VAMP (1986) – Episode 207 – Decades Of Horror 1980s
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Release Date: 05/30/2022
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“If thy hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it aside. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” Keep your hands off my members! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr, and a late “appearance” by special guest host Jerry Chandler – as they discuss (1981), a movie that isn’t about what it looks like it’s about. Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 293 – Demonoid (1981) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! Click...
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“The world has caught up with me and surpassed me. It’s drivel. 90 years ago, I was a freak. Today, I’m an amateur.” If you work at it, you can still regain your “freak” status. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – in 1979 San Francisco as they follow the exploits of H.G., Amy, and Jack in Nicholas Meyer’s (1979). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 249 – Time After Time (1979) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! ...
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“Evening News! Full Mail Gazette! Missing actress! No suspects! They can’t find the body! Police at their ruddy wit’s end as usual!” Don’t you miss the newsboys standing on the corner crying out the headlines? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Doc Rotten, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they take in the Bernard Herrmann concerto that infuses the deadly developments in (1945). Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 211 – Hangover Square (1945) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today!...
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“You admit it is possible for a piece of glass to retain the image of someone who sits in front of it for a great period of time?” Wait. No! Where do you get this nonsense? H. P. Lovecraft? Oh. Okay. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss (1988), about an unnamable creature that, oddly enough, has a name. Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 292 – The Unnamable (1988) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! Click the alert to get notified of new content! ANNOUNCEMENT...
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“Can I be the butter on your pumpernickel bread?” Oh, dear. What does that even mean? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out (1976) while pondering on which side their pumpernickel is buttered. Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 248 – Dark August (1976) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror 1970s is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and...
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“Damn rotten kids. They’ll get what they deserve. Yeah. They’ll get what they deserve tonight.” Well, if you’re thinking razor blades in apples for Halloween, your wife might have other ideas, which will include the question: “How do you like them apples?” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss (1988), a Halloween cult classic from Kevin Tenney. Now, where did I put that lipstick? Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 291 – Night of the Demons (1988) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine...
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“This piece is actually an ideal marriage. Iron, the strongest metal then known to man, and the color red, the color of the planet Mars, the planet of vitality, passion, and sexual vigor.” So iron plus red equals sexual vigor. Got it! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, Jeff Mohr, and guest Dave Dreher – as they take a ride in the possessed car from Charles Band’s (1976). There will be crashes! Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 247 – Crash! (1976) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today!...
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“Never saw anything like it! No footprints! No blood! No sign of a struggle! The bones just stripped clean like peeling a banana!” Well, if it were a giant spider, it would be because they liquefy their food by flooding it with digestive enzymes. Of course, there’s no such thing as giant spiders. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Doc Rotten, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to keep up with the giant spider in (1955). Wait. There are giant spiders? Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 209...
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“He’s not kidding! There’s a spaceship or something outside. There was three little guys that came out!” Maybe he should have led with, “Look what I got on video!” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Jeff Mohr, and special guest Michael Steinberg – as they discuss (1989), an early found footage film depicting an alien abduction. Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 290 – The McPherson Tape (1989) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! Click the alert to get notified of new content! Gruesome Magazine...
info_outline“You know, I mostly get your basic dorks around here. They seem to gravitate toward me… I don’t know why!” Hmmm. Guys go to a strip joint looking for a stripper and find vampires? May the dork be with you. Join your faithful Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out the force of nature known as Grace Jones in Vamp (1986).
Decades of Horror 1980s
Episode 207 – Vamp (1986)
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Two fraternity pledges travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
- Director: Richard Wenk
- Writer: Richard Wenk; (story by) Donald P. Borchers & Richard Wenk
- Grace Jones’ bodypainting & chair by: Keith Haring
- Special Makeup Effects: Greg Cannom
- Stunt Coordinator: Dar Robinson
- Selected Cast:
- Chris Makepeace as Keith
- Robert Rusler as AJ
- Grace Jones as Katrina
- Dedee Pfeiffer as Allison/Amaretto
- Gedde Watanabe as Duncan
- Billy Drago as Snow
- Sandy Baron as Vic
Crystal is a big Grace Jones fan so it’s no surprise that Vamp is Crystal’s pick. She has such a good time laughing along with this movie that she enjoys it just as much, maybe more, watching as an adult. She describes Grace Jones as a work of art in Vamp and gives Gedde Watanabe a big thumbs up for his performance.
Chad’s view of Vamp is that if you love cheesy, 80s horror, there’s not much to criticize. There’s a lot of silly 80s stuff, but it’s good silly 80s stuff. He loves Robert Rusler, Chris Makepeace, Grace Jones, and, of course, the vampires! Vamp is an odd little, very 80s film according to Bill and he likes the Nosferatu-like vampires. Grace Jones has such a [resence and her dance is iconic. Jeff is also in awe of the performance given by Grace Jones and is impressed with the effects work. To his surprise, he kind of got into the college-guy humor in Vamp.
The 80s Grue-Crew universally enjoys Vamp! If you hear anything that sparks your interest, Vamp is currently available to stream from Tubi (free w/ads) as well as a variety of subscription and PPV options. If physical media is your thing, Vamp is available as a Special Edition [Blu-ray] from Arrow Video and as a Blu-ray from Image Entertainment. That’s all “as of this writing,” of course.
Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Chad will be Evil Dead Trap (1988), a no-holds-barred journey into J-horror courtesy of Toshiharu Ikeda.
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