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Category Archives: The Evil of the Thriller – Everything Horror
Popeye’s Revenge continues with 3 sequels
Yep, the slasher Popeye’s Revenge, which already sounds like the title of a sequel but isn’t, gets three sequels in one year, and what they lack in story, they make up for in death scenes. POPEYE RETURNS (2026) The first … Continue reading
2 found footage flicks and a true crime mockumentary
For me, this was a case of two out of three weren’t bad, but which two? Let’s find out. THE STICKMAN’S HOLLOW (2024) This refreshing take on found footage films is broken into four separate tales based around the same … Continue reading
Kicking off the holidays early
What better way to begin getting ready for Halloween early than with a couple of Halloween horror flicks to put me in the mood? And if Hallmark can do Christmas in July, I can do Christmas horror in August, so … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 4 Halloween, horror anthologies, Krampus in Space, lesbian horror, slashers, The Boy from Below
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Home invasion revenge, an urban horror comeback, and a Suspiria homage
There simply wasn’t a satisfying horror experience to be had in my latest trio of selections from my streaming watchlists. Let’s find out why. PRANK NIGHT (2026) I watched this one because horror queen Katharine Isabelle is in it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Prank Night, Puzzled Literature, Saturnalia, slashers
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More demented Disney
The gore is great, but are these dark adaptations any good? Let’s find out. BAMBI: THE RECKONING (2025) This is how you do a horror retelling of a classic—an animated, narrated, storybook intro in which we get the tragic history … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambi The Reckoning, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, slashers, Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey 2
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Found footage ghosts, possession, and a Valentine’s stalker
If found footage is your comfort horror, you might like a couple of these, but they are all very derivative, so if you’re looking for found footage that brings something new to the table, you’ll be let down. However, this … Continue reading
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Zombie overload!
I thought of splitting these six into two separate posts, but I decided I’d get them all out of the way in one shot since they are the only zombie flicks in my watchlists. Now I can take a zombreak … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Air Shift, Blood Thirsty, infected, living dead, Outbreak, Silent Zone, This is Not a Test, undead, We Bury the Dead, Zombies
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Gays vs. aliens, gays at a cabin in the woods, and gays in a sexy Saw setting
It’s not every day that I find three horror flicks for a gay horror movie marathon, but here are three more to add to the homo horror movies page, so let’s get right into them. TOUCH ME (2025) If you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, gay horror, horror comedies, paranormal horror, Red Light, Shadows of Willow Cabin, torture porn, Touch Me
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Supernatural and backwoods slasher time
This was one underwhelming trio of films for me, but at least one of them had gay guys and hot bods, which lands it on the does the gay guy die? page. Let’s get right into them. DARK DISTORTION (2026) … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Dark Distortion, gay horror, slashers, The Damned Lands, Trucker
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Trying to board a train to Busan territory
It feels like Asian filmmakers that delve into the zombie genre these days are often attempting to capture the familial, emotional depth of Train to Busan, as is the case with these two flicks. Did either of them pull it … Continue reading
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Tagged infected, The Elixir, Ziam, Zombies
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