WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
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 reaction to the contacts needed for his makeup caused Moll to only physically appear in the opening scene), a dead […]
TROMATIC SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY: Graduation Day (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on July 5, 2018. Graduation Day was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Cannon Releasing Corporation. By 1981, all manner of slasher had been slashed. From dates on the calendar to holidays to high school, college, probably every trade schools, if you could kill someone someplace […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Secret of Seagull Island (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Secret of Seagull Island was on the CBS Late Movie on May 27, 1983. The TV miniseries Seagull Island is 3 hours and 36 minutes long. The movie they hacked into is an hour and forty-two minutes long. As you can imagine, a lot gets lost, but this is not unique. Yor Hunter from the Future and The […]
SYNAPSE BLU-RAY RELEASE: Tag: The Assassination Game (1982)
Directed and written by Nick Castle — and also known as Kiss Me, Kill Me, and Everybody Gets It in the End — this movie starts by taking a page out of The 10th Victim, as a group of college kids plays secret agent with dart guns in a LARP game where two people are assigned to […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Journey Through the Black Sun (1982)
Earth’s Moon has been ripped from its orbit by a catastrophic nuclear explosion, casting over 300 surviving personnel of Moonbase Alpha adrift in the uncharted depths of space. As the wandering lunar body finds itself on an inevitable collision course with the giant planet Astheria—and subsequently pulled into the terrifying heart of a black hole—only […]
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. […]
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