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Tag Archives: creature features
Horrors from the water, the sky, and…the vents?
This trio of films offers some familiar (and some cute) faces and favorite subgenres, but is that enough to make them worth a watch? DARK HOUSE (2014) Had this one on my “must-see” list for a while because a) delicious … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, creature features, Creature Lake, Dark House, found footage, slashers, supernatural, Thirst
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Digging through the DVR – 4 the fun of it
I DVR so much crap off the dozens of movie channels that it’s unusual to watch 4 in a row in one weekend that all give me a few cheap thrills—especially when at least half of them are mainstream horror. … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts, Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, demons, gay horror, Horns, Lights Out, Ritual, supernatural, The Boy
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TRIPLE FEATURE TIME: torture porn, creature feature comedy, and backwoods slasher
This trio from 2006-2007 gives us a low budget yet hardcore gore porn experience, some cheesy SyFy slime creature fun, and a crazy backwoods family terrorizing kids at a cabin in the woods. These are probably not movies you’d seek … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, creature features, Day Of The Ax, horror comedies, slashers, Something Beneath, The Traveler, torture porn
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Beware Jerusalem, the Grand Canyon, and Holland Road
It’s a world of flying demons, angry ghost tribes, and pigheaded killers out there, which is why I choose to just stay home and watch bad horror movies. So how bad are these three? JERUZALEM (2015) Jeruzalem is everything I … Continue reading
The Gate should have stayed closed after the first film
Director Tibor Takács, who has had a long career in horror, from I, Madman to Spiders 3D, scored an 80s video rental/cable classic with The Gate. A few years later he delivered a follow-up that suffers from a bad case … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, demons, living dead, supernatural, The Gate, undead, Zombies
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STREAM QUEEN: Field Freak vs. The Monster!
I picked these two newer titles off Amazon Prime for a creature double feature with no knowledge of what I was getting myself into beyond the brief descriptions of each movie. It was luck of the draw this time, because … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Field Freak, horror comedies, The Monster
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A horror hospital, a cabin in the woods, and a bloody haunted attraction
Sometimes, you’re better off alone, as demonstrated by three films from the 2000s that show what can happen when pretty people hang out in groups… CANDY STRIPERS (2006) This is the kind of flick that makes me nostalgic for teen … Continue reading
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Tagged Candy Stripers, creature features, Dead Mary, demons, FrightWorld, horror comedies, possession, slashers
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STREAM QUEEN: Alien Hunger vs. Antibirth
It’s sort of a creature double feature, but in both cases, the filler far outweighs the freakozoids…. ALIEN HUNGER (2014) Alien Hunger is a SyFy caliber film about aliens terrorizing people in a house in the woods. So basically, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Hunger, aliens, Antibirth, body horror, creature features
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Unearthed and Stabbed in the Face!
It’s a Pumpkinhead look-alike vs. a Halloween slasher! Here are my brief thoughts on these two from the first decade of the new millennium. UNEARTHED (2007) Unearthed stars Emmanuelle Vaugier, who was a big time scream queen in the first … Continue reading
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER vs. BLAIR WITCH
Which of these two high profile titles was less torture for me to sit through? Let’s get right to it. I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (2016) I seriously thought I was going to have an ADHD meltdown trying to … Continue reading