Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
Tag Archives: 1980s
Legend (1985)
A young Tom Cruise stars in this largely forgotten fantasy flop ironically titled Legend. Bringing an abrupt halt to Ridley Scott’s early run of classics (The Duellists, Alien and Blade […]
April Fool’s Day
No holiday could pass the 1980s without being memorialised in the form of a slasher movie, be it Christmas Evil, My Bloody Valentine or Bloody New Year. This became untenable in the […]
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders. Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
Opera
Dario Argento continues his streak of making the world’s best-looking and least-comprehensible horror movies with 1987’s Opera. Based on his experiences directing a failed version of Verdi’s Macbeth, Argento’s giallo proved […]
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
When watching Superman III we came up with an idea for a Superman movie where Clark Kent is dating one woman and Superman another, and he keeps walking through the […]
