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Tag Archives: witches
These wicked women are woke!
Yay! It’s four films to drive white straight male wingnuts even crazier—explorations of women’s issues, women’s feelings, and the way women are treated in a patriarchal society. SOUND OF VIOLENCE (2021) This is a trippy, almost psychedelic and artsy horror … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged slashers, Sound of Violence, The Columnist, The Stylist, Witch Hunt, witches
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The hunt for Halloween horror for 2022 begins
I’m already on a mad hunt for Halloween horror flicks I hadn’t yet seen to add to the complete Halloween horror page, because sometimes they’re really hard to track down. For instance, with this trio I had to buy two … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged backwoods horror, Death On Demand, found footage, In Search of Lovecraft, occult, slashers, supernatural, The Fanglys, witches
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Witch possession, an evil neighbor, and a Halloween haunt slasher
This trio of low budget indies in varying subgenres covers a lot of familiar territory, but does that outweigh the fun to be had? REAWAKENED (2020) This hokey little witch/possession/teen slasher feels like a cheap film you might see on … Continue reading
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Tagged Day 13, Hurt, occult, possession, Reawakened, satanism, slashers, supernatural, witches
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PRIME TIME: evil ladies
Beware the wicked women in this triple feature—The Widow, Medusa, and Lilith! THE WIDOW (2020) This Russian film dubbed in English on Prime sort of follows the basic premise of The Blair Witch Project, but it isn’t found footage. Interviews … Continue reading
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Tagged horror anthologies, Lilith, Medusa, slashers, The Widow, witches
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PRIME TIME: I really blew it when I added these three to my watchlist
Slashers, witches, Satanism, ghosts…I really thought there would be something to like here. But this triple feature was a disappointment. SATAN’S SERVANT (2021) This film is touted as being made by high school students, so if you’re going into it, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Deadly Legend, ghosts, Satan's Servant, satanism, slashers, supernatural, The Demented, witches
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SHUDDER AND SHRIEK: a devil child, a witch, and kidnapped kids
There’s a whole lot of trouble for young boys in this trio I checked out on Shudder. Let’s see what you can expect from each one. SON (2021) This polished “son of Satan” flick from the director of The Canal … Continue reading
Gender-bending, Bette Davis, and redneck witchcraft in the 1970s
It’s back to the early 1970s, when I was just a wee child, for a threesome of films featuring female horror veterans. DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE (1971) You’d never expect Hammer Films to challenge the norm in one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Hex, occult, Scream Pretty Peggy, slashers, witches
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The 90s: when most horror was direct-to-video
I once again struggled my way through a bunch of 90s crap I’d never seen, and I actually found a couple that had their charms—one of which was a total winner for me. THE INHERITOR (1990) There’s a good idea … Continue reading
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Tagged Ebola Syndrome, ghosts, horror anthologies, infected, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, slashers, Steel and Lace, supernatural, The Inheritor, witches
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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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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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