Thirty classic '80s horror titles are coming to criterionchannl for Halloween, including 'The Hunger,' 'Cat People,' and 'Scanners'.
The 1980s were a golden age of horror. With the rise of the slasher genre thanks to classic franchises like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street, the era set the stage for so much horror that mixed frights, gore, excess, and, occasionally, laughs. Thanks to VHS as well, directors were no longer constrained by budget. This opened the door for so many aspiring scare artists to take advantage of home video to spread their creative, low-budget, and sometimes controversial films.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Curated by Clyde Folley, the series will give viewers a taste of everything the '80s had to offer in terms of horror, from established directors like John Carpenter, Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, and David Cronenberg, who took advantage of all the best special effects for their films, to low-budget maestros like Frank Henenlotter.
In terms of the big directors, most of them, save Cronenberg and his classic Scanners, are represented by some of their lesser-known films. Carpenter, for example, is represented by Prince of Darkness, the lesser-known part of his Apocalypse trilogy which also featured classics The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness.
The Criterion Channel will start streaming the films on October 1 leading up to Halloween . See the trailer for the series here and check out the full list of films included below.
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