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Tag Archives: creature features
Early 80s vs. late 80s horror
I went deep diving for my 80s fix with four in a variety of subgenres. So let’s get right to them. THE LAST SHARK (1981) Falling between Jaws 2 and Jaws 3, The Last Shark put in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Link, creature features, Dark Tower, ghosts, slashers, supernatural, The House of Usher, The Last Shark
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PRIME TIME: demons and other creepy creatures
It’s a trio of indie films with varying degrees of chills, thrills, and kills. Let’s take a brief look at A Dark Path, The Evil Rises, and Demons Inside Me. A DARK PATH (2020) If you need a little backwoods … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dark Path, backwoods horror, creature features, Demon Inside Me, demons, possession, slashers, The Evil Rises
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Five from the early 1970s
They came from the same time period as The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but don’t expect them to live up to the two iconic films of the genre from that era. THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) Based on a … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, Carnival of Blood, Chosen Survivors, creature features, House of the Living Dead, occult, slashers, supernatural, Terror at Red Wolf Inn, The Dunwich Horror
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3 more holiday horrors for December 2020
I thought I’d seen it all for this season with my 2020 Christmas horror roundup blog, but SyFy and Shudder came through at the last minute with more Christmas horror to get us through the season and to add to … 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 A Creepshow Holiday Special, creature features, gay horror, horror comedies, Letters to Satan Claus, slashers, Toys of Terror
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SHUDDER AND SHRIEK: a castle freak and a couple of freaks
Since I’m running out of movies to stream on every single service, two new ones that just hit Shudder were a welcome chance to blog about something. So let’s get right into the Castle Freak remake and Anything for Jackson. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anything for Jackson, Castle Freak, creature features, possession, slashers
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Things are getting beastly with these four
It’s a foursome of modern day creature features. So which was my fave? SEA BEAST (2008) Pure SyFy creature fodder from the 00s, this film made me nostalgic for the days when they actually aired films like this. The creature … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, creature features, Sea Beast, Triclops, Underwater
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4 creature features of the past
Creature features from the 1950s and 1960s rarely fail to disappoint me, so I had fun with a majority of these four films from my late brother’s DVD collection. THE CYCLOPS (1957) This silly, 66-minute movie is essentially patterned after … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Day of the Triffids, The Cyclops, The Spider, War of the Colossal Beast
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Killer hair, a vampire clan, masked psychos, and a miniature Frankenstein
As the horror movie choices continue to dwindle due to COVID, I rounded up this foursome of very different subgenres. Let’s get right into them. BAD HAIR (2020) Bad Hair weaves the Asian girl hair horror of the early 2000s … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Frankenstein, Bad Hair, creature features, horror comedies, Nocturna, slashers, supernatural, vampires, Wicked Ones, witches
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