1980s Horror Film Character Names
I totally forgot I’d started making this last year! I think I never posted it because I wanted to find more names, but there’s already a decent amount and I don’t feel like being that tedious about names right now lol.
It’s first & last names (separated for mix & match potential) of characters from iconic late 1970s & 1980s horror movies. I think I started looking for cheesier B-movies to pull from, but yeah it’s been a whole year so I forget.
First Names
Alice
Allen
Allison
Ally
Amy
Angela
Annie
Arnie
Artie
Axel
Barry
Bill
Billy
Bobby
Brady
Brenda
Brent
Brett
Brooke
Buddy
Burt
Buzz
Carol Anne
Carter
Casey
Charley
Charlie
Chili
Christine
Chuck
Cindy
Courtney
Craig
Cynthia
Dana
Darcy
Debbie
Demi
Dennis
Diane
Donna
Doug
Doyle
Duane
Elaine
Ellie
Emma
Ernie
Ferdy
Foster
Gary
Gene
George
Gerald
Ginny
Glen
Hal
Hank
Helen
Jack
Jackie
Jake
Jason
Jeff
Jennifer
Jerry
Jesse
Jimmy
Joanne
Jodi
Joe
Joey
John
Johnny
Judd
Judy
Kate
Katherine
Kathy
Katie
Kelly
Ken
Kenny
Kim
Kimberly
Kristen
Larry
Laurie
Lea
Leigh
Lenny
Leroy
Linda
Lisa
Liz
Lynn
Marci
Marcia
Marcie
Mark
Mary Lou
Masen
Max
Meg
Megan
Mel
Melissa
Mike
Molly
Monica
Nancy
Ned
Neil
Nick
Nicki
Nikki
Patti
Patty
Paul
Paula
Peter
Phoebe
Polly
Rachel
Ralph
Reilly
Rennie
Richie
Rick
Ricky
Rob
Rod
Roland
Ronnie
Roy
Ruby
Rudolf
Rudy
Russ
Sally
Sandy
Sara
Sarah
Shane
Sharon
Sheila
Shelly
Sissy
Steve
Steven
Susie
Suzie
Tad
Taryn
Teddy
Terri
Tina
Toby
Tom Jesse
Tommy
Tracy
Trish
Valerie
Vic
Vickie
Vicky
Warren
Wendy
Wes
Will
Last Names
Andrews
Angelo
Badger
Baker
Barnes
Barrington
Bates
Baxter
Beringer
Brand
Brewster
Bringsley
Brown
Burke
Burns
Cabot
Camber
Carrington
Cassidy
Caulfield
Challis
Clarke
Cole
Cologne
Corben
Corvino
Costic
Crusel
Cunningham
Daigler
Dandrige
Daniels
Darnell
Darrinco
Deagle
Dier
Doyle
Duke
Dumpkin
Duncan
Essmont
Evans
Field
Franklin
Freeling
Frye
Futterman
Garris
Garth
Geiger
Graham
Gray
Grimbridge
Guilder
Halavex
Hammond
Hanniger
Hardy
Harper
Hawes
Holland
Hopkins
Jachson
Jarvis
Jessup
Junkins
Kemp
Kessler
Kincaid
Kopecky
Kupfer
Lane
Lantz
LeBay
Lynch
Lynn
Macauley
Maloney
McBride
McFadden
McGregor
McNichol
Meeker
Meisel
Mercer
Morgan
Mott
Nagle
Nessler
Newby
Palmer
Parker
Parks
Parsley
Pataki
Peltzer
Penmark
Perry
Pervier
Powers
Priswell
Repperton
Richards
Shote
Spool
Stanton
Stark
Statler
Stavinski
Steele
Stevens
Strauber
Strode
Sykes
Taylor
Thomas
Thompson
Thorn
Toomey
Trenton
Vanders
Venable
Walsh
Warner
Weatherall
Webber
White
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It was an “emotionally wrenching and heart felt” performance.
“Surrounded by burning candles, performing on a grand piano and accompanied by a small orchestra of violins,” his rendition of this famous song “spoke to many of us who were suffering from the terrible tragedies in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.”
It was just days after 9/11, when Neil Young performed the iconic song, according to a site dedicated to Neil Young News.
Although the song was banned from radio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, “because envisioning a world where we all got along was at odds with the public demand for bloody justice,” according to Consequence, Young believed it was the right song to sing.
Pulse Magazine wrote that Young's performance of "Imagine" on the Benefit telecast was "one of those moments you never forget."
“When disaster strikes, musicians respond the way they know best: with song,” wrote Katy Waldman of Slate. “As composer Leonard Bernstein said three days after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, ‘This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.’”
“In times of trouble and grief, there is one song that millions of people turn to for inspiration and solace: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Imagine’,” according to writer Martin Chilton.
The “Imagine” album was released on September 9, 1971, touching “the world with its hopeful message about the need for global understanding,” wrote Sari Rosenberg.
This is a new story on the Peace Page.
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“For nearly 50 years, credit for this song - "Imagine" - has gone to one writer - John Lennon,” according to NPR.
That changed in 2017, after Lennon himself admitted his wife Yoko Ono should receive co-credit. Lennon explained in 1980 “a lot of the lyric and the concept came from Yoko.”
“Ono's 1964 book of conceptual poetry, ‘Grapefruit,’ contained verses like, imagine clouds dripping and imagine goldfish swimming across the sky. She also contributed to the song's theme of a world without borders or religion pulling people apart,” according to NPR’s Neda Ulaby.
In an interview with David Sheff, shortly before his death in December 1980, Lennon also shared that Dick Gregory had given him and Ono a Christian Prayer-book which had inspired him to write the track. “The concept of positive prayer…If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion – not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing – then it can be true.”
“When ‘Imagine’ was released, John Lennon said that the world was too focused on trivialities and ‘the thing we should be talking about is the violence that goes on in this society.’ It reached No. 1 following Lennon’s murder in December 1980 and entered the UK charts again in 2012 after Emeli Sandé recorded a cover for the 2012 London Olympics,” according to writer Martin Chilton.
“Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ is arguably the most loved song of all time,” according to writer Joe Taysom. “The track captures Lennon crying out for a fairer world . . . As the decades go on, ‘Imagine’ has morphed into a tragically appropriate tonic to whatever travesty is currently tearing the world apart.”
“It’s not surprising that musicians turn to this particular work in the aftershocks of tragedy,” according to Waldman. “For one thing, ‘Imagine’ is a song that musicians continually turn to, period: The Broadcast Media Inc. found it to be one of the most covered songs of the 20th century. Its simple, versatile structure has seduced and inspired hundreds of artists, among them Lady Gaga, Emeli Sande, Etta James, Davie Bowie, Pink, Eva Cassidy, and The Persuasions.”
More than 200 artists have performed or covered the song, including Joan Baez, Elton John, Diana Ross, Peter Gabriel, Melissa Etheridge, Dave Matthews, Dolly Parton, Seal, , India.Arie, John Legend, and Julian Lennon.
“The ritual arguably began on Dec. 9, 1980, when Queen covered the song at the Wembley Arena, one day after Lennon died. Stevie Wonder played it during the closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics to honor lives lost in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. . . . In 2004, Madonna joined the ranks of “Imagine”-eers when she reinterpreted Lennon’s ballad at an aid concert for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.”
“Though the song was banned from radio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11,“Neil Young recognized its potency, singing it at a memorial concert, ‘America: Tribute To Heroes’”, according to Chilton. “Coldplay performed a version after the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015. Following discord around North Korea in 2018, ‘Imagine’ was the natural choice for a group of Korean musicians to perform at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.”
“It’s now become the go-to song when it comes to grief or mourning,” wrote Taysom. “This is down to the tangible sense of hope that rings out from ‘Imagine’ and an overriding feeling that everything will eventually be okay.”
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“It returns to us most bittersweetly when something bad happens, when we are casting about for answers and consolation,” wrote Waldman. “The writer John Blaney called ‘Imagine’ a ‘humanistic paean for the people,’ a kind of secular prayer. Rolling Stone described it as ‘22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.’”
“The song also derives considerable power from its historical context. Lennon, shot down before his time, reminds us that the universe can run ramshod over idealistic people. That knowledge makes ‘Imagine’’s plea for peace and brotherhood all the more poignant. On the other hand, the fact that the song persists, even though Lennon is gone, speaks to the enduring strength of his fantasy. If ‘Imagine’ captures the fragility of our hope after a violent or destructive event, it also reveals its tenacity.”
The legacy of the song was most perfectly summarized by President Jimmy Carter, who noted: “In many countries around the world — my wife and I have visited about 125 countries — you hear John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ used almost equally with national anthems.”
After Neil Young completed his rendition of “Imagine” after 9/11, reports were he “appeared to be on the verge of tears.”
Chilton says, “Decades after its original release, this popular music masterpiece, a model of simplicity, continues to inspire people of all races and creeds, offering the listener a momentary respite of hope in a troubled world, especially in the beautiful lines:
‘You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.’”
~ jsr
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James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
Cast: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Jack Elam, Rita Coolidge, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton. Screenplay: Rudy Wurlitzer. Cinematography: John Coquillon. Music: Bob Dylan.
With its laid-back pace punctuated by moments of violence, not to mention its soundtrack by Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid may be the ultimate stoner Western*. After being mutilated by MGM -- the credits list six film editors -- it was savaged by critics on its first release, but the release on video of Sam Peckinpah's original preview version in 1988 caused a reevaluation of the film, with some now calling it a masterpiece. I wouldn't go that far: To my mind the narrative is still too elliptical and the inspiration -- rewriting a myth -- too commonplace. But it has moments of brilliance that transcend its flaws, such as the beautiful sequence of the death of Sheriff Baker (Slim Pickens), with its fine use of the iconic performers Pickens and Katy Jurado and the underscoring with Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." James Coburn, always an underrated actor in his prime, is wonderful as Pat Garrett, and while Kris Kristofferson was never much of an actor, he and Coburn play well against each other. Dylan was no actor, either, but he's used well here as the enigmatic figure who lets himself be known as "Alias," and the scene in which Garrett forces him to read the labels of canned goods while he toys with other members of Billy's gang is nicely done. The gallery of character actors both old (Chill Wills, Jack Elam) and new (Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton) is welcome. Its post-censorship era's exploitation of women -- there are an awful lot of bared breasts, though we also get a fleeting butt-shot of Kristofferson -- is overdone, and it certainly wouldn't earn any seal of approval from the American Humane Society after the scene in which live chickens are used for target practice.
*The huge success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) spawned a lot of movies that took an irreverent look at the legend of the American Old West and were aimed at the younger countercultural audience. Most of them were seen as commentaries on American violence and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. They include such diverse films as Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Philip Kaufman, 1972), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, 1972), and Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974).
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CADENCE MITCHELL - hailee stienfield
SAVANNAH GRACE - renee rapp
BENNETT CAMPBELL - crystal reed
WILLOW EVANS - sabrina carpenter
LILY EVANS - amanda seyfried
PETUNA EVANS - katie cassidy
JESSE ANDERSON - justin baldoni
HENRY FOX - nicholas galitzine
SCARLETT ARNOLDS - taylor swift
NOAH DAVIS - jordan fisher
SADIE HAWTHORNE - dove cameron
SETH MITCHELL - dylan o'brien
MADISON CONNORS - gideon adlon
DANIEL MAXWELL - dominic sherwood
OPHELIA GRACE - ellie bamber
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SIMON LEWIS - alberto rosende
TAYLOR KELLY - megan west
LYDIA MARTIN - holland roden
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