Horror History: Friday, September 23, 1983: Pieces was released in US theaters

A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old.

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Horror History: Friday, September 9, 1983: Nightmares was released in theaters

AN ANTHOLOGY OF TERROR! A pack of cigarettes, a video game, a pick-up truck and a stately colonial home all become key elements in four terrifying tales of terror in the anthology film, Nightmares, directed by Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, White Lightning). A chain-smoking homemaker (Cristina Raines, The Sentinel) insists on going out for cigarettes even when an escaped madman is on the loose in “Terror in Topanga. “, J.J. Cooney (Emilio Estevez, Young Guns), a video game hot-shot, dares to take on a strange challenger (though it may cost him his life) in “The Bishop of Battle. “, A troubled priest (Lance Henriksen, Aliens) seeks to find the faith he has lost on the road, but instead he finds someone (or something) in this desert is trying to drive him out of his mind in “The Benediction. “, Claire (Veronica Cartwright, Alien) hears rats in the walls. Her husband (Richard Masur, The Thing) believes he can take care of the problem with a few rat traps, but this problem is only going to get much bigger in “Night of the Rat.”

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Horror History: Friday, September 2, 1983: Mortuary was released in theaters

Christie Parson has been having terrifying nightmares ever since her father drowned in a swimming pool, which causes her to re-evaluate the circumstances surrounding his death. Her boyfriend, Greg Stevens, sees a sinister hooded figure in the town’s mortuary, sparking a series of bizarre and terrible occurrences that lead Christie to discover the ghastly truth behind her father’s death

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