80s, Horror, Slasher, Thriller

A Blade In The Dark (1983)

AKA: La Casa Con La Scala Nel Buio Musician Bruno is doing a score for an upcoming horror film. His director is notoriously secretive about the endings of her films, and as this is Bruno’s first time scoring a horror movie, she wants him to be able to capture the right mood. So the studio […]

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80s, Dance Dance Dance, Horror, Slasher, Thriller

Killer Workout (1987)

We open on a young woman named Valerie, a model who has just learned that she’s set to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Valerie is trilled. But her agent (manager?) has told the magazine she’s got a hell of a tan, so she rushes off to the nearest spa for a little late-night tanning session. But something goes horribly wrong (gasp!), the machine malfunctions and she ends up fried to a crisp.

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80s, Horror, Slasher

The Mutilator (1984)

AKA Fall Break Poor Ed Jr. has a troubling past. When he was but a wee lad, a gun-cleaning mishap with his father’s rifle resulted in him accidentally shooting his mother in the back. After that his father, Big Ed, was never the same. Fast forward a few years and Ed Jr. is now in […]

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80s, Horror, Monsters

DeepStar Six (1989)

A small group of US civilians and Naval engineers are hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, stationed in a makeshift base on the seafloor. They’ve spent the last six months down there pulling double duty, trying to a) prove that a colony of people can live underwater for a prolonged amount of time and […]

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80s, Horror, Thriller

The Vanishing (1988)

AKA Spoorloos AKA L’homme qui voulait savoir AKA The movie whose title they seemed to change for every country it showed in Yes. Another movie brought to you by TCM. You all should really be watching more of this channel. They’ve really got some good stuff on. Anyway, The Vanishing is yet another Critierion release […]

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70's, 80s, Horror?, Monsters, Mutants

Screamers (1981)

AKA The Island of Fishmen (1979) AKA Fish Men AKA Something Waits in the Dark AKA Island of Mutations WTF? Who are you? You weren’t in my movie. Also, your disclaimer is s*&# In 1891, the survivors of a sunken prison ship find themselves marooned on an uncharted, volcanic island somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. […]

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80s, Child Killers, Ghosts, Horror, Occult, Supernatural

Family Reunion (1989)

AKA: Terror in Sutterville, AKA: Picknick in Ghost City It’s Christmas Eve and the Andrews family is going on a little road trip. Their patriarch, Tom, is a little uneasy due to a recurring nightmare he keeps having every year around this time  about some sort of cult that gets killed. But he’s willing to […]

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80s, Child Killers, Demons, Horror, Horror?, Supernatural

Dolly Dearest (1991)

Dolly Dearest is the story about a toy maker who uproots his family and moves to Mexico after he purchases an old derelict doll factory with the intention of mass-producing the hottest doll craze in recent memory (So, Cabbage Patch Kids?): Dolly Dearest. Unfortunately, he buys this amazing factory sight-unseen (the dumbass)… Look, ma! Actual […]

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80s, Comedy, Dead Things, Demons, Ghosts, Horror, Horror?, Monsters

House (1986)

Roger Cobb is a famous horror novelist who just moved into the house of his recently deceased aunt. Roger has a bit of a mixed history with this particular dwelling. It’s filled with fond memories, being the home his aunt raised him in after his parents died. But it’s also the home where his son […]

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