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Django Strikes Again (1987) – Review
Surely there isn’t another franchise that exists that carries as much unnecessary baggage as Django, the 1966 gothic spaghetti western that spawned over thirty (count
Society (1989) – Review
Satire can take many forms, but surely none have taken a form so silly, so ridiculous, so downright…. squishy as Brian Yunza’s Society.Essentially ignored in
Pumpkinhead (1988) – Review
The name of the late, great Stan Winston is rightly etched into the legends of cinema thanks to the special effects alchemy he weaved over
Cyborg (1989) – Review
In a career absolutely jam packed with dystopian futures, marauding robots and probably more crucifixions than are strictly necessary, the indomitable Albert Pyun made it
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
Xtro (1982) – Review
In the slimy, drooly wake of Ridley Scott’s Alien, all manner of creepy, amorphous extraterrestrials stalked out from dark, industrial corners and alien world to
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) – Review
Before Batman, before Edward Scissorhands, before even Beetlejuice, there was Pee Wee Herman.Way back before Tim Burton regularly shilled for Disney, he was a director
Monkey Shines (1988) – Review
While George A. Romero was most famous for reinventing the living dead as we know them today, becoming famous as the king of the zombies
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) – Review
“You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of
Fatal Attraction (1987) – Review
Sitting snuggly like a malignant tumour somewhere between the fleshy divide of the thriller and horror genre is that string of cinematic pulse pounders that
Deep Space (1988) – Review
During the great Alien/Aliens rip-off gold rush of the 1980s, it seems that everyone wanted a piece of the Xenomorph pie with every low budget,
Alien 2: On Earth (1980) – Review
When you craft a film as memorable as Ridley Scott’s Alien, it’s a given that others will attempt to ride on your biomechanical coat tails
Contamination (1980) – Review
I know this is a subject that this site has already broached many times before and will no doubt do so many more times in
Warlock (1989) – Review
Sometimes, time casts the most bewitching spell of all, casually erasing movies that maybe didn’t get the fairest shake of the whip when they were
48 Hrs. (1982) – Review
There are many things that set 48 Hrs. apart from the crowd. One is that it’s the film that shuffled the tropes of the buddy
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,
Dressed To Kill (1980) – Review
Before his move into the crime genre with Scarface and The Untouchables, there were two things you could depend on when settling down to watch
Any Which Way You Can (1980) – Review
Anyone who has witnessed the Clint Eastwood led, redneck fever dream, Every Which Way But Loose, might be forgiven for thinking that this time capsule
Ladyhawke (1985) – Review
There’s something about fantasy films that were made in the 1980s that just hits a little different. While the decades prior tended to fall back
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