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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
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
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
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
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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Still scraping the bottom of the 80s barrel
Once again I return to the 80s with five films that have landed in my personal collection in recent months. So let’s see what goodness the worst of the 80s turned up this time. JULES VERNE’S MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND … 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 Black Candles, creature features, Jules Verne's Mystery on Monster Island, occult, possession, satanism, slashers, The Power, The Secret of the Mummy, The Seven Vampires, vampires
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It came from the 1970s…and ended up in my horror collection
I’ve gotten to the point where I feel I have to justify to myself why I keep adding crap to my horror movie collection, so pardon me if I do so as I cover the six films of various subgenres … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged aliens, creature features, home invasion, horror anthologies, Mansion of the Doomed, Tales That Witness Madness, The Day Time Ended, The Evictors, The Spell, The Vampires Night Orgy, vampires, witches
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Paul Naschy: the millennium revival
We come to the end of my Paul Naschy marathon by moving into the new millennium for his final decade of horror films before he passed away. In the mid-2000s, Paul tapped into the cheesy direct-to-DVD market with several movies … 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 A Werewolf in the Amazon, Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood, creature features, Empusa, gay horror, occult, Rottweiler, supernatural, The Valdemar Legacy, vampires, werewolves
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Horror hunk Paul Naschy in the 1970s
Having checked off all the films in Spanish horror hunk Paul Naschy’s werewolf franchise in a previous post, I now take on most of his horror flicks from the 1970s (there are just two that are not available on DVD … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, Count Dracula's Great Love, Crimson, demons, Exorcismo, gay horror, infected, Inquisition, living dead, occult, Orgy of the Living Dead, Paul Naschy, possession, satanism, slashers, The Devil Incarnate, The Devil's Possessed, The Hunchback of the Morgue, The Mummy's Revenge, The People Who Own the Dark, vampires
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It came from the 70s…and ended up in my horror collection
Time to look at four flicks from the 1970s that have found their way onto the horror movie shelves in my Dan cave. It’s a blend of vampires, zombies, and crazed killers. Yay! LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1971) The last … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, horror comedies, living dead, Lust for a Vampire, slashers, The Day It Came To Earth, undead, vampires, Vengeance of the Zombies, Zombies
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STREAM QUEEN: when modern horror and horror veterans collide
From cameos to starring roles, familiar horror faces made this foursome of films extra alluring for my latest marathon. Let’s see if they were all worth the watch. JAKOB’S WIFE (2021) The director of Girl On the Third Floor brings … Continue reading
Posted in 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 horror comedies, Jakob's Wife, Midnight Devils, occult, Spell, supernatural, Ten Minutes to Midnight, vampires
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Man eaters and model murderers in the 1980s
I’ve just added four more from the 1980s to my horror movie collection. Two are from one of the Blu-ray collections of films by Spanish horror actor/director Paul Naschy, and two are a Euro giallo/slasher series double feature that was … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, 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, cannibals, giallos, Human Beasts, Night of the Werewolf, Nothing Underneath, slashers, Too Beautiful To Die, vampires, werewolves
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From a vampire’s return in 43 to a psycho circus in 60
Time to take on four oldies that have landed on my horror movie shelves, and the only miss for me is one that I scored simply because it was on a double feature disc with another movie I wanted. THE … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Circus of Horrors, creature features, slashers, The Return of the Vampire, The Snorkel, Them!, thrillers, vampires
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