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Tag Archives: found footage
A backwoods creature, a found footage killer, and a tarot curse
It’s another smorgasbord of subgenres from my watchlists, so let’s get right into them. STOKER HILLS (2020) This is a third-person POV/found footage hybrid that jumps back and forth between detective hunting for missing film students and the footage they … Continue reading
Bringing out the animal in humanity
My weekend was filled with a 4-flick marathon of movies featuring humans with animalistic tendencies, so let’s sink our teeth into them. SHARK GIRL (2024) I really expected this one to be some sort of trashy, indie mess, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, found footage, Frogman, Piglet, Pigman, Shark Girl, slashers
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: oh, the horrors!
These three films from my streaming watchlists borrow elements of found footage horror, but none of them fully commits to the subgenre’s rigid POV, allowing for some flexibility in the way the stories are presented. I’m not saying that makes … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Don't Make a Sound, found footage, The Glenarma Tapes, The Wild Man Skunk Ape
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FOUND FOOTAGE: ghosts, a killer clown, a vampire spirit…and even a gay hottie
I haven’t delved into a bunch of found footage flicks in a while, so I figured it was time to throw in a marathon of them. Let’s find out if that was a good decision. CHATEAU (2024) If you love … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Chateau, found footage, gay horror, Obayifo Project, The Haunting of the Murder House
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It all happened in the last twenty minutes
There are all kinds of terrors in the latest triple feature from my streaming watchlist, but all three movies have one thing in common—nothing really happens until the final act. Let’s find out if it was worth watching the first … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Ashburn Waters, creature features, Dagr, Deep Fear, found footage, occult, undead, Zombies
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Harvests and Axes
In my latest movie marathon, I was only disappointed by one choice from my streaming watchlists. Let’s find out which one and why. BLOOD HARVEST (2023) This 80-minute film is astonishingly uneventful and offers absolutely no chills or thrills. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Harvest, ChadGetsTheAxe, found footage, Night Harvest, occult, slashers
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It happened on Halloween
It was October in July for me with my latest marathon of movies, making for three more films to add to the complete holiday horror page. CAMP PLEASANT LAKE (2024) This campground slasher has a very early 2000s direct-to-DVD vibe. … Continue reading
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Tagged Camp Pleasant Lake, found footage, KKKillers, Octoberfest, slashers
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Killer clowns, killer animatronics, and killer horn dogs
These three aren’t just random selections from my watchlists—they each star Sadie Katz, one of my favorite contemporary b-horror scream queens. CLOWN FEAR (2020) Clown Fear has great clown horror atmosphere and some hunky killer clowns, including my horror buddy … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Clown Fear, found footage, Night of the Zomghouls, slashers, Woods Witch
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Followers found me some found footage to watch
I recently posted on social media asking what everyone’s favorite found footage films are—I offered up Exists, Hell House LLC, Quarantine, The Pyramid, and The Monster Project as mine. Several responses consisted of titles I’d never heard of, so I … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged found footage, gay horror, Horror in the High Desert, The Conspiracy, The Outwaters
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Holiday horror, from Halloween to St. Paddy’s Day
It’s a load of new movies to add to the holiday horror page, including Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and St. Patrick’s Day flicks. Let’s get right into them. PROJECT EERIE (2023) Only the wraparound of this 75-minute movie takes place on … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Die'ced, found footage, Guess Who, home invasion, horror anthologies, Project Eerie, slashers, St. Patrick's Day The Sluagh Awakens, Thanksgiving
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