This week in Horror movie history, Vamp was released nineteen years ago on July 18, 1986 through New World Pictures. Directed and written by Richard Wenk (16 Blocks 2006, The Expendables 2 2012), Vamp stars Chris Makepeace (Meatballs 1979, My Bodyguard 1980), Robert Rusler (Weird...
This week in Horror movie history, Psycho III was released in the US on July 2, 1986 through Universal Pictures. The original Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins, directed this third installment of Robert Bloch's 1959 Suspense Thriller, Psycho. The Fly's (1986) Charles Edward Pogue wrote the screenplay...
This week in Horror movie history, The Thing was released on June 25, 1982 via Universal Pictures and the Turman-Foster Company. This inter-planetary Thriller was directed by Horror genius John Carpenter, who, along with twenty-two year old Rob Bottin (Se7en 1995, Fight Club 1999), Roy Arbogast...
This week in Horror movie history, The Omen was released on June 25, 1976 through Twentieth Century Fox. This pre-apocalyptic, supernatural Thriller was directed by Richard Donner (Superman 1978, Lethal Weapon 1987) and produced by Harvey Bernhard (The Beast Within 1982, The Lost Boys 1987),...
This week in Horror movie history, Exorcist II: The Heretic was released on June 17, 1977 by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Directed by UK native John Boorman (Deliverance 1972, Excalibur 1981), Exorcist II: The Heretic was produced by Boorman and The Hollywood Knights' (1980) Richard Lederer....
This week in Horror movie history, Damien: The Omen II was released on June 9, 1978 through Twentieth Century Fox. The director of The Omen (1976), Richard Donner (The Goonies 1985, Lethal Weapon 1987), was busy with Superman (1978), so Don Taylor (Escape from the Planet of...
This week in Horror movie history, Poltergeist was released on June 4, 1982 through the MGM and SLM Production Groups. Tobe Hooper (Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974, Salem's Lot 1979) directed the movie, and it became the highest grossing film of his career. Poltergeist was also the first offering...
This week in Horror movie history, Demons was released in the US on May 30, 1986 through Ascot Films and in Italy on October 4, 1985 via DACFILM Rome. This Italian Horror was directed by Lamberto Bava (Macabre 1980, Demons 2 1986), son of the famed cinematographer...
This week in Horror movie history, back on May 11, 1984, Stephen King's Firestarter was released in the US by Universal Pictures and Dino De Laurentiis Company, who was also behind King's adaptions of Cat's Eye (1985), Silver Bullet (1985), Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Dead Zone...
This week in Horror movie history, back on April 29, 1983, Something Wicked This Way Comes was released in the US by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. The last film to carry the Walt Disney Productions label, the film stars Jason Robards (Dream A Little...
