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Category Archives: The Evil of the Thriller – Everything Horror
Streaming is free: Bigfoot Country and Late Fee
Every once in a while I scan the horror selection on the free streaming services—Popcorn Flix, Crackle, Vudu, BingeHorror, Tubi—for any new indies that haven’t landed on the pay services. This time around I scored a creature feature and Halloween … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigfoot Country, creature features, horror anthologies, Late Fee
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Time to return to House on Haunted Hill – twice
For me, 1959’s House on Haunted Hill is the masterpiece of William Castle/Vincent Price collaborations. So before revisiting this 1999 remake twenty years later, I was assuming I was unfairly hard on it the first time around. I was…until the … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged ghosts, House on Haunted Hill, Return to House on Haunted Hill, supernatural
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Is the Boogeyman trilogy a thrillogy?
As I revisited the 2005 Boogeyman and got the same vibe the chilling opening of Darkness Falls gave me—boy terrified of monster coming into his room—I couldn’t fathom why I remembered nothing about this film. Then I watched the rest … Continue reading
Slashing in the woods, in the mountains, and in a T-shirt?
Slashers never fully go out of style, but they sure do go through dry spells. If you’re hunting for something you haven’t seen yet…does these three satisfy? YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER (2018) The director of Husk, Animal, and contributor … Continue reading
Posted in Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Hell's Belle, horror comedies, Silk Scream, slashers, You Might Be The Killer
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Indulging in the full Feast
John Gulager, son of Clu Gulager (who reignited his career with 80s horror), won Ben & Matt’s Project Greenlight, and the first Feast was born. Naturally, his dad stars in all three installments, and these midnight movie grindhouse creature features … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Feast, horror comedies
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Creepy ladies, killer guys
So I checked out four up-and-coming films—a ghost, a boogeyman, a psycho, and witches—but should you be waiting in anticipation? Let’s take a look. THE CABIN (2018) I’ll never understand why indie directors produce movies blatantly inspired by hugely iconic … Continue reading
Do you dare enter the house of the dead without a light gun?
Everyone loves to hate Uwe Boll’s movie adaptations of video games, but as a huge fan of the goofy original arcade game (Don’t come!), I always felt 2003 film House of the Dead was the exact piece of trash it … Continue reading
STREAM QUEEN: rock ‘n’ rave
Both of these films came out in 2010…yet the music genre around which each centers feels about twenty years too late. But that alone doesn’t make them bad movies… NEOWOLF (2010) This cheesy film, which is like The Lost Boys … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, infected, Neowolf, Trance, werewolves
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STREAM QUEEN: zomvamps, a dream boogeyman, and killer cowboys
Two out of three ain’t bad in this triple feature of newer streaming titles. So let’s find out which I felt was the odd man out. DAYLIGHT’S END (2016) The original I Am Legend was the beginning of a tradition … Continue reading

