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I'm not sure how I missed this one when I was a kid. My friends and I rewound the scene with the dog pissing fire in Nightmare on Elmstreet 4 like 50 times and we would have worn out this VHS tape, too. Really great practical effects, unique kills, and it's oddly well written to boot — they're setting up and paying off jokes in a way you don't usually see in horror.

I hate the parts with Fred Savage and love the parts with Mandy Patinkin and Andre the Giant. I've never been a big fan of this movie because I was a Neverending Story kid. For some reason I always pit them against one another like there is a big 80's kid movie war going on in my head. It grows on me a little more with every rewatch, though.

This is an incredible documentary that plows right through the entirety of its rough-around-the-edges indie jank to deliver a very inspiring message about art and being an artist. Highly recommend going in blind.

This is an above average teen slasher that tips its hat to some other popular franchises like Saw and Escape Room, using an extreme haunted house as its setting. Grisly practical effects, a gaggle of memorable villains, and characters displaying the most plot-induced stupidity I've seen in recent memory. Worth a watch!

After seeing this on a Blockbuster shelf a million times when I was a kid, I finally got around to watching it. Campy 80's horror with a couple of cool creatures and all of the effects were great. Not a big fan of torture porn but it's pretty tame compared to some of today's franchises.

I've seen so many found footage films at this point that the format doesn't really work on me anymore. This is probably the most important one, but the Micah character is a very annoying and their liberal use of him while the tension is building makes this a slog at times.