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The titles scream Halloween, but will the movies make you scream on Halloween?
Just under the wire, I scrounged up three more Halloween themed horror movies to get me in the mood this October. Are they worthy of the season? Let’s find out. DARK OCTOBER (2020) I could tell from the trailer for … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark October, Mr. Halloween, occult, On Halloween, possession, slasher
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Killer hair, a vampire clan, masked psychos, and a miniature Frankenstein
As the horror movie choices continue to dwindle due to COVID, I rounded up this foursome of very different subgenres. Let’s get right into them. BAD HAIR (2020) Bad Hair weaves the Asian girl hair horror of the early 2000s … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Frankenstein, Bad Hair, creature features, horror comedies, Nocturna, slashers, supernatural, vampires, Wicked Ones, witches
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The Frankenstein movies of Hammer and Cushing
My brother was only seven years older than me, yet it was a generation apart in terms of horror sometimes. While I’m thrilled that inheriting his collection vastly expanded my personal collection of movies from a specific time period in … Continue reading
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Tagged Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein
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STREAM QUEEN: four times anthologized!
Plenty of stories means plenty of opportunities for thrills and chills. Did these four anthologies deliver? VEROTIKA (2019) Danzig of horror punk band The Misfits directed and wrote this anthology film. There’s probably a very narrow audience that will eat … Continue reading
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Tagged American Nightmares: Tales from the Crib, horror anthologies, Tales from the Hood 3, The Mortuary Collection, Verotika
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STREAM QUEEN: a murderer and a monster walk into the woods…
Sometimes you just need to get away from it all, but bloodthirsty killers and monsters get in the way, as in two films on my watchlists that made for a good double feature while offering some variety in the cabin … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, creature feature, Murder in the Woods, slashers, The Millennium Bug
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STREAM QUEEN: what’s gotten into you?
Exorcising my watchlist demons with this foursome. Was it worth opening myself up to possession? Let’s find out. GATES OF DARKNESS (2019) The director of Anaconda 3 and 4 goes in a different direction with a head-spinning take on the … Continue reading
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Tagged demons, exorcism, found footage, Gates of Darkness, possession, The Cleansing Hour, The Whispering Man, Unhuman Nature
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HALLOWEEN HORROR ROUND-UP 2020
It’s a whole new bundle of movies to add to the Halloween section of my complete holiday horror page, but is it a lucky or unlucky 7? Let’s get right into which ones deliver the Halloween thrills we seek. MASS … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Do Not Reply, Halloween Party, horror anthology, horror comedies, Hubie Halloween, Mass Hysteria, slashers, Spine Chiller, They Live Inside Us, Weedjies: Halloween Night, witches
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It came from 1957 and 1958
It’s a black and white creature feature bonanza with this foursome—two from 1957 and two from 1958, all of which feel much more contemporary in tone than some of the horror-lite made in those days. BLOOD OF DRACULA (1957) The … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood of Dracula, creature features, How to Make a Monster, It! The Terror From Beyond Space, The Monster That Challenged the World, vampires
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Four from Peter Cushing’s horror resume
He was one of the kings of horror through the 1960s and early 1970s, so it’s time to finish up my look at all the Peter Cushing movies passed on to me from my late brother, short of the Frankenstein … Continue reading
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Tagged And Now the Screaming Starts, Night Creatures, supernatural, The Beast Must Die, The Flesh and the Fiends, werewolves
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