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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
Deadly Dourif, a Jack Black clone vs. zombies, and another crawly demon girl
And here goes another mish-mosh of movies. And they weren’t so bad this time. DEATH AND CREMATION (2010) Death and Cremation reminded me of Stephen King’s The Apt Pupil, only without all the Nazi stuff. The old man this time … Continue reading
Mixing things up with 5 films loaded with evil forces, cannibals, and found footage
It was time to knock a bunch of films off my “need-to-see” list. Turns out several of them were definitely on the wrong list…. BANSHEE CHAPTER (2013) You can just move on from this one if you’ve seen dozens of … Continue reading
A haunted house, a hellish cave, and a hairy beast
Once in a while, you have a good streak on a weekend—one satisfying movie after another, even if they are all in completely different horror subgenres. Actually, that’s kind of what makes it even more satisfying, as with these three: … Continue reading
And my new favorite haunted house comedy is….
It took one single clip of the film The Selling (aka: The Selling of Scarry Manor) on cable for me to know I needed to add it to my DVD collection. I had no idea just how crucial an addition … Continue reading
Psychosis will give you Screamtime flashbacks
If you rented every horror movie that ever existed in the 1980s, chances are you saw the anthology film Screamtime at some point (blog here). My favorite story from that collection of short films was “Dreamhouse.” In a very unusual … Continue reading
Quick looks at modern horror time killers 10
The hits and misses never end. Here’s a new handful of horror goodies (and baddies). THE DARKEST HOUR (2011) Emile Hirsch, the cutie from teen flick The Girl Next Door, comes to Moscow with his buddy for a business meeting. … Continue reading