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Tag: 1988
Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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) (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
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 (1988) – Review
“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 (1988) – Review
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
Police Story 2 (1988) – Review
There’s a particular conundrum that I have when passing my own personal judgement on martial arts films that seems to go double for the energetic
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) – Review
The first Fright Night was a fun 80’s throwback to classic vampire movies of days gone by, which gradually ascended to cult classic status thanks
Akira (1988) – Review
Back in the swirling mists of the 90’s, the burgeoning force known as Anime finally broke over into the UK and a teenage me started
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