Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
Jun 24, 2025Spider Takeover
A 1970s Animals Attack film as deadly tarantula spiders take over a small town
Tom Atkins
The Ninth Configuration (1979)
Nov 4, 2000Military Asylum Black Comedy
The directorial debut of William Peter Blatty, the writer of The Exorcist, a strange and unclassifiable black comedy set in a military asylum. Imagine One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Robert Altman
The Fog (1980)
Aug 25, 2002Vengeful Ghosts
John Carpenter’s immediate successor to Halloween is a suspenseful and scary ghost story about undead sailors descending on a small town in a fog bank, even if the narrative logic holding everything together is thin
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Feb 19, 2001Mad Scientist's Occult Revenge Plot
Unrelated to the Michael Myers saga, John Carpenter tried to use the Halloween name to launch an original horror series. The plot is a baffling mix of Celtic magic and hi-tech but Tommy Lee Wallace creates some way out effects scenes
Creepshow (1982)
Jul 6, 2000Horror Anthology
Stephen King and George Romero collaborate on a horror anthology made as homage to the EC Comics, telling five tales that replicate the blacker-than-black sense of humour (and even the visual look) of the comic-book with hilarious results
The New Kids (1985)
Dec 2, 2004Teenage Revenge and Brutality
Sean S. Cunningham, director of Friday the 13th, transplants a 70s revenge exploitation film into a high school setting. Featuring a dynamic performance from a young James Spader
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Dec 13, 2002Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homage
Alien body snatchers comedy that feels less like a film than an extended fanboy in-joke
Maniac Cop (1988)
Feb 2, 2001Disfigured Psycho Cop
The first in a series of films starring Robert Z’dar as an hulking, deformed ex-cop seeking revenge. The first entry is not as effective as the sequels but is lifted above the routine by the quirky humour of Larry Cohen’s script
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Feb 15, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Anthology
George Romero and Dario Argento collaborate on an anthology, each adapting an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Either director leaves you with high expectations but the results are very mixed
Bruiser (2000)
Dec 31, 2004Man's Face Becomes a Blank Mask
Uneven George Romero film from his less satisfying latter period in which Jason Flemyng wakes up with a blank white mask on his face and finds it allows him to unleash vengeance against those who wronged him
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Feb 24, 2009Slasher Film
Another in the fad for remakes of 70s/80s films. where the 1981 slasher film gets reworked if this did not come with the 3D gimmick, it would be no more than a routine direct-to-dvd release
Drive Angry (2011)
Feb 26, 2011Occult Car Chase Film
Essentially a supernatural version of a 1970s car chase movie with Nicolas Cage as a motorist who has escaped from Hell to settle a score. This makes a play for the trashy and absurd and comes out all the more entertaining for it
In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic ‘80s Horror (2019)
Jul 11, 2020Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
An exhaustive documentary that charts in enormous detail every facet of the 1980s horror film, although this is not as exhaustive as it seems to think and leaves some big omissions
In Search of Darkness II: A Journey Into ’80s Horror Continues (2020)
May 6, 2024Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
A follow-up to the documentary about the 1980s horror film, this deals with some of the lesser-known and overlooked works that were not covered the first time around