By Johnny Rewind | Nostalgia Navigator You remember the video store. That back wall. The movies with the lurid covers that screamed at you from the shelf — ninjas, monsters, cyborgs, women with improbable weapons. The ones that promised everything and delivered something you couldn't quite describe to another person. These are those movies. And now there are two books about them. Book 1: VHS Fever Dreams The 1980s. Cocaine budgets. Hairspray physics. Special effects that cons

By Johnny Rewind | Nostalgia Navigator Stuart Gordon adapted H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West — Reanimator with complete faithfulness to the source material's tone of gleeful nihilism and absolutely none of its period setting. Where Lovecraft wrote a fin-de-siècle horror tale about medical hubris and forbidden knowledge, Gordon set his film in 1985 Miskatonic University and made it a black comedy about a brilliant, sociopathic student who has invented a fluorescent green reagen

By Vicky FastForward | The Scream Queen of Style Let's talk about Freddy Krueger — the man with the razor glove, the striped sweater, and the most spectacularly deranged sense of humor in all of horror history. A Nightmare on Elm Street arrived in 1984 like a fever dream designed specifically to ruin your sleep forever, and honestly? It succeeded brilliantly. Wes Craven tapped into something primal here: the idea that the one place you're supposed to be safe — your own dreams

Alright, buckle up, because we’re diving headfirst into a rabbit hole that’s as deep as it is delightfully weird. If you’ve ever found yourself obsessing over that one obscure B-movie nobody talks about, or hunting down vintage games that vanished faster than your last paycheck, then you’re in the right place. Today, we’re exploring the Belgium lost media community - a quirky, passionate bunch who are on a mission to rescue forgotten gems from the dusty corners of history. S

By Johnny Rewind | Nostalgia Navigator Before Full Moon Features became synonymous with cheap direct-to-video horror, Charles Band produced Puppet Master — a film about a Nazi hunter, a seaside hotel, a dead puppeteer's secret formula, and a team of animated killer puppets that murdered psychics for reasons involving stolen Nazi gold and Romanian alchemy. The 1989 film launched what became Full Moon's crown jewel franchise: 15 official entries (and counting), a crossover fil

By Vicky FastForward | The Scream Queen of Style House is a 1986 haunted house film that refuses to be only a haunted house film. Its protagonist, Roger Cobb, is a horror novelist and Vietnam veteran whose aunt has died in her own house under mysterious circumstances and whose young son vanished from the same property. He moves in, intending to write his Vietnam memoir, and discovers that the house is either haunted or serving as a portal through which the psychological dama

By Vicky FastForward | The Scream Queen of Style Before the MCU dominated every multiplex on the planet, before superhero films were a guaranteed box office phenomenon, there was Blade. In 1998, when comic book movies were still considered risky and slightly embarrassing, Wesley Snipes walked onto screen in a long black coat and sunglasses and delivered the line "Some motherf***ers are always trying to ice-skate uphill" — and the modern vampire action film was born. The Daywa

Ah, the 90s. A magical time when neon colours ruled, Tamagotchis beeped for attention, and playgrounds were battlegrounds for the coolest toys. Among these legends was the Skip It toy - that deceptively simple, ankle-bound contraption that turned skipping into a full-on sport. If you ever wrapped that plastic hoop around your ankle and swung it around like a pro (or a total klutz), you know exactly what I’m talking about. But where did this quirky little toy come from? Why di

By Vicky FastForward | The Scream Queen of Style Sharknado premiered on the Syfy channel on July 11, 2013 and received modest ratings. Then Twitter discovered it, and the event became something genuinely unprecedented in the history of bad movie culture: a social media feeding frenzy in real time, an audience watching together while narrating their own disbelief directly to each other and to the actors, who were also online and responding. By the end of the broadcast, #Shark

Alright, horror buffs and nostalgia junkies, buckle up! Today, we’re plunging headfirst into the gloriously weird, wonderfully bad, and often overlooked corners of horror cinema. You know, those cult classics and forgotten gems that make you scratch your head, laugh, and maybe even scream a little. If you’re craving a trip down memory lane with a twist of the bizarre, you’re in the right place. Let’s explore some of the most oddly familiar horror franchises that deserve a se

By Johnny Rewind | Weird Class "Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend till the end! Hidey-ho!" Few phrases in horror history are as deceptively innocent and deeply sinister as Chucky's introduction, spoken with Brad Dourif's unhinged commitment over the body of a possessed Good Guy doll. Child's Play arrived in 1988 and weaponized the idea of the beloved childhood toy — the thing that's supposed to be your comfort object, your companion, your friend — and turned it into somethi

Ah, the 90s! That magical decade when neon was king, dial-up internet was a test of patience, and TV shows were... well, sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling, and often downright forgotten . If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably stumbled down the rabbit hole of nostalgia, hunting for those quirky, obscure TV gems that slipped through the cracks of mainstream memory. Today, we’re diving headfirst into the wonderfully weird world of forgotten 90s TV gems —shows that de

By Johnny Rewind | Nostalgia Navigator Return of the Living Dead is the film that invented the modern zombie's relationship with brains. Before Dan O'Bannon's 1985 horror comedy, movie zombies shambled after human flesh in general; O'Bannon's creatures were specifically, obsessively, articulately interested in the brain. One of his zombies — a half-dissected female cadaver strapped to a mortuary table — famously explains that eating brains is the only thing that relieves the

By Vicky FastForward | The Scream Queen of Style Don Coscarelli made Phantasm in 1979 for around $300,000 and somehow produced one of the most genuinely strange horror films ever committed to celluloid. It begins as a coming-of-age story about a teenager grieving his parents, then pivots into dimensional horror involving a funeral home, reanimated corpses shrunk into dwarf slaves, and a cadaverous undertaker called the Tall Man who can survive decapitation, dismemberment, an

Let’s be honest. Cult B movies are like that weird cousin you only see at family reunions - a little rough around the edges, totally unpredictable, but somehow incredibly entertaining. You know the type: low budgets, questionable special effects, and plots that make you go, “Wait, what?” But here’s the kicker - these films have a charm that’s downright magnetic. They pull you in, make you laugh, cringe, and sometimes even inspire. So, buckle up, because we’re diving headfirs