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Tag Archives: creature features
BOUGHT ON BLU AND DVD: the 70s, 80s, and 90s
Made for television in the 70s, lost in the 80s, and the sixties sequelized in the 90s. Let’s take a look at three more I just added to my collection. TERROR OUT OF THE SKY (1978) This is actually a … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, Terror Out of the Sky, The Birds II: Land's End, The Kiss, witches
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BOUGHT ON BLU: killers and creatures of the 60s and 70s
This trio of flicks I added to my collection comes from 1969, 1976, and 1977, and includes a psycho killer, Bigfoot, and a melting man! HORROR HOUSE (aka: The Haunted House of Horror) (1969) I had to pick this one … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, Creature from Black Lake, horror house, slashers, The Haunted House of Horror, The Incredible Melting Man
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SHUDDER AND SHRIEK: a glory hole, wicked witches, and a horror anthology
It’s a variety of horror subgenres in this trio of films I knocked off my Shudder watchlist. GLORIOUS (2022) Turning True Blood pretty boy Jason Stackhouse and a glory hole plot into a talkfest is a waste of a concept. … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegoria, creature features, Glorious, Hellbender, horror anthologies, supernatural, witches
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Back to the middle of the 00s for a triple feature of killers and creatures
I was a major impulse buyer of horror DVDs in the first ten years of their existence, so I have a soft spot for indie horror from the era. These three passed me by back then, but upon watching them, … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Frostbite, Silent Scream, slashers, The Shadow Walkers, vampires
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TUBI TERRORS: a trio of Tubi originals
It’s a zombie snoozefest, a shark winner, and a killer tow truck driver that takes too many wrong turns to reach his destination. SHARK BAIT (2022) After just complaining in a recent post about another typical shark movie with an … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Dead Zone, infected, Shark Bait, sharks, slashers, Tow, Zombies
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80s oddities: beginning, middle, and end
It’s a trio of lesser-known films from the best horror decade ever–although you wouldn’t know that by watching these three movies. FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND (1981) I cannot process that this film was made in 1981 and not 1961, beginning with the … 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, aliens, creature features, Frankenstein Island, High Desert Kill, Murder-Rock, slashers
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BOUGHT ON BLU: 1970s horror makes its way to Blu-ray
It’s a trio of flicks from the 1970s that recently got the HD treatment for the physical market. But are these three titles worth the purchase? HORROR HIGH (1973) The sappy ballad that opens Horror High tells you immediately you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Ants, creature features, Horror High, Shriek of the Mutilated, slashers
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Killers and creatures of the 60s and I got them on Blu-ray
This foursome of flicks I’ve just added to my library spans from 1959 to 1965 and delivers a masked killer, big creatures, and even vampire aliens. CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) There’s some question as to whether horror master Mario … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Blood and Black Lace, Caltiki The Immortal Monster, creature features, Planet of the Vampires, slashers, The Flesh Eaters, vampires
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SHUDDER AND SHRIEK: women in peril
It’s girls gone wild with sharks, demons, and aliens. THE REEF: STALKED (2022) A sequel to the 2010 film The Reef in name only, The Reef: Stalked is a reminder that the shark subgenre of movies started by the Open … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, creature features, demons, Revealer, sharks, The Reef Stalked, The Seed
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TUBI TERRORS: a shark, a werewolf, and giant maggots!
It’s killer creature time in my latest marathon on Tubi. BLOOD BITE (2020) This Asian shark film feels like a cheesy SyFy mashup of Jaws 3D and Deep Blue Sea. I couldn’t wait to type that sentence. Unfortunately, the film … 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 Blood Bite, creature features, gay horror, horror comedies, Maggots, The Hunting
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