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It came from the 1970s…but what the hell is it?
You gotta love some of the crap they dig up to fill those cheap multi-movie boxed sets. Here’s my take on five 1970s horror films that I inadvertently added to my collection because I bought boxed sets that included one … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature feature, demons, Devil’s Nightmare, ghosts, Good Against Evil, Moon of the Wolf, possession, Snowbeast, supernatural, The Bat People, werewolf
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Three Asian horror films that haven’t gotten the American makeover
Forget The Ring, The Grudge, Pulse, Shutter, The Eye, Dark Water…Jeez. We’ve remade so many Asian horror films here in the U.S. But not these three films! GUROZUKA (2005) Imagine if a scary tape turned you into a masked … Continue reading
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Tagged ghosts, Gurozuka, Infection, Reincarnation, Rinne, slashers, supernatural
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Doing a horror threesome with Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele was pretty much the female Vincent Price of the 1960s. She was a serial scream queen! So here’s a quick look at three of her flicks from the mid-60s. CASTLE OF BLOOD (1964) Castle of Blood is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Castle of Blood, Edgar Allan Poe, ghosts, Nightmare Castle, possession, supernatural, The She-Beast, witches
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This is some serious horror!
There’s nothing like cheesy fun scares, thrills and gore, but once in a while you (meaning, not me) want something a little more serious. No zombies. No masked killers. No drooling monsters. So here’s a quick rundown of four flicks … Continue reading
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Tagged Acolytes, Deadline, ghosts, Pathology, supernatural, torture porn, Vile
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Trash time! Which ones are worth a watch?
Killer nun. Killer kids. Video game turned CGI movie. Ghosts in an apartment. Religious possession. Mothman in a mirror. And… a killer vase on a plane? I’ve assembled my own little version of one of those 8-pack DVDs you can … Continue reading
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Tagged Airborne, Alone in the Dark, Apartment 143, creature feature, Deliver Us From Evil, Emergo, Evidence, found footage, ghosts, Mothman, possession, slashers, supernatural, The Children, The Nun, video games
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A double feature of different (in a good way)
Despite being pretty unwavering in which subgenres of horror I most prefer to consume, once in a while, a film that doesn’t fit the usual “Dan movie” criteria (or as my friends call them, BDMs—bad Dan movie), catches me off … Continue reading
Cleaning horror house: 70s, 80s, and 90s crap
Here’s a bunch of crap I’ve been re-visiting lately, so let’s see how they hold up. THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (aka: Enter the Devil) (1974) This Italian knock-off of The Exorcist was renamed to sound more like Rocky Horror, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, creature feature, demons, Enter the Devil, exorcism, ghosts, possession, Rumpelstiltskin, slashers, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, supernatural, The Eerie Midnight Horror Show, The Hearse, Zombie High
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Welcome to supernatural flashback hell
A guy and girl rely on flashbacks to find out what supernatural force caused mayhem and murder in a haunted house years before. I’m actually describing two films with the same sentence. Bet you thought that only worked with slashers…. … Continue reading
A high school horror double feature
It’s Haunted High vs. Tormented! Time for a big bloody student body count. HAUNTED HIGH (aka: Ghostquake) (2012) Sy-Fy quality Haunted High slaps together some familiar horror names, a school setting, a little occult ritual, and a couple of demon-ghost … Continue reading
Found footage and sorority Halloween horror houses
Here are two more flicks to add to my page of holiday horror. The Houses October Built would be an even better title for a Halloween horror film if it were a better movie. And the flick American Horror House … Continue reading