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  

I'm turning 40 this October!

So to make this Horrorthon extra-celebratory, I put together a list of horror movies released in 1982 that are also turning 40 this year -- then eliminated about half of them: movies I've already seen many many times (The Thing, Poltergeist, Swamp Thing); sequels in franchises I don't intend to watch this round; anything not available streaming or from the library; and the ones that looked boring/stupid, or too grindhouse for me. The end result is a solid dirty-dozen that I hope to make it through this month!

Alone in the Dark
Basket Case
The Clairvoyant (a.k.a. The Killing Hour)
Creepshow
Death Valley
Forbidden World
The Living Dead Girl (La Morte Vivante)
Next of Kin
Nightbeast
Parasite
The Slayer
Tenebrae (Tenebre)

See the final results by viewing the 40birthday tag