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Category Archives: Scared Silly – Horror Comedy
PRIME TIME: three kinds of monster hunters
Zombie-killing stoners, vampire slayers, and a ghost terrorizing a masked psycho. Three very different films…so which was my fave? BONG OF THE LIVING DEAD (2017) I’ve never been stoned, but if this stoner zomcom is any indication of how mellow … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Bong of the Living Dead, Cold Moon, ghosts, living dead, Red Spring, slashers, supernatural, undead, vampires, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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PRIME TIME: a quick foursome in a variety of subgenres
Since there’s no lost gem to celebrate here, I’ll make this quick as I look at four films I’ve watched recently: a dark comedy, a vampire film, a slashers, and a found footage backwoods horror. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES (2019) Watching the … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Blood Moon River, Blood Type, dark comedy, Extracurricular Activities (2019), Final Cut, found footage, slashers, vampires
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The Triple Clown
If there’s a clown movie on a streaming service, chances are I’m going to drop it in my watchlist. So happens I dropped three in my Prime watchlist recently. Here’s how that turned out when I did a clown triple … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Clown Motel, Clown of the Dead, Clowns, found footage, Gags The Clown, gay horror, ghosts, slashers, supernatural
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PRIME TIME: 4 reminders that zombies need to go away for at least a decade
It’s so unfortunate that the zombie genre has been absolutely decimated by overkill. I miss the days (aka: the 1970s and 1980s) when living dead films were so rare that when a new one finally rolled around it was totally … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged gay horror, horror comedies, horror musicals, living dead, My Uncle John is a Zombie, Plan Z, undead, Z: A Zombie Musical, zombedies, Zombie with a Shotgun, Zombies, zomcoms
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The Orphan Killer is back, and this time he has a sense of humor
Hunky horror director Matt Farnsworth’s 2011 film The Orphan Killer (my blog post here) is a vicious grindhouse slasher about a psychotic killer in a mask hunting down his sister, slaughtering people of faith along the way due to his … Continue reading
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Tagged grindhouse, horror comedy, slashers, The Orphan Killer 2 Bound X Blood, torture porn
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PRIME TIME: a slasher, the occult, werewolves, a home invasion, and ghosts
I can always count on Prime to for indie flix I’ve heard nothing about, and this time a total of five movies offered me a whole load of subgenres. So here goes. BLACK HOLLER (2017) This supernatural slasher comedy is … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Black Holler, creature features, Fang, gay horror, ghosts, home invasion, horror comedies, Jackson, Killer Kate!, occult, Sacrificial, slashers, supernatural, werewolves
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My 2019 Holiday Horror Marathon
While Hanukkah isn’t reaching my mailbox until February and Black Christmas remake number 2 is the mainstream movie that everyone is beating to death, I take a look at a whole load of December horror choices to add to the … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Await Further Instructions, creature feature, Darkest Night, demons, found footage, horror comedy, I Trapped The Devil, infected, Into the Dark: A Nasty Piece of Work, I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday, Killer Christmas, possession, Scary Little Fuckers, slashers, Sugarplum, supernatural, Ugly Sweater Party
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STREAM QUEEN: creatures, backwoods freaks, slashers, demons, and Thanksgiving fun
It’s not often that five films in a row keep me fairly entertained, but this batch mostly worked for me—especially an all-in-one good Thanksgiving flick and memorable Into the Dark installment. PILGRIM (2019) The director of The Collector films delivers … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Bloody Monster, creature feature, demons, home invasion, Outcast, Pilgrim, Red Summer, slashers, The Evil Gene
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PRIME TIME: a 6-flick smorgasbord
As usual, my Prime list is replenishing faster than any of the other streaming services, because Prime really is the video store of the new millennium when it comes to horror movies. So I’m going to knock off a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, Crossbreed, demons, Devil In My Ride, gay horror, ghosts, horror comedies, horror comedy, Panman, Pigster, possession, Room For Rent, slashers, supernatural, The Haunting Of Sorority Row, thrillers
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The Christmas fun for 2019 begins with a double feature
An elf and an anthology. Which one got my mind off Halloween being over—and made me forget all about Thanksgiving even existing? SHELVED (2016) Like The Elf, this is another horror takeoff on the Elf On The Shelf phenomenon, only … Continue reading
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Tagged dolls, horror anthologies, Shelved, slashers, Unholy Night
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