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Horror films of the 80's.

post #1 of 12
12/15/00 at 6:58pm
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Well, love it or hate it, the 80's was commercially the best decade for horror to date. Personally, it was the best overall. It gave us Jason Voorhees, Herbert West, Freddy Kreuger, Ash, and a countless assortment of originals, knockoffs, satires, and other lovely rouges. So us being the horror loving folk that we are (we're so much better than those OTHERS), why dont we try and decide what the most important horror film of the 80's was. Here's the list of commercially succesfull flicks according to Fangoria.

The Howling
Poltergiest
The Thing
The Evil Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street
Re-Animator
Aliens
The Fly
Hellraiser
Stepfather
The Blob
Monkey Shines
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Well?
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post #2 of 12
12/15/00 at 7:32pm
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Day of the Dead
Evil Dead
C.H.U.D.

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post #3 of 12
12/15/00 at 11:09pm
Friday the 13th
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Evil Dead 2
Hellraiser
An American Werewolf in London
Day of the Dead


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post #4 of 12
12/15/00 at 11:41pm
The Howling
An American Werewolf In London
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Thing
April Fool's Day (sorry, guilty pleasure)
Re-Animator
Prince of Darkness (very underrated film)
Hellraiser
The Fly
Scanners

God I wish I could think of more...


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[This message has been edited by Johnny Butane (edited 12-15-2000).]
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post #5 of 12
12/16/00 at 7:36am
Butane is getting the square this round, as he should cause his is the most accurate list thus far.

Here's my list for the most noteworthy...

* A Nightmare on Elm Street - the best horror movie of the 80's, nuff said...

* Re-Animator - this along with Elm St. 3 and Evil Dead 2 spawned the whole comedic horror genre...

* The Thing - set the benchmark of horror effects that has never been matched let alone surpassed...

* Evil Dead 2 - all the reasons you know aside, without this movie the Coen brothers wouldn't have a career...

* The Shining - best Stephen King adaptation I don't care what he says...

* Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - cause it was the one that turned Freddy into a wisecracking MTV anti-hero that appealed to the youth of America...

* Prince of Darkness - a truly creepy movie and Carpenter's best pure horror effort...

* The Beyond - the best and most purest example of spagetti horror from the decade...

* Fright Night - brought vampire movies back into vogue with a hoot and a holler...

* The Hitcher - best psychological horror/thriller of the last two decades...

With Poltergiest and Near Dark just missing the cut off...

Now for my gulity pleasures: The Blob, Night of the Creeps, Prom Night 3: The Last Dance, Phantasm 2, Return to Salem's Lot, Silver Bullet, Sundown, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Waxwork, and Maximum Overdrive
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post #6 of 12
12/16/00 at 10:31am
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To me, Nightmare On Elm Street was one of the greatest concepts in horror history, but its transition to film was not what I would have liked it to be. Still a good film, not overrated, but not my cup of tea.

Like Django said, Re-Animator is brilliance, and to this day remains the only Lovecraft adaptation I have even been able to sit through (unless you count Cast A Deadly Spell, which rocked).

The Fly: A benchmark in not only horror films, but movies in general. Incredible fucking film.

This film wouldn't make my top ten, but I would feel bad if I didnt mention it: WAXWORK. I think I first discovered this movie when I was 10 years old, and we couldnt find it for sale anywhere, so we told the video store we lost it and paid them for a replacement copy. The scene where the mutant plant is swallowing that guy at the end STILL freaks me out.

Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 are high up on my list for reasons you should already know.

As far as guilty pleasures, hell pretty much anything by Full Moon (wasn;t it called something else back then?), Again, like Django said Sundown (I love the vampire straws) The Stepfather, even though I have forgotten a lot about it, and The Return of The Living Dead.

Am I the only one who thinks that their memory SUCKS about these things?

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post #7 of 12
12/16/00 at 1:32pm
I seem to have misunderstood, I thought we were going for a list of the most important as far as originality, commercially, blah blah. My list would be HUGE for important (to me) 80's horror films in that case, the ones I previously listed were Theee Big ones IMHO.

List up later gotta go do laundry!
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post #8 of 12
12/16/00 at 8:53pm
Ok, here's the addendum to the previous titles I posted, horror films from the 80's that are important to me:

Re-Animator
From Beyond
The Unnamable
Poltergeist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Fright Night
Nightbreed
Near Dark
Waxwork
Puppetmaster
The Howling
Nightmare on Elm St. 3: The Dream Warriors
The Blob
Phenomena (AKA Creepers)
Maximum Overdrive
Return of the Living Dead 1 & 2
American Gothic (tee hee)
Sleepaway Camp

There's more, there's always more, because if it was a horror film, I watched it. But these ones always come to mind...
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post #9 of 12
12/16/00 at 9:49pm
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Oh damn, I forgot From Beyond. Reanimator it ain't, but Combs makes it a fucking blast. Joe Bob Briggs' review of this was hilarious.
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post #10 of 12
12/17/00 at 3:22pm
Here's mine in no particular order (though I'm sure I've missed some):

A Nightmare on Elm St. 1 and 3.
Hellraiser 1 and 2
Friday the 13th I-IV
Aliens
The Terminator
The Thing
The Fly
Fright Night
Evil Dead 1 and 2
The Shining
Re-animator
The Fog
Prince of Darkness
The Howling
An American Werewolf in London
Child's Play
Videodrome
Scanners
Poltergeist
Near Dark
The Lost Boys
Halloween II

Man, the 70s and 80s were truly the Golden Years of Horror, werent' they?

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post #11 of 12
12/18/00 at 10:16am
Ghostbusters (If "Evil Dead 2" and "An American Werewolf in London" can be on the list, so can this one)

Fuzzy Logic there Zod.


but good choices none the less!

:-)

[This message has been edited by BlackCrowe (edited 12-18-2000).]
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post #12 of 12
12/18/00 at 5:41pm
You know, this list would be a lot shorter if we removed the sci-fi flicks and all the films that really came out in 1990...
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