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Kevin Glover’s Love Bites is a gay vampire softcore romcom. An amateur vampire hunter falls for his handsome target. Can love conquer all? Glover wrote the script for the stage. But filming on location, and releasing to VHS, proved more … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Love Bites (1988)
Beware the fog. And the spider lilies. And men in fox masks, too, while you’re at it. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #4: Silent Hill f (2025)
Say what you will about Umbrella Corp, but at least they have the good sense to dress their best bioweapon up like a fashionable mobster. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #3: Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)
The classic Roger Corman horror/comedy (and basis for the Alan Menken horror/comedy/musical) plus a spooktacular cartoon from Disney’s Silly Symphonies. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Little Shop of Horrors (& “Skeleton Dance”)
A ten-year-old remaster of a twenty-three-year-old remake of a twenty-nine-year-old game… Continue reading Afraid and Alone #2: Resident Evil (HD Remaster) (2015)
One Avocadoan’s journey delving into the realm of survival horror. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #1: An Introduction – Crow Country and Signalis
“There’s no hunny in Hell, Pooh.” Continue reading The Internet Has Rediscovered a Terrifying Piglet Game
Desert Wolves Hello and thanks for reading! Another horror-pulp/urban fantasy short story for the Spooky Season. It takes place in the same setting as the other “Punk Fiction” stories, but it focuses on the other side as it were. Hope … Continue reading Punk Fiction
Every year Susan organizes a birthday camping trip. She’s dated, and broken up with, all of her friends. Yet they somehow still show up. This time things go wrong. A killer is picking the women off, one by one. Is … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Make a Wish (2002)
We look at the trailers for every film in the Halloween slasher series. Continue reading Ad Space – Every Halloween Ever
Kicking off Halloween season with a horror movie directed by Fracis Ford Coppola (yes, really) and a Popeye the Sailor cartoon involving bedsheet ghosts. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Dementia 13 (& “Spooky Swabs”)
October is approaching and every year, I like to post this thread to help those planning their horror movie list for the 31 Days of Halloween. The Avocado has such a diverse and eclectic taste in cinema and I appreciate … Continue reading Horror Movie Recommendations 2024
Note: the review itself will be spoiler free and will only discuss a very general plot outline. It will also mention who appears in the movie so if you wish to be surprised by that, don’t read the review. In … Continue reading Movie Review: Longlegs
The Pan Book of Horror Stories Selected by Herbert van Thal Reviewing anthologies is always a tricky proposition. By their nature, an anthology is uneven and unpredictable. Every story has the potential to be the best thing you’ve ever read … Continue reading Paperback Punk
Desperation by Stephen King I never intended to do a review like this. Part of the philosophy behind this article series was looking at lesser known genre stuff, with no intention to engage with the bestsellers or popular fiction. Yet … Continue reading Paperback Punk
Between 1965 and 1974, Amicus Productions released seven horror anthology movies—often referred to by fans as “portmanteau films”—in which a framing sequence links four or five short segments. In 1967’s Torture Garden, for example, each unrelated story is presented as … Continue reading A Guide to the Amicus Productions Portmanteau Horror Movies
A gay professor visits his creepy hometown for a funeral. He assumes the sketchy locals are homophobic. He’s not wrong, but there’s more going on. It’s a horror movie so he’ll ignore every red flag the town waves. Cthulhu is … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Cthulhu (2007)
Bela Lugosi’s most celebrated non-Dracula role, and the screen debut of Casper the Friendly Ghost! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: White Zombie (& “The Friendly Ghost”
So when you’re a horror fan there’s always this question when you meet other fans and they are trying to feel you out – What’s your series? You a Jasonite? A FreddyFan? MyersMug? SawMaw? I dunno what the fandoms are … Continue reading Creepy Month Movies – Deadstream
I’m not committing to doing this a bunch but I do want to get back to having some horror movie reviews here for October. Maybe a couple a week, I dunno. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum Coming out in 2018, this movie … Continue reading Creepy Month Movies – Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
October is approaching and every year, I like to post this thread to help those planning their horror movie list for the 31 Days of Halloween. The Avocado has such a diverse and eclectic taste in cinema and I appreciate … Continue reading Horror Movie Recommendations 2023
