80s, Aliens, Horror, Monsters, Sci-Fi

Communion (1989)

Struggling novelist Whitley Strieber takes his family and a couple of friends up to a cabin he owns in the mountains for a nice weekend trip. Everything seems to be going well until nightfall. After everyone’s asleep in bed Strieber wakes up, sure somebody else in in the cabin. After some time of not being […]

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80s, Comedy, Slasher

April Fool’s Day (1986)

Now, stop me if you’ve heard this before: A group of college kids head out for a little R&R at an island estate owned by a wealthy classmate….But then things go wrong! Their host has filled the grounds with a variety of harmless pranks, but unfortunately for the guests the their little retreat has also […]

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80s, Comedy, Horror?, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

Once again Angela, The Angel of Death, Baker has returned to reap vengeance upon yet another group of unsuspecting campers. This time she’s masquerading as a camper and the would-be victims are a group of upper class snobs and underprivileged hooligans who have been thrust together in an odd social experiment meant to bridge the […]

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80s, Comedy, Horror?, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)

After years of electroshock and (highly essential) psychiatric treatment Angela Baker, now sporting the new last name Johnson, has been given a clean bill of health by her many doctors and is now officially out of the psych ward. What is one supposed to do when you’re best known as a sexually confused kid who […]

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80s, Horror, Monsters, Supernatural

The Incubus (1982)

Dr. Sam Cordell has just moved to the small town of Galen with his daughter, Jenny. But the doc seems to have chosen a bad time to move, as the community of Galen is suddenly plagued by a series of inhumanely brutal rape-homicides. Sam teams up with the local sheriff to try to stop the slaughter, a plight which may or may not be connected to his daughter Jenny’s new crush, a young man who seems to have chosen this seemingly inopportune time to completely lose his marbles.

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80s, Horror, Monsters

Possession (1981)

I’m honestly not sure where to begin. When TCM aired this I wasn’t sure what to think of it. Honestly, I was sort of surprised TCM showed it at all. It has some rather, shall we say, interesting imagery. Going by the title I thought it was going to be a ghost story. What I […]

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80s, Child Killers, Games, Horror, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Baker family has suffered a great tragedy. While boating on the lake one day John Baker and his two children, Angela and Peter, are run down by a wayward ski boat. Jumping ahead eight years we learn that Angela, the lone survivor, has been adopted by her (very) eccentric aunt, Martha. Aunt Martha is […]

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80s, Horror, Slasher

Final Exam (1981)

A small group of students at al North Carolina college are knee deep in the middle of their final exams. Each one of them are busy dealing with their upcoming tests in their own way, doing everything from actually studying for the test, to trying to steal the answers to said test. But what they […]

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80s, Horror, Movies, Slasher, Thriller

Opera (1987)

Opera diva Mara can’t stand working with a bunch of live crows that the director in a new, avant garde production of Macbeth insists on using. She storms out of the theatre and is promptly hit by a car. The theatre contacts her understudy, Betty, to take her place. Betty is great, but she comes […]

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*shrugs*, 80s, Horror, Supernatural

Ænigma (1987)

Kathy, a rather homely young woman who attends St. Mary’s College for girls (or it’s sorority, I’m not 100% sure), is going out on a date with Fred, the schools hunky gym teacher. Unknown to her, the whole thing is a setup for a very cruel prank by Fred and the other girls at the […]

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