I'd honestly prefer that. I hate having to choose one movie/show out of thousands of choices I just wanna be told to watch something and hope it ends up being good
@Consciência Blackpill I find it amazing that, despite owning a huuuuge 80s horror collection, I still find new gems all the time. Even the campiest 80s horror is still a lot of fun. Sadly, that rarely applies to 2000's and 2010's horror movies.
2:15-3:03 The ice-skating scene from “Curtains” is not creepy, it’s *terrifying* dear God. Its also brilliant. Most horror films are shot at night time or in a kind of claustrophobic setting like a cabin or the woods. Here? Not only is this not a jump scare, but it’s out in the open in broad daylight. You see the killer slowly skating towards her w/ evil eyes peering out of that creepy mask.
All happening while you have a pretty good idea what’s coming, but nothing can stop it. Bill’s crazy if he thinks it didn’t hold up. Maybe the ending sucks but that scene looks awesome.
I agree. It's much more frightening to watch what appears to be a normal person in broad daylight slowly move toward you until you realize its actually a monster/maniac than the lame jump scares in an average movie today.
Totally agree with you Bill Burr! I remember having this problem walking into my mom's room in the middle of her watching The Omen (original 70's version) when I was just 9 years old. Scarred me for YEARS!
I walked in on my parents watching Evil Dead back when I was like 3-4...when the woman takes the pencil and stabs her ankle! Holy Crap that movie messed me up as a kid. I've seen recently..they changed it to NC-17..that's a messed up Raimi flick!
The Holy Mackerel Yes! It was a surprisingly very good performance. He really looks like a mentally ill person with low IQ but he was completely different, smart and eloquent in real life.
My buddy and I watched the shining in a cabin in Tahoe one time. A week into the trip my father had to take my friend to the hospital. My friend had not taken a dump for the last 5 days because the scene in the shining with the old lady in the bathroom had scared him so badly. 😂
Omg this is terrifying. As a kid in elementary I had just moved and was new at school. I was all of 90 lbs and we had a kid in the special needs class that was very tall and about 3 times my size. One day I was walking back from the bathroom and he ran out of the special needs room after me and pushed me against the locker by my throat. Thank goodness the teacher was there to get him off of me but i swear I would have pissed my pants if I hadn't just went.
The earliest film I remember messing me up for a bit as a kid was 1989's *Pet Sematary.* The flashback of undead Timmy Baterman with that girl's leg (He was grave-robbing and hiding limbs, if I remember right), laughing with pleasure while scratching the rotting, bleeding flesh off his own face... 😨 Christ on his throne, did that stay with me for a while. Then, to add icing on the therapy cake, little me watches him burn with his father, yelling "Love dead, hate living!" Even as an adult, re-watching the movie and seeing where it hasn't aged well, that scene still makes me a tiny bit uneasy. 😅 *#SometimesDeadIsBetter*
Timmy Baterman & Zelda freaked me the funk out. Went to see Pet Sematary & Child's Play at the Drive In with my parents when I was 8. Those two scared the hell outta me.
Both of those movies look WAY scarier than anything out today. Only recent one that I actually found scary was the first insidious. IT reboot was a good movie but it doesn't really scare you
80's movies weren't really scary...more T&A type stuff which tbh I appreciated as a kid. I think the really scary stuff is probably not from American filmmakers.
80's horror flicks were extremely trashy, in large, and had poor production values because the industry -- at that point -- felt the "slasher" schtick was not worthy of any producers money. 90's horror really got it's act together shifting more toward paranormal/psychological-types. Still, I can't help but love to watch these low-budget 80's horror films.
Ok..... Well a little late in seeing this upload here are a few more to pick from that I would suggest. 1) The Shining 2) The Howling 3) The Fog 4) Scanners 5) The Funhouse 6) April Fools Day 7) The Hitcher 8) The Thing 9) Silent Scream 10) The House on Green Apple Road ( I believe this was 1980 but might be 78~79 )
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Horror scenes in the daylight are so much more effective.
@@wvusmc Where I first seen 'The Children' from 1980. Followed by MANY nightmares. Half in part thanks to Manfredini's creepy music score almost identical to his original Friday the 13th soundtrack he composed that same year. Others I'd seen on USA: Friday the 13th Parts I + 2, My Bloody Valentine original and a weird one I haven't seen since then called "Bug", or "Bugs". All of them forbidden by parents - totally permitted by my cool-ass teenaged sitter! Probably because it kept my heathen ass quiet! 😂😂😂
Who was that USA Network usually Saturday horror "host" in a corny superhero (Superman rip-off) caped costume? Of course I remember the "UP! All Night" hostess - like a late-night-TV-friendly Marilyn Chambers or something 😂 Nothing against Miss Chambers, she's awesome.
@Aaron A420 Thanks for the memory refresh! Is Rhonda still around, name sounds familiar (I was in elementary and possibly junior high school when those two were hosts).
@@DA0K At first I thought you meant Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most boring overrated crap horror is history, which I would agree with mostly. The original Black Christmas is pretty good. A great 80s horror is NEAR DARK.
I saw Curtains probably around 1989 on regular tv (we didnt have cable), every Saturday afternoon they had a “Thriller matinee.” And the pond/ice skating scene is what totally stuck with me for decades. Never knew what the movie was called till just today.
I looked up this "Curtains" movie and it's on Amazon Prime. I know what im doing today. I think Bill would also be properly freaked upon watching "Alice Sweet Alice" -- a well received movie, with just about the creepiest mask ever in Hollywood history.
I seen the 1st Leprechaun when I was 5 in theaters. That movie freaked me out as a kid. Now I really like all of them. Warwick Davis is just so insanely good as the Leprechaun.
I'm 33 and the turn dial tvs is what I grew up on haha. Fucking antennas. Only way we could watch a game if we taped the fuckers against the wall at the perfect angle. Getting cable when I was 8-9 was life changing. Bills 100% right here.
Curtains is cool and pretty creepy and has the late great John Vernon and a young Michael Wincott in it but The Unseen is an underrated classic, with Stephen Furst's and Sidney Lassick's amazing performances. Director Danny Steinmann later directed the awesome Savage Streets and Friday the 13th Part 5
There's an old low-budget zombie flick I saw on cable as a kid called "Children Shouldn't Play With dead Things" - it's Canadian but can only be found from a company in Texas (or something). Check it out, if you can find it.
I know exactly what bill is talking about, we had three stations to choose from then over night we had upwards of 30,it was awesome and strange at the same time. The movie ONE DARK NIGHT scared the shit out of me,not as horrifying now days.
The movie I thought was disturbing was the 1974 Texas Chainsaw. I remember watching that back in the 80s or early 90s when I was a kid at a buddies house , and i remember that movie f..ked me up ! I was terrified by leather face as a kid . The new ones dont do it for me , but that 1970s one did. Idk what it is about that movie that freaked me out so much
Bill, there is a scene in the movie The Unseen in which the husband is yelling at his wife Virginia. He's yelling at her and slapping her ,she's screaming like a Maniac so my friend and I use to blare this scene out the front window of his house on our boom box via a cassette tape. He lived on a main Street ,(Beale st. In Quincy Ma. So there is a chance you were once caught at this lonnnggg red light and heard us you Canton-ite )and right at a long red light , so there were always people sitting out there, stuck in their cars in the summer heat . A lot of Windows were down because it was the 80s and AC in cars wasn't as common as it is today. Anyway, it sounded like a couple was fighting tooth and nail and people's faces were priceless. Hahah I wish we had a way to record their reactions. But again it was the 1980s.
That's why the original Friday the 13th is so chilling... you really don't expect Pamela Voorhees to go from sweet older lady to psycho on a dime like that
@@uberxchuck944 I just don't see any point in praising a movie that you agree is completely unoriginal and effectively turned something of high art into a cheap package-able formula focused on the kills instead of suspense.
@@scampoli25 people eat Whoppers all the time. Is it the best example of a cheeseburger? No, but it's a pretty solid burger and people enjoy it globally. Kind of the same thing here. I like Whoppers better than Big Macs, but it doesn't beat a homemade burger; that being said sometimes you just feel like having a Whopper. I like Friday the 13th more than Halloween, but Psycho is the better movie of the three, to use your examples. It's a matter of taste while also being able to identify quality and schlock and be honest about it with yourself.
@@uberxchuck944 Yeah but if all you eat is burgers than you have a pretty shitty taste in food, to use your burger analogy. It's your subjective opinion that you prefer Friday the 13th but objectively you can't argue there is little to nothing original or groundbreaking in the series. Combined with inventing the model to cheaply produce shitty slasher movies for quick cash. There is nothing outside of nostalgic preference and defensive reasoning you can use to defend this film series.
I think when you're a kid is the best time to see those types of horror films. You had to apply a certain amount of imagination to really appreciate them. When you're older, they just seem too phony and silly, but as a kid you internalize it and get really scared.
Now this made me think of a movie that messed with me growing up. It was a movie from 91' called People under the stairs. It was an early 90s horror/comedy type vibe. I don't remember laughing much but I do remember like a chill vibe from the movie in some parts. Well anyways, I didn't understand the movie much as a kid but what I remember was this kid sneaks into this house for some reason and I don't remember if he got trapped but basically the people in this house would kidnap and lock up a bunch of kids and teens in the basement. The kid that snuck in is dead set on freeing the people under the stairs but one of owners figures him out and starts chasing him through the house in this fucked up latex suit, while the "kids under the stairs" help him traverse through the insides of the house, like in the walls and stuff. I honestly gotta rewatch this movie but what really got to me as a kid was just how messed up all the kids looked, everyone was deformed and then there was this guy in a gimp suit chasing you through the walls and shit. BTW the kids were deformed because the "parents" would mutilate them, one of the main guys roach had his tongue cut out and couldn't speak so he jst moaned the whole movie. Man....
I know it was made in 1979, but the scene of Ralphie Glick in Salem's Lot is one of the creepest scenes you will ever see. I watched that as a kid and I refused to look out of my window at night. Tobe Hooper somehow directed that PG movie? That Glick kid was just very unsettling. The way he just slowly appears...smiling...not blinking...all the while floating outside of a two story window.
never saw Curtains in the theaters but the trailer ran on tv, sickle seen still lives an impression. the unseen has one of the most original kills: hot blonde getting used like a yo-yo when her scarf gets stuck in floor heating grate. another must see is Just Before Dawn: bear hug scene.
Scary movies were better back then. They relied on psychological torture and not on CGI. All the monsters were real prosthetics or costumes, and our brain can always tell the difference between tangible objects and a cartoon.
The Thing 1982, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors, Return of the Living Dead 3, An American Werewolf in London, The Fly, The Shining are great 1980s Horror movies.
Honestly that last movie scenario would scare me in real life. One of my biggest fears is not being able to talk myself out of a situation. I would be traveling abroad and get killed over something completely stupid/a misunderstanding.
My mum had the film curtains on video, and the cover freaked me out. It was just a doll with a knife, but chucky messed me up 😂 the 80s were different in terms of what we were allowed to watch
Lol there was a fucking ad right after the clip and I’m losing my shit right now. It was an 80s style aerobics class with a woman showing some gym equip while doing 80s moves, 2 guys working out behind her dressed as gay as possible. Right at the end she points at one and she says, “Dean and I used to date. But it’s cool.” Dean turns to the camera as femininely as possible and gives a sly smile.
This sounds weird , but one thing I like is hearing people just ramble about films, especially when the descriptions are weird, shitty, or just plain wrong. And Billy Burnward is the king of it.
The unseen sounds like my wedding night! Bed and breakfast in vermont (i know) and the owners of inn wouldnt leave our room on our wedding night! By the way she brought us a bottle of champagne. My new wife who is not my wife anymore grabbed our bags and got to the car in 5 mins flat! We slept in our car!
Fright for fright, the TV movie, "Trilogy of Terror" is the one to watch. Watch out for that Zuni doll! Richard Matheson could write some kind of scary!
When I was like 7, which would be around 89' I saw Jaws for the first time because I was really into sharks. For a couple of weeks I wouldn't get in the bath tub at night, I would just stand there looking at the tub full of water. I knew a shark couldn't get me, but I was still too afraid to get in!
Joe Bob Briggs drive in theatre on The Movie Channel on weekend sleepovers with my buddy's! Best 80s horror movies! And like someone else said USA Network too. So much fun back then
As far as this particular movie goes - I'd be really interested to hear you do a thing on guys being afraid of this type of genre since it seriously reminds me of the lore behind sleep paralysis and how girls see "the tall man with the hat" and boys are tormented by "the old hag"
Back when you had no choice what movie you wanted to watch
Exactly..and everyone would be talking about the same thing they watched in school the next day
Having different arts forced on us was GOOD for us.
Always a choice to shut it off
I'd honestly prefer that. I hate having to choose one movie/show out of thousands of choices I just wanna be told to watch something and hope it ends up being good
Now I get where he gets his Sickle references in specials and tv shows from.... "WITH A SICKLE "
Andy Gray the stand up bit with the home psycho home invader was exactly where my mind went. ol Billy scaredy cat is haunted by that film
I am rofl-ing hard every time I see this comment. Legendary.
That was a great joke.
"With a sickle."
Best line ever.
The hash slinging slasher? (spongebob reference)
80s horror movies are the epitome of quality and fun.
burningmisery amen 🙏
@Consciência Blackpill
I find it amazing that, despite owning a huuuuge 80s horror collection, I still find new gems all the time. Even the campiest 80s horror is still a lot of fun. Sadly, that rarely applies to 2000's and 2010's horror movies.
i just love them, especially getting high with a friend and turning out the lights and watching one. most ofthe time they are just hilarious
@@MichaelDelvalle-nt4gp
Weed + 80s horror = perfect time.
It’s just so great how many of them there are...😁👍
That still looks pretty creepy even today
NGL from afar it almost looked like Carrot top on skates...
@@SammyJoeLouis amen to that. Those movies were trauma inducing they were so scary as a kid!
@ yeah remember the end of Carrie? Super day mare
@ oh yeah end of nightmare on elm street - funny the second time scary the first time comedy is pain
“It doesn’t hold up.” Sometimes he just doesn’t think about what he says.
Back when I saw The Thing on cable (7 or 8 at the time) I didn't trust my dogs for a little over a month. I thought they would eat my alive lol.
Ah man, channel hopping at a young age and when I should have been asleep, then coming across the defibrillator scene scared the shit out of me.
That's a great fucking movie though.
@@MaxCovington543 Damn right, still holds up.
Fuck that movie got me
1980s cable was kind of like early 2000s internet in terms of its impact on unprepared families.
That skating scene was actually horrifying.
I agree. That scene has been in the back of my mind for years but I forgot the name of the movie it came from. Do you know?
@@Doamino41 bill said it was called Curtains 👌
@@Doamino41 Pay attention
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Ok ok, no need to be an ass
Labyirnth II I seen curtains in the theater and that ice skating scene blew my mind 🤯
Who remembers "USA Up All Night"? That's where I got my dose of B horror movies from the 80s as a kid.
Yes. Didn't it start at like 1 am? I always fell asleep trying to finish some movie on it.
@@daniellee1722 Yes lol it would come on so late. My mom never really enforced an official bedtime, so I became a night owl at a very young age
@@froladee You got me watching old clips with host Rhonda now lol
@@daniellee1722 omg I was just doing that too for the past 30 mins 🤣🤣
@@froladee Good times lol. I love reaching back into my childhood like this. Thanks for the trip.
2:15-3:03
The ice-skating scene from “Curtains” is not creepy, it’s *terrifying* dear God. Its also brilliant. Most horror films are shot at night time or in a kind of claustrophobic setting like a cabin or the woods. Here? Not only is this not a jump scare, but it’s out in the open in broad daylight. You see the killer slowly skating towards her w/ evil eyes peering out of that creepy mask.
Halloween came out in 1978 and the first like 30 minutes takes place during the day
All happening while you have a pretty good idea what’s coming, but nothing can stop it. Bill’s crazy if he thinks it didn’t hold up. Maybe the ending sucks but that scene looks awesome.
Especially the face at 2:46, very unnerving...
I agree. It's much more frightening to watch what appears to be a normal person in broad daylight slowly move toward you until you realize its actually a monster/maniac than the lame jump scares in an average movie today.
@@Njbear7453 ...AND? Yes, Halloween is another example where some of the most unnerving scenes take place during the day. What's your point?
Totally agree with you Bill Burr! I remember having this problem walking into my mom's room in the middle of her watching The Omen (original 70's version) when I was just 9 years old. Scarred me for YEARS!
I walked in on my parents watching Evil Dead back when I was like 3-4...when the woman takes the pencil and stabs her ankle! Holy Crap that movie messed me up as a kid. I've seen recently..they changed it to NC-17..that's a messed up Raimi flick!
How many people automatically did a CZcams search for the movie "Curtains" when Bill mentioned it.
Yep. Gonna watch it.
The curtains scene is actually pretty terrifying 😲 whoever directed that movie did well
The dude in the last scene surely is disturbing
Seriously 5:10 look at him...so weird
The Holy Mackerel Yes! It was a surprisingly very good performance. He really looks like a mentally ill person with low IQ but he was completely different, smart and eloquent in real life.
He's a teddy bear. I'll play with him.
and now he's POTUS
@ I've never seen it.
I can sit here and listen to Bill talk about nothing all day
Here’s me thinking “The Boy” was a really interesting new idea and shit it was just an adaptation of The Unseen
I don't get why in that movie, the guy was wearing a mask, was he disfigured or something?
@@invadazim4320 wasn't he burned?
@@deesnutz4638 oh, he was? I probably forgot or wasn't paying attention.
976-EVIL was one of my favorites. Robert Englund’s directorial debut.
@4:54 "apparently his play was a little rough"
I almost died laughin. Funniest shit ever. Needed that today
Coming from England, I empathise totally. We only had 4 channels in the 1980s (🤦🏼♂️). Although we did have swearing and nudity. God bless Channel 4
We could never pick up channel 4 growing up I missed out on so much 😢
yaakhee American football on Sunday nights! The only thing that was on!!!
Late-night Channel 5 movies were a godsend in the 90’s.
We did have hammer house of horror on TV though. Scared the living crap out of me. I was far too young to watch them.
For me when I was a kid in the 80's, "The Beast Within" creeped me the hell out. That and the first Phantasm movie.
My buddy and I watched the shining in a cabin in Tahoe one time. A week into the trip my father had to take my friend to the hospital. My friend had not taken a dump for the last 5 days because the scene in the shining with the old lady in the bathroom had scared him so badly. 😂
I think Curtains is A Canadian film as well.....HEH Black Christmas always freaked me out.
"Black Christmas" is one of my all time favorite horror films, the original from 1974 that is. I'm not even going to comment on that remake.
Rapid
Just that little at the end. It just that...i wasn't ready for it
I watched curtains in my local grind house back in the 80’s . The pond scene was insane and the whole theater went off at the same time , good times .
Omg this is terrifying. As a kid in elementary I had just moved and was new at school. I was all of 90 lbs and we had a kid in the special needs class that was very tall and about 3 times my size. One day I was walking back from the bathroom and he ran out of the special needs room after me and pushed me against the locker by my throat. Thank goodness the teacher was there to get him off of me but i swear I would have pissed my pants if I hadn't just went.
Good that you went when you had to go. Fo sho.
I'm 32 but didn't have cable for a min but Halloween time is where I grew my love for horror movies on upn lmao
"Curtains" is a creepy movie. The ice skating scene is really freaky. I woke up in the middle of the night and it was that scene. It freaked me out.
Finally - a shout-out for Barney Miller!
Some of those movies from that era would never have gotten made now let alone get a R. Some amazing schlock back then.
The earliest film I remember messing me up for a bit as a kid was 1989's *Pet Sematary.* The flashback of undead Timmy Baterman with that girl's leg (He was grave-robbing and hiding limbs, if I remember right), laughing with pleasure while scratching the rotting, bleeding flesh off his own face... 😨
Christ on his throne, did that stay with me for a while. Then, to add icing on the therapy cake, little me watches him burn with his father, yelling "Love dead, hate living!" Even as an adult, re-watching the movie and seeing where it hasn't aged well, that scene still makes me a tiny bit uneasy. 😅
*#SometimesDeadIsBetter*
Timmy Baterman & Zelda freaked me the funk out. Went to see Pet Sematary & Child's Play at the Drive In with my parents when I was 8. Those two scared the hell outta me.
Please avoid the 2019 remake by all means.
I love that movie! Zelda almost ruined my damn life 😒 I’m 39 now and still afraid of her.
the actual "unseen" in the film is Dorfman from Animal House. It's true!
Both of those movies look WAY scarier than anything out today. Only recent one that I actually found scary was the first insidious. IT reboot was a good movie but it doesn't really scare you
80's movies weren't really scary...more T&A type stuff which tbh I appreciated as a kid. I think the really scary stuff is probably not from American filmmakers.
What about hereditary? The climax was fantastic
@@invadazim4320 Overrated af all modern horror is either 80's throwbacks or satanic illuminati bullshit.
80's horror flicks were extremely trashy, in large, and had poor production values because the industry -- at that point -- felt the "slasher" schtick was not worthy of any producers money. 90's horror really got it's act together shifting more toward paranormal/psychological-types. Still, I can't help but love to watch these low-budget 80's horror films.
@@FUCKINGENIOUS hereditary is the scariest movie of all time
Ok..... Well a little late in seeing this upload here are a few more to pick from that I would suggest.
1) The Shining
2) The Howling
3) The Fog
4) Scanners
5) The Funhouse
6) April Fools Day
7) The Hitcher
8) The Thing
9) Silent Scream
10) The House on Green Apple Road ( I believe this was 1980 but might be 78~79 )
Horror scenes in the daylight are so much more effective.
USA Network used to play great horror movies on Saturdays.
Hell yeah. Up All Night.
@@wvusmc
Where I first seen 'The Children' from 1980.
Followed by MANY nightmares. Half in part thanks to Manfredini's creepy music score almost identical to his original Friday the 13th soundtrack he composed that same year.
Others I'd seen on USA: Friday the 13th Parts I + 2, My Bloody Valentine original and a weird one I haven't seen since then called "Bug", or "Bugs". All of them forbidden by parents - totally permitted by my cool-ass teenaged sitter! Probably because it kept my heathen ass quiet! 😂😂😂
All I got to say is Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs...that was my jam.
Who was that USA Network usually Saturday horror "host" in a corny superhero (Superman rip-off) caped costume? Of course I remember the "UP! All Night" hostess - like a late-night-TV-friendly Marilyn Chambers or something 😂 Nothing against Miss Chambers, she's awesome.
@Aaron A420
Thanks for the memory refresh! Is Rhonda still around, name sounds familiar (I was in elementary and possibly junior high school when those two were hosts).
Junior from Unseen is Stephen Furst who played Flounder in Animal House.
Wow! Good actor!
Check out the Canadian film Black Christmas. I think it actually came out in 1978. Scary AF.
One of the worst, most overrated films in history! Boooring AF. I better re-watch TCM (1974) 5 times in a row, then spend a minute to this crap. (
With Margot Kidder! And Nancy's dad from Elm Street.
Will do, thanks!
@@DA0K At first I thought you meant Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most boring overrated crap horror is history, which I would agree with mostly. The original Black Christmas is pretty good. A great 80s horror is NEAR DARK.
The call is coming from inside the house...
Now i understand where Bill's issue with sickles comes from.
Boy, that Unseen movie kinda creeped me out... something about the mentally ill or feeble really gets me.... it's real
I'm pretty sure I could have faked my way out of it...wouldn't bet my life on it, though.
They could have gotten the idea from the book "of mice and men" by john steinbeck.
Tremendous work on this one man👌
I remember listening to this and picturing this exact scene. Great story telling.
The first Phantasm was this for me. Saw that when I was really young and it fucked me up for weeks lol
I saw Curtains probably around 1989 on regular tv (we didnt have cable), every Saturday afternoon they had a “Thriller matinee.” And the pond/ice skating scene is what totally stuck with me for decades. Never knew what the movie was called till just today.
I looked up this "Curtains" movie and it's on Amazon Prime. I know what im doing today. I think Bill would also be properly freaked upon watching "Alice Sweet Alice" -- a well received movie, with just about the creepiest mask ever in Hollywood history.
As cheesy as these movies may be they do a better job at actually scaring you than most modern horror movies.
I seen the 1st Leprechaun when I was 5 in theaters. That movie freaked me out as a kid. Now I really like all of them. Warwick Davis is just so insanely good as the Leprechaun.
Slumber party massacre was the 1st 80s horror I remember watching as a kid
I'm 33 and the turn dial tvs is what I grew up on haha. Fucking antennas. Only way we could watch a game if we taped the fuckers against the wall at the perfect angle. Getting cable when I was 8-9 was life changing. Bills 100% right here.
Curtains rocks. One of the best 80s slashers.
"Don't be afraid of the Dark". It was a TV movie. I stupidly watched the whole thing when I was7
Ghost Story was it for me. Literally almost peed myself. Around '82 or '83. Me and my best friend snuck into the Theatre.
Bill Burr talking horror!!! Yass
Curtains is cool and pretty creepy and has the late great John Vernon and a young Michael Wincott in it but The Unseen is an underrated classic, with Stephen Furst's and Sidney Lassick's amazing performances. Director Danny Steinmann later directed the awesome Savage Streets and Friday the 13th Part 5
There's an old low-budget zombie flick I saw on cable as a kid called "Children Shouldn't Play With dead Things" - it's Canadian but can only be found from a company in Texas (or something). Check it out, if you can find it.
That skating scene alone is better than most horror movies today.
I know exactly what bill is talking about, we had three stations to choose from then over night we had upwards of 30,it was awesome and strange at the same time. The movie ONE DARK NIGHT scared the shit out of me,not as horrifying now days.
The movie I thought was disturbing was the 1974 Texas Chainsaw. I remember watching that back in the 80s or early 90s when I was a kid at a buddies house , and i remember that movie f..ked me up ! I was terrified by leather face as a kid . The new ones dont do it for me , but that 1970s one did. Idk what it is about that movie that freaked me out so much
RIP Stephen Furst...and Chewy!
You should check out a movie he's in called Midnight Madness. An 80s vibe type of movie.
Bill, there is a scene in the movie The Unseen in which the husband is yelling at his wife Virginia. He's yelling at her and slapping her ,she's screaming like a Maniac so my friend and I use to blare this scene out the front window of his house on our boom box via a cassette tape. He lived on a main Street ,(Beale st. In Quincy Ma. So there is a chance you were once caught at this lonnnggg red light and heard us you Canton-ite )and right at a long red light , so there were always people sitting out there, stuck in their cars in the summer heat . A lot of Windows were down because it was the 80s and AC in cars wasn't as common as it is today. Anyway, it sounded like a couple was fighting tooth and nail and people's faces were priceless. Hahah I wish we had a way to record their reactions. But again it was the 1980s.
That's why the original Friday the 13th is so chilling... you really don't expect Pamela Voorhees to go from sweet older lady to psycho on a dime like that
Friday the 13th is a reverse Psycho (1960) combined with ripping off every shot from John Carpenter's Halloween
@@scampoli25 I never said it wasn't a cheap pastiche of every horror trope and slasher from before it. It's not high art. It still works well though
@@uberxchuck944 I just don't see any point in praising a movie that you agree is completely unoriginal and effectively turned something of high art into a cheap package-able formula focused on the kills instead of suspense.
@@scampoli25 people eat Whoppers all the time. Is it the best example of a cheeseburger? No, but it's a pretty solid burger and people enjoy it globally. Kind of the same thing here. I like Whoppers better than Big Macs, but it doesn't beat a homemade burger; that being said sometimes you just feel like having a Whopper. I like Friday the 13th more than Halloween, but Psycho is the better movie of the three, to use your examples. It's a matter of taste while also being able to identify quality and schlock and be honest about it with yourself.
@@uberxchuck944 Yeah but if all you eat is burgers than you have a pretty shitty taste in food, to use your burger analogy. It's your subjective opinion that you prefer Friday the 13th but objectively you can't argue there is little to nothing original or groundbreaking in the series. Combined with inventing the model to cheaply produce shitty slasher movies for quick cash. There is nothing outside of nostalgic preference and defensive reasoning you can use to defend this film series.
I love 80s horror movies😄😄😄
They are comfort food for those mind. Just enjoy.
I think when you're a kid is the best time to see those types of horror films. You had to apply a certain amount of imagination to really appreciate them. When you're older, they just seem too phony and silly, but as a kid you internalize it and get really scared.
Now this made me think of a movie that messed with me growing up. It was a movie from 91' called People under the stairs. It was an early 90s horror/comedy type vibe. I don't remember laughing much but I do remember like a chill vibe from the movie in some parts.
Well anyways, I didn't understand the movie much as a kid but what I remember was this kid sneaks into this house for some reason and I don't remember if he got trapped but basically the people in this house would kidnap and lock up a bunch of kids and teens in the basement. The kid that snuck in is dead set on freeing the people under the stairs but one of owners figures him out and starts chasing him through the house in this fucked up latex suit, while the "kids under the stairs" help him traverse through the insides of the house, like in the walls and stuff. I honestly gotta rewatch this movie but what really got to me as a kid was just how messed up all the kids looked, everyone was deformed and then there was this guy in a gimp suit chasing you through the walls and shit. BTW the kids were deformed because the "parents" would mutilate them, one of the main guys roach had his tongue cut out and couldn't speak so he jst moaned the whole movie. Man....
Fun Fact: The lady from The Unseen is Ringo Starr's wife!
I know it was made in 1979, but the scene of Ralphie Glick in Salem's Lot is one of the creepest scenes you will ever see. I watched that as a kid and I refused to look out of my window at night. Tobe Hooper somehow directed that PG movie? That Glick kid was just very unsettling. The way he just slowly appears...smiling...not blinking...all the while floating outside of a two story window.
i love 80s horror movies but mostly just to laugh at them
never saw Curtains in the theaters but the trailer ran on tv, sickle seen still lives an impression. the unseen has one of the most original kills: hot blonde getting used like a yo-yo when her scarf gets stuck in floor heating grate. another must see is Just Before Dawn: bear hug scene.
Back in the good old days when you had no choice but to watch whatever was on t.v..
Kids today will never know the struggle...lol
The Omen freaked me out as a kid. That fucking psycho music!
omg the sickle bit on conan came from this scene LOL
Scary movies were better back then. They relied on psychological torture and not on CGI. All the monsters were real prosthetics or costumes, and our brain can always tell the difference between tangible objects and a cartoon.
I saw "The plague of zombies" when I was 7...pretty sure it messed me up for life, lol
Does the carpet match The Curtain?
The Thing 1982, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors, Return of the Living Dead 3, An American Werewolf in London, The Fly, The Shining are great 1980s Horror movies.
Slaughter high destroyed my adolescence. Summer camp nightmare was an awesome one too
do you guys remeber Trilogy of Terror?
I do. The ending of the doll story creeped me out for years!
@@Doamino41 heh same
Doamino41 Is that the Zuni fetish doll with the sharp teeth and knife chasing the woman around her apt?
@@racafritz
Yeah! Remember the end of that one? If not you should check it out.
@@racafritz yeah that one
2:47 they couldn’t even bother tucking the mask in
Maybe the killer’s character is supposed to be actually wearing a mask rather than just bad prosthetics?
Honestly that last movie scenario would scare me in real life. One of my biggest fears is not being able to talk myself out of a situation. I would be traveling abroad and get killed over something completely stupid/a misunderstanding.
the horror movie that scared me as a kid was pumpkinhead
Return of the living dead scared me when l was a kid because there was a cemetery 5km away.
I need to watch both of these movies
Anytime Bill says "Sicle (sp?)" Or "Pickle", I fucking crack up.
Love the Barney Miller comment!
Classic Burr
My mum had the film curtains on video, and the cover freaked me out. It was just a doll with a knife, but chucky messed me up 😂 the 80s were different in terms of what we were allowed to watch
Lol there was a fucking ad right after the clip and I’m losing my shit right now. It was an 80s style aerobics class with a woman showing some gym equip while doing 80s moves, 2 guys working out behind her dressed as gay as possible. Right at the end she points at one and she says, “Dean and I used to date. But it’s cool.” Dean turns to the camera as femininely as possible and gives a sly smile.
Bill forgot to scream “SPOIIIILER ALERRRT” 3:07
They were awesome.
This sounds weird , but one thing I like is hearing people just ramble about films, especially when the descriptions are weird, shitty, or just plain wrong. And Billy Burnward is the king of it.
That last scene. Woah.
aaah he got the sickle from this
The unseen sounds like my wedding night! Bed and breakfast in vermont
(i know) and the owners of inn wouldnt leave our room on our wedding night! By the way she brought us a bottle of champagne. My new wife who is not my wife anymore grabbed our bags and got to the car in 5 mins flat! We slept in our car!
2:48 reason why bill burr said sickle in motel when come out in conan
Fright for fright, the TV movie, "Trilogy of Terror" is the one to watch. Watch out for that Zuni doll! Richard Matheson could write some kind of scary!
When I was like 7, which would be around 89' I saw Jaws for the first time because I was really into sharks. For a couple of weeks I wouldn't get in the bath tub at night, I would just stand there looking at the tub full of water. I knew a shark couldn't get me, but I was still too afraid to get in!
I just put the two movies at the top of the list of movies to watch.
AND the female killer was a stand up comic.
That one at the end sounded like he was taking a shit.
Had me rolling
Joe Bob Briggs drive in theatre on The Movie Channel on weekend sleepovers with my buddy's! Best 80s horror movies! And like someone else said USA Network too. So much fun back then
As far as this particular movie goes - I'd be really interested to hear you do a thing on guys being afraid of this type of genre since it seriously reminds me of the lore behind sleep paralysis and how girls see "the tall man with the hat" and boys are tormented by "the old hag"