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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
Madman—not your ordinary early 80s Friday the 13th ripoff.
Only two years after the release of the original Friday the 13th, Madman was one of many that followed the same summer camp stalker format. But this is one really bizarre backwoods slasher. I instantly loved it because the opening … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, backwoods horror, Madman, slashers
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You’ve entered the Arcade Zone, where no Activision classic is what it seems
The last generation of game systems was treated to “Activision Anthology,” a collection that had dozens of original Activision and Imagic classics from the Atari 2600 days. If you hooked up an arcade stick to your system, you had a … Continue reading
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Tagged Activision, Arcade Zone, Atlantis, Freeway, Kaboom!, Megamania, retro gaming, video games, Wii
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The new wave of zombie movies…. THE MAD
Billy Zane, zombies, and new wave? I’m in. The gist of the zombie infection in The Mad is basically “mad cow” disease. Small town, cows are diseased, cows are made into hamburgers for local restaurant—people turn into zombies. This movie had me … Continue reading
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Tagged horror comedy, living dead, The Mad, undead, zombedy, Zombies, zomcom
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Night of the Living Death Sentence–Zombie Prison Movies!
Who would have guessed that so many low budget zombie films had been made that take place behind bars…or that I actually have a bunch in my collection of horror movies? I must just really like zombies in jail, because … Continue reading
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Tagged Closet Monsters, Dead Men Walking, gay horror, living dead, Prison of the Dead, Shadow: Dead Riot, undead, Zombie Death House, Zombied Out, Zombies
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Why do they have to ‘remix’ the classics?
Having grown up during the dawn of the 12” single, I’m a sucker for a remix…of a song, that is. But I finally picked up a copy of the Wii video game Namco Museum Remix and find most of its … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Galaga, Namco Museum Remix, Pac Man, retro gaming, video games, Wii
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The Lost Boys franchise doesn’t stand a chance without both Corey’s involved
Coincidentally, as Lost Boys: The Tribe hit the top of my horror pile for a rewatch, we today lost 80s icon Corey Haim—well, half an icon, considering he really wasn’t whole unless he was in a movie with Corey Feldman. … Continue reading
Sorority Hos…The House on Sorority Row “remake”
In the 1983 classic The House on Sorority Row, a bunch of sorority sisters unintentionally (sort of) kill their mean house mother and dump her body in a muck-filled pool in the backyard. Of course, you can’t keep a good … Continue reading
“Direct” to DVD—the horror of director Ti West
A couple of years ago, I caught this movie called The Roost on cable, and it really struck a chord with me. It was a 2005 film, but it looked and felt like something out of the late 70s or … Continue reading
Two movies that ushered in the 80s
I’ll never forget when I saw Xanadu in the theaters in 1980. Sure, it featured a bunch of roller skating muses, but this wasn’t no roller disco movie! Not a disco song to be found on the soundtrack. The vivid … Continue reading
Beat Street–80s breakdancing movie on the downbeat
So I was wondering why I couldn’t remember a thing about Beat Street, a film that came out in the heat of the breakdancing movies in 1984. I knew I had to have seen it on cable, because I saw … Continue reading
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