Category Archives: Flashback Friday Frights

Note: This focus will be on horror/thrillers that have featured the LGBTQIA community and/or have themes as June is Pride Month. In Scream VI, they discuss that Psycho II is an underrated horror classic and I agree. I must admit when I first watched it back in 1980s, I missed a few things I caughtContinue reading “‘Psycho II’ Is An Underrated Horror Classic After 40 Years”

The Mad Scientest Trope has been around since Mary Shelly penned Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson also explored the trope with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moureau were classics about scientists testing the limits of how far they could go. Even CaptainContinue reading “Three Cheers For ‘The Man With Two Brains’”

Disney has always had a love affair with the macabre. You need to only look at several plots and subplots of the classic movies. The boys turning into donkeys in Pinocchio probably has terrified people over the decades. In Sleeping Beauty, Malificient turns into a dragon as she battles Prince Phillip. Then, you have theContinue reading “Disney Scares Itself Silly With ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’”

The Indiana Jones franchise can best be described as a casserole of genres all thrown together. They’re all set decades in the past making them period pieces with mixes of historical drama. They include action-adventure with elements of comedy thrown in sprinkled with some romance. And there are hints of the supernatural, fantasy and horror.Continue reading “‘Temple Of Doom’ Takes Indiana Jones Down Into The Depths Of True Horror”

By the time Tales from the Darkside: The Movie hit theaters in early May of 1990, the anthology show had been off the air for almost two years. So, it’s no surprise that the movie only had a modest success. Much of the series which ran for four years in syndication aired at such oddContinue reading “‘Tales From The Darkside’ Movie Takes TV Show To A Darker Realm”

The best way to describe Vampire’s Kiss, or more to the point, Nicolas Cage’s performance is by paraphasing that line from This is Spinal Tap that it’s a fine line between stupid and clever. Cage is currently playing Dracula in Renfield, which has underperformed both with credits and at the box office. I haven’t seenContinue reading “‘Vampire’s Kiss’ Is Nic Cage’s Masterpiece Of Extreme Overacting”

I have a confession to make. I’ve never seen a single episode of Succession. But I do admire Brian Cox. It’s surprising he was younger than I when he first appeared as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in the 1986 horror thriller Manhunter. (The mispelling is listed in the credits differently than what Thomas Harris had wroteContinue reading “‘Manhunter’ Inadvertently Started A Horror Franchise Four Decades Ago”

By the time, Once Bitten opened in theaters in mid-November 1985 (two weeks after Halloween for some reason!), Rock Hudson had been dead for about six weeks. The HIV/AIDS crisis had entered into the homes of Middle Americans (aka conservative Christian WASPs). Charlatans like Jerry Falwell was still calling it a plague for gay peopleContinue reading “‘Once Bitten’ An Allgory Of The HIV/AIDS Crisis In The 1980s”

The first Critters movie was a surprise. Despite being considered a rip-off of Gremlins (which it isn’t), the movie about these furry little aliens with a huge appetite who crash land on Earth, was a hit with critics and audiences. Roger Ebert gave it three stars in a positive review and it scored over $13Continue reading “‘Critters 2’ Takes A Bite Out Of Easter”

Warning: This contains spoilers A movie like One Cut of the Dead could easily be one of the best and worst zombie movies depending on how you view it. It begins with a 37-minute long poorly made and filmed movie within in a movie as a low-budget Japanese horror production is plagued by real zombies.Continue reading “‘One Cut Of The Dead’ Is A Zomcom Of Slapstick Madness”