1980s Archives - MOVIES and MANIA

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET (2018) Reviews and overview

Skeletons in the Closet is a 2018 American comedy horror anthology feature film directed by B.A. Lewandowski, Tony Wash and Robert Patrick Stern from a screenplay co-written with Johnny Hlousek. The …

Jaws-inspired magazines

In the wake of the phenomenal box office success of Jaws and Jaws 2 a worldwide fascination with sharks developed rapidly. Whilst Universal Pictures lawyers’ made sure that many cinematic Jaws pretenders – such …

African posters for horror movies

In Ghana, movies have always been popular and most large towns had large cinemas that were leftover from the days of British colonialism. Unfortunately, as spare parts for the cinemas’ …

“Ban the Sadist Videos!” The Furore and Moral Panic About So-Called Video Nasties – article

The film world in Britain during the early 80s was grim. Most of the grand cinema palaces of yesteryear were, if not already transformed into bingo halls, falling apart, offering …

Monty Python: Horrific Humour – article

It would be fair to say that British comedy team Monty Python – Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michel Palin – are not usually …