VHS Revival: A Retro Movie Magazine

Category: Horror

1989 80s Action Comedy Horror This Month In . . .

This Month In… July (1989)

Posted on November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1960 60s Horror VHS Gold

We All Go A Little Crazy Sometimes: How Psycho Defied Hollywood to Become Horror’s Enduring Linchpin

Posted on November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

80s Features Horror

The Greatest Horror Movies from Each Year of the 1980s

Posted on October 1, 2025November 24, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1981 80s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Pitchforks & Puritanism: Creative Violence Reigns Supreme in The Prowler

Posted on March 14, 2025August 24, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1982 80s Action Cult VHS Horror Sci-fi Slasher

Silent Rage (1982)

Posted on February 10, 2025July 16, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1983 80s Cult VHS Horror

Amityville 3-D (1983)

Posted on February 8, 2025June 29, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief6

1988 80s Action Cult VHS Horror Sci-fi

Deep Space (1988)

Posted on January 18, 2025July 6, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

80s 90s Features Freddy Krueger Horror

Don’t Dream It’s Over: Ranking the Original A Nightmare On Elm Street Series

Posted on December 19, 2024March 3, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1989 80s Freddy Krueger Horror VHS Gold

Postnatal Recession: How The Dream Child Cemented Fred Krueger’s Decline

Posted on November 20, 2024June 22, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

1976 70s Drama Horror VHS Gold

The Banality of Evil: Fear, Fundamentalism & Telekinetic Fury in Brian De Palma’s Carrie

Posted on October 26, 2024April 15, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1989 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

House III: The Horror Show (1989)

Posted on October 14, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1986 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

Jason Lives! The Death & Rebirth of Friday the 13th

Posted on October 11, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1981 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Hospital Massacre (1981)

Posted on August 18, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1978 70s Horror VHS Gold

Zombie Politics & Social Unrest: Beneath the Rotting Flesh of Dawn of the Dead

Posted on July 29, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

60s 70s 80s Features Horror Slasher

Scream and Scream Again: A Brief History of Video Nasties

Posted on July 27, 2023October 17, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

1981 80s Cult VHS Horror

Evilspeak (1981)

Posted on June 27, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

1988 80s Action Comedy Cult VHS Horror

Dead Heat (1988)

Posted on June 13, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1988 80s Cult VHS Horror Thriller

Pin (1988)

Posted on June 7, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1988 80s Comedy Cult VHS Exploitation Horror

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

Posted on April 18, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1984 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

Just The Beginning: The Cold Reality of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter

Posted on April 13, 2023November 26, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1985 80s Cult VHS Horror

Demons (1985)

Posted on April 8, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1990 90s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Child’s Play 2 (1990)

Posted on March 29, 2023May 14, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1987 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Stage Fright (1987)

Posted on March 23, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1982 80s Cult VHS Horror Sci-fi Slasher Thriller

Murder by Phone (1982)

Posted on March 3, 2023April 10, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1982 80s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing

Posted on February 21, 2023September 24, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief7

1980 80s Horror VHS Gold Video Nasties

Snuffed Out: Cannibal Holocaust & the Rise of the Video Nasty

Posted on January 2, 2023March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1986 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

April Fool’s Day (1986)

Posted on October 29, 2022April 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1992 90s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Three Times the Danger? Alien 3 & the Perils of the Perfect Trilogy

Posted on October 28, 2022June 10, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1975 70s Cult VHS Horror

The Devil Within Her (1975)

Posted on October 22, 2022March 1, 2025 by chris chaka0

1981 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

Lurking on the Periphery: the Anomalous Friday the 13th Part 2

Posted on October 16, 2022February 28, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

70s 80s 90s Features Horror

Laurie without Michael: The Final Girl Finishing School

Posted on October 12, 2022March 3, 2025 by Rob Kotecki0

1978 70s Horror Michael Myers Slasher VHS Gold

Death Comes To Your Town: The Suburban Horrors of John Carpenter’s Halloween

Posted on October 4, 2022October 25, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1983 80s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Remote. Control. The Visionary World of Videodrome

Posted on August 2, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1981 80s Horror Michael Myers Slasher VHS Gold

When Enough is Enough: Halloween II & the Curse of the Horror Sequel

Posted on July 20, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

00s 2000 Comedy Horror VHS Gold

Hip to Be Scared: The Sharp, Satirical Pleasures of American Psycho

Posted on July 11, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1972 70s Horror VHS Gold

An Incurably Immaculate Anthology: Welcome to the Amicus Asylum

Posted on June 16, 2022March 1, 2025 by Johnny Restall0

1981 80s Drama Horror Thriller VHS Gold

The Fury of Love: Dissolution and Duplicity in Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession

Posted on May 31, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1986 80s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Shaving the Bone: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Posted on May 6, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1980 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

Horror’s Red-Headed Stepmother: How Friday the 13th Became a Series Outcast

Posted on April 19, 2022May 9, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief6

1987 80s Freddy Krueger Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Dream and Dream Again: How The Dream Warriors Revived a Stumbling Franchise

Posted on February 26, 2022March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1974 70s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Slay-Bells and Serial Killers: The Curious Story of Black Christmas

Posted on December 15, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1990 90s Action Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Hot in the City: Predator 2 is a Sequel Worth Revisiting

Posted on December 2, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief8

1983 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Posted on November 25, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief8

1977 70s Horror VHS Gold

Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: The Exquisite Terror of Dario Argento’s Suspiria

Posted on October 29, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1960 60s Horror VHS Gold

When Beauty is the Beast: The Carnal Pleasures of Black Sunday

Posted on October 27, 2021March 1, 2025 by Rob Kotecki0

1960 60s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Don’t Look Now: Peeping Tom is the Proto-Slasher they Didn’t Want You to See

Posted on October 23, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1989 80s Cult VHS Horror

Beyond the Door III aka Amok Train (1989)

Posted on October 12, 2021March 1, 2025 by chris chaka1

1988 Exploitation Horror VHS Gold

This is Your Brain On Drugs: A Brief History of Narcotics in Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage

Posted on October 8, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1974 70s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Phase IV: Super-Intelligent Ants Take on Man in a 70s Sci-fi Head-Scratcher

Posted on October 3, 2021March 1, 2025 by Richard Brownell1

1982 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Pieces (1982)

Posted on September 8, 2021March 11, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1985 80s Comedy Horror Vampire VHS Gold

You’re So Cool, Brewster: Fright Night & the Postmodern Vampire

Posted on August 21, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

80s 90s Features Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher

A Prelude to Death: Ranking the Friday the 13th Posters

Posted on August 12, 2021March 3, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1996 90s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Liking Scary Movies: Scream & the 90s Horror Revolution

Posted on August 4, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1985 80s Action Cult VHS Horror Martial Arts

Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Posted on July 19, 2021October 5, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

2001 Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

Godspeed, Jason Voorhees: Planting a Flag For Jason X

Posted on June 22, 2021April 26, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1983 80s Cult VHS Horror

Mausoleum (1983)

Posted on June 4, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

1980 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

The Boogey Man (1980)

Posted on April 23, 2021August 29, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1987 80s Horror Thriller VHS Gold

Who Am I Here? The Stepfather & the Decline of the Serial Killer

Posted on April 9, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

1987 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

Posted on March 10, 2021March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

1982 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

The Man Behind the Mask: Friday the 13th Part III & the Birth of a Horror Icon

Posted on November 12, 2020October 9, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief10

1986 80s Comedy Horror Musical VHS Gold

A Mean, Green Mother: The Delicious Delights of Little Shop of Horrors

Posted on October 29, 2020May 7, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1971 70s Horror VHS Gold

You Stepped Out of A Nightmare: The Abominable Dr Phibes

Posted on October 26, 2020March 1, 2025 by palewriter23

70s 80s 90s Features Horror

He Came, You Saw: Ranking the Halloween Franchise Posters

Posted on October 23, 2020March 3, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

70s Features Horror

The Real Umberto Lenzi: A Better Director Than You Think

Posted on October 21, 2020March 3, 2025 by avorkov5

1978 70s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Don’t Believe the Hive: Consumerism & Nonconformity in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Posted on October 18, 2020March 1, 2025 by Richard Brownell2

60s 70s 80s 90s Features Horror

To Hell and Back: VHS Revival’s Bumper Halloween Quiz 2

Posted on October 15, 2020March 3, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

2001 Drama Horror Thriller VHS Gold

Father Knows Best: The Old Testament Terrors of Frailty

Posted on October 12, 2020March 1, 2025 by Rob Kotecki0

1974 70s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Scared Out of Your Skin: The Twisted Terrors of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Posted on October 9, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief5

1996 90s Comedy Horror VHS Gold

No Rest For the Wicked: Spooks & Serial Killers in Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners

Posted on October 6, 2020March 1, 2025 by markanthonyayling3

1972 70s Horror VHS Gold

Only A Movie: The Lasting Impact of the Last House On The Left

Posted on October 2, 2020March 1, 2025 by chris chaka1

1988 80s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

The Late Pretender: Halloween 4; The Return of Michael Myers

Posted on July 28, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1982 80s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Kill the Girl: The Slumber Party Massacre’s Feminist Flirtations

Posted on July 17, 2020October 11, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1998 90s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

When Carpenter Met Craven: Halloween H20’s Unholy Alliance

Posted on June 15, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

80s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold VHS Reboots

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: Body Horror & Insect Politics in David Cronenberg’s The Fly

Posted on May 28, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

70s Cult VHS Exploitation Horror Thriller

The Baby (1973)

Posted on May 13, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

90s Freddy Krueger Horror Slasher VHS Gold

The Kids Are Alright: The Dream Master & Krueger’s Rise to Commercial Superstardom

Posted on May 5, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1986 80s Comedy Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Once Bitten, Twice Wry: Critters is a Monument to 80s Monster Magic

Posted on April 21, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief6

1988 80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

The Bold & the Bloodless: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Posted on April 15, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief10

1973 70s Cult VHS Horror Sci-fi

The Crazies (1973)

Posted on April 13, 2020March 1, 2025 by chris chaka2

80s Horror Jason Voorhees Slasher VHS Gold

The Beginning of the End? Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning

Posted on April 2, 2020March 22, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief6

1985 80s Freddy Krueger Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Dream Lover: The Incomparable Freddy’s Revenge

Posted on March 27, 2020October 11, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief8

1982 80s Horror VHS Gold

A Bug in the Brain: Amityville II: The Possession

Posted on March 21, 2020October 26, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1980 80s Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Where is the Love? My Bloody Valentine & the Rise of Jason Voorhees

Posted on March 17, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1992 90s Adventure Comedy Cult VHS Fantasy Horror

Army of Darkness (1992)

Posted on March 6, 2020March 1, 2025 by chris chaka1

80s Horror Thriller VHS Gold

You Can’t Believe Everything: Brian De Palma’s Body Double is a Surreal, Seductive Delight

Posted on March 2, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1990 90s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Night Killer (1990)

Posted on February 18, 2020March 10, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief6

1985 80s Cult VHS Horror

Cat’s Eye (1985)

Posted on February 11, 2020March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1984 90s Action Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Rise of the Machine: James Cameron’s The Terminator

Posted on January 21, 2020May 11, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief3

1990 90s Horror Thriller VHS Gold

A Cock-A-Doodie Nightmare: Misery & the Reign of Annie Wilkes

Posted on January 15, 2020March 2, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1980 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

New Year’s Evil (1980)

Posted on December 30, 2019March 1, 2025 by chris chaka1

1980 80s Comedy Crime Cult VHS Horror

Fade to Black (1980)

Posted on December 27, 2019March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief2

1984 80s Comedy Horror VHS Gold

Jingle Hell Rock: How Gremlins Almost Ruined Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2019March 2, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief7

2003 Freddy Krueger Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Don’t Call Me Bitch! Freddy vs Jason: A Battle for the Ages

Posted on December 13, 2019March 2, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1987 80s Cult VHS Horror Slasher

Blood Rage (1987)

Posted on November 25, 2019March 1, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

Horror VHS Gold VHS Reboots

Ugly Doll? Child’s Play & Chucky’s 21st Century Incarnation

Posted on November 18, 2019March 2, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief0

1984 80s Freddy Krueger Horror Slasher VHS Gold

Never Sleep Again: How A Nightmare On Elm Street Redefined the Slasher

Posted on November 1, 2019November 16, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief4

1982 80s Horror VHS Gold

The Twisted Moralities of Creepshow

Posted on October 30, 2019March 2, 2025 by chris chaka0

60s 70s 80s 90s Features Horror

Hell Hath No Fury: VHS Revival’s Bumper Halloween Quiz

Posted on October 29, 2019September 20, 2025 by Edison Smith Editor-in-Chief18

1981 80s Horror Sci-fi VHS Gold

Scanners: The Horror Movie That is Really a Thriller

Posted on October 28, 2019March 2, 2025 by Richard Brownell0

1987 80s Comedy Horror VHS Gold

Evil Dead 2: Or How They Made The Sequel To The Ultimate in Gruelling Terror

Posted on October 26, 2019March 2, 2025 by markanthonyayling1