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Hulu’s Into The Dark installments for March and April
Fell a little behind on watching Hulu’s holiday horror series, which is now at the halfway mark, but before I get into the two most recent films (I finally have a favorite film in the series), here are the links … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged gay horror, home invasion, I'm Just Fucking With You, slashers, Treehouse, witches
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Creepy ladies, killer guys
So I checked out four up-and-coming films—a ghost, a boogeyman, a psycho, and witches—but should you be waiting in anticipation? Let’s take a look. THE CABIN (2018) I’ll never understand why indie directors produce movies blatantly inspired by hugely iconic … Continue reading
Horror directors doing horror writers in the 90s
It feels like the close of the millennium was the end of the era of horror movies based on iconic authors (although Stephen King has made a big comeback lately). So I thought I’d take a look back at a … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Dagon, Lord of Illusions, Phantoms, Sleepy Hollow, supernatural, witches
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PRIME TIME: a triple feature of slashing oddities
I wouldn’t exactly call all three of these slashers, even though there’s hacking and slashing in each one. It’s everything else going on in between the kills that kept me watching: werewolves, witches, ghosts, gut aliens, violent new wave band … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Halloween Mind Massacre, horror comedies, Psychotic!, slashers, Slice, werewolves, witches
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Double witch film toil and trouble!
It’s flashback time to the end of the 80s for some witch flix—a comedy spoof and a creepy family movie. LOVE AT STAKE (1987) When I worked at the video store in the late 80s, I used to play this … 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 horror comedies, Love at Stake, The Witches, witches
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STREAM QUEEN: Talking serious trash
Now that I got the trash that’s trash for trash’s sake out of the way from my weekend marathon, it’s time to cover the “serious” horror trash. Here are 5 that didn’t disappoint in disappointing. Not even familiar horror names … Continue reading
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Tagged Almost Invisible, Bloodshot, Dead of the Nite, found footage, ghosts, Nightworld, slashers, supernatural, The Suffering, witches
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STREAM QUEEN: a smorgasbord of scares
This was one of those stream streaks that didn’t have me hopping on the Internet to purchase the films for my collection, but also didn’t leave me wishing I’d spent the time watching something else. It’s also a good mix … Continue reading
Time to drag out the Oh My Ghost! franchise!
Thai director Poj Arnon has made a name for himself with two horror franchises: Make Me Shudder (I blog about the first film here) and Hor Taew Tak—known in English as Oh My Ghost! He also has a notable non-horror … Continue reading
Werewolf to Stepwitch: the 1980s comedies of Larry Cohen
In between directing some of the oddest, most memorable movies of the 1970s and 1980s (God Told Me To, the It’s Alive trilogy, Q; The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, A Return to Salem’s Lot, The Ambulance), Larry Cohen bookended the … Continue reading
Treading familiar ground with this triple feature
A witch, a predator in the walls, and an unstoppable killing machine. You’ve been there and done all that…but is it worth doing again? A quick rundown of Don’t Knock Twice, Havenhurst, and Legacy of Thorn. DON’T KNOCK TWICE (2016) … Continue reading
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Tagged Don’t Knock Twice, Havenhurst, Legacy of Thorn, slashers, witches
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