HeyJaredBackyard Movie Critic
Gen X film junkie: silent horror to streaming chaos. Grew up on VHS gore and HBO late nights. Unapologetic recs for backyard screenings and Friday nights. No pretension, just movies that matter. Rated R for a reason. And a little poetry.
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Candies that Screwed Up Genx (opens the original)
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So here are my Candies that Screwed Up GenX. Yes, our generation’s candy came with trauma. Did your drunk uncle make you eat orange slices out of his English Leather and alcohol smelling pockets? When your grandmother told you to take a piece of candy out of the dish, and you knew your mother would get mad if you declined, did all the Fruit Drop hard candies come up in one giant, bowl-shaped clump that terrified you? You still ate a piece you broke off cuz your dad was looking at you with that “
31 Days of 80s Slashers and B-Horror That Will Change Your Brain: A GenX Crash Course (opens the original)
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Man, these are a blast to write! So this is the 31 Days of 80s Slashers and B-Horror That Will Change Your Brain: A GenX Crash Course. I talk to GenZers all the time, and many are crazy about horror. They are always asking questions about what’s the best horror movies of the 80s, what was it like when The Shining came out, and was Friday the 13th a big thing, and I say yes and explain all of it, but it’s almost impossible to explain.The 80s were such a wild decade. GenXers, both young and old, w
The Sitcom Halloween Episodes of GenX and Beyond (opens the original)
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So if you’re like me, and you want the best blast of nostalgia you can find for Halloween, then this list is for you. Every Halloween I do a movie watch list, but I also throw in episodes of my favorite 70s, 80s, and 90s TV shows. If you’re not a big horror fan, you’ll love this list! Look, this is for fun, so don’t be like a stick in the mud and all upset that I didn’t pick the episode you wanted to see. I can only do 10 of these, cuz I’m already long-winded, and I don’t want to write these all
My True Ghost Story (opens the original)
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10 Babysitting Movies that Screwed up GenX (opens the original)
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So here is the deterioration through the late 70s and 80s of my trust for certain babysitting institutions and technologies. I was 5 in 1980, and by the time I was 15 I was anti-babysitting, terrified of camp, and afraid when the TV went fuzzy. I have put these movies in order by year, from 1976 to 1988. You can see the progression of these ideas through these movies. I hope they also demonstrate how kids were more or less targeted in these movies. Now don’t get all up in arms and think I’m sayi
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