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Category Archives: Johnny You ARE Queer – Gay Thoughts
Tortured transgender souls or cis psychos?
Horror history features plenty of films about cross-dressing killers—Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Homicidal, Hide & Go Shriek, and Cherry Falls, just to name a few. But if asked to name a balls out movie in which the killer is … Continue reading
Got MILFs?
After a zombie outbreak, husbands looking for sex are kind of oblivious as they crash a sex party that they don’t know is a sex party. Yes, these are some dumb-assed straighties. Meanwhile, their wives (the MILFs) are at home … Continue reading
Chatting with the men of In Darkness Peering
The new gay horror fiction anthology In Darkness Peering: Tales from the Bent Side, edited by David D. Warner, is available now and features a story by yours truly! In my tale “Unholy Matrimony,” a gay couple’s meeting with a … Continue reading
Can the gay save the day during this Savage Weekend?
1979 slasher Savage Weekend got totally lost in between the release of Halloween in 78 and Friday the 13th in 80, due in large part to the fact that it fails pretty miserably as a slasher, even though all the … Continue reading
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Bloody Knuckles – when Idle Hands go gay
Artsploitation Films is a movie company to keep an eye on. Not only do they make instant classics like Wither (my blog here), they also don’t shy away from blatant gay themes in horror films such as Der Samurai (my … Continue reading
How do you take your horror comedy?
Dark and mean, light and musical, or frickin’ scary with subtle humor? I look at three totally different types of horror films with varying levels of humor. THE LOVED ONES (2009) The overwhelming positive response I’ve seen online to this … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, ghosts, horror comedies, horror musicals, supernatural, The Bloody Indulgent, The Loved Ones, torture porn, vampires, We Are Still Here, Zombies
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The Hillbilly Horror Show gets back to form with a feature length release
Wow. Ask and you shall receive. I just covered volume 3 of The Hillbilly Horror Show the other day, and now volume 4 hit the streaming market! Running almost and hour and a half, this installment makes up for the … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, gay horror, horror anthologies, horror comedies, living dead, The Hillbilly Horror Show 4, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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A chat with gay horror author Joshua Skye
In author Joshua Skye’s new novella Cradle, Radley, a grieving gay man, comes to a small town to live in the house left to him by his deceased partner. But The Habersham House has a dark history; young children have … Continue reading
The homo and horror of Cruising
Cruising. It’s the infamous movie that infuriated gays in 1980. I was just eleven, not a sign of gayness in my life as I danced around my room, singing the Xanadu soundtrack…. Even when I finally saw Cruising years later … Continue reading
The Slashening – girls, guys, bears, and pizza boys beware
Add Brandon Bassham, writer and director of The Slashening, to the list of filmmakers who really did their homework before attempting a throwback slasher. Actually, The Slashening is much more than that. Essentially, it’s a retro raunchy sex comedy dropped … Continue reading
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