Tag Archives: backwoods horror

Stream Queen 2: horror anthologies

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Daniel

Horror anthologies are all over the place these days thanks to streaming services. Chances are loads of them are going to be crap, but there’s always the possibility of finding a good story here and there. So I blasted through … Continue reading →

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Bald heads and bagged heads

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Daniel

Actually, the scary guy in each of these movies is bald, but the one in Hayride 2 wears a bag over his head….  THE PACT 2 (2014) How do you cash-in on a darkly intense indie that succeeded in leaving … Continue reading →

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Modern horror time wasters

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Daniel

You know that feeling when you get to the end of a horror film and think, “I could have watched something so much better if I hadn’t given this one a chance and seen it through to the end”? Here’s … Continue reading →

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The Unseen and Unhinged – when trios of girls made wrong turns in the 1980s

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Daniel

It’s The Unseen vs. Unhinged! UNHINGED (1982) Classic early 80s bizarr-o horror! Unhinged isn’t a formulaic teen slasher with a masked killer. It’s more like a backwoods family horror film that takes cues from Psycho and Homicidal. It even predates … Continue reading →

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Oh granny, what a big axe you have!

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Daniel

Kill, Granny, Kill! is how you do an indie backwoods Bible-thumping killer granny movie! Don’t take it seriously, but don’t make it all-out comedy. Just make everything that happens so wrong it’s right…and kind of funny. Out at her old … Continue reading →

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So what exactly are the Rites of Spring?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Daniel

Rites of Spring is another in a growing trend of movies that begin with a bunch of bad guys committing a crime and ending up in a horror scenario (From Dusk Till Dawn, The Cottage, Malevolence, Dead Birds, etc.). Such … Continue reading →

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80s slasher cult favorites

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Daniel

The endless list of 80s slashers pretty much always leads to celebrating the most prominent films of the decade. Then there are those hidden gems you’d find in the video store that no one was talking about, yet they totally … Continue reading →

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Taking out the 80s slash trash!

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Daniel

Digging into the bowels of 80s slashers, I’ve gathered together a handful to cover so let’s get right to it! THE FOREST (1982)   The Forest isn’t your ordinary backwoods cannibal movie. It’s a hot mess! You feel right at … Continue reading →

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What the Muck?

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Daniel

Imagine if The Empire Strikes Back was the only Star Wars film ever made. You’d begin and finish watching it wondering, WTF is going on? Right? Apply that bewilderment to the film Muck and you need to turn the WTF … Continue reading →

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Modern horror—the artistic, the routine, and the barely watchable

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Daniel

But I watched anyway! So let’s get right into what I experienced with these three very different films. NEVERLAKE (2013) If you like fancy frights, you might just enjoy Neverlake. This film is beautiful to look at and has the … Continue reading →

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