We’re basking in the afterglow of Christmas 2022 as we write this and we’re always happy to check out a holiday-themed anthology. However, having just watched an absolute stinker in Tales from the Other Side and being so full of chocolate that we fear our feet might fall off, we […]
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Tales from the Other Side is a 2022 horror anthology that pulls together six separate ‘scary’ stories as well as providing a substantial wraparound tale too. That’s good news as at least it gives this portmanteau a little consistency which it’d otherwise lack as this does have the feel of […]
You thought it was going to be ‘You’ve got to be fucking kidding’ didn’t you? And to be fair to you, that’s a great quote that sums up possibly the maddest scene from any body horror film ever made. It’s just so perfectly timed and sums up exactly what you, […]
“Dry hair’s for squids” – Wise words from Jack Deth (played by Tim Thomerson) in Trancers (1985). Trancers is a crazy tale about Jack Deth, a cop from the future who turns up in ’80s Los Angeles to hunt down his nemesis, a psychic criminal who turns people into the […]
We’re The ’80s Movie Club and we love The Thing. You do too. Everyone does, surely. It’s the best horror film ever made. Fact. It may also be the best film ever made. It’s so good that it even spawned a fairly credible follow up (ssh! The Thing 2011 is […]
When we started T8MC back in, eek!, 2013 the primary reason was to discover films that we would have loved if we’d seen them back when they came out. Back then your VHS tape rental shop of choice had a finite selection which is why you ended up renting out […]
You may have noticed that occasionally we like to break our Eighties remit here at T8MC and usually that’ll be when there’s a portmanteau film that needs to be watched. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, a portmanteau film is one of those movies that is comprised of individual stories […]
We quite enjoyed watching the original V/H/S, which was a five part anthology with a linking story that saw a group of men in a house being exposed to a series of creepy short films. The overall quality was variable of course, I mean that’s what portmanteaus are all about, but […]
Despite owning Aliens multiple times (ex-rental VHS, retail VHS, DVD boxsets, Blu-ray Anthology), I ended up watching it over the weekend because it was on television. The the thing is that, much like Big Trouble in Little China, when it starts you can’t look away. Even if it means enduring […]
While all the cool kids know that the ’80s is the best decade for movies, it would be remiss of us to not throw some love at the ’70s. Sure, it was the worst decade. Full of prog and glam rock, racist TV sitcoms, shamed radio DJs and it was […]
Back in the actual ’90s, I was staying up a bit later than I should have been on a college night and found myself watching By The Sword, an Eric Roberts fencing movie. It took a while for me to realise that I was watching greatness and so, some 45 […]
The ’80s has to be the golden age for fight flicks. Sure, the hardcore will go on about the kung fu films of the ’70s (and to be fair Enter The Dragon will always be the greatest fighting film of all time) and they still make all those post-Crouching Tiger […]