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PRIME TIME: witches and demons and the occult, oh my
Nothing ever seems to go right when evil is channeled from another place and time, as in these four flicks. Let’s take a look at this lineup of indie films. BODY KEEPERS (2018) Body Keepers is clearly an indie from … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Body Keepers, gay horror, ghosts, Here Comes Hell, horror comedies, It's Just a Game, occult, Ouija Craft, supernatural, witches
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Time for a foursome of Scout Taylor-Compton horror flicks!
When two Scout Taylor-Compton films ended up on my streaming watchlist, I became curious as to how many of her horror movies I hadn’t seen yet. Turns out only four. So I watched them all…and ended up buying two of … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, Cynthia, demons, gay horror, Getaway, horror comedies, occult, possession, slashers, Star Light, The Lurker
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PRIME TIME: don’t go in the woods
There’s no telling what lurks behind the trees in this foursome that includes a variety of subgenres. CREATURE CABIN (2017) This goofy film is the only one in this bunch that I purchased on DVD as soon as I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Are We the Waiting, Creature Cabin, demons, ghosts, home invasion, horror comedies, occult, possession, slashers, Sleepaway Slasher, supernatural, The Night They Knocked
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Four horror flicks of the late 1970s
A killer puppet, occult orgies, a big walking fish, and even a gay guy in a backwoods horror. Let’s get into these four from the end of the 1970s. RITUALS (1977) Whether intended or not, Rituals comes across as a … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Bog, creature features, gay horror, Magic, occult, Rituals, Satan's Blood, witches
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Will these scary creatures make you scream?
Aliens, a tentacle, a giant croc, and a demon. So which ones deliver on the chills and thrills? ATTACK OF THE UNKNOWN (2020) If SyFy bothered to show anything other than Harry Potter movies these days, this film would be … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Attack of the Unknown, creature features, demons, Into the Dark: Tentacles, occult, Rogue, supernatural, They Reach
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AFTER DARK ORIGINALS PART 1
Now that I’ve finished covering all the film festival titles I’d missed, I’m checking out the last of the After Dark Originals that I had yet to see, starting with Bedlam, Sanatorium, and Ritual. BEDLAM (2015) If watching helpless, mentally … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedlam, found footage, gay horror, ghosts, occult, Ritual, Sanatorium, supernatural, torture porn
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Four 90s disappointments to add to the never-ending pile…
This mess of movies from the 1990s makes me wonder how the hell the video store I worked in lasted through the decade. Oh…that’s right. People kept re-renting 80s horror movies… CTHULHU MANSION (1992) I had high hopes for this … Continue reading
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Tagged creature feature, Cruel Jaws, Cthulhu Mansion, demons, ghosts, home invasion, Naked Fear, Night Terrors, occult, supernatural
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Amityville…the horrors continue
I’ve covered plenty of Amityville films before, both in a mega blog and in a look at the Amityville II remake. Now, it’s time for another mega blog about Amityville and bogus Amityville films, going all the way back to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amityville 1992 It's About Time, Amityville A New Generation, Amityville Clownhouse, Amityville Dollhouse, Amityville Harvest, Amityville Mt. Misery Road, Amityville the Evil Escapes, Amityville The Final Chapter, Amityville Witches, ghosts, occult, supernatural, The Amityville Curse
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5 from the 1960s
Aliens, zombies, vampires, occultists, witches, grave robbers, killer plants…all jam-packed into only five movies. Does that work to their advantage? Let’s find out. THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1964) What a delicious title, and the combination of sci-fi/horror concepts isn’t bad … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Devils of Darkness, Die Monster Die!, occult, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Undertaker and His Pals, vampires, witchcraft, witches, Zombies
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Five from the early 1970s
They came from the same time period as The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but don’t expect them to live up to the two iconic films of the genre from that era. THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) Based on a … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, Carnival of Blood, Chosen Survivors, creature features, House of the Living Dead, occult, slashers, supernatural, Terror at Red Wolf Inn, The Dunwich Horror
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