1980s Horror Films
A Viewing Guide to the Howling Series
The Howling franchise sounds great on paper. It really seems like common sense for there to be a long-lived and successful werewolf series. Add in an anthology format and it’s almost a no-braine...
Overlooked and Underrated: Video Violence
Video Violence is probably the best of the shot-on-video horror sub-genre, which is not great by definition. It’s a different mentality, it’s true no-budget filmmaking and the movies alway...
Trespassers Will Be Violated: Revisiting Scarecrows
Scarecrows was an almost entirely forgotten 1980’s horror movie until it was released on DVD a couple years ago. Now it’s gained a bit of a cult following and is gearing up fro a Blu-Ray release via S...
Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter: The Essential Jason Movie
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Of course the film turned out to not be as the title promised. But nonetheless it is a fan-favorite and an essential slasher...
Curtains is a Forgotten Slasher that Should be Rediscovered
The 1983 film Curtains is very much a lost classic of the ‘80s. It is a bit bizarre and a little unorthodox for a slasher movie but it does still cling to many of the horror film tropes fans have come...
Witchboard Retrospective – Wicked Ouija Board
[soliloquy id=”4746″] In Witchboard, a group of friends pull out a Ouija Board at a party to make contact with the spirit world. In the process, an entity latches onto Linda, one of the pa...
