Tag: 1981

Possession (1981) – Review

The implosion of a marriage is never pretty, but surely the act of a husband and wife seeing their relationship break down has never been

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Enter The Ninja (1981) – Review

While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action

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Dead & Buried (1981) – Review

When you think of 80s horror, chances are you’ll conjure in your mind one of the nearly endless string of slashers that dominated the start

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Tarzan The Ape Man (1981) – Review

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary literary adventurer has been the subject of many a version that’s cast a more, shall we say, adult version of the

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The Burning (1981) – Review

1981 was something of a banner year for the slasher film that not only saw the first of many Friday The 13th and Halloween sequels,

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Southern Comfort (1981) – Review

Sometimes, you get a couple of films that are so similar, even the slightest chance of coincidence is all but utterly impossible. However, it takes

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Outland (1981) – Review

Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that director Peter Hyams wanted to be Ridley Scott so bad?I’m ribbing, of course (although, I wouldn’t minded seeing

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Excalibur (1981) – Review

I’ve never met John Boorman in the flesh, but I’m willing to bet cash money that restraint wasn’t high on his list of priorities whenever

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The Cannonball Run (1981) – Review

Just when you thought it was safe to put the handbrake on that weird subgenre of good ol’ boy blockbusters that either saw Burt Reynolds

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My Bloody Valentine (1981) – Review

In the gory, glory days of the golden age of the slasher movie, the titles that rose to the top of the pile became household

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The Funhouse (1981) – Review

Even though it features a masked maniac boring through teens one at a time with a roaring powerful, I’ve always been loath to class The

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Deadly Blessing (1981) – Review

How does one go from the relentless, sordid brutality of Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes to slicker, more populist fare

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The Beyond (1981) – Review

To a layman of 80’s Italian horror, it would painfully easy to cast a disparaging eye over the frenzied output of Lucio Fulci and dismiss

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Burial Ground (1981) – Review

By the time that 1981 rolled around, the Italian zombie movie was already succumbing to advanced rot despite only hitting its heyday a couple of

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The Final Conflict (1981) – Review

Retroactively renamed Omen III – The Final Conflict in order to bring some continuity to the franchise’s titles (this was, of course, long before the

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The Howling (1981) – Review

It’s not even up for debate that 1981 was emphatically the year of the Werewolf. Not only did it see the release of lycanthope pack

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Blood Beach (1981) – Review

Blood Beach aficionados would probably “um, actually” my lumping in of 1980’s Jaws wannabe Blood Beach into the killer animals genre and I’m loathe to

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Clash Of The Titans (1981) – Review

A last ditch effort to revive fantasy films such as The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad and Jason Argonauts for a modern (read 80’s) audience, Clash

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Scanners (1981) – Review

I’ve always considered the fascinating career of David Cronenberg to be not unlike the evolving life cycle of the venereal horrors he frequently touches upon

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Escape From New York (1981) – Review

John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only

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