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Tag Archives: supernatural
Low-budget ghost horror marathon
Okay, I watched these 4 films because they came on one of those bargain bin collections. You know. The types of films where the entire budget seems to be used for kick ass DVD artwork. All of these films are … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 7 Nights of Darkness, Evidence of a Haunting, found footage, ghosts, Ominous, supernatural, The Haunting of Winchester House
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A supernatural twist on real-life abusive “attitude adjustment camps”
Director Tim Sullivan has appeared on a season of the VH-1 reality show Scream Queens and made wacky, sexually explicit, gory, campy horror films like 2001 Maniacs, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, and the “I Was a Teenage Werebear” segment … Continue reading
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Tagged Driftwood, ghosts, supernatural
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Sometimes they come back way too much
“Sometimes They Come Back” is a great little ghost story by Stephen King. It’s cool that it was made into a television movie in 1991. Then there was a sequel in 1996. Then another sequel in 1998. Oh brother. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Sometimes They Come Back, Sometimes They Come Back Again, Sometimes They Come Back For More, Stephen King, supernatural
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It’s no Shocker that I completely blacked out Wes Craven’s Shocker
Being a huge fan of A Nightmare on Elm Street from the moment it hit VHS, I was most definitely a Freddy fan rather than a Wes Craven devotee. I never worshipped any movies just because they were made by … 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, ghosts, Shocker, supernatural
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Before Wes Craven’s Shocker there was…PRISON
Amazingly, this is one 80s horror film I didn’t see in the 80s. It was filmed in 1986 but not released until 1988…and also never showed up on VHS in the video store at which I worked at the time, … Continue reading
Sinister: they should have called it Sinis–turn on the damn lights already!
I usually don’t bother discussing Hollywood “horror” movies since they are typically cookie cutter recipes that follow a cliché template geared to satiate casual viewers who want to watch something “scary.” But Sinister is unbearable to watch, which makes it … Continue reading
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Tagged Sinister, supernatural
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Forget found footage films: Absentia is how you do low-budget horror
Found footage films really brought back the slow burner genre, building a sense of dread as they move toward the final shocking moments instead of assaulting us from the beginning with sleek, hyperactive horror. They also force the imagination to … Continue reading
My ungodly experience with The Unholy
In 1988, Freddy, Michael Myers, Jason, and Chucky reigned supreme, and yet the devil tried to make a comeback in The Exorcist III and The Unholy. Other than an infamous hallway scene that has somehow made The Exorcist III debacle … Continue reading