80S HORROR

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- (sighs) So, doesn't this
remind you of something out of an ' 80s horror film?

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You can't talk about ' 80s horror and not mention
the Scanners head blowing up.

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Cat People is an unusual moment in ' 80s horror because it's this attempt at legitimacy.

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Sa, sa..." And it's like
I've got my own personalized ' 80s horror movie soundtrack
playing.

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' 80s horror was a good time for villains because
it started to get a little heightened.

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But for me as a kid growing up watching '80s
horror it was about watching women persevere. | But for me as a kid growing up watching '80s
horror it was about watching women persevere.

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I think that's one of the fun things about
' 80s horror is you see a lot of actors who now have gone onto do like prestige movies,
these big things but they're all in these like weird quirky little roles in '80s horror
and you're like "Wow, that's kind of

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I think the whole reason for repeated viewing
of horror movies particularly the ' 80s horror movies was that it was very cathartic.

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And her sobs at the end of that are maybe
one of the most real moments of ' 80s horror I've ever seen.

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What Joel did was he took those tropes and
he's like bridging the cinema of Nick Ray and ' 80s horror and he's going to pull all
of this stuff together.

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Vicki, you don't have to die.
Vicki Summers:
I'm the mean girl in the 80s horror movie and we're past the midpoint, so, you know, I'd say that I'd overstayed my welcome.

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"Horror" became a dirty word in the late '70s, early '80s. | "Horror" became a dirty word in the late '70s, early '80s.

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I don't think Giorgio Moroder is sitting here
thinking about let me make an '80s synth horror score but in congress with David Bowie he makes
maybe one of the quintessential synths driven ' 80s horror scores with Cat People.

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One of my sort of Bibles of ' 80s horror was
the poster for Terror in the Aisles because the skull on the front of Terror in the
Aisles was made up of all the titles of the names of the movies in it.

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So many performances in horror in the '80s
were slept on because horror was disreputable. | So many performances in horror in the '80s
were slept on because horror was disreputable.

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Barbara Crampton, the queen of low-budget
horror throughout the '80s. | Barbara Crampton, the queen of low-budget
horror throughout the '80s.

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The first horror 3D movie in the '80s wave
was Parasite. | The first horror 3D movie in the '80s wave
was Parasite.

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The Friday the 13th films are the backbone
of horror in the '80s. | The Friday the 13th films are the backbone
of horror in the '80s.

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But I think a horror protagonist that gets
really overlooked in the '80s is Veronica from The Fly. | But I think a horror protagonist that gets
really overlooked in the '80s is Veronica from The Fly.

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The big three of the '80s 3D horror films were
the ones that were all the third sequels. | The big three of the '80s 3D horror films were
the ones that were all the third sequels.

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We saw a ton of Christmas horror come out especially
in the '80s with Silent Night, Deadly Night. | We saw a ton of Christmas horror come out especially
in the '80s with Silent Night, Deadly Night.

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Following these films, Fulci
refined his vision to create his
horror masterpieces, made in the late 70s
and 80s. | Following these films, Fulci
refined his vision to create his
horror masterpieces, ma...

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narrator: Today, many horror
fans and film scholars consider it a classic,
but in the '80s, "Maniac" helped set off
a moral panic. | narrator: Today, many horror
fans and film scholars consider it a c...

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And I think Keith Gordon actually gives one
of the best performances that we've ever seen in a horror movie of the '80s. | And I think Keith Gordon actually gives one
of the best performances that we'...

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And it's a nice illustration of the horror
fan as outcast which is a pretty big shadow hanging over the '80s, I think. | And it's a nice illustration of the horror
fan as outcast which is a pretty big...

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Horror became a...
a dirty word, I think, in the late '70s, early '80s, and I think that the reason
for that was the... | Horror became a...
a dirty word, I think, in the late '70s, early '80s, and I ...

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The '80s was a great decade for women and I
think people just sort of misconstrued what horror was trying to say about female characters. | The '80s was a great decade for women and I
think people jus...

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Well, horror films of the '80s even the ones
made on slightly higher budgets still had that kind of down and dirty feel about them. | Well, horror films of the '80s even the ones
made on slightly high...

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It was inevitable that he would return in
the '80s because that was an era of cinematic horror that celebrated the serial killer,
the slasher and he was the original, he was the granddaddy of them all...

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Nigel Kneale is best known for inventing "Quatermass”, but he also, in the 1970s and
right up to the '80s, in fact, wrote several of the things
that folk horror fans particularly rate.
- I think Nigel...