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Letâs all take a moment to thank Tabitha Jane King. After all, if it werenât for her, we wouldnât have
Carrie. When Stephen King was first developing the story, he disliked the material so much that he literally threw it in the trash â but when his wife picked it out and read it, she encouraged him to stick with it. Those pages eventually expanded to become the Master Of Horrorâs first novel, and it not only kick started one of the greatest literary legacies of all time, but it also inspired director Brian De Palmaâs feature film adaptation, which continues to be hailed as one of the all-time great scary movies.
It’s a peculiar fact that the people who most influence our lives are often those we only fleetingly encounter.
Such was my reaction last week on hearing Joe Allen had died. Not an instantly recognisable name this side of the pond, but a legendary figure to anybody who ever worked in Manhattan. Owner of the famous restaurant on West 46th Street that bore his name, Joe saved my bacon during a J1 college summer a long time ago. Having fruitlessly trawled the familiar Irish pubs in search of a job, a girlfriend suggested I “shoot the moon, give Joe Allen’s a try .
The Most Obscure and Underrated Slashers of the 1980s
EJ Moreno with 10 obscure slashers from the 1980s…
When you hear the term “slasher movie,” the images that comes to mind are the hockey mask of Jason Voorhees, Freddy’s glove, and Laurie Strode standing strong over Michael Myers. But what do you think of when you dig deeper? And I’m not even talking bout films like
Hellraiser or
Child’s Play but the slashers that never got their proper love.
It’s time to dig deep into the grave and pull up some slasher skeletons as we look at some horror movies from the 1980s which may have slipped through the cracks. Let’s venture into the era of the video stores and buckets of blood and find the most obscure and underrated 80s slasher movies.
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