Anyone who has witnessed the glacial cool that Rutger Hauer bestowed to either of the genuinely terrifying villains of Blade Runner or The Hitcher might
Tag: 1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
There’s no two ways about it, a follow up to Beverly Hills Cop should have been nothing short a slam dunk. Just look at the
Prince Of Darkness
John Carpenter’s always been a very meat and potatoes auteur, content to have his concepts laid out in an easy to digest way thanks to
Extreme Prejudice
Walter Hill’s desire to make almost everything he’s ever directed feel like an impossibly gritty western is well documented, but with his dusty, bullet casing
Angel Heart
Film noir has had some radical variations over the years; from Ridley Scott’s moody, future shock, extravaganza, Blade Runner, to Rian Johnson’s Raymond Chandler inspired
A Better Tomorrow II
Those who have seen the original A Better Tomorrow would surely concur that that although it contained many of John Woo’s signature themes, it hadn’t
Strike Commando
Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,
The Kindred
In the wake of David Cronenberg’s historically goopy, 1986 reworking of The Fly, the horror genre seemed to stock up on brain bursting bouts example
Opera (aka. Terror At The Opera)
If there’s anything that Giallo pioneer and black murder-glove enthusiast, Dario Argento is famous for is overwhelmingly vicious violence and stunningly beautiful visuals, so could
The Lost Boys
It’s easy to look at The Lost Boys from the (relatively) safe confines of the 2020’s and merely proclaim it as a defining, rollicking, 80’s
Hellraiser
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
Howling III: The Marsupials (1987) – Review
Anyone hoping that the stunning quality drop of Philippe Mora’s Howling II from Joe Dante’s kickass original was only a minor blip in the wildly
House II: The Second Story
The horror comedy is a tough bugger to pull off, make no mistake. Nailing the tone is essential and unless you know exactly what ratio
No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder
Sequels that refuse to follow on from their predecessors are a curious beast – and I’m not talking the Evil Dead’s disinterest in following it’s
The Monster Squad
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
Blood Rage
Annual celebrations attract their very own horror themed movies: it’s a rule that’s been set in stone thanks to seasonal slashers such as Black Christmas,
G.I. Joe: The Movie
As we all know that 80’s Saturday morning cartoons were candy coloured, sugar-dusted forms of unsubtle psychological manipulation used in order to sell toys to
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
Good lord, is this a piece of shit…The next time you find yourself discussing the finer details of Superman’s life up on the silver screen
Creepshow 2
Inferior sequels are legion in and around the mean streets of the genre of 80’s horror and the belated follow up to George A. Romero
Jaws: The Revenge
Even the first Jaws couldn’t be accused of documentary levels of realism; sharks rarely grow to that size, aren’t that smart and don’t go up
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