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Tag Archives: slashers
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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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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Hazard Jack – sex and the slasher and the musclebound maniac
These slashers that come on the cable horror channels are usually a dime a dozen and fairly tame. So I wasn’t expecting much when I checked out Hazard Jack. As usual, a group of college kids goes to party somewhere … Continue reading
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The Bunnyman legacy
The Bunnyman movies just keep multiplying like bunnies. And a third is on the way. Is the franchise worth trilogy status? BUNNYMAN (2011) The original Bunnyman has some great intentions to deliver the kind of backwoods craziness of movies like … Continue reading
A double feature of different (in a good way)
Despite being pretty unwavering in which subgenres of horror I most prefer to consume, once in a while, a film that doesn’t fit the usual “Dan movie” criteria (or as my friends call them, BDMs—bad Dan movie), catches me off … Continue reading
Cleaning horror house: 70s, 80s, and 90s crap
Here’s a bunch of crap I’ve been re-visiting lately, so let’s see how they hold up. THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (aka: Enter the Devil) (1974) This Italian knock-off of The Exorcist was renamed to sound more like Rocky Horror, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, creature feature, demons, Enter the Devil, exorcism, ghosts, possession, Rumpelstiltskin, slashers, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, supernatural, The Eerie Midnight Horror Show, The Hearse, Zombie High
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The horror of Kristina Klebe
Horror fans will most likely recognize actress Kristina Klebe for taking over the role of Lynda in Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween. But Kristina has been racking up plenty of horror. I covered Halloween here if you really feel the … Continue reading
Billy Club – a baseball slasher throwback double play
Here’s one we haven’t seen before. In Billy Club, members of a Little League baseball team with a tragic past reunite fifteen years later…only to be hunted down by someone in an umpire’s mask using a spiked baseball bat as … Continue reading
Tamara – throwback to the age of horror movie novelizations
Growing up in the 1980s, I devoured novelizations of horror movies—Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Fog, Jaws 2, Dressed to Kill, April Fools’ Day, Poltergeist—always thrilled to discover embellishments by the writers or scenes from the screenplay that … Continue reading