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When multi-layered horror attacks
It just takes a marathon of deep, meaningful, artistic horror films for me to want to revert back to my usual shitfest viewing ways. I pushed on through this trio of films anyway, and I actually do have a favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Horsehead, occult, serial killers, supernatural, The Caretaker, Wild In Blue, witches
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Stream Queen 8: Halloween in February!
I’m always seeing memes about how we should skip Valentine’s Day and just have a second Halloween in February, so it’s quite convenient that I found a bunch of streaming stuff that takes place on Halloween. But are they Halloweenie … Continue reading
A late-80s horror mish mosh
By the end of the 80s, you never knew what you were going to get when you popped a rented film into the VCR. For example, these three 80s horror films. REVENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD GIRLS (1987) This bizarre … Continue reading
Stream Queen 7
What better way to start off the New Year than with a bunch of disappointing movies? Here’s a trio I watched, including found footage, a backwoods slasher, and a—well, I don’t know what. Let’s get right to it. GRADUATION DAY … 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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Do you dare enter The Devil’s Woods?
Indie backwoods horror flick The Devil’s Woods combines a bit of 1970s occult with 80s slasher. This is shocking for me to say, but I think this hour and fifteen-minute movie needed to be longer to tackle and fully realize … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, occult, slashers, The Devil’s Woods
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Beast Within and Devil’s Prey – kids in peril double feature
Groups of young friends know how to have all the stupid fun…and get into some cheesy horror trouble at the same time. Let’s see what happens when they come face-to-face with killer birds and a satanic cult in Beast Within and Devil’s Prey. … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Beast Within, Devil’s Prey, infected, occult, slashers, Zombies
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1970s horror insanity
1970s horror was a trip. So I’m going to bang out a bunch of trash from my formative years (explains a lot). GARGOYLES (1972) I am shocked that Gargoyles hasn’t been remade—and even more impressed that it’s still so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Ronald, creature feature, demons, exorcism, Gargoyles, occult, possession, Sssssss, The Antichrist, The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse, The Devil’s Rain, The Hazing
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Made-for-TV horror, Halloween 2014!
It was a big year for made-for-TV horror flicks. Unfortunately, I missed the one film I really wanted to see and it wasn’t repeated. So I had to settle for three other flicks. And they had me wishing that 1970s … Continue reading
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Tagged dolls, Finders Keepers, horror anthologies, occult, The Dorm, The Fright Night Files
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Proof that you should never play with a witchboard more than once
Okay. So the original is 80s cheesy goodness and it has Whitesnake’s be-otch in it. But honestly, with the level of “good” that Witchboard reaches, it could only get worse with sequels…especially since they were doomed to be products of … Continue reading

