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

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 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 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…

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…