It Came from the '80s: HEAVY METAL

 by Patrick Bromley

This is cinema.

It Came from the '80s: THE NIGHT BEFORE

 by Patrick Bromley

You lost your father's car. Sold your prom date. And a guy called "Tito" wants you dead.

It Came from the '80s: MY SCIENCE PROJECT

 by Patrick Bromley

We must not destroy the world. We must not destroy the world. We must not destroy the world.

It Came from the '80s: EXPLORERS

by Patrick Bromley

The great lost Joe Dante movie is one that actually got released.

It Came from the '80s: The NeverEnding Story

by Patrick Bromley

SAY MY NAME.

Review: Turbo Kid

by Patrick Bromley

If you don't like Turbo Kid, I'm not sure we can be friends.

It Came from the '80s: Krull

by Patrick Bromley

You Glaive your love to me softly.

It Came from the '80s: Exterminators of the Year 3000

by Patrick Bromley

Anything we can do, Italians can do better.

It Came from the '80s: Hercules (1983)

by Patrick Bromley

Before The Rock...there was Ferrigno.

It Came from the '80s: Conquest

by Patrick Bromley

Lucio Fulci tries his hand at fantasy filmmaking with a movie that begs the same question as all of his other movies: What the fuck is going on?

It Came from the '80s: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

by Patrick Bromley

Laser guns! Spaceships! Molly Ringwald! In 3-D!!

It Came from the '80s: The Beastmaster

If you grew up in the '80s and had cable, you've seen The Beastmaster. Like, a lot of times.

It Came From the '80s: Invaders from Mars

by Patrick Bromley

In which a '50s sci-fi classic gets an '80s overhaul courtesy of Tobe Hooper.

It Came from the '80s: Conan the Destroyer

by Patrick Bromley

Conan the Destroyer is the Conan movie for kids. Somehow it still has fountains of blood, graphic beheadings, inappropriate sexuality and Arnold Schwarzenegger's hammiest acting this side of Mr. Freeze. Ah, the '80s.

It Came From the '80s: Cloak & Dagger

by Patrick Bromley

Video games, imaginary friends, old ladies with missing fingers. It must be a kids' movie from the '80s.

It Came from the '80s: Hell Comes to Frogtown

by Patrick Bromley

It's never easy to make a cult film on purpose.

It Came from the '80s: Lifeforce

by Patrick Bromley

There are basically two kinds of people in the world: people who have never seen Lifeforce and people who don't think Lifeforce is very good. I am neither.

It Came from the '80s: They Live

by Patrick Bromley

I have come here to chew bubble gum and talk about They Live. And chewing bubble gum does not make for interesting reading.

It Came from the '80s: LEGEND

by Patrick Bromley

Fantasy was so acceptable -- nay, DESIRABLE -- as a mainstream movie genre in the '80s that even A-lister Ridley Scott signed on to direct a fantasy film with a real movie star, the backing of a major studio and a big budget at his disposal. Scott, perhaps sensing that he had created two of the definitive sci-fi films of the 20th century (Alien and Blade Runner, like you didn't already know), set out to make not just a fantasy film but THE fantasy film -- the one by which all other fantasy films would be measured. He did not succeed.

It Came from the '80s: The Boy Who Could Fly

by Patrick Bromley

You will believe a boy can float in front of a blue screen.