80s, Dead Things, Demons, Horror, Monsters, Occult

The Church (1989)

Back in Medieval Germany (at least, I think it’s Germany) a large group of knights rides into a town where they believe a cult of witches/demon worshipers lives. Naturally, they slaughter every living thing they can find, because Medieval logic states that, yeah, those chickens were probably fine, but why take any chances? But even […]

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80s, Comedy, Horror, Slasher

Parents (1989)

Parents is an American/Canadian horror-comedy from 1989. It’s protagonist, Michael Laemle, is a bit of an odd child. But perhaps that’s to be expected. He’s an awkward, naive ten-year-old growing up in the 1950’s and his parents have just uprooted him from his home in Massachusetts. It’s really not all that surprising that he might […]

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80s, Dance Dance Dance, Dead Things, Ghosts, Horror, Slasher, Thriller

Death Spa (1989)

AKA Witch Bitch Businessman Michael is the proud owner of a popular and highly automated health spa. But after a series of strange accidents befall the patrons and the police get called, Michael has to figure out who, or what, is trying to sabotage his high-tech club. Perhaps we should ask this guy. He’s got […]

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80s, Dead Things, Demons, Horror, Monsters

Night of the Demons (1988)

Girl could use some moisturizer. A throng of teenagers with cliché personalities (plus one party crasher) are invited by the local goth kid in their history class, to a Halloween party at Hull House, a local abandoned funeral home that’s the location of a bunch of grizzly murders. Not only that, but it’s also supposedly […]

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80s, Horror, Monsters, Mutants, Uncategorized

C.H.U.D. (1984)

C.H.U.D. is the story about how four individuals, a photographer, a model, a police captain and a reverend/soup kitchen worker, all get sucked into a massive missing-persons case that turns out to be a huge government conspiracy involving death, toxic waste, cover-ups and a group of very hungry, sewer-dwelling mutants. All hail our Chunky Soup […]

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80s, Bugs, Horror, Monsters

The Nest (1988)

The Sheriff of the sleepy little island town of North Point gets caught up in a tale of bloody, icky insect murder and evil corporate cover-up when pets, and then the local populace, start disappearing following a bizarre string of increased insect activity. The poor guy is trying to deal with what he can, but […]

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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, 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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