David Lynch’s Blue Velvet was a subliminal and strange film. To this day, the image of Dean Stockwell as Ben – lip-synching to Candy Colored Clown…
Browsing: Movies 1986
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
William Hurt is James, a sympathetic and talented speech therapist in a school for the deaf. Newcomer Marlee Matlin is Sarah, a deaf janitor and…
Chopping Mall is 78 minutes of mean-spirited, unrestrained mayhem featuring robots running amok in a San Fernando Valley shopping mall. The victims are young shopping mall…
In prehistoric times, Ayla a young blonde, blue-eyed Cro-Magnon girl, is separated from her mother during an earthquake. She is found and cared for by…
This typically bargain-basement production from Troma – the no-frills company who brought us the cult Toxic Avenger movies – follows a bunch of kids from Tromaville…
Brian Stimpson (John Cleese) is the punctilious and highly disciplined headmaster of a Gloucestershire comprehensive school who sets out to chair the annual Headmasters’ Conference…
Burned out and retired after one too many major alarms, a disabled Chicago fireman uses his insurance settlement to become partners with a reggae musician…
Lenny Henry starred as jobless Liverpudlian Ritchie Lee who teams up with American John Carloff (John Shea) – a deserter from the US army -…
Paul Newman deservedly won the best actor Oscar for this terrific drama in which he reprises the role of “Fast” Eddie Felson, the pool shark…
Karl Gunther (Klaus Kinski) is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon and war criminal. He runs a boarding house for young women, who are…
Stephen Herek’s Critters (1986) may be the only comedy-horror film based on a “true” event, however loosely. It’s based (loosely) on a case referred to…
Crocodile Dundee: The little wonder from Down Under that ended up conquering the globe. A double “fish out of water” story with a heart of…
Based on the myth that blues legend Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil, this is essentially a musical version of The Karate Kid (1984).…
In the near future (the 1990s!) economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding gangs of ‘Car Boys’, the…
This Australian cult classic stars the late Michael Hutchence (of INXS) and is set in Melbourne’s late 70s punk rock scene. The film chronicles life…
Jack (John Lurie) is a big-talking small-timer and ineffectual third-rate pimp who ends up in the same cell at Orleans Parish Prison as Zack (Tom…
Inspired by the 1964 Elvis Presley movie Roustabout, two young Irish men – Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his brother-in-law Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – build a …
Is Extremities controversial or exploitative? There’s a large helping of both as Marjorie Easton (Farrah Fawcett) escapes would-be rapist Joe (James Russo) one night in…
F/X offers a different twist on the run-of-the-mill homicide movie as special effects are the key ingredient of the plot. The special effects are the…
Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) is a young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback who comes into confrontation with three redneck kangaroo hunters. Bored…