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Posted by Frankie Lives In Hollywood (Member # 1781) on :
 
I have two, C.H.U.D and The Keep, I'm looking for these in DVD, anyone find these yet, heh heh -if at all [Razz] .
 
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
 
Devolution here,
I am resident arguer, but for your information CHUD does exist on DVD, last I checked anyway, CHUD II, not really.

We are DEVO
 
Posted by ERIC 31 (Member # 1793) on :
 
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD That's my fave low budget horror flick from the 80's. It's on DVD now too. Excellent!
 
Posted by Tomer Rave (Member # 539) on :
 
Evil Dead 1 & 2...
pure classic.
 
Posted by U2bonoman (Member # 1786) on :
 
I don't know how low the budget was, but "Fright Night" is my fave!
 
Posted by Banshee (Member # 1829) on :
 
'The Keep' is not available. For low-budget flicks I'd have to add 'The Gate'.
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
Sleep Away Camp, ans Summer Camp Nightmare. I love those grizzly "camp" movies. No pun intended.
 
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
 
Devolution here,
Summer Camp Nightmare, with Chuck Conners
a classic. When the band sings Beef Bologna.
I have Sleepaway Camp, loved it from childhood.

They don't make B movies like they used to.

We are DEVO
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
I agree! The cheese factor is very high in the low budget 80s horror flicks, but that makes them more likable.

My older sister and I loved those two films when we were kids. Sleep Away Camps sequels were awful and never did the first justice.

Well thats just my two cents.
 
Posted by retrohpink (Member # 1832) on :
 
Sleepaway Camp ^^

Liked it so much that I ordered it online and paid so much because I live in the end of the world and it came from us. It was worth it anyway. !!!
 
Posted by Jones4Rio (Member # 1848) on :
 
Actually, I really liked Sleepaway Camp II. It was funny. That's the one with Renee Estevez (Sheen).

Angela (Pamela Springsteen) kills someone with a drill, drowns Ally (the camp tramp) in a latrine (YUCK!) and there are a few other inventive murders that I can't remember. Angela was insane singing Coombayah and talking about fornication.

"Oh, I'm a happy camper
I love the summer sun
I love the trees and forest
I'm always having fun!"

I watched it a bajillion times. It always makes me think of "Scream for Help", cause they were my two goofy horror flicks for awhile.

Does anyone else have a special place in their heart for "Scream for Help"? I eventually shared the flick with my high school friends and it was one of the films we would recite the lines from and the most abstract times.

"what are you going do?" <rolls her eyes> "Get an abortion, of course!"
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
What about "Blades"? Did anyone like that film? I haven't seen it in awhile, it came out in 89. It's gross but really funny! People at a country club are being killed by a lawn mower! I reccomend you guys check it out if you haven't already!
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I must've missed SCREAM FOR HELP. was it a camper slasher flick?
 
Posted by Jones4Rio (Member # 1848) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by mamamiasweetpeaches:
I must've missed SCREAM FOR HELP. was it a camper slasher flick?

Naw, it's not. It's not super low budget, but it's super over-the-top and hilarious. I mean, how can you NOT laugh when our heroine is maniacally bicycling all over town stalking her stepfather who she thinks wants to murder her. I mean, it's crazy. Me and my friends would sing the Wicked Witch of the West theme song while she rode around town.

There's not much info on IMDB so here's the link to read the customer reviews on Amazon. It'll give you a good idea of what you're gonna get. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301651847/103-2354494-1207832

The screenplay is written by Tom Holland who wrote and directed "Fright Night" (an absolute favorite) and "Child's Play".

Corey Parker is the only recognizable person in the cast. Although the stepfather was in a big Grapenuts campaign in the early 90s.

I'm gonna have to buy one of the used copies. I'm getting a smile on my face just thinking about it.
 
Posted by Jones4Rio (Member # 1848) on :
 
Here's a write-up in "The Onion". There's a pic of the video box cover. Maybe it'll ring a couple of bells.


http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3734/fttf3734.html
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I just bid on a copy of it. If you say its hysteriacl,I am taking your word as gospel. I think Sleepaway Camps a rip and so do you,so we must be on the same "wave length"!
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
another So Bad Its Good is The Pit. Its about a disturbed little kid no one likes whose in obsessive lust with his babysitter(he deops silverware off the table to look up her skirt,he makes her give him baths) he finds a little colony of "monsters" living in the woods behind his house.They become his friends,they only eat people,he becomes thier "feeder". This movie might not even be so hysterical if the monsters werent so shoddy lookin....but the things a real cheapy,and very funny.
 
Posted by Gary Coleman For Governor (Member # 1853) on :
 
Bad Taste
Basket Case
Sleepaway Camp
Friday The 13th
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
Basket Case is great! Have you seen any of it's sequels? Of course they're not as good as the first butthey are quite entertaining.

Has anyone ever seen Wes Cravens 'Last House On The Left'? That's a classic. It was low budget because I think it was his first film or something. The thought of what happened in the movie kinda creeps me out. If you haven't seen it, check it out!
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
actually anyone who likes stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House On The left should check out the Rob Zombie movie.
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I vaguley remember this...so correct me if Im wrong...wasnt it one of the Basket Case movies where theres a prostitute who lives down the hall...and Basket Case crawls into bed with her????
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
I don't remember, it's been so long....

Does anybody rememebr "Waxwork" and "April Fools Day" ? Waxwork had kind of a good storyline, for an 80s horror flick. AFD, was plain funny with some hilarious death scenes. Deborah Foreman was in both films. You'd probably know her from Valley Girl.

There's also a low budget horror film I've been thinking of but can't remember the title. It might have been made in the late 70s. Some guy with an extra finger kills a bunch of people who are celebrating their high school reunion or something. I also remeber a clown and a priest. In the begining, I remember some kid walking out of a lake totaly dry. He just keeps walking. Anyone got a clue?
 
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
 
Devolution here,

Yeah, Ali, I remember them and remember them well. The problem is Waxwork was a Joe Bob Briggs special a long time ago, and April Fools Day was a bit nuts, with the kid and the boat in the beginning of the movie.

Your movie sounds a bit like Slaughter High, but I don't think that it is. Cinemax in the late 80's used to put on some good stuff horror wise for the fans out there.

We are DEVO
 
Posted by raygunxyz (Member # 1045) on :
 
There are too many to say, I love 80s horror film, that such camp feel to them, here are some great ones.

Return of the Living Dead (Do you wanna party, its party time)
Street Trash (Melting Homeless)
Slaughter High (Poor Marty)
Day of the Dead (Romero is GOD)
Elm Street Series (main stream -low budget)
Bad Taste (Gore-tastic)

......can't think of more but there are many
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
Joe Bob Briggs! Haha I remember his show on The Movie Channel(I think it was on there). Yeah those films weren't that great but if you watch them now it's hilarious!
I just watched Night Screams again the other day because my friend wanted to see it. I laugh every time the guy gets his face burned on the stove. It's also pretty funny when this girl gets squashed by a car. The movie isn't that great but a few scenes make it watchable.
 
Posted by retrohpink (Member # 1832) on :
 
I remembered one! Dead Alive AKA Braindead
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I SAW that "guy with an extra finger one. oh,man,what the hell was the name of it?????
 
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
 
My mind is still blank. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that film!
 
Posted by retrohpink (Member # 1832) on :
 
I bought one today.. I thought it was pretty good.
Its called "My Bloody Valentine" and its from 1981.

Lori Hallier is in it. I couldn't recognize her from anywhere but I know I saw her name in some other 80's movie. Anyone has a guess?
 
Posted by autumncricket (Member # 1875) on :
 
Guys: I know this was originally released in 1978, but for those of us living in towns that were behind the times, I saw it for the first time in the 80's....I know EVERYONE remembers "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE"
 
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
Of course I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE!!! You dont officially get inducted into a teenager until you've seen I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and PIECES.
 
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
 
i really like STUDENT BODIES.
total horror cheese!
the "breather" was too funny
the body count that flashed on the screen was classic [Big Grin]
 


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