Acting like a brain damaging collision between The Goonies and Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Monster Squad is one of those films seemingly destined
Tag: 1980s
Red Heat (1988) – Review
“I give up, this whole thing’s very Russian!”So speaks Jim Belushi’s swaggering Chicago cop Art Ridzic near the end of this typically brutal action romp
Raw Deal (1986) – Review
Sandwiched between Commando and Predator in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s epic flex of an 80’s resumè lies the mostly forgotten Raw Deal, an action thriller that painfully
Manhunter (1986) – Review
Long before the TV series loaded with sumptuous food-porn, long before the ever increasing melodrama of the film series and even long before the oscar
Crimewave (1985) – Review
Much like a maddening popcorn kernel lodged in your teeth, between the gore-flecked game changer that was The Evil Dead and radiant majesty that is
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) – Review
Blame ol’ Jack Burton.While it’s true that the lukewarm reception to the chilling wonders of The Thing initially soured the notoriously independent John Carpenter to
Psycho III (1986) – Review
Back in 1983, filmmakers took a horrible gamble when they rolled the dice on making a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal thriller, Psycho. The idea
Wheels On Meals (1984) – Review
After fusing their sizable talents the year before in the hugely ambitious Project A, the trio of titans known collectively as the Three Dragons (and
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – Review
Bill and Ted are two well meaning, air headed teens who dwell in San Dimas, California and dream of hitting it big with their band
Dragons Forever (1988) – Review
Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao are three martial arts heavyweights who were instrumental in revolutionizing Hong Kong action cinema in the 80’s and
Police Story 2 (1988) – Review
There’s a particular conundrum that I have when passing my own personal judgement on martial arts films that seems to go double for the energetic
Psycho 2 (1983) – Review
On paper, making sequel to possibly the greatest psychological thriller ever made after a twenty two year break sounds like a truly awful idea like
Demons 2 (1986) – Review
Once scratched by the ridiculously large talons of a demon, your imminent change into one of the drooling, snarling monsters is pretty fast – that
Police Story (1985) – Review
Is there a more enduring, living icon in martial arts cinema than Jackie Chan? He’s spent decades regularly sacrificing every bone and sinew in his
Demons (1985) – Review
While Dario Argento, the Italian maestro of murder, would rarely step outside of his comfort zone of stunningly brutal whodunnits (commonly known as the Giallo
Encounters Of The Spooky Kind (1980) – Review
Those of you unfamiliar with the industry changing works of Sammo Hung outside of that late 90’s show Martial Law is missing a treat. Hung
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
Conan The Destroyer (1984) – Review
Back in 1984, we returned to the times of high adventure with a direct sequel to John Milius’ absurdly macho take on Robert E. Howard’s
Disciples Of The 36th Chamber (1985) – Review
Lau Kar-leung’s first two entries in his 36th Chamber franchise were both a couple of zippy training-fests that fused the bond between director and star,
Class Of Nuke ‘Em High (1986) – Review
Back in 1984, indie distributor Troma Films finally put their money where their foul mouth was and switched from producing sex comedies to forging their
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