Category Archives: Scared Silly – Horror Comedy

The worst of the worst of 80s horror trash!

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Daniel

It would have been a miracle if your video store even carried any of these 80s horror films. HBO’s feature film intro anthem was too good to ever welcome them to its movie lineup. I look at four films that … Continue reading →

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The Editor – the Astron-6 guys take on Euro horror and giallos

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Daniel

Astron-6, the kings of indie retro horror, have done the whacked grindhouse and exploitation thing. Now, they bring us a film that’s not only a throwback to giallos and Euro horror, but also pokes fun at them. Astron-6 hairy man … Continue reading →

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Early 70s horror trash

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Daniel

While solid films like The Exorcist, Jaws, and The Omen brought a polished, big box office look and feel to 70s horror, there was some acid trip insanity created as well. Here are four fucked up alternatives to iconic 1970s … Continue reading →

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – movie vs. graphic novel

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Daniel

Buffy creator Joss Whedon has said that the script he wrote for the original movie was nothing like the finished product. He has also said Donald Sutherland massacred the dialogue as written and ad-libbed most of it. As a result, … Continue reading →

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Three modern indies—demons, a cannibal killer, and the occult

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Daniel

Here goes: three more indie films that have nothing in common. One is an oddball backwoods creature feature, another a throwback slasher. And the third is a short film of magic, love, and death—and possibly a gay crush…. NIGHT OF … Continue reading →

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The gays vs. the undead

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Daniel

In “Zombied Out,” the novella from my horror fiction anthology Closet Monsters, the gays in a small town discover they’ve all been outed because every straight person has been infected and turned into a flesh eater. While I’ve yet to … Continue reading →

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Comedy horror madness

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Daniel

Seriously, these four films are not your everyday fun horror comedies. They are most definitely…imbalanced. DECAMPITATED (1998) Decampitated is a low-budget indie slasher comedy that Troma got its hands on, so not surprisingly, it’s a mess. A spoof of backwoods … Continue reading →

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Alien Opponent – making rednecks into crazed zombies

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Daniel

That should have been the name of this movie. 2010 film Alien Opponent is an absolute farce that is SO focused on rednecks that I could barely even relate. When aliens in Transformer-like uniforms land in the middle of butt … Continue reading →

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80s b-movie cult trash part 1

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Daniel

It was the decade when every bad movie had its chance to shine on VHS…and these flicks still failed. Here’s my first triple feature of 80s b-movie cult trash! VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS (1984) I can barely contain myself … Continue reading →

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Lessons in horror from the new millennium

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Daniel

I’m a big fan of cutie Justin Urich—Robert Urich’s nephew and the obnoxious character in one of my favorite horror movies: Monster Man, which I blog about here. So when I went looking for his “101” teen slasher in my … Continue reading →

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