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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
For Adults Only: X-Arcade…the ultimate place to spend all your quarters…
I’ve spent the last decade trying to re-experience classic 80s arcade games the way I remember them. Plenty of ‘compilation’ discs have been released for everything from the first Playstation to the Wii, but with these consoles, you’re stuck using … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Arcade Stick, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Joystick, Playstation, video games, Wii, X-Arcade, X-Gaming, xbox, Xbox 360
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It just takes one dark night to leave you dead by dawn
My loving relationship with the film One Dark Night goes beyond the fact that it was released in the awesome 80s year of 1983 and stars E.G. Daily and has a product shot of Tab and offers a Defender arcade … Continue reading
Beware the crazed killer wielding his sausage…
A cherished inclusion in my 80s slasher collection is 1989’s Offerings, a ridiculous attempt to rip off the first Halloween a year after Halloween 4 was released. In fact, this film is really just a mashup of Halloween, Prom Night, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Offerings, slashers
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It’s what you don’t see that will scare the snot out of you…
The Boogens (why do I picture a Kleenex commercial with nasty looking green cartoon boogers?) is SO 1981, following the tradition of films from that era that have loads of tension, atmosphere, and build-up for the first hour, yet deliver … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, The Boogens
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One terrifying Night of the Demons–decades of terrible sequels
Imagine being trapped in a pitch black funeral home filled with friends who suddenly look like a bunch of Linda Blairs, floating through the halls to steal your soul. Night of the Demons rocked my world when I first saw … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Kinkade, Christine Taylor, Edward Furlong, halloween, Kevin Tenney, Linnea Quigley, Mimi Kinkade, Night of the Demons, Shannon Elizabeth
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Is that a slug in your pocket or are you just REALLY hung???
Slugs, leeches, slithery things that can worm their way into your most private of orifices. Yuck. But they make for some squirm-worthy horror movies. LEECHES Ah. A 2003 three film by David DeCoteau, the king of not-gay homoerotic horror movies … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Dick Miller, Elizabeth Banks, horror comedy, Intimate Strangers, Jane Wiedlin, Leeches, Nathan Fillion, Night of the Creeps, Slither, Stan Ridgway
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People who live in steel houses shouldn’t become zombies…
Okay. It feels like all I write about these days is fricking zombies! Here we go again. Night of the Comet, 1984. Loved this film when it was on cable when I was a kid. It stars Catherine Mary Stewart … Continue reading
Not exactly the scariest nightmares you’ll ever have…
The 80s saw a revival of the horror anthology movie and short story TV show genres, from shows like Tales from the Darkside, Amazing Stories, Ray Bradbury Theater, and The Hitchhiker, to movies such as Creepshow, Twilight Zone – The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Emilio Estevez, horror anthologies, Nightmares, video games
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When zombies attack, the poop really hits the face…
Sorry, but this post wouldn’t be any fun if I didn’t spoil the entire movie—and really, this isn’t a movie you watch for surprises or scares. You got zombies that look exactly like my pants did when I was a … Continue reading
Fulci’s Trillogical of Terror
I never particularly considered myself a fan of Lucio Fulci until I realized that I pretty much had all of his films in my horror collection. I also never realized City of the Living Dead, The Beyond, and House by … Continue reading