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Tag Archives: slashers
The horrors of Oz and Hansel and Gretel
Two more children’s stories get the horror treatment, and they’ve both been done before…more than once. So, did these latest adaptations deliver? Let’s find out. WICKED OF OZ (2026) This take on The Wizard of Oz is campy and cheesy … Continue reading
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Tagged Hansel & Gretel's Halloween, slashers, Wicked of Oz, witches, Wizard of Death Tinman's Rise
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Kicking off the holidays early
What better way to begin getting ready for Halloween early than with a couple of Halloween horror flicks to put me in the mood? And if Hallmark can do Christmas in July, I can do Christmas horror in August, so … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 4 Halloween, horror anthologies, Krampus in Space, lesbian horror, slashers, The Boy from Below
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Home invasion revenge, an urban horror comeback, and a Suspiria homage
There simply wasn’t a satisfying horror experience to be had in my latest trio of selections from my streaming watchlists. Let’s find out why. PRANK NIGHT (2026) I watched this one because horror queen Katharine Isabelle is in it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Prank Night, Puzzled Literature, Saturnalia, slashers
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More demented Disney
The gore is great, but are these dark adaptations any good? Let’s find out. BAMBI: THE RECKONING (2025) This is how you do a horror retelling of a classic—an animated, narrated, storybook intro in which we get the tragic history … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambi The Reckoning, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, slashers, Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey 2
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Supernatural and backwoods slasher time
This was one underwhelming trio of films for me, but at least one of them had gay guys and hot bods, which lands it on the does the gay guy die? page. Let’s get right into them. DARK DISTORTION (2026) … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Dark Distortion, gay horror, slashers, The Damned Lands, Trucker
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Indies from the 80s, 90s, and 00s
I recently scored most of these movies on Blu-ray and just tossed Mirror of Death in as a bonus in this post because it’s from the same director as Bloodspell. it was on Tubi, and I need to see and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Basement Jack, Blood Symbol, Bloodspell, Mirror of Death, possession, slashers, supernatural
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Slasher time: a haunted attraction, a rental house, and a desert
My latest streaming marathon was a triple feature of masked killer movies, so let’s get right into them. THE LAKSMAN (2026) The colors and the creeps are there, but while this haunted attraction horror movie’s IMDb description says it takes … Continue reading
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Tagged Killer Rental, Nameless, slashers, The Laksman
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BOUGHT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: a trio of obscurities
I’m always up for lesser-known horror flicks that star veteran actors from the old days, and these three feature appearances by George Kennedy and Cameron Mitchell. I don’t regret adding two out of three of these blind buys to my … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Demon Cop, Intensive Care, Island of the Doomed, slashers
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Pig people, a looping backwoods stalker flick, and killer gators
This trio delivered horror, blood, gore and even some extreme scenarios, but only one of them was the kind of easy entertainment I need right now. Let’s find out which one. PIG HILL (2025) This one really threw me for … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Drive Back, Pig Hill, slashers, supernatural horror, The Bayou
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SLASHERS: Killer cat man, house sitter horror, and another killer Mickey
This triple feature was sometimes horrific, sometimes humorous, and sometimes boring for me. Let’s get right into it. CAT SICK BLUES (2015) In this day and age, this movie is basically one big trigger warning, so only go into it … Continue reading
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Tagged Cat Sick Blues, House Sitter, Screamboat, slashers
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