Known for their outrageous movie making methods, The Cannon Group. Inc (led to worldwide fame by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus) gave us some of the most exciting, outrageous films of the 1980s. From Death Wish III to Masters of…
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All summer long at MovieFanFare we will be celebrating the films of 1982, and we are kicking things off with a movie that turns 40 this weekend: Grease 2. Available in a new 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook from Paramount,…
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Psycho. Halloween. Friday the 13th. A Nightmare on Elm Street. Scream. Saw. These are just a small example of horror films that were so incredibly successful that they gave birth to their own franchises. Since the spooky season is now…
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We mentioned earlier this week how Clash of the Titans recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, but it is just one of many epic sword and sorcery films to come out of the 1980s. From the original Conan the Barbarian to…
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In this post, Jim Brymer reviews the 1980s horror masterpiece An American Werewolf in London: In England, two young boys, David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are out alternately hitchhiking and hiking across the countryside. They come across a…
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When Michael Myers began murdering teens in 1978’s Halloween, the slasher film became a phenomenon. Two years later, the original Friday the 13th was released, beginning an enduring franchise that continues to scare and delight fans to this day. If…
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We wrap up our summer-long celebration of the films of 1985 with this week’s Create-A-Caption, inspired by Disney’s hugely inventive — and controversial — sequel Return to Oz. Upon its initial release, the film was criticized for its very existence…
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With the recent release of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, writer/director/actor Kevin Smith has returned to the View Askewniverse (named after his production company and originally began in 1994’s Clerks) that made him famous. For this latest poll, we want…
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In this guest post, Jim Brymer reviews the chilling cult horror film The Eyes of My Mother.: This is one bizarre movie to say the least. Its sort of “art house horror.” In fact one reviewer I read described it…
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Here’s the thing about movies of the 1980s, nostalgic is such a bewitching thing than even movies of the era that were considered duds the first time around have — in the subsequent decades — been re-evaluated as cult favorites….
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