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

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…

Richie December 24, 2016

It’s Christmas Eve and no one is stirring apart from us as we snack on EVERYTHING while watching A Christmas…

Richie November 19, 2016

Given our love of ’80s movies and horror anthologies, it is safe to say that we finally discovered this 1987…

Richie July 31, 2016

There are only so many portmanteaus out there and we hadn’t checked out a new one for a while. Tales…

Richie February 26, 2015

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

Richie January 17, 2017

Despite being around for ages, and actually quite celebrated, we’ve taken our time getting around to Trick ‘r Treat. This…

Richie December 11, 2016

On the face of it, a horror anthology based around various holidays seems like a particularly good idea. We loved…

Richie November 15, 2016

Southbound is a modern horror anthology film that takes a lot of cues from this particular sub-genre’s past but updates…

Richie March 11, 2015

Deadtime Stories is a 1986 portmanteau that is classified under horror/comedy and therefore should be right up our alley and…

Richie February 25, 2015

This mid-nineties portmanteau takes the usual formula (a linking story and a handful of short horror tales) but puts it…