Massacre In Dinosaur Valley
Michele Massimo Tarantini spent the seventies directing a plethora of low budget sex comedies before moving on to adventure films in the eighties. The sensibilities of Italian sex comedies don’t… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Zone Troopers
Zone Troopers (1985) is the follow-up collaboration between filmmakers Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Richard Band and actor Tim Thomerson after their cult success with Trancers (1984). Both films are… Read more »
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 »
Mankillers
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 »
Conquest
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 »
School In The Crosshairs
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 »
Gwendoline
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 »
Jacknife
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
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 »
Tough Guys Don’t Dance
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 »
