You Better Watch Out
You Better Watch Out (1980) is a low budget thriller that employs a number of exploitation film tropes to create a psychologically rich character study of a man coming undone…. Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Night Of The Comet
Night Of The Comet (1984) is one of the quintessential cult classic films of the eighties and it’s a Christmas movie to boot. Everything that people love about the Netflix… Read more »
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), even by today’s standards, continues to live up to its controversial reputation. The circumstances surrounding the release and distribution of this classic slasher have passed… Read more »
Kung-fu Master!
With Kung-fu Master! (1988) legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda turns her lens towards an inverted Lolita narrative where a middle aged woman (Jane Birkin) has a love affair with her daughter’s… Read more »
The Zero Boys
B-movie auteur Nico Mastorakis brings his signature brand of gross-out zaniness to The Zero Boys (1986) with complete relish. It’s a film that is far more concerned with delivering graphically… Read more »
City On Fire
There’s no better way to kick-off the holiday season than with Ringo Lam’s City On Fire (1987). This Hong Kong crime thriller is one of the most influential films of… Read more »
Alien From L.A.
Alien From L.A. (1988), a family adventure picture produced by Canon Films, borrows liberally from Jules Verne and L. Frank Baum while always being most faithful to the vision of… Read more »
Laurin
Robert Sigl’s film Laurin (1989) is a disturbing little fairytale film. The affective atmosphere and macabre foreboding that permeates every frame of Laurin render its themes of child abuse and… Read more »
Beautiful Wrestlers
Beautiful Wrestlers (1984) or Beautiful Wrestlers: Down For The Count is a Roman Porno film made at Nikkatsu studios. Beautiful Wrestlers was one of the earliest films made at Nikkatsu… Read more »
Lurkers
Cathy (Christine Moore) was terrorized and abused as a child by her mother. In a fit of rage, Cathy’s mother stabbed her father to death. This trauma plagues Cathy well… Read more »
