Category Archives: Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head

I love me a good frat boy vampire comedy

I am having major luck with the vampire comedies lately. First I watched the rockin’ musical I Kissed a Vampire and the awesomely retro Vamps as a double feature, and now I totally took a risk and picked up a … Continue reading

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4 flicks from an All Night Horror Marathon DVD

You have to love these cheaply priced compilations that cram 4 to 8 movies on 2 or 3 discs, often movies that would never have made it onto DVD otherwise but may have been one of your favorite video rental … Continue reading

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Horror pop musical extravaganza and 80s vampire comedy throwback!

I accidentally treated myself to an awesome vampire double feature of camp, comedy, and musical numbers! First comes the rockin’ teen pop musical I Kissed a Vampire, then the retro awesome comedy Vamps. I KISSED A VAMPIRE (2010) I’m a … Continue reading

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Erasure’s Snow Globe is scarier than the Crypt Keeper’s Christmas album

Think of the classic Erasure Christmas song “She Won’t Be Home.” Now imagine an entire Christmas album of fun Erasure seasonal originals along with Andy and Vince giving traditional holiday songs that bouncy Erasure sound. Now keep imagining, because this … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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The horror of 80s comedy My Demon Lover

Sometimes I watch old movies from the 80s and say to myself, “What were we thinking?” followed immediately by, “I’m so glad we were thinking it.” If My Demon Lover was supposed to launch the film career of Scott Valentine, … Continue reading

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When that rejuvenating facelift goes really wrong

In the 80s, if the monster wasn’t a knife-wielding masked killer, it was often some sort of lab experiment gone wrong: Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Fly, The Nest, and, of course, The Rejuvenator! So there’s this rich old actress who … Continue reading

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The complete list of over 10,000 songs in my 80s playlist

This is it. This is the big one. I created a list (over 250 pages long) of every single song I have in my 80s playlist on my iPod (the PDF is at the bottom of this blog post). It … Continue reading

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