Tag Archives: horror comedies

Small town spiders vs. big city spiders

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Daniel

It seems for the last 3 decades we’ve been getting a great, silly spider movie every 10 years or so. We had Arachnophobia in 1990, then we moved into a new millennium and got spider flicks in 2002 and 2013. … Continue reading →

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When the classic monsters got the last laugh

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Daniel

Once Freddy, Jason, and Michael raised the horror bar in the 80s, the original monsters kind of lost their fear factor…so they gnaw on our funny bones instead! But do these six flix still hold up? TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000 (1985) Director … Continue reading →

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PRIME TIME: Let’s Not Meet or we’ll get Fractured by the Ghastlies

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Daniel

It’s time for a mini smorgasbord of new stuff that just hit Prime. What do they have in common? They all recently hit Prime. Otherwise, it’s a variety: an 80s critter flick spoof, a home invasion flick, and a backwoods … Continue reading →

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Double witch film toil and trouble!

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Daniel

It’s flashback time to the end of the 80s for some witch flix—a comedy spoof and a creepy family movie. LOVE AT STAKE (1987) When I worked at the video store in the late 80s, I used to play this … Continue reading →

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Nielsen Ratings: it’s Dracula Dead and Loving It vs. Repossessed

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Daniel

Leslie Nielsen was around for ages before he hit the peak of his popularity, making his mark on both slapstick 80s comedies and horror movies with films like Airplane!, Naked Gun, Prom Night, and Creepshow. Conveniently, he also mixed both … Continue reading →

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It happened at the end of the first decade of the new millennium

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Daniel

Vampires, ghosts, demons, zombies, slashers… For me, there’s one film worth digging out of this wreckage of films from 2007 and 2008. REVERB (2008) I like the premise of this one a lot. It’s the execution that ruins it for … Continue reading →

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Sometimes zombies make me laugh, sometimes they don’t

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Daniel

Each of the four films in my latest zombie marathon had a different effect on me…and perhaps not always the effect the filmmakers were going for. BETTER OFF ZED (2018) If you caught my video the other day on Boys, … Continue reading →

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Werewolf flix that make me howl with laughter in between screams

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Daniel

I’ll never forget back in 1981 when An American Werewolf in London and The Howling changed the werewolf genre forever, from the transformation effects of both to the comedy of An American Werewolf in London and the bipedal wolves of … Continue reading →

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Johnny Gruesome is the face of evil in the basement

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Daniel

I finally took a moment to watch some up and coming movies (they might be out by now for all I know), so the only common theme between these three is that they are recent releases. We have a torture … Continue reading →

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STREAM QUEEN: 6 degrees of Bill Oberst Jr.

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Daniel

Taking a break from blogging about movies in my own collection, I perused my streaming watch lists and realized a bunch of the films included appearances by one of my indie faves, Bill Oberst Jr. Which means…BLOG THEME! These six … Continue reading →

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