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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
A CGI slasher, an 80s throwback, and a horror comedy
Headless Horseman, The Revenant, and Bloody Homecoming. Which was my fave? HEADLESS HORSEMAN (2007) Headless Horseman takes the classic story…and makes it a backwoods slasher. A group of kids is headed for a party. There are some pumpkins in their … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloody Homecoming, gay horror, Headless Horseman, horror comedy, slashers, The Revenant, vampires, Zombies
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Direct-to-DVD: The slashers of Tommy Faircloth
Horror reality kind of bit in the 90s before Scream came along and rejuvenated the slasher genre. But a year before Scream, director Tommy Faircloth made an indie film that parodied the slashers of the 80s and spoke directly to … Continue reading
A gay horror thriller double feature and a double dose of scream queens!
The 2005 indie film October Moon and the 2008 sequel November Son have the distinction of being gay horror thrillers that star two iconic scream queens: Brinke Stevens and the one and only Judith “They’re coming to get you, Barbra!” … Continue reading
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
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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Society, Spontaneous Combustion, Tobe Hooper
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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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, living dead, Redneck Zombies, undead
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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
Posted in Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged halloween, Halloween 2, Halloween 4, John Carpenter, novelizations, slashers
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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
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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Hospital Massacre, Schizoid, slashers, X-Ray
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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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Rage, horror anthologies, Nightmare at Shadow Woods, Screamtime, The Prey
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