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Category Archives: Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head
Time-killing tomatoes…
These two silly sci-fi comedy “monster” movies ensure the death of your precious time and are still as bad as ever. I actually think this is the first time I’ve truly sat down to watch them all the way through…and … 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
Tagged Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, horror comedies, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
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When the classic monsters got the last laugh
Once Freddy, Jason, and Michael raised the horror bar in the 80s, the original monsters kind of lost their fear factor…so they gnaw on our funny bones instead! But do these six flix still hold up? TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000 (1985) Director … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head
Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, horror comedies, My Best a Friend Is A Vampire, My Boyfriend's Back, Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf Too, The Monster Squad, Transylvania 6-5000
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An indie sequel, a portrait of a serial killer, and an 80s throwback
My latest marathon of a trio of films from the past two years was fairly derivative, making it a rather “been there done that” experience. THE OUIJA RESURRECTION (2017) The “sequel” to The Ouija Experiment is an entire meta premise … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged gay horror, Ouija Resurrection, slashers, Summer of 84, torture porn, Who's Watching Oliver
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Get high you die
It’s like the horror fates lead me to similar movies to blog about, so I had no choice but to cover drug-themed backwoods slashers Young, High and Dead and 4/20 Massacre in a single post. They also have something else … Continue reading
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Tagged 4/20 Massacre, backwoods horror, slashers, Young High and Dead
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For the love of horror anthologies throughout the 80s
Here it is—a blog covering the six final 80s era anthologies in my movie collection that I haven’t yet covered. It’s mostly the biggies, so I’m going to call out my favorite stories from each anthology. CREEPSHOW (1982) The classic … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cat’s Eye, Creepshow, Creepshow 2, horror anthologies, Tales from the Darkside, The Willies, Twilight Zone: The Movie
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Nielsen Ratings: it’s Dracula Dead and Loving It vs. Repossessed
Leslie Nielsen was around for ages before he hit the peak of his popularity, making his mark on both slapstick 80s comedies and horror movies with films like Airplane!, Naked Gun, Prom Night, and Creepshow. Conveniently, he also mixed both … Continue reading
Sometimes zombies make me laugh, sometimes they don’t
Each of the four films in my latest zombie marathon had a different effect on me…and perhaps not always the effect the filmmakers were going for. BETTER OFF ZED (2018) If you caught my video the other day on Boys, … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Off Zed, Fairfield, Fetish Factory, gay horror, horror comedies, living dead, Noxious, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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Five that are all over the 80s horror map
I can practically smell the dusty shelves at my video store when I drudge up some of these older 80s horror titles to write about, so nostalgia alone makes me cherish them all…no matter how bad some may be. DISCONNECTED … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, Disconnected, From Beyond, living dead, Monkey Shines, slashers, The Lair of the White Worm, The Vineyard, undead, vampires, Zombies
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Remade in the 2000s: De Palma, Cohen, and Carpenter
They’re some of my faves—Sisters (1973), It’s Alive (1974), and The Fog (1980). In the new millennium they all got the remake treatment. So, were they treated well? You’ll need a working knowledge of the original films to get what … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, ghosts, It’s Alive, Sisters, slashers, supernatural, The Fog
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