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Tag Archives: creature feature
Another slug movie to get under your skin
A while ago, I posted a blog on slug movies, which you can read here. Slug movies should make you squirm, even if the slugs are well-done CGI, as is the case with Growth. The slugs look really cool. But, … Continue reading
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There’s something in the sand!
In the wake of the Jaws hysteria in the second half of the seventies, filmmakers looked for alternative ways to make us fear the water. Killer whales. Piranhas. Humanoids from the deep. But what if the trouble wasn’t in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature
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I’m totally basketing out on Basket Case
While everyone else was busy listening to some serious bullshit being slung around about how me getting married is just going to RUIN everyone else’s life, I was making more worthwhile use of my time watching the Basket Case trilogy. … Continue reading
There are monsters in my TV!!!!
And they’re both on one Blu-Ray disc! 80s classics The Video Dead and Terror Vision have finally made it back to the home “video” market after a long hiatus (aka: the VHS days). So while everyone else was watching the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, aliens, creature feature, gay horror, living dead, TerrorVision, The Video Dead, undead, Zombies
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What comes from the 80s…and comes up from the sewers?
Do I have to spell it out? Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. C.H.U.D. 1984’s C.H.U.D. is one of those movies that all Gen-Xers will have fond memories of watching on cable. Upon a rewatch, it definitely made me nostalgic. It has … Continue reading
It’s not Halloween, so why is he called Pumpkinhead?
Sneaking in just under the wire, Pumpkinhead came out a couple of months after Michael Myers returned in 1988, sealing its fate as a product of the 80s. Sure, it has nothing to do with one of horror’s favorite holidays; … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, Lance Henriksen, Linnea Quigley, Pumkinhead II: Blood Wings, Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud, Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
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Prophecy is giving me flashbacks…
Before there was the film with Christopher Walken, there was the 1979 classic about the mutant bear in the woods. Mom took us to see this PG rated movie at the theater that summer because we were one big horror-loving … Continue reading
Close Encounters with the Goonies in an 80s Cocoon
For the first time since E.T., the trailer for Super 8 had me so intrigued because it showed so much of nothing that happens in the film, shrouding the plot in mystery. I felt the allure of theater-going returning and … Continue reading
It’s what you don’t see that will scare the snot out of you…
The Boogens (why do I picture a Kleenex commercial with nasty looking green cartoon boogers?) is SO 1981, following the tradition of films from that era that have loads of tension, atmosphere, and build-up for the first hour, yet deliver … Continue reading
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Humanoids Go in Deep
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980) What a way to start the 80s horror era. Humanoids from the Deep is everything The Creature from the Black Lagoon wanted to be 25 years before—filled with blood, boobs, an enlightening Native American subplot, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, Emma Samms, Humanoids from the Deep, Robert Carradine
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