Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Who will dare to face the challenge of the funhouse? Who is mad enough to enter that world of darkness? How about you, sir?” There’s something special and almost mystical about a carnival, wouldn’t you agree? It arrives, rather quietly, in town one day. Where has it been before? Where does it come from originally? What’s…
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Top 10 80s Horror Movies
Tweet By: GregMo Roberts Editor’s Note: In our final installment of the Spooky Flix Fest Top 10 series we asked Greg Roberts from KillerReviews.com to write up his favorite horror movies of the 80s. Take a look at the list and let us know what you think! Having been born in the (gulp) 60’s, I have had the privilege of experiencing films…
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Top 10 Slasher Movies of the ‘80s – Part 2
Tweet by Jason Pyles (aka “Jay of the Dead”) Editor’s Note: For this installment of Forgotten Flix’s Top 10 we’ve asked horror guru and podcasting journeyman Jason Pyles to give us the Top 10 Slasher Films of the 80s. We loved Jay’s article. In fact we loved it so much we couldn’t cut anything out, so broke it into two posts. This…
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Top 10 1980s Horror Movie Posters
Tweet By: Kevin Spencer Editor’s Note: In this first installment of the Horror’s Top 10 presented by Forgotten Flix we hear from show artist and Horror/SciFi master Kevin Spencer from InkSpatters.com. We asked Kevin to give us his top 10 horror movie posters from the 1980s. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think. *** What some…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Vamp (1986)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen The two fraternity pledges, Keith and AJ, finds the whole initiation mumbo-jumbo they’re being put through, stupid and immature and instead strike up a deal with the frat-leader. They are to get strippers for a big party and that’ll be their ticket in. Piece of cake, right? No, not really, and after striking out on every…
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066 – TFFP: The Dead Zone (1983)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, Jason touches Joel’s hand and sees something… horrifying! Oh wait… it turns out Joel just needed more cowbell ’cause this week it’s Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone (1983)! Directed by: David Cronenberg Screenplay by: Jeffrey Boam (based on the novel by Stephen King) Starring: Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Tom Skerritt, Brooke…
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062 – TFFP: April Fool’s Day (1986)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re not falling for this one ’cause it’s April Fool’s Day (1986)! Directed by: Fred Walton Screenplay by: Danilo Bach Starring: Ken Olandt, Amy Steele, Deborah Foreman, Deborah Goodrich, Clayton Rohner, and Thomas F. Wilson Background Info: April Fool’s Day is a 1986 slasher film about a group of college-age friends who travel to an island…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Prowler (1981)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Ok, first of all… Why the hell haven’t I seen this movie before? I’m not kidding! I’ve never laid eyes on it prior to watching it the other night! Almost unheard of, I know, considering the fact that this is a pretty decent slasher-flick with great make-up effects! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here……
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061 – TFFP: Near Dark (1987)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re talking about that southern-Gothic, vampire classic Near Dark (1987)! Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow Screenplay by: Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Jennette Goldstein, Bill Paxton, Joshua Miller and Tim Thomerson Background Info (from Wikipedia): Near Dark is an American vampire/Western horror film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow.…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Near Dark (1987)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”Howdy! I’m gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don’t mind none.” Caleb Colton is on the prowl, looking for someone to seduce for the night. He spots Mae and is instantly taken in by her beauty and feels almost compelled to talk to her. It’s like he’s drawn to her! They go for…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Death Ship (1980)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen We’re aboard a large cruise-ship, it’s night-time and there’s a party going on. It’s apparently a dress-up party because everyone is wearing costumes. The trip is nearing its end, so everybody is having a good time, except for the captain. It is also his last trip, because the company has seen fit to retire him on…
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Peter’s Retro Reviews: The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen “Know you now of days long past, the time when the world was young, when sorcery thrived and wild adventure was forever in the offing. And of this epoch little is known, save that which is veiled in the mists of legendry… It is within these mists that our tale begins, on Tomb Island, a rocky…
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Coming Soon to Forgotten Flix: Gremlins (1984)
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson It’s time for your weekly sneak peek at what’s coming up soon on The Forgotten Flix Podcast. Our next movie is: Gremlins (1984)! Synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia): Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature—called a Mogwai—as a pet, which then spawns…
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044 – TFFP: The Gate (1987)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, it’s time to learn why you NEVER put your hairy Angus in a smoking hole with 1987’s The Gate! Directed by: Tibor Takács Screenplay by: Michael Nankin Starring: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, and Kelly Rowan. Synopsis: The Gate is a 1987 “family” horror movie about kids in suburbia accidentally-on-purpose…
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Peter’s Retro Reviews: The Changeling (1980)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen ”That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” Composer John Russell is on a family vacation together with his wife and daughter! When we first meet them, they’re pushing their car along the road since it has apparently died on them. But even though…
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Ep. 039 – TFFP: Night of the Creeps (1986)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’ve got good news and bad news… the good news is… we’re talking Night of the Creeps (1986)! The bad news is… well, unless you’ve got an alien-brain slug doing the undulating dance of the undead between your ears, there is no bad news! Director: Fred Dekker Starring: Tom Atkins, Jason…
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Ep. 038 – TFFP: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’ll never sleep again as we talk about Wes Craven’s classic A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)! Directed by Wes Craven and starring Heather Lagenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, and Amanda Wyss. Synopsis: When her teenage friends begin dying in their sleep, Nancy (Heather Lagenkamp) knows who’s responsible: the…
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Peter’s Retro Reviews: The Fog (1980)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen Let’s start this review by stating a fact! I am a HUGE John Carpenter fan and have been all my life. I remember watching bits and pieces of Halloween as a kid and being absolutely terrified, but the first one I actually watched was Escape from New York and that was it! I was hooked! And…
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Ep. 037 – TFFP: John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re asking “Who goes there?” in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)! Directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley . Synopsis: A group of men working at an outpost in the Antartic cross paths with an alien organism capable of assimilating and creating a perfect genetic copy…
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Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Tweet by Peter Nielsen This week marks the end of my trucker-themed reviews and the start of the horror theme that will last all through October and since Maximum Overdrive has trucks in it and is written and directed by Stephen King, I thought it would be appropriate as a sort of “lead-in” to the October Spooky Flix Fest. I…
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