Must - Watch Movies!
Retro Horror Flicks
October 2024
It's getting cooler now; fall is here and then winter comes with icicles and snow flurries. So for those of us who still have a Blu-ray and a DVD player, let's enjoy a good old 80's scream fest, shall we?
 
Horror Throwbacks
Nightmare on Elm Street

After a serial killer is burned to death, he comes back to haunt the dreams of teenagers and they discover that if they die in their dreams, they die in reality.
 
Rated R / 92 mins.
The Shining

When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel. 
 
Rated R / 142 mins. 
Christine

A lonely teenager finds Christine, a car that becomes devoted to him and tries to destroy anyone who comes between it and the teen
 
Rated R / 110 mins.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

When five young friends in rural Texas set out one summer afternoon to check on a family grave, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface.
 
Rated R / 100 mins.
Cujo

A rabid Saint Bernard attacks a rural Maine community.
 
Rated R /  93 mins.
Children of the Corn

One quiet Sunday, the children of Gatlin, Nebraska slaughtered all the adults at the instruction of Isaac, a young preacher with mesmerizing powers; three years later, a young couple traveling across the country accidentally drive into Gatlin and become part of the children's bloody mission.
 
Rated R / 92 mins.
Evil Dead; Evil Dead 2

Five friends vacationing at a forest cabin unwittingly unleash an ancient evil that turns all but one into zombies.
 
Ash returns to the isolated cabin in the woods to do battle with sadistic warriors of the spirit world, armed only with an ancient book of exorcism. 
 
Not rated / 169 mins.
The Halloween Collection

Twenty years after the Haddonfield murders, Laurie Strode is living under a different name as a private school headmistress in California and when Halloween approaches, Michael Myers returns to try to kill his sister. 
 
After six teens win a radio contest and get to spend the night in Michael Myers' childhood home, they discover that Michael has also returned to the house. 
 
Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield after his niece escapes from the cult that was protecting him, and Dr. Loomis joins forces with Tommy Doyle to stop Michael before he destroys the family living in his old house. 
 
Rated R / 263 mins.
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