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detroit rock city didn’t need kiss!! it would’ve been a great movie with almost anybody else in their place because underneath it all is a genuinely great 90s comedy with a cast of characters who somehow remain likable even when they’re doing increasingly questionable shit. and of course, it’s got a great script.

this is one of the last great 90s teen comedies, and it just might be one of the best of them all. it’s got everything!

join the revolution as we worship at the altar of adam rifkin’s masterpiece and ask the questions nobody else has the courage to ask: why hasn’t criterion picked up this forgotten gem and given it the treatment it deserves yet?

how did detroit rock city become such an underrated cult comedy?

also, fuck gene simmons.

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Detroit Rock City is a 1999 American teen comedy film directed by Adam Rifkin and written by Carl V. Dupré. It tells of four teenage boys in a Kiss tribute band who try to see their idols in a concert in Detroit in 1978. It took its title from the Kiss song of the same name. The film stars Edward Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Sam Huntington, the members of Kiss (Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss), Natasha Lyonne, and Lin Shaye.

The film was primarily shot in Canada, such as at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Toronto and Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, but also at Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed approximately $6 million against a $17 million budget. It is a 1970s nostalgia film. - Wiki

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the gang has finally sat down to revisit what might just be the most underrated and underappreciated entry in the killer doll extended universe: child’s play 3.

this movie was rushed into production almost immediately after child’s play 2 opened, and instead of giving us the obvious sequel — Charles on campus, where Andy heads off to college while Chucky sneaks around murdering young adults fueled by booze, drugs, and bad decisions — Don Mancini decided to send our boy Andy to military school.

Don Mancini clearly hated children and wanted to punish Andy Barkley. First he takes away his mom after the last movie, then Kyle is mysteriously gone before this one even starts.

it’s raining shid on Andy Barkley.

to make matters worse, the film became the center of a real-world controversy after two children murdered a friend in the U.K., with media coverage focusing on claims that the crime had been influenced by child’s play 3. the case sparked years of debate over horror movies and media violence.

fun fact: this was the very first child’s play movie the gang ever saw.

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Child’s Play 3 is a 1991 American supernatural slasher film written by Don Mancini and directed by Jack Bender. Brad Dourif reprises his role as Chucky while new cast members include Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, and Jeremy Sylvers. It serves as a sequel to Child’s Play 2 (1990) and the third installment in the Child’s Play franchise.

It was executive-produced by David Kirschner, who produced the first two Child’s Play films. Although released only nine months after Child’s Play 2, the story takes place eight years following the events of that film, and one month before the events of Bride of Chucky (which was made seven years later). The film follows Andy Barclay (Whalin) now 16, enrolling at Kent Military School. Andy is unknowingly followed by a revived Chucky (Dourif), who sets his sight on a younger kid cadet Ronald Tyler (Sylvers).

Released on August 30, 1991, in the United States by Universal Pictures, Child’s Play 3 received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $20.5 million worldwide against a budget of $13 million, being the lowest-grossing film in the series. The film became notorious in the United Kingdom when it was suggested it might have inspired the real-life murder of a British child, James Bulger, suggestions rejected by officers investigating the case. - Wiki

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You know it’s all a CAME that we play back and forth!” - Franki Pall Mall

the boiis are back on their reunion tour!!

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When Mac discovered Emmure for the first time, his head turned around 360 degrees, his eyes began shining out a bright white light, and he began pulsating while foaming at the mouth.

He never looked back, but Zach would later receive the most cursed introduction to the band of all time. You wont want to miss the full story only over at the xCGx studios streaming all the way from the planet earth.

The Band formed in 2003 by a group of dudes from Queens and Connecticut who met online, Emmure built their identity on raw energy, breakdown-heavy riffs, and an intentionally over-the-top attitude. led by Frankie Palmeri — the only constant member.

This episode serves as a live documentation of Zach’s long journey to piece together Frankie’s entire life story based solely on the lyrics — no outside context allowed.

eventually, Zach found himself embracing the Limp Bizkit-coded era of the band’s evolution on Felony, which dropped like a nuclear event across the internet and immediately split the fanbase in half.

from there, the band got even weirder, somehow evolving into a haunted alien boombox concept arc — basically a sequel to KAZAAM, starring Frankie himself reprising the role as the rapping genie. Would you believe me if I told you that not even nintendocore-adjacent territory is off limits?

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Emmure formed in 2003 out of a mix of Queens and Connecticut kids who met online, and from the jump they built their identity around raw energy, breakdown-heavy songwriting, and an intentionally abrasive attitude. Led entirely by vocalist Frankie Palmeri—the only constant member—the band carved out a lane that blended metalcore and deathcore with obvious nu-metal influence, especially in groove, repetition, and vocal cadence. Their early releases felt chaotic and unfinished to some, but that was part of the appeal: Emmure prioritized impact over polish, quickly gaining a loyal fanbase while dividing the broader scene .

Over time, the band evolved from raw, confrontational shock value into a more structured and self-aware act, though controversy and instability were constant—lineup changes, public backlash, and Frankie’s outspoken persona kept them in the spotlight as much as the music did. Albums like Felony marked a turning point toward more groove-driven, hook-based writing, while later releases showed a shift away from pure provocation toward reflection and burnout. Despite never becoming mainstream-level successful, Emmure has remained a durable, mid-tier force in heavy music, surviving through touring, reinvention, and a refusal to conform—making them less a traditional band and more an ongoing extension of Frankie Palmeri’s personality. - Wiki

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you just can’t keep this man down.

the very next year after friday the 13th part 2 dropped, Steve Miner was right back in the director’s chair doing it all over again — but this time in a whole other dimension.

taking place immediately after the events of the second film, Jason Voorhees is right back to work on his crime spree. the 3-D movie craze that had packed theaters years earlier was the perfect gimmick to drag even more people back to camp crystal lake.

by this point Paramount Pictures was already embarrassed enough by these movies, so the writer for part three was basically handed two mission objectives:

1. take that goofy-ass sack off his head and give him a more iconic look

2. kill him

no more franchise after this one. …or at least that was the plan.

but we all know this big dumb dog will hunt! you can’t even stop him from eating that kibble. trying would almost seem inhumane. it’s like not letting a cheetah run.

🔪 𐕣 CAME GANG 𐕣 breaks down the birth of hockey mask Jason and the moment the franchise accidentally created the most iconic horror character.

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WE’RE TAKING OVER THE WORLD

just like that a day to remember song said.

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Friday the 13th Part III is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. It is the sequel to Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and the third installment in the Friday the 13th franchise. Set directly after the events of the previous film, the plot follows Chris Higgins, a teenage girl (Dana Kimmell), and her friends who go on a trip to a homestead near Crystal Lake where an injured Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker) has taken refuge until re-emerging for another killing spree. The film marks the first appearance of Jason’s signature hockey mask, which has since become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and the horror genre.

The original storyline was supposed to focus on a post-traumatic Ginny Field from the prior installment. However, this concept was abandoned when actress Amy Steel declined to reprise her role. Martin Kitrosser, a script supervisor on the previous two films, co-wrote the screenplay with Carol Watson. Unlike the previous two installments, Friday the 13th Part III was filmed in California rather than the east coast. Paramount shot the film in 3-D, a choice suggested by Martin Sadoff, an associate of producer Frank Mancuso Jr. The 3-D technology used in the film complicated the shooting process, which lasted several months in the spring of 1982. - Wiki

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the gang is going underground one last time to finish a promise made to an old friend.

the first time zach ever got drunk was recorded and released to the public during the 3 ninjas: high noon at mega mountain episode back in the day. but even before that historic collapse, the boys once tried — and failed — to record a commentary for the most hated entry in the halloween franchise.

the finished edit lived on an old laptop whose hard drive died before it could ever be exported.

so revisiting it as the second feature for the first-ever drunken commentary was a no-brainer. ``and then somehow that version got deleted too — too incoherent, too cursed to survive.

basically, this movie is haunted. even this version had to be rebuilt from a backup recording.

listen to the podcast that god doesn’t want you to hear!

Michael Myers returned in 2002, and this was the first time the gang saw a halloween movie in theaters. they’ve got the inside scoop on just how much of a letdown that night really was. they still wake up screaming.

this movie is about how michael myers was beaten for our sins, crucified by the romans, and resurrected — and somehow Mel Gibson still forgot to include a single line about the actual teachings. the passion of the shape.

🎃 + CG + dives into Halloween: Resurrection—early-2000s reality-tv, slasher, horror movie that no one wanted and see once and for all what ends up happening when you never kill your franchise mascot.

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Halloween: Resurrection is a 2002 American slasher film directed by Rick Rosenthal from a screenplay written by Larry Brand and Sean Hood. It is the sequel to Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) and the eighth installment of the Halloween franchise. It stars Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Ryan Merriman, Sean Patrick Thomas, Tyra Banks, and Jamie Lee Curtis, with Brad Loree as Michael Myers. This was the final installment of the H20 timeline of the Halloween franchise, which had just been rebooted with the previous film in 1998, before it was rebooted again in 2007 with a remake and again in 2018. The film follows Myers continuing his murderous rampage in his hometown of Haddonfield when his childhood house is used for a live internet horror show.

Halloween: Resurrection was released on July 12, 2002, and was critically panned, with critics considering it an unnecessary sequel to Halloween H20 and deeming it to be one of the worst films in the Halloween franchise. Although the film is technically a box office success, grossing $37.6 million worldwide against a $15 million budget, it was considered an underperformance at the box office, in contrast to its predecessor earning $75 million. The next film in the franchise was a 2007 remake of the 1978 film directed by Rob Zombie. - Wiki

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Friday the 13th came out and shocked an audience hungry for more masked, knife-wielding murderers tied to spooky-sounding american holidays — but everything we now know about the beloved 9-iq mangled man-child of the franchise really starts here, with part 2.

𐕣CG𐕣 is celebrating the 13th even though the country is burning and we’re gonna at least pretend we don’t care and feel fine. why? because r.e.m said we’re supposed to.

this is the one where Jason Voorhees wears the pillowcase. the hockey mask era doesn’t begin until part 3 — Shelly hadn’t introduced him to the sport yet — so he had to start somewhere.

set five years after the events of the original, Jason tracks down the sole survivor of his mother’s murder spree: Alice. and let’s be honest — she never had a chance. she was marked for sequel death the moment she survived the first film. it became the blueprint.

a lot of what we now consider standard slasher sequel formula — the stalking, the body count escalation, the expanded myth — starts right here in Friday the 13th part 2.

does it still hold up as one of the most important 80s slasher sequels ever made?

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Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut, and written by Ron Kurz. Taking place five years after the first film, Part 2 follows a similar premise, with an unknown stalker killing a group of camp counselors at a training camp near Crystal Lake. The film marks the debut of Jason Voorhees as the series’ main antagonist.

Originally, Friday the 13th Part 2 was intended to be an anthology film based on the Friday the 13th superstition. However, after the popularity of the original film’s surprise ending, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend that would be repeated in every film in the franchise. - Wiki

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the 𐕣 CG 𐕣 is back and they’ve brought reinforcements. this time enlisting gang affiliate chris to help unpack memories from a past life in Never Say Die! — the greatest metalcore outfit to come out of the midwest back in 2009.

on top of that, the boys are revisiting the movie that basically became the origin story for the band’s shared taste in comically goofy kidnappers and grown men repeatedly getting their asses kicked by a few little kids — all because their grandpa is a ninja who trains them when they come to visit his house.

3 ninjas is possibly the citizen ca(m)e of 90s kids action movies, basically, it’s the teenage mutant ninja turtles meets home alone, and it’s peak cinema.

join in and watch us quietly ponder weather or not these kids are the reason Victor Wong’s eyes are looking swollen like rocky balboa in this movie. is anyone watching out for this elderly man’s safety?

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3 Ninjas is a 1992 American martial arts comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade and Chad Power. It was the only 3 Ninjas film released by Touchstone Pictures, while the others were released by TriStar Pictures. The film is about three young brothers who learn martial arts from their Japanese grandfather. The film was released on August 7, 1992, and was preceded by the Bonkers D. Bobcat short Petal to the Metal (the pilot short of Raw Toonage) in theaters.

It received generally negative reviews from critics. It was a box office success grossing $29 million against a $2.5 million production budget. It spawned three less-successful sequels 3 Ninjas Kick Back, 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up, and 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain. - Wiki

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the gang is back with a deep dive into the cursed world of cabbage patch kid horror.

Chucky became the primary catalyst for indoctrinating an entire generation of children into killer doll movies throughout the 80s and 90s. can you name a single person who wasn’t pulled away from the lord and at least a few steps closer to satan by watching these obviously-not-for-adults horror films?

at the center of it all is Charles Lee Ray — the original problem. the blueprint. a true Charles Manson.

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Child’s Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed by Tom Holland, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Don Mancini and John Lafia based on a story by Mancini. The film stars Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon with Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky. Its plot follows a widowed mother who gives a new doll to her son, unaware that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Child’s Play was released in the United States on November 9, 1988, by MGM/UA Communications Co. through its United Artists label. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed more than $44 million against a production budget of $9 million. Along with the film gaining a cult following,the box office success also spawned a media franchise that includes a series of six sequels, a television series, merchandise, novels, comic books, a video game, and a reboot.

The original Child’s Play film was distributed by United Artists, although the rights to the series were sold to Universal Pictures in 1990. MGM (via United Artists) retained the rights to the original film and Orion Pictures (through United Artists Releasing) also distributed the reboot in 2019. A sequel, Child’s Play 2, was released in 1990. - Wiki

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the gang is back with an all-new xCGxTRL — a cursed block of music videos designed to ease you into a false sense of normalcy that’s been missing for far too long.

we’re spinning classics from the vault: Taking Back Sunday, Weezer, Adam Bryans, K‑Ci & JoJo, and much more pure TRL-era chaos.

Carson Daly still hasn’t returned our repeated requests to appear live on the show for a shoot interview. this is obviously because he’s a coward and knows we would destroy his entire worldview — and then immediately do all his other entertainment jobs better than him as well.

and while we’re asking questions: what the hell is Kurt Loder’s problem with allegedly being on some kind of government watch list for gang affiliation? where did all the rebels go? we need to mock these people relentlessly for failing to rep came gang.

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MTVX was an American hard rock music video channel operated by Viacom’s MTV Networks division. A sister channel of MTV, MTVX was available exclusively on digital cable providers, being the first network to be made available as part of the “MTV Networks Digital Suite”.

MTVX aired no advertising outside of MTV2 promos, airing videos on a daily loop programmed to air in three eight-hour blocks per day. The channel aired contemporary videos and older videos that were no longer shown on MTV. Likewise, MTVX was not limited to just one genre of rock music videos. The channel aired a variety of genres, including punk, metal, and grunge.

Also, MTVX showcased otherwise unknown or unheard music to the masses, such as Static-X, Disturbed, Finger Eleven, Black Label Society, SOiL, Soulfly, Sepultura, Tool, Pantera, Kittie, Dope, Coal Chamber, Primus, Mushroomhead and others. - Wiki

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as far as the 𐕣 CG 𐕣 is concerned, there isn’t a more underrated and underappreciated sub-genre of film than the classic doll with a knife movie.or is there? Maybe it’s rated exactly where it belongs and there just isn’t that much great movies in it. have you seen those trash Annabelle flicks?

that’s what the gang started to realize as they kicked off the first chapter of their dolls with knives movie marathon with Dolly Dearest — a movie that absolutely could’ve been the setup for Bride of Chucky… but isn’t.(it really could have been tho.)

this one lived for years as a sci-fi channel staple, but before that it was just a cursed vhs cover hiding in the 2-for-1 section at family video — because they didn’t organize by genre, which is ultimately why they deserved what happened to them.

starring Denise Crosby (Pet Sematary) as a stressed-out mom and Rip Torn as an archaeologist digging around cursed caves next to a run-down doll factory that Denise’s husband just inherited or something.

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Dolly Dearest is a 1991 American supernatural horror film starring Denise Crosby, Rip Torn, Sam Bottoms, Chris Demetral, Candace Hutson and Lupe Ontiveros. The film was initially supposed to be direct-to-video, but it did get a limited theatrical release in the Midwestern United States.

After inheriting an abandoned doll factory in Mexico, Elliot Wade unknowingly moves his family near an ancient Mayan tomb that once imprisoned Sanzia, a demonic child spirit. When an archaeologist accidentally releases Sanzia, the evil entity possesses a porcelain doll—Dolly Dearest—which is taken home by Elliot’s daughter, Jessica. Strange and violent behavior soon emerges as Dolly manipulates Jessica, targeting her mother, Marilyn. - Wiki

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