu-ray. Pretty damn awesome. Adam was talking about the beer hand. I was like, I never saw no beer hand. All I saw was the machete come down and that was it. And I saw no effect after. But what you really see is the hand come off and land on the ground and start shaking. Yeah and you're still holding that beer can? You see like the guy's severed arm and it's all squirting blood and he's screaming, it's like, that's pretty good. Kills the doctor, he splits her right in half and she's all still alive after like a half of her there. Look, I didn't see that. What the fuck? Later on when Todd finds the doctor laying there, splitting half, it looks great because it buried half of her in the ground and had the other half out. Her legs are like way over there and he puts her legs back on. Kind of like a black doll you see almost or something. The head hanging by the stairs. Again, I didn't see that either. I was like, man, the head is a good effect. Like fuck. And then the pool scene too, like when he wipes out those two kids, all I saw was the two kids on the tennis court and the guy is trying to, you know, he's trying to get a little something and then she stops and she's like, I've got a great idea. And then it ends. And then the scene I saw after that was just blood in the pool. I never, I was like, I even wrote down I was like, what the fuck kind of editing is this? This is the shit. But what really happens is they go and they start like having sex on the pool. Which is another treasure about this movie if you're into this kind of thing if you want nudity and stuff like that well blood rage has got tits it's got ass all that I did not see in this fucking movie. All that good stuff. In the first five minutes you got a good kill with lots of gore and you can see bare ass like it's like all in the first five minutes and you missed it all. Another piece of treasure for this is just how 80s it is. For me it was like being sucked back in time just seeing like all the hairdos furniture styles all that kind of stuff. It kind of made me feel at home again. Like in the womb in the 80s you know I didn't get that feeling and it could have just been the edit that I watched. The mom is kind of a neat character in this movie too she's probably the most colorful really she's got kind of a neat arc I guess he could say where she starts off normal and then the more she learns about her sons the more she takes a nose dive right and then she just kind of goes full catatonic and like can't do anything except cleaning and drinking basically talking to the operator and bitching. And the actor who plays her is pretty good like she's pretty good at playing this fucking nutcase mom. The ending of this movie is another piece of treasure which has to do with the mom. Here's some big spoilers for you guys if you haven't seen the movie yet the mom shows up and shoots Terry who's about to make a kill. She doesn't know yet that the wrong twin was in the asylum. And then when the living twin Todd starts talking to her like mom it's Todd I'm here for you and she's like Todd I thought I just shot you and then she realizes that she had the wrong kid put in asylum for 10 years and she loses it even more and she fucking shoots herself in the head at the end of the movie so it's like a cool double climax where they kill the killer it's over but no it's not over. There's one more kill left. Another piece of treasure Ted Raimi too in this movie he's in the beginning and he's like got that trench coat thing with all those condoms he's some condom dealer he's like I like the Trojans like a little stilly cameo and we just saw Ted Raimi last weekend literally were feet away from him at the Winnipeg Comic Con nobody was in line to see him you gotta be kidding me it's Ted Raimi for fuck's sake that being said we never went to go see him took some footage and I'll probably insert it in here where it's like you know how come no one's in line for Ted Raimi well maybe because he's charging 70 bucks I don't want to pay that more people should be lined up for Ted Raimi yeah there should be I'm surprised there's not I'm really surprised cause like look over there there's lineups who's that like ooh I don't know lineups for Ted Raimi what the fuck maybe he's asking too much oh that's why we're not there look at his shitty mires look at his shitty mires look at how he's walking walking like shit his pants I know these guys were walking around these guys in these spider-man costumes and they're like look it's the guy who directed spider-man and then they went and talked to him and it's like imagine that conversation yeah you directed spider-man again I don't get it you love spider-man so much that you're wearing the goddamn outfit at Comic Con but you don't know who directed the movie yeah it's like ugh we also ran into Optimus Prime another piece of treasure for this movie too they have twins and they kind of use that as a mystery you are sure as the viewer but the way the other characters come across in the movie they're not sure about who is doing the killing and that brings us to the trash of Blood Rage which is also the twins and it's a very simple thing they could have changed to make it a bit more intriguing for the viewer is not make it so blatant that Terry frames Todd in the beginning if you didn't see that happen and you were always wondering did they put the wrong twin away it would have been more of a mystery for the viewer but no they make it pretty evident right but it would have been a lot cooler if you were always questioning which twin is doing it it's not the first movie to do the twin thing but the way they do it is kind of interesting about like the wrong twin being in prison where they could have taken that it could have been really neat the dialogue in this movie ugh it's abysmal it's really it's drab and boring it's pretty shitty like that fucking landlord guy or whatever that husband guy he sucks everything he has to say is fucking shitty yeah you don't watch this movie for a clever dialogue that's for damn sure dialogue that most of the kids say is pretty boring one dimensional what you see in this movie is face value that's it there's no kind of like underlying message or like subplots or anything like that what you see is what you get tits an ass and kills and a crazy mom the actors don't really do any justice to the movie either but then again like you said right it's not that type of movie either way the acting is pretty piss poor mark sopper who plays the twins he does a good enough job I guess considering that it's kind of like a lower budget type of the cheesy slasher if they would have gotten someone who could really do the kind of like good and evil kind of switch between the two twins I think it would have elevated this movie a little bit more blood rage 1987 treasure treasure I'm gonna I'm gonna stay neutral I kinda have to I didn't watch the proper version of it take what I have to say about this movie with the grain assault based on the version that I watched it doesn't happen too often we actually end up watching two different versions of the movie I happen to watch the really shitty version so I've got a shitty attitude about it basically and the funny thing is I just could have lent you a damn movie to watch but we didn't know right you only live fucking five minutes away oh well maybe next time next time we'll make sure we got the fucking right versions we're watching the same version I'm gonna write a treasure I like blood rage I've seen it twice and I think like when you know what you're going in for the second time it's more enjoyable cause like aha kids it's a cappy cheesy slasher that kinda ticks all the boxes for what you want for a cheesy 80 slasher it's got good kills, good blood nudity cheesy acting, over the top acting so it's just kind of silly fun silly fun Thanksgiving day slasher it doesn't have a whole lot to do with Thanksgiving no no not really well they never marketed it as that right it just happens to take place in Thanksgiving you did enjoy the introduction of the pie at least yes that's the redeeming quality of this for me until next time keep drinking and wrecking pie