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Category Archives: Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head
The killer is right behind you…so don’t drop the soap
When you excitedly start a movie called Sodomaniac and the first thing you see is man ass with bloody guts pouring out the crack, you know it’s time to put away the tissues and lube and get out the barf … Continue reading
Vincent Price ushers in the new wave of the 80s with The Monster Club
Before he scored a huge hit on the 1980s pop charts with “Thriller,” Vincent Price experimented with the early new wave scene in the 1981 anthology horror film The Monster Club. It could seriously be called The New Wave Monster … Continue reading
Body count by Jake
When it comes to Thanksgiving horror films, if the Thankskilling movies aren’t your cup of trash (I blog about them here), the 1981 slasher Home Sweet Home probably isn’t either. But you really don’t have much choice when it comes … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Home Sweet Home, slashers
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It’s not alive…it’s unborn!
THE UNBORN (1991) Perhaps it was the resurrection of the It’s Alive series with part 3, Island of the Alive in 1987 that motivated the 1991 movie The Unborn. Well, that and Rosemary’s Baby, which the majority of this movie … Continue reading
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Tagged creature feature, The Unborn, The Unborn II
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(brain)scanning the 90s for a unique take on the slasher…
The 1994 flick Brainscan is one of those forgotten 90s horror films that’s actually better than most of the crap that came out in the early part of that decade. Young Edward Furlong, who’d already begun his horror career with … Continue reading
Big horror names, little horror movies
From George A. Romero to Danielle Harris, I take on two horror flicks that aren’t even a blip on the radar despite iconic names in the horror genre. BRUISER (2000) I can see why George A. Romero opted to … Continue reading
Evil Eddie triple feature!
Even Eddie Murphy has flirted with the paranormal, demons, vampires, and ghosts. And it all started way back in the 80s! THE GOLDEN CHILD (1986) It’s Eddie’s Big Trouble in Little China, only it’s in Tibet. In The Golden Child, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, demons, Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, ghosts, horror comedy, living dead, The Golden Child, undead, Vampire in Brooklyn, Zombies
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Innocent Blood – when John Landis made vampires suck
In the 80s, he made werewolves fun and zombies dance. Then, in the 90s, John Landis made a mobster vampire movie called Innocent Blood. As is usually the case with 90s horror flicks, I could not remember a thing about … Continue reading
Supernatural comedies to put you in high spirits
Ghosts, spirit guides, laughs, and 80s icons! I take on three fun and cheesy flicks: Vibes, High Spirits, and Haunted Honeymoon. VIBES (1988) What a cast! Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, Peter Falk, and Cyndi Lauper. Sadly, I think Vibes was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, ghosts, Haunted Honeymoon, High Spirits, horror comedy, Vibes
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Before they were horror stars: De Palma and Cronenberg
It’s a 1970s double feature of two completely different horror flix from Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg: sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll in Phantom of the Paradise and sex, slugs, and more sex in Shivers. Plus, a touch … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, horror musicals, Phantom of the Paradise, Shivers, They Came from Within
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