1980s – Page 12 – We Have Issues

The Fly II (1989) – Review

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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 (1984) – Review

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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 (1989) – Review

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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 (1987) – Review

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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

Beetlejuice (1988) – Review

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There are many wonderful things about the career of Tim Burton that’s depressingly easy to forget when you look at his rather soulless output the

City Of The Living Dead (1980) – Review

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I’ve often found it a little frustrating that the old school maestros of Italian horror such as Argento, Bava and Soavi are hailed for their

Lifeforce (1985) – Review

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Is there a more apt movie that exists that sums up the questionable business practices of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’ legendary cult factory, Canon

Blade Runner (1982) – Review

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The history of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is as almost notorious as the movie itself; an agonisingly uncomfortable shoot had virtually everyone at each other’s

The Dead Pool (1988) – Review

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Not to be confused with Ryan Reynolds’ notoriously hyper-verbal superhero, The Dead Pool proved to be the fifth and final case for Clint Eastwood’s ever

The Fly (1986) – Review

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It’s fitting that David Cronenberg’s fantastically goopy remake of 50’s creature feature contains a central, gradual metamorphosis of a misunderstood genius – after all, The

Sudden Impact (1983) – Review

September 23, 2021 greigzilla

Reviewing the sequels that followed in the wake of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry is somewhat of a thankless task these days. Oh, don’t get me

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) – Review

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By the time we reached the stardate of 1989, a definite creaking sound was enimating from the bowels of the U.S.S. Enterprise. But it wasn’t

Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) – Review

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By the time the Howling series had weakly loped to its fifth installment, the one good thing this drawn out shaggy dog story had finally

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) – Review

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There’s a rule of thumb concerning the earlier, pre-JJ Abrams Star Trek movies that you probably have heard of – it’s the one that states

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) – Review

August 18, 2021 greigzilla

Well, I guess it’s time to once again dip into the Howling franchise, a rapid succession of literal howlers that stands to this day as

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) – Review

August 13, 2021 greigzilla

Deep sixing a beloved character in popular fiction has always been fairly complicated. Death threats from outraged basement dwellers with a tenuous grasp of reality