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Category Archives: Movie Times & Television Schedules – Staying Entertained
Asian horror remade in the new millennium Part 1
As we move towards the 20th anniversary of the trend of Hollywood remaking popular Asian horror films—most notably The Ring and The Grudge—I decided to do some comparing and contrasting of a few of the lower profile adaptations. So let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged ghosts, Shutter, supernatural
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Return to The Island of the Fishmen
A while ago I blogged about the U.S. horror flick Screamers, released in 1981, in a post about movies featuring cameos by Cameron Mitchell, in which I referenced this original 1979 version of the film, although I had never seen … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, The Fishmen and Their Queen, The Island of the Fishmen
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It came from the 1970s…and ended up in my horror collection
I’ve gotten to the point where I feel I have to justify to myself why I keep adding crap to my horror movie collection, so pardon me if I do so as I cover the six films of various subgenres … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, creature features, home invasion, horror anthologies, Mansion of the Doomed, Tales That Witness Madness, The Day Time Ended, The Evictors, The Spell, The Vampires Night Orgy, vampires, witches
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NETFLIX AND CHILLS: start counting the bodies!
My latest Netflix triple feature delivered plenty of cheap thrills and gave me a horror fix for sure. Even so, they all have their issues and I’m not sure if I’d be compelled to add them to my personal horror … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged A Classic Horror Story, backwoods horror, gay horror, horror comedies, Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2, slashers, There's Someone Inside Your House
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STREAM QUEEN: bunker creatures, space insects, school killers, and an anthology
It’s a foursome of flicks that bring all kinds of horrors. I can say for starters that I was never bored, so let’s get into them. DEATH VALLEY (2021) Matthew Ninaber, who plays the monster in Psycho Goreman, also plays … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond White Space, creature features, Death Valley, Future Fear, horror anthologies, Séance, slashers
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If you’re the Last of the Grads, beware The Last Matinee
This was pretty much the perfect slasher double feature for me. Two “Last” slashers with vicious, gruesome practical effects. So what can you expect from this double feature? THE LAST MATINEE (2020) The Last Matinee is a Spanish film clearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Last of the Grads, slashers, The Last Matinee
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Paul Naschy: the millennium revival
We come to the end of my Paul Naschy marathon by moving into the new millennium for his final decade of horror films before he passed away. In the mid-2000s, Paul tapped into the cheesy direct-to-DVD market with several movies … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged A Werewolf in the Amazon, Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood, creature features, Empusa, gay horror, occult, Rottweiler, supernatural, The Valdemar Legacy, vampires, werewolves
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Creatures and killers from 1954 to 1970
Back to the decades when horror and films in general transitioned from black and white to color as I take on eight movies that I’ve recently added to my collection. GORILLA AT LARGE (1954) At long last I’ve found the … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Die! Die! My Darling!, Gorilla at Large, Maniac, Never Take Candy From a Stranger, slashers, Stop Me Before I Kill!, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, These Are the Damned, Trog
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The werewolf films of Paul Naschy
Don’t know what possessed me, but I suddenly decided I needed to have every movie by Spanish actor/writer/director/horror hunk Paul Naschy in my movie collection. Considering I only had about four of them, that meant a whole lot more to … Continue reading