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Tag Archives: creature features
DIRECT TO STREAMING: 4 from Scott Jeffrey
Director Scott Jeffrey is so prolific I suddenly found I had fallen behind in keeping up with his filmography, so I quickly delved into his four latest. Here’s how the marathon turned out for me. THE CURSE OF HUMPTY DUMPTY … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Bats, Cannibal Troll, Conjuring the Genie, creature features, slashers, The Curse of Humpty Dumpty
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DIRECT TO STREAMING: two more from Bruce Wemple
Director Bruce Wemple thrilled me with a Wendigo flick with a queer slant (The Retreat), and intrigued me with a lesbian thriller with a Bigfoot slant (Monstrous). So of course I was going to check out two more of his … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, Dawn of the Beast, Lake Artifact
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So many big teeth…
I went monster hunting, so let’s see what I found. SWIM (2021) Director Jared Cohn has a load of horror flicks under his belt, such asLittle Dead Rotting Hood, Hold Your Breath, The Horde, Devil’s Domain, Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Beast Within, creature features, Night Claws, Swim, The Devil Below, werewolves
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From stardom to SyFy
It’s back to the late 00s for a bunch of direct-to-SyFy flicks starring a variety of familiar faces. Let’s just get this over with. EYE OF THE BEAST (2007) This is generally a more polished outing than the usual SyFy … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, Eye of the Beast, ghosts, House of Bones, Rise of the Gargoyles, supernatural, Vipers
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A found footage triple feature
For someone who isn’t even a huge fan of the subgenre, I somehow ended up watching three found footage films in a row, and each one is a subgenre within the subgenre, including possession horror, a comedy creature feature, and … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, found footage, Hacksaw, possession, slashers, Stay, The Legend of Six Fingers, torture porn
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Double doses of the 1970s and the 1980s
I’m always filling in the gaps in my horror collection, especially any holes that show in the decades of my younger years. So here is a look at four I’ve recently added to my collection from the 70s and 80s. … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, creature features, Duel, Impulse, Mask of Murder, slashers, The Dark
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The rest of Robert Englund
At this point I’ve covered and own just about every horror movie in which icon Robert Englund starred, short of the Elm Street films (except part 2, which I took on recently). That list includes: Eaten Alive Dead & Buried … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Black Swarm, creature features, Dance Macabre, giallos, horror anthologies, Kantemir, Python, Sanitarium, Sinner, slashers, Strippers vs. Werewolves!, werewolves
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The blog that Betty White built
At the end of the 1990s, movies like Anaconda, Deep Blue Sea, and Lake Placid launched a resurgence of nature strikes back flicks in the form of snake, shark, and crocodile movies. They’ve lived on for over two decades, many … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Lake Placid movies
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Dinosaurs, aliens, and presidential zombies
It’s another mish-mosh of subgenres in my latest movie marathon. Let’s see if any of these flicks is worth a watch. TRIASSIC HUNT (2021) If only SyFy were half the bad monster movie channel it used to be, this dinosaur … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, Cosmic Sin, creature features, living dead, Re-elected, Triassic Hunt, undead, zombedies, Zombies, zomcoms
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Journeying through the 80s era…and stopping at a gay bar along the way
It’s a foursome of flicks I’ve just added to my collection from the best decade of my existence, and even includes some gay stuff, so let’s get into them. NIGHT OF DEATH (1980) It’s so odd to find movies still … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, cannibals, creature features, gay horror, Goodnight God Bless, home invasion, Lucifer, Night of Death, Siege, slashers, supernatural, The Bride
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