Category: 1980s
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Raiders Of Atlantis (1983)
Italian exploitation cinema is supreme in knocking off successful genre films or particular scenes, and assembling the elements into a something… well, it’s not new… more like a mutant, the type of hybrid beast you might find one of these flicks. Raiders Of Atlantis (1983) – aka Atlantis Interceptors aka Atlantis Inferno on SBS –… Read.
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Moonlighting (1982)
I may not intimately understand an immigrant’s perspective or be tapped into the historical context of martial law being declared in Poland between 1981 and 1983, but there’s a scene in Moonlighting (1983) that is universally relatable when a skip bin is organised and our characters wake up to find it already filled by their… Read.
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Scream For Help (1984)
Somewhere between a live action Disney movie from the 1970s (Candleshoe? I’ve never seen it) and Last House On The Left. Douglas Sirkian suburban New England with big houses and fall leaves, tainted with a strain of scuzziness. Disreputable pig Michael Winner has always been to my knowledge a god amongst hacks who employed his… Read.
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Golden Queen’s Commando (1983)
As a Taiwanese action film, Golden Queen’s Commando (1983) aka Seven Black Heroines is an explosion at the cliche factory, producing a very entertaining smash-up of World War II mission movies and spaghetti westerns. This was such a fun time, that I could forgive the pan and scan VHS rip version available on Tubi (I think there’s… Read.
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Dudes (1987)
Memories of the Dudes (1987) VHS cover in the Comedy aisle of a video store, Jon Cryer and Daniel Roebuck with their hands up next to a cactus, promising fish-out-of-water laughs with two punkers in a western, radiating Bill and Ted comparisons, or even Wayne’s World (not knowing as a kid that they were from the same director, Penelope… Read.
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