80's Flick Flashback
May 14, 2021

#30 - "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) with Charlie Cotter

For about 95% of its runtime, this '80s slasher flick operates as an oddly bloodless, weirdly sexless, and overall kind of annoying ripoff of "Friday the 13th". Writer and director Robert Hiltzik mines little tension from his story of a youth summer camp besieged by a killer dumping boiling water on pervy camp cooks and stabbing counselors in the shower, "Psycho"-style. It's all very rote and by-the-bloody-books until the film's final minutes, when a last-s…

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#30 - "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) with Charlie Cotter
April 16, 2021

#28 - "The Evil Dead" (1981) with Laramy Wells from the "Moving Panels" Podcast

From Peter Jackson to Edgar Wright, this 80’s flick has influenced many of today’s biggest Hollywood directors. As it should. Famous for its practical effects and then-unprecedented amount of gore, this low-budget 1981 horror...

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#28 - "The Evil Dead" (1981) with Laramy Wells from the "Moving Panels" Podcast
Nov. 13, 2020

#17 "Friday the 13th" (1980) with Ron West

Legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès is often credited with making the first ever horror movie, which was called was The Haunted Castle. Horror movies have no doubt evolved since the early days with many filmmakers now relying...

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#17 "Friday the 13th" (1980) with Ron West
Oct. 30, 2020

#16 - “Halloween II” (1981) with Ron West

Most long-running horror franchises have that one installment which was legitimately supposed to, but ultimately, did not end the franchise. Some have several of them. In Hollywood, producers (and sometimes audiences) will qu...

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#16 - “Halloween II” (1981) with Ron West
Aug. 21, 2020

#11 - “Aliens” (1986) with Laramy Wells

In 1986, young up and coming writer-director, James Cameron, took the tall task of tackling a sequel to director Ridley Scott's space-thriller, "Alien". With returning cast member, Sigorney Weaver, he not only moved the stor...

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#11 - “Aliens” (1986) with Laramy Wells
July 10, 2020

#8 - “Predator” (1987) with Laramy Wells

Released in on June 12, 1987, up and coming director John McTiernan’s second film introduced action and horror fans to a brand new kind of extra-terrestrial threat. It was a bonafide box office hit when released due to its st...

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#8 - “Predator” (1987) with Laramy Wells
May 29, 2020

#5 - “The Shining” (1980) with Laramy Wells

In 1980, director Stanley Kubrick, released a film that would haunt and terrify audiences for years to come. His own adaptation of a best-selling Steven King novel has split audiences and critics, some calling it an “overrea...

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#5 - “The Shining” (1980) with Laramy Wells