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Tag Archives: creature features
I can’t keep the truth hidden any longer
You know my basic belief—90s sequels destroy 80s classics. Well, revisiting The Hidden movies challenged everything I thought I believed…about the 90s and myself. THE HIDDEN (1987) In my mind this is one of the classics my favorite decade—just like … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, aliens, creature features, The Hidden, The Hidden II
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Critters: back to the beginning
With a Critters Shudder show and a new movie for SyFy, it was the perfect time to revisit my box set of the four original films in the Critters franchise, plus the new movie. Let’s see just how bad they … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, 90s, aliens, creature features, Critters, Critters Attack!, horror comedies
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C, D and E horror from the early 2000-teens
As I near completion of blogging about all the movies in my collection, it was just obvious how I could group these three very different films from 2010 and 2012 into one blog. It’s all about being alphabetically OCD. CHERNOBYL … Continue reading
A creature feature, a supernatural urban legend, and an anthology
A little bit of everything in this trio of recent films I streamed and watched on cable. Are any of them worth a watch? Let’s find out. STRANGE NATURE (2018) Great title for this movie, which is strange in a … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, horror anthologies, Slender Man, Strange Nature, supernatural, Welcome to Hell
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STREAM QUEEN: holiday horror from Halloween through Valentine’s Day
I was expecting to just hit up the latest Valentine’s Day horror flick from Hulu’s Into the Dark series, but I ended up all over the map this week thanks to uncovering movies that touch upon the bulk of the … Continue reading
PRIME TIME: two hairy situations
It’s out to the woods for a double feature of beasts of the wild. So which was more fun…Bigfoot or the bear? BEAR WITH US (2016) Bear With Us is a cabin in the woods meta horror comedy shot in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear With Us, Big Legend, Bigfoot, creature features, horror comedies
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5 movies—3 decades of horror nostalgia
A slasher, a big rat sequel, aliens, a vampire, a mummy, and even some man hotness along the way. I take a look back five ranging from 1982 through 2006. ISLAND OF BLOOD (1982) An 80s slasher so obscure I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, aliens, Cold & Dark, creature features, Gnaw: Food of the Gods II, Island of Blood, mummy, Petrified, Progeny, slashers, vampires
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1970s horror: my formative years
With a shrinking number of movies left in my collection to blog about, I figured it was time to finish off the 1970s stuff. So, here goes. Eight of them. And since it’s the 70s, dare I say eight is … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Blacula, creature features, Don’t Go In The House, Food of the Gods, gay horror, Murders in the Rue Morgue, occult, Orca, Race With the Devil, Scream Blacula Scream, slashers, The Car, vampires
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Four flix from horror kings of the 90s
John Carpenter, Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Williamson. It was a nostalgic trip back to the 90s for me when I revisited these four flicks in my collection. So which ones are my faves? IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994) … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, ghosts, horror comedies, In the Mouth of Madness, supernatural, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, The Faculty, The Frighteners
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Horror directors doing horror writers in the 90s
It feels like the close of the millennium was the end of the era of horror movies based on iconic authors (although Stephen King has made a big comeback lately). So I thought I’d take a look back at a … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Dagon, Lord of Illusions, Phantoms, Sleepy Hollow, supernatural, witches
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