At Flashbak: Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

My latest Flashbak piece remembers the 1980s 3-D movie craze.

Here's a snippet and the url: (http://flashbak.com/comin-at-ya-the-eighties-3-d-movie-craze-circa-1981-1983-27711/)

"In 2009, 3-D movies came roaring back to the pop culture forefront with expensive sci-fi epics like Avatar and Star Trek, as well as horror movies such as the remake, My Bloody Valentine.

 3-D moviemaking is probably here to stay (especially if it is summer-time…), but the 1980s actually saw a similar “burst” of 3-D movie-making, even though the form tends to be associated with the 1950s first and foremost.

Some of these eighties films were in popular franchises (Amityville, Jaws, and Friday the 13^th), but almost all the films in the trend were downright terrible.  The low quality of the films (and the poor 3-D effects) may be one reason the form went back into hibernation for another quarter century.

Here is a look at the 3-D movies of the early eighties..."