Cereals That Time Forgot

I'm a huge cereal fan.  I don't care if it's Count Chocula or Shredded Wheat, I love pretty much every single variety you could possibly ever mention.  That said, few things cereal-related bum me out more than all the cereals I remember loving as a kid that I'll never be able to have anymore.  Imagine, a junk food product you had that you'll NEVER HAVE AGAIN.  I still remember the taste of some of these, how depressing.

Top 6 80's Slasher Flicks!

I think the only genre synonymous with the early 80's that can possibly compete with my love of sex comedies would be slasher flicks. For kids in my generation, horror movies took on an almost epic quality when they were discussed at school. There were always a few kids with parents either liberal or oblivious enough to let them rent whatever came out, regardless of content, so most of us probably heard of Freddy Krueger for the first time through our peers. Back then, this kind of stuff was forbidden for little kids, it was all built up to a point that these movies seemed pretty damn scary. I mean, when was the last time a movie scared you the way they did when you were a kid?

Video stores back then always had movies you'd never heard of, usually in boxes with the craziest cover art that was usually better than the movie inside.  Sure, you'd always see the first few Friday the 13ths and Nightmare on Elm Streets when they were around, but it was the lesser-known stuff that was always scarier and more exciting.  With that said, in no particular order, here's the top six (I couldn't decide on just five) slasher flicks from the early 80s that are NOT part of a major franchise.

A tribute to Cannon Films

If you are:

a) Male
b) Between the ages of 25 and 35
c) Not a jerk

This logo probably means something special to you.

Drinking boxes!

It's like a band of A.C. Slaters.

You ruined ice cream!

One of the weirdest feelings when you're a junk food nut like I am is the realization that certain food products are gone forever.  I'll always mourn over lost cereals more than anything else, but I've noticed over the past few years that ice cream bars just aren't as good as they used to be.

The All-Time Top 5 80's Sex Comedies

As a huge fan of genre flicks, I'm well acquainted with the idea of "so bad it's good" movies and having to defend my sometimes ridiculous tastes against the pretentious film snobs who saw a David Fincher flick one time and decided the idea of a movie being "fun" was a little too much for them.  That said, there is no genre film that squirts fun all over you like a sex comedy from the early 80's.

Obviously, this whole thing started with "Porky's" in 1981.  Made by the almighty Bob Clark (Black Christmas, A Christmas Story) and based on his obviously-wacky high school years, it was raunchy, it made a killing and it inspired a whole slew of rip-offs and imitators like every good genre film has to.  Let's not look down on this fact, though.  Without "Halloween" rip-offs, we'd never have "Friday the 13th", "Prom Night", "The House on Sorority Row" or any other slasher flicks that so many of us know and love.  I mean, as much as I love "Jaws", there are quite a few flicks like "Grizzly" that are outright dupes of it that I would hate to be deprived of.

Anyway, since "Porky's" is pretty much the be-all and end-all of 80's sex comedies, let's focus on the lesser-known flicks from the era that need to be celebrated.  There's boobs, there's wacky hijinks, and there's always a song over the opening credits that uses the movie's title in the theme song.