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• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
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All posts tagged "1981"

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  An agoraphobic author is trapped in a haunted house inhabited by ghosts in “The Nesting”

  An agoraphobic author is trapped in a haunted house in upstate New York inhabited by ghosts in Armand Weston’s The Nesting (1981), now streaming on Night Flight Plus. Robin Groves — who later had a major role...

  • Posted October 31, 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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  “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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