The 1980s was, of course, a bumper decade for we horror fans. There was the rise of the slasher flick, with Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers haunting our theaters every couple years, and nightmarish Freddy Kruger hit the scene in a successful franchise of his own. Tales From The Darkside, Friday the 13th: The Series, […]
In my younger days, friends and I would sit around and discuss possibilities of cross-overs in our favorite films. They did it in comic books all the time, right? We’d see Spider-Man show up in the Avengers, Batman would make an appearance in Green Arrow, and sometimes, we’d even see cross-company stuff, answering such timeless and […]
I was lucky enough to be a kid (and a horror fan) back in the golden age of the local video store. As some of you will remember, there was nothing quite like that trip to your neighborhood rental place to browse through the shelves of the many varied flicks that were available that you’d never heard […]
Being horror fans, we can come up with a pretty decent list of places that one really, really wouldn’t wanna spend their free time. The Bates Motel, near Fairvale…Camp Crystal Lake, close to the Hope Township…The Myers’ place in Haddonfield…112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville…Elm Street in Springfield…the Hanniger Mine, Valentine Bluffs… What’s that? Some of you are unfamiliar with the […]
Oh for the warm and fuzzy Friday night VHS rentals from the era of 1980s glory! If you were alive in those days then you know exactly what emotional vibration that should conjure up in your cells. I absolutely miss the small town video rental stores that seemingly were everywhere when I was a lad. […]
If you’re a fan of 80’s horror, you pretty much have to love slashers. If you love slashers, you’ve likely seen 1981’s The Burning, and you probably have an opinion as to whether or not it’s a rip-off of the insanely popular film from the summer before, Friday The 13th. Writer Harvey Weinstein (of the […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sucker for werewolf movies; I love vampires, zombies, masked killers, aliens, disembodied spirits and long-leggety beasties, but there’s always been something special about the full moon-shapeshifters that’s appealed to me. I was the Wolf-Man several Halloweens growing up, and Werewolf By Night was a favorite comic. A lover of horror movies […]
It’s hard to be a horror fan and not be familiar with the works of Stephen King; hell, it’s all but impossible. Being the most popular and prolific of horror writers of the twentieth (and so far, the twenty-first) century, it’s inevitable that film adaptations of his works are equally prevalent in the chosen genre […]
Ah, the early-to-mid-eighties…what a great time for us horror-types! The slasher film was at its apex, and it was hard to find a single weekend when there wasn’t some new addition to our genre at the local theater; flicks like Xtro, Cujo, and Cronenberg’s Videodrome filled in the blanks around the latest outing of your favorite psycho running […]
Over the years, there’s been quite a few anthology horror films; The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, Vault Of Horror, Asylum…on into more modern times with the likes of Nightmares, Campfire Tales, All Hallow’s Eve, and the V/H/S films. We Fellow Fans have come to accept that these are typically hit-and-miss, but […]
I’ve long wondered about the use of the term ‘Science-Fiction’. To me, it doesn’t seem appropriate, as I can see pretty much every scenario presented in the genre as being possible. Some humans would call this point of view ridiculous, others, impossible. Considering that Fahrenheit 451 is usually filed away in this reality, I have […]
We Fellow Fans are perfectly aware that the kind of horror steeped in a dark, occult history, typically referred to as Gothic horror, is limited to neither a certain time period nor European locales. Although tales such as Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula have put an indelible stamp on the term, the deliciously creepy combination of […]
If you came up watching Horror films in the 1980’s, there is no way you could have missed the title of this film. I can believe the possibility of not actually seeing it–not having never heard of it. I would have seen this around 1991 on cable television and even though I had not seen […]
Remakes… reboots… “re-imaginings”…ah, what our genre (and really, mainstream filmmaking in general) has come to. It seems that these days, every fourth film or so that hits the bricks is a new take on an old favorite, be it a classic movie or a beloved television show. Often, the new vision is somewhat similar to […]
