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Tag Archives: 80s
While visions of better slashers and zombie movies danced in their heads
Yet another Santa slasher and Santa as the horror hero? Let’s get right to To All a Goodnight and Santa Claus vs. The Zombies! TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980) While Silent Night, Deadly Night wasn’t the first killer Santa movie, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, living dead, Santa Claus vs. The Zombies, slashers, To All a Goodnight, undead, Zombies
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Yay! More derivative 1980s backwoods slashers!!!
Two more copycat killer in the woods flicks for 80s slasher fans who can’t get enough. I’ll start with what I think is one of the most illogically praised 80s slashers ever. JUST BEFORE DAWN (1981) I’ve tried several … Continue reading
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
Can you handle the comedy of Curse of the Queerwolf?
If micro-budget indie film Curse of the Queerwolf were made today by a gay director, it would be a midnight movie cult hit. Back in 1988, it was apparently looked at as an anti-gay horror comedy. To be honest, even … Continue reading
Indiana Jonesing to kill some zombies with a laser disc player?
Okay. The 1986 flick Raiders of the Living Dead has nothing to do with Indiana Jones, but I imagine the title was probably inspired by it—and Return of the Living Dead, obviously. In terms of bad 80s horror flix, Raiders … Continue reading
It’s a shocker that The Horror Show isn’t Wes Craven’s Shocker
In the late 80s, the horror genre flirted with the prison theme of dead men walking—literally! A year after the release of the movie Prison and just in time to compete with Wes Craven’s Shocker, the 1989 flick The Horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, House 3, slashers, The Horror Show
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The Monster in the Closet wants to do nasty things…to your man!
Other than the campy gay subtext, you’d never guess that Monster in the Closet is a Troma film. It’s a light, fun spoof of 50s creature features, with a monster that looks like a Muppet version of the Rancor from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, creature feature, gay horror, Monster in the Closet
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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
1 disc, 2 “S” horrors—it makes alphabetical organization of my DVDs easier!
I had to watch the 1989 film Society because it has been mentioned so much by all the horror-loving boys and bears on Facebook and it’s one of few 80s horror flix we never had at the video store in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Society, Spontaneous Combustion, Tobe Hooper
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So do Redneck Zombies eat out their own siblings?
Redneck Zombies is an infamous cult classic from the late 80s. It’s deliciously low-budget direct-to-VHS crap! Surprisingly, it’s not as comically over-the-top as I’d expected, but it definitely has its campy moments and plenty of gross outs. The real draw is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, living dead, Redneck Zombies, undead
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