Superstition (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #35 🔥 40th Anniversary

Watched on Amazon (rental) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Forbidden World (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #32 🔥 40th Anniversary

  This was WILD!! Absolutely GRUESOME.

Watched FREE on Youtube 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Next of Kin (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #28 🔥 40th Anniversary

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Nightbeast (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #22 🔥 40th Anniversary

I knew the instant I saw "A Troma Team Release" pop up on the screen that this was going to be a trashterpiece, and it did not disappoint -- from the sheriff's salt-n-pepper perm, to the infomercial-grade acting, to the Nightbeast's snaggletoothed, sometimes-a-puppet face... and something like 3 minutes of softcore porn happens at one point?🤷️

Prepare yourself for the best of the worst!
Fight scenes! Shootouts! Gratuitous nudity! Exclamations!
You'll laugh/cackle! You'll eyeroll! You'll shout profanities at the screen!

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Alone in the Dark (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #19 🔥 40th Anniversary

One of the better horror flicks to come out of 1982, with immensely creepy performances from Jack Palance and Martin Landau.

Watched FREE on YouTube 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Basket Case (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #5 🔥 40th Anniversary

To try to explain all the ways in which this movie was horrible is impossible.

The characters' behavior and the actors' performances were straight out of a bad porno tape. The Foley tech was FROM HELL! and apparently "Belial" (the deformed creature) was attempting to have sex with the corpse of a woman he murdered?! AWFUL!!

I've read articles that say this movie is groundbreaking, and I just absolutely cannot understand the reasoning behind that viewpoint -- it's👏just👏garbage.👏
          Even "for 1982":  it's👏garbage.👏
                    Even "for low-budget 1982":  it's👏garbage.👏
                              Garbage👏garbage👏garbage👏TRASH!👏

Watched this garbage on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTubeNO  

Creepshow (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #3 🔥 40th Anniversary

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2021 #3

Ah yes, the Halloween movie that actually has nothing to do with the Halloween franchise (at least how it continued after), and Michael Myers isn't even in it. Not sure what they were thinking with this one.✱

✱My horror-movie-friend informed me that they were attempting to make the Halloween franchise more of an anthology with this release -- not built around a central character, but standalone stories that occur on Halloween night. I had never heard that before, so I looked it up and that is indeed true! Apparently the plan did not go over well, audiences were confused, so they nixed the anthology series idea. (find out more: The Untold Truth of John Carpenter's Halloween)

Those masks are sweeeeeet, tho. Like, who doesn't want all three of those?!

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2019 #1

If you're into horror movies that make you yell at the screen things like "wtf, seriously?!" and "no, don't do that! why are you doing the dumbest thing?!" then this is the movie for you.😆

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube