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Tag Archives: vampires
The Forsaken – Near Dark and The Lost Boys for a new millennium?
It’s really impossible not to compare the 2001 film The Forsaken to Near Dark and The Lost Boys. A young man traveling through a desolate part of Texas happens upon a sexy and edgy group of vampires and is soon … Continue reading
Theater geek outcasts face some serious Drac drama
Richard Griffin’s indie flix celebrate the sex, gore, and campy goodness of 70s and 80s horror, exploitation, and grindhouse movies (I blog about most of them here) so I’m always psyched when a new one comes around. This time he … Continue reading
The gay horror films of Bent-Con 2014!
It was a great year for gay horror at Bent-Con. Aside from an assortment of great horror panels (mine being one of them!), there were plenty of horror films being screened. Here’s the breakdown of the ones I was able … Continue reading
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Tagged gay horror, slashers, vampires
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Innocent Blood – when John Landis made vampires suck
In the 80s, he made werewolves fun and zombies dance. Then, in the 90s, John Landis made a mobster vampire movie called Innocent Blood. As is usually the case with 90s horror flicks, I could not remember a thing about … Continue reading
Love Bites – the fangs are out in this sexy silly gay vampire comedy
Back in 1992, when gay horror movies were mere monsters in the closet, gay porn star Kevin M. Glover wrote and starred as a vampire in the low-budget comedy Love Bites. I’m talking low-budget. There are only four main characters. … Continue reading
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What happens after Friday the 13TH is a joke
After the popularity of Friday the 13th in 1980, it wasn’t long before a horror comedy came out called Saturday the 14th. In fact, it was only one year later, and only a few months after Friday the 13th part … Continue reading
It starts out as a sexy gay vampire comedy before kissing darkness
Kissing Darkness had my full attention from the first moment, when, instead of a bunch of bimbos, for a change it’s only hot guys pulling up to a cabin…and pretty much all getting shirtless seconds later! This would be the … Continue reading
Getting into Hal Bodner’s gay horror novel series
If you pick up a novel title about a gay vampire feeding on men in West Hollywood, you kind of expect that it’s going to be campy fun. The opening kill of Bite Club may give the impression that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Bite Club, gay horror, Hal Bodner, The Trouble with Hairy, vampires, werewolves
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Joe Vampire – when Hare Krishna zombies come back…as vampires!
Anyone who has Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead ingrained in their head needs no introduction to the famous Hare Krishna zombie so prominently featured in the movie. Well, he’s still bald, and he’s back from the dead…again! Actor Mike … Continue reading
Rigor Mortis – crouching ghosts, hidden vampire
Rigor Mortis apparently reunites cast members from a popular vampire franchise from Hong Kong in the 80s called Mr. Vampire. But that doesn’t really matter, because this is a stand-alone movie. But, is it a vampire movie? A ghost story? … Continue reading
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