Category Archives: Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head

The Wolves of Kromer – a different kind of gay hairy beast

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Daniel

Before True Blood made vampires a metaphor for gay panic and before In the Flesh made zombies the same, the 1998 art film The Wolves of Kromer used werewolves as the monster of choice. And it also featured Boy George … Continue reading →

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Cleaning horror house: 70s, 80s, and 90s crap

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Daniel

Here’s a bunch of crap I’ve been re-visiting lately, so let’s see how they hold up. THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (aka: Enter the Devil) (1974) This Italian knock-off of The Exorcist was renamed to sound more like Rocky Horror, … Continue reading →

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Triple bite from a decade of vampire comedies

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Daniel

The 1980s ushered in a new decade of horror spoofs, and one creature of the night that was often took the brunt of the joke was the vampire. Conveniently, three vampire comedies from that era have hit Blu-ray simultaneously, so … Continue reading →

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The killer is right behind you…so don’t drop the soap

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Daniel

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 →

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Vincent Price ushers in the new wave of the 80s with The Monster Club

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Daniel

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 →

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Body count by Jake

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Daniel

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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It’s not alive…it’s unborn!

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Daniel

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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(brain)scanning the 90s for a unique take on the slasher…

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Daniel

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 →

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Big horror names, little horror movies

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Daniel

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 →

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Evil Eddie triple feature!

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Daniel

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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