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A touching zombedy for the holidays

Christmas with the Dead, based on a short story by author Joe R. Lansdale, is part comedy, part horror, part buddy movie, and part heart-warming Christmas movie! Cutie Damian Maffei plays Calvin, whose wife and daughter turn into zombies when … Continue reading

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Mindless zombie shooting video game set in the Yakuza universe

I know absolutely nothing about the Yakuza video game franchise, but once they put zombies in the mix, I was so there. Hell, I didn’t even care about the storyline while playing Yakuza: Dead Souls. And you really don’t have … Continue reading

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While visions of better slashers and zombie movies danced in their heads

Yet another Santa slasher and Santa as the horror hero? Let’s get right to To All a Goodnight and Santa Claus vs. The Zombies! TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980) While Silent Night, Deadly Night wasn’t the first killer Santa movie, … Continue reading

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How do zombies really get to earth?

Conveniently, I watched two indie zombie films on the same night that are absolutely nothing alike except for one thing…these zombies don’t crawl up from the grave…. EVILUTION (2008) Evilution is the serious zombie film in this 2fer. This one … Continue reading

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The return of Bruce La Bruce’s gay living dead

A while ago I posted about how Bruce La Bruce’s horror movie/hardcore porno L.A. Zombie totally traumatized me. Like I couldn’t process the combination of hot naked men and repulsive sex scenarios. Watching Bruce La Bruce’s earlier zombie movie Otto, … Continue reading

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Has the corporate world made you into a cubicle zombie?

The 2009 horror comedy Office of the Dead offers a pretty good premise for a satire that hadn’t really been tackled yet in the zombie genre: the lifeless drone that office life can make us. Add in the Shaun of … Continue reading

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When horror becomes a whore show

Frank Henenlotter, the man behind the sleazy awesome gross cult film Basket Case, seemed to have been perfectly in tune with the sucky horror that would define the 90s when he made the 1990 film Frankenhooker. It was a popular … Continue reading

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Indiana Jonesing to kill some zombies with a laser disc player?

Okay. The 1986 flick Raiders of the Living Dead has nothing to do with Indiana Jones, but I imagine the title was probably inspired by it—and Return of the Living Dead, obviously. In terms of bad 80s horror flix, Raiders … Continue reading

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Naked guys, and zombies, and BEAUTIFUL DEAD creators Robert Fraser and Butch McLogic

Being a gay erotic horror author and horror fan, when I attended the LGBTQ sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention Bent-Con, naturally one of the first things I did was walk around to check out all the other guys’ goodies. Like a divining rod, … Continue reading

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1 short film short of a gay ghouls horror anthology!

If you’re looking for a gay slasher, look elsewhere. Director Jeff London’s double feature DVD has two short films that take an old school approach—tension building slow burner with one big monster reveal zinger at the end. When Darkness Falls … Continue reading

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