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Tag Archives: slasher
The Chair needs to take a seat because the Necromancer is queen
Well, Necromancer is at least the film I liked better of these two lost flicks from 1988 that I dug out of my DVD collection. THE CHAIR (1988) There were a handful of fun prison/electric chair horror films released in … Continue reading
STREAM QUEEN: when Prime time is prom time…
With this slasher double feature I was treated to one 80s throwback that takes place right after the prom, and one late 90s throwback about a prom reunion 8 years later. PARTY NIGHT (2017) This is one of those first … Continue reading
STREAM QUEEN: 6 flix that have their moments
Nothing in this marathon of movies gave me the urge to own what I was watching, but there’s definitely some good horror fun to be had in each film (some more than others). Here’s the rundown… DARK, DEADLY & DREADFUL … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Black Creek, creature features, Dark Deadly & Dreadful, demons, home invasion, horror anthologies, Keep Watching, Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge, slasher, Souleater, Voodoo Possession, Zombies
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STREAM QUEEN: dead in the woods and dead under the wheels
Hey. When horror keeps coming at you in a never-ending stream, you’ll watch anything. Maybe that’s dulled my senses, but I didn’t hate either of these films. SUPER HYBRID (2010) The director of the U.S. version of One Missed Call … Continue reading
Three reasons why I’d rather be watching trashy b-movies
I’m actually disappointed that I was disappointed by three movies I assumed would at least deliver some entertaining horror fun even if they were films I never needed to see again. After all, these three titles are totally within the … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Chopping Block, Emelie, gay horror, horror comedies, slasher, The Curse of Downers Grove
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When a fairy tale becomes a horror….
It’s Alice in Murderland vs. Little Dead Rotting Hood! Be scared. Be very scared. ALICE IN MURDERLAND (2010) As I worked my way through Alice in Murderland, I had a very strong feeling I’d done this all before. Turns … Continue reading
The Netherlands slaughtered it with this slasher…in a good way
Okay, so the translation of this film from the Netherlands couldn’t be any more generic. The title Slaughter Night doesn’t really do this movie justice—it could describe any direct to DVD slasher from the past 3 decades that attempted to … Continue reading
Burnt Offerings: a new era of the slow burner horror film?
Having almost 40 years of experience watching horror films (I’m 41 and have been watching some form of horror films since I was like 5) I grew up on what are now considered ‘slow burners’: horror films that have about … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Cabin Fever, Eli Roth, Friday the 13th, halloween, House of the Devil, Saw, Scream, slasher, slow burner, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror, The Exorcist, The Grudge, The Ring, The Roost, Ti West
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I want me gold! And don’t call me Leprechaun…
Riding the wave of the slasher resurgence due to the Scream series from 1996 – 2000, the 2002 film Miner’s Massacre (aka: Curse of the Forty-Niner) is slightly better than a SyFy Original slasher (because the sex, blood, and bad … Continue reading
More than you’d ever want to know about the 80s classic Square Pegs
I was in 8th grade when the television show Square Pegs premiered in the fall of 82 and became an instant hit with the Gen-X crowd. Rather than sending us off to the School of the Performing Arts and thereby … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Amy Linker, Berlin, Billy Idol, Devo, halloween, Jami Gertz, John Hughes, Johnny Slash, new wave, Sarah Jessica Parker, slasher, Square Pegs, The Waitresses, Tracy Nelson, Valley Girl
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