80s horror movies – Page 16 – Really Awful Movies

Beetlejuice

As champions of Italian horror, we’re eminently familiar with style over substance. In Beetlejuice, this is similarly true, a sumptuous visual feast (hell, this one also features a dilapidated house, a book of incantations, and a Dario Argento color palette, so perhaps it’s a kindred spirit). A couple (the Maitlands) drives off a bridge andContinue reading “Beetlejuice”

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Part Tourist Trap, part Psycho, Mountaintop Motel Massacre lacks the charm of the former and the direction of latter. We’re in small-town Louisiana at some roadside dumpy motel (the kind that “steal your towels” according to the late, great Rodney Dangerfield). Our antagonist, Evelyn, is released from a looney-bin and returns to her place ofContinue reading “Mountaintop Motel Massacre”