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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Raw Deal
Arnie takes on the mob again as a small town Sherriff who goes under cover in the Chicago underworld to bust the crime family that killed his daughter. This film […]
River’s Edge
The murder of a teenage girl is met with juvenile apathy and misplaced loyalty in 1986’s River’s Edge, AKA Stand By Me on crack. Loosely based on a real case […]
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 […]
Jazz Odyssey: Round Midnight
This 1986 drama stars saxophone giant Dexter Gordon as a drug-addled saxophonist in 1950s Paris. Named after a Thelonious Monk composition, based on the life of Bud Powell and featuring […]
Evil Dead II
The world’s worst romantic (Bruce Campbell) returns with his girlfriend (Denise Bixler) to the evil cabin in this 1986 sequel/remake/self-parody. What’s extraordinary about Evil Dead II (AKA Dead by Dawn, […]
From Beyond
The team behind 1985’s Re-Animator reassemble themselves a year later for another slimy helping of H. P. Lovecraft. Jeffrey Combs plays another mad scientist, this time trying to expand perception […]
Three Amigos
Three silent film stars (Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) are mistaken for actual gunslingers capable of saving a Mexican village from a local tyrant and of selling a […]
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