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Tag Archives: 1981

Video Nasty 51: The Evil Dead

November 6, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Ashley (Bruce Campbell) and his friends take a trip to an evil cabin, home to the Book of the Dead which, when read aloud, unleashes the biggest shitstorm since Simon […]

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Halloween & Halloween II

May 25, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]

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Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox

May 18, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Vincent

May 14, 2019by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

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. […]

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Video Nasty 40: The Beyond

March 26, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

I watched Italian zombie film The Beyond (1981) in the hope of some Brexit respite, only to be confronted with the story of a one-dimensional woman (Catriona MacColl) who finds […]

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Escape from New York

November 24, 2018by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]

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Clash of the Titans (1981)

January 17, 2018by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

When the infant Perseus (Harry Hamlin), son of Zeus (Laurence Olivier), is almost murdered by his adoptive father, he is sent on a mission to reclaim what’s his, save his […]

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Mommie Dearest

March 26, 2017by Alex Chafey 5 Comments

Faye Dunaway takes the limelight as screen legend Joan Crawford in this tale of child abuse against her daughter Christina (Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid). An adaptation of Christina’s memoirs, […]

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The Great Muppet Caper

March 28, 2014by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

In this lesser-known Muppet movie, Kermit (Jim Henson) and Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) play identical twin journalists who travel to London to report on a jewel stolen from fashionista Lady […]

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Southern Comfort

March 21, 2014by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

A hapless band of soldiers in the National Guard are on a training mission in the forests of Louisiana. When a gung-ho member of the team play-fires at a group […]

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