Posts Tagged ‘ retro ’

The Exterminator (1980) Review

Nov 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Gore, Horror Reviews

The Exterminator is your typical 80′s retribution film. Best buddies John Eastland and Michael Jefferson return from a gruelling time in Vietnam to find that New York is a corrupt and crime-ridden place to live.



Buried Alive (1990) Review

Oct 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Psychological

If, like me, you are a child of the eighties, or if you have ever pointed your greedy eyes at a television late on a Christmas Eve’ning, you will most likely have seen the following movies: the Chevy Chase laugh-o-rama that is ‘Fletch’; 80’s pet-fest, ‘Gremlins’; and the unparalleled masterpiece, ‘Die Hard’. These films are [...]



The Funhouse (1981) Review

Jul 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Psycho, Psychological, Slasher

The Funhouse fortunately has nothing to do with the 1990′s kid show of the same name.



Slaughter High (1986) Review

Jul 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Comedy Horror, Gore, Psycho

If someone created one of those surveys where you have to circle words to describe how you feel about something, and the ‘something’ was 1980′s horror films, the words I would most likely circle would be:



The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

Jul 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Zombies

This has to win some kind of award for zombie film with the best set of alternative titles, including: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue, Breakfast with the Dead and my personal favourite, Don’t Open the Window (what that has to do with the film I have no idea, but it’s pretty [...]



City of the Living Dead (1980) Review

May 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Zombies

The 1980′s are cool again. The floppy hair, the bright colours… Even the leg warmers! So what better way to celebrate this, but with a nice 80′s horror film? If you’re into zombies and horror that is more fun than terrifying, City of the Living Dead – now available in high definition – could be [...]