USA UP ALL NIGHT: Secret Executioners (1982, 1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Secret Executioners was on USA Up All Night on September 7, 1990. Director Lee Doo-yong’s The Trouble-Solving Broker was made in 1982, but then Godfrey Ho got his hands on it and cut 18 minutes away while adding in a ton of new fighting footage. That means, if I do my math correctly, more than […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Pandemonium (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pandemonium was on USA Up All Night on January 14 and April 30, 1989; March 2 and September 28 and 29, 1990; March 22 and April 7, 1991. There was a time, let’s call it 1983, when we couldn’t just sit down and instantly find any single movie from anywhere in the world and […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Sword and the Sorcerer was on USA Up All Night on April 29, 1994 and May 9, 1997. King Cromwell (Richard Lynch, Bad Dreams, God Told Me To) has come the whole way to Tomb Island to find Xusia (Richard Moll, contractually obligated to be in all 1980’s sword and sorcery movies, although a bad […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Q The Winged Serpent (1982)
Back in the early 1980’s, the VHS market allowed my family to enjoy movies that never made it to Ellwood City, about an hour from Pittsburgh. Our hometown video store, Prime Time Video, was packed with films that fascinated me. I wish someone had footage of all the movies on the shelf. I know we […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Twilight Theater (1982)
DAY 21. Free Space! Aired on February 13, 1982, this 90-minute bizarro sketch comedy pilot was co-executive produced by Steve Martin. NBC was trying to figure out what to do to relieve the pressure on Saturday Night Live‘s grueling production schedule, so they preempted SNL for a week to give Steve’s brain-child a test drive. […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Megaforce (1982)
In 1982, you could not read a comic book without seeing the ad for Megaforce. It’s the first hype I can truly remember, save for the similar ad strategy for 1977’s Orca. As a ten-year-old chubby geek, I needed to know all about Ace Hunter and his crew of super soldiers. I wondered, “As a small child […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 8: Mongrel (1982)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. You can listen to her podcast at https://thecinemajunction.com. Her latest book is Japanese Cult Cinema: Best of the Second Golden Age. She writes for Horror & Sons and Drive-in Asylum. She has also appeared on the podcasts Japan on Film, Making Tarantino, Making Scorsese, […]
Mysterious Two (1982)
Between Death Line, Dead and Buried, Vice Squad, Wanted Dead or Alive and Poltergeist III, Gary Sherman has made some interesting movies. At the same time, he was doing plenty of work in TV, including the TV movie The Streets, the series Sable (based on the comic book Jon Sable: Freelance), and so much more. These are […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Jupiter Menace (1982)
“In this documentary film narrated by George Kennedy, we investigate the planet Jupiter and the secret power it holds over our planet Earth. Directors Peter Matulavich and Lee Auerbach have combined years of research and interviews with the nation’s leading scientists and historians. The result is a documentary with such impact that it must be watched […]
Psychic Confession (1982)
James Alan Hydrick was a self-professed psychic who could perform tricks like moving a pencil across a table. He first appeared on That’s Incredible! What’s, well, incredible is the fact that five years before, Hydrick was arrested for torture and kidnapping. He escaped three prisons, once by kicking right through a concrete wall, another by going […]
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