Despite my voracious appetite for movies back in my 80’s based childhood, there’s always was going to be the odd title that slipped through the
Tag: 1984
Razorback (1984) – Review
It seems that not even the animal amok genre was safe from that crazed stable of movies from the merry old land of Oz, fittingly
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) – Review
In a decade known for absurdly swole action heroes recklessly turning nameless bad guys into human doughnuts with enough firepower to overthrow Cuba, Beverly Hills
Invitation To Hell (1984) – Review
It’s truly phenomenal what skeletons you can dig up when pulling a deep search into the filmography of a beloved auteur and for an extra
Starman (1984) – Review
Anyone who is familiar with the filmography of cult messiah John Carpenter will be comfortably aware of the themes that course through the various plots
Firestarter (1984) – Review
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
Children Of The Corn (1984) – Review
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
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – Review
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
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) – Review
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
Romancing The Stone (1984) – Review
In the ranks of underrated action adventure movies of the 80’s, surely no other movie containing acts of rousing darring do deserves more modern column
Caravan Of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) – Review
Could you imagine a Jar Jar Binks movie where he has a side adventure to babysit a precious child, or even a Tarzan style movie
Rats: Night Of Terror (1984) – Review
When he wasn’t ripping of Romero (Zombie Creeping Flesh), Rambo (Strike Commando) and Cameron (Shocking Dark), Italian schlock artist Bruno Mattei is probably also famous
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
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
The Toxic Avenger (1984) – Review
Synonymous with extreme farcical splatter and copious, tongue in cheek nudity, independent movie making faction Troma Studios has been selflessly dedicating itself to notoriously un-PC,
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) – Review
Thanks the rebel crushing and son maiming efforts of The Empire Strikes Back, it’s always been accepted that the follow up should always endeavour to
Dune (1984) – Review
We live in a time when seemingly unfilmable novels of mammoth size and complexity have finally been wrestled down to manageable length for our voracious
C.H.U.D. (1984) – Review
When they focus on matters other than beheadings and bloodshed the horror genre may be the most politically charged type of movie out there (aside
The Neverending Story (1984) – Review
Released in 1984 as the most expensive non-US production in history at the time, The Neverending Story – a movie that despite it’s title, only
Ghostbusters (1984) – Review
Whenever people ask me what the first ever movie I saw at the cinema was I almost always lie…You see it was actually Return Of
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