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vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks! Appreciate you taking the time. I remember being terrified of the poster when I was a boy. I don't think I actually saw it until my teens even though I watched a lot of horror back then. Scarier stuff. But that image really had an impact so it's always fascinated me on some level.

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 3h

It does. And odd blend. Some of those scenes that were clearly shoehorned in to cash in on Krueger are so deliriously silly they're actually a lot of fun. And what about that bizarre ending? That idea belongs to the then president of WB Mark Canton. 🤣

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7h

Agreed on all accounts. Would love to see their vision. DF may be silly as hell, but I agree there's something fascinating about the oddball theatrical cut. Thoroughly enjoyable.

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7h

#BobClark's festive #horror #BlackChristmas, released #OTD, is considered the first fleshed-out #slasher by many, with a deeply unsettling POV menace who drew comparisons with Ted Bundy 4 years after the fact

Here's a deep dive for #Halloween 👇

#80s

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Slay-Bells and Serial Killers: The Curious Story of Black Christmas

Black Christmas was one hell of a unique movie back in 1974. Despite its relative anonymity among the big slasher franchises, many regard the film, released on the exact same day as Tobe Hooper&#82…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7h

#TobeHooper's seminal proto-#slasher #TheTexasChainsawMassacre, released #OTD, remains a stripped-back, visceral classic of excruciating proportions

A must for any #Halloween #horror marathon

Here's a warts and all deep dive 👇

#Halloween2025 #70s

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Scared Out of Your Skin: The Twisted Terrors of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was meant as a comedy; just take a moment to process that. After the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 more than a decade later, a madcap homage to the wild exces…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 1d

#WesCraven's first major studio #movie #DeadlyFriend, released #OTD, bombed thanks to studio interference that changed it from a serious #scifi drama into a Krueger aping #horror

Here's the fascinating story behind a fascinating #film 👇

#Halloween

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Deadly Friend: Krueger & the Near-Demise of Wes Craven

Wes Craven was never one to rest on his laurels. A creative force who twice redefined the slasher genre, he would earn a reputation as one of horror’s most innovative directors thanks to a se…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 2d

Golden age #Slasher #TheProwler was released #OTD

Despite some pacing issues, it's one of the most memorable of the era due to some killer SFX by Tom Savini, who cited the #movie as some of his greatest work

Definitely worth watching for #Halloween2025

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Pitchforks & Puritanism: Creative Violence Reigns Supreme in The Prowler

In the realms of slasher exploitation, The Prowler begins rather curiously. The Italian giallo’s bastard offspring represents a generational shift in terms of what was acceptable as entertain…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 3d

A calculated business move by director #MartinScorsese to get the studios back onside after a run of brilliant but unsuccessful #movies, pool shark drama #TheColorofMoney, released #OTD, still hits all the right notes

Here's a look at an #80s classic 👇

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For the Love of the Con: Fast Eddie & The Color of Money

The Color of Money doesn’t really feel like a Scorsese movie; his thumbprint is visible, but it doesn’t seem to carry his DNA. Here we have characters that you invest in, that you remem…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 3d

#Horror through appliances thriller #MurderbyPhone was released #OTD

As ludicrous as it sounds but well worth your time, some of the #movie's murders are pricelessly OTT

Here's a look back 👇

#80s #Halloween #Halloween2025

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Murder by Phone (1982)

The horror-through appliances sub-genre was all the rage back in the early 1980s. Once again Steven Spielberg was at the heart of it with Poltergeist, a wildly successful supernatural horror direct…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 6d

My favourite cut of #RidleyScott's innovative #scifi classic #BladeRunner, The Final Cut, was released #OTD in 2007

The various cuts are one of many things that make this #film so special

Here's a look at the #movie & the creative giants behind it 👇

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Conflict & Flames: Blade Runner’s Dazzling Depiction of a Posthuman World

Blade Runner may lack the relentless action of some of cinema’s best-loved sci-fi hits, but what it has in abundance is beauty. There are many versions of the director’s 1982 classic, b…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7d

🤣👌

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7d

Arnie action vehicle #Commando was released #OTD

Fresh off #TheTerminator, the actor would quickly develop into a wisecracking Hollywood icon, & #Commando's endlessly quotable, self-aware screenplay kicked it off in style

Let off some steam, Bennett 👇

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Letting Off Steam: Gung-Ho Tactics & Sexual Tension in Commando

A year after shooting to superstardom as a relentless cyborg assassin in James Cameron’s The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger would return with a bigger profile, bigger budget and bigger exp…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7d

Arnie action vehicle #Commando was released #OTD

Fresh off #TheTerminator, the actor would quickly develop into a wisecracking Hollywood icon, & #Commando's endlessly quotable, self-aware screenplay kicked it off in style

Let off some steam, Bennett 👇

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Letting Off Steam: Gung-Ho Tactics & Sexual Tension in Commando

A year after shooting to superstardom as a relentless cyborg assassin in James Cameron’s The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger would return with a bigger profile, bigger budget and bigger exp…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7d

Lamberto Bava's meta gorefest #Demons, released #OTD, is an insane, smash-mouth #horror with vomit-inducing SFX & a healthy dose of the ridiculous

Certainly one to sink your teeth into this #Halloween2025 👇

#80s #80smovies #80shorror

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If you’re an old school horror fan you’ll know all about the censorship crusades of the MPAA and BBFC during the early 1980s, a tabloid-driven crusade that would, in a somewhat duplicit…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 7d

The short-lived, Reagan era 3-D revival focused mainly on #horror, & was pretty lame for the most part

It did, however, produce the silliest, most brutal #Fridaythe13th instalment of the era

Here's a look back at a camp genre classic 👇

#Halloween2025

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The Man Behind the Mask: Friday the 13th Part III & the Birth of a Horror Icon

Jason Voorhees was still very much a character in transition back in 1982. That may sound like a spurious statement given the character’s stalk-and-slash simplicity, but he was far from the f…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 10d

@VHSRevival's #shocktober begins here for fans of the #80s, as we choose the best #horror #movie from each year of the decade

Honourable mentions and far-out fright sections may be beneficial to any potential #Halloween schedule

Happy planning 👇
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The Greatest Horror Movies from Each Year of the 1980s

It was the decade of the slasher, of the franchise killer, of a numbered sequel formula that gave us eight Friday the 13th movies in nine years. It was also the era of the horror reboot, of censor …

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 16d

Damiano Damiani's grim #horror sequel #Amityville 2: The Possession was released #OTD

Indecorously tackling incest, domestic abuse and demonic possession, this one scared the living shit out of me as a kid

Any memories of this one?

#80s #80smovies

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A Bug in the Brain: Amityville II: The Possession

1979’s The Amityville Horror never really spoke to me. I mean, I get it. It has that ‘based on true events’ aura, an iconic house that glows with a vague sentience, a rather fine …

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 23d

#MartinScorsese's transformative gangster epic #Goodfellas was released in theatres #OTD

A timeless, breathless #movie that still feels vital, it would redefine the genre stylistically

How highly would you rank this one in the director's filmography?

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Crime’s Whirlwind Romance: How Goodfellas Redefined the Gangster Genre

More than a quarter of a century after its release, it’s easy to underestimate the level of impact that Goodfellas had on modern cinema. There had been seminal gangster movies before, but Mar…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · 26d

#Cannon #Films cult classic Ninja III: The Domination was released #OTD in 1984

A heady blend of #horror, #martialarts & MTV, it has to be a contender for the most bizarre #movie Golan-Globus ever produced

And that's saying something...

#80smovies #80s

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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

God bless you Cannon Group; I mean, truly. I’m convinced that if a handful of the world’s greatest comedy directors were locked in a room together, years later they’d still have f…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Sep 9

#WesCraven revitalised the moribund ANOES franchise with meta-infused #Scream blueprint #NewNightmare, which screened at the #TIFF #OTD in 1994

Here's a look at an underrated, & at the time largely misunderstood, #horror classic 👇

#90s #90smovies

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He’s Coming For You: New Nightmare’s Meta Experiment

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is one of those movies that was simply lost on people. This was especially true for those who had caught Freddy fever during the character’s late 80s pomp, ma…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Sep 1

My favourite cut of #RidleyScott's influential #scifi classic #BladeRunner, The Final Cut, screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival #OTD

I rewatched it last week & it still looks and sounds incredible

Here's a deep dive 👇

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Conflict & Flames: Blade Runner’s Dazzling Depiction of a Posthuman World

Blade Runner may lack the relentless action of some of cinema’s best-loved sci-fi hits, but what it has in abundance is beauty. There are many versions of the director’s 1982 classic, b…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nice description. It's pretty messed up

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Sep 1

#GeorgeRomero's #zombie masterpiece #DawnoftheDead, perhaps the best of his superlative original trilogy, premiered in Torino, Italy #OTD

Breaking boundaries with it's OTT gore effects, the #movie still proved to be so much more 👇

#horror #movies

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Zombie Politics & Social Unrest: Beneath the Rotting Flesh of Dawn of the Dead

Crude, wooden, repetitive, stupefyingly obvious, banal & incoherent were just some of the words used to describe horror maestro George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead back in 1978. Predictably, th…

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's a unique film that's for sure.

vhsrevival.bsky.social @vhsrevival.bsky.social · Aug 30

#MichaelDudikoff replaced a reluctant #ChuckNorris to star in Golan-Globus classic #AmericanNinja released #OTD

The #movie proved hugely popular on VHS in an era of Cannon Films action, thanks largely to the chemistry of Dudikoff & the late #SteveJames 👇
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American Ninja (1985)

Michael Dudikoff wasn’t much of a martial artist, but for a brief period during the mid-1980s he was a hero to kids across America, and he owes it all to American Ninja. He also owes a little…