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Category Archives: Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head
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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, The Rejuvenator
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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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, new wave
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Horror Hunk Spotlight: Ross Kelly
Now that’s the kind of face you want to see dodging the swipe of a slasher’s knife, flashing vampiric fangs, or covered in the goop of a zombie he just blasted away. I could watch any horror movie Ross Kelly … Continue reading
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Tagged Army of the Dead, Klown Kamp Massacre, Pretty Dead Things, Rome and Juliet vs. The Living Dead, Ross Kelly, Stink of Flesh, Wedding Slashers
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The Last Horror Film; it’s like Maniac 2
Two years after creepy Joe Spinell played a psycho killer who targeted Caroline Munro in Maniac, he played a psycho killer who targeted Caroline Munro even more in The Last Horror Film (not to be confused with The Last Horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, slashers, The Last Horror Movie
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3 bad seeds make for one Bloody Birthday
Combine The Bad Seed with early 80s slasher mentality and you get Bloody Birthday. An opening kill of a couple having sex in a grave makes this look (and sound) like another Friday the 13th knockoff. But this is the … Continue reading
Slaughterhouse Rock or Slaughterhouse New Wave?
Slaughterhouse Rock is one of many bizarre horror flicks that tried so hard to be different after the onslaught of copycat slashers in the first part of the 80s. As a result, it suffered the same fate; it’s a typical … Continue reading
Will these snow slashers leave you white-knuckled with fear?
Here are a handful of slashers that will give you chills…partially because there’s so much snow blowing around! COLD PREY (2006) The first Cold Prey focuses all its energy on being an atmospheric, slow burner. A bunch of kids hikes … Continue reading
Something has gotten into their brains!
I happened to get the 1981 film Strange Behavior and the 1988 film Brain Damage on DVD in the same week. Since they both have to do with people being mind-fucked in the 80s, I thought I’d blog about them … Continue reading
Take a ride on a fantastically sleazy 80s horror train
Night Train to Terror is a 1985 horror anthology that is so awesomely 80s!!! The opening faux wave band on the train totally rules: he lead singer’s head band, the Flashdance shirts, the colors, the choreographed dancing. It’s an amazing … Continue reading
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