Happy Easter, if you celebrate it!

Here’s A Family Circus Easter, from 1982. Yes, this really exists. I don’t expect it to rock your world, but admit it… you’re a bit curious.

Let’s also add a survey for you Easter-celebrating types:

Growing up, what sort of stuff was in your Easter basket? Was it just candy, or did your folks go a step beyond? Swap stories, in the comments!

Posted by Matt on 04/16/17
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Reminder: The Ninja Turtles kinda/sorta had an Easter special:

There are many reasons to watch The Turtles and the Hare, but I think Bebop and Rocksteady dressed like Easter Bunnies tops the list.

(This was a Season 5 episode, by the way. Amazes me that a show that began with pet turtles mutating into humanoid ninjas always found new ways to get weirder.)

Let’s add a random survey tonight, too:

Name a scene from a movie or TV show that actually literally made you cry. Don’t be embarrassed — one of mine is when Cindel had to leave Endor at the end of the 2nd made-for-television Ewok movie. I f’n bawled.

Spill it, in the comments!

Posted by Matt on 04/14/17
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HELL. YES.

I’m thrilled to share this one with you. It’s the infamous Mirror, Mirror episode of Amazing Stories, graciously streaming from NBC:

If you don’t remember my ancient review, I’d rate this as the 2nd best episode of Amazing Stories, but I’d put it #1 as far as pure terror.

Synopsis: A man keeps seeing some kind of monster inching towards him whenever he looks in a mirror.

It’s so good, guys. This episode KILLED me as a kid and stuck with me forever.

Oh, PS: If you’ve never heard of Amazing Stories, it was an anthology series in the vein of Tales from the Darkside or Tales from the Crypt, but with a harder lean on “fantasy” stories. Even so, its few on-the-nose horror episodes hit super hard, and this is a perfect example.

Posted by Matt on 04/13/17
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Tonight’s movie is Bloody Birthday, from 1981. With a title like that, I suppose I don’t need to tell you the genre.

Even if you’ve never seen Bloody Birthday, the name should ring a bell, if only because of the film’s notoriously memorable VHS box.

Gonna borrow IMDB’s plot synopsis for this one:

Three children were born to the high of a total eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to kill gruesomely the people around them, even their family members.

I’m not sure if that’s completely grammatical, but whatever. Expect gore and mayhem. Put the kids to bed before you click play.

Posted by Matt on 04/12/17
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