We All Go A Little Crazy Sometimes: How Psycho Defied Hollywood to Become Horror’s Enduring Linchpin
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The Greatest Horror Movies from Each Year of the 1980s
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Miami Connection (1987)
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The Best Around? John Avildsen Treads Familiar Territory in The Karate Kid Part III
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Pitchforks & Puritanism: Creative Violence Reigns Supreme in The Prowler
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Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe (1991)
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This Month In… February (1986)
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Silent Rage (1982)
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Amityville 3-D (1983)
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Deep Space (1988)
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Stranger Things Have Happened: Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy
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Don’t Dream It’s Over: Ranking the Original A Nightmare On Elm Street Series
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Postnatal Recession: How The Dream Child Cemented Fred Krueger’s Decline
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The Banality of Evil: Fear, Fundamentalism & Telekinetic Fury in Brian De Palma’s Carrie
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Class of 1999 (1990)
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Playing Dirty… It’s Just Been Revoked: The Fascinating Story of Lethal Weapon 2
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House III: The Horror Show (1989)
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Jason Lives! The Death & Rebirth of Friday the 13th
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The Bomb that Will Bring Us Together: Miracle Mile’s Quirky Reflections on Nuclear Holocaust
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Dead or Alive, We’re Going With Three: Robocop 3 & the Death of Orion Pictures
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Hospital Massacre (1981)
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The Power of Nostalgia: Back to the Future Part II
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This Month In… August (1987)
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Zombie Politics & Social Unrest: Beneath the Rotting Flesh of Dawn of the Dead
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Scream and Scream Again: A Brief History of Video Nasties
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Eliminators (1986)
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Evilspeak (1981)
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Cops Are Cops All Over the World: Walter Hill’s Red Heat
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Dead Heat (1988)
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Pin (1988)
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Savage Streets (1984)
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Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
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Just The Beginning: The Cold Reality of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
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Demons (1985)
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Ghosts in the Machine: Runaway & the Digital Revolution
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Child’s Play 2 (1990)
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American Ninja (1985)
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Stage Fright (1987)
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Throwing Up Bricks: White Men Can’t Jump’s Bittersweet Courtship
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Murder by Phone (1982)
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Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing
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Snuffed Out: Cannibal Holocaust & the Rise of the Video Nasty
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Fly Me to the Moon: E.T.’s Timeless Magic
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April Fool’s Day (1986)
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Three Times the Danger? Alien 3 & the Perils of the Perfect Trilogy
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The Devil Within Her (1975)
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Lurking on the Periphery: the Anomalous Friday the 13th Part 2
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Laurie without Michael: The Final Girl Finishing School
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Dream and Dream Again: How The Dream Warriors Revived a Stumbling Franchise
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Death Comes To Your Town: The Suburban Horrors of John Carpenter’s Halloween
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Off the Record, On the QT, and Very Hush-Hush: L.A. Confidential at 25
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The World is Yours: The Rise & Fall of Scarface
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Remote. Control. The Visionary World of Videodrome
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When Enough is Enough: Halloween II & the Curse of the Horror Sequel
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Hip to Be Scared: The Sharp, Satirical Pleasures of American Psycho
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The Resurrection Blues: How Seconds Exposes a Great American Grift
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Where the Hell Was I? The Infantile Genius of The Naked Gun Trilogy
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Land of the Rising Son: Mr Miyagi & The Karate Kid
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Only in a Re-Run: How The Running Man’s Cartoon Dystopia Continues to Grow in Relevance
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An Incurably Immaculate Anthology: Welcome to the Amicus Asylum
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The Fury of Love: Dissolution and Duplicity in Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession
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You Only Live Twice: 007 Succumbs to Style Over Substance
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Shaving the Bone: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Horror’s Red-Headed Stepmother: How Friday the 13th Became a Series Outcast
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For Mathilda: The Problematic Pleasures of Leon: The Professional
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That Same Old Song: Sea of Love’s Old School Seduction
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Days of Thunder: James Bond Takes on Nuclear Terrorists in Thunderball
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Dragonwyck: A Masterpiece of the Gothic
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The Seventies Unzipped: Dirk Diggler Shoots for the Stars in Boogie Nights
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Slay-Bells and Serial Killers: The Curious Story of Black Christmas
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Hot in the City: Predator 2 is a Sequel Worth Revisiting
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Sleepaway Camp (1983)
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Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: The Exquisite Terror of Dario Argento’s Suspiria
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When Beauty is the Beast: The Carnal Pleasures of Black Sunday
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Don’t Look Now: Peeping Tom is the Proto-Slasher they Didn’t Want You to See
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Beyond the Door III aka Amok Train (1989)
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This is Your Brain On Drugs: A Brief History of Narcotics in Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage
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How The Wolfman Got His Nards Back: Revisiting Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad
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Phase IV: Super-Intelligent Ants Take on Man in a 70s Sci-fi Head-Scratcher
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The Future of Law Enforcement? How Robocop 2 Dented a Budding Franchise
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Pieces (1982)
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You’re So Cool, Brewster: Fright Night & the Postmodern Vampire
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A Prelude to Death: Ranking the Friday the 13th Posters
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Liking Scary Movies: Scream & the 90s Horror Revolution
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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
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Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: Boyz N the Hood’s Enduring Power
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Time to Bleed: Arnie Meets His Match in John McTiernan’s Predator
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Godspeed, Jason Voorhees: Planting a Flag For Jason X
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This Month In… June (1984)
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Mausoleum (1983)
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Leave Those Kids Alone: Cannon’s Death Wish II
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Riding with the Griswolds: The Exquisite Ironies of National Lampoon’s Vacation
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This Month In… May (1988)
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The Boogey Man (1980)
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Who Am I Here? The Stepfather & the Decline of the Serial Killer
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Cop Land & the Search For Stallone
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
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Samurai Cop (1991)
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You’re So Cool: True Romance; A Pop Culture Fairy Tale
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Today is Tommorow: Groundhog Day & the Postmodern Parable
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