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Summer of Blood – a vampire with a snarky attitude
If you’re a fan of the biting, sarcastic, and dry humor trends—think Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, The Office—then vampire comedy Summer of Blood is not to be missed. The story of a city dude who’s really bad at interpersonal … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, horror comedy, Summer of Blood, vampires
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Talking gay horror short stories with author Mark Allan Gunnells
I’ve covered some of the gay horror fiction of Mark Allan Gunnells before. You can read my blog about his gay slasher Sequel here, and I cover his gay zombie novel Asylum here. Plus, he allowed me to post one … Continue reading
Ryan Phillippe’s apology offering for the lack of gay in 54
Ryan Phillippe writes and directs Catch Hell. On the surface, it’s a story of Ryan, a washed up actor, kidnapped by a crazed jealous guy whose chick he banged. So the guy brings him to a shack in the bayou, … Continue reading
Modern flesh-eating film overload
A bunch of quick picks of the gut munching variety. It’s a little bit of everything, from “smart” horror to schlock! RETARDEAD (2008) The opening of Retardead promises that this is going to be a fun, low-budget popcorn movie. First … Continue reading
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Tagged Attack of the Vegan Zombies, Dead Genesis, Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, gay horror, Herschell Gordon Lewis, living dead, Love in the Time of Monsters, Retardead, undead, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, Zombie Hood, Zombies
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The Wolves of Kromer – a different kind of gay hairy beast
Before True Blood made vampires a metaphor for gay panic and before In the Flesh made zombies the same, the 1998 art film The Wolves of Kromer used werewolves as the monster of choice. And it also featured Boy George … Continue reading
Hazard Jack – sex and the slasher and the musclebound maniac
These slashers that come on the cable horror channels are usually a dime a dozen and fairly tame. So I wasn’t expecting much when I checked out Hazard Jack. As usual, a group of college kids goes to party somewhere … Continue reading
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Billy Club – a baseball slasher throwback double play
Here’s one we haven’t seen before. In Billy Club, members of a Little League baseball team with a tragic past reunite fifteen years later…only to be hunted down by someone in an umpire’s mask using a spiked baseball bat as … Continue reading
Triple bite from a decade of vampire comedies
The 1980s ushered in a new decade of horror spoofs, and one creature of the night that was often took the brunt of the joke was the vampire. Conveniently, three vampire comedies from that era have hit Blu-ray simultaneously, so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, gay horror, horror comedy, Love at First Bite, Once Bitten, vampires, Vampire’s Kiss
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Tamara – throwback to the age of horror movie novelizations
Growing up in the 1980s, I devoured novelizations of horror movies—Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Fog, Jaws 2, Dressed to Kill, April Fools’ Day, Poltergeist—always thrilled to discover embellishments by the writers or scenes from the screenplay that … Continue reading
Quick looks at modern horror time killers 14
I’ll make these quick. Real quick…. HAZMAT (2013) Basically, an episode of Scare Tactics goes horribly wrong in Hazmat. A group of people is in on the prank in an old chemical plant, the small crew is in a safe … Continue reading