Zapped!
Zapped! (1982) is a teen sex comedy about a high school nerd named Barney (Scott Baio) whose mishap with an experiment gives him telekinetic powers. This power is used primarily… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
La Chiesa
La Chiesa (1989) was the first collaboration between Dario Argento and Michele Soavi with the former producing and the latter directing. La Chiesa shares similar themes and images with Argento’s… Read more »
Excalibur
Excalibur (1981) is filmmaker John Boorman’s greatest accomplishment as a stylist. Every frame practically functions as its own lavishly designed set-piece. Boorman has condensed Thomas Malory’s Arthurian epic to one-hundred… Read more »
Magic Crystal
Wong Jing’s action-comedy Magic Crystal (1986) is a wild hodgepodge of breathtaking martial arts set pieces and oddball gags. Magic Crystal is a combination of Steven Spielberg’s greatest hits including… Read more »
River’s Edge
When I was in middle school my best friend Danny and I were obsessed with Crispin Glover’s performance in River’s Edge (1987). To this day whenever I have a beer… Read more »
Celia
In Ann Turner’s film Celia (1989) the Hobyahs of English folklore are the central fantasy image and main allegory of the film’s narrative subtexts. The Hobyahs are creatures that dismantle… Read more »
Flesh + Blood
With Flesh + Blood (1985), Paul Verhoeven takes the classic Hollywood swashbuckler and imbues it with all of the brutality of its period. The brutality in Flesh + Blood is… Read more »
Night Of The Demon
Night Of The Demon (1980) is famous for being the movie where Bigfoot rips off a man’s penis. Night Of The Demon is that rare video nasty that deserves its… Read more »
Curse Of Evil
Kuei Chih-Hung’s Curse Of Evil (1982) plays as the Chinese equivalent to Gothic Horror. The film is set entirely in a spooky old mansion; there’s the ominous “curse of the… Read more »
Roadgames
Richard Franklin’s Roadgames (1981) transposes Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) to the desolate highways that girdle the remote Australian outback. In place of James Stewart’s apartment Franklin gives viewers the… Read more »
