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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
Dead Heat – zombie cops and zombie robbers
Take 80s buddy cop comedies like Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop, add an undead twist, and you have the 1988 flick Dead Heat! Treat Williams plays the straight guy and SNL alum Joe Piscopo is the comic relief as … Continue reading
Splatter University – an 80 slasher that breaks the mold!
Splatter University looks like one of those typical 80s VHS horror flix. You know the kind. Hot, macabre cover art but probably a piece of shit when you watch it. Okay, so it might even appear to be a piece … Continue reading
It’s all just another name for Psycho
After Anthony Perkins finally caved and cashed in on his Norman Bates fame in the 80s with a string of Psycho sequels, everyone wanted him in their horror movie…as long as he pretty much played Norman Bates. And he went … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, A Demon in my View, Crimes of Passion, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Edge of Sanity, gay horror, Jack the Ripper, slashers
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Quick looks at modern horror time killers part 3
Time to blast through four more films made in the past ten years, from slashers to creature features. JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD (2010) It must suck to be John Carpenter. You just want to make a fun little slasher about … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Glacier, Catacombs, creature features, Die Die Delta Pi, John Carpenter’s The Ward, slashers
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Evil Eddie triple feature!
Even Eddie Murphy has flirted with the paranormal, demons, vampires, and ghosts. And it all started way back in the 80s! THE GOLDEN CHILD (1986) It’s Eddie’s Big Trouble in Little China, only it’s in Tibet. In The Golden Child, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, demons, Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, ghosts, horror comedy, living dead, The Golden Child, undead, Vampire in Brooklyn, Zombies
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Fright Night Visitor…
I love seeing a movie I missed in the 80s. The look, the feel, the music, the fashions—it all catapults me back there for an hour and a half. So that makes even a horror movie a feel good experience. … Continue reading
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Supernatural comedies to put you in high spirits
Ghosts, spirit guides, laughs, and 80s icons! I take on three fun and cheesy flicks: Vibes, High Spirits, and Haunted Honeymoon. VIBES (1988) What a cast! Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, Peter Falk, and Cyndi Lauper. Sadly, I think Vibes was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, ghosts, Haunted Honeymoon, High Spirits, horror comedy, Vibes
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BUD the C.H.U.D. and the Tall Man get the last laugh
Time to look at some 80s horror comedy, complete with musical numbers and horror icons! TRANSYLVANIA TWIST (1989) This lost gem came out a year after Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and totally follows that corny comedy formula. There’s plenty … Continue reading
What happens after Friday the 13TH is a joke
After the popularity of Friday the 13th in 1980, it wasn’t long before a horror comedy came out called Saturday the 14th. In fact, it was only one year later, and only a few months after Friday the 13th part … Continue reading
Camp Carnage is coming to convert you…and kill you
Imagine an 80s summer camp slasher movie that features gay kids getting massacred, and you’ve got the novel Camp Carnage by Elliot Arthur Cross and Joshua Winning. Set in 1986 (complete with 80s pop culture references), this page-turning gay horror … Continue reading