Date with a Flamethrower, Melty Masks, and This House Is Clean. The Horrors of 1982.

Welcome to 1982 creeps. Usually, I hate remakes. Once in a while there is a remake that actually has something to say or improves on an original film. John Carpenter's The Thing is probably the best remake ever made. In fact it's one of my favorite horror films ever. The original film is awesome but this one's got the scares in spades. So let's talk Halloween. Audiences in '82 went to see Halloween III thinking they were going to get more of Michael Myers killing teens but John Carpenter and co had another thing in mind. Super moody and spooky. Some people don't care for this sequel. I freaking love it. Then you got some wholesome family horror in Poltergeist. I saw it with my mom in the theater when I was a little kid. I was super scared and I loved every second of it. 

 1982

1. The Thing (Directed by John Carpenter)

IMDB plot: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace)

IMDB plot: Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.

3. Poltergeist (Directed by Tobe Hooper)

IMDB plot: A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Bonus film!!! Get out your murder gloves.

Tenebre (Directed by Dario Argento)

IMDB plot: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Redrum, Stay Away from the Fog, and This Place is Doomed. The Horror of 1980.

Welcome to the 1980s spooksters. I have some gnarly treats for you that will totally barf you out. So The Shining is my favorite film. There, I've said it. I have probably watched it a hundred times. I like to just put it on when I'm doing the dishes or falling asleep. Yeah, I love it. I don't know what that says about me but there you go. Then you have one of my favorite film soundtracks ever in The Fog. Carpenter is such a genius. The score just elevates that film to amazingly spooky levels. So... at The WORLD HORROR CONVENTION in Seattle many years back a little old lady creeped up behind me and whispered in my ear "Kill her, mommy. Kill her." I whipped around a little freaked out and it was Betsy Palmer from Friday the 13th grinning back at me. We hugged and I said she was the coolest and we talked about her making the film. She was the raddest, sweetest person. RIP.

 1980

1. The Shining (Directed by Stanley Kubrick)

IMDB plot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

2. The Fog (Directed by John Carpenter)

IMDB plot: An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

3. Friday the 13th (Directed by Sean S. Cunningham)

IMDB plot: A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child's drowning and a grisly double murder years before.

Alright creepos, now that we are in the 1980s there are so many good horror films that only listing my top three seems so unfair. So I may be adding bonus films to a lot of these years. More work for me but more spooky for you. 

Bonus films!!!

Watch George C Scott fight a child ghost.

The Changeling (Directed by Peter Medak)

IMDB plot: After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at an old mansion is dragged into a decades-old murder of a child by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.

Watch witches under neon lights. Wear your murder gloves for this one.

Inferno (Directed by Dario Argento)IMDB plot: An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.