Tag Archives: 80’s

Prom Night (1980)/Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)/Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)/Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1992)

Posted on October 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Without a doubt one of the strangest of the slasher film cycles is the Prom Night series, which kicks off with a decent, by-the-numbers genre entry, stalls out, unexpectedly resurrects itself, plunges into horror-comedy, and doubles back to slasher while … Continue reading →

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Escape from New York (1981)

Posted on September 10, 2017 at 11:01 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Escape from New York (1981) is squeezed tightly into the middle of John Carpenter’s career hot streak, when he was releasing at least one film a year. Halloween (1978) was a runaway horror smash, but Escape from New York was the sleeper … Continue reading →

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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Posted on August 27, 2017 at 11:13 am by Jeff Kuykendall

In the nostalgic Stranger Things rush to paint the 80’s as the era of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and John Hughes, it’s easy to forget what the pop culture of that decade was really all about: ninjas. So many, many ninjas. … Continue reading →

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