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Tag Archives: slashers
Where’s the darkness in Lord of Darkness?
When I heard Lord of Darkness was about cannibalistic inbreeds living in the Scottish Highlands, I was set to be terrified! Then came the opening voiceover about inbreeds from 500 years ago and how one survived. Even a birth scene … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Lord of Darkness, slashers
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80s slasher double feature time: Schizoid and X-Ray
1980 film Schizoid and 1982 film X-Ray have one important thing in common…they’re both on the same Blu-ray. What better reason to blog about them together? We all go a little Schizoid sometimes In Schizoid, the women from the same … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Hospital Massacre, Schizoid, slashers, X-Ray
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Direct-to-DVD: the low-budget horror of Devin Hamilton
All I know about director Devin Hamilton is that he made three low-budget horror movies loaded with male nudity and a gay romantic comedy called Shut Up and Kiss Me. Two of Devin’s three horror films star the gorgeous Danny … Continue reading
The Curse of the hairy bears and the deep throating snakes
It came from the 80s…and ended in the 90s. So just how bad does The Curse franchise get? Let’s take a look. THE CURSE (1987) The man hair in The Curse is out of control!!! There is a farmhand stud who … Continue reading
This isn’t your childhood’s Scooby Doo
The trend of 1990s throwbacks continues with Saturday Morning Mystery, which takes place in 1994 and features acid stamps, piles of sticks a la The Blair Witch Project, and 90s music. Take one look at the cover of Saturday Morning … Continue reading
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Tagged Saturday Morning Mystery, Scooby Doo, slashers
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A four-film marathon of unspeakable horrors…so I’ll write about them instead
Every month or so, my friend comes to visit for the weekend. We load our dogs up with bones and toys, then load ourselves up with pizza and junk food and lock ourselves in my basement with tons of horror … Continue reading
Boys, Boobs, and Booze. What could possibly go wrong?
Bachelor Party Massacre is one of the most likeable, simplistic slashers I’ve ever seen. There is nothing extreme about the film as the exaggerated title suggests. It’s a plain old buddy movie with plenty of goofy laughs, a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bachelor Party Massacre, horror comedy, slashers
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Danielle Harris scream queen and behind-the-scenes queen!
Hot on the heels of Hatchet III, two more Danielle Harris films come to DVD and Blu-ray just in time for Halloween. She directs Among Friends and stars in The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond. Fans should be pretty satisfied … Continue reading
Spanish horror double feature DVD – zombies and slashers!
So I watched a 2-on-1 DVD double feature of two Spanish horror films: zombie flick Cemetery of Terror from 1985 and slasher Grave Robbers from 1990. These are some pretty whacky movies! Cemetery of Terror is a load of 80s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cemetery of Terror, Grave Robbers, living dead, slashers, undead, Zombies
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Before Michael Myers grabbed a knife and a creepy mask…
While Black Christmas gets all the recognition for pre-dating and perhaps inspiring the original Halloween, the 1976 Hitchcockian horror film Alice Sweet Alice missed the boat on getting the same notoriety. While the plot is a little more complex than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Sweet Alice, Brooke Shields, gay horror, slashers
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