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Tag Archives: slashers
Modern horror impulse buyer beware part 2
As a victim of my own disease—impulsiveness—many are the times I’ve bought horror just because it was there and maybe the cover looked good or I had nothing better to buy. So here’s my second installment of films that you … Continue reading
End of the Line – now this is my kind of terror train
In the first 30 seconds, a woman on a train sees some people standing at the other end of the car with their back to her. What happens in those thirty seconds made my balls suck back up into my … Continue reading
All Jamie Lee Curtis, no masked killer
Between 1978 and 1981, Jamie Lee Curtis essentially invented the term scream queen with Halloween, Halloween II, The Fog, Prom Night, and Road Games. But that wasn’t the end of the road for her horror games. And I’m not just … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Blue Steel, creature feature, Mother's Day, slashers, Virus
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Make a pact not to go in the woods
A slasher musical and an indie ghost story. Are either worth a watch? DON’T GO IN THE WOODS (2010) Someone has taken their dreams of wanting to go solo too far! Don’t Go in the Woods is a musical … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Casper Van Dien, Don’t Go in the Woods, ghosts, horror musicals, slashers, The Pact
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Results of getting to the video store too late Part 2
It’s another segment covering movies you’d rent on a Friday night because all the hot titles were gone or you’d already seen all the best stuff in the horror section! VICIOUS LIPS (1986) The first thing you hear is new … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, After Midnight, demons, Evilspeak, Forever Evil, gay horror, Gothic, horror anthologies, slashers, Sue Saad, Vicious Lips, Zombies
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Modern horror impulse buyer beware 1
As a victim of my own disease—impulsiveness—many are the times I’ve bought horror just because it was there and maybe the cover looked good or I had nothing better to buy. So I’m starting a segment on movies you should … Continue reading
Results of getting to the video store too late in the 80s Part 1
Those were the days. Either your last minute decision to rent movies on a Friday night found all the new releases and hot titles were gone…or you had been systematically renting everything in the horror section over time and were … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Carnage, Death Screams, ghosts, slashers, Terror at Tenkiller, The Last Slumber Party
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Camp Dread – a return to old school summer camp horror
Movies like Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp made summer camp slashers a genre favorite. Decades of knock-offs and homages later and we get a new one called Camp Dread by director Harrison Smith. And it’s pretty much a must-see … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Camp Dread, slashers
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Do you dare enter the Scream Park?
I’ve watched so many haunted attraction horror flicks in the past year that they are becoming a big blur. They usually have one thing in common: endless scenes of kids traveling through the haunted attraction, providing ineffective, cheap scares. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Scream Park, slashers
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Contagion and Jugface – the horror of 2 totally unrelated movies
Ah. Those moments when horror movies leave you feeling totally unfulfilled. Since I had that experience two nights in a row, I’m just going to get Contagion and Jug Face over in one blog. CONTAGION (1987) Of course, you … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Contagion, Jug Face, slashers
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