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 […]
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We need a category on this site called ‘films we really should have seen by now’ and until now that would have been headlined by Dead and Buried. So why is this low-key horror effort from 1981 so apparently essential? It’s not so much the film itself which a relatively […]
“Cool? Babe, it’s a perfect 98.6. It’s like floating in your mother’s womb!” – Jacuzzi talk in the baffling but brilliant Terrorvision (1986). This b-movie alien horror/comedy is as ’80s as the genre gets. Equal parts From Beyond, Lost Boys ands Critters, Terrorvision is a true gem.
Creature (1985) “First you die. . .Then the terror begins” Coming some six years after its obvious inspiration, Alien, you’d expect Creature to have borrowed a few tricks from Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/horror masterpiece but alas Creature’s bad acting, unconvincing sets and piss-poor monster feel more like a Star Trek episode […]