Squirm (1976): The Killer Worm Horror That Actually Got Under Your Skin
Squirm 1976 is still a gross little cult miracle, all stormy Georgia dread, practical effects, and pure drive-in horror nerve.
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The Night Hip Hop Was Born: What Really Happened in the Bronx
The history of hip hop begins on one specific night: August 11, 1973, in the recreation room of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. An 18-year-old Jamaican kid named Clive Campbell — who the neighborhood would soon know as DJ Kool Herc — hooked up two turntables, grabbed a microphone,…
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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: What Happened When Rock Said Goodbye
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley on April 20, 1992 united rock’s biggest stars for a billion viewers. 7 iconic moments relived.
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The Tracey Ullman Show: The Simpsons Sketch That Started an Empire
Tracey Ullman Simpsons history starts on April 19, 1987, when the crude little Good Night short introduced TV’s most durable family.
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The Dead Hand System: The Soviet Doomsday Machine That Still Exists
Dead Hand system panic, Stanislav Petrov, WarGames, The Day After, and Red Dawn show how 80s nuclear fear seeped into everyday pop culture.
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Death of Disco: 7 Ways It Became 80s New Wave
The death of disco was never a clean ending. Here is how the 1979 backlash turned into new wave, synth-pop, house, and the sound of the 80s.
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Secret of My Success: 7 Wild 80s Truths From April 10
On April 10, 1987, The Secret of My Success hit theaters and bottled peak yuppie-era ambition, Michael J. Fox charm, and pure 80s corporate fantasy.
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Super Mario Bros 1993: 7 Wild Facts From April 9
Super Mario Bros. 1993 hit theaters on April 9, 1993, and even now it feels like a transmission from the weirdest possible alternate timeline. This was the first live-action movie ever built from a video game juggernaut, years before Hollywood figured out how to make game adaptations feel remotely coherent. For kids who grew up…
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Twin Peaks Premiere 1990: The Night TV Changed Forever
Thirty-five years ago today, on April 8, 1990, a dead girl washed up on a rocky shore in the Pacific Northwest. She was wrapped in plastic. And nothing on television was ever the same again. The Twin Peaks pilot episode premiered on ABC as a two-hour Sunday Night Movie, and roughly 34.6 million Americans tuned…
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Tremors 1990: The Ultimate Cult Classic Still Worth Watching
If you grew up renting movies from the video store in the early 90s, you probably encountered Tremors 1990 sitting in that slightly dog-eared VHS case somewhere between the horror section and the comedy shelf. It didn’t quite belong in either. That was always the genius of it. Ron Underwood’s monster movie was something the…
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Short Circuit 1986: Johnny 5 Is Alive!
There’s a specific kind of joy that only kids who grew up in the ’80s can fully appreciate — the moment a chunky, track-wheeled robot looked straight into the camera with those big camera-lens eyes and announced, with complete earnestness, “Number 5 is alive!” Short Circuit (1986) wasn’t just a movie. It was a declaration…
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Marvin Gaye Killed by Father: April 1, 1984
April 1, 1984. April Fool’s Day. The cruelest joke the calendar ever played on the music world came not from a prankster, but from a .38 Special revolver — fired by a man who should have loved the person he was shooting. One day before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye — the Prince of Soul,…
