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Horror Films of the 1980s John Kenneth Muir
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Worse, "The Moment," as you call it, is just plain lazy. The whole concept of direct-to-video did not really exist until the 1980s. Even in the horror genre, this decade provided a futile ground for innovative and groundbreaking ideas. Jul 9, 2013 - “The 1980s were a golden age for visual FX in horror films, and luckily several of those fucked up movies featured people (and dogs, amongst other things) being turned into some insane, disgusting stuff. May 26, 2014 - Final Exam is seemingly the prototype of 1980s slasher, attempting to cash in on the successes from Halloween and Friday the 13th, and in this instance, it doesn't work… at all. The documentary, The American Nightmare – this was after discovering Robin Wood's writing on the horror film – and it just blew me away, because it keyed into all of these film-going experiences that I'd had as a teenager in the 1980s. May 29, 2014 - This is a film that positively enrages me for reasons you can probably guess. 1 day ago - I've sort of prided myself on seeking out some of the best "worst" horror movies of the 1980s. But consider a few examples A serial killer with an incestuous love for his mother (Psycho). May 23, 2014 - The Horror genre is so hard to perform last rites on just the psychopaths' killers that refuse to go away in so many Horror films. Jun 5, 2012 - It may be regarded as the decade that fashion forgot but the 1980s had a remarkable array of films. Feb 22, 2014 - When the average person thinks of the 1980s, shoulder pads, power suits, and Huey Lewis and the News come to mind. Oct 12, 2013 - The late 1960s saw a rise in horror films that became stylized and realistic, taking on the auteur movement of such filmmakers as Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffault. It's not the first horror film of the 1980s to employ that trope, or even the fifth. Oct 9, 2012 - Recently he told Entertainment Weekly what horror characters inspired him most, and he won our hearts by including heroes from the 1980s Blob remake and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Apr 29, 2014 - Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present, a fascinating, meticulously researched and compellingly written new book by Jon Towlson, argues that a succession of filmmakers . Before then, if you wanted to watch a movie, you either paid to see it in a cinema, or waited an eon for it to show on TV. May 22, 2007 - Horror Films of the 1980s. Mar 9, 2014 - were a common threat in horror and crime films of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, with examples too numerous to list in their entirety. John Kenneth Muir McFarland Publishers, 2007 $59.95 http://www.mcfarlandpub.com.