Military Asylum Black Comedyninth-configuration-1979-twinkle-twinkle-killer-kane1979The 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
Vengeful Ghostsfog-19801980John 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
Mad Scientist's Occult Revenge Plothalloween-3-season-of-the-witch-19821982Unrelated 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
Horror Anthologycreepshow-1-19821982Stephen 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
Teenage Revenge and Brutalitynew-kids-19851985Sean 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
Dec 13, 2002Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homage
Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homagenight-of-the-creeps-19861986Alien body snatchers comedy that feels less like a film than an extended fanboy in-joke
Disfigured Psycho Copmaniac-cop-1-19881988The 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
Edgar Allan Poe Anthologytwo-evil-eyes-19901990George 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
Man's Face Becomes a Blank Maskbruiser-20002000Uneven 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
Slasher Filmmy-bloody-valentine-20092009Another 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
Occult Car Chase Filmdrive-angry-3d-20112011Essentially 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
Jul 11, 2020Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
Documentary About the 1980s Horror Filmin-search-of-darkness-a-journey-into-iconic-80s-horror-20192019An 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
May 6, 2024Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
Documentary About the 1980s Horror Filmin-search-of-darkness-ii-a-journey-into-80s-horror-continues-20202020A 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