1980s – Page 11 – We Have Issues

Strike Commando (1987) – Review

May 30, 2022 greigzilla

Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,

The Delta Force (1986) – Review

May 23, 2022 greigzilla

Say what you will about First Blood Part II’s bombastic attempts at catharsis in the wake of the Vietnam war, at least it never contained

Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988) – Review

May 23, 2022 greigzilla

When pitching your 80’s, horror comedy into to an insanely competitive genre that includes such gruesomely chucklesome classics as An American Werewolf In London, Evil

The Kindred (1987) – Review

May 22, 2022 greigzilla

In the wake of David Cronenberg’s historically goopy, 1986 reworking of The Fly, the horror genre seemed to stock up on brain bursting bouts example

Dead Heat (1988) – Review

May 9, 2022 greigzilla

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

Intruder (1989) – Review

May 6, 2022 greigzilla

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) (1987) – Review

April 28, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1986) – Review

April 25, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1985) – Review

April 17, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1986) – Review

April 12, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1985) – Review

April 11, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1982) – Review

March 31, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1985) – Review

March 30, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1987) – Review

March 28, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1982) – Review

March 15, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1980) – Review

March 7, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1983) – Review

February 20, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1984) – Review

February 13, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1985) – Review

January 6, 2022 greigzilla

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 (1984) – Review

January 2, 2022 greigzilla

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

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