Hollywood likes to do things in pairs. In 1998, Tinseltown release two giant meteor movies – Deep Impact and Michael Bay’s Armageddon. Just one year earlier another pair of disaster movies – Volcano and Dante’s Peak – erupted into cineplexes. Both Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner took turns playing Wyatt Earp in the 1993 Tombstone […]
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By the end of the 1970s, the eco-horror subgenre was slowing down as the counterculture movement gave way to a conservative resurgence that defined the 80s. Most fans of 70s horror recognize title like Orca, Piranha, or Grizzly. Lovers of ‘cheese cinema’ have likely seen Frogs, Tentacles, or Day of the Animals. But the 1979 […]
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If you’re a horror fan or B-movie lover and came of age in the 80s, you’re likely at least familiar with Troma Entertainment. The brainchild of Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma movies mix ‘shock’ and ‘schlock’ on paper thin budgets. This is the studio that gave us The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must […]
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