Can a movie be both awful and brilliant at the same time? The answer is !!!YES!!!

Here, I have started to compile some of my favourite Sci-fi that are somewhat trashy but thoroughly engaging and indubitably 80s!

In 1929 W.B. Seabrook introduced the wider world to the notion of the ZOMBIE with "The Magic Island"; a biographical book about his journey through Haiti in which he encountered the Voodoo religion. Seabrook explains the myth as a Voodoo necromancer casting a spell upon a corpse to reanimate it, to make it do his evil bidding. This seems miles away from the flesh eating, virus infecting creature that Hollywood today portrays. So just how did this metamorphous take place? I look back over some of my favourite zombie movies to trace the evolution from humble Haitian origins to the apocalyptic monsters we have come to know today.

Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

So your partner wants to watch a Christmas movie, but you just can't get with that sentimental stuff. Here's my list of movies that fit the bill as a "Christmas" movie without laying it on thick :)

You know the story... orphaned as a child. Ran into some heavy stuff. Picked up off the streets by the "Organisation". Was trained as a killer, adapting multiple skill sets. Her Handler was like a father to her. It was a good life, she never questioned what she was doing. She only had one red line... until she was asked to cross that line! Now the huntress becomes the hunted. Will the man she trusted betray her? (literally could go either way) One thing is for sure; she's going to take out the Organisation, one dirty apple at a time!

These are "Sexy Assassins!"

For me a good horror movie is not simply about jumps or scares, but rather manages to psychologically unsettle us.

Disclaimer: While I would loosely define a "horror" as having a supernatural element to distinguish it from thriller or mystery genres, admittedly I have submitted two or three titles here that will evoke the same level of psychological terror, without there necessarily being an "unseen agent" at play.

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