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Tag Archives: slashers
Strong horror women try to hold together movies that fall apart
If you love your scream queens, Antisocial and Shuttle might get your horror hormones raging. While two totally different subgenres, they both feature leading ladies as the central force taking on the threatening force. But can these tough chicks save … Continue reading
Direct to DVD: the horror of Franklin Guerrero Jr.
This installment of “Direct to DVD” was totally unintentional. Being sucked into the “customers who bought this item also bought” impulse buy marketing scam on Amazon, I picked up The 8th Plague because of a previous purchase of Carver. Only while … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Carver, demons, living dead, slashers, The 8th Plague, undead, Zombies
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Incubus vs. Inkubus!
Two cheesy b-horror movies, made nearly 30 years apart, each starring men from much bigger horror movies, and both with almost the same name! INCUBUS (1982) Incubus stars John Cassavetes of Rosemary’s Baby. It’s basically an 80s slasher with a … Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln wants to…kill the black man?
Finally, a movie commemorating one of few holidays that have been left off the horror calendar! President’s Day is actually not about the holiday…but about a bunch of class president nominees being stalked by someone dressed as Abraham Lincoln and … Continue reading
The b-horror of scream king Jeff Dylan Graham
I love my actors and actresses who sell their souls and careers to the devil. So this time I take on some of the indie horror of cutie Jeff Dylan Graham. This barely scratches the surface of his filmography, but … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 100 Tears, Beyond the Dunwich Horror, Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, Bryan Loves You, Cadaver Bay, Cremains, Dead & Rotting, Dead Clowns, Dorm of the Dead, found footage, Hellbound: The Book of the Dead, Home Sick, horror anthology, living dead, Malefic, October Moon, Sculpture, slashers, Stuck, The Theatre Bizarre, undead, vampires, witches, Zombiegeddon, Zombies
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The Caretaker vs. The Caretaker!
How do you like your caretaker? A masked killer or a vampire? No worries because I’ve got one of each! THE CARETAKER (2008) Yay! A crappy slasher with Jennifer Tilly and Judd Nelson that takes place on Halloween/Homecoming (they fall … Continue reading
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Tagged slashers, The Caretaker, vampires
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3 horror and cult favorites make a Grotesque piece of 80s trash
When I see Linda Blair and think The Exorcist and Roller Boogie, see Donna Wilkes and think Angel and Jaws 2, and see 60s teen idol Tab Hunter and think Polyester and Grease 2, I know a 1988 film called … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, backwoods horror, Grotesque, slashers
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Attack of the evil dead horror actor!
The obscure 1983 horror film Frightmare isn’t your typical 80s slasher. There’s a bunch of partying kids in a house. They get picked off one by one. But their killer is not a masked goon…it’s the corpse of their favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Frightmare, slashers
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Dementia 13 – the time Francis Ford Coppola made horror films
Nope. I’m not talking Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Way back in the 1960s, Francis Ford Coppola teamed up with Roger Corman to make a couple of horror films. First there was The Terror with Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. Then came … Continue reading
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Tagged Dementia 13, Roger Corman, slashers
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Good Christmas! Not another holiday horror!
Just when I thought I’d seen everything, I stumbled upon a holiday slasher starring Felissa Rose of Sleepaway Camp infamy! The 2009 low budget flick Deadly Little Christmas plays off a classic holiday slasher theme; see Santa having sex, become … Continue reading
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Tagged Deadly Little Christmas, slashers
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