Masters of the Universe: Cannon Films & the Fall of Grayskull How Cannon Films killed a readymade franchise in the making Golan-Globus emerged from the B-movie bonfire like a flaming phoenix. After purchasing Dennis Friedland and Chris Dewey’s flailing …

After an age in commercial limbo, the #MastersoftheUniverse reboot is just around the corner, but almost 40 years ago #CannonFilms killed a readymade franchise with a misguided attempt at forging the next #StarWars

Here's the story 👇

#80s #movies

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The Seventies Unzipped: Dirk Diggler Shoots for the Stars in Boogie Nights They say everyone has a special talent. Some are artistic. Others are practical or good with their hands. Many are born athletes, possessed by the kind of unwavering ambition that’s shared by…

#PaulThomasAnderson’s dazzling depiction of the porn industry’s golden age #BoogieNights, which rides a tenuous, powdered line between hilarity & devastation, is one of the finest #movies of the #90s

Here's a deep dive 👇

#90smovies

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The Substitute (1996) We’ve been here before, many times before, but don’t sell The Substitute short. Of all the heavy-handed, transparently racist, high school vigilante films we’ve been subjected to …

#TomBerenger stars in B-grade #DangerousMinds cash-in #TheSubstitute, which turns 30 today

Ethically patronising & remorselessly stupid, this franchise -spinning VHS smash is a goldmine for #badmovie nuts

Here's the lowdown, homies 👇

#90s #90smovies

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Alien (1979) movie poster

Alien (1979) 🎬👽🖤

(Poster by Phil Shelly)

Poster art by Colm Geoghegan

The Lost Boys (1987)

#filmsky #horrorsky

It's an odd card. Half conspiracy thriller, half horror.

This Month In… March (1990) For longtime gamers, the name Tom Clancy probably evokes memories of the hugely popular Splinter Cell series, or, if you’re a little older, Rainbow Six for the original Playstation, but the n…

Badass babes, blind samurai & the legendary #LarryCohen…

@VHSRevival brings you all the #retro #movie news from #March 1990

Cowabunga dudes!

#90s #movies #90smovies #tmnt

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Dream Lover: The Incomparable Freddy’s Revenge Freddy’s Revenge. Anyone familiar with the A Nightmare on Elm Street series will surely recognise Jack Sholder’s 1985 sequel as something of an outlier, a film that seems to divide opin…

Struggling to stay to true to its internal logic, #horror sequel #FreddysRevenge almost put the ANOES series on the shelf

But it's difficult to not be fascinated by it both on & offscreen

Here's why 👇

#80s #movies #80smovies #FreddyKrueger #slasher

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Man and his Machine: Terminator 2 is the Blockbuster Sequel that Defined a Generation In creative terms, the hardest movie to make is a sequel. If a sequel has been put into production it’s because its predecessor struck a note with the theatre-going public, which is typically…

#Terminator 2: Judgement Day recently topped a poll as the greatest action #movie spectacular of all time

It's difficult to argue

In 1992, one of the greatest sequels ever commited to celluloid was a monumental event that surpassed all expectations 👇

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Murder by Phone (1982) The horror-through appliances sub-genre was all the rage back in the early 1980s. Once again Steven Spielberg was at the heart of it with Poltergeist, a wildly successful supernatural horror direct…

1982's long-forgotten #thriller #MurderbyPhone taps into the era's #Poltergeist led #horror through appliances sub-genre with spectacularly bad consequences

Next time the killer may consider simply whacking them over the head with it 👇

#80s #movies

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The Boogey Man is all kinds of crazy. That finale was insane.

Throwing Up Bricks: White Men Can’t Jump’s Bittersweet Courtship Finding a pitch-perfect film, even in the heady realms of plaudit-heavy, high-art cinema, is a tough task indeed. Even the most highly regarded movies have questionable moments, creases that you fe…

#RonShelton’s bittersweet ode to loyalty, friendship & #basketball, #WhiteMenCantJump, is one of those rare, perfect #movies that never fails to make me smile... & I'm not even a fan of the sport

@VHSRevival takes to the courts with a timeless classic 👇

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Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me: VHS Revival’s Blockbuster Action Quiz Got a Death Wish, Punk? It’s time to test your mettle with VHS Revival’s Blockbuster Action Quiz

Think you know your Waynes from your #Eastwoods, your #Schwarzeneggers from your #Stallones, your Keanus from your Stathams? Then test your mettle with @VHSRevival’s #Blockbuster Action #movie #Quiz

#70s #80s #90s #movies #moviequiz

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Samurai Cop (1991) Samurai Cop is the movie Loaded Weapon 1 should have been. It’s so gloriously bad spoof writers must have been fearing for their jobs, or at the very least taking notes. As we can surmise fro…

A #film that needs no introduction, the legendary #SamuraiCop has reached Holy Grail territory among #badmovie fans

Devised around the #LethalWeapon concept, it's the #movie that Loaded Weapon 1 should have been

Here's the story behind the madness 👇

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Massively underrated. They were forced to market it as a slasher for commercial reasons but O'Quinn elevates it to being so much more.

Who Am I Here? The Stepfather & the Decline of the Serial Killer On a quiet, leafy suburb we enter a house, a white picket fence monument to Reagan’s America. Inside, a man stands bloodied yet strangely serene, staring at his reflection in a mirror, starin…

TV stalwart Terry O'Quinn delivered a tour de force in 1987's long forgotten #satire on Reagan's family values in the darkly comic #horror #thriller #TheStepfather

@VHSRevival charts the rise and fall of the serial killer in this essay on the #movie 👇

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Playing Dirty… It’s Just Been Revoked: The Fascinating Story of Lethal Weapon 2 They say it is better to be left wanting more; as appealing as ‘more of the same’ may sound following moments of intense exhilaration, it is never quite the same the second time around.…

Originally scripted as a much darker, definitive ending for Riggs & Murtaugh, many consider #LethalWeapon 2 to be superior to the original

Here's a deep dive on what could have been and what would ultimately be 👇

#movies #80s #80smovies

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Playing Dirty… It’s Just Been Revoked: The Fascinating Story of Lethal Weapon 2 They say it is better to be left wanting more; as appealing as ‘more of the same’ may sound following moments of intense exhilaration, it is never quite the same the second time around.…

Originally scripted as a much darker, definitive ending for Riggs & Murtaugh, many consider #LethalWeapon 2 to be superior to the original

Here's a deep dive on what could have been and what would ultimately be 👇

#movies #80s #80smovies

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Killer Workout aka Aerobicide (1987) Killer Workout is a feminist’s nightmare. Released at the tail-end of the slasher boom, it manages to freshen an exhausted genre by using its most obvious ingredients to smother you like a so…

Crudely tapping in to the #80s aerobics craze, David Prior's ludicrous, late to the party #slasher #KillerWorkout is lame, insane & preposterous in the best ways imaginable

They don't make them like this anymore 👇

#horror #80smovies #badmovies #movies

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See No Evil: Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead When you hear the term ‘video nasty’, what’s the first thing that leaps to mind? Many words and images flash before my eyes: lurid depictions of death, cannibals, slashers, snuff,…

Originally screened in 1981, #SamRaimi's wicked, low-budget #horror #TheEvilDead, widely released #OTD in 1983, would run into more trouble after being labelled the 'Number 1 Video Nasty' in the UK

Here's a deep dive into a low-budget marvel 👇

#80s

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This is Your Brain On Drugs: A Brief History of Narcotics in Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage Sometimes a movie comes along that really takes you by surprise. Brain Damage is much more than a trashy B-movie horror. It has all the ingredients, but behind the film’s bad taste presentati…

Here's a something a bit different from @VHSRevival, an exploration of America’s relationship with narcotics through the lens of #FrankHenenlotter’s exploitation classic #BrainDamage 👇

#horror #80s #80smovies #movies

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The Best Around? John Avildsen Treads Familiar Territory in The Karate Kid Part III Generally speaking, a good sequel retains the winning elements that endeared us to an original movie while offering something fresh and rewarding. The Karate Kid was one of the surprise hits of 198…

John Avildsen’s superlative underdog story taps out with a whimper as the ageless #RalphMacchio finally outgrows his gi in #TheKarateKid III, released #OTD

But it's not all bad...

Here's a deep dive 👇

#80s #movies #80smovies

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Hip to Be Scared: The Sharp, Satirical Pleasures of American Psycho I’ve always loved satire. It hardly paints an accurate portrayal of a species who are much more complex, sketching in black and white rather than stippling in shades of grey, but that doesn&#…

#ChristianBale shot to mainstream stardom with his phenomenal turn as yuppie psychopath Patrick Bateman in #AmericanPsycho, released #OTD, though it's amazing that he landed the role at all

Find out why in this deep dive on a bona fide #horror classic 👇

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Just The Beginning: The Cold Reality of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter The Final Chapter is something of a landmark in the Friday the 13th series, but not for the reason most would have expected. Back in 1984, the movie was advertised as the final instalment of horror…

Under pressure from the censors, TV pundits & parent groups, they said it was the end for the madman in the hockey mask...

And absolutely nobody believed it

Here is the fascinating story of #Fridaythe13th Part IV: The Final Chapter 👇

#horror #movies

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Savage Streets (1984) By the early 1980s, Linda Blair’s onscreen career had kind of hit the skids. A former child model who shot to worldwide fame as the peewee star of William Friedkin’s supernatural horror…

#TheExorcist's #LindaBlair sheds her cutsey image for a character who would terrify the devil itself in #exploitation classic #SavageStreets

She was pretty naughty behind the scenes too

Here's a deep dive 👇

#movies #80s #80smovies

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Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) I must be honest, this is not what I was expecting AT ALL. When you’re confronted with a title like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, it doesn’t leave much to the imagination, but, as I would…

#Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

It's exactly what it claims to be & then some 👇

#horror #comedy #movies #movie #80s #80smovies

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Just The Beginning: The Cold Reality of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter The Final Chapter is something of a landmark in the Friday the 13th series, but not for the reason most would have expected. Back in 1984, the movie was advertised as the final instalment of horror…

Under pressure from the censors, TV pundits & parent groups, they said it was the end for the madman in the hockey mask...

And absolutely nobody believed it

Here is the fascinating story of #Fridaythe13th Part IV: The Final Chapter 👇

#horror #movies

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Zombie Politics & Social Unrest: Beneath the Rotting Flesh of Dawn of the Dead Crude, wooden, repetitive, stupefyingly obvious, banal & incoherent were just some of the words used to describe horror maestro George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead back in 1978. Predictably, th…

#GeorgeRomero's ironically cerebral #horror classic #DawnoftheDead was screened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania #OTD, near where the #movie was shot

Here's a look at a hugely influential, seminal #film 👇

#70s #movies #horrormovies #70smovies

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Cat’s Eye (1985) I’ve often wondered about Cat’s Eye and how highly it ranks in the annals of horror anthologies. The film was a huge childhood favourite, but there’s always the question of nostal…

Underrated #StephenKing #horror anthology #CatsEye was released #OTD

Three memorable segments make this macarbre, satirical collection one of the finest of the #80s

The #movie proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that smoking is very bad for you

#movies

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Once Bitten, Twice Wry: Critters is a Monument to 80s Monster Magic Critters is one of those movies that had a special place in my childhood. I remember seeing the poster as a kid and being immediately drawn to it, or, more specifically, the razor-toothed eyesore h…

#Gremlins knock-off or unfortunate coincidence?

Whatever the reality, wicked #horror #comedy #Critters, released #OTD, is very much its own animal, a cutely referential #80s classic that reminds us just how fun #movies can be

Here's a deep dive 👇

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