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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
Tell The Carpenter to bring his saw because it’s Bloody Wednesday
This double feature brings me right back to my days working at the video store—I systematically watched every horror movie that had a display box covered in thick layers of dust because no one ever rented them. I really have … Continue reading
Nature triple strikes back in the early 80s
Digging through my archives (aka: my movie collection) for an 80s break from the endless “stream” of modern trash I bombard myself with, I decided to make it an early 80s marathon of 3 horror films themed around wildlife gone…wilder… … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Alligator, Cat People, creature features, Of Unknown Origin
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OCD Told Me to blog about the rest of Larry Cohen’s movies
After recently covering director Larry Cohen’s Full Moon High and Wicked Stepmother in a blog and realizing I’d already covered Q: The Winged Serpent, A Return to Salem’s Lot, and The Stuff, I figured it was time to round out my … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged creature features, gay horror, God Told Me To, infected, It Lives Again, It’s Alive, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive, The Ambulance
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Dante dabbling in the fun side of horror
With faves like Gremlins, Piranha, and The Howling under his belt, Joe Dante found a way to channel his love of horror into more mainstream flix for a general audience while still appealing to his fan base. For me, Matinee … 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
The Terror of the Blind Buy—were they as scary as I feared (or hoped)?
Blind buys are mostly a thing of my past…unless they come with some actual foresight. Perhaps the film is part of a franchise for which I have all the other installments, or is by one of my favorite directors, or … Continue reading
What in 80s hell?
Sometimes you just need to take a trip back to the 80s, when we watched fucked up movies loaded with violence, sex, and gore, didn’t have God or prayer in school…yet never shot up our classmates. Having said that, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, Don’t Answer The Phone!, ghosts, Panic, Seeding of a Ghost, slashers, Sledgehammer, supernatural
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Looking at 4 of the not so greats of the late 80s
But you gotta love them anyway—or at least, have them in your DVD collection if you’re an 80s fanatic like me. It’s time to look at obscurities Bates Motel, The Undertaker, Night Feeder, and Prime Evil. BATES MOTEL (1987) … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Bates Motel, Night Feeder, Prime Evil, slashers, supernatural, The Undertaker
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80s slasher spoofs: Pandemonium vs. Wacko!
Along with other horror spoofs of the 80s: Transylvania Twist, Saturday the 14th, National Lampoon’s Class Reunion, Student Bodies, Haunted Honeymoon, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark…there were 1982 goodies Pandemonium and Wacko. They’re quite similar in that they both take on … Continue reading
STREAM QUEEN: Not exactly top shelf horror anthologies
Just like zombie movies, if there’s an anthology film available to stream, it’s going into my watchlist for sure. This time around I even stumbled upon one from the 1990s that I’d never seen. So let’s look at The First … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Do You Believe?, Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Bloodmania, horror anthologies, Terror Tales, The First Date, With Friends Like These
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