There are so many questions I have about Sleepaway Camp (1983), primarily having to do with its origin. What was writer/director Robert...

In 1988, Frank LaLoggia wrote, produced, directed, and composed the music for his masterpiece, Lady in White. Seven years earlier, in...

As I sat through Pandemonium (1982), it dawned on me that if you took the funniest bits from all the horror comedies of the early 1980s...

When Mary Hyatt (Paula Prentiss) is bitten by the vampire, Waldemar (Jeffrey Tambor), she explains her condition by saying maybe she’s...

Reflecting upon the past, it feels like Student Bodies (1981) was made during the early part of the Slasher Age when we had yet to see...

If memory has ever failed me about a movie, it sure has with April Fool’s Day (1986), one of the best horror movies, if not movie-movies...

All good things must come to an end. Be careful what you wish for. I jinxed it. Insert the expression of your choice. The point is, after...

Another week, another rewatch of a 1986 movie I originally hated, but now kind of enjoy. This may be blasphemous since the movie is...

What was wrong with me in the mid-1980s? I didn’t like most horror films. Take 1986, the year today’s film, Deadly Friend, was released....

Spoiler Alert! . It’s going to take a while to fully understand how I feel about Possession (1981)... and I may never understand the...

In retrospect, there were parts of Murder Story (1989) that I enjoyed. However, when I consider the experience of watching it, it’s...

When Killer Party (1986) was released in 1986, I pleaded with my future wife to go see it with me. As many movies out of her comfort zone...

Just as I told you, no pulse at all. She's dead. John Jaffrey (Melvyn Douglas) Unusual and old-fashioned at the dawn of a new age of...

No American distributor wanted to touch it once we were done. Sam Raimi Each time I watch The Evil Dead (1981), I increase my rating. One...

I saw a lot of promise in the carnival. I always wanted my own carnival. Tobe Hooper Soon after its release in March of 1981, I wrote...

In the lower right-hand quadrant of the cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland #180 (cover date January 1982) appeared a close-up picture...

Warning! This review contains spoilers… . When I think of big Hollywood studio sequels to innovative independent films, I think of...

Tom DeSimone (1939- ) In 1970, under the pseudonym, "Lancer Brooks," director Tom DeSimone made the first X-rated gay feature film to...

Gamera: Super Monster (1980) is the Robot Monster (1953) of kaiju films. Both movies feature a child’s dreams and, if you look at them as...

The synopsis had me worried… “A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths…” For a 1983 exploitation thriller, I feared the community would...