Little Shop of Horrors
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Return of the Living Dead might be a more appropriate title since I have already reviewed this 1985 zombie comedy, but as tends to happen when […]
As Tears Go By
A Hong Kong gangster (Andy Lau) goes to great lengths to protect his protégé “Mr Fish Balls” (Jacky Cheung) from Hong Kong loan shark Tony (Alex Man) – that’s right, […]
Demons 2
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s 1986 sequel opens on a TV show about some teenagers finding the remains of the demons from Demons, which then escape the TV to attack […]
Video Nasty 9: The Burning
Five years after being burned in a prank gone wrong, a disfigured summer camp caretaker called Cropsy (Lou David) takes his revenge at a camp near an abandoned mine, thankfully […]
Terror Train
Terror Train! Terror! On a train! Not to be confused with Ptero Train where there’s a dinosaur on board. From the nation that brought us Black Christmas and My Bloody […]
Bloody Financial New Year
Happy Financial New Year’s Eve, perhaps the only holiday without a slasher movie named after it; potentially a gap in the market for a genre that covers everything from Bloody […]
The Hitcher
Whether drinking Monster or watching Quiz Call, we’ve all done stupid things to stay awake – but none more stupid than Jim (C. Thomas Howell) in 1986’s The Hitcher, who […]
Clue
The story of board game turned movies is a curious one. Ouija bored and Battleship sank without a trace. Rumours of a Hungry Hungry Hippos film turned out to be a […]
#HateFilms: The Karate Kid
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
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