In the gory, glory days of the golden age of the slasher movie, the titles that rose to the top of the pile became household
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The Funhouse
Even though it features a masked maniac boring through teens one at a time with a roaring powerful, I’ve always been loath to class The
Deadly Blessing
How does one go from the relentless, sordid brutality of Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes to slicker, more populist fare
The Beyond
To a layman of 80’s Italian horror, it would painfully easy to cast a disparaging eye over the frenzied output of Lucio Fulci and dismiss
Burial Ground
By the time that 1981 rolled around, the Italian zombie movie was already succumbing to advanced rot despite only hitting its heyday a couple of
The Final Conflict
Retroactively renamed Omen III – The Final Conflict in order to bring some continuity to the franchise’s titles (this was, of course, long before the
The Howling (1981) – Review
It’s not even up for debate that 1981 was emphatically the year of the Werewolf. Not only did it see the release of lycanthope pack
Blood Beach
Blood Beach aficionados would probably “um, actually” my lumping in of 1980’s Jaws wannabe Blood Beach into the killer animals genre and I’m loathe to
Clash Of The Titans (1981) – Review
A last ditch effort to revive fantasy films such as The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad and Jason Argonauts for a modern (read 80’s) audience, Clash
Scanners
I’ve always considered the fasinating career of David Cronenberg to be not unlike the evolving life cycle of the venereal horrors he frequently touches upon
Escape From New York
John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
By as early as 1981, Steven Spielberg had pretty much already set his legacy in concrete with the releases of the genre defining Jaws and
Piranha 2: The Spawning
If James Cameron had his way – and to be honest, he usually does – his illustrious filmography of box office breaking, cinematic world building
Mad Max 2
Sometimes known by the unfeasibly bad-ass title “The Road Warrior”, George Miller’s ambitiously deranged sequel to his own DIY dystopian original somehow is regularly forgotten
Dragonslayer
When you think of live action Disney movies from years gone by you very may well think of bright, playful romps starring either animated characters
Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge
As the third and final Spider-Man 70’s movie swung around, I guess the producers figured a change of scenery was in order. So off we
An American Werewolf In London
When casting my eye over the frequently unloved werewolf genre (one of the benefits of having no real life to speak off), I’m always shocked
The Last Shark
Anyone familiar with the genre cinema of Italy during the 70’s and 80’s know that the filmmakers of that time and place wouldn’t let pesky
Halloween II
Gliding from the shadows and into cinemas like it’s ethereal, white-masked antagonist, Halloween II was something of an anomaly back in the heady days of
The Evil Dead
Back in 1981, a small group of twenty-somethings from Detroit, Michigan released a small independent horror movie into the wild. Financed by pleading with dentists,
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