Tag: Throwback 80s

Frightmare (1983) – By Baron Craze

March 4, 2023
Film Reviews

Before, I dive too far into this movie I need to clarify an important aspect this film – it is not a remake nor has any association with the film of the same name Frightmare from 1974 that movie which was a horror/comedy movie directed by Pete Walker. I wanted to stress this because while…

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Rush: Moving Pictures (1981) Music Review – By Vincent Mento

July 25, 2021
Music Reviews

While I was born in the very early 70s my musical tastes were not affirmed until the 80s learning that not one single decade hones my ear for input, rather what the musicians create that captured my attention. There’s obviously The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, and plenty…

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The Howling (1981) – By Baron Craze

April 27, 2021
Articles

Werewolf movies are an interesting subgenre in the horror realm, most fans can point to the first creation The Wolf Man [1941], but if one accelerates through the decades and makes a hard stop in the 80s, easily everyone decided it was time to howl at the moon. In 1981, the cycle of the werewolf…

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Prom Night (1980) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2020
Film Reviews

It’s likely that every horror fan knows when the slasher subgenre became well-known, those glorious gory early, after Sean Cummingham’s Friday the 13th was released the onslaught started, the killers emerged from the woods, mine-shafts, alleyways and invading the high schools. While one should know that Sean’s flick wasn’t the first slasher of 1980, it…

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Lifeforce (1985) – By Baron Craze

June 30, 2020
Articles

Before one can begin to discuss Lifeforce, there’s clear understanding this is a horror and sci-fi b-movie, that starts fine and quickly builds in a strange direction and likely has one asking themselves and anyone in the room what on earth is going on quite quickly. Well ignore all the questions save them for a…

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Final Exam (1981) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Archived Reviews

Very quickly the horror genre switched the gears into producing massacres on screen at the rate of an assembly line all thanks to incredible success of  John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), tons of copycats (a few rip-offs) flooded the market, and later with explosion of VHS and furthermore DVD more slasher formulaic became a worn-out standardization…

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The Barn (2016) – By Baron Craze

December 11, 2017
Archived Reviews

Sometimes lightning strikes when the passion for nostalgic look back on 80s horror, even when a minuscule budget finances the entire movie, assisted by an Indiegogo campaign, and that fans, is what director Justin Seaman accomplished with his film The Barn. Justin, like many indie filmmakers wore many hats for his incredible authentic movie, such…

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