1980s

  • Clive Barker – Hellraiser (1987)

    1981-1990Clive BarkerHorrorUnited Kingdom

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    I thought I’d gone to the limits. I hadn’t. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible.Read More »

  • Lino Brocka – Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim AKA This Is My Country (1984)

    Drama1981-1990Lino BrockaPhilippinesPolitics

    Kapit was well covered by media, as any competition film in Cannes is covered, except that the rave reviews were numerous. Festival reports had it that, of the critics, only a minority found the film’s “constant agit prop a little hard to digest, however much they sympathized personally with Brocka’s politics.” Le Quotidien’s Gerard Lefort felt that the famous Costa-Gavras could stand comparison with Lino Brocka! Brocka garnered enough inter­ national prestige in the 1984 Cannes event to put Philippine cinema an—foremost in Brocka’s priorities— Philippine politics in the limelight.Read More »

  • Rafael Cortés – Buñuel (1984)

    1981-1990DocumentaryRafael CortésSpain

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    Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicles his early friendships with Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, the stormy reactions to many of his groundbreaking films, and the influence he has had on international cinema. Among those interviewed are directors Federico Fellini, John Huston, and Jose L. Saenz De Heredia; Buñuel’s wife, Jeanne Rucar, and son Juan; actor Francisco Rabal; and Octavio Paz.Read More »

  • S. William Hinzman – The Majorettes (1987)

    1981-1990CrimeHorrorS. William HinzmanUSA

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    1987’s The Majorettes is not for everyone. Most modern moviegoers will recoil at the bargain bin acting, gratuitous nudity, badly choreographed action, and overall mess of a plot. For the more adventurous among us, however, there’s something at its core that can’t be replicated in today’s cinematic climate; the pure, unbridled camp of a lost eraRead More »

  • Zivko Nikolic – Cudo nevidjeno AKA Unseen Wonder (1984)

    1981-1990ArthouseComedyYugoslaviaZivko Nikolic

    STORYLINE:
    The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father’s house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests. This comic-erotic dimension a lyric element is added, her relation to a local musician. That relation, and the life of the whole village, ends in tragedy.Read More »

  • Eric Rochant – Comme les doigts de la main (1984)

    1981-1990ComedyEric RochantFranceShort Film

    Narrator falls in love with a beautiful girl. Unfortunately she isn’t alone: five guys follow her every time no matter where she goes – to work, in park or in bed.Read More »

  • Roland Rowinski – Mózg AKA Brain (1983)

    1981-1990PolandRoland RowinskiSci-FiShort Film

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    A fantastic sci-fi first film presenting the story of a valued professor named Szop. One day, a scientist commissions himself a routine study. The computer states on the basis of the study analysis that Szop… is dead. The professor and his colleague, Swalski, try to explain the unusual result. The results will prove surprising.Read More »

  • Sean S. Cunningham – Friday the 13th (1980)

    1971-1980HorrorSean S. CunninghamUSA

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    A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before.Read More »

  • Joe D’Amato – L’alcova AKA The Alcove (1985)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationItalyJoe D'Amato

    An English soldier returns home from the Zulu war with the daughter of a tribal king as his slave (a gift that he was given for “saving” the kings life). While he was away, his wife had been having an affair with the female housekeeper. Not at all pleased with being a slave, the Ebony princess notices the mistress of the house engaging in a quick bit of foreplay with the housekeeper and plots her revenge starting with the seduction of the mistress. Jealousy spreads like wildfire and before you know it, she has turned the household into a lustful frenzy of sex and hatred.Read More »

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