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Category Archives: Scared Silly – Horror Comedy
I know what end of the spectrum I fall on…
One is an atrocious piece of home-brewed killer shark crap. The other is a sleekly produced home invasion thriller. Guess which one I’d ever bother watching a second time. RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK (2015) Oh yes I did. I … Continue reading
The 80s SLASHER VAULTS 6: 80s horror spanning the decade from 80 to 89
They’re good. They’re bad. These five are some of my favorite 80s horror flix from the VHS slasher era, for better or worse. FUNERAL HOME (1980) Directed by William Fruet (The House by the Lake, Spasms, Killer Party, several episodes … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, 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 1980s, 80s, Blood Diner, Funeral Home, horror comedies, Intruder, slashers, The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, Visiting Hours
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Perkins: still a psycho in the 1990s
Right up until his death in 1992, Anthony Perkins continued appearing in horror films and thrillers…and almost had his own horror TV show! I covered several of his psychotic non-Psycho roles here, so how about some more? DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS … 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 Daughter of Darkness, horror comedies, I'm Dangerous Tonight, In the Deep Woods, slashers, The Ghost Writer, vampires
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IT HAPPENED AFTER SCREAM Part 10: 10 years later…
I bring my “After Scream” blog series to a close with this one. Having covered every slasher in my collection that comes from the decade following the Scream trilogy, I leave you with 3 films that came exactly 10 years … Continue reading
Stream Queen: 4 zombie films from 4 years in a row
As the zombie craze keeps coming back from the dead, my latest streaming binge of four zombie films from four consecutive years seems to be digging a deeper grave with each new year…but Jesse Metcalfe saves the day at the … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Dead Rising: Endgame, living dead, The Zombie King, Toxin, undead, zombedy, Zombie Boy, Zombies, zomcom
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The horror world needs a full-length feature from this author/director of horror shorts
After seeing the five short horror films director Armando D. Muñoz made between the years 2000 and 2008, I can’t imagine why no one has thrown money at him to do a full-length feature. Perhaps he’ll make one for his … Continue reading
Three more independent zombie films? Bring it!
Nope. Still not sick of zombie films, especially when I watch three in a row that are better than most of the less-than-average junk being pumped out these days. BAD TO THE JONES (2011) Writer/director Marlon Ladd and actor Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy
Tagged Bad to the Jones, gay horror, I Survived a Zombie Holocaust, living dead, Rockabilly Zombie Weekend, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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STREAM QUEEN: Looking for something other than the usual?
If you like independent film that doesn’t bother to follow mainstream protocol, here are six that don’t exactly give us the predictable, and cover various subgenres—but that doesn’t mean all of them were up my alley. THE SCENESTERS (2009) … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Abolition, cannibalism, Darr @ The Mall, Deep Dark, ghosts, horror comedies, slashers, supernatural, The Guest Room, The Housewife Slasher, The Scenesters
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IT HAPPENED AFTER SCREAM Part 8: slasher sequel, slasher comedy, torture porn slasher
This installment of my series looking at the slasher revival of the late 90s/2000s includes a hodgepodge (I totally said hodgepodge) of slasher subgenres—comedy, sequel, torture porn. BROKEN LIZARDS CLUB DREAD (2004) Club Dread has one problem—it’s two hours long! … Continue reading
Fear not! H. Philip Lovecraft is on the case!
In the early 1990s, HBO made a playful film noir paranormal comedy called Cast a Deadly Spell. 3 years later, they followed it up with the companion film Witch Hunt. If you love Lovecraft and comedy with supernatural and occult … Continue reading
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Tagged Cast a Deadly Spell, gay horror, horror comedy, HP Lovecraft, Witch Hunt
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