Tag: Cult Classic
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Motel Hell
Read more: Motel HellMotel Hell is a 1980 American comedy horror film starring Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, and Nina Axelrod. The plot follows farmer, butcher, motel manager, and meat entrepreneur Vincent Smith, who traps travelers and harvests them for his human sausages. Because of its low budget, the original intent was to make a serious horror film, with moments of disturbing wit and irony. […]
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Pretty in Pink
Read more: Pretty in PinkPretty in Pink is a 1986 American teen romantic comedy-drama film about love and social cliques in American high schools in the 1980s. A cult classic, it is commonly identified as a “Brat Pack” film and stars Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, James Spader, Kate Vernon, Annie Potts (Ghostbusters), and Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin). It was directed by Howard Deutch and […]
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The Monster Squad
Read more: The Monster SquadThe Monster Squad is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps), and written by Dekker and Shane Black. It was released by TriStar Pictures on August 14, 1987. The film features pastiches of the Universal Monsters, led by Count Dracula. They are confronted by a group of savvy kids out to keep them from controlling the world. The Monster […]
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Night of the Creeps
Read more: Night of the CreepsNight of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad) in his feature directorial debut, starring Jason Lively (National Lampoons European Vacation), Jill Whitlow (Porky’s), and Tom Atkins (The Fog). The film is an earnest attempt at a B movie and an homage to the genre. While the main plot of the film is related to zombies, the […]
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Pumpkinhead
Read more: PumpkinheadPumpkinhead is a 1988 American supernatural horror film starring Lance Henrikson. It was the directorial debut of special effects artist Stan Winston. The film has built up a cult following since its release. The film was originally called Vengeance: The Demon and it was inspired by a poem written by poet Ed Justin. In 1957, Tom Harley waits inside his farm cabin […]
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Blow Out
Read more: Blow OutBlow Out is a 1981 American stylish neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a master audio technician from Philadelphia who makes his living by recording unique sounds for grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, he unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful. Curiosity […]
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Re-Animator
Read more: Re-AnimatorRe-Animator is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette “Herbert West–Reanimator”. The film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), […]
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Dreamscape
Read more: DreamscapeDreamscape is a 1984 American dark science-fiction adventure film starring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Kate Capshaw and Christopher Plummer. A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. Alex Gardner (Quaid) is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but […]