I like how wild this one is. It's something about the I guess high tech setting of the time of apartment living. The environment is just different compared to US horror movies. I have to pick it up one day. They were supposed to remake it and I was looking forward to it.

BLOOD HARVEST 1987

Tiny Tim plays "Mervo the Clown" in this slasher that has a young girl coming home from college to find her parents have gone missing.
I thought Tiny Tim was awesome but the rest of the movie was just awkward.

Tiny Tim delivering falsetto lines wasn't awkward?

One would think so, lol. It actually served his character well. It was really just when he sung that he sounded like that.

Aw!!! What a ripoff! I would have wanted Tiny to talk falsetto in films too! That would be hilarious. I assume this was a serious drama? Like people can't talk in falsetto and be taken seriously. It's a sad day, Bloof, a sad world... ::sad::

PROPHECY 1979

While studying the environment to settle a dispute between an Indian settlement and a paper mill, a doctor makes a surprising discovery.

Have always loved this film though it may seem a bit hokey by today's standards.

CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980). Sort of a precursor to SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT with a scene almost redone in ET. Not bad in its little way and an early turn by Jeffrey DeMunn (THE BLOB and THE WALKING DEAD). Scariest thing in this is Jeff's hair style::smile::! **1/2

^I love that film way ,more than I should....Watch it most decembers.

THE TEACHER (1974). Silly Crown Studio nonsense of a Teacher (Beautiful Angel Tompkins::love::) seducing her Graduated Student/Neighbor (Jay North who played Dennis The Menace on TV::shocked::!) while both are being stalked by a psycho. Dumb, but worth checking out. While watching this, I discovered many of the situations, dialogue and names were used verbatim ten years later in THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE (1984) with ultra bodacious Sybil Danning playing a Diane. **1/2

Black Christmas

What the FUCK was that ending? Go back and try again movie.

You know it's bad when I look forward to watching the remake. Which is sad because everything else up until the ending (which I felt was left unfinished) was marvelous! The killer was intriguing as well as scary, the victims you actually liked and felt for, and the suspense was down right Hitchcockian!

I need to finish watching the original. I started some months ago but stopped during a dirty phone call scene with Lois from the original Superman movie. I heard it's far better than the remake. I only remember the remake for the actresses.

God Told Me To, 1976. 7/10


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STAR WARS (1977). Didn't see this until 1982 when I started dating my Wife and she was amazed. really had no interest back in 1977 and once FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND made an abrupt leap from the classics to all SW issues, even less so.
Time has been kind and even though I'm not a huge fan of the series, still enjoy this and so neat seeing the young unknown cast and wonderful Peter Cushing. Still don't know why Lucas had to dick around so much with this version-find it distracts more than supports. ***1/2

Yep, most of it distracts. And worst of all, Lucas changed the Han Solo character, and the entire film, when Lucas had Greedo shoot at Han before Han shot Greedo (the end of the bar scene). The simplified way of describing the implications is to say Han changes through his experiences, specifically through the influences of Luke, Leia and Ken-obi. 'Washing clean' the character of Han in that awkward and butchered scene greatly diminishes the film.

It's a fun scene to argue about too. One can say Greedo, the mercenary, had already suggested he was going to shoot Han dead for the money, so what difference does it make if Greedo went as far as shooting at him? I'd suggest Han doesn't bother taking chances on his own life, and others' lives are not likely supremely valuable; and so, in the original version, Han shoots Greedo dead as a matter of course. Pretty darn important character trait.

Hated the scene of Han and Jabba... like the audience is going to be impressed and entertained with the film's editing solution of Han stepping on Jabba's tail. It's such a ridiculous scene that trips the film's flow and vital sense of 'reality' holding the suspension of disbelief.

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1984). Really still dig this fast paced Gruesome romp -feel James Karen and Clu Gulagher are hilarious as they try to deal with the giant Monkey wrench fate has thrown at them::big grin::.
Bought the Tie In by John Russo back when and found it pretty amusing as well. However, there is another Russo book with the same title that is pretty much a sequel to the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, taking place some ten years later::confused::.
Regardless, give this another enjoyable look and You may announce to Your Loved One "I know You're There....Because I can smell Your BRRRAINNNSSS!!!!"::big grin::. ****

i enjoyed ROTLD immensely when I first saw. Lots a excellent horror & comedy scenes. I re-watched it last year and wasn't quite as impressed with the overall story, but it's meant to be fairly whimsical.

Howling IV

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Because I'm nothing if not consistent with my feel good films.


Oh yeah I thought she looked familiar! You should certainly give it a watch. The ending was lacking but I still recommend it.

You and your Howling IV! ::big grin:: You know I still have to see that.

I agree with you on Black Christmas, the ending was abrupt to the flow. The end scene of the window is classic enough. You may have liked the whole film a bit more than me, I thought it was pretty good, but never really understood the hype, I mean besides it being 1974.

Blue Sunshine, 1977. 7/10


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Day of the Dead, 1985. 8/10

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Sculpt! You disappoint me my pie husband! Get on it! ::shocked:: ::stick out tongue::


Being made during the classic era certainly gave it an edge. I mean if it weren't for the ending it would've been the perfect holiday horror movie!

Spoorloos,1988. 8/10


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This isn't horror, for most people, but it's the last 80's film I saw.

On Golden Pond (1981)
9/10

"Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms."

Watched it a second time since seeing it at the theatre (I'm pretty sure, though I not sure why I saw it at the theatre). I remember it so well, so I skipped some of the early parts and the ending with Henry Fonda & Hepburn, but 90% of the middle I watched, really good material: funny, insightful, sharp and heartwarming. Best part for me is still when the new boyfriend (Dabney Coleman) is asking Norman (Henry Fonda) if it's ok if he sleeps with Norman's daughter while staying with them at the lake home, and Norman gives him a hard time. Classic stuff.

ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976). Awful title (COMMUNION would have been better), but absolutely superlative film that really delivers the goods, despite the budget and the promotion of Brooke Shields. Many creepy aspects here and I found it interesting that despite all of the Religious subtext in here, all these people are truly damned, especially the lovely Linda Miller (Jason Miller of THE EXORCIST wife, mother of Joshua Jackson of NEAR DARK and also pretty good in 1978's AN UNMARRIED WOMA). ****

TWISTED NIGHTMARE 1987

A group of teenagers are reunited at a summer cottage where 2 years previously another teen with the same group had died. They are all pretty much killed off.
The end.

HOLLYWOODS NEW BLOOD 1988

A family accidently killed during the making of a film haunt a drama camp.

THE ENTITY-!982. Barbara Hershey is very very good in here, but the endless brutal attacks are hard to take and once it dips into SUPERNATURAL territory (the Two guys in the bookstore), it does lose some steam. Worth a watch. **1/2

It sure was a bold film... actually putting her into a Plexiglas enclosure to test for an actual 'entity'. I've never seen that before or since. Only saw Entity (or some of it) once a long time ago. May have to check it out again.

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Truly, one of the most underrated cannibal flicks.
Also, Michael Sopkiw needs to come back dammit!

Are there dinosaurs in it?

Sadly no, but it IS one of the very few cannibalsploitation flicks I’ve seen that doesn’t feature any sort of animal cruelty. So there’s a plus... God, that’s sad.

They have a lot of nerve calling it Massacre in Dinosaur Valley. What's more hardcore than eating dinosaurs thought extinct?

Here's one for ya, Bloof!

The Chilling
It's a zombie flick. The acting is bad and the zombies look like over cooked meatloaf leftovers, but it's so bad it's almost enjoyable. It also has Reagan and Grizzly Adams in it. And don't worry animal lovers, the dog lives (dobes are my favorite so this was a huge plus for the movie)!
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SOLD.

Grizzly Adams, you say? Could be my watch for tonight!

Omg Roi, I watched this! Did you see the reference to the frozen Ayatollah Khomeini? Wish I knew how to screenshot or whatever!

You mean this?

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I about busted a gut! I wanted to comment on it in my initial thoughts on the movie but I didn't want to spoil it. ::big grin::

No this was an actual freezer pod with A.KHOMEINI on it and then we see a zombie with a long beard and the headpiece.

Oooh. I must've missed that. I don't understand the reference anyway. That is great though. It's a cheesy af movie but it fits in a couple references that gives it an underlying cleverness.

I thought the crispy critter zombies were actually pretty cool. ::love::

MURDER BY PHONE 1982

An environmentalist (Richard Chamberlain) investigates people seemingly being murdered by their phones.