My new article at Anorak is up, remembering some of the crazy (and inventive) tag-lines from 1980s horror cinema.
Here's a snippet (and here's the url: http://www.anorak.co.uk/400427/keyposts/10-ridiculous-but-awesome-horror-movie-tag-lines-of-the-1980s.html/ )
IF the Seventies proved a fertile time for imaginative horror filmmakers, the 1980s very much represented a new age of plenty, a span wherein every idea that had worked in a movie once before was hauled out a second, third and sometimes fourth time.
And because of the home video revolution and VHS technology, new filmmakers had the opportunity to get their movies seen by more eyes than ever before.
In terms of the decade’s horror then, there was more of everything to enjoy: more slasher films, more Jaws films, and more holiday-themed horrors too.
And once again the marketers writing copy for horror movie posters broached the unenviable task of selling films that otherwise might not have merited audience attention if judged by quality alone. Sometimes, a great tag-line could still fill a theater, or make the difference at a rental store counter.
So without further prologue here are ten ridiculous and yet utterly brilliant horror movie taglines from the 1980s, the great decade of excess:
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