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Vyvyan “It’s a video nasty!”
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Pfft. They prepared us for the current shitshow, everything’s fine, we’re coping, right?
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Ahh. The moral panics of the mid 80s. I don’t miss them.
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Passing woman: Do you dig graves?
Neil: Yeah, they’re all right.
I thought I recognized the set that The Damned where performing on!
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The line early on, “It’s almost always a female victim, and very frequently in a sexual context”. This is a fairly contemporary criticism of horror movies, as being problematic.
So… How did the kids turn out from this interview? Looks like a lot are on Linkedin. Doing fine, seems like.
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And you can probably find some of them here.
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Vyvyan: “YES WE HAVE A VID-EE-OOO!!”
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I’m just shocked… that it wasn’t John Stossel.
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I love how they ask “…but are they harmless?” while showing a decapitation. (0:26)
I’m thinking it was ratings week.
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I used to go to my buddy’s house every weekend back in 1984 (he had a VCR!) and we would rent the crappiest-looking horror movie from Mostly Video. The schlockier the cover, the better.
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Crap, I didn’t realize horror movies were so terrible! We must have turned into a society of nothing but violent offenders in the past thirty three years!
Oh. Never mind. Carry on.
Note: not a fan of horror movies myself, but if that’s your kick, you go right on and enjoy yourself.
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Yep, including Linnea’s Quigley’s Horror Workout (she’s featured in the 20/20 program).
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I wish “Night School” had been good enough to corrupt me; that movie sucked and even 9-year old me realized I wasted an opportunity to see illicit material on something that wasn’t worth it. Thanks for the memories though.
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Maybe all those horror movies scared people straight?
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Totally, completely, and utterly…gave me my love horror movies for the rest of my life. My Dad never paid attention (or just didn’t care) about the movies I would pick at the “video store”. So of course I would pick titles like “Chopping Mall”. God bless 80’s horror.
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Chopping Mall! “Thank you. Have a nice day.”
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Actually, that chart makes me wonder if there’s a correlation between atmospheric lead and schlocky horror videos, much like there is between lead and violence…
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