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The 80s Horror Tournament

I have been getting plenty of PMs to get another movie tourney going, and since we have had the 70s and 90s done last year, plus the previous version of this same tourney was completed by yours truly more than three years back, let's see if all the new members who have become an integral part of HDC can combinedly decide if the original winner is indeed truly worthy of the crown as THE KING OF 80s HORROR.

Our HDC forum has been facing a real lack of traffic lately. Let's hope that through this tourney, members start logging back in and the place flourishes again.

Now everyone knows that the 80s was the real Golden Age for the horror movie genre. The 70s and the 80s redefined the horror genre and gave many memorable classic horror movies which stand incomparable even today. Where the 70s brought milestones and trendsetters, the 80s developed them further and gave birth to a slew of franchises which made our horror genre extremely popular.

I have shortlisted 243 movies based on user votes (at IMDB) and popularity (among horrorhounds like us), ranging from releases from 1980 to 1989.

Before starting the tournament, I d like to clarify that the rules stay the same for the initial rounds. 5 votes in favor will decide the winner, and just in case I am not online to declare it, you may continue to vote till I am online next to update the match in progress.

So...without further ado...

(Hitting the Rewind button to almost three decades back) Here we go...

What...we didn't have this before?! Wow! 80's was a glorious decade with full of Cronenberg's and Carpenter's masterpieces. So we can easily sure enough that this is going to be another awesome tourney for all HDC folks!:)

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 795745)

My Bloody Valentine

same here.

Kickass tournament idea!! I am looking forward to some great matches in this.

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine.

I saw The Hand reasonably recently, so as its fresh in the memory it gets my vote

The Hand

Thanks, guys.

5-1-0, My Bloody Valentine walks through to a comfortable win over The Hand & Clownhouse.

The House by the Cemetery

House by the Cemetary

House By the Cemetary

House by the Cemetery

House by the Cemetary

Rough match, right off the shot...my favourite Friday vs. my favourite Fulci...

Have to go with Friday the 13th Part III - an absolute blast. So is House, but I'm more likely to pop in F13 at any given time.

5-1-0, The House By The Cemetery walks through Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D & Neon Maniacs.

Cujo................

Night of the Demons........pure cheezy fun

Cujo...........

Night of the Demons.

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 795820)

Night of the Demons........pure cheezy fun

Yep....gets my vote as well.

(can't believe I almost missed this tournament...haha)

Cujo get my vote, seen all three recently and Cujo blows them out of the water

Cujo

Anyone else notice that Night of the Demons 1,2,3 are almost identical plots? It's like they were working off the same script for all 3 of them and just made very slight changes to qualify it as a different movie. (I guess I'm not sure if the first one was a little more unique, but 2 & 3 I distinctly remember being almost the same exact movie.)

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Originally Posted by bwind22 (Post 795845)

I don't like them really, but I thought cujo was a really bad movie.

Night of the Demons.

Night of the Demons

Howling 2. So wrong it's gotta be right.

Night of the Demons

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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ (Post 795886)

Night of the Demons

Yep...what my bro said.

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Originally Posted by illdojo (Post 795905)

Yep...what my bro said.

Linnea Quigley is great :D

http://www.loftcinema.com/files/linnea%20quigley.jpg

How you been anyways illdojo?

9-6-1, Night of the Demons scores a big win over Cujo & Howling II.

Dead & Buried

anyone who hasn't seen it shoud do so ASAP.