Probe My Thoughts
Boys, Bears & Scares Zones
What’s Your Pleasure?
- Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts
- In My Write Mind: News About My Writings
- 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
- The Evil of the Thriller – Everything Horror
- What I'm Doing With My Joystick
Subscribe to Boys, Bears & Scares!
Tag Archives: aliens
Holiday horror from 2005: The Toybox From Venus
These two films sound much better when you combine the titles. If you’re wondering how you missed a Halloween alien comedy and a Christmas slasher, don’t wonder, because these are pretty obscure films that don’t exactly do their holidays justice…or … 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 aliens, From Venus, gay horror, horror comedies, slashers, The Toybox
Comments Off on Holiday horror from 2005: The Toybox From Venus
Horrors from the water, the sky, and…the vents?
This trio of films offers some familiar (and some cute) faces and favorite subgenres, but is that enough to make them worth a watch? DARK HOUSE (2014) Had this one on my “must-see” list for a while because a) delicious … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, creature features, Creature Lake, Dark House, found footage, slashers, supernatural, Thirst
Comments Off on Horrors from the water, the sky, and…the vents?
STREAM QUEEN: Alien Hunger vs. Antibirth
It’s sort of a creature double feature, but in both cases, the filler far outweighs the freakozoids…. ALIEN HUNGER (2014) Alien Hunger is a SyFy caliber film about aliens terrorizing people in a house in the woods. So basically, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Alien Hunger, aliens, Antibirth, body horror, creature features
Comments Off on STREAM QUEEN: Alien Hunger vs. Antibirth
Cabins are out, isolated houses in the country are in
Here we go: 3 cases of partying at a house in the middle of nowhere being a really bad idea, in movies that seem like good ideas and then kind of turn into bad ideas as well the longer they … Continue reading
Alienween and I Rec U – the wild retro worlds of horror director Frederico Sfacia
It’s always a thrill to stumble upon a director that clearly worships the same era of horror in which you grew up, so after seeing Italian director Federico Sfacia’s Alienween, I immediately checked out his first film I Rec U, … 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
Tagged aliens, Alienween, creature feature, I Rec U
Comments Off on Alienween and I Rec U – the wild retro worlds of horror director Frederico Sfacia
Zombie cannibals and claymation aliens in the 1980s
Doctor Butcher, M.D. and Mutilations—the titles go together better than the content, but at least it made for a double feature with some 80s variety. DOCTOR BUTCHER, M.D. (aka: Zombie Holocaust) (1980) This classic cannibal zombie gorefest is better known … Continue reading
These three are not your everyday alien encounter movies
I’m not a fan of cheesy sci-fi “alien” movies, but I love chilling films that take a serious approach to the many documented cases of people who say they were abducted by aliens: Communion, Fire in the Sky, The Fourth … Continue reading
Well rip out my brain and f*ck me with an alien
On a summer night in the late 80s and early 90s, when television was offering nothing but repeats, you’d rent movies like Brain Dead and Transformations, sit in front of a fan set to high, then blast the TV so … Continue reading
They Live in a Doom Asylum and travel through a Pulse
Kristin Davis slashing before sexing, Joey Lawrence before he becoming a sex object, and Roddy Piper without his wrestling speedo, but still looking sexy. I take a look at three from the late 80s. DOOM ASYLUM (1987) The intro to … Continue reading
SPECIES – beware the horny alien woman!
After 20 years, I finally took the time to sit and truly watch the Species films—which never much impressed me—looking to find something worthy of my horror obsession. SPECIES (1995) Species is more a sci-fi creature feature than a scary … Continue reading