Nighmare Cinema is a 2018 five part portmanteau which mixes up a whole heap of classic horror tropes into a two hour anthology with each part having a separate writer and director. That’s pretty much the Creepshow formula right there and so we were excited to check this one out […]
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Despite being born in the seventies and running this most English of websites, I fucking hate everything about the seventies in the UK. But I’ve realised that a big chunk of portmanteau history exists there thanks to the likes of Amicus Productions who were responsible for this five-part anthology film.
The War of the Roses is a black comedy that famously reunited Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito for the third time after the masterful Romancing the Stone and its less satisfying sequel The Jewel of the Nile and I have to admit that the disappointment of them […]
“One little murder and I’m Jack the Ripper.” – Larry (played by Billy Crystal) on the unfairness of it all in Throw Momma From The Train (1987). We love this movie. It’s a classic black comedy that has some masterful performances from co-stars Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito although the […]
Films where cars go and kill people are strangely popular here at T8MC and Christine, which is based on a novel by Stephen King, is one of the best known films in this odd little sub-genre. Set in the ’80s, it tells the story of Arnie Cunningham, a college student […]
The temptation with looking at the Friday The 13th series is to start from the first film and then keep going but I was having nostalgia pangs for my previous favourite, Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) (which lost the top slot to the magnificent Jason X) and […]