In 1988’s Cellar Dweller, Whitney Taylor (Deborah Farentino) arrives at the Throckmorton Institute for the Arts to pursue her love of horror comics, and create new work influenced by her favorite comic book artist Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs). Childress’ legacy for creating “Cellar Dweller” was marred by a horrifying incident, when Childress summoned a demon from an ancient book and it manifested itself through Childress’s comic art - killing a local girl. Now, Whitney is set to carry on where Childress left off, creating more “Cellar Dweller” comics. But she soon comes up against snooty head of the institute Mrs Briggs (Yvonne DeCarlo), and unwittingly summons the demonic beast who proceeds to wreak havoc and devour her classmates as the mystery surrounding their disappearances unfolds.
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Since 1980, Friday the 13th has become a household horror movie franchise loved worldwide. Released on May 9th, 1980 it was a big hit and little did anyone behind the project know that it would spawn one of the biggest horror slashers of all time Jason Voorhees and 11 sequels; with a remake and a crossover film with the dream killer Freddy Krueger.
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Many horror movies of the 80’s have gone on to great franchises and had great success over many years. Many having different surroundings and locations that seem to fit their moods. In 1983 one film that came out with a bit different of a setting was The House on Sorority Row.
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Through the 80’s there were several horror movies playing off of the “holiday” or the celebration card that had started in the 70’s. Every year there would be several movies that had titles that had to do with either a certain day; holiday or a celebration was a part of the title and or the story. So the year 1983 was no exception, even the 3D gimmick was happening, but one movie that was different in some ways was the movie called Sweet Sixteen.
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Now even though this is my countdown I encourage you to list your own as we go through every one of our favorite movies from each year and explain why? We will be doing 10 movies each week to make it a bit more eventful starting with this one for this week.
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