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Iconic Halloween Candy Born in the 80s
If you grew up in the 1980s, candy was both a treat and an adventure. Walking into the corner store or the gas station you were met with a rainbow of wrappers, but that rainbow CONTINUE READING…
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Toy Stories: Mad Scientist Monster Lab
In the neon-soaked landscape of 1980s toy aisles, where action figures ruled and slime was king, Mattel dared to go one step further into the bizarre. Enter the Mad Scientist Monster Lab…a gloriously grotesque toy CONTINUE READING…
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When Franken Berry Cereal Caused a Pink Poop Panic in 1971
In March 1971, General Mills launched a new line of monster-themed cereals to capitalize on the success of Lucky Charms. The first two entries were Count Chocula, a chocolate-flavored vampire, and Franken Berry, a strawberry-flavored CONTINUE READING…
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Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s
LISTEN NOW! The premiere episode of Gen X Archives podcast! What better way to kick it off than with a Halloween episode Halloween night, 1980s, the streets were full of ghosts, goblins, clowns and one CONTINUE READING…
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Faces of Death: The VHS-Era Urban Legend
In 1978, a low-budget pseudo-documentary called Faces of Death emerged from the shadows and quickly became one of the most infamous underground films of the VHS era. Marketed as a “shockumentary,” it promised viewers a CONTINUE READING…
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Saturday Morning Memories: The Inhumanoids
“It’s another Attack!They’re not human, they’re…Inhumanoids, Inhumanoids,The evil that lies within…” Foolish humans. When will they learn that digging and exploring where mother nature never intended will only unleash gigantic monsters bent on destroying the CONTINUE READING…
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The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 27 | The 2025 Halloween Grab Bag Episode
The Retro Resurgence Proudly Presents….the 2025 Halloween Spooktacular Trick or Treat Grab Bag Episode. As per the norm with our grab bag format, we’ve got several appropriately themed segments to hit you with this Spooky CONTINUE READING…
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Toy Stories: Supernaturals
In the fall of 1987, toy shelves were glowing…literally. Amid the neon slime, transforming robots, and sword-wielding warriors of the decade, Tonka introduced a line that felt like it crawled out of a haunted comic CONTINUE READING…
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The Night the Grinch Stole Halloween: A Forgotten TV Treat from 1977
In the golden age of television specials, when families gathered around glowing screens for animated holiday magic, one curious entry slipped through the cracks of collective memory: Halloween Is Grinch Night. Airing on CBS in CONTINUE READING…
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John Carpenter, The Master of Horror
With Halloween right around the corner I have a few movies from the master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Not the normal Carpenter movies, these are a few of his underrated and often overlooked movies. CONTINUE READING…
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The Legacy of Goosebumps: How R.L. Stine’s Scary Stories Became a Generation’s Gateway to Horror
In the early 1990s, Scholastic took a gamble on a series of spooky chapter books aimed at middle-grade readers. What followed was a publishing phenomenon that would haunt bookstores, school libraries, and Scholastic Book Fairs CONTINUE READING…
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Saturday Morning Memories: The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
In the fall of 1985, Saturday morning cartoons took a spooky detour when The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo premiered on ABC. It was the seventh incarnation of the beloved franchise, but this time, the formula CONTINUE READING…
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Food Files: General Mills’ Monster Cereals
General Mills’ Monster Cereals have been haunting breakfast tables for over five decades now, blending classic horror characters with breakfast nostalgia. First introduced in 1971, these cereals became iconic not just for their flavors, but CONTINUE READING…
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DTV Monster Hits: When Rock & Roll and Disney Came Together To Make Halloween Magic
In the golden age of TV specials, when Halloween was more about mood than merchandise, Disney delivered a rock-infused treat that still haunts the memories of fans who caught it live: DTV Monster Hits. Originally CONTINUE READING…
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The Alien Autopsy That Fooled the World
In the mid-1990s, when grainy VHS tapes and tabloid TV ruled the airwaves, one broadcast sent shockwaves through living rooms across America: Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? Airing on Fox in 1995, the special promised CONTINUE READING…
