Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox
1981 Italian nasty Cannibal Ferox (which could be the name of an American news anchor, like Wolf Blitzer) follows an academic (Lorraine De Selle) who heads into the Amazon to […]
Tag Archives: 1980s
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
Vincent
In this one man play, Leonard Nimoy plays Theo Van Gogh giving a talk to an audience in the week after his brother Vincent’s death at the age of 37. […]
Aliens
Fifty-seven years after Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) last thwarted the xenomorph she’s found alive floating through space. But her nightmare is only just beginning as she discovers her daughter is dead […]
I’ve never seen…The Goonies
In this 80s coming of age story a group of misfit kids discover a treasure map and go in search of riches. Think Stand by Me meets Indiana Jones, complete […]
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Is there a series with more ironic subtitles than Friday the 13th? The Final Chapter was only the fourth instalment, followed by A New Beginning which it wasn’t, because the next film […]
Married to the Mob
A Mafia wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) is tired of her life with professional mobster Frank “The Cucumber” De Marco (Alec Baldwin). Her furniture is stolen, there are guns lying around the […]
