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Tag: 1988
Zombi 5: Killing Birds (AKA. Zombie Flesh Eaters 4)
We’ve covered the lawless world of 80’s Italian genre cinema quite a few times before, be it their blatant disinterest in copyright laws to their
Robowar
I think I’m in need of some sort of intervention or something, because I can’t seem to stop searching out and exposing myself to the
Strike Commando 2
We’ve encountered Bruno Mattei on this page before, but for those unfamiliar with possibly Italian cinema’s most blatant rip off artist, here’s a quick run
Return Of The Living Dead Part II
When pitching your 80’s, horror comedy into to an insanely competitive genre that includes such gruesomely chucklesome classics as An American Werewolf In London, Evil
Dead Heat
The buddy cop movie has had some strange variants over the years with everything including dogs (K9), mom’s (Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot) and
Beetlejuice
There are many wonderful things about the career of Tim Burton that’s depressingly easy to forget when you look at his rather soulless output the
The Dead Pool
Not to be confused with Ryan Reynolds’ notoriously hyper-verbal superhero, The Dead Pool proved to be the fifth and final case for Clint Eastwood’s ever
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
Well, I guess it’s time to once again dip into the Howling franchise, a rapid succession of literal howlers that stands to this day as
Young Guns
The 80’s seemed to be somewhat of a barren time for the western as audiences flocked to a rather different type of all-American hero in
Troma’s War
After Troma made the giger counters of the world of cult cinema bury their needles with The Toxic Avenger and Class Of Nuke ‘Em high,
Critters 2: The Main Course
Say what you will about the devilish, extra-terrestrial creatures known as the Krites, but even though the carnivorous little bastards are usually written off as
Amsterdamned
From Dick Maas, the man who gifted us with the killer lift movie unsurprisingly titled, The Lift (actual tag line: For God’s Sake Use The
The Brain
Born from what I’d assume to be the paranoid fever dream of someone who mainlined way too much maple syrup, the 1988 Canadian oddity known
Slime City
Sometimes all a film needs to exist is the will of someone who isn’t afraid to scrape up a budget in order to immortalise utter
Slugs
What is it about old-school horror authors co-opting nature’s various creations into flesh consuming engines of destruction – Peter Benchley had his sharks, James Herbert
Zombi 3 (aka. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2)
Upon reviewing Lucio Fulci’s video nasty classic Zombie Flesh Eaters, I feel like I’ve inadvertently written myself into a corner involving titles. You see, thanks
Waxwork
Finding itself in a fairly well viewed rotation of 80’s horror crap that would find itself regularly getting played on the old VHS, Anthony Hickox’s
Red Heat
“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
Dragons Forever
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
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