With a title drawn from the tagline to Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), a plot inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and a soundtrack…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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Weeds is the story of an armed robber, Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte), sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in San Quentin. After two suicide…
Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) are two jerky insurance company trainees who are invited by their boss (the eponymous Bernie) to his house…
Triumphant geeks have always been a common theme of writer/director John Hughes, but that triumph was never achieved as raucously as it was in 1985’s Weird…
This B-grade clone of George Miller’s Mad Max 2 was filmed in the Philippines and directed by Cirio H. Santiago. In the post-apocalyptic wastelands (actually a…
Rob Reiner’s portrait of a couple whose growing attraction toward each other threatens to disrupt their friendship. Bouncy blonde Sally (Meg Ryan) is the “modern…
In this adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s chilling cartoon book, elderly British couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear…
Michael Caine gives a full-bodied performance as a middle-aged Briton seeking the truth about the mysterious death of his son (Nigel Havers), who worked as…
After the assassination of a top British government undercover agent, Scotland Yard decides to infiltrate the ranks of the anti-nuclear activist group responsible (the People’s…
Forget the big-name actors in movies like Around the World in 80 Days, Murder on the Orient Express and Mars Attacks! Here’s the real all-star cast: Mickey, Bugs, Donald,…
Let’s not mince words. Wholly Moses was a stinker! It was a half-arsed biblical spoof about a character called Herschel (Dudley Moore) who was hidden as…
This tale of teenage post-high-school hi-jinks in a singles apartment complex in the LA suburbs was written by Cameron Crowe before he made his directorial…
Pupils of the infamous St Trinian’s establish the first branch of the ‘Union of British Schoolgirls’, then kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Arab prince…
Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley star in a tale about a baby whose safekeeping will overthrow an evil empire, but they never look comfortable in…
Loosely based on the early life of notorious Streatham brothel madam Cynthia Payne, David Leland’s bittersweet directorial debut is an introspective character study of an…
This Italian horror movie has Baywatch and Knight Rider TV star David Hasselhoff as Gary, a photographer staying in an abandoned hotel on a deserted (seemingly)…
Nothing ever happens in the sleepy little New England town of Eastwick. But that’s about to change when three bored, independent women make a wish…
Destined from the very start to be the student film of choice, Withnail and I spawned a generation who would hold this film as the benchmark for…
Kate Nelligan plays Susan Selky, the mother of a six-year-old boy who disappears without a trace on a short journey to school one summer morning.…
An innocent young Amish widow (Kelly McGillis) takes her small son Samuel (Lucas Haas) on his first train trip to visit a relative in Baltimore.…
