GREMLINS ***** USA 1984 Dir: Joe Dante. 104 mins Don’t be deceived by the slushy strains of Jerry Goldsmith’s “Gizmo” music, or the cuteness of the Mogwai themselves, for this Steven Spielberg production – filtered through the warped imagination of horror loving director Joe Dante – is as dark hearted…
Browsing: 1980s Horror
CHRISTMAS EVIL (a.k.a. You Better Watch Out) **** USA 1980 Dir: Lewis Jackson. 90 Mins Scarred for life after watching Mommy rogering Santa on Christmas Eve as a kid, down-trodden middle-aged loner Brandon Maggart is dismissed as a loser by everyone and treated like dirt in his day job at…
TO ALL A GOODNIGHT ** USA 1980 Dir: David Hess. 83 mins Written by INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN star Alex Rebar and directed by David Hess (who has an early cameo), this conventional festive slasher flick delivers the expected red herrings, tragic backstory, virginal heroine and lashings of sex and blood.…
PRINCE OF DARKNESS **** USA 1987 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Considered the middle part of an “apocalypse” trilogy bracketed by THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, this was Carpenter’s return to low budget filmmaking after several years of working for Hollywood studios. A mature and unfashionable 80’s…
101 Films presents PROM NIGHT (1980), a slasher classic and one of the most influential horror films of the 1980s, released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in an extras-packed limited edition. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis (HALLOWEEN) and Leslie Nielsen (AIRPLANE!), and adorned with a highly-regarded original…