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Tag Archives: supernatural
Beware the children of the early 1970s
And I’m not talking Linda Blair. I look at an early Steven Spielberg made-for-TV film and an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier story. SOMETHING EVIL (1972) Although I wasn’t even 3 yet when this made-for-TV film first aired, … Continue reading
Beware Jerusalem, the Grand Canyon, and Holland Road
It’s a world of flying demons, angry ghost tribes, and pigheaded killers out there, which is why I choose to just stay home and watch bad horror movies. So how bad are these three? JERUZALEM (2015) Jeruzalem is everything I … Continue reading
The Gate should have stayed closed after the first film
Director Tibor Takács, who has had a long career in horror, from I, Madman to Spiders 3D, scored an 80s video rental/cable classic with The Gate. A few years later he delivered a follow-up that suffers from a bad case … Continue reading
Posted in The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, demons, living dead, supernatural, The Gate, undead, Zombies
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STREAM QUEEN: the horrors of gay boys existing in an intolerant society
It’s not every day that I find two gay horror films available for streaming. Turns out both of these take a seemingly default approach to gay horror – the main characters are fragile, tortured souls suffering from hate and rejection … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Deviance, gay horror, slashers, supernatural, The Blue Hour
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STREAM QUEEN: revenge killer, supernatural killer, and a little of both
Expecting a trio of low budget slashers with my streaming picks this time around, I got three very different experiences with Elder Island, Phantom Of The Woods, and Ditch Day Massacre. ELDER ISLAND (2016) When an 80-minute movie – 75 … Continue reading
VHS era nostalgia isn’t enough to make these two winners
Just as the love of VHS horror will never die, it seems neither will the efforts of indie horror directors to replicate that feeling in their movies. In my efforts to forever find movies that actually do it right, I … Continue reading
Underwhelmed in the second part of the 80s
Here are four examples of why the biggest mistake 80s horror made was in trying do something other than formulaic slashers. ETERNAL EVIL (aka: The Blue Man) (1985) Four years after bringing us the holiday slasher classic My Bloody Valentine, … Continue reading
Posted in 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, Anguish, Bad Dreams, Eternal Evil, infected, slashers, supernatural, Warning Sign, Zombies
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Warlock: The Trilogy
The Warlock movies would be nothing if not for the power of nostalgia. That’s why I hated them back in the 90s and kind of get a kick out of them now. They are so bad I don’t know why … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged demons, gay horror, horror comedies, Julian Sands, supernatural
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Major body horror…as in, there’s more body than horror
It’s time for homoerotic horror that’s more sex than scares. I take a look at three from the 2000s. VOODOO ACADEMY (2000) This is the beginning of the end for David DeCoteau’s credibility as a director of bad horror movies, … Continue reading
When multi-layered horror attacks
It just takes a marathon of deep, meaningful, artistic horror films for me to want to revert back to my usual shitfest viewing ways. I pushed on through this trio of films anyway, and I actually do have a favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged Horsehead, occult, serial killers, supernatural, The Caretaker, Wild In Blue, witches
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