Opening Prayers (You’ll Need Them) If you’ve ever wondered what Carrie would look like if you stripped away the budget, replaced the prom with a convent, and swapped John Travolta for a Rottweiler with a habit, The Other Hell is here to answer your prayers — or more accurately, to make you lose your faith … Read More “The Other Hell (1981): When Nunsploitation Goes Straight to the Devil… and the Discount Bin” »
Opening Thoughts: From Porno to Poltergeist When your director’s résumé includes Defiance! (1975) and The Taking of Christina (1976) — both adult films — you don’t exactly expect The Exorcist. But with The Nesting, Armand Weston decided to swap sweaty bed sheets for creaky floorboards, apparently assuming horror and porn were interchangeable genres. Spoiler: they’re … Read More “The Nesting (1981): Haunted House, Haunted Audience” »
Opening Thoughts: This Cake is Baked with Rotten Eggs If horror cinema were a potluck, Madhouse would be that suspicious, lumpy casserole someone left under a flickering light in the church basement — and you only take a bite because you’re polite. Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis (whose name sounds like an ancient illness), the … Read More “Madhouse (1981): A Birthday Party Nobody Asked For” »
From Clare to Candy: Early Life and Glamour Modeling She was born Clare Damaris Bastin in 1962, a girl stuck between a star-gazer father and a mother who taught kids how to read without throwing up. The house smelled of old books and chalk dust, the kind of place that makes a kid want to … Read More “Candy Davis – Glamour Girl Turned “Connoisseur of Corpses”” »
Once upon a time in Meriden, Warwickshire—a place that sounds like it belongs on a map in Narnia rather than in central England—a baby girl named Deborah Jane Ashby was born on July 2, 1967. Little did her parents know, they were raising a girl who would one day appear topless on national newspapers, navigate … Read More “Debee Ashby: Page 3 Princess, Therapy Survivor, OnlyFans Pioneer” »
From Hoehne to the World In the small Colorado community of Hoehne—more cattle than people—Ventura Tenario was born on November 25, 1911. The son of Jose “Joe” Tenario and Maria “Mary” Tenario, he was the second of four children and, according to the locals, a boy with a wrestler’s frame before he even hit his … Read More “Chief Little Wolf: The People’s Warrior Who Took Australia by Storm” »
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining isn’t just a horror movie – it’s a full bottle of nightmare fuel served neat, with a whiskey chaser of artistic genius. From its opening frames, the film declares itself different: expansive aerial shots of a car snaking through Colorado mountains, as if the camera were a disembodied spirit tailing the … Read More “The Shining (1980) – Last Call at the Overlook” »
This 1981 British sci-fi horror romp is basically what happens when you mix a barren alien planet, a chainsaw, and a very questionable approach to childbirth. Director Norman J. Warren took us on a trip to the cold, unwelcoming depths of space… and left the doors open for every form of intergalactic STD imaginable. The … Read More “Inseminoid (1981)—or as I like to call it, Alien on a Budget: The Laborious Edition” »
Happy Birthday to Me—the rare birthday party where the cake comes with a side of decapitation, and your guests leave a little less alive than they arrived. J. Lee Thompson, usually known for more respectable fare, decided to trade in subtlety for scalpels, giving us a slasher film that’s part high school melodrama, part extreme … Read More “Happy Birthday to Me (1981)” »
Graduation Day (1981) — the movie that makes you question whether high school sports are really about teamwork, or if they’re just elaborate auditions for Saw: High School Edition. Let’s unpack this gem of early-’80s horror incompetence with all the subtlety of a fencing sword to the throat. First off, the premise: a masked killer … Read More “Graduation Day (1981)” »
