While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action
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Dead & Buried (1981) – Review
When you think of 80s horror, chances are you’ll conjure in your mind one of the nearly endless string of slashers that dominated the start
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
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,
Southern Comfort (1981) – Review
Sometimes, you get a couple of films that are so similar, even the slightest chance of coincidence is all but utterly impossible. However, it takes
Outland (1981) – Review
Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that director Peter Hyams wanted to be Ridley Scott so bad?I’m ribbing, of course (although, I wouldn’t minded seeing
Excalibur (1981) – Review
I’ve never met John Boorman in the flesh, but I’m willing to bet cash money that restraint wasn’t high on his list of priorities whenever
The Cannonball Run (1981) – Review
Just when you thought it was safe to put the handbrake on that weird subgenre of good ol’ boy blockbusters that either saw Burt Reynolds
My Bloody Valentine (1981) – Review
In the gory, glory days of the golden age of the slasher movie, the titles that rose to the top of the pile became household
The Funhouse (1981) – Review
Even though it features a masked maniac boring through teens one at a time with a roaring powerful, I’ve always been loath to class The
Deadly Blessing (1981) – Review
How does one go from the relentless, sordid brutality of Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes to slicker, more populist fare
The Beyond (1981) – Review
To a layman of 80’s Italian horror, it would painfully easy to cast a disparaging eye over the frenzied output of Lucio Fulci and dismiss
Burial Ground (1981) – Review
By the time that 1981 rolled around, the Italian zombie movie was already succumbing to advanced rot despite only hitting its heyday a couple of
The Final Conflict (1981) – Review
Retroactively renamed Omen III – The Final Conflict in order to bring some continuity to the franchise’s titles (this was, of course, long before the
The Howling (1981) – Review
It’s not even up for debate that 1981 was emphatically the year of the Werewolf. Not only did it see the release of lycanthope pack
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
Clash Of The Titans (1981) – Review
A last ditch effort to revive fantasy films such as The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad and Jason Argonauts for a modern (read 80’s) audience, Clash
Scanners (1981) – Review
I’ve always considered the fascinating career of David Cronenberg to be not unlike the evolving life cycle of the venereal horrors he frequently touches upon
Escape From New York (1981) – Review
John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) – Review
By as early as 1981, Steven Spielberg had pretty much already set his legacy in concrete with the releases of the genre defining Jaws and
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