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The Lightning Bug is the Boss Man of the Moon. When he's not teaching people how to talk like him ("reaaaal sexy") or taking his flying wing out for a spin, he enjoys watching and reviewing all kinds of cult, exploitation, sci fi, b-movies, and horro
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Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984): I Knew in a Moment, I Must Kill St. Nick
Tom Petty once said, “The waiting is the hardest part.” If he wasn’t talking about Christmas morning, then he totally should have been. I recall how impatient I was for the day, scratch that, hour to come that signaled Christmas morning. My par...
High Tension (2003): A Haute Mess
The French, in the last few years, have seriously shown their true colors in the horror world. Where the Italians and Spanish had previously flourished in the genre, this has been the decade of the French horror film. Directors Xavier Gens, Pascal La...
Nightbreed (1990): The Real Monster Might Be the Film
Halloween is a great time for monsters. Everyone loves a good monster, and no one loves them more than Clive Barker. After all, what were the Cenobites if not a group of monsters with a predilection for S&M garb? So when it came time to follow up...
Hitch on the Hump: Family Plot (1976)
On May the 12th, 1975, Alfred Hitchcock began production on a film that was then entitled Deceit. Since 1922, he had averaged a new film every two years of his career, but it had been almost four years since his last film, the critically panned Frenz...
Whatcha Craven?: Shocker (1989)
This film is called Shocker. I want to state right away that it in no way has anything to do with The Shocker, and if you don’t know what that is, well, I’m not going to tell you. All I can tell you is that tonight’s entry of Whatcha Craven is ...
B.L.O.G Presents Entrapment (1999) and The Catherine Zeta-Jones Effect
Ahh, 1999, that was a good year. Well, if you enjoyed the Y2K panic, the premier of Spongebob, or were like, hell yeah, what the world needs as The Euro, then you probably were taking the Purple One’s advice and partying like it was 1999. There’s...
Mental Health Awareness Month: Halloween (2007)
It’s the second week of Mental Health Awareness Month, and this week we’re going to explore something that drives me insane, remakes. Most of them I find bland, repulsive, or simply unnecessary. So when Rob Zombie made his little film a couple of...
The Grab Bag: Midnight Meat Train (2008)
In the past few years there’s been quite a few horror films that have been shelved or screwed over by the studios. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane still languishes on a shelf. Martyrs only got released to a limited number of theaters. Trick R’ Treat...
The LBL Easter Special: Peter Rottentail (2004)
Hello and Happy Bunny Day to all you Lair-ers out there! Yes, Easter has come once again and I have donned my pastel colored suit, amassed a horde of chocolate, and once again been disappointed that I could not find the candy eggs I used to love so m...
Grab Bag: The Other Hell (1981)
It’s another Monday, and it’s time for another Grab Bag pick. This week, seeing as Bruno Mattei’s Hell of the Living Dead got chosen to be Terrifying Tuesday, I thought I would cover another Mattei film today. Consider it a Mattei-in. Yep I wen...
Fulciuary: Murder Rock (1984)
Hey folks, it’s Friday the 13th, and I’m sure lots of you are out there watching the remake of that eponymous film. I know I’ll be out there watching it as well, but will the curse of this infamous day strike down our collective expectations. W...
