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Tag: 1981

The Beyond

July 2, 2022 greigzilla

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

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Burial Ground

June 3, 2022 greigzilla

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

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The Final Conflict

July 31, 2021 greigzilla

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

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The Howling

July 28, 2021 greigzilla

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

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Blood Beach

January 26, 2021 greigzilla

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

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Clash Of The Titans

December 19, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Scanners

October 13, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Escape From New York

September 25, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Raiders Of The Lost Ark

September 8, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Piranha 2: The Spawning

July 8, 2020 greigzilla

If James Cameron had his way – and to be honest, he usually does – his illustrious filmography of box office breaking, cinematic world building

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Mad Max 2

June 6, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Dragonslayer

April 2, 2020 greigzilla

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

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Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge

July 18, 2019 greigzilla

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

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An American Werewolf In London

October 31, 2018 greigzilla

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

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The Last Shark

July 15, 2018 greigzilla

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

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Halloween II

June 3, 2018 greigzilla

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

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The Evil Dead

May 11, 2018 greigzilla

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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