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Tag Archives: slashers
STREAM QUEEN: home invasions, slashers, and torture porn
I always do my best to find the good in all the crap I stream, so here’s how things turned out with these six films. SWEET HOME (2015) A young woman sneaks her boyfriend into a vacant apartment building as … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Black Water Wilderness, Cassidy Way, Cut, home invasion, No Through Road, Sickle: The Haunting, slashers, Sweet Home, torture porn
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STREAM QUEEN: a low budget slasher double feature
If there’s a slasher on Amazon Prime, it’s going to end up in my Watch List eventually. So here’s how things turned out when I watched American Paradice and Blood Reaper, two indies about a bunch of friends heading into … Continue reading
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Tagged American Paradice, Blood Reaper, slashers
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They and The Crooked Man – adults ruin all the fun of childhood night terrors
I’m a sucker for films that begin with a child cowering under the sheets as some terrifying creature of the night crawls out from the closet or from under the bed. I got an unexpected double dose of that this … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, slashers, The Crooked Man, They
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Women in peril in this 1970s horror triple feature
I’m always hesitant to watch early 1970s horror crap slapped onto 20-movie budget DVD sets. There’s simply too much trash from that era that adds nothing to the horror genre, lacks any scares, and is painfully dated. That’s the case … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood and Lace, living dead, slashers, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Thirsty Dead, undead, Zombies
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A traumatic trio from a 15-movie budget pack
I innocently sat down to make it through what I assumed would be the final 3 lame films crammed onto a multi-movie DVD set I bought for a single movie. Instead, I was disturbed by two of the titles and … Continue reading
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Tagged Filth to Ashes Flesh to Dust, found footage, Meadowoods, slashers, Speck, torture porn
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Weekend watchings: 4 movies that didn’t do it for me
They all had the potential to be my kind of movie, but this quadruple feature ultimately delievered a weekend without a single satisfying horror movie experience. So here’s a quick rundown of each. PINPRICK (2009) This one is not much … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged demons, Followed Home, Lake Eerie, Pinprick, slashers, The Neon Dead, Zombies
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Think twice before visiting a woman at a cabin in the woods
Ghosts, demons, crazed killers…there’s no telling what you’re being lured toward when you go to visit a woman at a remote location in the woods, as demonstrated in The Sacred, Visible Scars, and Blood Lust. THE SACRED (2012) Director Brett … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Lust, demons, ghosts, possession, slashers, supernatural, The Sacred, Visible Scars
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THE 80s SLASHER VAULTS Part 13: The end of the 80s horror era
I think this is it. I think my 80s Slasher Vaults series comes to an end with this 13th installment of lesser-known titles from the end of the 80s horror era. This one takes us right into the early 1990s, … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, gay horror, horror comedies, Houseboat Horror, Night of the Dribbler, slashers, The Deadly Intruder, The Refrigerator, Zipperface
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Forgotten films: a campy 90s supernatural slasher comedy double feature
When it comes to the drastic shift to slasher comedies in the 1990s, we’ve all seen Dr. Giggles, Ice Cream Man, The Dentist films, Leprechaun movies, etc. But no one really talks about The Granny and Evil Ed, two films … Continue reading
Rush Week and Midnight Ride – boys on campus and Skywalker on the road
At the end of the 1980s, stuntman/actor/director Bob Bralver, whose lengthy career includes appearing on Star Trek, directing episodes of Knight Rider, and doing stunts for Diagnosis Murder, made a couple of horror movies loaded with 80s pop culture appeal! … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Midnight Ride, Rush Week, slashers
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