WEBVTT - Was 1984 the Greatest Year for Horror? 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.760 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for a bevy of classic 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:09.159 horror films of the nineteen eighties, mainly movies from the 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.480 year nineteen eighty four, but several others, so be warned, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:31.600 you warn. Hello, it is. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.040 Jason Concepcion and on Mersday Night and welcome back the 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.280 x ray vision of the podcast where we dived you 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.440 video favorite shows, movies, colleagues at pop Culture covering you 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.440 from a iHeart podcast. We're bringing you three episodes a week, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.479 every Tuesday Thursday, and an extra episode on Wednesday. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:54.080 Ooh, aren't you lucky? In today's episode, in the previously on, 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.480 we are going to be talking about why people think 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.280 nineteen eighty four is the best year for horrors, What 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.279 movies came out, then why do people think this? And 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.000 then in the airlock, we are gonna be arguing what 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.720 year we think is the best year for horror And 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.319 believe us, we spent all weekend just watching eighties horror movies, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.520 so we are ready. We are ready to make this 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.720 argument and it's the perfect argument for spooky season. Get 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.200 ready to get scored. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:27.440 First up previously on nineteen eighty four. Okay, Rosie, Okay, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.200 nineteen eighty four, tell us about it. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.520 Okay, So this year in horror is very much seen 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.800 as if you guys remember a few years ago. Now, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.679 me and Jason did an episode about nineteen eighty two 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.240 and was it the greatest year for like NERD movies, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.360 nineteen eighty four has essentially become that same year for horror. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.000 We had Children of the Corn March nineteenth, nineteen eighty four. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.400 We had Friday the thirteenth, The Final Chapter April thirteenth, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.920 nineteen eighty four. We had the Drew Barrymore classic Stephen 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:03.240 King adaptation Firestarter eleven, nineteen eighty four, Gremlins one of 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.240 my favorite movies. June eighth, nineteen eighty four. Ghostbusters a seminole, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.800 rosy childhood classic June eighth, nineteen eighty four. Company of 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:17.079 Wolves underrated, underrated gothic fantasy horror classic, very underrated movie. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.120 This one I think Edges nineteen eighty four up because 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.919 it is so strange and it's like a sexy, erotic 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:30.519 horror fantasy red riding hood situation. Also, Jason, I know 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.440 this is a seminal movie in your life. Cannibal Humanoid 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.040 underground Dwellers aka Chud by Douglas Cheek. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.400 And let me just say about Chud quickly. Let's talk 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.760 about Chud, A wonderful film about cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.840 that are haunting the city. They live in the sewers. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.560 They're devouring unhoused people as well as many others. A 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:55.280 documentary reporter and a unhoused people's advocate go on the 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.160 war path to try and figure out what's going on. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.919 They discover a cover up by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Course, 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:06.119 but let me just say great actual acting performances by 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.160 John Hurd, Daniel Stern and Chris Curry and John Goodman, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.639 really really strong dramatic acting in a wild horror movie. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.080 An incredible practical affair and incredible practical effects, and really 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.919 one of the underrated classics in. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.840 My eyes of the eighties. I continue, please continue about 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:25.480 nineteen eighty four. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.000 Okay, Terminator, Yeah, October twenty sixth, nineteen eighty four. Now, 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.640 I would say this is horror adjacent in my mind, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.079 but I do believe sci fi to me that at 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.200 the time, yeah, I could see it being more in 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.720 that horror vean. Okay, Now, I do think that this 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.280 next one is a large reason that people think of 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.320 this and this is stuff. A Nightmare on Elm Street 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.280 November ninth, nineteen eighty four, Wes Craven classic, John Saxon, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.760 my favor, Robert England, obviously Heathe Langenkamp, Nancy, one of 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.320 the legendary Final Girls. I do love this movie. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:57.160 It's great. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.600 I love this franchise. This is actually a very scary movie. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.920 It's before Robert England's really like hamming it up, so 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.200 it's a little bit more spooky him later on. I 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.040 don't know how it was for you guys, but like, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.160 so when I was a kid, I was in primary 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.240 school as we call it, so kind of like baby 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.720 school you're like eight or nine. There was a spate 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:23.240 of sleepovers where their parents allowed the kids to watch 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.520 Nightmare on Elm Street, and then they would have to 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.400 do assemblies at schools being like, do not let your 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.800 kids watch this because then all these like eight and 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.160 nine year old kids are running around London like have. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.159 You heard of Freddy Krueger. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.440 He's gonna kill you in your sleep, and then nobody 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.000 was sleeping. So that was a very influential movie on 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.240 my childhood. And also I just I still love it. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.520 One of the best and most imaginative slashes. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.760 Yeah, this was an influential one for me as well, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.840 as I've spoken about on the show here. I was 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:56.880 given a membership to a local video rental place because 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.800 I was home alone a lot, so I watched a 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.880 lot of horror movies that I shouldn't watch. Among them 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.120 was A Nightmare on Elm Street. And it was one 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.120 of the first movies where I can remember talking with 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.359 my friends about Easter eggs, Like when when at the 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.440 end when the roof of the car flips up and 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.560 it's Freddy's, Oh my god, sweater colors. I was like, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.320 did you guys notice that it was like Freddy's sweater colors? 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.480 Like that was your like fuss Easter egg movie I. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.680 Was getting used to. Truly a pioneering film and still 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.680 has the power to scare it. I mean the scene 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.880 in which I forget the name of the characters, but 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:36.040 the one friend of Nancy's is hurled like they're having 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.120 the sleepover, and she's hurled up onto the walls and 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.880 across the ceiling and is like getting stabbed like through 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.840 the guts, like as her boyfriend watches is still terrified. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.400 Also the scene where Johnny Depp's character gets sucked into 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.400 the bed and they spray all the blood up into 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.800 the ceiling also as well. I will say an underrated 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.960 moment in this movie, but I do think has become 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.880 like a very iconic scene is when Nancy sees her 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.719 dead friend and she's in the body bag in the 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.320 school hall way. I think about that a lot. But yeah, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.280 from a very serious movie to a very un serious movie, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.880 which I will say, if you live in LA or 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.279 another metropolitan area, or just somewhere with a great rep cinema, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.080 you will probably be able to see this movie in 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.239 the next coming months at the cinema, and I highly 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.839 recommend it. It is Silent Night, Deadly Night, November ninth, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:31.120 nineteen eighty four. This is an absolutely deranged movie. And 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.320 in England, I have to say this definitely has a 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.599 bit more of like a exploitation, kind of not serious, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.280 but it's definitely seen as more of like a It 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.520 was quite shocking when it came out, and it was 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.960 very controversial because it has a killer in a Santa suit. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.839 But I will tell you if you go and watch 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.159 this movie in an American repfit. I went to see 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.000 it last year at the New BEV comboed with Black Christmas, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.680 one of the best Christmas movies of all time. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.919 Black Christmas is truly one of the great great horror movies. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.080 Of Trailblazing slow and then that was first and everyone, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.920 but then this movie. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.599 Yeah, this movie is whack. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.599 Comes afterwards and it is like you're in riff tracks 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.479 when you're watching the movie in the cinema, and I 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.560 have to say ten out of ten would recommend was 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.480 absolutely just fantastic to watch with the crowd. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.920 I remember hearing about the controversy as a child and 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.360 you know, like understanding that there had been this tremendous 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.480 controversy around this film, and then renting it as a 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.640 young person when I got my membership card and being 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.840 a little let down, like I thought it. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.760 Was going to be it feels like a TV movie. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.200 Yeah, like I thought that the controversy, you know, not 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.000 really understanding the full controversy. But my perception of it 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.960 was this movie is so fucking violent that it's yeah, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.640 we had to pull it. It's too much. And then 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.400 I saw it and it was like, Okay. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.960 The actual reason it was one of those perception controversies. Yes, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.720 the post that very famously has a guy in a 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.320 Santa suit with an axe arm and I's coming out 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.400 of the chimney and it's kind of like how even 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.360 now into any four, the new Damian Leone movie Terrifier 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 three came out where the art the clown is in 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.840 a Santa costume, and there was actually protests outside the cinemas, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.040 I think in Kansas City, where they were like, we 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.760 say no to this satanic Santa. So I don't know, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.720 somehow there's like a Christianity connection to Santa. I am 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.760 unsure how, but that was really what it was about. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.240 I will say though, just honestly, great time watching this 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.800 movie in a cinema with a crowd or if you're 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.960 just interested in weird oddities. This is more of like 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.920 a made for TV drama about the nature of abuse 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.760 and like this weird Gray vite about trauma, and there 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.920 is like violence, there's guns, and but it's not really 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.680 a horror movie in a traditional sense. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.439 Let's talk about these are surely the headliners. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.599 Those are the headliners. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.240 What are your favorite nineteen eighty four horror movies? Top three? 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.080 I would definitely say a Nightmare on Elm Street has 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.240 to be up there for me. Okay, you go, let's 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.079 do one for one. Okay, there's just so many good ones. Okay, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.920 so mine's not right Elm Street. Yeah, I agree, Okay, Okay. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.880 So then I would say I love Friday the Thirteenth 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.280 as a franchise, but that would not be one of 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.040 my favorites. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.880 That was I mean, the Final Chapter is the movie 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.960 in which you can feel director Zito, amongst many other people, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.120 really really trying not just to kill Jason, but to 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.160 kill this franchise. No one wanted to make this anymore. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.839 And so the death of Jason at the end of 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.840 spoil the death of Jason at the end of this 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.040 movie feels very definitive and it's very funny that it's not. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.840 Yeah, it does. And also as well, this is before 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.720 you just start getting into like the really good weird shit. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:44.040 Yeah. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.080 But you know, I will say about Friday thirteenth, the 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.439 Final Chapter, I do enjoy Corey Faubman's performance in this movie. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.360 I do think it's very good. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.160 Yeah, And he becomes like the foil in the series, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.200 which is very funny. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.840 And then there's an interesting kind of who is Tommy 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.480 Jarvis how does that go on? But probably I would 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.800 say Gremlins, even though again I would say that is 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.600 more of a horror adjacent movie. But I really do 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.680 love that movie, and I watch you every year at Christmas, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.800 so there's actually a big yif of Christmas horror with 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.880 Gremlins and Silent Night Deadly Night. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.400 My second one, and this is very difficult. This really 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.959 is a great year. But my next two are what 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.439 I think of as the X Men influence in horror movies. Ooh, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.360 and so my second pick is the underrated in my 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.280 eyes Dreamscape, Yes, from nineteen eighty four, starring Dennis Quaid, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.920 Max Foncido, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw soon to be the 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.880 wife of Steven Spielberg, and it's about it's basically inception. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:41.840 Yeah, yeah, you know. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.600 It's about a guy who has psychic powers, Alex Gardner 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.800 played by Dennis Quaid, who gets caught up in a 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:57.400 scheme to assassinate the president using dream inception. And it's 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.720 got some wonderful horror trope in there, and some nice 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.200 callbacks to some nightmares we see earlier in the film. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.000 And it's a movie that I think people have forgotten about. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.160 But I still love Dream Skip nineteen eighty four. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.480 That's a good one. I would also say that I 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.560 just I'm going to do like a kind of broader 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.360 shout out to Like there is a lot of underrated 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.360 horror weird like Slashes that came out this year, The 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:27.920 Initiation that's a really good weird movie, Splatter University, and 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.640 blood Bath, blood Birth at the House of Death. And 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.959 I will say something that you said, Jason, as we're 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.880 getting ready to prepare this. So many of these movies 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.319 are available on cheubee. Guys, if you don't to if 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.080 you have a smart TV, go to chubee and you 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.079 can watch so many incredible movies that honestly have been 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.640 lost for a long time because of streaming. But if 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.600 I was gonna have to pick, and I would say, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.000 I think I'm going to go for properly. A movie 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.000 that I truly think is very underrated is a Company 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:55.679 of Wolves. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:56.120 Wow. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.240 Yeah, And I do just think it's like really great 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.160 and it was I watched that a lot when I 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.960 was a teenager, very formative for me. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:07.160 Neil Jordan, Yeah, who's truly a quality filmmaker. His work 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.319 here is fantastic. It's got that dreamy, kind of gauzy, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.560 too much vacoline on the lens. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.920 Yeah, drastically, Neil Jordan look definitely for me. Like I 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.640 grew up reading, I had this. I still have this book. Actually, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.839 it's one of the few things I still have from 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.240 when I was a kid. I had this copy of 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.640 Grim's fairy Tales that was a hardcover that I got 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.440 at like a bookshop where my mum worked, and it 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.959 had all the real German Grimm's fairy Tales where like 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.520 Cinderella's stepsisters are like chopping off their heels to fit 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.160 it in the boot, and then they're making Cinderella's stepmom 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.440 dance to death in iron shoes and this kind of 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.800 the horrors of what the real moral fables were. And 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.640 I feel like Company of understood that and was like, Okay, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.240 so what do we How do we make this into 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.360 like an actual horror movie, but that still has this 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.360 interesting coming of age growing into womanhood and how scary. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.199 That is just a really cool movie. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.240 Okay. And then this, Gosh, I think it's up for 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.080 debate whether this is truly a horror movie, but I'm 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.760 gonna pick it anyway. Firestarter, Yeah, I. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.280 Was gonna say, if you're doing X Men, Yeah, so that's. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.800 My X Men again. The X Men influence in horror movies. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:19.560 Firestarter about a secret government program to create psychic telepathic warriors. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.280 It goes sideways and two of the former Chess subjects 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.400 have a kid named Charlie. She is played by Drew Barrymore, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.680 who is wonderful in this film, like truly like baby, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.840 an incredible performance by a very very young actor. And 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.080 she has the ability not to just move things around 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.199 with her mind, but she has this exponentially dangerous ability 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.480 to start fires and the whole while there is this 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.960 secretive government program that's trying to control her, they call 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.040 the Shop. You get like a wonderful scene of a 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.520 confrontation between these government agents and Charlie, like in front 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.200 of a farmhouse that calls back to Magneto versus the 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.640 Cops and the first X Men movie. It's a great one. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:06.559 And it's very like, you know, WEAPONEX yees, very WEAPONEX tybes. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's part of why I really 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.840 love it. Incredible performances, most notably by David Keith as 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.679 Charlie's father, like tons of pathos from him. George C. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:23.480 Scott as like this super warmonger, manipulative guy who gets 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:28.840 Charlie to believe in him. It's really great, and they 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.120 remade it some years ago, I think twenty twenty two, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.480 a film that's really not that good, but this is 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:33.920 really good. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.040 Yeah, and that movie has Zac Efron it. Yeah. I 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.560 would also like to say I don't know how recently 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.040 anybody watched Children of the Corn, but I did do 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.160 a rewatch of the entire franchise recently thanks to the 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.640 blessings of Antenna TV. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:48.160 Yeah. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.200 And I have to say that first Children of the 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.720 Corn movie completely wild. Absolutely, you would never believe it 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.800 if somebody told you what the movie was about. But 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.120 it does have Linda Hamilton in it, yes, and it 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.040 is actually like very enjoyable. Though I will say as 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.600 a kid, I always got it confused with the John 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.680 Carpenter remake of The Midwich Cuckoos that had Christopher Reeve 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.400 in it, and I have to say I am still 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.200 more of a Village of the Damned fan the Children 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.560 of the Corn. Yeah, but Linda Hamilton is really good 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.560 and I actually think the First Children of the Corn 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.360 is a good movie, and I do want i think 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.920 that one is another reason this gets edged up. But 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.240 we got to step out of the airlock and into 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.720 our debate about which year in the eighties was actually 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.760 the best for horror movies because there are just so many. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.080 I don't I think this nineteen eighty four one. I 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.840 feel like it's a random pick because right now I'm like, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.680 we can make the argument for. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.080 More to your point, it feels overrated, specifically because of 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.600 mister Freddy Krueger. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:43.720 Mister fred Old Krugel. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:16:01.800 So let's go onto our debate right back after this. Okay, Rosie, 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.080 we've talked about nineteen eighty four. Now let's talk about 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:10.520 what our personal favorite year for horror in the eighties is. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.480 Would you like to start who? 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.840 This is so complex and it's fun, it's fun. There 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.320 is I would just want to say, festival. What a 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.000 blessing to have the eighties, because the eighties is just 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.760 such an unreal decade for horror. Every year there is 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.720 at least one or two bangers, and I think sometimes 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:37.000 depending on the flavor of what you're feeling, you could argue, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.200 for example, nineteen eighty two you had cat People very good, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.840 but obviously that's not going to be that's not going 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.040 to be swinging anyone's vote. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.480 The original Cat People actually scarier, Yeah, actually scary. Fifties 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.560 cat People actually scared. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.920 But then Poltergeist and The Thing, which I think arguably 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.440 you could make an argument that that's the best year 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.640 in horror just for those two. But I am going 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.280 to propose nineteen eighty seven. Now, I will say this 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:09.280 is not this is not like a banner. You're not 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.080 gonna get that list like we just gave you for 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.840 nineteen eighty four. But for me, I'm gonna start with 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.920 the horror adjacent release that for me, as a kid 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.720 growing up, I was obsessed with, which is Angel Heart 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.200 starring Mickey raw Oh my god. It's such a good movie. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.920 It's like a neo noir in the eighties, and it's 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.680 a mystery and it's about a guy who's hunting someone down. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.800 Don't look it up. Yeah, just go watch it. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.240 If you have not seen Angel Heart, don't read anything 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.000 about it, and go watch it because the twists in 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.680 this film are fantastic. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.440 Some of the best twists that you've ever Currently streaming 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.159 on Paramount Plus if you are that way subscribed. Okay, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:52.840 that for me, I watched it a lot as a kid. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.359 I loved it. I would tell people about it. It 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.399 felt like one of those movies i'd discovered. But the 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:01.320 two big ones here that I think as adults I 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.720 watch every year more than once. I will go and 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.439 see in the movie theater whenever they are on. Clive 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.000 Barker's Hell Raiser one of the best horror movies ever made, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:15.000 and Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, that's great, in my opinion, 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.199 one of the best vampire movies ever made. For me. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.880 That is a fantastic mix of Hell Raiser is this 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:28.879 vibrantly gory, strange movie about a girl who lives with 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.120 her dad and her stepmom and she kind of discovers 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.760 that her uncle who shows up, Uncle Frank, had some 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.359 weird occult dealings with a magical puzzle box. That's a 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:45.320 very terrifying movie, unbelievable practical effects, the cenobites, Doug Bradley 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.080 as pin Head, who had gone to become this iconic 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.920 horror character. Very queer movie, very queer movie, very queer franchise, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.800 and that's kind of the nature of Clive Barker's work. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.080 I just love this movie. It's still really scary. There's 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:00.879 still people who don't want to watch it because it 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:05.560 kind of has this BDSM horror aesthetic that can be 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.720 very unsettling. It also was originally supposed to be a 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.760 horror movie with a woman in her mid forties and 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.360 the lead. The stepmom was originally going to be the lead, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.480 which I think is really cool and I love that, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.960 and they managed to keep her in there. But then 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.800 you have Lost Boys, which is queer in a totally 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.960 different way and just totally cool every time I go 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.720 and see Lost Boys. I went to see it recently 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.960 with Nick and my wonderful friend cartoonist be Like Unis, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.719 and when we were there, I was just like, oh 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:39.920 my god, I want to be a cool vampire living 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:44.200 in Santa Cruz the fairground. I want to be young, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:50.000 far fast. And also like, how can you not love 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.639 a movie where there's just a random saxophone solo. No 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.840 one knows why he's in it, sax guy, but he's 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:55.200 in there. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.600 I lived in Santa Cruz for a while, and wow, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.960 that vibe. The kind of beautif full picturesque beach town 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.679 with a dark side really feels like the real place. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.760 You know. It's a very strange place. It's a place 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:12.879 where multiple serial killers were plying their deadly craft, specifically 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.800 during the seventies. Edmund Kemper was you know, killed his 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.000 mom killed a bunch of co Ed's was you know 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.919 like he lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and so 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.719 lost Boys feels it manages to capture that contrast between 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:33.400 beautiful beach lightness and weirdness and old hippies and something 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.320 dangerous going on in the woods. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.639 Yeah. And also I will say as well, I know 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.400 this is both mine and your favorite nightmare and elm 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:45.960 Street movie. Dream Warriors incredible, fantastic movie, unbelievable, young costs, 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.119 some of the best deaths, very quippy, very. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.400 Cool, very quippy cool, like, the effects are amazing. It's 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.359 got a fun song by the hair metal band docn 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.080 as the theme, you. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.000 Don't want a Dream Noble. Also, Patricia Arquette, you have 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.360 some legends in this movie. Also this year also had 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.320 Evil Dead two, which I do believe many people believe 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.320 is the superior Evil Dead movie. Another one that is 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.920 streaming for free on Pluto TV right now. Obviously love 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.320 Sam Raimi. Also underrated. One that I love from this 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:26.760 year is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, starring Donald Pleasance 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:30.800 and Victim Want. I really like this movie, but that 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.479 I am a John Carpenter superstan so I've seen every 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.280 John Carpenter movie. I will make the argument even for 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.840 you know, Ghosts of Mars, which is at least he 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.320 was still using some cool miniatures. Guys, come on, but 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:46.359 this one is like a science versus religion combo where 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.520 there's a mysterious green liquid and these academics arrive and 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.639 kind of decipher whether or not, like, will this be 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:59.000 able to bring Jesus back? Was Jesus an alien? Is Satan? 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:04.800 It's all this signiens religion, horror, really interesting, smorgas bored. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.920 It's a spiritual follow up to the thing because it's 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.680 part of the Apocalypse trilogy that ends within the Mouth 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.720 of Madness. Now, the underrated John corp in a movie. 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.440 Super super weird fucking movie that I'm still not sure 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.640 what happened. Yeah exactly, but the vibes, but the vibes 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:25.359 are incredible. I actually rewatched it recently and still don't 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.040 know what's happening. But very very crazy movie in the 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:28.639 Mouth of Madness. 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:32.679 Yeah, also horror adjacent in eighty seven Monster Squad. 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:34.240 Oh, I love Monster Squad. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.240 I have to say I actually was not lucky enough 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.000 to discover this as a kid, because I would have 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.680 loved it so good. But I watch it every year 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.800 as an adult. It's on Pluto, it's free, it's so charming, 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:46.000 it's so fun. 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.080 Here's Monster Squad ready. Did you like the Goonies a 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.399 gang of kids who go and do an adventure? This 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:55.680 is like the Goonies, a gang of kids that band 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.320 together to do an adventure, but they do an adventure 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:03.480 teamed up with Frankenstein, Wolfman and like vampires and stuff. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.720 Exactly very cool fun. Also, Blood Dina came out this year, 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.119 which was directed by Jackie Kong, so it's like a 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:14.600 rare female horror movie in this era. I think this 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.159 is an underrated year. And also there's like sequels Galow 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.280 Return to Salem's Law. There's also some really weird movies 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.280 that I've only discovered from watching Antenna TV. Here, like Dolls, 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.440 where our family has to just stay in this house 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:28.920 and it's just full of creepy dolls. 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:31.800 Rosie. I think this was gonna be my pick as well. 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.840 And I think he's but it's okay because there's plenty 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:37.000 other years to pick from. Great, And I will say 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:40.520 I think we've missed out on what I think for me, 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.000 for my money, best horror movie of the entire eighties, 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:48.520 nineteen eighty seven's Near Dark. Oh my god, what ifaring 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.440 the entire cast of aliens in a film by Catherine Bigelow, 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.560 the hurt Locker, Blue Steel, Zero Dark, thirty incredible director. 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:02.960 Near Dark is basically neo western about this gang of 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:06.439 vampires that rides around in our love this movie, cutting 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:11.800 people's throats and drinking them. It's an incredible film. 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.440 Yeah. Also, I feel like people maybe don't take this 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:17.960 question seriously if this is not the answer, because if 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:21.240 you're even looking at those like horror adjacent Predator came 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:24.200 out this year. Yep, also a movie. I will say, Look, 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:25.840 I'm not gonna recommend that you go and watch this 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.719 movie because it has aged very badly. It's very fucked up. 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:32.000 Lots of language, et cetera that we would not use nowadays. 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.720 But when I first saw it on a VHS in 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.880 like a squat many moons ago. There's a movie called 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.159 Street Trash and it came out this year. It is 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:42.480 on Cheuwby right now. I will say it was what 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:44.440 was known as a melt movie, and the idea was 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.160 it was gonna be this like new version of Troma, 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:51.600 and basically everyone the effects is like every time somebody 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:54.119 drinks this kind of a cherry wine that they just 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.960 melt and the effects are very cool. The movie itself 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:01.399 very corny, badly age movie, but I will say I 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:03.439 did just learn that somebody just remade this, and I 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.600 believe it's gonna be on Chewby. Also very important movie 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.560 here historically because Peter Jackson's Bad Taste came out in 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.520 nineteen eighty seven, and obviously that was like kind of 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.960 one of his breakthrough If you've seen Lord of the 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.040 Rings and you're like, what was this man doing before 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:20.280 Lord of the Rings, go and watch Bad Taste, because 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.479 this man was a splatter gore fiend. He really was, 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:26.440 and he was making some praise stuff. Also both Slumberpaty 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.040 Massa two and Silent Night Deadly Night Part two. So 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.520 I just think like eighty seven is a great year 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:36.440 when it comes to the explosion of horror and also thrillers. Why, oh, 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:39.080 you know what we should mention before we move on sure, 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:43.960 Wicked City the anime, because that is very seminar horror 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.640 anime came out in eighty seven. But yeah, I think 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:47.800 this is such a good year. 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:50.880 Okay, I agree with you, But now, for the sake 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.680 of argument, I'm going to pick my other favorite eighties 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:58.280 year for horror and going with nineteen eighty five. Oh, 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:02.080 I think top line maybe not as strong as eighty seven, 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:05.560 but still some incredible bangers that I think are very underrated. 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.920 Let's start with a continuation of a classic series, George 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:13.440 Romeiro's Day of the Dead. Oh, following up Dawn, Yeah, 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:17.600 which listen, Dawn not just the best, in my opinion 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.639 of the George Romero zombie movies, but actually a great film. 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:24.400 Opening twenty minutes of Dawn of the Dead is as 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.600 good as anything that you can think of. 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:28.639 Great anti capitalist movie. 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:31.560 Yeah, but Day of the Dead also very good. So 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:34.600 we've got Day of the Dead, and here's my If 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:37.879 it's not the best horror movie of eighty five, I 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.280 think it's my favorite. Fright Night. 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.000 Fright Night. This is a joyous watch. 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:46.919 A joyous movie that's kind of self referential, understands the 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:51.000 horror genre. You've got this young teenage kid who is 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:54.920 a big fan of horror, specifically of this like late 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:58.840 night horror TV program that's hosted by this guy who's 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:03.760 like a washed up old hammer television star named Peter Vincent. 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:09.080 And over time, Charlie begins to suspect that his neighbor. 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:11.600 His cool hot neighbor, his cool. 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.960 Hot neighbor, is up to something weird. Turns out, guess what, 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:18.320 his neighbor is a vampire, and you get this big 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.159 showdown between Charlie with the help of Peter and his 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:24.360 girlfriend trying to save his girlfriend really from the clutches 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.720 of this vampire, trying to take this vampire down. It's 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:31.040 a fantastic movie with some wonderful horror tropes. It's referential 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:33.760 in the way that Scream would be referential in the nineties, 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:35.959 and it's just really fun. They did remake it with 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:41.080 Colin Ferrell. I think Anton Yakovic, Anton Yaalkin, it's pretty good, 0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:42.240 pretty fun, it's pretty good. 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:44.479 You could do a little double bell. Yeah, you know, Jason, 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:47.120 I think you picked a very strong year here. This 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.960 is another year kind of like eighty seven, where there 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:55.320 are some big headliners reanime legendary movie that I think 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:58.960 is still just being rediscovered. I'm always seeing kids sharing 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:02.639 stuff on ticked. You know. It's kind of barely based 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:07.159 on an HP Lovecraft Boo story, but it does something 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:09.919 so much. It's directed by Stuart Gordon, who was, you know, 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:13.679 a B movie master, and stars Jeffrey Combs, who you 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.320 have probably seen in a million other horror movies simply 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.359 because he was in this movie. Yeah. 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:24.199 Basically a retelling of the Doctor Frankenstein's monster kind of 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:29.240 myth in which this mad scientist starts putting together dead 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:34.640 bodies and reanimating them. Another film that is highly referential 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:38.240 and understands like the genre it is in and is 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:42.000 a super super weird movie. Here's a film you mentioned, Barker. 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.360 I'm a big listen. I love the Pinhead stuff, but 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.960 I think some of his non pin Head stuff is 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:52.080 also amazing. Let's talk about Underground. Oh, I'm Markers Underground 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:56.440 from nineteen eighty five, in which there's a hidden and 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:01.440 mysterious group of sub human mind anster species created by 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:03.320 a mad scientist. They're living under London. 0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:03.560 Yeah. 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:05.200 Great, very very fun. 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:10.200 Early Clive Barker also known as Transmutations and Underworld. There 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:12.440 are many different names for this, but yes, I love 0:29:12.520 --> 0:29:15.720 this one definitely one of those first ones that I 0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:17.680 kind of saw and didn't know what it was. Also 0:29:18.040 --> 0:29:19.960 just want to bring up I will talk about this 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:23.280 more extensively on other episodes this holiday season. This is 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:25.560 when Returned to Oz came out. One of the scariest 0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:28.320 movies I ever saw as a kid, a Disney sequel 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:31.200 to Wizard of Oz that stars Freeze a Bulk and 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:35.560 starts with Dorothy getting electric shock treatment before she goes 0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:39.360 to Oz and discovers that everyone's been turned to stone 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:41.680 and there's a new evil queen who chops off people's 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:45.800 heads and wears them. This is like a masterful kid's 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:48.840 horror movie, and I still love it so deeply, and 0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:52.400 it was impossible to find anywhere other than very expensive 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.120 DVDs for a long time, but now you can watch 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:56.200 it on Disney Plus. 0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:01.720 Next up, nineteen eighty five's Thus Duff by Larry Cohen. 0:30:02.160 --> 0:30:06.960 This is a film that is like environmental and regulatory 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:10.800 horror was kind of big in the eighties. Chud talked 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:15.040 about like the misdoings of the you know national They 0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:17.959 dealt with all the nuclear stuff. Nuclear Regulatory Commission excuse me. 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:24.360 Chud is basically like a failure of oversight of food. Basically, 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:28.680 this is so creepy, it's so crazy. This company creates 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:34.160 this extremely sweet yogurt ice cream kind of substance which 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:38.120 people eat and then become crazy addicted to, and it 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:43.160 has all sorts of insane effects. Wonderful performances by Michael 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:46.920 Moriarty and Garrett Morris who and Paul Cervino. Garrett Moose 0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:49.920 apparently hated dealing with Larry Cohne, but he's wonderful in 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:53.640 this film. Super super underrated movie that people don't talk about. 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:58.840 It is just a fantastic, weird kind of satirical but 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:03.360 also very scared film with notes of body horror. The 0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:07.720 stuff check it out, extremely viby, very vibey. And also 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:09.160 I am. 0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:11.400 Always surprised when I realized this movie came out in 0:31:11.440 --> 0:31:14.360 the eighties, because it's got like a seventies vibe to it. 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.880 It's just it's very strange. I'm gonna go for like 0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:20.600 another incredible kid's horror here that was like really important 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:22.360 to me, which is like more of a fantasy, but 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:24.520 I think it is horror a jacent which is legend. 0:31:24.800 --> 0:31:26.160 Oh my God Legend. 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:28.120 Came out this year with Tim Curry in one of 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:32.280 the scariest practical effects of all time, wearing this giant 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:34.920 devil costume with these huge horns. 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:36.520 Truly awesome fantasy film. 0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:39.920 Just fantastic movie. Ye, Ridley Scott, what were you thinking? 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:41.960 I don't know, but I'm glad because I love this movie. 0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:46.520 Tom Cruise, such a delightful and important movie in my 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:48.960 life and also with some really scary moments. So this 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.960 is such a good year. There's just so many. 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.080 There's so many. Next up for me, here's a film 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:57.600 that blends sci fi and horror, nineteen eighty five's Life 0:31:57.640 --> 0:32:00.959 Force by Toby Hooper. I love that is one that 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:04.280 again is a film that I think people don't talk about. 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:08.160 Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, who gave us Alien, who gave 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:12.240 us so many other horror films, And it's basically what 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:15.000 if aliens or vampires? 0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:19.160 And it's from this really fun era of post alien 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:21.960 movies where everyone wanted to do aliens. So it's like 0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:25.360 these walking cloths. Yeah, people, and they're like, well if 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:27.040 aliens were vampires? 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:28.880 Young Patrick Stewart. 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:31.080 Oh baby, yeah, this is that's a good one. 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:35.240 And then this is a movie that I it's not 0:32:35.480 --> 0:32:38.880 technically good, but I really liked it as a kid. 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:43.400 And that is the adaptation of yet another Stephen King novella, 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:47.240 Stephen King was ruling the eighties, not just you know, 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:49.880 on the bookshelf, but also on the screen. And this 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:51.600 is Silver Bullet. 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:53.560 Oh, I love I actually love this one. I have 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:54.280 this on DVD. 0:32:54.520 --> 0:33:00.160 This is a wonderful film about a small town dealing 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:06.440 with a werewolf that is killing off various citizenry and 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:11.360 how a young disabled man takes on this werewolf with 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:16.040 a wonderful performance by Corey ham Excuse me as that 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:19.120 young man and Corey ham is. I think people who 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:22.520 know about Corey Hame they think of the Lost Boys 0:33:23.200 --> 0:33:27.720 and Lucas, then they think of the troubles he had 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:31.720 later on in his life. But he was a fantastically 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:36.120 talented actor able to really conjure some like deep emotion. 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:39.760 And that's true in Silver Bullet, which is a very 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:44.360 low budget film with some great scares and the chemistry 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:47.840 between Corey and Gary Busey as his kind of like scamp, 0:33:48.200 --> 0:33:51.280 hard drinking uncle who's lets him have toys that he 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:51.800 shouldn't have. 0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:54.040 I mean who doesn't love to watch Gary Busey in 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:56.480 a B movie. Yeah, he's always living it up. 0:33:56.920 --> 0:34:03.080 And then lastly, again it's not my favorite of the Freddy's, 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:07.640 but oh, Nightmare and Elm Street two legendary is an 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:12.440 important film for the evolution of Freddy because it's really 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:16.400 the point in time in which my senses, Robert England 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:19.239 didn't think he'd be doing these continuously. 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:23.600 Remember this man was a thespian beforehand. After Nightmare on 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:26.640 Elm Street one, I once chatted to Robert England at 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:29.480 an event and I interviewed him about nightmaron Elm Street. 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:33.440 And after the first movie, he was reviled in the country. 0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:35.960 He was hated in the USA. People felt like he 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:38.399 was corrupting children, he was not having a good time. 0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:39.840 So I think you were onto something. 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:44.480 So when he was asked back for the sequel to 0:34:44.640 --> 0:34:47.600 Nightmare and Elk Street, which became a Nightmare on Elk 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:52.560 Street two, Freddie's Revenge Man, Robert England is putting a 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:56.120 lot of spice on these Freddy Yes. 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:58.439 And also this is a very It was a very 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:02.200 controversial movie directed by Shoulder and it stars Mark Patten, 0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:06.319 who in the very fantastic. I cannot recommend it enough. 0:35:06.360 --> 0:35:12.319 Documentary Scream Queen talks about his struggle as a closeted 0:35:12.600 --> 0:35:16.200 gay kid being cast in this movie that is extremely 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:19.640 queer and extremely queer coded. I mean there's literally a 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:22.960 scene where the kid who is possessed by Freddie goes 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:26.080 to the BDSM club where his teacher is and there's 0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:29.200 like somebody's getting killed by being like butt whipped with 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:32.560 like a towel in a shower scene, like it's very gay, 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:34.839 and he was constantly being told no, it's not gay, 0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:37.680 don't worry about it, and then the movie came out 0:35:37.800 --> 0:35:40.520 and it was like he was really gas lit. It 0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:43.840 has since become like a true queer classic. 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:45.760 It's truly a queer classic, and now. 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:48.200 Mark Patten feels more comfortable to accept it. But yeah, 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:51.719 watch Scream Queen. It's such a good documentary about this 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.440 movie and the strange trajectory that it took and the 0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:58.920 way it impacted the characters and the actors within it. 0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:01.239 I will also say something I think is really cool 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:03.400 about this year that I kind of hadn't really realized 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:05.920 till we were talking about it. This is an interesting 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.600 year where there's a lot of horror, and there's a 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.760 lot of horror that is directed to a more family 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:14.319 audience because of the success of stuff like Night ron 0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:17.080 elm Street, Black Cauldron Good. That's a great one of 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:20.960 the most terrifying Disney movies of all time. I love 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:24.280 that movie. It's probably my favorite Disney movie. Really terrifying stuff. 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:26.200 And you have a lot more horror comedies. You have 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:31.000 things like Ghoulies, you have Legend returned to us, re Animator, reanime. 0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:33.440 You have these movies where they're like, oh, horror is 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:36.279 actually this can make money for us on a very 0:36:36.280 --> 0:36:38.200 low budget. So I think so far we've picked two 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:40.360 very powerful years. 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:42.440 Here's my last movie, go for it. Last movie to 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:44.320 mention from nineteen eighty five before we move on and 0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:47.520 pick our very favorite horror movies of the eighties. I 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:51.239 did not appreciate this film until recently, but you have 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:54.160 to mention nineteen eighty five's Vampire Hunter. 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:57.400 D Oh my gosh, yes, yes, yes, thank you for 0:36:57.440 --> 0:36:58.000 bringing that one. 0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:05.000 Our classic anime of a involving were wolf hunter and vampires, 0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:07.280 and it is just you want to talk about. 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.239 Viby, Oh my god, it's and it's like one of 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:11.280 the most seminal anime of all time. 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:14.880 Unreal viby. So that is my pick, love that, that 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:17.399 is your pick. Nineteen eighty seven for you, nineteen eighty 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:19.680 five for me. I think there's honestly can't go wrong 0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:20.600 with either year. 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:22.759 You've even sold me on eighty five. I'm like, I 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:25.279 think these are equal, because that is a great year. 0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:29.560 Now let's close it out by listing our top hot 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:34.080 this is really hard, our top five favorite or scariest 0:37:34.320 --> 0:37:53.920 or whatever horror movies of the eighties right back after this. Yeah, okay, Rosie. 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:56.560 We talked about eighty four, we talked about eighty seven, 0:37:56.600 --> 0:37:59.640 we talked about eighty five. Let's talk about the entire decade, 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:03.320 and are top five favorite horror movies of the eighties 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:04.160 do you want to go first? 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:08.040 Wow, guys, this is like extremely hard. You know, this 0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:10.960 is gonna start big conversations in the discord. I'm sure 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:14.920 if we've missed anything, that's just all subjective. Man. Yeah, 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:17.040 there's so many movies we haven't even talked about. Movies 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:19.239 like They Live. I love that movie, Child's Play. We 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:23.000 didn't even bring up Chucky. But I'm gonna go for faves. Okay, 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:25.479 I'm not gonna mention anyones that I've already mentioned because 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:27.239 those are my favors, and I think I'm gonna get 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:30.680 out of not filling my stuff up, So I'm gonna 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:34.640 start with one of my favorite movies from this era. 0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:37.480 It is a B movie Night of the comment. 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:38.200 Oh agreed. 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:40.440 This is one of my all time favorite movies from 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:44.239 nineteen eighty four, going back to the original. It stars 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:49.120 Catherine Mary Stewart as Regina Belmont and Kelly Mourinias Samantha Belmont, 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:52.200 a pair of sisters, one of whom works in the cinema, 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.200 which I thought was the coolest job you could ever have. 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:58.279 And one night she's staying overnight hanging out at the 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:01.880 cinema with her boyfriend who's the projectist, waiting to lender 0:39:01.960 --> 0:39:07.200 real to someone, and she misses meeteor shower or the 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:10.200 arrival of a comet that basically turns everyone into kind 0:39:10.200 --> 0:39:13.200 of raving zombies. And then her and her sister, who 0:39:13.280 --> 0:39:15.120 also missed it because she was, you know, doing some 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:18.120 kind of Valley Girl esque thing, have to team up 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:24.240 to survive this apocalypse with Robert Beltran from Star Trek, 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:27.120 and they have to kind of team up to survive, 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:29.600 not only the first half of the movie, which is 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:32.719 more of your general zombie apocalypse s kind of sci 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:35.799 fi movie, but then the very interesting and I would 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:38.480 say slightly slower, but I still love this movie second 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:41.960 half where they kind of have to survive the government. Yeah, 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:44.879 and What America. It's kind of like a mashup of 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:48.640 the tropes from the whole Night of the Living Dead series, 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:51.279 And I just love this movie. I watch it all 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:53.719 the time. Very underrated, So I'm going to go for 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:58.280 underrated faves and B movies that you can stream now. 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:00.400 And I just watched this the other day. So this 0:40:00.440 --> 0:40:03.000 is on Pluto for free, Roku channel for free, sling 0:40:03.040 --> 0:40:05.760 for free. You can go and enjoy this right now. Baby, 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:06.680 what about you, Jason? 0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:09.760 First of all, I'm going to do my top five 0:40:10.000 --> 0:40:12.359 horror movies of the eighties that I haven't mentioned yet, 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:15.719 because my favorites are honestly movies we've before. You talked 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:19.799 about The Lost Boys, Nightmare, Elm Street, Dream Warriors, Fright Night. 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.439 But let's start with the ones that I haven't talked 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:24.799 about yet. And first up, so I watch I have 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:27.320 seen a lot of horror movies. I don't get scared. 0:40:27.480 --> 0:40:30.840 I watched, as I told Rosy and Aaron before we 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:33.520 started the bike, I watched Hereditary at one am and 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:35.319 went right to sleep. It didn't bother me at all. 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:37.200 Like I can watch any horror movie now and it 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:40.280 doesn't scare me. But the one movie that really bothered 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:44.400 me and continues to really creep me out is Henry 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:47.680 Portrait of a serial Killer from nineteen eighty six Legendary. 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:54.960 Here's how shaken I am by this film. I honestly 0:40:55.000 --> 0:41:00.319 struggle to recommend it. It is harrowing. It's ostensibly a 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:05.600 dramatization of the serial killing career of Henry Lee Lucas, 0:41:05.640 --> 0:41:08.680 who was an active serial killer who I think, who 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:12.600 clearly inflated his crimes, yes yes, and told a lot 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:14.840 of lies about the things he did, but also clearly 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:18.920 did murder people. And so that gives this film an 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:22.520 ominous tone. And there are some scenes in this film 0:41:22.560 --> 0:41:25.680 that I that I would not watch this movie again. 0:41:25.719 --> 0:41:28.880 Put it that way. Yeah, the performances are extremely strong. 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:31.840 There is a scene, there are several murder scenes, but 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:36.120 there's one of a home invasion that is really scary, 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:39.480 and so that is I think the scariest film that 0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:42.120 I've ever seen nineteen eighty six is Henry Portrait of 0:41:42.120 --> 0:41:42.640 a serial. 0:41:42.560 --> 0:41:47.480 Killer, only eighty three minutes long and streaming on pretty 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:51.319 much every free to B Peacock, Pluto. It is really terrifying. Though, 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:52.960 this is not one to watch with your kid now. 0:41:53.080 --> 0:41:56.160 This is a truth. It has been a very interesting 0:41:56.280 --> 0:41:59.600 precursor to kind of the obsession with true crime that 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:03.640 we have now. Yes, and these kind of celebrity you know, Dharma, 0:42:03.719 --> 0:42:08.239 et cetera. But it's way more unsettling and subtle and creepy. 0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:09.239 That's a great pick. 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:11.240 It really is like a watch it with the lights 0:42:11.280 --> 0:42:13.040 on and again, very unsettling. 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:15.560 Your next pick, I'm going to go for something really 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:19.400 fun and light after that, which is Little Shop of Horrors. 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:19.919 Oh great. 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.400 This is one of my all time favorite movies. 0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:25.440 See Moore, miss Seymour. 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:28.160 I love it. The original is great. I used to 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:33.880 have the original on VHS, but this remake is so fantastic. 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:37.560 I adore it. It is Rick moranis in the lead. 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:42.880 It is a fantastic musical. It has an unbelievable amount 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:48.080 of star power. The songs are brilliant, the deaths are great. 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:51.160 You are essentially cheering for a serial killer who is 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:55.480 feeding people to a alien plant. And I think it's 0:42:55.520 --> 0:42:58.080 a perfect spooky season watch. And I think it's so 0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:01.239 beautifully made. I think we need more movies like this 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:04.040 now and A Yeah, I think this is definitely one 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:05.280 of the best movies of the AES. 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:10.000 My next one is creepy. It is scary, it is 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:14.280 wonderful practical effects, it is mysterious, it's kind of sexy. 0:43:14.760 --> 0:43:18.240 It is nineteen eighty one's The Howling. Oh great choice, 0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:22.080 directed by Joe Dante, who had gone to do much 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:25.000 lighter stuff, but also I believe he did Gremlins right. 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:32.080 And it involves a television journalist from la who goes 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:36.719 up to the Pacific Northwest to follow up on an 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:40.759 investigation that had kind of touched her career. That is, 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:45.239 the investigation into this serial killer named Eddie Quist who 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:48.120 had attacked her in the course of her trying to 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:50.840 like uncover his crimes to learn more about him. She 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:54.640 goes up to this weird kind of hippie retreat up 0:43:54.680 --> 0:43:58.640 into the Pacific Northwest and finds a colony of were wolves. 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:01.520 I think the thing that stands out to me about 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:05.400 this movie is the melancholy ending. It has a very 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:09.080 sad ending, which is kind of unheard of I think 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:13.680 for American movies, even horror movies of the time. Definitely, 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:19.320 and a wonderful performance by Dee Wallace. Great movie, The Howling. 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:22.920 Love that really good pick. I'm gonna go for another 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.919 John Carpenter movie. As I said, I do love him. 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:30.040 This is controversially one maybe my favorite John Carpenter movie. 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:32.239 I don't know. The vibes are just so good. The 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:38.440 Fog Ooh from nineteen eighty co written by John Carpenter 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:43.560 and Deborah Hill, the legendary producer, also stars AJM Bobo, 0:44:43.719 --> 0:44:47.480 Jamie Lee, Curs, Tom Atkins, Janet Lee. It's such a 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:52.560 great movie and it's basically about a radio DJ in NorCal. 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:54.759 I'm still trying to work out how I can become 0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:56.160 a late night radio DJ. 0:44:56.280 --> 0:45:01.760 And you're listening to Rosie Knight at night. The cold 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:04.400 fogs are rolling in, but I'm here to keep you 0:45:04.480 --> 0:45:07.000 warm with these lounge jazz classics. 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:11.759 And Adrian Barbo plays the radio DJ and she's in 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:15.759 a small narcout town. They're about to celebrate their centennial year. 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:20.160 But when a weird glowing fog appears, people start to 0:45:20.200 --> 0:45:23.200 get murdered, and you eventually learn that these kind of 0:45:23.239 --> 0:45:26.080 ghostly pirates are coming out of the fog and killing people. 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:29.680 It's so weird, it's so good, so many great practical effects, 0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:32.839 extremely vibe next up. 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.800 Didn't mention it in my rundown out of eighty five, 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.279 so I have to mention it here. I'm not a 0:45:38.320 --> 0:45:41.920 fan of anthologies. Usually I find anthology movies to be 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:46.000 usually uneven at best and very boring at worst. But 0:45:46.360 --> 0:45:49.560 there are two great horror anthologies of the eighties, and 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:51.000 I'm going to talk about one of them right now. 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:53.160 Katsi from nineteen eighty five. 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:55.000 Great pick, what a deep cut. 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:58.680 I love Katsai. This is all based on Stephen King's stuff. Again, 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:02.200 Stephen king adaptations were ruling the eighties. There's a through 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:06.080 line here of this cat that is roaming through all 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:10.200 the stories and appears in all the stories, and every 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:14.440 story is in its own way notable and awesome. You 0:46:14.440 --> 0:46:17.640 have Quitters Incorporated, in which a man hires a company 0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:20.640 to quit smoking and the company turns out to be best. 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:23.440 Not spoil it, but it's great. You have the Ledge, 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:29.040 which is just like a psycho thriller about a insane 0:46:29.080 --> 0:46:32.279 physical trial that this person has to go through and 0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:34.920 then the general which ties it all together with the 0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:40.719 cat versus this mystical goblin creature. Drew Barrymore again with 0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:44.440 another wonderful performance. James Woods, who has since gone insane 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:47.960 but is wonderful in this film, appears Katsig in nineteen 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:48.920 eighty five. It's great. 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:51.879 Okay, now, guys, I will warn you if you've been 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:54.640 watching the rest of my picks, you might be like, yeah, 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:57.319 these are my little cozy b movie hardpicks. My next 0:46:57.320 --> 0:46:59.200 one is not I have to bring up because we 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:01.680 haven't talked about it, and I do think it is 0:47:01.760 --> 0:47:06.880 a very important movie from this decade, and that is Possession. 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:11.480 This is a wild movie. I love this movie, deeply 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:15.200 important movie to me. It stars Samuel who You also 0:47:15.239 --> 0:47:17.040 are like, wow, that guy's never in weird movies. No, 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:19.839 this is a very strange movie. He is an international 0:47:19.920 --> 0:47:25.680 spy who returns to Berlin where his wife played by 0:47:25.719 --> 0:47:30.920 Isabelle Ajohnny, one of my favorite actresses. Yeah, this is Pikajanni. 0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:35.080 She is asking for a divorce and throughout the movie 0:47:35.560 --> 0:47:39.120 there becomes this strange push and pull between them about 0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:42.520 why she wants to leave, and it becomes this kind 0:47:42.560 --> 0:47:48.120 of psychosis of romance and betrayal and a strange tent 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:52.160 called Preachers. It is an incredibly unsettling movie. It's an 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:56.319 incredibly fucking cool movie, and also right now it is 0:47:56.480 --> 0:48:01.160 maybe the most influential horror movie on twenty twenty four 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:06.040 because movies like The First Omen and Immacula, there are sequences, 0:48:06.200 --> 0:48:10.000 especially in the First Omen, that are directly taken from 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:13.400 this very famous scene with Isabella Johnny in a tunnel 0:48:13.800 --> 0:48:16.160 during Possession. So if you want to see something weird, 0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:18.920 if you're like you guys aren't recommending scary stuff, Henry 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.440 of Portrait, Henry Portrait of a serial Killer and Possession 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:25.799 would be like a absolutely day ruining double bill. So 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:27.800 if you want that kind of thing, we can deliver 0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:28.319 that too. 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:36.560 My next up is nineteen eighty three's classic from David Cronenberg, Videodrome. 0:48:36.920 --> 0:48:38.759 Oh oh my god, what a pick. 0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:42.359 If you're familiar with Cronenberg and his body horror stylings, 0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:45.160 this is a film. This is a film that you 0:48:45.320 --> 0:48:48.560 might be familiar with because of the many, many scenes 0:48:48.560 --> 0:48:52.200 which have later become memes. Yeah, and gifts that appear 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:54.440 on social media, that appeared on The Daily Show, that 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:58.080 appeared in various other forums. Guys heads exploding things coming 0:48:58.120 --> 0:49:01.680 out of their guts. And it's basically what if TV 0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:06.400 was bringing stuff from another dimension to inside of you. 0:49:07.120 --> 0:49:12.120 It's fantastic. Another wonderful, brilliant performances by James Woods Debbie 0:49:12.200 --> 0:49:13.759 Harry in an acting term. 0:49:14.000 --> 0:49:15.399 She's so a. 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:21.720 Gross, thought provoking horror classic by David Cronenberg video drum. 0:49:21.800 --> 0:49:24.239 Oh man, what a great pick. I've already got what 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:26.520 more space? Oh my gosh, guys, this is so hard. 0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:29.319 I could literally just talk about this all day. I 0:49:29.360 --> 0:49:35.200 am going to go for Oh my god. Okay, okay, 0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:37.200 I'm gonna go for one. I have to include this 0:49:37.239 --> 0:49:40.160 because it is like a very big part of my personality. 0:49:40.440 --> 0:49:42.799 So even though there are many seminal movies we have 0:49:42.880 --> 0:49:47.080 not touched on yet, movies like The Thing or The Hitcher, 0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:50.360 go and watch that. It's so fucking scary. It's so scary. 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:53.719 I'm gonna pick in the line of my movies and 0:49:53.719 --> 0:49:55.680 I haven't talked about yet. There are b movies that 0:49:55.719 --> 0:49:58.440 you can stream now. Nineteen eighty eight. A. Yeah, we 0:49:58.480 --> 0:50:01.240 didn't talk about but another great explosion year for horror 0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:03.040 Killer Clowns from out of Space. 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:04.320 Oh, Killer Clowns Around. 0:50:04.480 --> 0:50:05.920 I love this movie. 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:10.000 Another movie filmed in Santa Cruz, The Santa. 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:13.440 Deeply important movie for me. I love this movie as 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:17.239 a kid, made by the Chiodo brothers. I actually have 0:50:17.440 --> 0:50:20.839 a Killer Clown's fan comic that I made with my 0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:24.760 brilliantly talented artist friend Daniel Rude Massa that I basically 0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:26.839 am always carrying around in my back pocket, like hege, 0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:28.560 you want to make a Kill a Clown's graphic novel? 0:50:28.840 --> 0:50:32.239 I love this movie. It's so much fun, and it's 0:50:32.320 --> 0:50:38.560 basically about aliens who come from space to Earth and 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:43.200 they their ships look like giant circuses, and they look 0:50:43.320 --> 0:50:47.960 like scary clowns, and they have these fantastic practical suits 0:50:48.360 --> 0:50:51.759 in case people in cotton candy. I just love this movie. 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:53.840 It's so silly, it's so weird, and I think it 0:50:53.880 --> 0:50:56.440 has stood the test of time as like an incredibly 0:50:56.920 --> 0:51:00.520 inventive B movie. And they recently made a Killer Clowns 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:02.960 from out Space video game that was very well received. 0:51:03.320 --> 0:51:05.600 I am just generally a big fan of Killer Clowns, 0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:07.719 so I had to include that one in my list. 0:51:07.840 --> 0:51:10.360 That's a totally fun movie. If you haven't seen it, guys, 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:11.399 go watch it now. 0:51:11.920 --> 0:51:15.239 Here's my last one. All your B movie vibes, all 0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:19.120 your pulp comic book vibes, all your horror comic vibes. 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:24.520 This is the other great horror anthology of the eighties, 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:28.479 again adapting Stephen King's works. It is nineteen eighty two's 0:51:28.520 --> 0:51:29.080 creep Show. 0:51:29.440 --> 0:51:30.799 Yeah, I love it. 0:51:30.680 --> 0:51:35.920 It is funny, it is gross, it is pulpy. There's 0:51:36.000 --> 0:51:40.319 your comic book stuff in there. Each wonderful vignette has 0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:44.840 a great moral like, yeah, very like a moral message. 0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:46.359 It is a very moral movie. 0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:50.319 Also directed by George A. Ramera, written by Stephen King, 0:51:50.400 --> 0:51:53.960 like what can you do? And it's like very easy homage. 0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:57.719 Yes, very easy. Stephen King appears in it in what 0:51:57.840 --> 0:52:02.480 I actually think is a quite surprise risingly good performance 0:52:02.640 --> 0:52:04.960 acting wise from Stephen King's very over the top, but 0:52:05.040 --> 0:52:08.000 I think it works. Nineteen eighty twos creep Show, yea, 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.279 and that is the eighties for horror. I feel like 0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:11.560 you could just keep doing. 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:14.400 This because this could be its whole own sub show 0:52:14.520 --> 0:52:16.720 for shoal. But this was so good. I'm very excited 0:52:16.719 --> 0:52:20.200 to hopefully do more of these debates about best horror 0:52:20.239 --> 0:52:22.200 in the decades, because this is really fun. 0:52:22.760 --> 0:52:24.920 On the next couple of episodes of X ray Vision, 0:52:25.520 --> 0:52:28.640 we've got episode six of The Penguin. Tuesday, we're diving 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.920 into episode seven of Agatha Along and then in extras 0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:34.920 on Wednesday, Aaron and Oboo are back with another recap 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:37.560 of episode six and seven of season one of Arcane. 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:46.400 That's it for this episode. Thanks for listening, Bye. X 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:49.960 ray Vision is hosted by Jason Kenspsion and Rosie Knight 0:52:50.640 --> 0:52:54.440 and is a production of iHeart Podcasts. Our executive producers 0:52:54.440 --> 0:52:58.759 are Joelle Smith and Aaron Kaufman. Our supervising producer is 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:04.080 a Boo Zafar. Our producers are Carmen Laurent and Mia Taylor. 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:06.920 Our theme song is by Brian Basquez. 0:53:07.400 --> 0:53:11.720 Special thanks to Soul Rubin and Chris Laude, Kenny Goodman 0:53:12.080 --> 0:53:14.160 and Heidi our discord moderator.