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Category Archives: Living in the 80s – forever
The hunt for 80s horror continues
If you’re itching for something from the 80s, but you feel like you’ve seen it all, here are four more you could check out. But should you? BLIND DATE (1984) If Eyes of Laura Mars, Dreamscape, and Looker melded reels, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind Date, creatures features, Darkroom, Deadly Dreams, Demon of Paradise, slashers
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Back to the 80s: Silent Madness vs. Don’t Panic
The 80s really will never end, as even someone like myself, who worked in a mom and pop video store for years and had cable throughout the 80s, is still treated to obscure movies I’ve never seen as they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Don't Panic, Silent Madness, slashers, supernatural
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For the love of 80s Euro trash horror
This was going to be a general blog about a handful of 1980s horror movies, until I realized all my selections are European films. So let’s get into them! REST IN PIECES (1987) This odd little Euro horror flick reminds … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Faceless, gay horror, Howl of the Devil, living dead, Oasis of the Zombies, occult, Rest in Pieces, slashers, undead, Zombies
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Horror of the 1980s: beginning, middle, and end
Reveling in some new acquisitions to my DVD and Blu-ray collection, I knew it was once again time to blog about the 1980s. So here’s a selection of flicks I haven’t yet covered spanning from 1980 to 1989. CONTAMINATION (1980) … Continue reading
The 80s obscurities keep on coming
The 80s never really end for me, so here’s yet another blog covering four more lost horror movies of the decade. FIEND (1980) Fiend comes from the director of Nightbeast, and to me it’s like unofficial Night of the Living … Continue reading
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Tagged creature features, Deadly Lessons, Fiend, gay horror, horror anthologies, living dead, Night Terror, Razorback, slashers, undead, Zombies
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Stephen King’s killing machine and a giant rat creature
I was a huge Stephen King reader in my early teens, which coincided with his rise to mass popularity and numerous movie adaptations within a matter of years. Of course once the movie studios had tapped some of his best … Continue reading
The weirdness of the 80s in four films
There’s so little left for me to cover from the 1980s, yet I keep scraping the bottom of the seemingly endless barrel from the golden age of video tapes. So let’s get into the four I’ve watched recently, two on … Continue reading
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Tagged Death Ship, ghosts, Hellhole, slashers, supernatural, Touch of Death, White of the Eye, Zombies
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STREAM QUEEN: four films, one fave
I took a break from all the low budget indie stuff to indulge in some films with a little more polish. How did that work out for me? Let’s take a look. WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS (2020) Not even 1980s … Continue reading
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Tagged occult, Painkillers, supernatural, The Lodge, The Wretched, vampires, We Summon the Darkness, witches
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I’ll take the 80s triple feature with extra cheese on a Blu-ray
The 80s hits (and misses) just keep going Blu thanks to all the indie companies digging them out of the vaults, so it’s time to take on three I just added to my collection: a giallo, a giant snake film, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, Delirium, Flesh-Eating Mothers, giallos, infected, slashers, Spasms, Zombies
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It came from 1989…four times
The day I can no longer dig up lost 1980s films I’ve never seen is the day I will stop living in the past. Okay, I’m lying. But this foursome was a delicious dive into first time viewing of horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature features, Family Reunion, ghosts, occult, Shocking Dark, Sounds of Silence, supernatural, The Immortalizer, Zombies
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