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Tag Archives: slashers
Girls vs. Boys in a new millennium slasher showdown
Girls take on a vengeful Mexican spirit and boys take on a vengeful cricket player! These two films make a great hokey horror double feature. And yet…they’d both make great double features with other movies…. THE CURSE OF EL CHARRO … Continue reading
A unique horror trio from the first three years of the 80s
Breaking the slasher, werewolf, and vampire molds, it’s Fade to Black, Wolfen, and The Living Dead Girl. FADE TO BLACK (1980) Fade to Black totally caters to movie geeks, with nonstop horror film references, movie posters, and actual film clips … Continue reading
Another Troma 80s horror trash trio
Who can explain why studios like Troma and Full Moon have been able to turn out crap for decades? Not me. I also can’t explain why I continue to watch their films. Although, people with the same dilemma as me … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Hook, Curse of the Cannibal Confederates, Curse of the Screaming Dead, gay horror, living dead, slashers, Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator, Troma, undead, Zombies
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A smorgasbord of 90s killing machines
A psycho doctor, an evil robot, a mutating man, and a mad mummy. So which of these 90s horror killers is worth the time? DR. GIGGLES (1992) The result of the wisecracking killer craze that ruined the slasher genre at … Continue reading
Headless – the freakiest part of Found is now a movie of its own
Indie film Found from director Scott Schirmer has quite a cult following. I blog about the film here, but in short, the main boy in the movie is obsessed with a horror film called Headless. The footage from that faux … Continue reading
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Tagged Found, grindhouse, Headless, slashers, torture porn
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Four from scream queen Alexandra Holden
You might not know her name, but you’ve probably seen at least one of Alexandra Holden’s movies from the new millennium. WISHCRAFT (2002) Like most horror films that run longer than an hour and a half, Wishcraft shouldn’t. Shave ten … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dead Calling, Dark Reel, Dead End, ghosts, slashers, supernatural, Wishcraft
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Three post-possession horror films of Linda Blair
After escaping Pazuzu’s evil clutches, Linda Blair went the horror trash route in movies such as Grotesque (blog here) and Witchery (blog here). She also took on a witch, a deformed psycho killer, and zombies! SUMMER OF FEAR (aka: Stranger in … Continue reading
The Toolbox Murders 2…religious torture porn?
WTF did I just watch? Honestly, this film is as whacked as its history. Apparently it was intended to be The Toolbox Murders 2. Then writers and directors were up in the air. Business issues came up. The sequel idea … Continue reading
The Dentist – wanna get drilled by Corbin Bernsen?
Watch out, Dr. Giggles. The dentist is in! Yes, it’s another iconic killer from the 1990s “root for the baddie” slasher genre. And he got in right under the wire, because he arrived the same year Scream made the killer … Continue reading
Comedy horror madness
Seriously, these four films are not your everyday fun horror comedies. They are most definitely…imbalanced. DECAMPITATED (1998) Decampitated is a low-budget indie slasher comedy that Troma got its hands on, so not surprisingly, it’s a mess. A spoof of backwoods … Continue reading
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Tagged cannibals, Decampitated, gay horror, Growing Out, horror comedy, Psycho Sleepover, slashers, Street Team Massacre, Zombies
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