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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
Results of getting to the video store too late in the 80s Part 1
Those were the days. Either your last minute decision to rent movies on a Friday night found all the new releases and hot titles were gone…or you had been systematically renting everything in the horror section over time and were … 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, Carnage, Death Screams, ghosts, slashers, Terror at Tenkiller, The Last Slumber Party
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Munchies and Hobgoblins – the bottom of the barrel from the Gremlins era!
It’s time to cover the Munchies and the Hobgoblins movies! MUNCHIES (1987) Munchies is just an appetizer. It comes from a time in the 80s when there was no longer any Fantasy Island or The Love Boat graveyard for has-been … Continue reading
Return of the killer Troma trash!
Troma trash, the sequel! I suffered through 5 more Troma films, and I actually had some favorites in this batch. EVIL CLUTCH (1988) This Italian horror flick is one of my faves of the bunch. If you love Evil Dead, … 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, Beyond Evil, Chillers, demons, Evil Clutch, gay horror, horror anthologies, living dead, possessed, Space Zombie Bingo, The Newlydeads, undead, Zombies
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Contagion and Jugface – the horror of 2 totally unrelated movies
Ah. Those moments when horror movies leave you feeling totally unfulfilled. Since I had that experience two nights in a row, I’m just going to get Contagion and Jug Face over in one blog. CONTAGION (1987) Of course, you … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Contagion, Jug Face, slashers
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Troma Trash Marathon #1
So I picked up some of those Troma boxed sets of low budget horror movies because they contained particular movies I wanted. But naturally I had to subject myself to the torture of watching every movie included in each box. … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Death by Dialogue, Epitaph, Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan, living dead, Nightfall, Play Dead, Scream Baby Scream, slashers, Troma, undead, Zombies
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2 degrees of 3 made-for-TV thrillers!
Back before cable and movie rentals took over the world and it took years for a movie to come to television, we were treated to loads of thrillers and scary movies made specifically for TV and modeled after the blockbusters … Continue reading
Wanna get Nuke ‘Em High?
Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma team returns to the long running horror comedy franchise that could only have come from the 80s! 2013’s Return to Nuke ‘Em High, Vol. 1 was all the reason I needed to rewatch the entire … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Class of Nuke ‘Em High 3: the Good, Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown, horror comedy, Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 2, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1
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They live again for Rowdy Roddy Piper?
Roddy Piper became a part of horror history when he starred in John Carpenter’s They Live, facing off against those zombie alien thingies. So it seems like a no brainer (or eat brainer) to put him in a film about … 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 living dead, Matthew Rush, Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies, Roddy Piper, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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My first NERDGASM
About a month ago, Dave Campfield, the director and star of the Caesar & Otto horror films (which I blogged about here) asked me to call in to his web show and talk about Boys, Bears & Scares and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dave Campfield, Felissa Rose, Harrison Smith, Jonathan Tiersten, Nerdgasm, Wet Hot Amercian Summer
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Attack of the Slime City Monsters!
The original Slime City is the epitome of 1980s VHS low-budget cult horror trash. But even more shocking than the original movie is the fact that 22 years later, director Greg Lamberson decided to make a sequel! And it’s just … Continue reading