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Tag Archives: backwoods horror
Backwoods crazies!
It’s a foursome of flicks about big baddies in the woods bashing brains left and right, but the difference is day and night. Like, literally, some of them take place in daylight, and others in the dark. CREEPER IN THE … Continue reading
A gay ghost story, a New Year’s slasher, and cannibal killers
It’s one for the homo horror movies page, one for the holiday horror page, and one that belongs on a list of the many derivative psycho backwoods family movies out there. LADYBUG (2024) This gay flick begins as one of … 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 backwoods horror, Cannibal Cabin, cannibals, gay horror, ghosts, Ladybug, New Fears Eve, supernatural
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Mothers and others
This trio of films about mothers and monsters offers a variety of familiar subgenres, including evil children, backwoods slashing, and possession. But do they also deliver on scares? THE OTHER (2025) The director of the gay slasher classic Hellbent takes … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, exorcisms, home invasion, possession, slashers, supernatural, The Beast Inside, The Other, Womb
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A haunted attraction, purgatory, and a psycho family
Each of the films in my latest selection of flicks for a movie marathon had something that kept me watching, but was it worth it in the end? Let’s find out. NIGHT OF WRATH (2025) This is an all-around cliché-riddled, … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, gay horror, God of Pain, Night of Wrath, slashers, supernatural, What the Waters Left Behind: Scars
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A hunky killer, a haunted lesbian couple, and hillbilly horror
As a triple feature plucked from my Tubi watchlist, these three indie films actually worked well together in terms of look and feel. As for the level of horror they delivered, it’s a mixed bag. DEATH’S SONATA (2024) Landing this … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Road, backwoods horror, Coming Back For You, Death's Sonata, psychological horror, slashers, torture porn
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Backwoods horrorthon
It’s a foursome of fright flicks in the forest, with masked killers, unmasked killers, vampires, and Bigfeet. Let’s get right into them. WOLF MOUNTAIN (2022) This is a really uneven slasher. A young man is struggling with suppressed memories of … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Cabin in the Woods Movie, backwoods horror, Feet of Death, slashers, Vampire Lake, vampires, Wolf Mountain
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PRIME TIME: Bigfoot, a supernatural stalker, and a psycho sideshow act
It’s always a treat when I finish a movie marathon from my streaming watchlist and don’t find any real duds among the selection, as in this case. So let’s get into these three. HOAX (2019) This is how you start … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Bigfoot, Hoax, occult, supernatural, There is a Monster, Where the Devil Roams
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BOUGHT ON BLU: Devil Times Five and Hell’s Trap
It’s one from the 1970s and one from the 1980s, neither of which I’d ever seen before. Were they worth the blind buy? DEVIL TIMES FIVE (1974) Another entry in the evil children subgenre, this movie is so 1970s….especially the … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, backwoods horror, Devil Times Five, Hell's Trap, slashers
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PRIME TIME: killers and crazies
It wasn’t on purpose, but the titles of the three latest flicks I picked from my Prime watchlist for a movie marathon happen to begin with the letters L, M, and N. I had a favorite of the trio, so … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Mister Sleep, Night Explorers The Asylum, occult, slashers, The Legend of Lake Hollow
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TUBI TERRORS: backwoods horror, Lovecraft creatures, and sex and violence at a frat house
This is one chaotic trio of films, but they sure did hold my attention. Let’s get right into them. THE CAMP HOST (2024) This little film is so odd that I found it quite entertaining. It at first seems to … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, demons, gay horror, Guys at Parties Like It, occult, slashers, supernatural, The Camp Host, The Old Ones
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