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Tag Archives: creature features
A psychic parasite, a gut-loving goblin, and an underwater rift
As bad as the 1990s top of the barrel was, sometimes you just have to scrape the bottom of it to realize how much worse it could have been. So here’s a look at three I crossed paths with recently. … Continue reading
The Thing – it comes back every 30 years…
The original The Thing from Another World was a 1951 sci-fi hit that was then remade by John Carpenter as The Thing in 1982. Finally, in 2011 came a direct prequel to Carpenter’s film. Also just titled The Thing, it … Continue reading
They and The Crooked Man – adults ruin all the fun of childhood night terrors
I’m a sucker for films that begin with a child cowering under the sheets as some terrifying creature of the night crawls out from the closet or from under the bed. I got an unexpected double dose of that this … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, slashers, The Crooked Man, They
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2 out of 3 ain’t bad—actually, they’re both pretty damn good
This weekend’s movie marathon included three films I knew nothing about going into them. So it’s even more satisfying that a majority of them really scratched my chronic horror itch. As for subgenres, they all really only have one thing … Continue reading
Stream Queen: It Waits vs. Girl in the Woods
Once again, the fates have manipulated my existence so that I unintentionally watched movies with a common thread. Separated by a decade, these two films are pretty routine, but I preferred one over the other. IT WAITS (2005) I’m shocked … Continue reading
STREAM QUEEN: A wacky movie per decade: the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
We can’t get away from the lasting impact of films like 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, or 1996’s Scream, so it’s always fun to take a look at films that had absolutely no … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, demons, Dust Devil, Mystics in Bali, Spawn of the Slithis, witches
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It came from the 80s…but what the hell is it?
1980s horror had its fair share of crazy creatures—and no CGI! Can you identify these 12 movies by their monster faces? Answers below! ANSWERS: 1 – The Boogens 2 – C.H.U.D. 3 – The Deadly Spawn 4 – Enemy Mine … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features
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The Killer Shrews of Hazzard!
The passing of James Best, known by Gen-Xers as Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, brought the 1959 creature feature The Killer Shrews to the top of my list of movies to blog about. And being an obsessive-compulsive … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Return of the Killer Shrews, The Killer Shrews
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Quick looks at modern horror time killers part 3
Time to blast through four more films made in the past ten years, from slashers to creature features. JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD (2010) It must suck to be John Carpenter. You just want to make a fun little slasher about … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Glacier, Catacombs, creature features, Die Die Delta Pi, John Carpenter’s The Ward, slashers
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