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 […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Incubus (1982)
Based on Ray Russell’s novel of the same title, Incubus is all about demon rape. There’s really no other way to say it. If you’re looking for the definitive word on the subject, this movie would probably be your best choice. And hey, John Cassavetes is in it! The film opens in a rock quarry where Mandy […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2026: Tenebre (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing at the Little Theater in Rochester, NY on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 PM (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. By 1982, Dario Argento had moved beyond the constraints of the giallo genre he had helped popularize and started to explore the supernatural with Suspiria and Inferno. According to […]
ARROW 4K UHD RELEASE: Wild Style (1982)
As one of the first hip hop movies, this groundbreaking film, directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn, features a legendary cast of scene figures, including Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz, Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, The Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Rammellzee with Shockdell, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash, and […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: Portrait In Crystal (1982)
I think I’ve seen all the Shaw Brothers non-supernatural films, and the HK Database says that this is a drama, so…let’s just agree that it may have demons and magic, but it’s kind of its own thing. Long Fei (Jason Piao Pai) left behind the world of martial arts fisticuffs and now lives in a […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE VOLUME 4 BOX SET: The Fake Ghost Catchers (1982)
Made two years before Ghostbusters, this early Lau Kar-Wing supernatural comedy (one of two he did for Shaw Brothers) has Bao Tuo (Hsiao Ho) and his cousin Zhou Peng (Cheung Chin-Pang) scamming people as fake ghostbusters. As you can imagine, they end up fighting real apparitions. A screwed up exorcism leads to the death of a […]
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