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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
The 80s SLASHER VAULTS 6: 80s horror spanning the decade from 80 to 89
They’re good. They’re bad. These five are some of my favorite 80s horror flix from the VHS slasher era, for better or worse. FUNERAL HOME (1980) Directed by William Fruet (The House by the Lake, Spasms, Killer Party, several episodes … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Diner, Funeral Home, horror comedies, Intruder, slashers, The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, Visiting Hours
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The 80s SLASHER VAULTS 5: the 80s horror vault inside the vault
For this installment of my 80s Slasher Vault series, I look at some 80s horror slashers that were basically locked in a vault that was then locked in another vault. HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 5 (1985) A slasher so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, backwoods horror, Berserker, Blood Harvest, Blood Tracks, Horror House on Highway 5, slashers
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The 80s SLASHER VAULTS 3: Christopher Lewis’s Blood Pack
Having clear memories of watching The Ripper, Blood Cult, and its sequel Revenge on VHS back in the 80s when I worked at a video store, I must have been feeling really nostalgic the day I purchased this 3-DVD set. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Cult, Revenge, slashers, The Ripper
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STREAM QUEEN: A wacky movie per decade: the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
We can’t get away from the lasting impact of films like 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, or 1996’s Scream, so it’s always fun to take a look at films that had absolutely no … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, demons, Dust Devil, Mystics in Bali, Spawn of the Slithis, witches
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The 80s horror SLASHER VAULTS 2: 3 that are all about the endings
Sometimes, I watch 80s horror flicks that are classics in my mind, and get totally bitch slapped when I discover just how easy I was to please back when I was a teen hungry for more and more slashers. As … Continue reading
From Friday the 13th victim to…directing horror films to channel gay desires?
So I popped in my DVD of low-budget slasher Evil Laugh for the next installment of my “80s slasher vaults” series…and soon realized this movie was going to have to break away from the herd and become a part of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Evil Laugh, gay horror, Hard Rock Nightmare, slashers, werewolves
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80s oddities: killer elevator, killer robot girl, killer Surf Nazis
Some films of the 80s just completely defy conventional genres. So why not slap a trio of them together in one blog? THE LIFT (1983) Nothing like Euro 80s horror with all the voices dubbed into English. This Dutch film … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Deadly Friend, Down, gay horror, Surf Nazis Must Die, The Lift, The Shaft, Troma, Wes Craven
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THE 80s horror SLASHER VAULTS 1: Cabins in the Woods
When I look at how many movies I’ve blogged about, I find it hard to believe how many in my movie collection I still haven’t! So, with my “It Happened After Scream” series of blogs covering new millennium slashers almost … Continue reading
Four 80s horror slashers gone mostly bad
I needed a break from all the modern crap I’ve been streaming, so it was back to the 80s horror archives in my collection—my horror movie comfort food. THE BOOGEY MAN (1980) Considering it was released two years after Halloween … Continue reading
1989 Troma children zombies vs. 1998 Troma ass crack zombies
One thing is for sure—it’s never dull writing about Troma films. Here we have cannibal kids from the end of the 80s, and cannibal crack from the end of the 90s, and they are two very different experiences. BEWARE – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Beware – Children at Play, Buttcrack, cannibals, gay horror, horror comedies, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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