Category: 1980s
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Devil Story (1986)
What drew me to Devil Story (1986) was the poster art: a bald Gollum-like mutant wearing a SS uniform and toting a shotgun. As a low budget French horror flick, its first scenes grab you with a lone camping tent in an open forest field rustling with something happening inside. Then out pops the monster… Read.
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Shocker (1989)
Childhood memories of Movie magazine, which would cover upcoming cinema releases and seeing a still of Shocker (1989), Peter Berg in a room splattered with blood, anguished and crying. I was pretty scared of horror movies back then, so that image and the poster of Horace Pinker on the electric chair creeped me out. Years… Read.
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Nothing Underneath (1985) is a 1980s-era late-period giallo thriller that fully knocks off the Brian De Palma style. Even composer Pino Donaggio reuses a variation of the ‘Telescope’ theme from Body Double a few times. An American model, Jessica Crane (Nicola Perring), in Milan is in danger (also she has the same blonde punkish cut… Read.
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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.
