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Iconic Halloween Candy Born in the 80s If you grew up in the 1980s, candy was both a treat and an adventure. Walking into the corner store or the gas station you were met with a rainbow of wrappers, but that rainbow was smaller than the one kids enjoy today. Much of today’s candy that feel timeless didn’t exist in the 1970s […]

Iconic Halloween Candy Born in the 80s

Batman: The Long Halloween The Long Halloween takes place in the early days of Batman’s career and it sets the stage for all the super villains Batman fights throughout his career.

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They also made it into an excellent animated movie!

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Falcone is losing his grip on Gotham City and the Rogue's Gallery is taking over! Can Batman stop them?

Also an excellent origin of Two-Face Harvey Dent!

Batman: The Long #Halloween is one of the best Bat-Tales ever told.

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Old School Evil: Our Darkest Hour is Live! : The Retro Network Old School Evil: Our Darkest Hour is finally here, completing my series of urban fantasy novels. Inspired by the villains of 80s cartoons.

The final chapter in the Old School Evil Trilogy is out!

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Gen X Archives | Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s 🎃Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s🍬Halloween night, 1980s, the streets were full of ghosts, goblins, clowns and one unshakable fear: poisoned candy. If you were a kid in the '70s and ’80s you remember it, your parents inspecting every piece of candy bar and throwing out the...

In the #80s over half the kids died from poison candy on #Halloween! The other half died from possessed masks. Or was it all an urban legend?

Discover the truth on the premiere episode of the Gen X Archives #podcast

At long last… we can begin.

The trailer for the epic final season of STRANGER THINGS is HERE.

Freddy’s Nightmares: Top 5 episodes to watch this Halloween Freddy’s Nightmares A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series Freddy’s Nightmares was a television spin-off of the highly successful A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise, airing during the height of Freddy Krueger’s popularity in the late 1980s. The series followed the classic horror anthology format, similar to shows like The Twilight Zone revival, Tales […]

Freddy’s Nightmares: Top 5 episodes to watch this Halloween

Dark Night of the Scarecrow Review I’ve mentioned before how scarecrows creep me out. And I’m positive Dark Night of the Scarecrow is the reason why! Set in a farming town somewhere in the Midwest, a group of yocals deal out justice with terrifying consequences. CBS Saturday Night Movie Watching TV as a kid, alone, in the dark basement I came […]

Dark Night of the Scarecrow Review

The (Halloween) Movies That Made Us The Season of the Witch is upon us! It’s the time of year when ghouls and goblins like to sit down and watch Halloween movies. While you can stream 100s of hours for the Peacock-tober event. Netflix is back with a new season of their original series, The Movies That Made Us. The Movies That […]

The (Halloween) Movies That Made Us

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Top 10 Tales from the Darkside episodes Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality.But… there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit…a dark side. Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror series created by George Romero, the man responsible for bringing us the zombie […]

Top 10 Tales from the Darkside episodes

Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s LISTEN NOW! The premiere episode of Gen X Archives podcast! What better way to kick it off than with a Halloween episode Halloween night, 1980s, the streets were full of ghosts, goblins, clowns and one unshakable fear: poisoned candy. If you were a kid in the ’70s and ’80s you remember it, your parents inspecting […]

Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s

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We are live! The first #podcast episode has dropped.

Remember when parents checked your candy for razor blades?

Relive the poison candy panic of the ’70s and ’80s!

Press play and rewind the fear.

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Friday the 13th: The Series When I was in high school I worked at Pizza Hut, back when it was still good. On Friday nights I’d get home around 11 pm with my Meat Lovers Personal Pan pizza, grab a Mountain Dew and plop down on the couch to watch TV. Most of the time I’d watch a movie or […]

Friday the 13th: The Series

John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams: The Master of Horror Returns to TV John Carpenter is one of the most iconic horror filmmakers of all time, with classics like Halloween, The Thing, Christine and The Fog. His work is known for its suspenseful pacing and memorable scores. He is a master of creating a sense of unease and suspense and his films often feature memorable villains like Michael […]

John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams: The Master of Horror Returns to TV

Sink Your Teeth into the Top 10 Vampire Movies from the 1990s Halloween is approaching, and my excitement for the season grows with each passing day. Decorations are up, candy is stocked, and the lights are dimmed. During the Halloween season, one of my favorite activities is watching horror movies. My favorite horror movies usually involve vampires. I’m a sucker for vampires. Horror movies in the 1990s […]

Sink Your Teeth into the Top 10 Vampire Movies from the 1990s

The 10 Horror Villains Who Will Haunt Your Dreams It’s that time of year again, the Season of the Witch. As the air cools and the shadows lengthen, the creaks and thuds you hear in the middle of the night take on a sinister tone. They’re not just the sounds of a settling house, they are the footsteps of a deranged killer, creeping through […]

The 10 Horror Villains Who Will Haunt Your Dreams

John Carpenter, The Master of Horror With Halloween right around the corner I have a few movies from the master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Not the normal Carpenter movies, these are a few of his underrated and often overlooked movies. Carpenter directed and composed the music for all of these movies. He wrote The Fog and Prince of Darkness, the […]

John Carpenter, The Master of Horror

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