A Dream Warrior's Top 25

My personal favorite top 20 horror flicks (and I use the term "horror" loosely) from the 80's.... You will most likely disagree and that is more than okay. So, in no particular order....

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (...and anything Freddy related. Even Freddy vs. Ghostbusters.)
2. The Evil Dead 
3. Friday The 13th (...and obviously all that follow)
4. The Lost Boys
5. Saturday The 14th
6. Halloween II
7. The Fly
8. Silver Bullet
9. Night of The Creeps
10. Elvira's Movie Macabre
11. Swamp Thing
12. Poltergeist
13. Cujo
14. Jaws 3-D
15. Aliens
16. Children of The Corn
17. Pet Semetary
18. Puppet Master
19. Gremlins
20. Night of The Comet
21. Day of The Dead
22. Pumpkinhead
23. Rabid Grannies
24. Waxwork
25. Warlock
    

All time WORST 80's horror movie = Q: The Winged Serpent.

*Note to readers, this was supposed to be a top 10 list, but I was already at 13 by the time I got to 1984, and that was after getting rid of some real gems!

100 Worst Songs of The 80's Challenge: Poem 3

Now, let me preface this by saying, I do not completely agree with the list of 100 songs, but thought this could be a fun 80's activity just the same. So, here is #100 from the 100 Worst #1 Songs of The 80's. Also, I never promised that these would be good. I'm sure most will be humorous in nature.

Bad Medicine: A Re-Imagining


This sickness is burning--acidic deep in my digestive
system. I can feel it eat  away the lining of my
throat.  Slippery pain.


No medicine.  No tending. No nurturing mother's
touch, can stop this feeling from it's insidious
inside rampage.


Mommy warned me about girls like you. Said you'd
make me hurt, but those blue eyes and wide lips 
said differently.


I fell for the sway of your hips, the shape of your thighs
and the sweet narcotic-laced brain inside your
philosophically-minded head.


It hurt then, the bubbling bile inside of me. Nagging
my gall bladder for sweet relief, but I ignored
the intense sensation.


The pain grew worse with time, radiating down
into  the more intimate darkened corners of  the pit
of my belly.


And still, you deny me the only thing that will give
me relief.  Smiling with all of your saccharine and
promising me nothing.


I know there are others, that they love you. Adding
another cheap conquest to their sheets. But I need
you, love you. And. You deny me.
Everything.

If I Had Been An 80's Movie Ingenue ...

I feel like I'd be the hapless cross between Andie Walsh and Chris Parker with a little bit of a cynical and sassy Janine Melnitz edge. It's got to be a mix of whiny and bad-ass. However, that is not the purpose of  my little post.

I want to send some gratitude out to the "shoved-under-the-rug" 80's movie men. So, in the true spirit of 80's film appreciation, here is my life of the top 5 fictional 80's movie characters that I'd love to fall in love with.

• Phil "Duckie" Dale : Every time I watch "Pretty In Pink," which is coincidentally one of my favorite 80's moves, I get pissed off and want to punch Andie right in her face. Why? Why wouldn't you pick Duckie. He's adorable and lovable and off-beat and sheesh!
• Ronald Miller : Though, I prefer the pre and post "popular" version of the guy. I've always wanted to ride off into the sunset with a nerd on a lawnmower. Sigh.
• Andrew Morenski / Max Hauser:  I know, Jon Cryer overload, but he's just so damned cute. I wasn't a huge fan of the "Moranski" personality, but all of that Max Hauser business in the middle was gold.
• Lloyd Dobbler: Do I really need to say anything else? Nope.
• Mad Mardigan: I had to have a "bad boy" in the mix, and who could fill the roll better than a dirty young Val Kilmer. This was probably the first, last and only time I found him attractive. Woo.