Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever

It’s time for two nightmares from the 1980s!

Zombie Nightmare and Nightmare Weekend were the types of films you rented at the video store when you’d seen every other horror movie in the place. And when you were done, you wished you’d just rented Friday the 13th for … Continue reading

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1 disc, 2 “S” horrors—it makes alphabetical organization of my DVDs easier!

I had to watch the 1989 film Society because it has been mentioned so much by all the horror-loving boys and bears on Facebook and it’s one of few 80s horror flix we never had at the video store in … Continue reading

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So do Redneck Zombies eat out their own siblings?

Redneck Zombies is an infamous cult classic from the late 80s. It’s deliciously low-budget direct-to-VHS crap! Surprisingly, it’s not as comically over-the-top as I’d expected, but it definitely has its campy moments and plenty of gross outs. The real draw is … Continue reading

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Breaking down the lost scenes from the Halloween 1, 2 and 4 novelizations!

Reading Halloween by Curtis Richards and Halloween II by Jack Martin, I can remember them as if it was October 1981 again and I’d just read them for the first time. They are deliciously fast reads that simply make the … Continue reading

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A triple-feature of horror cheese that makes me nostalgic for the worst of the 80s

Deadly Blessing (1981) In the 80s, before the dude with the fedora and finger knives, Wes Craven brought us an evil group of Amish in Deadly Blessing. So, there’s this chick and her husband having sex in their home in … Continue reading

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80s slasher double feature time: Schizoid and X-Ray

1980 film Schizoid and 1982 film X-Ray have one important thing in common…they’re both on the same Blu-ray. What better reason to blog about them together? We all go a little Schizoid sometimes In Schizoid, the women from the same … Continue reading

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A trio of lost horror flix from the VHS days…

Maybe these flix will get quality releases on DVD one day, but there’s something about snagging grainy full-frame versions from YouTube that brings me right back to the first time I popped the videotapes into my VCR…. THE PREY (1984) … Continue reading

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Rawhead Rex…the Clive Barker monster movie!

The 1986 flick Rawhead Rex ranks up there with Q: The Winged Serpent as one of the most awesome cheesy monster movies of the 80s! It may be written by Clive Barker, but that doesn’t stop it from being fun. … Continue reading

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The horror of 80s comedy My Demon Lover

Sometimes I watch old movies from the 80s and say to myself, “What were we thinking?” followed immediately by, “I’m so glad we were thinking it.” If My Demon Lover was supposed to launch the film career of Scott Valentine, … Continue reading

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The Curse of the hairy bears and the deep throating snakes

It came from the 80s…and ended in the 90s. So just how bad does The Curse franchise get? Let’s take a look. THE CURSE (1987) The man hair in The Curse is out of control!!! There is a farmhand stud who … Continue reading

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