THE '80S

If one of the joys of being a horror fan in the 1980s was being seduced by the shocking and lurid come-ons in the newspaper advertisements for these movies, one of the downers was going to the theater and not getting all those ads promised.

'The Fog,' John Carpenter's eerie 1980 crowd-pleaser, overcame its tiny budget and DIY production to become a huge hit, earning 20 times what it cost to make.

During a gathering of Parliament in the 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher held up a copy of an American periodical.

Since 1985, Tom Holland’s critically acclaimed directorial debut has been a staple of Halloween movie marathons everywhere. Hard to believe he wrote the script in just three weeks.

Twenty-five years after airing its final episode, a revival of 'The Kids in the Hall' will be coming to Amazon as its first original Canadian series.

The idea was to protect children, but those billions of crime-stopping milk containers wound up scaring the crap out of them instead.

Decades after these segments aired, the producers behind the show are still wondering what happened.

By most accounts, Steve Martin—your favorite wild and crazy guy—is neither wild nor crazy. (Sorry.)

The 1980s series poked fun at public figures using puppets made by the 'H.R. Pufnstuf' team of Sid and Marty Krofft.

In the fall of 1979, a group of unknown actors, a director desperate for a hit, and a special effects visionary got together in the woods of New Jersey to create the stuff of legend.

The public service announcements were originally meant to boost teacher recruitment—and NBC wasn't all that crazy about airing them.

With its Blue Lagoon thermal spa and unrivaled views of the Northern Lights, Iceland is one of the world's top tourist destinations, drawing over 2 million visitors last year alone.