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Tag Archives: slashers
Slashing in the woods, at the water, and from beyond
I needed a hack ‘n slash break, so I rounded up a couple of sequels to movies I’d already blogged about…and then tossed in a mainstream flick that was on cable. So let’s see what I got out of Axeman … Continue reading
Direct to DVD: A Benjamin Cooper/Jeff Ryan/Matt O’Neill triple feature
Approximately every 5 years since 2006, indie director Benjamin Cooper has released a horror film. Since all three were on Amazon Prime and I totally got sucked in by his creature feature Primitive, I decided…BLOG! THE BRINK (2006) For his … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature feature, Edgar Allan Poe’s Lighthouse Keeper, ghosts, Primitive, slashers, supernatural, The Brink
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Masked bitches, zombies, and mutants
If you stream a lot of horror, chances are the name Uncork’d has become a pretty familiar sight at the beginning of a film. It’s another 21st century company keeping the horror genre alive by releasing numerous indie films. Here’s … 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 Bad Apples, creature feature, Dawning of the Dead, gay horror, horror comedies, living dead, slashers, The Rizen, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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Is the Devil’s Domain a queer safe space?
Jared Cohn, director of Hold Your Breath, Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill, Little Dead Rotting Hood, and the backwoods slasher The Horde simply must keep making movies, because even if I like some less than others, he never does the same … Continue reading
DIRECT TO STREAM: The low budget urban horror of Chad Hendricks
Director Chad Hendricks’s four films from between 2003 and 2007 recently hit Amazon Prime, so I thought I’d check them all out. Taking on slashers, backwoods horror, zombies, and even a psychological thriller, he most often plays up an urban … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Everything Means Nothing, horror comedies, Insane in the Brain, Kracker Jack’d, living dead, Neck of Da Woodz, slashers, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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Bee Sting goes down like honey…so I went back for a taste of Bear Sting
When I watched the 47-minute film Bee Sting I just assumed it was going to be a horror comedy about kids taking on giant bees at a summer camp. The film is based on a comic book according to imdb, … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy
Tagged backwoods horror, Bee Sting, Bee Sting 2: Bear Sting, horror comedies, slashers
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Three flicks with more than just a body count to offer
It’s so refreshing when the endless risks I take selecting movies to watch based on poster art and 2-sentence descriptions totally pay off quite nicely. Even better when it happens three times in a week! So here’s what I got … Continue reading
1 out of 3 ain’t bad…even if it’s not entirely a horror movie
I guess I have myself to blame for watching horror films that include casts of people you’ve actually heard of, but this foursome wasn’t exactly my idea of a good horror time. Here’s my rundown of The Divide, The Abandoned, … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged cannibals, Don’t Sleep, Hotel of the Damned, slashers, supernatural, The Abandoned, The Divide
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Looking at 4 of the not so greats of the late 80s
But you gotta love them anyway—or at least, have them in your DVD collection if you’re an 80s fanatic like me. It’s time to look at obscurities Bates Motel, The Undertaker, Night Feeder, and Prime Evil. BATES MOTEL (1987) … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Bates Motel, Night Feeder, Prime Evil, slashers, supernatural, The Undertaker
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All kinds of slashing and sacrificing from Wild Eye Releasing
Seeing the Wild Eye logo flash across the screen before a movie in the 21st century is sort of like seeing the New Line Cinema logo before a film back in the 1980s. You know you’re with family; you don’t … Continue reading