Probe My Thoughts
Boys, Bears & Scares Zones
What’s Your Pleasure?
- Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts
- In My Write Mind: News About My Writings
- Johnny You ARE Queer – Gay Thoughts
- Living in the 80s – forever
- Movie Times & Television Schedules – Staying Entertained
- Scared Silly – Horror Comedy
- Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head
- The Evil of the Thriller – Everything Horror
- What I'm Doing With My Joystick
Subscribe to Boys, Bears & Scares!
Tag Archives: 80s
The horror of Joe D’Amato
A man who makes nasty horror films and hardcore porn is okay by me. No. I’ve not seen any of Joe D’Amato’s porn (I think it’s all straight stuff), but I will talk about his heinous horror flicks! BEYOND THE … Continue reading
Results of getting to the video store too late Part 5
Even more movies you’d rent from the almost empty video store shelves on a Friday night out of pure desperation in the 80s. But could you make it through this trash trilogy? DEATH SPA (1989) The sights and sounds of … Continue reading
Make room for stepdaddy!
The end of the 80s, when horror was running out of new and inventive identities for slasher killers. Since wicked stepmothers were old news, why not make stepdad a prick? Terry O’ Quinn of Lost is a man who just … Continue reading
Results of getting to the video store too late Part 3
Time for another segment of movies you’d rent from the almost empty video store shelves on a Friday night out of pure desperation. THE VAGRANT (1992) While presented with a dark sense of humor, The Vagrant actually plays upon the … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, home invasion, possession, The Godsend, The Outing, The Vagrant
Comments Off on Results of getting to the video store too late Part 3
Results of getting to the video store too late Part 2
It’s another segment covering movies you’d rent on a Friday night because all the hot titles were gone or you’d already seen all the best stuff in the horror section! VICIOUS LIPS (1986) The first thing you hear is new … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, After Midnight, demons, Evilspeak, Forever Evil, gay horror, Gothic, horror anthologies, slashers, Sue Saad, Vicious Lips, Zombies
1 Comment
BEWARE MY THE BLOB BLOG!
It’s a trio of films about the gelatinous critter creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor! THE BLOB (1958) Back in the 1970s, I believe I used to watch The Blob on ABC’s “The 4:30 movie.” … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Sound Check - The Songs Stuck in My Head, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Beware! The Blob, creature feature, The Blob
Comments Off on BEWARE MY THE BLOB BLOG!
Results of getting to the video store too late in the 80s Part 1
Those were the days. Either your last minute decision to rent movies on a Friday night found all the new releases and hot titles were gone…or you had been systematically renting everything in the horror section over time and were … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Carnage, Death Screams, ghosts, slashers, Terror at Tenkiller, The Last Slumber Party
Comments Off on Results of getting to the video store too late in the 80s Part 1
Munchies and Hobgoblins – the bottom of the barrel from the Gremlins era!
It’s time to cover the Munchies and the Hobgoblins movies! MUNCHIES (1987) Munchies is just an appetizer. It comes from a time in the 80s when there was no longer any Fantasy Island or The Love Boat graveyard for has-been … Continue reading
Return of the killer Troma trash!
Troma trash, the sequel! I suffered through 5 more Troma films, and I actually had some favorites in this batch. EVIL CLUTCH (1988) This Italian horror flick is one of my faves of the bunch. If you love Evil Dead, … Continue reading
Posted in Johnny You ARE Queer - Gay Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Beyond Evil, Chillers, demons, Evil Clutch, gay horror, horror anthologies, living dead, possessed, Space Zombie Bingo, The Newlydeads, undead, Zombies
Comments Off on Return of the killer Troma trash!
Contagion and Jugface – the horror of 2 totally unrelated movies
Ah. Those moments when horror movies leave you feeling totally unfulfilled. Since I had that experience two nights in a row, I’m just going to get Contagion and Jug Face over in one blog. CONTAGION (1987) Of course, you … Continue reading
Posted in Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged 1980s, 80s, Contagion, Jug Face, slashers
Comments Off on Contagion and Jugface – the horror of 2 totally unrelated movies