Was 1984 the Greatest Year for Horror?
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins, Firestarter, Children of the Corn, CHUD…was 1984 the greatest year in the history of horror films? Heat up some popcorn and join Jason and Rosie on the couch as they explore these movies (and more) and whether or not 1984 was even the best year of horror in the 80’s! They each give their favorite horror movies of 1984, and then they share their personal favorite year of the 80’s for horror movies.
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Movies Discussed This Episode Include:
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Gremlins
Children of the Corn
The Company of Wolves
Dreamscape
Firestarter
CHUD
Angel Heart
Hellraiser
The Lost Boys
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Evil Dead 2
Prince of Darkness
Monster Squad
Dolls
Street Trash
Bad Taste
Near Dark
Day of the Dead
Fright Night
Underground
The Stuff
The Reanimator
Lifeforce
Silver Bullet
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Vampire Hunter D
Return to Oz
Legend
The Black Cauldron
Clue
Night of the Comet
Little Shop of Horrors
The Fog
Possession
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Howling
Cat’s Eye
Videodrome
Creepshow
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| 0:00.0 | Warning! Today's episode contains spoilers for a bevy of classic horror films of the 1980s, |
| 0:07.4 | mainly movies from the year in 1984, but several others. |
| 0:11.6 | So be warned! Be warned! |
| 0:13.0 | Oh! |
| 0:14.0 | Oh! |
| 0:15.0 | Oh! Hello my name is Jason Khodseonone and I'm Erzy Night and welcome back to X-ray |
| 0:35.3 | vision of the podcast where we dive deep, video favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture |
| 0:39.9 | coming to you from a High Heart podcast where we're bringing you three episodes a week every |
| 0:44.6 | Tuesday Thursday and an extra episode on Wednesday. Ooh aren't you lucky? |
| 0:51.0 | In today's episode in the previously on we are going to be talking about why people |
| 0:56.2 | think 1984 is the best year for horror what movies came out then why do people |
| 1:01.2 | think this and then in the airlock we are going to be arguing what year |
| 1:06.2 | we think is the best year for horror and believe us we spent a weekend just watching |
| 1:10.4 | 80s horror movies so we. So we are ready. |
| 1:13.2 | We are ready to make this argument |
| 1:15.2 | and it's the perfect argument for spooky season. |
| 1:17.5 | Get ready to get scared. |
| 1:20.9 | First up, previously on 1984. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, Rosie. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay, Rosie. |
| 1:28.0 | 1984, tell us about it. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay, so this year in horror is very much seen as if you guys remember a few years ago now me and |
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