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SHUDDER AND SHRIEK: a haunted house, vampire urges, and an eerie island
I guess the upside is that this wasn’t another marathon of grief porn like the last three Shudder horror flicks I posted about the other day. The films in this trio are at least distinctly different, so let’s get into … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead & Beautiful, Home With a View of the Monster, Offseason, supernatural, vampires
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NETFLIX AND CHILLS: struggling to get through two originals
One is a vampire horror comedy, the other is an alien horror comedy. Neither of them fully rose to the occasion, and both were longer than they needed to be, but one fared better than the other. DAY SHIFT (2022) … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Day Shift, horror comedies, Office Invasion, vampires
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Back to the middle of the 00s for a triple feature of killers and creatures
I was a major impulse buyer of horror DVDs in the first ten years of their existence, so I have a soft spot for indie horror from the era. These three passed me by back then, but upon watching them, … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Frostbite, Silent Scream, slashers, The Shadow Walkers, vampires
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Holiday horrors for 2022: three for Halloween and one for Christmas
I continue to add to the complete holiday horror page with four more holiday themed horror flicks for the 2022 season. YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER (2021) This Irish film creates a compelling, haunting slow burn while managing to combine … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged body horror, demons, folk horror, Hellblazers, horror comedies, occult, satanism, The Day After Halloween, torture porn, Unboxed, vampires, You Are Not My Mother
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Young and queer and trapped in a horror movie
It’s two more films for the homo horror movies page, and I found this queer double feature much more satisfying than the one I watched and posted about a week ago. CUTIES (2020) This low budget indie directed by Joshua … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Cuties, gay horror, slashers, So Vam, vampires
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Killers and creatures of the 60s and I got them on Blu-ray
This foursome of flicks I’ve just added to my library spans from 1959 to 1965 and delivers a masked killer, big creatures, and even vampire aliens. CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) There’s some question as to whether horror master Mario … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Blood and Black Lace, Caltiki The Immortal Monster, creature features, Planet of the Vampires, slashers, The Flesh Eaters, vampires
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Five from Christopher Lee—the scary, the silly, and the sexual
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Volume 2 just hit Blu-ray and virtually filled in the remaining gaps in my collection. With the purchase of one other film that I also didn’t have before, there’s now only one Christopher Lee horror … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Christopher Lee, Dark Places, Dracula and Son, gay horror, ghosts, haunted houses, The Hands of Orlac, The Whip and the Body, Uncle Was a Vampire, vampires
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Ghosts on a boat, a killer girl group, and sexy vampires
I’ve added a handful of new movies to my Blu-ray collection, mostly from the 2000s, but I’ll reach back to the 90s once for this post due to an original/remake double feature. Let’s get into them. GHOST SHIP (2002) You … Continue reading
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Tagged Embrace of the Vampire, erotic horror, Ghost Ship, ghosts, Poison Ivy: The Secret Society, supernatural, vampires
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Halloween and Christmas horror round-up…in February
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but somehow a bunch of October and December horror flicks gravitated my way—finally, months after I needed them to. Therefore, it’s time for a belated seasonal celebration of flicks to add to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Evil Night, dolls, For the Sake of Vicious, found footage, Hell on the Shelf, occult, Red Snow, satanism, Sheitan, slashers, The Trick or Treaters, vampires
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The horrors of Udo Kier: the formative years
After entering the horror genre with a witch hunt historical horror flick, Udo Kier did a trio of sleazy flicks based on classic fictional horror monsters. Yay! So let’s get into all four of them. MARK OF THE DEVIL (1970) … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, Mark of the Devil, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, torture porn, vampires, witches
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