Category: 1980s

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1980s / Action / Thriller / War

The Delta Force (1986)

Originally, The Delta Force, which is the name of the special forces commando unit tasked with dealing with combating international terrorists and hostage situations, was going to be a film featuring both Chuck Norris and Charles...

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1980s / Horror / Science Fiction

Lifeforce (1985)

Tobe Hooper directs this ambitious and downright strange effort for The Cannon Group called Lifeforce, based off of a deliberately Lovecraftian 1976 novel from Colin Wilson called, “The Space Vampires”, which has a reputation...

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1980s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy

The Last Unicorn (1982)

One magical unicorn survives the fate imposed by the wicked King Haggard (Christopher Lee) in his attempt to exterminate the realm.  Thinking they couldn’t possibly all be dead (in this story, they are immortal),...

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1980s / Adventure / Fantasy

Legend (1985)

Ridley Scott takes the director’s chair for this visually arresting, Victorian-style fairy tale, which he states he made for children like his children with classic Disney animation films in mind.  Indeed, one can see...

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1980s / Comedy / Horror

Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

Fright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), and by just about every measure, it’s a disappointment. Here we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as...

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1980s / Horror / Thriller

Near Dark (1987)

1987 would see two vampire movies released, Near Dark and The Lost Boys, and while the latter would earn the money and the fan base, it is the former that won the respect of the critics and...

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1980s / Action / Adventure

The Road Warrior (1981)

The follow-up to 1979’s Mad Max is called, very simply, Mad Max 2 in its initial release in Australia and other countries where it proved lucrative. However, in the United States, where it was the...