Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever

Cleaning horror house: 70s, 80s, and 90s crap

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Daniel

Here’s a bunch of crap I’ve been re-visiting lately, so let’s see how they hold up. THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (aka: Enter the Devil) (1974) This Italian knock-off of The Exorcist was renamed to sound more like Rocky Horror, … Continue reading →

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Billy Club – a baseball slasher throwback double play

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Daniel

Here’s one we haven’t seen before. In Billy Club, members of a Little League baseball team with a tragic past reunite fifteen years later…only to be hunted down by someone in an umpire’s mask using a spiked baseball bat as … Continue reading →

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Triple bite from a decade of vampire comedies

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Daniel

The 1980s ushered in a new decade of horror spoofs, and one creature of the night that was often took the brunt of the joke was the vampire. Conveniently, three vampire comedies from that era have hit Blu-ray simultaneously, so … Continue reading →

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A Betsy Russell camping horror double feature

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Daniel

If you grew up in the 80s, you saw Betsy Russell ride naked on a horse in Private School. You saw her as a vengeful prostitute in Avenging Angel. And you saw her fix cars in Tomboy. If you grew … Continue reading →

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80s bottom of the barrel creature features

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Daniel

Sometimes, the sludge at the bottom of the barrel tastes nasty good…. DEMONWARP (1988) Demonwarp should just be called WARPED because it is Bigfoot-alien-zombie insanity. You heard right. It’s the best crossover of unexplained mysteries since Stephanie Powers brought a … Continue reading →

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My NY Horror Show 2015 experience

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Daniel

I’m curing the post-holiday blues with some winter darkness…at the NY Horror Show! While it might begin to grow over time, this little convention right here on Long Island was great because you didn’t feel lost in a sea of … Continue reading →

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Vincent Price ushers in the new wave of the 80s with The Monster Club

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Daniel

Before he scored a huge hit on the 1980s pop charts with “Thriller,” Vincent Price experimented with the early new wave scene in the 1981 anthology horror film The Monster Club. It could seriously be called The New Wave Monster … Continue reading →

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Psychosis will give you Screamtime flashbacks

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Daniel

If you rented every horror movie that ever existed in the 1980s, chances are you saw the anthology film Screamtime at some point (blog here). My favorite story from that collection of short films was “Dreamhouse.” In a very unusual … Continue reading →

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Zombies, rats, future rats, and honky horror

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Daniel

A journey back to the bad VHS and cable days with four perfect pieces of crap. HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) The hungry die and become…hungry. This is zombie/3rd world cannibal Euro trash with a combination of people in … Continue reading →

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Night Terrors – the throwback horror anthology horror lovers should be talking about

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Daniel

As I was looking for some new Christmas horror, the Internet pointed me to a movie called Night Terrors. I watched the trailer, got an 80s shot-to-video vibe, saw a killer Santa, and went for it with no expectations. But … Continue reading →

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