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[](https://georgergaluschak.substack.com/) # [Abandoned Places \| Horror Movie Reviews](https://georgergaluschak.substack.com/) Subscribe Sign in # Movies I Watched When I Was Drunk ### A listicle, just because I love you [](https://substack.com/@georgergaluschak) [George R. Galuschak](https://substack.com/@georgergaluschak) Mar 03, 2026 20 23 7 Share [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MNtD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32923df1-5d37-4e2a-931d-9f33e587de16_1000x1448.jpeg) *Poster, Highway to Hell. For review purposes only. This essay contains no spoilers. I WAS DRUNK.* In the interests of ~~wanting more subscribers~~ artistic expression, I am doing a listicle about obscure horror movies I watched in the late 1980s to early 1990s. I was drunk during the viewing of each and every one of these films. That time period in Northern New Jersey was something special. Lots of big hair and mullets. The most popular guys drove around in cars with purple underglow lights. Sadly, my ride was a Fiat with a gas station tiger tail on the dashboard. I just couldn’t compete. I also didn’t leave my room until my sophomore year of high school. I was too busy reading comic books. I ~~was a huge nerd~~ had truly eclectic interests. I am setting the scene, here. The period after college is where the action truly begins\! I was unemployed. Why was I unemployed, you ask? I graduated with an English degree and didn’t bother doing an internship. My reasoning went something like this: why should I pay someone to work when they should be paying me? As you can already tell, I wasn’t the brightest star in the firmament. Eventually I ended up working part-time at an apartment complex as a janitor, a retail clerk at a game software store, and finally as a sales associate at Barnes & Noble. I had a friend who was unemployed, also. Technically he had a part-time job loading trucks at UPS, which he called Under Paid Suckers. Once a week we’d buy a case of beer, rent four videos, order cheap fast food, get drunk together, and watch horror movies all night. What was my friend like? He once told me he was a genius, because he took a scratch-off IQ test that came with a two-pack of Bounty towels and that’s what the results said. He also told me he was going to sue a film studio because one of the characters in their movie used his name without permission. I’d ask him how the lawsuit was going, and he’d tell me to fuck myself. I haven’t talked to him in years. That happens I guess. We rented movies at Dollar Video, a video store in Lodi NJ (not California) that was run by a pair of twins. Once we went in and the twins had turtles at the counter. I don’t know why. My friend said they ran an illegal turtle harvesting operation. It was a time of self-discovery. Mainly, I discovered that I had a drinking problem. I’d drink and then black out. The best decision I made that decade was quitting alcohol. If I hadn’t done that, I’d be dead today. Oh yeah, the movies. Here’s the list. Most of them are obscure. I was pretty drunk, so my memory ~~might be~~ sketchy, which means this may not have all the detail you’ve come to expect from a high quality George Galuschak™ review. If you’ve seen all of these films, uh…yeah. Good job\! [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PsWw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F329e3496-fbd5-4284-be9e-3f6264c4d262_255x404.jpeg) **Children of the Night**: vampires take over a small town or somesuch thing. I recall a pair of girls at a swimming hole, and that’s it. The vampires live underwater, just like that **Swamp Thing** (a comic book) two-parter\! [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmsQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36faad26-e953-41c2-869f-4cdfc71a7d49_258x387.jpeg) - **Evil Toons**: there are cartoon people, ala **Who Framed Roger Rabbit,** and real people have sex with them. The cover to this looks zany! Spoiler: the movie wasn’t zany. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jX4z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9210300-d624-4b95-b31f-f70aecd4b0d7_254x392.jpeg) **Ghosthouse**: are you dead! Are you dead! Are you dead! Or maybe it’s burial! Burial! Burial! I could never figure out what this movie was trying to tell me. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MNtD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32923df1-5d37-4e2a-931d-9f33e587de16_1000x1448.jpeg) - **Highway to Hell**: a guy has to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend (Kristy Swanson) from Hell Cop. This film features cameos by Lita Ford and Gilbert Gottfried, who plays Hitler. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZzH9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9e097e5-bade-4fd2-883c-029542ae0137_254x389.jpeg) - **Night of the Demons**: a demonic Angela invites you all to her party! This film stars a nun and Linnea Quigley, not too far removed from appearing in fetish films. I recall the nun telling people to leave room for the Holy Spirit at the school dance. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WfaK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b78f027-c813-49ce-98b9-bc5ed8c1a797_245x388.jpeg) - **Pledge Night**: fraternity pledge movie with a cameo by the band ~~Slayer~~ Anthrax. ~~I myself don’t like Slayer and~~ I seem to recall the film itself was pretty gross, but it all made sense at the time. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vWad!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3279449e-bbca-4597-9a6c-f9a7bfa0c243_210x298.jpeg) - **Puppet Master 1 - 1,000,000**: We watched the first six or seven. Pro movie reviewer tip: the more beer you drink, the better these movies become. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84Q9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F165f059f-ca7e-476c-9d3c-e08d12d860e2_275x362.jpeg) - **Rabid Grannies**: I was so drunk I remember nothing about this film. That’s some film poster, though! Do the grannies become zombies? Is the Necronomicon involved? [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwxV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc57a8927-98b8-4c10-b789-ce61a6ce2a9f_350x506.jpeg) - **Satan’s Princess**: Whenever I think of this movie, I picture a proud Satan saying ‘that’s my little girl!’ There’s a car chase scene when one of the guys tells the other, *you drive like old people fuck*. That line of dialogue has stuck with me, thirty-five years later. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nam6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4643f38a-2efd-4ac1-97e8-c32ad22bd51f_265x377.jpeg) - **Syngenor**: This movie stars the pervert doctor who gets his head chopped off in **Re-Animator**. One of the characters yells *Syngenor! Syngenor! Syngenor\!* over and over. I could be mistaken, as time and alcohol have taken their toll. There are many, many more. I would say that the only movies on this list that might be worth watching are **Children of the Night**, **Highway to Hell**, and perhaps **Night of the Demons**. If you like puppets, maybe the first **Puppet Master**. Don’t bother with the rest. Looking back at those years without beer-tinted goggles, I can see that I was a lost soul and that watching trashy movies helped me get through a rough period. For better or for worse, I am able to compartmentalize aspects of my life. If I didn’t have that ability, I wouldn’t be writing this today. Dollar Video is no more, but I’m still here\! 20 23 7 Share #### Discussion about this post Comments Restacks [](https://substack.com/profile/51267825-ray-van-horn-jr?utm_source=comment) [Ray Van Horn, Jr.](https://substack.com/profile/51267825-ray-van-horn-jr?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [1d](https://georgergaluschak.substack.com/p/movies-i-watched-when-i-was-drunk/comment/222388340 "Mar 3, 2026, 2:50 PM") Liked by George R. Galuschak Man, this was funny! Rabid Grannies! I also watched it drunk as I did another Troma sludge piece, Redneck Zombies, but I stupidly love it. I told Lloyd Kaufmann himself that behind the Toxies, Mother's Day and Rabid Grannies are my favorite Troma movies. He told me, "That's because you have good taste!" [Reply]() [Share]() [2 replies by George R. Galuschak and others](https://georgergaluschak.substack.com/p/movies-i-watched-when-i-was-drunk/comment/222388340) [](https://substack.com/profile/172264-ben-snowden?utm_source=comment) [Ben Snowden](https://substack.com/profile/172264-ben-snowden?utm_source=substack-feed-item) [10h](https://georgergaluschak.substack.com/p/movies-i-watched-when-i-was-drunk/comment/222835157 "Mar 4, 2026, 12:00 PM") Liked by George R. Galuschak This brings back memories of wandering the aisles of Family Video, looking for the worst possible movies to "enjoy." My own B-movie Hall of Fame/Shame would include some real gems like Prototype X29A, Bleeders, Street Trash, and Killer Klowns From Outer Space. [Reply]() [Share]() [1 reply by George R. 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[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MNtD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32923df1-5d37-4e2a-931d-9f33e587de16_1000x1448.jpeg) *Poster, Highway to Hell. For review purposes only. This essay contains no spoilers. I WAS DRUNK.* In the interests of ~~wanting more subscribers~~ artistic expression, I am doing a listicle about obscure horror movies I watched in the late 1980s to early 1990s. I was drunk during the viewing of each and every one of these films. That time period in Northern New Jersey was something special. Lots of big hair and mullets. The most popular guys drove around in cars with purple underglow lights. Sadly, my ride was a Fiat with a gas station tiger tail on the dashboard. I just couldn’t compete. I also didn’t leave my room until my sophomore year of high school. I was too busy reading comic books. I ~~was a huge nerd~~ had truly eclectic interests. I am setting the scene, here. The period after college is where the action truly begins\! I was unemployed. Why was I unemployed, you ask? I graduated with an English degree and didn’t bother doing an internship. My reasoning went something like this: why should I pay someone to work when they should be paying me? As you can already tell, I wasn’t the brightest star in the firmament. Eventually I ended up working part-time at an apartment complex as a janitor, a retail clerk at a game software store, and finally as a sales associate at Barnes & Noble. I had a friend who was unemployed, also. Technically he had a part-time job loading trucks at UPS, which he called Under Paid Suckers. Once a week we’d buy a case of beer, rent four videos, order cheap fast food, get drunk together, and watch horror movies all night. What was my friend like? He once told me he was a genius, because he took a scratch-off IQ test that came with a two-pack of Bounty towels and that’s what the results said. He also told me he was going to sue a film studio because one of the characters in their movie used his name without permission. I’d ask him how the lawsuit was going, and he’d tell me to fuck myself. I haven’t talked to him in years. That happens I guess. We rented movies at Dollar Video, a video store in Lodi NJ (not California) that was run by a pair of twins. Once we went in and the twins had turtles at the counter. I don’t know why. My friend said they ran an illegal turtle harvesting operation. It was a time of self-discovery. Mainly, I discovered that I had a drinking problem. I’d drink and then black out. The best decision I made that decade was quitting alcohol. If I hadn’t done that, I’d be dead today. Oh yeah, the movies. Here’s the list. Most of them are obscure. I was pretty drunk, so my memory ~~might be~~ sketchy, which means this may not have all the detail you’ve come to expect from a high quality George Galuschak™ review. If you’ve seen all of these films, uh…yeah. Good job\! [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PsWw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F329e3496-fbd5-4284-be9e-3f6264c4d262_255x404.jpeg) **Children of the Night**: vampires take over a small town or somesuch thing. I recall a pair of girls at a swimming hole, and that’s it. The vampires live underwater, just like that **Swamp Thing** (a comic book) two-parter\! [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmsQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36faad26-e953-41c2-869f-4cdfc71a7d49_258x387.jpeg) - **Evil Toons**: there are cartoon people, ala **Who Framed Roger Rabbit,** and real people have sex with them. The cover to this looks zany! Spoiler: the movie wasn’t zany. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jX4z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9210300-d624-4b95-b31f-f70aecd4b0d7_254x392.jpeg) **Ghosthouse**: are you dead! Are you dead! Are you dead! Or maybe it’s burial! Burial! Burial! I could never figure out what this movie was trying to tell me. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MNtD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32923df1-5d37-4e2a-931d-9f33e587de16_1000x1448.jpeg) - **Highway to Hell**: a guy has to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend (Kristy Swanson) from Hell Cop. This film features cameos by Lita Ford and Gilbert Gottfried, who plays Hitler. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZzH9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9e097e5-bade-4fd2-883c-029542ae0137_254x389.jpeg) - **Night of the Demons**: a demonic Angela invites you all to her party! This film stars a nun and Linnea Quigley, not too far removed from appearing in fetish films. I recall the nun telling people to leave room for the Holy Spirit at the school dance. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WfaK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b78f027-c813-49ce-98b9-bc5ed8c1a797_245x388.jpeg) - **Pledge Night**: fraternity pledge movie with a cameo by the band ~~Slayer~~ Anthrax. ~~I myself don’t like Slayer and~~ I seem to recall the film itself was pretty gross, but it all made sense at the time. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vWad!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3279449e-bbca-4597-9a6c-f9a7bfa0c243_210x298.jpeg) - **Puppet Master 1 - 1,000,000**: We watched the first six or seven. Pro movie reviewer tip: the more beer you drink, the better these movies become. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84Q9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F165f059f-ca7e-476c-9d3c-e08d12d860e2_275x362.jpeg) - **Rabid Grannies**: I was so drunk I remember nothing about this film. That’s some film poster, though! Do the grannies become zombies? Is the Necronomicon involved? [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kwxV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc57a8927-98b8-4c10-b789-ce61a6ce2a9f_350x506.jpeg) - **Satan’s Princess**: Whenever I think of this movie, I picture a proud Satan saying ‘that’s my little girl!’ There’s a car chase scene when one of the guys tells the other, *you drive like old people fuck*. That line of dialogue has stuck with me, thirty-five years later. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nam6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4643f38a-2efd-4ac1-97e8-c32ad22bd51f_265x377.jpeg) - **Syngenor**: This movie stars the pervert doctor who gets his head chopped off in **Re-Animator**. One of the characters yells *Syngenor! Syngenor! Syngenor\!* over and over. I could be mistaken, as time and alcohol have taken their toll. There are many, many more. I would say that the only movies on this list that might be worth watching are **Children of the Night**, **Highway to Hell**, and perhaps **Night of the Demons**. If you like puppets, maybe the first **Puppet Master**. Don’t bother with the rest. Looking back at those years without beer-tinted goggles, I can see that I was a lost soul and that watching trashy movies helped me get through a rough period. For better or for worse, I am able to compartmentalize aspects of my life. If I didn’t have that ability, I wouldn’t be writing this today. Dollar Video is no more, but I’m still here\! No posts