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Backwoods Battle: Voodoo Rising vs. Squeal!
Camping trips and road trips just never end well, so it’s a relief that dumb kids keep going on them. This backwoods battle is between Voodoo Rising and Squeal, two Amazon Prime titles that both run about 80 minutes long … Continue reading
Sex and the slashers
Despite titillating descriptions of flesh and fear, bodies and blood, almost all four of these films barely brought me to the edge, and often left me shooting blanks. So which one finally provided the release I needed? You’ll just have … 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 Bunny the Killer Thing, Garden of Hedon, gay horror, horror comedies, Secrets of a Psychopath, slashers, Wrath of the Crows
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83 and 89 – demons, a costumed killer, a werewolf, and vampires
Cleaning 1980s horror house, here is the latest batch of weird crap I came up with from the VHS era that isn’t the usual slasher. THE ALCHEMIST (1983) Directed by Charles Band, who would go on to create Full Moon … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, demons, gay horror, Night Shadow, Nightlife, Skullduggery, slashers, supernatural, The Alchemist, vampires, werewolves
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STREAM QUEEN: for the love of short running times…or not in some cases
My weekend horror included a trio of films with running times well under 90 minutes. Usually, that’s just the right length for my attention span, but two of these three fall short in other areas as well. Conveniently, I happened … Continue reading
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Tagged Avarice, creature feature, demons, Flesh for the Inferno, found footage, gay horror, horror comedies, Shallow Creek Cult
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Camp Massacre – this fat farm slasher needs to slim down
Camp Massacre comes via one of those “horror circles” of indie filmmakers. Most directors/actors/writers involved have all worked together on various projects—most notably, the films The Hospital and The Hospital 2. Someone in the film can even be seen wearing … Continue reading
Don’t look in the basement at home because they’re watching
My latest streaming marathon—three very different subgenres of horror—left me wanting more, even if each movie had its moments. DON’T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT 2 (2015) This is pretty cool. This direct sequel to the 1973 film Don’t Look in … Continue reading
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Tagged Don’t Look in the Basement 2, ghosts, Home, supernatural, They’re Watching, witches
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The 80s SLASHER VAULTS 8: forgotten SOV slasher, backwoods bummer, and end of era goodie
In this installment, it’s a slasher smorgasbord of three random flicks that got lost in the video store shelves back in the day. In my opinion, one of them should have gotten more love and deserves a DVD release. NIGHT … Continue reading
The Green Inferno and The Invitation – cannibals and a dinner party
Even though these two directors have made films I gladly added to my collection, I totally stepped out of my horror comfort zone to watch The Green Inferno and The Invitation. Here’s how it went. THE GREEN INFERNO (2013) I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, Eli Roth, gay horror, The Green Inferno, The Invitation
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Most Likely to Die vs. The Tenant
One is as straightforward as slashers get, the other takes a very odd structural approach to the genre. I was pretty surprised by which one I liked better. MOST LIKELY TO DIE (2015) Director Anthony DiBlasi is racking up the … Continue reading
Perkins: still a psycho in the 1990s
Right up until his death in 1992, Anthony Perkins continued appearing in horror films and thrillers…and almost had his own horror TV show! I covered several of his psychotic non-Psycho roles here, so how about some more? DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughter of Darkness, horror comedies, I'm Dangerous Tonight, In the Deep Woods, slashers, The Ghost Writer, vampires
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