Nightmare City
It took only a dozen survivors of a toxic waste spill to spread a deadly contagion through all of society. These survivors, mutated by radioactivity, have becomes vampiric zombies that… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Transylvania 6-5000
While trying to locate a “Frankenstein” monster in Transylvania, hack journalists Jack Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) and Gil Turner (Ed Begley Jr.) encounter all manner of spooky creatures, mad scientists, aristocrats,… Read more »
Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark
You couldn’t grow up in the eighties and nineties without knowing who Elvira/Cassandra Peterson was. Elvira’s Movie Macabre (1981-86) was a staple for five years and introduced a generation to… Read more »
Inferno
Dario Argento made Inferno (1980) as his follow-up to Suspiria (1977) but before making Tenebre (1982). Sandwiched between two of his most iconic and critically acclaimed works, Inferno tends to… Read more »
Mr. Vampire
Mr. Vampire (1985) is the essential “hopping vampire” movie. This Golden Harvest production directed by Ricky Lau pulls out all of the stops combining motifs of the horror film with… Read more »
The Incubus
In a small Canadian town something or someone is terrorizing young women. In an attempt to procreate it has been attacking women and killing those with whom it has been… Read more »
Uninvited
A mutant radioactive cat has escaped a laboratory and stowed away with a group of spring breakers who have joined a crooked millionaire on his yacht. Writer, director and producer… Read more »
Scream For Help
In a sleepy American suburb, where the leaves have begun to change, there lives a seventeen year old girl named Christie (Rachael Kelly). Christie could be any teenage girl if… Read more »
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) evokes our collective idealized childhood memories of autumn. The changing leaves, the cold wind, the pumpkin patch, the early onset of night, and a… Read more »
Pumpkinhead
What better way to kick off the Halloween season than with Stan Winston’s cult classic debut feature as a director, Pumpkinhead (1988). Winston, a master visual effects artist, has created… Read more »
