Remember the Horror Cult Classics of the 80s in Their First Airings on Open TV in Brazil

Anyone who grew up in the 80s and 90s will always remember the films that marked their youth on open TV. It turns out that this generation didn’t have the internet like today, and the ease of finding a movie at the touch of a finger. At that time, everything was more difficult, and the contact we had with films was when they were shown on famous national TV networks – especially Globo and SBT. And within these channels, the Hot screen and the Session of Ten were two of the most iconic film programs on their respective channels.

The Session of Tenfrom SBT, is even older, having been opened in 1985, always on Sundays after the program Silvio Santos. A Hot screen, on Mondays on Globo, started in 1988, always with screenings of new films on open TV. In childhood in the 80s, little moviegoers’ eyes lit up at the announcement of a film that seemed to be very good on these channels.

When we talk about the beloved horror films that marked the decade, the procedure was the same. Little aficionados of the genre would wait for the screening of that film that they knew would make their blood run cold at night and then run to their room before the haunting caught us. Below we will remember the first airings of timeless horror classics here on open TV. Check it out below.

Shown in an unprecedented way by the Globo network on Tela Quente in 1989 (one year after the program’s premiere), ‘The Night of Deadly Jokes‘ is from 1986, and works almost like a satire of ‘Friday 13‘, with the same producer, the same studio and the same actress. Despite being a slasher too, it is a horror film set on the weekend of April 1st. The film was shown on August 21st for the first time.

Globo was a specialist in showing horror films on Monday nights on Tela Quente. It was there that many young moviegoers acquired their taste not just for cinema, but for genre cinema, coming into contact with fantastic films for the first time. ‘Scary Night’ is one of the most cult films of the period, mixing killers, aliens, damned worms, zombies and everything a good horror film requires. Only those who lived at the time know the magic of discovering it. The film made its debut on TV on November 27, 1989.

The first airing on open TV of this electrifying thriller that chilled everyone’s neck was on October 15, 1990, just in time for Halloween. This is another film that “traumatized” an entire generation, and showed the psychopath played by the late Rutger Hauer touching terror on American roads and the innocent young Jim (starring role) C. Thomas Howell – artist who also marked an era). Simply unforgettable.

In the same year as ‘Death Hitchhikes‘, 1990, aired in an unprecedented way on Tela Quente the fun ‘The return of the Living Dead‘. It was on September 24, 1990 that the most famous zombies of the 80s appeared on Brazilian open TV, at the same time playing with the mythology created by George Romero still in the 1960s and creating his own universe of his franchise with lots of humor, gore and scares. Anyone who was a child or teenager at the time will undoubtedly remember this first viewing.

Interestingly, sources claim that the first showing of ‘The House of Horror‘ on the Globo network even precedes the premiere of Tela Quente. It turns out that the most famous film program on the Globo network appeared in 1988 and the first showing of ‘The House of Horror‘ was on November 23, 1987 – two years after the film’s premiere in 1985. It was shown on the “Cinema Especial” program. In the plot, William Katt plays a writer inheriting the house of an elderly aunt who has passed away. The catch is that the house, of course, is cursed.

Many nostalgic fans of the period remember the reruns of this nerve-wracking thriller on SBT. In fact, the “trunk man” channel went so far as to show this extremely violent and frightening film in the Cinema em Casa session, when the program was shown in the afternoon, within the reach of any child. It’s okay that even though it was on at night, many children managed to watch, like the one you’re talking about, only to tremble with fear. The film’s first unprecedented broadcast on open TV, however, was on the Globo network, when it aired on Tela Quente on June 6, 1988, at the premiere of the program. In the plot, four bandits, dressed in Santa Claus, Cat, Duck and Mouse masks, kidnap a teacher and her students.

This was the first film in the horror franchise’Friday 13‘ shown on open TV. His debut on the small screen was on the Globo network on March 21, 1987, on Domingo Maior. This date even precedes the debut of Tela Quente, inaugurated by Globo in 1988. Interestingly, the first film in the franchise took longer to premiere on open TV than its two sequels, as an embargo did not allow the film to be shown here – a problem that it was only released on June 12, 1989, when the first ‘Friday 13‘ was able to debut in an unprecedented way on Globo. On Tela Quente, the first to be shown was part 3, on December 5, 1988.

One of the greatest horror classics of the 80s, ‘The fly‘ is a tragic story about a scientist obsessed with his new experiment, a technological creation that will change the world: a teleportation booth. When testing on himself, he ends up merging with another living organism, a fly that inadvertently entered the cabin. Now, little by little he transforms into a creature that is a mixture of the DNA of a human and an insect. ‘The fly‘, with Jeff Goldblum It is Geena Davis premiered in the second year of Tela Quente, on January 26, 1989.

Another classic of classics, which scared an entire generation, was this film based on the book by the horror master Stephen King. In particular, those who saw the film when it premiered on the Globo network never forgot the character Zelda, the protagonist’s sister who suffered from a terrible disease that left her with a very skeletal and deformed shape. The plot tells of a happy family, finding only despair and tragedy when moving to a rural setting, next to an animal cemetery that has a reputation for bringing the dead back to life. The film premiered on Tela Quente on September 2, 1991.

Finishing the list we have one of the most obscure films to have premiered in prime time on Globo on Tela Quente. The franchise’Prom‘ is one of the most curious in the horror genre, as it began as a copy of ‘Halloween‘, a “whodunit” slasher that even had the presence of Jamie Lee Curtis in the first film in 1980. Then, the sequel in 1987 transformed the thing into a supernatural horror, about a young girl from 1957 who was bullied, died and returned as an evil spirit in the 80s. It is along this path that the third film decided continue, trying to transform Mary Lou into an iconic figure of the genre, without success. The film premiered on Tela Quente on September 21, 1992.