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Tag Archives: slashers
The Watermen will make fish food out of you!
By all accounts, The Watermen is a really stupid misogynistic backwoods slasher set in the boating universe, but it really does deliver some cheap thrills. So we have this mega hunk and his brother going out fishing on a boat … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged slashers, The Watermen
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Direct-to-DVD: the psychotic throwback films of Alan Rowe Kelly
Over a decade ago, I wrote a review of Alan Rowe Kelly’s first film I’ll Bury You Tomorrow for a DVD website. Alan Rowe was pleased with the review I imagine, because he contacted me and took me to lunch … Continue reading
A decade before Asian horror became hot, there was Evil Dead Trap!
Way back in 1988, while Freddy, Jason, and Chucky were humoring American audiences, a dastardly little film called Evil Dead Trap was horrifying Japan. Naturally, it has nothing to do with the Evil Dead movies, even though it does throw … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Evil Dead Trap, Hideki – Evil Dead Trap II, slashers, supernatural
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Junkyard slasher, warehouse zombies, or storage facility alien
What’s your pleasures? Psycho killer, zombies, or alien? I’ve got one of each! WRECKAGE (2010) After their car breaks down, two couples walk to a junkyard to find the right part to fix it. One couple just got engaged (and … Continue reading
Even if you’ve seen all the Leprechaun movies, you’re not out of luck
Or maybe you are out of luck. Even when Leprechaun went to space, he still had a certain magical charm (I hear this in an Irish brogue in my head as I’m writing it). You would think that once the … Continue reading
The joke is on the horror geeks when they become the monsters
Somehow, British slasher comedy Freak Out and German zombedy Night of the Living Dorks both eluded me in 2004—and both came to my awareness at the same time a decade later! Better late than never. And they’re both about geeks … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Freak Out, horror comedy, living dead, Night of the Living Dorks, slashers, undead, zombedy, Zombies
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Sorority Party Massacre is not your usual sorority slasher
We all know the drill with any movie that has words like “sorority,” “party,” and “massacre” in the title (I cover as many as I could here). Big-boobed babes dancing in their panties then getting slaughtered one by one! But … Continue reading
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Tagged horror comedy, slashers, Sorority Party Massacre
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Butcher Boys – Leatherface gets a sexy makeover
To some, Butcher Boys might seem like just another crazy modern horror flick about kids making a wrong turn into a hellish scenario. But it’s a bizarre viewing experience if you are a longtime fan of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. … Continue reading
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Tagged Butcher Boys, gay horror, slashers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Silent Night, Bloody Night double feature!
So James Plumb directed Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection, my favorite “remake” of NOTLD ( blogged about it here). That’s why I couldn’t wait to see what he did with Silent Night, Bloody Night. But first, I had to … Continue reading
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Tagged Silent Night Bloody Night, Silent Night Bloody Night The Homecoming, slashers
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No doubt, the holla girl is back!
It’s been 6 years since Monica’s crazy sister hacked up all her friends—then got away. Now Monica is living with her mother and doing everything she must to protect herself from her sister’s return…including completely changing her face (to that … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged gay horror, H.M. Coakley, Holla II, slashers
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