Horror History: Friday, July 25, 1986: Maximum Overdrive was released in theaters

When a mysterious comet passes close to Earth, machines everywhere suddenly take on murderous minds of their own. Soon, video games, cash machines, drawbridges, and steamrollers all go on a psychotic killing spree of global rebellion.

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Horror History: Friday, July 18, 1986: Aliens was released in theaters

Sigourney Weaver stars in Aliens, the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, reprising her role as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial. This time she returns to the very planet where her nightmare originally began with a squad of heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists.

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Horror History: Sunday, July 13, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Casavin Curse” premiered

Season 2 Episode 24

A family learns that their great-grandfather murdered his wife, resulting in a curse upon the family line. Written by Edith Swensen.

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