USA UP ALL NIGHT: Porky’s III (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Porky’s III: The Revenge was on USA Up All Night on July 14, 1990; December 31, 1991; July 4 and December 21, 1992 and June 26, 1993. James Komack is best known for producing The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Chico and the Man and Welcome Back, Kotter. To be honest, his making the third […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Fraternity Vacation (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fraternity Vacation was on USA Up All Night eleven times: March 25 (twice), August 19 and December 30, 1989; August 24, 1990; January 25 and 26, July 20 and November 11, 1991 and February 15 and 28, 1992. We start not just in cold, snowy Iowa, but in black and white. Two fraternity brothers, Larry […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam was on USA Up All Night on December 23, 1995. Before the world outside of Nashville (he’s already been doing more than twenty different brands’ ads as Ernest) knew him as the denim-clad, nasally-voiced icon Ernest P. Worrell, Jim Varney was busy playing a mad scientist […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
The actual release date for this movie is under some debate: director Robert Altman — yes, the same one who did Nashville — shot the film in 1983; it was copyrighted in 1985, then shelved until it got a small theatrical release in 1987 and 1988. The reason for the 1983–1988 delay was simple: MGM had […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: The Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
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, The […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 20: Attack of the Beast Creatures AKA Hell Island (1985)
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, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 16: Gotcha! (1985)
April 16: Dead Fad — Find a fad, look for a movie about it and share. Before it was a standardized extreme sport with professional leagues, paintball was part of a larger, slightly more chaotic campus fad called The Assassination Game. Students would stalk each other through dorm halls and libraries with suction-cup darts or water […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 8: Terror In the Swamp (1985)
April 8: Zoo Lover’s Day — You know what that means. Animal attack films! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adam Hursey is a pharmacist specializing in health informatics by day, but his true passion is cinema. His current favorite films are Back to the Future, Stop Making Sense, and In the Mood for Love. He has written articles […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: L.A. Streetfighters (1985)
Also known as Ninja Turf, this was directed by Woo-sang Park, who, as we all know, directed Miami Connection. It’s about new kid at school Tony (Phillip Rhee, who created and starred in the Best of the Best series of movies) and how he instantly vibes with a gang leader named Young (Jun Chong, whose company Action Brothers […]
Alien Warrior (1985)
Buddy’s (Brett Baxter Clark, Nick the Dick from Bachelor Party, Bruiser from Teen Witch and the gardener of Young Lady Chatterley II; seriously these are the kind of roles that make me light headed when reading an IMDb and that’s not even bringing up the Andy Sidaris movies and starring in Delta Force Commando, Deathstalker IV, […]
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