“Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC!” The somewhat unhinged door gunner of a helicopter in Full Metal Jacket (1987) clarifies how he picks his targets… Also led to us exclaiming “get some!” a few times as we took down enemies playing this level in […]
Music in the ’80s was badass. We had the genesis of thrash metal with Metallica, Slayer and Pantera coming to the fore. Or if you’re into that sort of thing, we had Depeche Mode, The Smiths and Limahl (out of Kajagoogoo). Then we have our personal favourite, the roots laid […]
There once was a website called Fametracker. It had a semi-regular feature named for the seminal “Hey! It’s that guy!” from seemingly every movie made in the late ’80s and early ’90s called J.T. Walsh. Here’s the thing, he was incredibly prolific until his untimely death in 1998 at the age […]
Our favourite war film ever is the not-actually-a-war-film Southern Comfort (1981). A cautionary tale of what happens when you go up against cajuns in the swamps of the bayou armed only with a whole heap of blanks and no real ammo. The film’s standout death occurs when Cribbs (played by […]
Rutger Hauer’s career may have spent more time in the ‘low budget’ leagues but he’s so ultimately unfuckwittable in The Hitcher (1986), that we are incapable of even attempting to watch the remake. Even if Sean Bean was actually pretty good in Game of Thrones.
“Kitten, I think what I’m saying, is that sometimes, shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call?” – Peter Venkman (played by the mighty Bill Murray) lets it be known in Ghostbusters II (1989).
We love Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (1987), it’s easily our favourite one. As ever, it features a group of teenagers desperately trying to stay awake so that everyone’s favourite crispy child-murderer, Freddy Krueger, can’t get them in their sleep.
Our sixth portmanteau horror anthology comes in the form of After Midnight (1989), a three-parter which, unlike the other genre examples we’ve covered recently, actually also has a decent story tying together the whole movie. Also, it has to be noted that the opening music is completely excellent, echoing a […]
Hello, Loves. Those of you who have been paying attention will remember our recent Creepshow article. As we said, “With only the first and fourth parts really letting the side down, Creepshow is a really solid anthology that deserves its cult status.”
Of all the portmanteau nonsense we’ve posted up so far, Creepshow is probably the most famous one of the lot. Like Cat’s Eye, this film was also based on a collection of Stephen King short stories and, with five stories (six if you include the comic-book based one that ties […]
Based on some Stephen King short stories, Cat’s Eye is a mostly-brilliant three part portmanteau with each story being linked loosely by a wandering cat.