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All posts tagged "1981"

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  The heart is a prison cell in Marty Balin’s Journey-esque AOR-lite 1981 ballad “Hearts”

  We’re taking another peek-a-boo at the Playboy Channel’s “Hot Rocks” — a new music video show that featured music videos showcasing occasionally NSFW nudity — which premiered on “Night Flight” on July 15, 1983, and you can...

  • Posted February 28, 2019
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  “Dark Night of the Scarecrow”: A killer scarecrow seeks revenge in this 1981 made-for-TV movie

  Decades after it was first broadcast as a “CBS Saturday Night Movie” on Saturday October 24, 1981, Dark Night of the Scarecrow still haunts viewers with its depiction of a small town supernatural scarecrow seeking revenge. This...

  • Posted February 18, 2019
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  Blood & roses: Savage ’80s slasher “The Prowler” features SFX goremeister Tom Savini’s best work

  Ever since its theatrical release in August of 1981, Joseph Zito’s savage slasher The Prowler has acquired a substantial cult following, particularly because SFX goremeister Tom Savini elevated this film’s simplistic storyline to certifiable cult status. Check...

  • Posted February 1, 2019
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  In “Venom,” an attempted kidnapping is thwarted by a deadly black mamba snake

  Venom — now streaming in our Blue Underground collection on Night Flight Plus — is a stylish late 1981 British-made thriller with an all-star cast about an attempted kidnapping thwarted by a deadly black mamba, a very...

  • Posted November 29, 2018
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  Will Vinton’s “Closed Mondays” & “Mountain Music” were highlights of Night Flight midnight movie fave “Fantastic Animation Festival” (1977)

  We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Oscar-winning Claymation filmmaker Will Vinton, who lost his 12-year battle with multiple myeloma cancer on October 4, 2018. He was 70 years old. We thought fans of...

  • Posted October 8, 2018
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  “Fantastic Animation Festival” introduced revolutionary artists to rock ‘n’ roll audiences!

  Now available for streaming on Night Flight Plus is the influential 1977 Fantastic Animation Festival, the first widely-released collection of animated films, which became a hit with midnight movie lovers, was the first exposure for dozens of...

  • Posted May 26, 2017
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  “Lunch Wagon”: This 1981 sexploitation romp featured Playboy Playmates and Missing Persons

  From time to time, we here at Night Flight HQ like to remind ourselves just how different the 1980s were, like that time when L.A. mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed September 11, 1981, as “Lunch Wagon Day” as...

  • Posted February 22, 2017
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  “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones”: L.A. punk band Fear on “SNL” in ’81 & “New Wave Theatre” in ’82

  In this 1982 episode of “New Wave Theatre“ — watch it in its entirety now on Night Flight Plus — Lee Ving and his band Fear slam their way through “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones,”...

  • Posted October 5, 2016
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