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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
Adding more movies from the end of the last millennium to my collection
For a variety of reasons, this foursome from between 1989 and 1998 has ended up in my movie collection, so let’s see how happy I am with my purchases. LOBSTER MAN FROM MARS (1989) If it came from the 80s … Continue reading
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Man eaters and model murderers in the 1980s
I’ve just added four more from the 1980s to my horror movie collection. Two are from one of the Blu-ray collections of films by Spanish horror actor/director Paul Naschy, and two are a Euro giallo/slasher series double feature that was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, cannibals, giallos, Human Beasts, Night of the Werewolf, Nothing Underneath, slashers, Too Beautiful To Die, vampires, werewolves
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A journey through my recent 1980s purchases on Blu-ray
Now I feel like I’m just getting desperate to remain as immersed in the best decade of my life as much as possible, considering a majority of my recent “80s horror” purchases barely qualify as horror. Let’s see if any … Continue reading
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Tagged A Day of Judgement, American Rickshaw, backwoods horror, demons, Devil Story, gay horror, possession, Shallow Grave, slashers, supernatural
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The weirdest depths of 90s horror
My video store career started at the end of the 80s, and I spent most of the 90s working both there and at a bookstore part time to pay my way through college to eventually get my master’s degree (I … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Funny Man, horror comedies, I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, occult, satanism, slashers, The Borrower, The Day of the Beast, Uninvited
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Double doses of the 1970s and the 1980s
I’m always filling in the gaps in my horror collection, especially any holes that show in the decades of my younger years. So here is a look at four I’ve recently added to my collection from the 70s and 80s. … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, creature features, Duel, Impulse, Mask of Murder, slashers, The Dark
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NEW ACQUISITIONS: from 88 through 07
My collection just keeps growing, and my Dan cave just seems to keep getting smaller as a result. But the good news is it gives me more movies to blog about, so let’s get into these four. THROUGH THE FIRE … Continue reading
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Tagged backwoods horror, Closure, demons, occult, rape revenge, Skinned Deep, slashers, supernatural, The Sandman, Through the Fire
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Journeying through the 80s era…and stopping at a gay bar along the way
It’s a foursome of flicks I’ve just added to my collection from the best decade of my existence, and even includes some gay stuff, so let’s get into them. NIGHT OF DEATH (1980) It’s so odd to find movies still … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, cannibals, creature features, gay horror, Goodnight God Bless, home invasion, Lucifer, Night of Death, Siege, slashers, supernatural, The Bride
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Masked killers, retro vibes, 2 kinds of camp, and a double dose of gays
I’m always up for a slasher fix, and this foursome delivered in a variety of ways, so let’s take a look. THE BONE GARDEN (2016) The Bone Garden is a novelty horror flick that goes for the meta vibes with … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreamcatcher, Fear Street Part 2: 1978, gay horror, horror comedies, Slashening: The Final Beginning, slashers, The Bone Garden
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Back to the 90s and 80s with Fear Street 1994 and Vicious Fun
It’s hack ‘n’ slash time with some retro vibes in these two throwbacks to the final decades of the last millennium. Sounds like fun…right? FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 (2021) This is one of those cases in which for everything … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Fear Street Part 1 1994, horror comedies, slashers, Vicious Fun
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Cheap thrills and kills from the 1950s through the 1990s
It’s a smorgasbord of oddities from a variety of decades dating all the way back to 1958, so let’s see if any of them had any memorable moments. I BURY THE LIVING (1958) Albert Band, director of the Prehysteria movies … Continue reading
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Tagged Berserk!, Calendar Girl Murders, Child in the Night, I Bury the Living, Shanks, slashers, The Amusement Park
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