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Tag Archives: horror comedies
If you didn’t catch them when they were released for Halloween 2015…
I’d highly recommend you check out these two horror anthologies and put them on your Halloween party playlist for 2016. In the Dark and The Horror Network are very different in tone, so you get a great variety of horror … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, horror anthologies, horror comedies, In the Dark, slashers, supernatural, The Horror Network
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Kids vs. Monsters: A double comedy creature feature
The late 80s/90s was a great time for “light horror comedies” and “spooky family fun films.” Very often, the plots revolved around someone discovering a family member or romantic partner was some sort of vampire, zombie, werewolf, or other creature … Continue reading
Stream Queen: four zombedies—which one is the best?
Sure, zomcoms have been done to death…but they just keep coming back. And I’ll watch them all, no matter how low budget (thanks, streaming services!). So which one of these four is the best of this batch? HOW TO KILL … Continue reading
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Tagged Amigo Undead, Attack of the Herbals, gay horror, horror comedies, How to Kill a Zombie, living dead, Night of the Dead, undead, zombedy, zomcom
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Fear Town, USA is a fun town…and kinda Queer Town
Before his movie The Slashening (blog here), indie director Brandon Bassham brought the sex and slashing with horror comedy Fear Town, USA. I’m hooked on his brand of spoof slashers—raunchy, bloody, and loaded with jokes that work. Fear Town, USA’s … Continue reading
All kinds of Halloween horror for 2015
A load of new horror films with Halloween in mind hit the market this year. I’ve already looked at Volumes of Blood here, so now I take a quick look at four more. Are they mood setters? HONEYSPIDER One … Continue reading
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Tagged All Hallows’ Eve 2, Gravy, Hellions, Honeyspider, horror anthologies, horror comedies, occult, supernatural
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Bloody Knuckles – when Idle Hands go gay
Artsploitation Films is a movie company to keep an eye on. Not only do they make instant classics like Wither (my blog here), they also don’t shy away from blatant gay themes in horror films such as Der Samurai (my … Continue reading
How do you take your horror comedy?
Dark and mean, light and musical, or frickin’ scary with subtle humor? I look at three totally different types of horror films with varying levels of humor. THE LOVED ONES (2009) The overwhelming positive response I’ve seen online to this … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, ghosts, horror comedies, horror musicals, supernatural, The Bloody Indulgent, The Loved Ones, torture porn, vampires, We Are Still Here, Zombies
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The Hillbilly Horror Show gets back to form with a feature length release
Wow. Ask and you shall receive. I just covered volume 3 of The Hillbilly Horror Show the other day, and now volume 4 hit the streaming market! Running almost and hour and a half, this installment makes up for the … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, gay horror, horror anthologies, horror comedies, living dead, The Hillbilly Horror Show 4, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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The Slashening – girls, guys, bears, and pizza boys beware
Add Brandon Bassham, writer and director of The Slashening, to the list of filmmakers who really did their homework before attempting a throwback slasher. Actually, The Slashening is much more than that. Essentially, it’s a retro raunchy sex comedy dropped … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, horror comedies, slashers, The Slashening
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Make Me Shudder…with laughter!
I’ve never seen a film that delivers as much genuine horror film atmosphere and nonstop, over-the-top comic ridiculousness as the Thai film Make Me Shudder. It takes all the creepy weirdness of the Asian horror genre and reimagines it as … Continue reading