News — 80s

Hack-O-Lantern (aka Death Mask, aka Halloween Night, aka The Damning) is a truly bizarre and amazing film. Low-budget, cheesy and totally 80s, it has everything you've come to know and love about the straight-to-video horror days. Satanic cults, partying teens, a cool mask, nudity and a rocking hair band soundtrack. So yeah, sounds pretty standard. You've seen this all before right? Well not quite like this! Hack-O-Lantern tells the story of Tommy a young boy, enthralled with his eccentric grandpa (Hy Pyke), but forbidden to see him. You see, grandpa's up to some weird shit. Like weird satanic shit. We...

A straight to video classic (that I only recently discovered), Cellar Dweller is a fun movie that hits all the right spots with this 80s horror fan. A strong female lead, comics, monsters, creature FX, Yvonne De Carlo (Lily Munster) and a little nudity thrown in for good measure. Cellar Dweller is a true hidden gem, directed by John Carl Buechler who also directed Friday the 13th Part 7 (my personal favorite). Basically, the story opens with horror comic artist Colin Childress drawing another installment of his popular comic Cellar Dweller. The monster then appears in real life (not exactly...