September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: The Shining (1980)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: What else can be said about The Shining that hasn’t been said before? How many times have I seen this film, and what can I add to the conversation? That’s […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Prom Night (1980)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: After Halloween producer Irwin Yablans rejected his pitch, director Paul Lynch ran with the idea of setting his film during a holiday. A prom seemed like a big event, and […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream was on the CBS Late Movie on May 11 and August 22, 1983; May 17 and December 26, 1984 and March 28, 1985. This is a gritty, ripped-from-the-headlines socio-economic morality play disguised as primetime entertainment, taking a hard look at inflation, blue-collar survival, and the entrenched boys’ club […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Super Fuzz (1980)
Sergio Corbucci is known for making some of the most violent spaghetti westerns ever put on screen, including Django, The Mercenary, Navajo Joe and The Great Silence. In fact, his contributions to exploitation film are so important that he received a special thanks at the end of Kill Bill Volume 2. Later in his career, he was also known for the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Georgia Peaches (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Georgia Peaches was on the CBS Late Movie on September 23, 1980. CBS was like, we have The Dukes of Hazzard at home, but nothing succeeds like success. So who better to make another Southern fried car-based TV show that Roger Corman, who’d been doing that for more than two decades by this point? Produced […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Ruckus (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ruckus was on the CBS Late Movie on January 27, 1984 and January 3 and May 22, 1986. Ruckus arrives at the end of the 1970s, a time when The Dukes of Hazzard and Smokey and the Bandit led a redneck renaissance in pop culture. Kyle Hanson (Dirk Benedict, Body Slam) spent eight months as a […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Alligator (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alligator was on the CBS Late Movie on November 18, 1983 and September 14, 1984. There are moments in horror movies when even the most jaded of us can be upset by a visual or an idea. In Alligator, there’s plenty to be disgusted by, but for me, the dead dogs being floated down a sewer […]
How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)
Set against the backdrop of late-70s economic turbulence, the film follows three lifelong friends in Eugene, Oregon—Jane (Susan Saint James), Elaine (Jane Curtin) and Louise (Jessica Lange)—who are pushed to the absolute financial brink by inflation, messy divorces and collapsing businesses. When ordinary life becomes completely untenable, they hatch an audacious scheme: drill a hole […]
Nightkill (1980)
Directed by television and genre veteran Ted Post (The Baby), this sun-baked Phoenix thriller sits in a fascinating middle ground—too stylish and dark for standard network television, yet abruptly dumped onto NBC as a Movie of the Week before finding a strange second life on home video via notorious British distributors like VIPCO. Far from […]
CULT EPICS 4K UHD, BLU-RAY and DVD RELEASE: Girls (1980)
Three teenage friends — Suzanne (Charlotte Walior), Annie (Zoé Chauveau), and Catherine (Anne Parillaud) — are ready to navigate the emotional turbulence of adolescence, love and self-discovery. This involves spending their nights in discos and cinemas chasing adventure and romance. Soon, they are joined by Suzanne’s younger sister, Betty (Isabelle Mejias), who eagerly imitates their […]
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