The buddy cop movie has had some strange variants over the years with everything including dogs (K9), mom’s (Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot) and
Tag: 1980s
Intruder
Scott Spiegel – arguably best known to casual movie goers as the dude who is denied a cheeky slice of free pizza in Spider-Man 2
Opera (aka. Terror At The Opera)
If there’s anything that Giallo pioneer and black murder-glove enthusiast, Dario Argento is famous for is overwhelmingly vicious violence and stunningly beautiful visuals, so could
Stand By Me
Sometimes, when you’re famous for indulging in a particular genre, people tend to overlook just how good you really are at telling a story –
The Hills Have Eyes Part II
The late, great Wes Craven was responsible for some of the greatest horror movies over the span of over thirty years with his fertile imagination
Top Gun
Anyone familiar with the comedy stylings of stoney faced, stand-up Rich Hall must be familiar with his bit about how Tom Cruise movies are all
The Protector
After his previous attempt to crack America with Battle Creek Brawl didn’t exactly set the world on fire, Jackie Chan took another swing at the
Tron
Much like The Black Hole or Dragonslayer, Tron was another tonally strange attempt from Disney to bring their live action movies up to date in
Phenomena
Dario Argento has shown us some undeniably gnarly shit throughout his long and fascinating career of horror films but the jaw dropping visuals he employs
The Lost Boys
It’s easy to look at The Lost Boys from the (relatively) safe confines of the 2020’s and merely proclaim it as a defining, rollicking, 80’s
Tenebrae
Maestro or misogynist? Those are the two labels that have continously clung to Italian horror master Dario Argento ever since he first started plying his
Inferno
Not to be confused with the Dan Brown adaptation that saw Tom Hanks scurrying around Europe with amnesia, Inferno is Dario Argento’s batshit follow up
The Dead Zone
During the whirlwind of Stephen King adaptations that followed in the wake of Brian DePalma’s sublime Carrie, it seemed like everyone was wrestling to grab
Firestarter
Even when Stephen King side-shifted into something other than straight horror, Hollywood was still desperately clamouring to slap every word he ever wrote up there
Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf
A decline in quality with any long running franchise is not only inevitable but usually expected as every film series has at least one dud
Children Of The Corn
There’s a couple of things you had to put up with if you were a Stephen King fan in the 80’s with the first being
The Fly II
How in the name of Cronenberg do you possibly top The Fly?The smart money says you don’t, but Hollywood lays ridiculous amounts of cash on
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Admittedly there had been killer Santas on screen before – most notably in 1972 anthology movie Tales From The Crypt and 1980’s deliciously titled Christmas
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
There’s always a pressure with sequels to outdo the original – it’s only natural. After all, go big or go home has seemed to be
Hellraiser
The 80’s were an insanely fertile time for the horror genre where genuinely imaginative and freakish classics were seemingly sprouting up everywhere. 1981 alone gave
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