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October 22, 2006
Halloween's Coming, pt. 2: Slasher Movie Posters from the Early 80s
I was a junior-high / high-school horror freak, and I saw nearly all of these films when they first ran. My friend Lori's mom would drop us off at the Hutchinson, KS Flag Theatre or Fox Theatre, and in we'd go--who cared that we were underage and guardianless? Here are 32 from the first few years of the 80s:
Row #1, 1980: Friday the 13th; Mother's Day; He Knows You're Alone; Fade to Black.
Row #2, 1980: Don't Answer the Phone; Motel Hell; Prom Night; Maniac.
Row #3, 1980-1981: Terror Train; New Year's Evil; Schizoid; Eyes of a Stranger.
Row #4, 1981: The Burning; Happy Birthday to Me; Hell Night; Deadly Blessing.
Row #5, 1981: Final Exam; Friday the 13th, Part II; Dead and Buried; The Funhouse.
Row #6, 1981-1982: My Bloody Valentine; Blood Beach; Pieces; Visiting Hours.
Row #7, 1982: Pranks; Deadly Games; Don't Go In the Woods; Funeral Home.
Row #8, 1982-1983: Alone In the Dark; House On Sorority Row; Sleepaway Camp; Curtains.
Posted by scottheim at October 22, 2006 12:44 AM
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wow...awesome collection of horor posters, I remember seeing them on the subways in NYC as a kid and remember them to this day...Blood Beach, Dead and Buried, My Bloody Valentine and especially Happy B-day to Me. It seems like old horror movie posters are a lost art. Great posts.
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at November 11, 2006 09:38 PM
Thanks -- I'm downloading these to make a great screensaver!
Posted by: aknight227 at October 25, 2006 11:30 AM
I force my friends to watch Sleepaway Camp to enhance my pleasure of forcing them to watch Sleepaway Camp 2.
Posted by: BrandonFoley at October 24, 2006 01:19 AM
The one I recommend predates all of the above by at least forty years. It was on a station we are suddenly able to get here in Suffolk County, New York: TCM. This station only shows movies I've never found on video or DVD, and none of the movies is less than very good. So: I recommend MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, one of the only Bela Lugosi movies made for M-G-M. It was 1935 and Tod Browning himself directed. There is a scene of Lugosi running toward the camera which is about as terrifying as any shot of him ever filmed. There's also a bat which flies down from the ceiling and opens up, turning into a grown woman (an extremely modern-looking gal named Carol Borland.) The effect startled me, and then I read on IMDB that it took three weeks to get the shot. I thought it was animated, but Carol Borland (replacing a fainting stuntwoman) was suspended from wires. Already the vampire stuff was getting a campy treatment, but there is one scary opossum in it, making this a nifty movie.
Posted by: fred at October 23, 2006 01:09 AM
oh lord! i remember two scenes from happy birthday to me...didn't the jock get a big weight dropped on his crotch? that was erotic and horrifying! and then i think at the end, all the corpses had party hats on, sitting around the table? incredible images...must have been 25 yrs ago, but they stuck with me. i'm gonna have to look for that one, yikes!
Posted by: michael_karo at October 22, 2006 06:05 AM
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