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May 15th, 2013: Blood Feast (1963)

2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Thriller Tagged Drive-In, grindhouse, serial killer, H.G. Lewis, gore, Miami, cops, incompetent cops, beach, Egyptians, plot specific radio, Playboy bunnies turned actresses, Connie Mason, David F. Friedman, feast, caterer, Ishtar, dump truck

April 4th, 2013: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cults, Degenerate Hillbillies, Ghost, Horror, Killer Dolls, Killer Kids, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Satire, Slasher, Spoof, Stoner, Werewolves, Zombies Tagged "spam in a cabin", Amy Acker, archetypes, Bradley Whitford, cabin, children of famous people, Chris Hemsworth, college students, cult leader, cultists, Drew Goddard, drugs, Final Couple, final girl, homage, it's not over, Joss Whedon, mind control, paramilitary group, rednecks, Richard Jenkins, sacrifice, scientists, Sigourney Weaver, stoners, twist

February 14th, 2013: Simon, King of the Witches

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cults, Drama, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Witches Tagged addiction, Andrew Prine, cash-in, corrupt politicians, D.A., Drive-In, drug addict, flashback, it's not over, low-budget, rip-off, teens, time loop, warlock, witch

February 1st, 2013: City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Cults, From Beyond the Grave, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, Witches Tagged Amicus, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, low-budget, Vulcan, warnings from townsfolk

January 30th, 2013: Manos the Hands of Fate (1966)

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Drive-In, it's not over, low-budget

January 19th, 2013: The Black Cat (1934)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cults, Horror, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Revenge, Thriller Tagged "This Lair is Gonna Blow!", Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Carl Laemmle Jr., designated hero, double cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar G. Ulmer, explosives, flayed alive, Great War, Great War veteran, incest, insanity, Jack P. Pierce, John Carradine, necrophilia, revenge, satanism, torture, torture chamber, twist, Universal Pictures, war crimes, World War One

September 28th, 2012: I Drink Your Blood

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Leave a comment Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Zombies Tagged abortion, before they were famous, cash-in, construction workers, counter-culture, cult, cult leader, cultists, dam, Drive-In, grindhouse, hippies, insanity, it's not over, Jerry Gross, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, meat pies, rabies, rape, rip-off, small town, teens, veterinarian, virus zombies

August 22nd, 2012: Children of the Corn (1984)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Demons, Horror, Independent, Killer Kids, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, The Original Tagged "murder the adults", before they were famous, cash-in, child death, child killer, Cinema Group, corn, Drive-In, farmer, farmers, fields, gods, Hal Roach Studios, Linda Hamilton, low-budget, New World Pictures, Peter Horton, R. G. Armstrong, Stephen King, teens, wrath of the gods

August 20th, 2012: The Haunted Palace (1963)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Poem, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Gothic Horror, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Possession Tagged AIP, cash-in, Charles Beaumont, cursed town, Debra Paget, Edgar Allan Poe, Elisha Cook Jr., H.P. Lovecraft, James H. Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr., Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Vincent Price, warning from beyond the grave

August 15th, 2012: Skullduggery (1983)

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged Canada, cash-in, double cross, family curse, low-budget, surreal, Wendy Crewson

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