When we started T8MC back in, eek!, 2013 the primary reason was to discover films that we would have loved if we’d seen them back when they came out. Back then your VHS tape rental shop of choice had a finite selection which is why you ended up renting out […]
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Back in the actual ’90s, I was staying up a bit later than I should have been on a college night and found myself watching By The Sword, an Eric Roberts fencing movie. It took a while for me to realise that I was watching greatness and so, some 45 […]
We’re stretching the rules for this one. Yes, The Ambulance was released in 1990 which puts it outside of our remit but it had a March release which means that it was filmed in the late ’80s. Good enough for us! It’s one of those films that we’ve been aware […]
Well, Student Bodies has been a real surprise. As much as T8MC is about going back and celebrating our favourite movies from the ’80s, we do love being surprised by a film we’ve never seen before. Student Bodies has been on my ‘to watch’ list for a while now and […]
House is a 1986 horror comedy and, like all good horror comedies, it doesn’t cheap out on either aspect (the horror or the comedy). Directed by Steve Miner (of Friday the 13th fame), this cult classic has some very obvious influences but is also relatively unique considering it is, at […]
We need a category on this site called ‘films we really should have seen by now’ and until now that would have been headlined by Dead and Buried. So why is this low-key horror effort from 1981 so apparently essential? It’s not so much the film itself which a relatively […]
Q, also known as Q: The Winged Serpent, is a schizophrenic kind of a movie. On the one hand, as the title suggests, it’s a creature feature that occasionally focuses on Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec god that’s also a flying lizard. The story here is that Q (hey, if the title […]
Four years before taking the title role in RoboCop, Peter Weller found himself starring in Of Unknown Origin, a 1983 man versus rat thriller. He plays Bart Hughes, a banking executive who has a good job, a family he loves and his dream house, renovated by himself in New York […]
While Hollywood can rightly be accused of milking cows to death with its incessant, and necessary, remake culture, the fact is that there have been some great ones. Of course, it helps when the original was some 1950s nonsense and the remake came in the ’80s and, much like The […]
The problem with using absolutely top drawer sci-fi/horror talent is that sometimes the vision can outstrip the practicality. Lifeforce is a great example of this. Written by Dan O’Bannon (the man you can thank for creating Alien) and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), the film comes with a […]
If, like us, your childhood mainly happened in the ’80s, there was really only one choice of toy obsession for you: Transformers. On a practical level, they were great for kids because you essentially got two toys for the price of one. Whichever type you got – a car, a […]
We don’t know anything about westerns. Luckily, our chum the sensational Lorna Reid does and she wants to tell you all about Pale Rider. It’s a touch spoilery, so watch out folksies. The eighties may well be remembered for cheesy action flicks, one liners, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a yellow […]