This last picture is a composite of two screen captures from the 1990 song Everybody Everybody. They obviously had a lot of fun making this classic 80’s music video. These video captures show only a few of many scary moments from It’s Raining Men. You would never see this kind of video being produced now. […]
The Poltergeist (Poltergiest) Movie Curse – was there a curse on these 80s movies?
Was there a curse on the Poltergeist films of the 80s? If you believe the internet rumours, you would think so. It seems that the three films are linked to numerous deaths – but is there a curse or is it all a crock? Some of the rumours have you believe that each of the […]
80s music video: the first music video ever played on MTV
Click for Google +1 Whether you love it or hate it, MTV has made significant impacts on both music and music video. So how did MTV choose to start off this fledgling music video channel? When it raised it’s head in the early 80’s, there would have been some discussion over which music video should […]
Top 10 80s Music Video Hits – The Top 10 music video collection of the 80s to watch now
Top 10 Music Videos from 1980Click below to watch the music videos It would be fair to say that modern music videos began their life in the early 80s. While it is true that music videos were around before 1980, it wasn’t until the launch of MTV and accessibility to cheaper video and computer […]
80s Music – Songs about computers and computer games
Computers started to enter everyday life in the 1980s. In previous decades, they had made some inroads, but it wasn’t until the arrival of the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Intel 086 that computers became common-place in the home. On top of these systems, there was also a dramatic rise in arcade and home […]
American Horror Story Hotel: music and song list, 80s songs, 80s themes for each episode
American Horror Story Hotel creates a fabric of warped time by integrating various techniques into its design and most notably – the soundtrack. The wonderful art deco hotel is a purpose built set (sadly the hotel does not exist) but the sense of lost time is also created by using songs mainly from the 80s […]
The Cure – complete video collection
Click for Google +1 These clips are what you need to have the complete collection of Cure videos (excluding concert footage). Even though many of the early music videos were simply The Cure on a stage, over time the clips did evolve. As you can see from the images below, Robert Smith also slowly changes. […]
Top 80s Movies – The 100 top box office movie list for the 1980s
So which top 80s movies managed to rake in the most money? Well Steven Speilberg and George Lucas cornered five of the top ten slots, including the first four positions. Interestingly, some of the most defining movies of the 80’s barely made it into the charts. Airplane! came in at 81, Terminator at 84, Footloose […]
80s leg warmers: photo gallery and history of an 80s fashion icon
Leg warmers of the 80’s: history and photo gallery Click for Google +1 This gallery takes you through some styles of leg warmers of the 80’s. Leg warmers started with dancers – and are still worn by many today. The prmiary function is to kep legs warm in cooler weather and prevent muscle cramping. […]
80's movie box office: the numbers game
Click for Google +1 80’s movies box office totals can be misleading, from population increases to inflation and currency changes, the numbers can be quite unreliable when comparing them over a long period of time. When looking at the figures such as those in the Top 100 box for 1980-89 here are just some things […]
80s Horror Movies – Poltergeist, Re-animator, Hellraiser, Evil Dead and more
Click for Google +1 Horror movies had a golden period from the early 70s to the mid-80s. By the late 80s, they transformed into fairly bland imitations. There have been few horror films that have scared and shocked audiences in the last decades. Some movies had their moments, but few of the major studios will […]
80s music: the gender bender experience – from Boy George to Annie Lennox
Click for Google +1 The early 80’s saw the rise of a new, but short lived phenomenon – the appearance of cross-dressing pop stars. While the men were trying the look like women, the reverse also applied – although it wasn’t as wide spread. Boy George was probably the first 80’s performer to popularise the […]
80's Nuclear War Movies
**One Night Stand (1984) is an Australian independent film with a limited release and is set in Sydney during the lead up to a nuclear war. Also, the excellent New Zealand film “The Quiet Earth” doesn’t qualify as the world wasn’t wiped out by nuclear weapons, but it follows some of the same apocalyptic themes. […]
The Wedding Singer: flaws in this 80s retro film
Many people enjoyed the 1997 film The Wedding Singer, and while it was one of the first to launch new interests in the eighties, it is still highly flawed to anyone who lived through that period. If you are going to dredge up nostalgia to promote a film, you should try to get a few […]