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Zombie Quickies: when you need an undead fix
This flesh-eating foursome – Sound of Nothing, Bunker of the Dead, 5 Years After the Fall, and Isle of the Dead – offers a good dose of zombie variety, including comedy, found footage, military action, and serious survivalist drama. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 Years After the Fall, Bunker of the Dead, found footage, gay horror, horror comedies, infected, Isle of the Dead, living dead, Sound of Nothing, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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Sex, perversion, and the horror anthology
Time for a trio of raunchy, offensive horror anthologies for those with a taste for tasteless horror. As exploitative as they may seem, some of these tales even explore genuine issues concerning human relations and sexuality. LITTLE DEATHS (2011) I … 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 gay horror, horror anthologies, Little Deaths, Scream Machine, Theatre of the Deranged II
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THE 80s SLASHER VAULTS 11: they mostly came from 1987
This next trio from 87 (a big year for forgotten slashers and pretty much the year the genre went bust) has a special case—one of the films was released in 1987, but actually has ties to a classic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Frenzy, gay horror, Lunch Meat, slashers, Twisted Nightmare
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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
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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
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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