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‘Silent Scream’: This little-known horror gem led to the explosion of slasher films in the 1980s

Silent Scream is noteworthy as being one of the first slasher films, though it’s largely been forgotten. Made by an aspiring director, Silent Scream was…

Bart Bealmear
Oct 27, 2017

Girls just wanna have fun: Teenage fashion of the 1980s

So, this is what Mom wore in the eighties. And maybe you did too. Big hair, teased and permed to perfection, crimped, hot rollered, feathered…

Paul Gallagher
Jul 28, 2017

Stop what you’re doing and watch footage of The Cure in Orange in 1986

Some of you reading this may have already had the good fortune to have seen this vintage footage of The Cure performing at the breathtaking…

Cherrybomb
Aug 8, 2016

‘I find them very depressing’: 80s pop tart Samantha Fox reviews The Smiths and The Fall in 1986

Samantha Fox and Lemmy Kilmister. Samantha Fox was technically still a very popular topless Page 3 girl in The Sun and not yet an 80s…

Cherrybomb
Jul 19, 2016

When the drugs were still working: Cheerfully insane footage of the Butthole Surfers backstage, 1986

This laugh-out-loud funny footage of backstage mayhem at a Butthole Surfers show was taped at Atlanta’s 688 Club on February 28 1986. It’s probably one…

Richard Metzger
Mar 10, 2016

Watch The The’s innovative ‘Infected: The Movie’ music video album, 1986

In 1986 the well-nigh un-Google-able musical outfit known as The The, the thinking person’s dance band formed by English musician Matt Johnson, released its second…

Martin Schneider
Oct 15, 2015

New app makes HD iPhone video look just like crappy 1980s camcorder footage

One of the problems with the iPhone is that the camera and video-cam functionality is just too good. With a minimum of effort you can…

Martin Schneider
Aug 21, 2015

Jello Biafra and ‘uptight prude’ Tipper Gore fight it out in the pages of CREEM, 1986

In the 1980s, the elected-to-nothing wife of then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. made quite a splash for herself when she formed the Parents Music Resource Center…

Martin Schneider
Jul 21, 2015

‘Kenneth, what is the frequency?’ The weird connection between AC/DC and the 1986 Dan Rather assault

Dan Rather’s career as a network news anchor was full of memorable moments, but perhaps the single most surreal incident was the time he had…

Ron Kretsch
Jul 8, 2015

That time Chris Elliott took a huge crap on artsy mime troupe Mummenschanz on ‘Letterman,’ 1986

In his long career as a giant smartass pretending to be a know-it-all idiot, Chris Elliott has pissed off many, many people, including directors Francis…

Ron Kretsch
Jul 3, 2015

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