Portmanteau-a-go-go Archives • The 80s Movie Club

Richie April 29, 2018

All Hallow’s Eve is a 2013 anthology that is quite unusual in that all of it was written and directed…

Richie January 13, 2018

You may have noticed that occasionally we like to break our Eighties remit here at T8MC and usually that’ll be…

Richie October 8, 2017

Screamtime is a 1983 horror anthology that combines three English shorts with an American wraparound story. It’s a bizarre combination…

Richie September 8, 2017

This 2016 portmanteau follows that curious modern trend of having lots of stories. At nine stories deep, Minutes Past Midnight…

Richie July 4, 2017

XX is a four part horror anthology is a fairly standard mix of horror tales linked with some creepy stop-motion…

Richie April 29, 2018

This collection of Australian horror tales is very much a modern portmanteau in that it has wildly varying themes and…

Richie December 10, 2017

Zombthology is a three part horror anthology that was dumped into the genre back in 2008 and has somehow ended…

Richie September 24, 2017

Galaxy of Horrors is a 2017 horror anthology and is another portmanteau package curated from short movies previously presented as…

Richie July 5, 2017

Cradle of Fear is a 2001 UK horror anthology that features four tales and one wraparound story and it will…

Richie January 18, 2017

So, we watch a lot of portmanteau/horror anthology films. I mean A LOT of them. The Horror Network caught our…