Get Crazy
Watching Get Crazy (1983) I kept wishing that I had grown up in a world where a middle-aged Lou Reed was an idol to teenagers everywhere. I’ve seen few films… Read more »
Watching Get Crazy (1983) I kept wishing that I had grown up in a world where a middle-aged Lou Reed was an idol to teenagers everywhere. I’ve seen few films… Read more »
In 1987 David A. Prior had a banner year releasing three of his most beloved cult classics; Deadly Prey, Killer Workout, and Mankillers. Prior’s the one auteur of the eighties… Read more »
Made during the height of the “Sword & Sorcery” boom, Conquest (1983) is the low budget Italian entry into the genre. It’s a film that has polarized critics and audiences… Read more »
After House (1977), School In The Crosshairs (1981) is Nobuhiko Obayashi’s most imitated film. Obayashi directed School In The Crosshairs amidst a flurry of output within the “Lolicon” genre. Each… Read more »
Just Jaeckin’s Gwendoline (1984) is the career culmination of the director’s primary filmic concerns: adventure films and skin flicks. The first hour of Gwendoline makes the most of these strengths… Read more »
Stephen Metcalfe adapted his stage play Strange Snow into the screenplay for Jacknife (1989) with David Jones directing. The film follows Megs (Robert De Niro) as he tries to reconnect… Read more »
Blank Generation (1980) is Ulli Lommel’s unlikely love letter to the New York Punk scene. Along with Cocaine Cowboys (1979), Blank Generation marked the beginning of Lommel’s career as a… Read more »
Norman Mailer’s best novel is The Executioner’s Song. The author, whose voice can overpower his work, is almost entirely absent. The novel reads almost as a list of facts and… Read more »
Jürgen Muschalek’s (known as Muscha) directed the William S. Burroughs inspired cyberpunk film Decoder (1984) as a sort of reaction to the anti-Reagan protests that had broken out across West… Read more »
Lau Hung-chuen’s Devil Fetus (1983) is a spectacularly gross and bonkers little film. The budget constraints show but the analogue special effects still pack a punch. Lau Hung-chuen is pretty… Read more »