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Taking out the 80s slash trash!
Digging into the bowels of 80s slashers, I’ve gathered together a handful to cover so let’s get right to it! THE FOREST (1982) The Forest isn’t your ordinary backwoods cannibal movie. It’s a hot mess! You feel right at … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, backwoods horror, gay horror, Girls Nite Out, slashers, Stripped to Kill, Stripped to Kill II, The Forest
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Vincent Price madness!
My Vincent Price marathon continues (my other blogs covering his movies are here and here) with the perfect number of films: 13! I wish the number had been 14, but I’ve yet to get my hands on a copy of … Continue reading
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Tagged creature feature, Cry of the Banshee, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, gay horror, horror anthology, horror comedy, House of the Long Shadows, House of Wax, Madhouse, Return of the Fly, Scream and Scream Again, slashers, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Bat, The Comedy of Terrors, The Mad Magician, Theatre of Blood, Twice Told Tales, Vincent Price, witches, Witchfinder General
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The Last of Us isn’t your standard survival horror game
In The Last of Us, you’re a man (who looks exactly like Dylan McDermott with a beard) on a mission to protect a girl (who looks and sounds exactly like Ellen Page) during the zombie apocalypse. And therefore, it’s much … Continue reading
Summer of Blood – a vampire with a snarky attitude
If you’re a fan of the biting, sarcastic, and dry humor trends—think Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, The Office—then vampire comedy Summer of Blood is not to be missed. The story of a city dude who’s really bad at interpersonal … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, horror comedy, Summer of Blood, vampires
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Talking gay horror short stories with author Mark Allan Gunnells
I’ve covered some of the gay horror fiction of Mark Allan Gunnells before. You can read my blog about his gay slasher Sequel here, and I cover his gay zombie novel Asylum here. Plus, he allowed me to post one … Continue reading
Ryan Phillippe’s apology offering for the lack of gay in 54
Ryan Phillippe writes and directs Catch Hell. On the surface, it’s a story of Ryan, a washed up actor, kidnapped by a crazed jealous guy whose chick he banged. So the guy brings him to a shack in the bayou, … Continue reading
Modern flesh-eating film overload
A bunch of quick picks of the gut munching variety. It’s a little bit of everything, from “smart” horror to schlock! RETARDEAD (2008) The opening of Retardead promises that this is going to be a fun, low-budget popcorn movie. First … Continue reading
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Tagged Attack of the Vegan Zombies, Dead Genesis, Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, gay horror, Herschell Gordon Lewis, living dead, Love in the Time of Monsters, Retardead, undead, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, Zombie Hood, Zombies
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The Wolves of Kromer – a different kind of gay hairy beast
Before True Blood made vampires a metaphor for gay panic and before In the Flesh made zombies the same, the 1998 art film The Wolves of Kromer used werewolves as the monster of choice. And it also featured Boy George … Continue reading
Hazard Jack – sex and the slasher and the musclebound maniac
These slashers that come on the cable horror channels are usually a dime a dozen and fairly tame. So I wasn’t expecting much when I checked out Hazard Jack. As usual, a group of college kids goes to party somewhere … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, Hazard Jack, slashers
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Billy Club – a baseball slasher throwback double play
Here’s one we haven’t seen before. In Billy Club, members of a Little League baseball team with a tragic past reunite fifteen years later…only to be hunted down by someone in an umpire’s mask using a spiked baseball bat as … Continue reading