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Tag Archives: slashers
Tusk and Starry Eyes – body morphing horror!
Tusk and Starry Eyes are two well-hyped recent films that are very different yet both feature themes of body morphing! While neither blew me away and I don’t feel a need to ever see either again (let alone add them … Continue reading
Taking out the 80s slash trash!
Digging into the bowels of 80s slashers, I’ve gathered together a handful to cover so let’s get right to it! THE FOREST (1982) The Forest isn’t your ordinary backwoods cannibal movie. It’s a hot mess! You feel right at … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, backwoods horror, gay horror, Girls Nite Out, slashers, Stripped to Kill, Stripped to Kill II, The Forest
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An American Terror – is it Hellbent 2?
When I saw the cover art for An American Terror, my immediate thought was “leather man killer!” When I saw a clip in the trailer with the word “FAGS” painted on a car in a high school parking lot, I … Continue reading
Horror house cleaning: 90s trash
Ah. The nostalgia of all the shitty horror that pretty much went straight to video or straight to cable in the 90s. But out of the six films I look at here, one actually breaks the mold and hints at … Continue reading
Vincent Price madness!
My Vincent Price marathon continues (my other blogs covering his movies are here and here) with the perfect number of films: 13! I wish the number had been 14, but I’ve yet to get my hands on a copy of … Continue reading
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Tagged creature feature, Cry of the Banshee, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, gay horror, horror anthology, horror comedy, House of the Long Shadows, House of Wax, Madhouse, Return of the Fly, Scream and Scream Again, slashers, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Bat, The Comedy of Terrors, The Mad Magician, Theatre of Blood, Twice Told Tales, Vincent Price, witches, Witchfinder General
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Attack of the scary grannies!
Let’s face it. Grannies have been scaring little kids since the beginning of time! They make the perfect horror movie monster. So here’s a trio of granny horror flix to watch if you’re looking for a horror movie marathon theme. … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, demons, Grandmother’s House, Granny, Rabid Grannies, slashers
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Vincent Price meets the horror biggies: Poe, Corman, Matheson, Lovecraft
The House on Haunted Hill will forever remain my favorite Vincent Price horror flick, followed closely by The Tingler (and a few others). But in the 1960s, when he wasn’t working with William Castle (I blog about those films here), … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, horror anthology, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, slashers, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, The Oblong Box, The Raven, The Tomb of Legeia, Vincent Price
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What the Muck?
Imagine if The Empire Strikes Back was the only Star Wars film ever made. You’d begin and finish watching it wondering, WTF is going on? Right? Apply that bewilderment to the film Muck and you need to turn the WTF … Continue reading
WD Jackson’s Slasher goes Hollywood!
Author WD Jackson is a huge fan of horror films, particularly slasher films, so he’s taken the popular horror genre and woven it into his novel Slasher, about the making of a Hollywood slasher film that turns real when scream … Continue reading
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Tagged slashers
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Trash time! Which ones are worth a watch?
Killer nun. Killer kids. Video game turned CGI movie. Ghosts in an apartment. Religious possession. Mothman in a mirror. And… a killer vase on a plane? I’ve assembled my own little version of one of those 8-pack DVDs you can … Continue reading
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Tagged Airborne, Alone in the Dark, Apartment 143, creature feature, Deliver Us From Evil, Emergo, Evidence, found footage, ghosts, Mothman, possession, slashers, supernatural, The Children, The Nun, video games
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