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Tag Archives: 80s
A triple-feature of horror cheese that makes me nostalgic for the worst of the 80s
Deadly Blessing (1981) In the 80s, before the dude with the fedora and finger knives, Wes Craven brought us an evil group of Amish in Deadly Blessing. So, there’s this chick and her husband having sex in their home in … Continue reading
80s slasher double feature time: Schizoid and X-Ray
1980 film Schizoid and 1982 film X-Ray have one important thing in common…they’re both on the same Blu-ray. What better reason to blog about them together? We all go a little Schizoid sometimes In Schizoid, the women from the same … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Hospital Massacre, Schizoid, slashers, X-Ray
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A trio of lost horror flix from the VHS days…
Maybe these flix will get quality releases on DVD one day, but there’s something about snagging grainy full-frame versions from YouTube that brings me right back to the first time I popped the videotapes into my VCR…. THE PREY (1984) … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Blood Rage, horror anthologies, Nightmare at Shadow Woods, Screamtime, The Prey
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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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Tagged 1980s, 80s, horror comedy, My Demon Lover
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The Curse of the hairy bears and the deep throating snakes
It came from the 80s…and ended in the 90s. So just how bad does The Curse franchise get? Let’s take a look. THE CURSE (1987) The man hair in The Curse is out of control!!! There is a farmhand stud who … Continue reading
There’s a demon in Cameron’s Closet, and sadly, it’s not his mom’s hunky boyfriend
I can’t believe Tab Hunter went from the glory days of singing “Reproduction” in 82 to getting offed in the first five minutes of Cameron’s Closet in 88. The movie really gives mixed signals; we get that sweeping Spielberg-esque opening … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cameron’s Closet, living dead, undead, Zombies
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Spanish horror double feature DVD – zombies and slashers!
So I watched a 2-on-1 DVD double feature of two Spanish horror films: zombie flick Cemetery of Terror from 1985 and slasher Grave Robbers from 1990. These are some pretty whacky movies! Cemetery of Terror is a load of 80s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, Cemetery of Terror, Grave Robbers, living dead, slashers, undead, Zombies
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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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